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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26
6 Fight It Ont.v

A story is told Of daughter of a
prominent person now in the lecture
field, who is peculiarly interesting and
suggestive Of unconscious wisdom. A
gentleman was invited to the lecturer
house to tea. Immediately on being
seated at the table, the little girl aston
ished the family circle and the guest by
the abrupt question
"Where is your wife %
Now the gentleman, having been re-
Gently separated from the partner of his
life, was taken SO ompletely by sur
prise that he stammered forth the truth :
81 don't know"
"Don't know" replied the emtant
terrible. "Why don't you know?"
Finding that the child persisted in her
heterogeneous, despite the mild reproof
of her parents, he concluded to make a
clean breast of the matter and have it
over at once. So he said, with calm
ness which was the result Of inward ex-
pletives
"Well, we don't live together; we
think, as we can't agree, we'd better
not
He stifed groan as the child began
again, and darted an exasperated look at
her parents. But the little torment
would not be quoted until she explained
"Can't agree Then why don't you
fight it out, as pa and ma do?"
+" Vengeance is mine,' laughingly re-
torted the visitor, after "pa" and ma"
exchanged looks Of holy horror, followed
by the inevitable roar. -NeW Haven
Reni2fe1 .-. =.
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Murdered hY Indians.

AS the Bismarck stage arrived at q
point two miles north of Bear Butte, and
ten miles from Crook City, they came
upon the bodies Of two men and one
woman lying III the road. The men were
shot and scalped. The woman was shot,
scalped and horribly mutilated. The
murdered party were travelling by OK
team. The contents Of tier wagon were
scattered proniscuously around. The
Indians, about twelve in number, after
killing these travellers, attacked a party
Of teamsters, who were corraled q few
miles back, but ran away at the first fire.
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Collecting q Debt.

At last man has been found who has
got even with the demon debt collector.
One of the hideous tribe took trip up
the country this spring to try and get a
debt Of $3.50 out Of small hotel-keeper
who was in arrears to his hquor-mer-
chant. Boniface received him politely,
and said that he would give him some
thing on account the next morning, as
he expected q gentleman then in the
house to pay him bill. The dollar
squeezer, of course, staid over night, got
up the next morning, called for his bill,
paid So for his board and lodging to the
clerk, and then went for the proprietor
to get the promised coin. After hanging
round all the forenoon, the smiling debt
or held consultation with his clerk,
which resulted in a three half-dolIars
being extracted from the drawer and duly
handed to the impatient dun. "What's
this? he yelled. "Dollar and half, .
returned my host !; you are the party
I expected to pay me bill this morning,
and think I've done a pretty square
thing in giving you 80 per cent. Of it.
Hand me a receipt for the amount and
credit me with it on the bill. San
francisco Chronicle.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26
Pioneer Surgery.

Among the first settlers in Old Pike
We're John Duke, Thomas Buchanan and
one or two others in the neighborhood
OF where Paynesville now stands. The
nearest surgeon was at st. Charles,
nearly fifty miles away. In the processes
OF building houses, opening farms, etc.,
casualties OF a serious nature often took
place. The nerve and boldness of char
acter SO peculiarly necessary to the early
pioneers were never more prominently
developed than in the case OF the parties
above named, and one or two others
whose names have escaped my memory.
There were but four families, as [ recol-
lect, within ten or twelve miles, and these
near together.
One morning Duke and another man
were engaged in chopping timber, the
ground being very wet and muddy.
Dukes tree fell against another and
lodged, the butt still resting on the
stump. While chopping off the splinters
the tree suddenly twisted, slipped off
the stump, and caught his right foot and
leg, literally crushing it to jelly up to
about six inches above the knee, and
sinking him deep in the mud. His COM
rade came to his relief, but had to chop
off the log twice before he could be re-
moved. He was taken to one of the
cabins, a general consultation of the four
called, his leg in its crushed condition
bound up as well as possible with the
means at hand, and Buchanan started to
st. Charles for surgeon. The creeks
were all high, there were no bridges,
and it was three days before he re-
turned.
Meantime, further consultation showed
that the sufferer must die unless his leg
was amputated. To decide was to act.
The only instruments were a common
butcher knife-always sharp enough
and common hand-saw, in like man
ner always dull enough. The leg was
amputated with these instruments only,
the blood staunched, the wound dressed,
and the man was greatly relieved fully
twenty-four hours before the arrival Of
the surgeon. Being a remarkably
athletic man of more than ordinary
vitality, Duke recovered in a short time.
The writer has seen him many times
since-as late as 1887, on clutches, Of
course, but as active as men with both
legs. Louisiana (1fO.) Press.
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Origin of Mollie Mcguire. -

