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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10
Shall We Have Such Rule?

Ii the Democratic party should con-
troll the next Congress, it is already clear
how the majority will be made up. Tt
will be composed of two ruling elements
first, Confederates from the South.
and, second, infationists and repudia-
tionists from the North. The gravest
question before the people of the coun-
Try is whether they can afford to have
Congress under the domination of such
influences.
In the present Democratic House the
majority of the majority come from the
South. What is the result? An army
OF Southern claims crowding for foot
hold. A host of absurd and extrava-
CANT schemes of Duck river dredging
and Goose creek securing for invisible
water in imperceptible channels undera
plea of their possible navigation, actu-
ally pressed through the House. We
are not denouncing the representatives
from the South We take them as we
find them. We simply say that, coming
from an impoverished section which
pays very little of the public tax, they
naturally grasp at such lavish appropria-
tions from the treasury as will fill their
pockets and impose burden only on
other sections of the country. The peo-
pie of the North have a large sympathy
with the South. This is shown in the
generous gifts for the hapless sufferers
from the scourge. There will always be
hearty and liberal response to every
just call for assistance. But when it
comes to the question of opening the
public treasury without limit for wild
schemes without reason or justice, it is
time to pause. We are not blaming the
South for making the most of it's oppor-
tunity. But will it be well for the
country to give it an opportunity unre-
strained?
In the next House the Southern pro-
portion of the Democratic side will be
equally strong, and the danger which it
involves will be aggravated by more
irresponsible element from the North.
The tendency seemed about as bad as it
could be at the last session. No meas
ure was too reckless for the majority.
The blatant Ewings carried them pretty
nearly where they pleased. But still
there were some of the majority who
cherished the ancient Democratic prin-
ciples of hard money and who did some
thing toward resisting the false and
dangerous movements. The party had
not openly and avowedly abandoned it's
old ground. But now it is unequivo-
cally accepting all of the soft-money
heresies, and such members as it elects
will go to the next Congress full of the
ideas which have poisoned the Dem
ocracy, not only through the West and
South, but in Maine, New Hampshire
and Massachusetts,, and which will faint
it here in New York There will be none
left in the party to oppose the tendency.
If the next House shall contain either
a clear Democratic majority under
Southern and initiation influences, or
majority made up of Democrats and
third-party men, it will be equally dis
astrous to the country The only safety
is in Republican majority.-A1ba9y
EUe1oi71g Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10
Eccentricities of Yellow Jack.

Nothing is more striking than the ec-
centric action of the disease as evinced
during the last few weeks. Some inger
for weeks under it's torment before death
releases them. Others die suddenly, as
though they had received a gunshot
wound in some vital organ. We have
had instances on record when strong
men went home in the apparent enjoy
ment of perfect health and died before
morning. It is impossible to predict
with rational certainty, in these times,
whether the friend one meets at midday
on Sunday, merry and hale, may not
pass into the world of shadows before
Monday evening Those who have
never been sick a day in their lives"
seem to be singled out for victims by the
disease with strange malignity The
healthlest children and the most robust
adults die III numbers, while the weakly
and alllng survive with extraordinary
persistency It would actually appear
that long experience in the various ills
to which flesh is heir arms invalids
against Yellow Jack as with shirt of
mail. Such constitutions are Injured,
certainly, to the action of many natural
poisons- they become Mithridatic, so to
speak while the pure and vigorous blood
OF youth and strength readily succumbs
to septic influences. As virgin soil pro-
duces richer crops than old lands, so the
system immaculate Of disease most read
lily develops the fermenting germs of
yellow feyer.-NelU Orleans City Item
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

The fact that kidnapped negroes from
the United States are held in slavery in
the island of Cuba is vouched for by an
ex-officer of the Cuban republic, named
Queralta, who served also in the Union
army during the rebellion. He certifies
that, while serving in the Cuban army,
he saw one of these negroes, and knew
of some others, and that he believes a
number of them are still on the island,
having been kidnapped and sold into
slavery there since the abolition of that
institution in this country. Statements
similar to those of Queralta have been
current for some time, and year ago a
member of Congress, who was visiting
Cuba on private business, was commits
stoned to inquire into the matter. I'm
fortunately, he died few days after
landing at Havana, and nothing has since
been done about it. The administra-
ton will probably take some action now.
on the strength of Queralta's affidavit.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

her foot was but three and three-quar-
ter inches in length The great toe
formed point that was bent upward
and backward, while the heel, of natural
size, seemed by contrast disproportion-
ately large.
Chinese Ladies of rank are seldom
seen abroad unless in closely-curtained
sedan chairs; but we used, occasionally,
to meet those of the middle class max
ing short excursions in the immediate
vicinity OF their homes. Their attempts
at walking were pitiable in the ex-
IRENE, as they hobbled along, leaning
on an umbrella or the shoulder of q
servant for support, or with hands out
stretched against the houses as they
passed, endeavoring to keep their bal
ance.-October Vide Aaoake.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

