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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03
A Disguised Tramp.

A few days ago a tramp, who was
sparring his devious way along near
Reno, conceived a brilliant idea for
raising the wind He knew that the
Wells-Fargo stagewould pass along that
road in abo u, half an hour, so he took
off his coat, tore his shirt and pockets,
rolled around in the dust, and finally
tied himself, with much difficulty, to a
tree. His intention was to relate to the
stage passengers how he had been foul
ly dealt with by highwaymen, and have
a subscription to repair his losses taken
up on the spot. The stage, however,
took short cut by new road that day,
and didn't go by at all. After waiting
until dusk, the disguised tramp con-
cluded to remove his bonds, but, before
he got the first knot loose, grizzly came
down out Of the mountain and picnicked
off the greater part of his left leg.-Sa,a
Francisco Newsletter.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

PROF. EDISON thinks he has discov-
ored very simple process of dividing
he electric light into 10000 jets, each
one of which can be made of an illumi-
hating power equal to that of an ordi-
lary gas-burner. He says the process
is so simple that savans will be aston
jshed to find how often they have STUN
bled over it in their theories and expert
ments and yet missed it. AS soon as
Edison secures a patent he proposes to
give public exhibition in New York,
and he hopes to demonstrate the practi-
cability of lighting city by electricity
at about one-tenth the cost of the gas
now in use.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

Miss WARDLAKE rejected one lover
and married another. This was in
Juanita, CAL, of which place she was re-
garded as the belle. The wedding
brought together all the fashionable
folk of the place, including Henry Bar
ron, the rejected sutton, who joined the
rest in seemingly heartfelt congratula-
tons of the bride. It was afterward re-
membered, however, that he acted like
a man in daze-conduct at the time
attributed to too free drinking of the
beverages that formed part of the re-
freshments. Just before the assemblage
was about to disperse Barron approached
the bride, bearing two glasses of wine
He handed her one and drank the other
himself, saying, significantly, "Let us
drink together once more, for the last
time on earth" She was rather sad
dened by his words, but supposed that
they referred to the necessary end of
their intercourse, and drank the wine
In half an hour both were dead Bar
ron had put poison in the wine.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

The English, it is telegraphed from
Bombay, have 10000 troops massed on
the frontier of Afghanistan, and will
prepare for the opening of a vigorous
campaign in the spring. The Afghan
Government is not strong, and it is
doubtful whether the Ameer could COM
mand the support of the people in
many of the districts It has been said
Of the Afghans that, while they are con-
tent with discord, with alarms, and with
blood, they will never be content with
master" The Ameer is dictator
rather than monarch, and remains in
power SO long as the military chiefs are
allowed to follow their own ideas of
government The army could make no
stand against the British army in India.
In 1872 the Russian Government form
ally declared that "Afghanistan was be-
yond the field of Russian influence"
In view of this fact the occupation of
Afghanistan by the British army would
not necessarily bring on new complica-
tons with Russia.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03
Russian Atrocities.

A London correspondent writes to
the Dublin Freend71's Journal: eff
the horrible disclosures made last night
be indeed disclosures of things that
have happened, then the Emperor of
Russia may well shrink from accepting
the report of the Rhodope Commission.
It is said the details, which I am about
to reproduce, have, in properly anthem
ticated form, reached the Foreign Office,
that they are in the hands of the Minis
tiers, and that they have been disclosed
to the Queen. The commission worked
steadily throughout the entire districts
where the outrages by the Russian
soldiers were alleged to have taken
place. 1t was never believed that they
could penetrate the mystery with which
the events had been covered, but the
Commissioners were resolute. As they
proceeded, horror on horror was dis
closed, and thus they were drawn on
until the agonies of the recital became
too much for them, and one day they
quite broke down, and almost joined, we
are told, in the bitter w,epings of some
hundreds of suferer. At all events,
the days sitting was dissolved. There
seems to be a singular prejudice in the
Russian army in favor of cutting off
the breasts of women, for wherever the
commission sat are found cases of this
form of mutilation. Rolling women in
tar or petroleum, or other inhammable
substances, and then setting them
alight, is a method of torture more
rarely resorted to; but fire seems to
have been found, convenient instru-
ment OF destruction when a good lot of
Mussulmans were trapped together in a
barn, or the like. If it be true that the
Government has in its possession docu-
ments proving these horrors, it is its
duty to place them before the country
and the world 4a
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