The name Of the Mollie Maguires
comes from Ireland. Some fifty years
or more ago a poor woman in ireland
had her cottage pulled down over her
head by a landlord. Her name was
Mollie Mcguire, and she died Of grief
and exposure. Thereilpon her sons
and neighbours lads formed themselves
into society, and vowed and took fierce
revenge on Irish landlords in general
The band spread rapidly, and they called
themselves Mollie Maguires, and Irish
coal miners brought the name to
America.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26

THIRTY years experience proves the
Graefenberg Vegetable Pills to be the mildest
and most effective medicine ever known for the
complete cure of headache, biiouspess, liver
complaints, nervousness, feyers, and diseases
of digestion. Sold everywhere; price % cents
per box Send for al1nanacs Graefenherg Co.,
New York. ...,,, ~, ,. .9
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26
W11HoFr's Tonic !-UNFAILING AN

W1HoFT's Tonic !-UNFAILING AND
INFA1L1B1E This great Chill Tonic cures
Chills without the intervention of doctors and
their bills. No consulting visits-no prescrip-
tons to be flled-no huge bills, entailing pc
cuniary embarrassments, added to loss OF
health. 1t is the friend Of the poor man, be-
cause it enables him to earn living, and Of
the rich. because it prepares him to enjoy his
wealth. This great boon to mankind is cheap,
safe and prompt. G. R. F1NLAY & Co., Pro
prietors, New Orleans. st..# -J#.# IS
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGIsrs. n5Hn
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Please Bear il in Mind

that, if your grocer does not have, and viii not
get, DooLEY's YEAST POWDER for you, you can
send 20 cents for quarter, IS cents for half, OF
so cents for one pound can. Direct to DooLEY
& BROTHER, New York, and you will receive il
by return of mail Always use it for the deli
o;ous Vienna rolls.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26

I HAVE sold Hatch's Universal Cough
Syrup for five years 1t has by far the best
sale of any cough remedy keep. The sale has
steadily increased from its first Introduction.
Having seen it SO thoroughly tested, I feel safe
in recommending it to my customers.
M. P. SHERMAN, So. Sodus, Wayne Co., n. Y.
P. ST have customers who say they cannot
live without it. I will refer any who may in
qrire to the parties direct. NJ. P. s.
Sold by ]. Block & Co., Chicago, Ill.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26
anada -. $50 S 1876. 526 .223Is IS, ISL, S3

There is a slight increase in the num-
Der Of failures, but a decrease in the liza
bilities for the latter half year. The
following table affords a more complete
comparison, as it shows the failures in
each Of the last ten quarters, the amount
Of iabi tiles, and the average liabilities
i'm each nuartnr.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26

Freighters coming in picked up the
bodies of the two men and woman and
brought them to Crook -Deada0ood
(Black IIilLs) Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26
THE SUN.
NEW YORK. 1927.

THE Sun continues 20 be the strenuous advocate OK
reform and retrenchnent, and Of the substitution on
statesanEhip wisdom and integrity for hollow pref ase
imbeciIity and fraud in the administration of public
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the people and for the people, as opposed to government
by frauds III the b&Cbox and in the counting OF votes
enforced by military violence 1t endeaVors to supply It's
readers body not far from million of SOuls1t
the most careful complete and trustworthy accounts Oh
current events, ana employs for this purpose
and carefully selected sa OF reporters and correspond
ents Its reports from Washington, especially, fu
accurate ard fearless and doubtless continues de-
and enjoy the hatred those who thrive by plum
dering the Treasury by usurpipg what the M nos
give them while it endeavors to merit the confidence OF
the public by defending the rights of the people against
the Entertainments OF unjustihed power.
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SIN. NY. sl2av...
ADVE.R'TIISE

Are invited to investigate The American Newspapers
Union List of Newspapers-the largest combination ~
PAGERS the United SGteS-and compare the prices With
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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26

. THE essentials for wide popularity are
fully met in Colgate & Co.'S Cashmere Bouquet
Soap. Tt is universally esteemed by the tasteful
and refined as the most delicate and recherche
of perfumes, and the name and trademark OF
Colgate & Co, GA each package are aguarantee
of superior and uniform quality: With such
nice adaptation the success of this article is
not surprising.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26
THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.
Commercial Failures of the Past ST

Commercial Failures of the Past Six
Months.
The following table, which we take
from the quarterly report Of Dun, Bar
low & Co. S Commercial Agency, shows
the number of business failures in the
United States and Canada for the first
half of the present year and for the cor
responding period of 1876:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26

New YoRK receives annually $1,000,
600 worth of eggs.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26

PoND'sl EXTRACT. There is no swell
ing it viii not abate no pain it will not cure.
This is the testimony Of those who have used
it many years. Try it fnGaa
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26

Total for first Total for first
sac months Of sir months Of
1877. 1876.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26

STATES AND
TERRITORIES.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1877-11-29
VARIETIES.

