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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26
Eight Persons Killed by an Internal
Machine.

Internal machines have been en-
ployed of late with fatal effect in several
cities and towns of Mexico. At San
Angel, a little town five or six miles
from the capital Of the country, party
of six ladies and three gentlemen assem-
bled to open box assuming to have
come from Southern France, and to con-
tain Lourdes water and number of
rosaries that had been blessed by the
Pope. One box opened, another was
disclosed, and, as they were trying to
get into the second, tremendous ex-
plosion took place and every person but
one was Instantly killed The box con
tanned nitro-glycerine, and was evident
ly prepared for assassination, though
why any Of the party mentioned should
have incurred any such deadly enmity
it is impossible to tell. The terrible
box, it is said, was sent to one Of the
ladies, remarkable for her amiability
and benevolence. She was unmarried
and great favorite, and it is surmised
that semi-adventurer who had pro-
posed to her and been rejected had
adopted this method Of revenge. Such
a thing scarcely seems credible to us !;
but in Mexico anything criminal may
happen, with or without provocation.
There are men there who appear to
practice assassination lest they may
grow rusty in their murderous art. The
Callfornians have a proverb that a
mongrel Mexican is. half-brother to the
devil 1855 }Htt* ~ -tftt% sss
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26
CuriOsities of Yellow Fever.
from the Boston Journal

Yellow fever is a mysterious, and, in
many respects, an incomprehensible
disease. The few general facts that
seem to have been learned about it,
after close and varied observation, are
not infrequently contradicted by new
experience. One of it's widely-supposed
peculiarities is that it cannot live at
certain elevations, $500 feet above sea
level being sufficient, it is thought, to
exclude it completely. Yet, long be-
fore Cortez invaded Mexico, the natives
of the country suffered terribly from an
epidemic which was, beyond all rational
doubt, identical with what is now known
as yellow fever. This epidemic it was
called acknowledgements repeat
eddy, with great virulence and mortality,
during the sixteenth and eighteenth
centuries, on the table lands of Mexico,
1900 to 1900 feet above the sea. If it
has ragged at that height it may rage at
an equal height again, and thus the
favorite and now universally-accepted
theory is overthrow. It is sur
prising how very little is known of the
y CAIOH +ICFCl3 c1o w iuo O,J IE'UOl4O, COl1SS-
quences, general course and treatment,
for, while it has been recognized only
about 200 years as distinctive disease,
it has been a fearful scourge at least
since the beginning of the fifteenth
century. 1t used to be called the
plague, and it is little less hideous and
destructive than that frightful pesti-
lence, now happily confined to the hot
and filthy East. t33a2 I. ,..
Although yellow fever is regarded as
a very fatal disease, a great many people
do recover from it, and where there is
recovery it is usually complete, and the
patient is not, as too often happens in
the case of those suffering from other
fevers, an ailing man afterwards. An
old surgeon in the United States navy,
who had on more than one occasion to
fight this dreadful malady, tells of a re-.
markable recovery which came under
his notice. Accommodate being very
limited on board fever-st1icken ship,
he desired that patient whose condi-
ton seemed quite hopeless should be
laid in one of the boats which hung
from the divats. The man had sunk
into insensibility, and, attention being
demanded for cases less des-
perate, he was left during the night to
his fate. Meanwhile, a terrible thunder
storm, with deluge of rain, came on,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26
MISCELLANEOUS aLEANINGs.

The election in Canada for members
of Parliament, held on the 18th inst, resulted
in signal victory for the Conservatives, under
the leadership Of Sir John A. Mcdonald. The
question most prominently at issue was tariff
or free trade, and by their action the Dominion
voters have declared for more stringent pro-
lection of home industries ... f...1-..,
The New York Public says the clear
ings in seventeen cities during the second week
in September, including the previous week for
San Francisco, compared with last year, show
a total decrease of 10 per cent.
A heavy robbery was perpetrated in
Baltimore the other day Col Boone, Presi-
dent of the Mount Vernon Cotton Mills, was
the VICTIM and his loss is about $65, 900 in cash
and bonds. The robbery was committed in
broad daylight, and the robbers did their work
so clean as to leave no clew behind them.
The Government was swindled out OF
$2,5Oo,oO0 duty on imported sugars last year.
Prof. Watson, of the Michigan Uni
versity, has discovered another asteroid. Its
appearance is that of star of the tenth magni-
tude. This is the twenty seventh asteroid which
Watson has discovered.
Henry A. Parr was arrested in Bos-
ton, some time ago, on a charge of piracy, the
offense being the capture of the steamer Chesa-
peake, between New York and Boston, in the
winter of 1868, Parr and his fellow-C onfederates
having taken passage on the boat at the former
port There was a hearing of the case last
week before a United States Commissioner al
Boston, and the accused was discharged, on the
ground that the offense was an act of war, and
was covered by President Johnson's amnesty
proclamation, issued in 1868 Parr was accord
ingly discharged from custody
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26