A BRITISH consular report from Per-
STA says that almost every child in that
country is taught to read and write.
The Koran is the textbook. But. as
there are no printed books in Persian
characters among the people, the condi-
ton of popular intelligence is that of
five centuries ago. Few new books are
read, the cost of manuscript being too
much for popular circulation, and few
are written. The Persians adhere in
chemistry to the old idea of four ele-
ments. In astronomy they believe that
the sun moves round the earth In
other sciences, as presented in printed
books, their position is the same; al
though, of course, the highly-educated
are better taught. In the actual pro-
cesses of art and manufactures, with
samples of Western products before
them, they are skillful imitators.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

Theirs spent 100000 francs in celebrat-
ing the anniversary Of her husbands
death, and the correspondents see IN
this fact evidence that the wife of the
ex-President aspires to succeed Mac
Mahon as the chief executive of the
French republic. They argue that the
display was made for political effect,
and that the suggestion that Nine. Theirs
be elected President Of the republic,
appealing as it does to the chivalry and
gallantry Of the Gallo race, is likely to
call out great enthusiasm, and to carry
the country for her. It is asserted that
the shrewdest politicians of the old
Theirs party favor the plan, and expect
the newness and novelty of the idea to
make the movement extremely popular.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

In speech delivered before a Cana
ian society of artists, the other day,
lord Dufferin said he had proposed to
he Governor of New York that that
tate and the Dominion should buy the
roperty around Niagara falls, and keep
as an international park, under con-
'ol of an international commission
he proposition, he said, was favorably
eceived, and he expects it will be sub
lifted to, and adopted by, the New
DIRK Legislature, and ultimately car
ed into execution.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03
A TABLE OF ELOQUENT FIGURES.
An Illustration of Republican Management
of Public Afairs-How the Debt Is Being

An Illustration of Republican Management
of Public Afairs-How the Debt Is Being
Reduced.
Washington Cor. New York Tribune.]
The universal desire which has been
created by recent political speeches to
have more exact information with re-
gard to the condition of the national
debt, and it's increase and decrease since
the Republican party came into power,
is manifesting itself in the large number
of inquiries upon the subject which are
constantly received by the Treasury De-
partment.
To meet this want the Secretary has
caused to be prepared statement, con-
tanning very thorough analysis of the
public debt of the United States from
July 1, 1860, to July 1, 1873 This doc
ument shows the aggregate on the
first day of each fiscal year of the out
standing Indebtedness bearing interest,
the annual interest-charge computed at
each respective date, the debt on which
interest has ceased, the debt bearing no
interest, the amount of cash in the
treasury, and estimated population of
the United States, with the debt and in
terest per capita. For the year 1865
the several amounts are given for two
different days, July l and August 81, the
latter being the day when the national
debt reached it's highest point
Although a mere statement of facts, a
more forcible campaign document for
the Republican party than the state
ments embodied in the last columns of
this table could hardly be conceived.
They show that from the date of Aug
81, 1875, when it became certain that
the backbone of the Rebellion was
broken, down to the present time, there
has been steady annual decrease rang
ing from So to 81 per capita in the ma
tional debt, and decrease in the in
terest on the public debt per capita
from $4.29 in 1866 to $1.97 for the last
fiscal year. At this rate each reader
can compute for himself how long it
will require, if the same honest policy is
pursued in the administration of the
nations finances, to wipe out the entire
Indebtedness and effectually relieve the
people from the burden imposed upon
them by the interest accrring upon the
war debt
The following table presents the most
significant features of the statement:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