A Minnesota man his named hi
daughter Minnesota Violet.
An old lady ninety years old, living
in Blsckville, South Carolina, is just
recovering from the whooping cough.
The man who owns a $4,000 COW
can drink milk costing him eighty-foul
cents a quart. That's all the advan-
tage he has over the rest of US.
A woman may not be able to sharp
en- pencil or hold an umbrella, bul
she Can pack more articles into trunk
than man Can in a One-horse wagon.
Prof. J. E, Todd, of T,bor College,
Tabor, Ia, pronounces the stone man
found in Colorado recently as large a
fraud as the Cardiff Giant.
The Rev. Arthur Mursell, of Stock
well, London, who is considered Ia
r nk next to Spurgeon in the Baptist
pulpit, is coWing to the United States
on six month"; Iecturing tour.
If you have an enemy, act kindly
toward him and make him YOUR friend
You may not win him at once, but try
again. Let ore kindness be followed
by another, until you have accom-
plished your object.
To gain name of worth man must
have an aim, purpose for which he
llves-nOt merely bubble upon the
stream, tossed to and fro by each sue
ceeding wave; not merely the play
thing of fate, but being of determi-
nation, who looks to some harbor
where he wills his boat shall anchor.
and in willing conquers circumstances,
and is not their slave.
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Mark Twain's Hotel.

Having lately opened hashery ]
send out my rules and regulations.
This house will be considered strict
ly Incorporate.
None but the brave deserve the fare.
Persons owing bills for board will be
bored for bills.
Boarders who do not wish to pay in
advance are requested to advance and
pay.
Boarders are requested to wait on
the cOOks-ior meals.
Sheets will be nightly changed, once
In six months or more il necessary.
Double boarders ran have two beds
with a room in il if they choose.
Boarders are requested to pull on
their boots if they can conveniently do
so.
Beds with or without bugs.
All moneys or rather valuables are
to be left with the proprietor. This is
insisted upon, as he will be responsible
for no other losses.
Inside matter will not be furnished
to editors under any consideration.
Relatives coming tOA make SIX
months visit will be welcomed, but
when they bring half their household
furniture, virtue will cease to be for-
bearance.
Single men with their wives will
not be boarded.
Dreams will be charged for by the
dozen.
Nightmares hired out on reasonable
terms.
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MIs0nLEANRoUs
New Uses of Electricity.

The wonderful versatility of elec.
tricity is constantly finding for it some
new labor TO preforrn, and now the
lumber man and the butcher have
secured its services. We read of the
following use made OF it in the East
Indies:
A platinum wire, connected with the
poles of a battery, is stretched around
d tree, and, becoming Immediately rel
hot, it is gently see-sawed with the re
quisite pressure against the tree, and
rapidly burns its way through. 1t is
Thought that a tree can be cut down,
without any vast Of timber, in about
fifteen minutes, that would require
two hours 10 fell in the ordinary way.
And in England has been made this
experiment in behalf Of animals to be
slaughtered.
An interesting experiment was made
at a horse slaug hteriEg establishment
at Dudley, with a view of testing new
system OF slaughteTing cattle by means
Ofdynamite, and thus putting them
uat of existence more speedily and
with less suffering than by the ordi
nary pole-ax. Two large, powerful
horse and donkey disabled for work
were arranged IN a line, ABOUT nall IA
yard apart, under shed, the donkey
oeing placed i'm the center. A small
primer of dynamite, with an electric
iuse Hstas he'd, was then placed on each
of their foreheads and fastened in posi-
ton by a piece of string under the jaw.
The wires were then coupled up in
circuit and attached to the electric
machine, which stood about five yards
ia front. The handle OF the machine
being then turned, an ele, trio current
was discharged, which exploded three
changes simultaneously, aud the
animals instantly fell dead without "a
struggle. The whole affair WIS over
In ten minutes, and the experiment.
appears to have been a perfect success.
BY this means it is stated, even ii
hundred or more cattle may be in
stantiy killed by the same current OF
electricity.
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THE SUN.
NEW YORK.