Massachusetts was called to meet at Worces-
evening of the 10th, the town was filled with
delegates and lookers-on. The State Central
Committee decided to issue tickets of adnis-
sion to the convention, and exclude all from
the hall who did not hold the pasteboards.
This incensed the Butler men, who looked
before daylight of the morning of the nth,
the friends of the Essex statesman took
possession of the hall. The Butterflies,
finding themselves thus checkmated, appealed
to the city authorities for help. The Mayor,
however, declined to use force to clear the
Gil of war, and decided that the only recourse
left them was to declare the time of holding
the convention changed In pursuance of
this plan, Edward Avery, Chairman Of
the committee, went to the hall and made
three or four attempts to announce that
the convention was postponed to Wednesday,
Sept. Is, and would be held in Faneuil Hall,
Boston. He denounced the proceedings of the
Butterflies as revolutionary and irregular: He
then retired from the hall amid a scene OF
uproar rarely witnessed in a political body
Gen. B. f. Butler was then nominated by &C
clamation for Governor of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts
The Republicans of Massachusetts, in
session at Worcester last week, nominated ex-
Gov Thomas Talbot for Governor, John D..
Long for Lieutenant Governor, Henry L. Pierce
for Secretary of State, Charles Endicott for
Treasurer, and George Marston for Attorney
General
The Democrats of Montana have re-
nominated Hon. Martin Maginnis for Con-
gress.
The Nevada Republicans have nomi-
mated John H. Kinkaid for Governor and R. M.
Daggett for Congress.
Gen. P. T. Beauregard declined the
nomination Of the National party for State
Treasurer of Louisiana, and Dr. John s.
Gardner, of Baton Rouge, was nominated in
his stead
The gubernatorial vote of Maine
foots up as follows: Conner, Republican,
56,419; Smith, Greenback, a, 4A; Garcelon
Democrat, 27,S72. Last year the total vote was
1O1, 19 for Governor; this year it was 1875, 72t
votes.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

Condor and Melody, Fenians, have
cen released from prison. They sailed i'm
mediately for America.
Turkey has signifed her willingness
to cede several islands of the Archipelago to
Greece but not foot of soil on the main
land.
The printer of a pamphlet hbelng
the Emperor of Germany has been sentenced
to eighteen months Imprisonment and $l0O
fine, and the author in contumacium to i've
years and $400 fine.
Under decree of the Captain Gen
eral of Cuba, all kinds of farm animals and ma
chinery and implements are admitted duty free
into two departments of the island This exemp-
ton will continue for year.
A Circassian slave recently took
refuge in the British Consulate at CONSTANT
nople. The Consul ordered her retention, and
requested Minister Layard to urge the Porte to
prohibit the sale of slaves in Turkey.
The Papal Nuncios at Paris, Madrid
and Lisbon are to be made Cardinals.
Vienna dispatches report a general
forward movement of the Austrian army of oc-
cupation in Bosnia, and also some stubborn
fighting
The West Indies have been visited by
a storm of unusual violence, involving great
destruction of life and property. Coffee and
cocoa crops were destroyed, thousands of houses
swept away, and many people killed. A great
number of ships were driven ashore and
wrecked
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26
Make Home Attractive.