EVERYBODY has heard of the conven-
tional Engishman who gave as an ex-
cuse for not assisting man who was
drowning that he had never been intro
duced to him. Even that indifference
has been surpassed by recent occur
renee at Buxton, in England. A little
girl s years old was drowned in the
river Wye, The evidence before the
Coroner's jury showed that able-bodied
men watched the child being carried
toward them by the stream in water not
two feet deep, and crying for help,
without rendering any assistance. an
parently being no more affected by the
incident than if rat was drowning.
The comments of the Coroner on these
facts were as severe as he could make
them. He spoke of the cowardly Great
ures as so-called men," a disgrace to
humanity" and expressed the hope that,
IF they had either hearts or souls, the
thought of their conduct would occasion
bitter reflections for years to come"
The Pail Mall Gazette, in commenting
on the occurrence, says: at is. how
ever, only fair to remember that such
conduct is, perhaps, mainly attributable
to civilization. The noble savage is not
burdened with clothing, and can wade
through water only two feet in depth
without injury to his wardrobe
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03
AS TO the remedies for the bite of i

AS TO the remedies for the bite of the
rattlesnake, physician in Western
Pennsylvania says that whisky is spe-
citic. He treats twenty or thirty per-
sons year for rattlesnake bites. The
bites rarely prove fatal when whisky is
used in season. The rattlesnake always
strikes at the neck, or as high up as he
can get. In the experiments in Indian
apolis every animal put into the snakes
cage was struck in the neck. The
snakes fang makes very small wound
and but little blood escapes. Infam-
nation sets in at once. The animal
struck seems to suffer very little pain,
but to be rather in stupefed condi-
ton. Humans being are said to suffer
acute pain from the wound. It is not
known whether or not the rattlesnake poi
sons the animals that it desires for food.
but it is known that it can swallow its
own poison with impunity. It is said
also that a human being may swallow
rattlesnake poison with perfect safety il
there is no wound about the mouth
There is one animal invulnerable 50 far
as the rattlesnake is concerned, and that
is the hog. The hog wages war upon
all snakes, innocent and poisonous, and
destroys them with eagerness.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

In 1919 the yellow fever ragged with
emarkable malignity in this and other
)untries. It broke out at one and the
tme time in widely-separated localities
in Boston and New Orleans. At Mo-
lie 294 died. Charleston and Savan-
alb suffered fearfully. Natchez was al
lost depopulated, and $50 of those re-
naming died. In Baltimore 242 died
nd GAO were taken sick. Many per-
ons fell dead in the streets. At Cadiz,
spain, of population of $4,000, $4,000
ook the fever, and 5000 died.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

PROF. WHITE, of Cornell University,
ust returned from Europe, says Amer
ca must look to her laurels in regard to
he common-school system, as in En-
land, France and Italy systems of pri-
nary and common-school education are
icing developed rapidly and with great
are. Europe, he thinks, has made
reat progress within the last few years
0ward better systems of education
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

ERYsIpELAs in the head has lately af-
ficted Caleb Gushing, and he has been
compelled to suspend library work. A.
n. Stephens has been over-working
himself in his campaign, and has had
two hemorrhages of the lungs, but is
getting better. Prof. Swings bad health
compels him to decline all but light lit
erary work beyond his pulpit and parish
duties. Wendell Phillips is beginning
to feel the weight of his years, and cam
not travel far this season to lecture.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

commodities are known to be largely
formed of peculiar description of straw
paper stepped in tobacco juice, which
is manufactured in the United States
Tor this express purpose, and largely ex-
ported to Cuba and other markets
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03
Financial.

We have just thought of a plan for
paying off the national debt in six
weeks Let the Government levy a
light tax, not to exceed three mills on
the dollar, on all the poetry written in
the United States, and let every poet
name the value of his own poetry. That
will do it; and we won't charge the Gov
eminent cent for it, either.-.BuTdette
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

AMERICAN cigars have recently been
advertised in London at very low rates.
They have proved to be the cabbage
leaf and brown-paper brands not un-
known on this side of the water. Says
London newspaper: "These precious
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03
Jhe Aenosha telegraph
KENOsHA, WIS, OCT. 8, 1873.