IT is said by the Chicago Inter Ocean
that Senator Jones, of Nevada, when he
started for the West in August, was, in
his own estimation, broken in fortune,
although five years ago he was worth
$5,OO0,O0O. Extravagant and reckless
living, according to the Inter Ocean,
had reduced him until he did not know
where his champagne and cigars were
to come from. The recent lift in min
ing stocks has, however, brought him in
$1,5OO,O00.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

WILLIAM BRAzLEToN, who was re-
Gently killed at Tucson, Arizona, by a
Sheriff and his posse, was one of the
most notorious desperadoe in the South
west. He had robbed nine coaches
during his career, slew his first man
when only Is years old, and once, in
New Mexico, when closely pursued by
party of detectives, killed seven of
them. He was ambidexterous, shooting
simultaneously with both hands and as
effectively with one as the other. He
was always armed to the teeth, and kept
the whole country in dread by his des-
perate holiness
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10
Lies.

The whole campaign against the Re
publican party rests simply on basis of
lies, which only live by constant
repetition and brazen assertion.
It is lie that the Republican party
has contracted the currency.
It is lie that the currency has been
contracted.
It is lie that there is not as much
currency in the country to-day as in
1865.
It is a lie that the Republican party
has legislated for the special interest of
the rich man.
It is lie that any Of its legislation
has been intended to, or does, Cypress
the poor man.
It is a lie that it could be induced
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

THE cotton crop, for the year ending
with the 31st of August last, was 4,811,-
265 bales, against 4 ,485, 423 bales for the
year preceding. This is the largest
crop since 1860, when the yield was
4,823,770 bales. Of the total supply,
3,34O,166 bales have been exported,
while 1,546,298 bales have been taken
for home consumption. The highest
quantity taken for home use in any
previous year was 1,435,418 bales, in
1877. The increase in the domestic
consumption was entirely, with the ex-
ception of 1000 bales, in Northern
mills. The aggregate weight of the
years crop was 2,3O0,9O8,9O7 pounds, as
against total weight of 2,201, 410,024
pounds-the highest ever before
reached-in 1856
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

OUR imports, during the twelve
months ending Aug. 81, amounted to
$43O,855,017, a falling off of 1884,, 691, 731
as compared with the preceding year.
Our exports, during the same time,
amounted to $72O,484, III, being an in
crease of $117, 2O4,881 over the preced-
ing twelve months. Excess of exports
over imports, for the twelve months
ending Aug. 81, $289,629, 154, or, in
other words, the balance of trade is that
much in our favor.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

OF the 800 persons suddenly sub
merged in the river Thames by the
Princess Alice disaster, scarcely dozen
saved their lives by swimming. The
reason is that at that place the river is
a mass of sewage. 1t regularly carries
away the liquid refuse of the city Of
London, and at the instant of the col
hsion there was being poured into it
near the fatal spot the contents of two
great cesspools. The immediate effect
of immersing person in sewage, say
the chemists, is asphyxia, and the 800
excursionists must have become numb.
and incapable of any effort. The
bodies, when recovered, had undergone
strange changes. Identification was
difficult. Clothing had changed color,
and decomposition had been swift
Everything pointed to the action of
some powerful chemical substance
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

RUSSIA is planning a railroad from
Tifis to Tabreez, in Persia, with intent
to extend it from Tabreez along the
borders of Turkestan to the Khyber
pass. The British are planning rail-
road to extend up the Indus valley,
through the Bolan pass to Beloochistan
to the table lands Of Afghanistan. These
railroad projects may have some bearing
upon the present agitation.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

HE Louisiana orange crop bids fair
to be the largest and finest ever known.
and the New Orleans Times looks for
ward to the time when Louisiana oranges
shall rival the Florida fruit and become
as important crop in the State as cot
ton. The reason why Louisiana oranges
have not been generally in demand has
been because the home shippers have
not known how to handle them, but they
can grow as fine fruit in the southern
part of the State as is grown anywhere,
and have convenient rail and water
communication when they learn how to
ship it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

HEREAFTER "third-class" mail matter
can be registered at the postoffice in the
same manner as letters. The cost of
registration will be 10 cents. Third
class" mail matter consists of pamphlets,
occasional publications, transient news
papers, magazines, handbills, posters,
unsealed circulars, prospectuses, books,
manuscripts, proof-sheets, corrected
proof-sheets, maps, prints, engravings,
blanks, flexible patterns, articles of
merchandise, sample cards, phono-
graphic paper, letter envelopes and
wrappers, cards, plain and ornamental
paper, Photographic representations of
different types, seeds, cuttings, bulbs,
roots, scions, and all other matter which
may be declared mailable by law, in
packages not exceeding four pounds in
weight.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

