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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24

Iris demonstrated that America makes
the best Cabinet or Parlor Organs in the world
At all worlds exhibitions in recent years Mason
& Hamlin have obtained highest honors having
received the gold medal at the Paris Exposition
of 1879 X .E(7JJa.5 4f@ff5 a}CE4tB t+''' ''
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24

SUDDEN changes in the weather are
productive of Throat Diseases, Coughs and
Colds. There is no more effectual relief to be
found than in the use of "Brown's Bronchial
Troches." IS cts a box ur- -guio4
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24

For upward of 80 years Mrs. WINSLOW'S
SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for children
with never-failing success. 1t corrects acidity
Of the stomach, relieves wind collie, regulates
the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhea,
whether arising from teething or other causes.
An old and well-tried remedy. Is cts. bottle
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24

To CLEANSE and whiten the teeth, to sweeten
the breath, use Browns Camphorated Sapona-
ceous Dentifrice. Twenty five cents bottle
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24

WHEN neglectful of the duty assigned
to it by nature-that Of secreting the bile the
liver should be disciplined with DIR. Morris
VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS which will speedily
remedy it's inaction and stimulate it to vigor-
Gus performance of it's secretive function. Con
stipation which is an invariable accompaniment
of liver disorder, is always overcome by this
great anti-bilious cathartic, and indigestion,
chronic and acute, is completely cured by it.
All Druggists sell it.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24

HON. G. R. PARSONS, Mayor of Rochester, was
Kidney Cure Depot, q University Place, n. Y.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24

!, WOMEN doctors in Russia are in
trouble. They are forbidden to prac-
tice.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24

155 days from New York to New York
It is an admitted fact that the cost of
travel in Europe with party of ladies is
much heavier than with all gentlemen.
The cost of living in Paris is also one
third higher this year than ever before.
Still we find in footing up the costs of
this extended tour that it amounts to
but $946.35 for each of the tourists
about SIS per day. This includes the
ocean passage out and home and all the
expenses of travel, including carriages,
guides, fees, operas, theaters and amuse-
ments. We travelled frst-class all the
time, stopping at the best hotels, and
made no special effort to economic, but
the most strenuous efforts to prevent
being swindled. Three or four young
men travelling together ought to make
the same tour for about $500, and with
rigid economy at still smaller figure.
1t may be proper to add that the whole
of our party were persistent water-drink-
ers, and, although we were everywhere
told that water was unhealthy and ice
destructive, we stuck to our favorite
beverage, with daily improving health
and spirits, and entire freedom from
Roman and other fevers. We think that
our combined weight on returning was
fully fifty pounds more than when we
embarked, and that the increase was jul
diciously distributed among those who
needed it most % Eel w8
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24

FAMILIARITY with the writings of the great
poets is a necessity to any one who wishes to
appear well in company. For 10c. we will send
book of 100 selections from the beautiful melo-
dies of Moore, the grand poems of Byron, and
the unequaled songs of Burns, and 50 popular
songs. Desmond Co., 915 Race street, Phila.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24

A MAGAZINE where light matter should
not be inserted-A powder magazine.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
IMPORTANT NoTICE.-Farmer.. Fa,

CHEW Jackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24

AACf1, IAGROWING NAILS, NETTLE RASH MOSQUITO AND
''A otfN'' FLEA BITES, SPIDER sTINGs, ~ fE Tag
And all cutaneous diseases and eruptions generally
or PRICE q, CENTS BOX. BY MAIL IS CENTS,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-24
THROUGH EUROPE IN STYLE.

What it Costs to Keep Real Nice Party
Six Months Abroad. WI
G. c.. Fulton, editor of the Baltimore
Anlerica1a, writes as follows of his re-
cent European trip:
Many of your readers who travelled
with us on this journey will naturally
have desire to know at what cost such
an European tour can be made, and the
length Of time we gave to each of the
principal cities on the continent. It
may seem to some that our stay at
Rome, or Naples, or Florence, or Vienna,
was not long enough, but we assure
them that we viewed everything of real
Importance in all these cities. We did
not have any idle days, nor did we halt
for rest, or stop for rain or bad weather.
We were always in motion, going to bed
tired and getting up refreshed. On the
same day that we entered the ball on
the dome of st. Peters we were down
in the bowels of the earth, exploring the
catacOmbs, passing on the route the Col
iseum and the ruins of ancient Rome
In the evening we would take drive in
the parks, and at night attend the
operas, concerts or theaters In short,
we were on a five months frolic, and
every moment was precious and enjoy
able. We flew over the continent sing
ing, rejoicing and happy, and were
everywhere regarded as s'the jolly Amer
leans" We never travelled on Sunday,
and this was our only day of rest, being
all that we needed or desired.
We were absent from New York Just
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-01-01
@onntott Spectator.
TUESDAY. JANUARY 1, 1878.