Is it not more cheerful to one confined to the
sick-bed to read of beautiful things than to read
of murders and such wickedness? Yes, indeed
So let us write for the sick something that will
gladden. their hearts and make them happy
AS we think of the poor yellow-fever
sufferers does it not recall to our
minds how selfish and discontinued we
very often are; when we ought to be SO thank
full that God has SO far spared us such a
fate. If our husbands do only earn half as
much as they did in former times ought we not
to be satisfied, and not discourage them more
with " a desire to have new dress just because
Mrs Grundy has one?" Let us have patience
and forethought. Let us think that they, too
need new things. Let us try to cultivate low
ing, kind and unselfish disposition, and remen-
Der the rule: "Do unto others as you would
like others do unto you, g and then happiness
fidence in each other, and not think every one
we meet not fit associates for u.s." We should
always judge others by ourselves We would
feel very bad indeed if people did not trust us.
So imagine the feelings, then, of servant when
she first enters into strange house and finds
that she is watched, and suspected of being Ca
pable of doing the meanest thing We know
there are some who require watching. But cannot
there be rule, so that 3" those" who are ladies
in every sense of the word can have their
''sensitive feelings" spared from such insults.
Let us all join hands and try to improve the
ways Of the coming generation" We need
not go from home to do it, for Improvement
begins at home" IF our husbands delight in a
cigar. help them to enjoy it, instead of scolding
them because our curtains will get soiled. Is
it worse to have them soiled than to have our
husband spending his evenings at a gambling
house; for, if home is not pleasant, man will
surely find comfort in such places. Let us try
to make home and ourselves as attractive as
possible, and if we see them discouraged or
disappointed with their days work it is our
place to read or sing to them, that they may
forget their troubles. -Hafs.1u Il
And great will be our reward. za.r 81
t-+tt C1ror
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26
Another Claude MelnOtte.

A guileless country maiden in Som
erset, England, answered a matrimonial
advertisement. The result was an en-
gagement and finally a marriage with a
incorporating gentleman from town, .
who pretended to be in lucrative po-
sltion and to move in, the best circles.
He took her to town, kindly taking pos
session of her luggage, her wedding
presents, and the money given to her
by her father, and when she reached
her new "home" she found it to be a
miserable howell. She complained, and
the husband said if she didn't like it
she could leave. She left at once, and
the rascal kept the property, whic
seems to have been what he was after.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26
What Shall We Do With Our Evenings

The long, winter evenings are approaching,
heralded by the chill, signing winds of autumn,
which only go ranting through the streets and
rushing around corners and whistling down
chimnies in our smoky, dusty city, while out
in the broad fields and meadows of the country
they go chasing away, rustling through the grass
and weeds, as if singing in abandonment of glee,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The money order business of the Post
office Department amounted to 1888, 100000 last
year, an increase Of So 900 600 over that of 1877
a Washington dispatch announces
that the department, chiefs have issued orders
that eight hours constitute a days work, to be
paid for the same as now for ten hours. Men
electing to work ten hours day will be paid
extra therefor IL, 4, n nYiayfu59 90 ffff
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26
POLITICAL POINTS.

y. Fl. Slater, Democrat, has been
elected by the Oregon Legislature to succeed
John Nipple Mitchell as United States Senator
from that State Mr.. Slater is hardin
man, but favors the abolition of the national
banks
The Democratic State Convention of
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26

IT was lucky that Lucy Jane Patrick
really had strawberry mark on her
right arm. She was stolen from her
home in Alabama when she was a baby,
and now, after sixteen years, her parents
identify her in Michigan.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26
" Only Me-"
only NE.
From the New Orleans Picayune.1

From the New Orleans Picayune.l
A boy came up in the Picayatne office
to insert death notice last night. He
said to the gentleman having charge of
the advertising department: Another
one gone; that makes eight" "What
do you mean?" asked the gentleman.
The boy answered: "I mean that is the
eighth one of my family that has died
five brothers and three sisters. /
wonder who will come next?" How
many are left?" "Only me" he replied,
as he went out.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26