RUSSIA was among the earliest nations
to admit women to medical colleges.
Many women graduated from the school
of surgery in st. Petersburg, and have
been practicing in different parts of the
empire. The Government has recently
issued an edict forbidding all women to
practice medicine, giving as a reason
that the women physicians espouse the
Socialist cause, and become centers of
political discomfort.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

THERE is probability that the Gov
eminent will have an opportunity of
going into the oil business in Pennsyl-
vania. In the settlement of a debt due
from broken bank, the title to about
1000 acres of land in the oil district be-
came vested in the United States. The
territory is occupied by squatters at
present, but measures will be taken to
eject them, and then there will be a
chance for commission either to oper-
ate the wells or to sell the property.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

SOME careful statistician who delights
in the horrible has been to the pains of
keeping an account of the number of
people whom death has carried off dur
ing the past month. He says that in
Europe and America fully $4,000 people
are known to have persisted by the
sword, by food, by fever, and by rail
way, coal-mine and steamboat disasters.
Nearly 5000 have died of fever in the
South, 900 in the Thames steamship
collision, 400 by the great food at
Miskolez (Hungary), $50 by the coal
mine explosion in South Wales, 100 by
several railroad accidents in Great
Britain, 100 by lake, railway and other
casualties in this country, and some 1000
by engagements between Austrians, Bos-
mans, Turks and Albanians
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

applicant from obtaining a license to
retail Intoxicating liquors. In support
of this view, the court quoted the
scriptural text: "The Lord causeth to
grow the wine that maketh glad the
heart of man. QO4th Ps., 18th verse;.
Drink no longer water, but use a little
wine for thy stomach's sake, and thine
often infrmities' q Tim, 9Th verse;.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

under any circumstances to favor the
rich at the expense of the poor class.
1t is lie that it has been guilty of
class legislation of any kind.
1t is lie that anything which it has
done IS IN any way responsible for the
hard times
1t is lie that any different political
polley from that adopted by the Repub-
llcan party would have been attended
by any more benefcent results.-Tolede
Commercial.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

Mr.. BRITToN A. HILL, prominent
Greenback man Of st. Louis, proposes
that the Government shall issue daily
newspaper, to be distributed free among
the people, and to be edited by one
man from each State, to be chosen by
the people.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

ENGLAND's quarrel with the Afghans
will probably soon end in war. 1t is
not as serious an undertaking to fight
Afghanistan as it would have been to
have grappled with Russia, and En-
gland will not spend as much time in
b1uster
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

HE Supreme Court of Indiana holds
that the occasional drinking of glass
of ale, wine or whisky by man who is
not in the habit Of becoming intoxi-
Gated does not constitute such immor-
atty or unftness as would preclude an
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

IMMIGRATION to this country the pres
ent year promises to greatly exceed that
of any year since 1878. At the present
rate it will exceed that of last year by
100000; it was then 10000. They are
coming from England, Ireland and Ger
many principally.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10
vaunted Democratic Retrenchment.

The claim of retrenchment In 1877
and 1878 by the Democratic House of
Representatives is not sustained
by official figures. The Democratic
show of $19,799, 788.4O reduction
in 1877 is only apparent, having
been secured by Withholding appropria-
lions that had to be met in 1878 in the
form of deficiencies" and charged in
met ordinary expenditures for 1879"
The total appropriations Of Congress
were:
For last year $14s, 81, 3s3 %
Increase this year. $2S, 752, 265.49
1t was well understood by everybody
who gave attention to the subject that
the boosted Democratic reductions were
effected by denying appropriations in
to the public service; by
postponing necessary public works; by
national obligations, and by
Withholding large sums for deficiency
bills.
GEN. FREMONT says that his Indian
policy, as Governor of Arizona, will be
to interfere with those agreeable gentry
as little as possible so long as they do
to retard the development of
the Territory.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10
Che 4enosha Tele9raph,
KENOsHA, WIS, OCT. 10, 1878.

THERE'S now $39, 438, 351 in silver coin
in circulation, and the amount is CON
tinually increasing.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10

In round numbers $4,000, 100000! A
prodigious sum, and still increasing, to
be provided for by rebel Democratic
Congress, should such occur, at the
great risk of Reputation of the bonded
debt and sacrifice of the national integ-
rity and solemn pledges of the Gov
eminent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-10
Rebel War Claims Before Congress.