epICIDE IN CHARLoTTESvILLE.-
M0hday morning of last week, Dr. Jas.
M: Poindexter, of Charlottesville, lock-
e3 himself up in his Office and commit
suicide by shooting with double
bnx8eled gun. He reclined on lounge,
4RlHied'the muzzle in his mouth, and
Hlng thetrigger with walking-cane,
Moving OF the entire top of the head
md scattering the brains over the win
dow and the room. In this position he
Nas found by his family.
He was graduate of the University,
popular as man and physician, and at
Pshe time of his death was 63 years of
age For more than forty years he had
BEEN professor of Christianity, and at
The time of his death, a member of the
Baptist church. He was also member
of the Odd Fellows,-a Past Grand Mas
ter. For twenty years he had been a
sufferer from fistula, and it is supposed
that the dread of the effects ofa surgical
bperation which he was necessitated to
undergo, SO preyed upon his mind as to
cause HIM to terminate his life by sui
eide, sA-
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-01-01
For the SPECTATOR.
Letter from Missouri.
SuEJR1N. Mo noo 10Th

SHELBINA, Mo. Dec. 18th, III.
DEAR OLD SPECTAToR:-Y Your last
number brought the sad intelligence oil
the death of my old and esteemed friend
John Wayt. Earth is poorer, but Heavi
en- is richer by his death. He lived I'd
a good old age, and to die, full of years
and full of hOnors, to him was GAIN,
lie was one of earth's noblemen; man
OF answering integrity. and against
whose fair name the tongue of evil re-
port whispers naught. "Oh that may
die the death of the righteous, and my
last end be like his.u
One week from to-day is Christmas,
and am writing in my office without
hre. But it rams, rains, rains, almost
continually, and the mud is very deep.
Inc roads are almost impossible to vel
hlcles. In this country, which is very
hat, the roads are generally thrown up
in the middle, wide enough for two
tracks, and when thus worked do not
get SO bad. But the flat roads get awful
The roads through the prairies get very
deep, unless thus thrown up. All the
work on them is done with plows and
horse scrapers, and when dry they are
first rate. The stock are still in the
fields and prairies, and the farmers are
not done gathering their corn. Corn is
worth Sl00 per barrel Is bushels), fat
hogs 1925 per hundred pounds gross,
and fat cattle about the same; but stock
hogs bring almost any price-are in de, !,
mand. This is a prairie country, with
timber along the creeks and rivers, of
which there are not very many The
timber is white oak, black oak, pin oak,
hickory and ash, and has to be hauled
from one to five miles. Many men have
farms on the prairie, without stick Of
timber on it. They buy their rails .o1(
plank for fence until their hedges grow,
and buy their firewood Coal is plenty
and cheaper, perhaps, than wood, but it
blackens the roof and thus spoils the
cistern water, Cord wood in town sells
readily at So 90 for hickory and $3.50 for
oak; any sort white pine lumber from
81. 60 to S2.0e per hundred feet. It is
plenty, and is brought by the cars. The
country people come to town to buy
their lumber, and often get it framed
here, just ready to be put up, and they
move into it in week. The weather.
boarding is all dressed and is three
eighths at one edge and one-eigth at the
other. The shingles are all sawed and
are from four to twelve inches broad
Most of them are eight to ten inches
all white pine. The houses are all
frame and painted white, and generally
only one story, with two to five rooms.
More anon. s. kENNERLY.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-01-01
NEW YEARS BELLS.