anxious thought knocked softly at BIZ
jah's door.
Hrg' One would know he was a
II Stranger there.
"Mr. Joy, this country is in an awful
way" he began as he took chair.
els that-so?" HJ sN'.t " 1|.
eyes I can't sleep nights for think
ing of it. We must save her. We must
effect compromise between capital and
labor, creditor and debtor, oficeholder
and elector, and thus save this glorious
old nation from destruction. Tell me
what to do, sir?"
Biiah looked him over from head to
foot, made a mental guess at his age
and weight, and finally replied:
mister man, my advice to you is to
begin to lay in turnips, Eaters and beans
for winter use, and to let this country
strictly alone. It's none O your bust
ness to save her, sir-none O your bust
ness what becomes of her!"
"But won't you advise me, sir?"
eyes, you bet [ will! Go home, Or
somewhere, and get clean shirt! Go
and get your hair cut and your face
washed Go and fill up your lankness
with free lunch, and you might hire a
boy to hoe the mud off them boots
Save this country! Why, sir, you
couldn't save the northeast quarter of
the southwest quarter of section one of
a mud-holep'
"Mr. Joy, do I deserve this ?" ..
eyes, and more, too! There are a
dozen more just like you around town.
They are always talking about this poor
country, and wanting some one to save
her, while their wives and children go
hungry for bread and SILVER all winter
for the want Of clothes. Git right out
of here, sir. Go and wash up and then
60 to work! When this dear suffering
country wants your services, I'll drop you
postal card" ...,l5 III. s@ ..n......E
"Mr. Joy, won't you let me save this
country?" .-.f rrgE,,.aa IN atg@.t
"No, STRIP -, s...t5 frr,....,
Cant I bea patriots, o.,9b h. ar,I IT, s...r
a ~, sl1 o,,Ha ,nQltazads2 jon
"No, sir!' xxx .tuaa ~
The man paused Tor a Whlle, ana Jhen
in a sad voice he asked: s., 49, tur
! "Mr. Joy, I believe you could lend
me quarter if you tried awful hard!'
The old man grew black and blue in.
the face, but, suppressing his emotion,
after a moment he forced a smile and
replied: n. sre@.tah NM r.99 hi
.'"'P lease come out into the back. yard.
I keep my silver buried out there for
fear Of thieves. 80 sr. aff rs vosf1 n
He started out, a diabolical grin on
his mouth, but the man who wanted to.
save the. country made a. sudden break
for the street and got away.-Detrolt
Free Press. III. LIN Ers abesy yf1a8;taIf
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26

which latter fell upon the patient in the
boat like tremendous shower-bath.
When they went to look at him next
morning he had come to his senses. was
wonderfully better, and from that hour
began to recover.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26

The income Of the ex-Empress Euge-
ME is stated to amount to 100000 per
annum.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26
By his air
One would know he was a
Stranger there. H..f

, THE London Times correspondent,
writing from Madras, says: :" An In,
dian population generally shows great
elasticity in recovering from the shock
of ordinary calamities, but this famine
has left terrible mark on the country,
and the rebound is not SO rapid as we
could wish. In trade there is nothing
doing. The people cannot buy, and the
famine has deprived them of anything
to sell beyond a few hides of their
starved CATTLE"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26
Wanted to Save the Country.

A man whose every look betrayed
anxious thought knocked softly at BIZ
jah's door.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-09-26

The extensive dry-goods jobbing house
of E. S. Jaffray & Co., of New York, has been
robbed of over $780, 900 worth of goods within
short period, through conspiracy among some
of it's employees.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-04-20
sHEHMAN's IN reg CITY.

The. Committee on Banking, and Cur
,rency of the House of Representatives
is investigating the tin.ucial trans
actions of Secretary Shearman. 1t is
represented by certain BANKERS that the
$50 w. 900 loan, inst placed by Honest
John. could have more economically
sold outside OF the syudic lte.e In fact,
the integrity Of the Secretary is
questioned, and it is intimated that the
interests of the government are, in bis
transactions, considered of secondary
importance. bis prin Try object bling to
secure the greatest Benefit for the syn
dictate. or ring. with which, as the
financial agent of the nation. he is
suthoriz I'D to make his own terms. AS,
iaanci-r. he is considerably men of
all parties, miserable fraud, whose
epiuionS are entitled to no considers
ron. Iu the interest of the gold
brokers aud money changers he op
posed tue rem bnetlz .tion Of, silver. and
predicted that financial anarchy would
result from the passage OF the Bland
bill. Congress was unaff .cted by his
eroak,ngs. aud passed tue bi.l. notwith-
sstandlug his objsctious, AS expressed
by Hayes ia his veto. Tue rnin pre-
dicted did not follow; but. on the con
srary, gold went down aud greeubacks
and silver went up. aud all are now of
abou. equ Il value. and it is treason to
the Administrations. punishable with
Immediate dismissal for any Federal
official to inti,n .tez that. the President
or Secretary of the Treasury ever op-
posed the silver bill. To q lestiou the
integrity of John sherman. GU financial
afAirs,. is simply ridiculous. as the
record of the man. AS Senator aud
Secretary of the Treasury, proves con-
elusively that be has none.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-04-20
Interesting statistics.