The demand of the South for pay
ment for it's emancipated slaves and for
all losses of property by the war, at
three or four times their true
value; for pensions to their dis
abled soldiers, and deceased soldiers
widows and children, and for the iquida-
ton of claims held abroad against the
Confederacy, is sure to follow the ac-
cession of the Democracy to power
should such an affection ever befall the
country-as night is to follow the day.
r. M. T. Hunter, the Maryland Consti-
tutional Convention of 1867, Missouri
State Commission, Southern officials
and prominent private individuals, have
indicated that it can and will be done
under Democratic control of the Gov
eminent. What amount these claims
will reach no man can tell; but the
known aggregate so far is really appall-
ing, and solemnly suggestive of what is
to come. Some of them have already
been introduced in the House, others
have been presented before the House
COLluI1GG0GS, Of uoItl 1O1 pIOoCAUGtu1Ou,
and the amounts are shown by the fol-
lowing figures:
Refunding direct tax of 1861. ........$ 2,492 11U
terest $1,000 . 40 $50 aaO
gress) Observation-Disclosures. 2,181, 497
Use and destruction of property, and
supplies destroyed or used by Union
forces in the Confederate States. 49, 2,AO, 326, 900
Compensation for slaves. ........... 100000 600
Payment of rebel mail-contractors up
to INV 1851 ........., 37s. 1000
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-01-16
An AMATEuM nEapkmAnn.

The following lively sketch of the
above character is from the graphic
pen OF W, X. Sullivan, esq, of the
Chicago journal. 1t will be relished
for its humor, as we'll ms being an item
of news for Texans:
Most Of the killing in the cities is
the result of bust head whisky. Tho
eX'mayor of Austin told me about A
young man from one OF the northern
states, who was sort of amateur dies,
pcrado, He had been good doal of a
fellow at home, where he could swear
and swagger around with impunity.
But he grew ambitious, and so nothing
would do out he must start with his
arsenal for Austin, where he got ns
drunk rs q liddlcr's clerk. Then moths
ing would do but he must" kill a
man with II plug hat" A man with
any other kind of II hat would not suit
his fastidious taste. lie hankered for "A
plug hat with man under it, and after
while he was accommodated In
Austin, at the time, was a professional
desperado, regular kill EN- quick"
who had laid out half a dozen men on
the frontier He heard of the anna,
tours longing to "kill man with a
plug hat, so ho put on one, and a
pair of kids, and sauntering into the
saloon where the amateur was monarch
OF all he surveyed, asked, in consump.
tive tone, for q drink. The amateur
saw him, and was delighted. you're
the fellow I've been looking for. I'm
bound to kill mans with plug hat"
oh, you wouldn't kill poor. sickly
man like me, would your answered
the professional AYES. | would. and
| will, yelled the amateur, drawing
and cooking his pistol. In the twink.
ling OF an eye the amateur was running
out OF that saloon crying for mercy and
begging for life. The prof, ssional had
hred two shots into him, one on the
right side and the other on the left. in
the vicinity of his diaphragm. Next !
morning, when the mayor went TO take !
MS deposition, he declined to prose. !
cute his professional brother. saving |
That he earned what he got. and that
he ought TO have been killed. Soon
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-01-16

A Vermont paper says that while
Mrs, Alonao Avery, of Sharon, in that
state, was carrying her two.year old
child across n bridge, the other day, 1t
fell from her arms distance of TWEEN,
ty.two feet upon solid stone abutment,
striking squarely upon its head Strange
to relate there was no bones broken,
and although the child was insensible
and remained in that condition for a
day or two, he has partially recovered
and continued improving, and it is now
thought that he will entirely recovery.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1878-01-16

The par mt of insomnia or wakefulueSs ia
In nine cases Oui of ton "A dyspeptio stom-
aoh. Good digestion gives SQUAD sleep, In
digestion interteIes with It. The brain and
stomach sympathiGe. One of the prominent
symptoms of weak state OF the gastric or
gnns is disturbance OF the great nerve on
treput, the brain. luVigorHte the stomach,
aud restore quilibrium To the great centre.
\ most reliable medicine for the purpose is
Hos'ettors stomach Bitters, which In far
preferable to mineral sedativeS aud power.
full narcotics which though they may for a
timo exert u sopoIiho influence npon tho
brain, soon cease To act and invariably IN
Juro The tone OF the stomach. The hitters,
on the contrary, restore activity to the OPP
q u ions of that all important organ, ana
Their benihceut influence IL reflected I'm
sound sleep and tranquil state ut the ner-
Nous system. A wholesome impetus is like
Wise given to the action OF tho liver and
bowels by It's use. tlljanalSvlt