tang, bells, ring, with your mellow din,
Ring the old year out and the new year in!
Like the voices of birds from the old gray spire
Let your silvery music rise higher and higher;
Floating abroad o'erth hillside bare
In billows OF sound on the tremulous air,
Let 1t rise and fall with the fitful gale;
Tell over city and wood the tale;
Say that tonight the old year dies!
Bid the watchers look to the eastern skies,
For the beautiful halo that tells afar
Of the welcome rise of the new years star!
Ring the old year out, with its sighs and tears
Its wlthering heart-aches and tiresome tears
Away with its memories ofdoubt and wrong,
Its cold deceits and its envyings strong,
All its pandering lures to the faltering sense,
All its pitiful shams and cold pretense,
We will heap them together and bind them fast
To the old mans load as he totters past,
The ills that he brought he may take again;
Keepwe the joys, let him bury the pain!
Ring soft, oh bells, as he goes to rest
Far in the shades of the darlkening west!
Ring, bells, ring, with a merry dinl
The old year has gone with its care and sin!
Smiling and fair, at the eastern gates,
Clad in tin ted light, the new year waits!
Welcome him in with the rosy band
Who wait the wave of his beckoning hand
Hope with her wreaths ofsweet spring flowers
JOY for the summers glowing hours.
Penty and peace for the fruitful fall,
| And love for all seasons-best of all
| Ring merrily, bells .-o'er the blushing skies,
See the beautiful star of the new year rise
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-01-01
Lecture by Hon. J. Ran. Tucker.

AT Leesburg, Loudoun Co., Oh Mon
day evening, the Itch ult., under the au-
spices of the Young Mems Christian AS.
ISOLATION of that place, Hon. ). Ran.
Tucker delivered an able and interest
ing lacture on the Laws of God.'
The Leesburg JTashingtonian says:
His subject was a comprehensive one,
but he argued it with much farce, the
truth that all the requirements of the
Divine Law had personal application
that they were made to apply to the
case of each individual, and while their
observance did not add to the glory Of
their Author their violation sever f:;iieG
to visit the penalty eXaoted upon the
party who violated them He was in
teresting IN treating of the wisdom of
the laws given by Moses to the children
of Israel, aud how all the laws of civil
lied nations had been made in striking
harmony with it. The spirit, wisdom and
justice of the common law of Englapd
and this country, found their original in
those given to the Hebrews by Moses.
and he was but the mouth piece of De-
ity, speaking to the world Here was
the standard Of right and Justice Ne
one could go wrong who shaped his ac
tions by the rule then given. The fam
lily, the community, the State and the
Nation, find there the true standard by
which to shape tlieir course. No repu-
diation, no violation of contracts, no fiji Z
naticisms were foEnd-these. Rxt, hss IL
each man was guaranteed the fruits of
his labor and those who used those fruits,
either by borrowing or otherwise, were
bound to pay back to tie rightful owner
what he got, and if h did not, the pen
atty was exacted and would he enforced
upon all who act dishonesty. Individ-
uals, States, Nations and Kingdoms,
must come up to the inexorable and true
rule of rendering to all their just dues,
or they will have to pay the penalty,
which they will flnl far more costly
than the amount they expect to save by
violating this rule. The Ten Commands
ments were explained at considerable
length, and the great truths they EN-
braced were shown to apply to each in
diYidual. The lazy was there given to
the individual and not to communities
and nations, and each must take them
individually and be governed by them,
or incur the penalty they iinDose.n
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-01-01
Col. w. r. Berkeley and his ASSESS
Capt. w. II. Kennedy.