As the time approaches for the renewal d
subscriptions, THE Sun would remind its
friends and well-wishers everywhere, that il
is again candidate for their consideration ano
support. Upon its record for the past ter
years it relies for continuance Of the hearty
sympathy and generous corporation which
have hitherto been extended to it from every
quarter of the Union.
The Daily Sun is a four page-sheet of %
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month, or SO. 80 per year.
The Sunday edition of THE Sun is an
eight-page sheet of So columns. While giving
the news of the day, it also contains large
amount of literary and miscellaneous matter
specially prepared for it. THE SUNDAY Sun
has met with great success Postpaid ss 1 20
year.
The Weekly Sun.
Who does not know The WEEKLY Sun? 1t
circulates throughout the United States, the
Canadas, and beyond. Ninety thousand fami-
lies greet its welcome pages weekly, and re-
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quality considered, makes it the cheapest news
paper published. For clubs of ten, with $40
cash, we will send an extra copy free. Ad-
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Nov. 1-sw. New York City.
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The first iron vessel ever built in SaI
Francisco has just been completed.
Ex Governor John Letcher, OF Vii.
ginia, was defeated as a candidate io
the Legislature at the late election.
The silver dollar is not rolling on q
fast as formerly. 1t seems to have
encountered an obstacle.
Horses in the city of Lowell. Massa
chusetts, are dying from a disrempe'
which is rapidly spreading.
The Pope is all right, but, like the
rest of Us, liable to die at any moment
The cable has told large number o
falsehoods about his Holiness.
The Supreme Court of Tennessee has
declared unconstitutional an act ex.
empting butchers and hucksters from
taxation.
The official canvass shows shat the
vote of Colorado on the woman suf-
frage question was: For, 6,612; against
IA. .053; majority against, 7.441.
COculus indicus, a virulent poison lie
largely imported into this country, yet
it is not known to be used in any man
ufacture except that of lager beer.
Mr.. George Niswanger, of Muncie
Ind, claims to have raised this season
45l bushels of corn on a field contain
ing five and three quarters acras.
The British Patent Office has pre-
sented to the New York Academy o
the Useful Arts q complete set of the
Abridgmeuts of British Patents.
The Pope was photographed couple
of weeks ago. Three attempts were
necessary, and he wrote under the por.
trait, "My last picture"
A party, while recently examining
timber lands on Mount Pisgah, in Yer
mont, found meteoric stone which
was estimated to weigh forty or fifty
pounds.
There are seventy grammar schools
in the city of New York and forty.
seven primary schools There is an
average attendance in all the schools oil
1O3, ,655 pupils, ranging from four years
upward.
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T.,ke which Road You Please.

John Randolph was travelling In
part o' Virginia with which he Wa
lanseouainted. In the mesntisDe be
stopped during night at an inn at the
forks Of the road. The iDDkeeper was
a fine old gentleman, sDd no doubt
one Of the first families of the Old Do
mInion. Knowing who his distiD
iguished guest was, he endeavored to
draw him into conversation. bat failed
in ali his efforts. But in the morning
when Mr.. Randolph was ready to start
he called for his bill, which, on being
presented, was paid. The landlord, to
nave some conversation, began as fol
lows:
(Which way are you travelling, Mr.
Rsn0olph?"
"Sir," said Mr.. Randolph, with 8
LOOK Of displeasuoe.
81 asked" said the landlord, (Which
way you were traveling?"
"Have paid my bill?"
"Yes." sf
"Do owe you anything more?"
"No."
we'll, I am going just where ]
pleasa-do you uuderstand?'
The landlord by this time got some.
what excited, and Mr.. Randolph drove
off. But, to the landlords surprise.
the servant returned to inquire which
CT the forks of the road to take. Ran
dolph not being out of hearing dis.
tauce, the landlord spoke at the top oi
his yOice:
"Mr. Randolph, you don't owe me q
cent; Just take which road you please" !"
IT Ia said that the air turned blue
with the curses OF Randolph.
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POETRY.
The Pate.,work Quill.

-
Iwes sitting in my chamber,
With my babe on my knee, =
Aud the music of sn olden tune
Was humming dreamily- tE
Tid.y glanced toward my bed,
A patchwork quilt was there,
The work of girlhoods early days,
Arranged with I'm ckle care;
And tears came gushing TO my eyes,
Their course i could not stay,
While many mile my heart went beck,
Along life's devious way. -a-sss
That quilt is made of memories
Which with my growth have grown;
Each part is part of garments worn
By some one | have known
What tales of love and joy and giet
Are with the whole inwrought;
What portraits and what histories
Come crowding to my thought
That azure robed my mothers form,
When | was but child;
Oh, how it brings my mothers face
Before me calm and mild,
Her soft dark eyes, her raven hair,
Her forehead meek and fair,
Where. even in her brightest hours,
There lay shade of care.
Years changed the raven locks to gray,
Her fair brow grew more pale,
And so she faded from our sight,
And went ''within the VEIL
And here are scraps of infant robes
A darling brother wore
The brave, bright boy who died 30 young,
But Can sing no more;
All brighter memories are dimmed
With tears my eyes have shed,
And that old quilt has filed my heart
With yearnings for ths dead.