According to review by a European
ststistician Europe is the most d-nsely
populated quarter of the globe. having
" persons to the square mile; Asia fol-
lows with 48; Africa, l7L; America,
5H. The total population of Asia 10
given at S25. 549 so; Europe. 800. l7S,.
800; Africa. 1893 92i 600; America, S5,.
5i9 SOO;Australis aud Polynesia. A..
74S,7O0. Total number of people in
.be world, l,423 9l7pOO. There are
nine cities containing each million of
inhabitants or over, London being the
most populons, with 3,489,42S people;
PARIS, l,S5l79!; Vienna. 1901 .9s9;
Berlin, LU34, OUo; New York, Canton
aud three other Chinese cities with
about l,eUU.OO0 each. The city Of
Philadrlphis eOmes-next with. probably
800. OoO iuhabitsuts. aud she ranks,
therefore. IN the ten,h city of the earth
III roint of population. aud. she stands
at the head of the 1T of Twenty-Five
cities having pc puIa,ions OF halt a mill
lion and more. each. There are two
bandred aud bfte-u cities Oh the glob.
with LOO, 900 iuhabit.nt- each, thirty of
which are in the United states.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-04-20

naE.canadians are ssading Hsh Il
24assian4 aAAla<hia. iea.-
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-04-20
GAN CHINESE BECOME CITIZENS =.

The eligibility, of Chinese to become
athens of the Uuiled States Is to be
ested in the United States Courts IN
California. Several Chinese merchaDts
Of San FraLcisco have made Application
10 H. A. Bee aud b. s. Brooks. who act
rs their agents aud attorneys, to assist
ahem in obtaining naturalization papers
hom the Eeder.l Counts. AS several
Cinnamon, have been admitted TO cil
zenship in California aud the Atlantic
States, 1t is- supposed that the applica-
tions now about to be made. are tor the
purpose OF ascertaining beyond all
doubt WHISTLER, M1ngolians nnd4r
the provisions. of the Bnrlin game
treaty. really entitled 70 eltlzsushIp
apon complying with the nat nralis tion
laws. Ii the Courts decide in the af-
6.matise. then it ID probable that every
Chinaman IN San FRANCISCO will become
naturalized, and. vote in accordance
with the orders Of the Six Com anies
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-04-20
ORDINANCE No. 2.

An Ordinance to determine what shall hs a
puissnce in the town, Of winnemuc N. and
provide for the punishment OF the same
approved March s, 1878:
ne Board of County Commissioners OF
Humboldt County do ordain:
SECTION That the erecting, using or
ma M athing any buiiding, STRUCTURE ar
otner pL.ce for the exercise II ANN trade an.
pi"yhent. manufacture or other basiness.
whish-by oceasionnis offen-i i've erhalatio,,s. or
enie'Is, becomes injurious a.d dangerous To
the neaith, eonfor. or property proper OF the
IOWA ot "anDemdccs, huL bold County
NeVaoA; that mo doiGg Of Tins shall con
stltute nuisance.
SEC. = Ihat tina causing or suffering OF
any onal, I'll, Il OR nois me substance IT, Ia
collected or to REMAIN in any place TO The nrs
Juaice o. dam 20 To he healti, properts or
comfort II aly VI the people Of. The Town az
NiLuemucca HuAlh lldt CounLy. Nevada
shall Do deemed nuisance.
SEQ. 3. Tina II any person on persons shall
erect, hAint-iu, use, apprD ~ iats or employ
"i.hia 'nc Town oI "lhnemneca.- nun. boldt
Oouusys nevada. upon Is. ID - street or nj ANY
place " point within said t,wn within At0
ioos VI saiu orIuBe stree, Aay bailding mouse,
or slractdre Tor the pup - Or use Of !.
iAuhofy or Wash hous., he she or they snail
De deeinsd Jity Of cu4n.nittiut u nuisance.
nv ~. 'his session snAii- Not apply to per-
. Us orIaniiiies dong heir owa w.shi AZ 4 ,r
.heis own pfiVase Use and not for custom
work. ''oA
SEc. =. II any person or psYsons shall he
guilty Ut Committing, ;. nu sance, as deti,I,d in
.hisordinaIce, aAY-.nd aiiof aid pers.,ns shall
De snoJec' TO a rine Of not less tnail sIv Nor
move han Hoo or by lmpris ,nnlent In The
Y unity Jail Tor not less than % nor mar. tn
zoo days, or by both such nne aud im.
prisonment. AAT
Atrue copy of.said order.
Il AtAest, u II. JOB.
Anrdla.za-sws 1 A''alo.