Col. VIM. Randolph Berkeley, M5
was assassinated at Farmville on Thus-
day, by Capt. w. H. Kennedy. was be
head of an interesting family consisthg
of a wife and seven children. He wa a
member and an officer of the PresbJ Je-
rian church, and was not over 81 y%s
of age. For several years he was an e.
tive member Of the board of visitorspf
the University of Virginia, where be
was graduated before the war Durlg
the war, though quite young, he As
colonel of Virginia regiment VIII sh
distinguished itself greatly. Col. Bere-
ley was the representative of two of lie
oldest families in Virginia, the Ri
dolphs and the Berkeleys, both of VIII m
trace their descent in direct line frn
the Norman Conquest. John Randola, /,
of Roanoke, and Edmund Randolh,
Attorney General of the United Stat,
were Of this family. Bishop Berkelt
whose line, "Westward the star of ed
pire takes its way,n is household wdl
with Americans, was connected y
close relationship with the BerkeleJ,
who M an early period came to the dl
Dominion. The Earls of Berkeley ab
Fitzhardinge are chiefs of the family
England.
OF the man who killed Col. BerkeIs
and the causes which impelled him
the dreadful deed, st. Andrew, Edit
of the FarmvilIe Mercury, thus writ.
to The State:
"The late w. H. Kennedy was brJ
to life of ease and failed to adapt hin
self to any steady purpose in life; youn,
handsome, and of excellent abilities h
became, as his physician says, sourd
against a world which did not q
smoothly with him, and many misfo
tunes still further embittered his min.
Wearied Of life, disgusted with himsel
hopeless of the future, and sufferin
from painful disease, he, on three se1
eral occasions, had attempted to tax
his own life, but without success. Co
Berkeley had taken some proceeding
against him in the interest of ellen
and in conversation with third partie
had made some not severe reflections o
Kennedy, without bitterness and with
out malice. Kennedy had always bee
remarkable for exaggerated notions a
to- the duty OF resenting Injuries, an
gradually his animosity against tn
world centered on Berkely. The matte
between them could have easily an,
satisfactorily been explained, for Colone
Berkeley had done no wrong. aud woul
have been friend to Kennedy if proper
ly appealed to just at this time. Christ
mas came, and the joyous delight of Col
onel Berkeley in the season aud its hos
pitalities increased Kennedy's mad de
sire for vengeance. These are the cir
which led to the terribl
drama; that Kennedy's melanchoI,
to actual madness is the opin
ion of those best entitled to Judge. Th,
lesson to be derived from the awfu
events is that young men must seek re
lief from anxiety In hard work ant
faith in God, and that the popular doc
trine of personally reseptipg real O
fancied injuries is dangerous to society
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-01-01

The LIQUOR TRAFFIc.-Frona trust
worthy figures just compiled regarding
the IQdor traffic, it appears that there
are nearly twice as many drinking sa-
looms in New York as in any other
State. The exact number is 1854. H.
lins,is follows with 16, ,54s, and Pennsyl-
vaflia with 16, Jos, Ohio with IA, 24s, and
California with s, ,4OS. In Massachusetts
there are only $3.50 saloons, while in
the comparatively Insignificant District
Of Columbia, the seat of national govern
ment, there are no less than l Jos. North
Carolina heads the list with 1,2O5 dis
tilleries, while New. York has only III
distilleries. In addition to these, how
ever, there are 379 beer breweries in the
State. On an average there is ia the
Union one drinking saloon for every two
hundred and eighty inhabitants.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-01-01

A SHOCKING CRIME-A. WE'LL KNOW
CITIZEN LIVING NEAR BoYkIN's DEPd
'FoULLY MURDERED N@Jolk. va
December 26.-On Mondjy morninl
MIR. w. III. Fuller, a very etimable geii
tleman, who lived aboutlthree mile
from Boykin's depot, left home abou
daybreak for the purpos9of shooting
wild turkeys from blind fhich he hal
erected on the low -groundIof the Mel
herrin river, on the land ol Mr.. n. +
Ridley. AS Mr.. Fuller di net returf
home at night on Christn4S Smorning
party of neighbors started iut in searct
of him. The search resulad in findins
the body OF Mr.. Fuller lyiig a few fed
from the blind, presenting a horriblt
and revolving spectacle. Aknife- wounf
about one and half indies deep haf
penetrated his right breaE, a gunshot
had carried away the entfe right sidl
OF the head, aud his clothAg was badit
burned by wadding from be gun. M1
Fullef's gun was lying actss his breast
fully loaded - SpeoiM tefgrdna to IN
Disputc.
P.S. Two persons, fater and son
have Lealn arrested by defctive WrEt
o Ricbn id. The son Pfessed. W
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-01-01
Virginia,s Hau0r.

