The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-08

Hardness, at Creston, Wyoming Territory; by
Prof. Holden, at Central City, Colorado; by
Prof. Newcome, at Separation, Wyomlng; at
Pixies Peak, by Prof. Langley, Director of the
Allegheny Nautical Almanac, and by Prof. Col
bert at another station in Colorado.
Burned: Levy's notion store, Canal
street, New Orleans, loss 300, 900; Passaic Ice
Company's building, Oldham, N. j., loss
$65,OOO Payn's paper-mill, Chatham, N. Y,
loss $1,000.
The Hon. Waldemar Bodisco, Consul
General Of Russia at New York, died last week
at Jordan Alum Springs, Va He was nephew
of Baron Bodisco, long Russian Minister to
this country.
The committee appointed, under a
resolution of the National House of Repre-
sentatives, to consider the financial and labor
depression question, is now holding its ses-
| sions in New York. The committee consists of
Messrs A. S. Hewitt, of New York; J. M
Thompson, of Pennsylvania W. W. Rice, of
Massachusetts Thomas A. Boyd of Illinois,
and Ell. l.. Hickey of Ohio, and all
sit daily, and hear all persons who choose to
appear before them. A number of representa-
tives of the various labor organizations have
appeared and given their views regarding the
prevailing depression. The most OF them
attribute the hard times to labor-saving ma
chinery.
Col Bob Ingersoll and family have
gone on a three months tour to Europe,
The commission appointed at the last
session of Congress TO consider the matter of
army reorganization, and which was recently
in session at White Sulphur Springs, Va, has
adjourned without coming to any conclusion.
It is the impression that the commission will
never be able to agree upon any plan for the
reorganization of the army.
Dispatches from San Antonio, Texas,
report that Mackenzie, the cavalryman, is once
more ON the border, presumably with full in
structions in relation to his next crossing.
The Greasers are said to be accommodating
stores of ammunition and preparing to give
the Gringos warm reception.
A letter from Maj. Walsh, at Wood
Mountain, British Territory, reports the hostile
Sioux gathering in one big camp, fifteen miles
west of Wood Mountain Post. for a medicine
dance. The Major insists that there is no hos
tile movement on foot and says there never
was less appearance of Sitting Bull crossing
the line. He says the hostiles have little am
munition, and the the traders on the British
side have very little to sell them.
Toronto, Canada, was visited last
week by a furious rain and hail
storm. Cellars were flooded, thousands OF
panes of glass were smashed and nearly ev-
cry skylight in the city demolished. The dam
age to property in the city is estimated at half
million dollars.
In a recent trial of speed at Bnfalo,
the celebrated horse Rarus eclpsed all the
records heretofore made in trotting, and put
in the shade the 2:14 of Goldsmith Maid which
stood unequaled for so many years until Rarus
trotted into the same notch at Cleveland. In
the Buffalo race it was not expected that the
horse would equal his Cleveland performance.
as tine track is not considered as fast as that at
the former city, but in the second heat
he trotted the mile in 2:13I. The time of the
heat was as follows: First quarter, 331a Sec
onds; second quarter, 32A seconds; third
quarter, 1924 seconds; fourth quarter, 3434
seconds. Mile, 2:15A. This performance en-
titles Rarus to the credit of the fastest heat on
record, and he now stands credited with the
fastest mile on record (2:1314), the fastest mile
on half-mile track (2:16), the fastest frs
heat (2:141s), the fastest second heat (213114),
the fastest third heat (2:1N, and the fastest
three consecutive heats on record (2:1411&, 2:15,
2:14).