The good people Of Virginia viii have
much TO regret, and deep caus for hui
initiation hereafter, if the Legislature
now in session shall succeed in the ob
ject upon which the majority seem to be
intent. The time was when, to be q
Virginian-a native of the State that
gave Washington. Jefferson, Henry,
Madison, Marshall and the Lees to q
country that revefes their memory
a passport everywhere. As no State of
the Union has heen so prolific of great
men in craftsmanship and arms, SO the
reflected glory of these men has been an
inheritance that we could not lightly
esteem, and for which we were almost
envied by our felIow-citizens in other
States. 1t is possible that our people
have shown weakness in the excess of
State pride that has been attributed to
them but that weakness was pardona-
BILE, when not Wanted TO the disgust Of
sensible people who judge men by their
own acts, and appreciate them only for
their personal merit. But, however this
may be, Vifginians, all the world over,
have ever eyinced love for their native
soil, and never had occasion to blush for
their State. And how will it be in flu
ture, when the proud Old Dominion
shall be stepped in the mire of repudia-
ton ?--if that unhappy fate awaits herl
How will the VIrginian abroad answer
those who may taunt him about the bad
faith and down right dishonesty of tho
men to whom the people have delegated
the power they are now seeking to abuse,
to Involve the whole State in shame and
modification Having COMPROMISED
once with the public creditors inducing
them to rely upon the honor of West
Virginia to pay her share Of the antet
bellum debt, which share she is not likeE
ly to pay-the Legislature now talks
about "forcibly readjusting" the share
we took upon ourselves to pay! AND
what reason could the creditors have tp
believe that reputation, or to call it BY
a softer e-re-adjustMent, woulf
end here? All experienced has showf
that when men begin to stretch thef
conscience and do violence to the princi-
pies of ustice aud equity, there is nP
telling where they will slpp.-Lync7.
Vargiaaidn.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-01-01
General News Items.

Receiver Wickham, special combs
sioner appointed by the Circuit Cou|of
Richmond, will sell on the I'd of Ail
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad, fh
all its rights, franchises and privilds.
John Fletcher, of Tenn, fired atIis
nephew with double-barreled bt
gun few days ago, and shot out mel "
all his teeth, destroyed both of his ds,
and shot his nose off. The physicbs
think that the youth will live, thus 5.
figured, and totally blind.
The handsome silver testimonial J.
sented by the citizens of South Carols
to Gen. J. B. Gordon, in recognitiob1
his services in behalf of South Garcia
in her darkest hour, was forwardedlr
Saturday night, and reached Atlah
Ga, Tuesday, just in time to serve Il
Christmas gift for Gen. Gordon.
Governor Hampton, of South Carl
ma. has accepted an invitation to be K
guest of the Washington Artillery
Charleston, at the coming celebrate
on the 22d of February next. Volunt
companies from Virginia and Geord
as well as from the principal towns
South Carolina, will take part in d
military parade on that occasion.
The fine residence of Major Joseph
Sloss, ex-member Of Congress, at I'd
cumbia, Ala, was totolly destroyed
fire on Tuesday evening.-All the fl
niture was saved except six hundr
dollar piano. Loss $4,000; insuran
$1,000. The fire is supposed to ha
been the work of an incendiary.
The United States troops met wi
some resistance in making arrests
San Elizairo, Texas, last week, al
two of the mob were killed. The Tex
Rangers also took two of the mob vi
had been arrested and lynched them,
Near Barnesville, in Montgome
county, Nd, on Christmas day an
tercation took place between Lloyd
Jamison and Thomas W. II. Warfiel
which resulted in the stabbing and :
most instant death of the latter.
! A fire at Sweet Water. Tenn, Chris
mas night, destroyed five stores, t,
warehouses and several other building
Loss $4,000.
Governor Kemper has pardon
Charles Taylor, eolored, who was
March, 1889, convicted of burglary
Henrico county and sentenced to deaf
which sentence was commuted to Gig
teen y ears imprisonment.
The Governor of New York has ps
doned John Ryan, sentenced May
1874, for twenty years, for burglary al
larcency. The district attorney, judg
and complainant believe him5innocer
The Legislature which will be elect
in November, 1879, will elect Unit
States Senator, Col. Withers' term n
expiring till March, 1881.
A woman in Hazleton, Pa, left h
home last Sunday night week to Loo
for her husband, who was on q spre
She carried her baby in her arms, az
having found her husband, tried to pc
suade him to return home. In Il
struggle which ensued she fell or VI
thrown down. and in the fall the chi
was killed. The raving of the ,distrac
ed woman was terrible, and her gri
heart-rending at. the sudden and une.
pected bereavement. n
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1878-01-01

BAD DEATH OF A MAYORS WIFE,
The st. Louis papers contain an account
Of The sad death of Mrs. Bowman, wife
Of Mayor J. B. Bowman, of East st.
Louis. Mrs. Bowman was about to re-
tire for the night, when pistol, which
she carried in her bosom. was acciden-
tally discharged, the bullet passing
Hthrough her lung and entering her heart,
pfOducing death almost Immediately.
The published statement that Mrs. Bow
lsssn committed suicide is fatty contra
Ssizted.