POTTER, the man who has been wheel
ag a barrow across the continent, has
cached California. He has deadhead-
d at saloons and hotels on the way
aas travelled leisurely, and is satisfied
With the enterprise; but he says it was
long time between drinks in the mount
in region.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

CONTEMPLATING is carried on to an
extent in San Francisco unknown
elsewhere. Some of the women
engaged in the business charge from SIS
to $40 for an interview and are visited by
credulous stock spectators, who seek to
obtain supernatural points" as to the
market.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

The Paris correspondents are now
busy with scheme that seems to have
aroused all their enthusiasm. Nine.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

NoTE.-The slight increase Of the interest charge
for 1878 is owing to the interest charge on bonds
sold for resumption less the amount saved by re-
funding at lower rates.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

The newest costumes are trimmed
with pipings of black satin instead of
silk
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-10-03

The Republican party is against it, and one of
its missions is to manage to final success and
relief the ugly financial legacy of war which
it did not make-a war in which every Republi-
can in every State and on every spot was on his
country's side.
Look over the country and see the position q
the Democratic party. It's last National Con
vention demanded the repeal of the act to re
sumo specie payments next January. Now.
when gold and paper have come together
months beforehand, Senator's Thurman and
| Pendleton in Ohio, Senator Voorhees, and Gov
| Hendricks in Indiana, Mr.. Johnson in Virginia
the Western and Southern leaders of Democ.
racy in general, and the Democratic conven-
tons, even IN New England call aloud for huge
schemes OF more paper money. In the West
| the Democratic party has become a party OF
| imitation. In New Jersey and other States. fu-
siOns of Democrats and infationists are nro.
crossing. In Maine large portion of the De.
| mocracy voted an avOwed expansion ticket and
the Democratic press exults over the result
Massachusetts, outdoes herself, and Gen. Brtle,
advances as Caesar, with Democracy at his
heels. Neither in Congress nor in the country
Will or can our opponents stem the rising tide
of imitation.
senator COnkllng spoke of the schemes te
take the money from the treasury in staggering
totals for claims, and grievances and projects te
be presented when full sway in CONGRESS- i
given to the party, and the sentiment which
now rules the "soid South "a South made
solld by mlnorities dominating through crimes
! against God and man. That solid South again
/ as of old, sends up a majority of all the Demo
cratic votes in Congress. It rules the Demo
cratic caucus and must decide it's action when
ever it insists. In the House of Representa-.
tives there are forty committees. and already
the Chairmen of twenty three of them are ex.
Confederates from the South. After mex
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-11-28
Ruford.


About four weeks ago your cOrrespon-
dent had a revolving spring punch and
rivet set stolen out of his shop at Butord,
by a drunken, worthless character, by the
name Of Jim Kinzer, who claimed to live
near Bainbridge. Soon after the tools were
taken went TO HiLlsbOrO in search OF
them. supposfng that Kinzer would sell
or offer to sell them to some Of the saddIers
or shoemakers there, but / could get no
clue to either thief or tools. L was told
however, by one Of the policemen, that he
was an old thief, well known to the police
Of HillsbOrO.
1 then wrote letter to a friend in Balm
bridge, requesting him to make some IN
quiries concerning kiuzer. In few days
received an answer, informing me that he
had not been about there since last winter
that his family were living abont three
miles from Bainbridge, and were in destI-
tute circumstances, kInZer having deserted
them nearly a year ago, and had been
tramping around the country ever since.
I have since learned that he has two
children living with some family near
Fairfax, and as he did not go to HIllsborO
from here he may have gone to Fairfax,
and has likely sold or offered to sell the
tools to some one in that part OF the coun-
try. or on the road from there. The tools
are new, having bought them at CiHclE-
natl in June last. Any information con-
cerning them or the thief will be thank
| fulIv received. The loss Of the tools Is but
a small matter, and I would not wish to
occupy so much space in your columns
with the recital Of so triAIng an affair, but
that I wish to warn the readers Of the News
against this vagabond and thief. Iramps
are becoming a public nuisance and some
means should Ge adopted TO rid the coun-
trv Of them. Every year thousands Of dol
| lars worth Of property in the State OF ONO
| is stolen and destroyed by them, and well
NAV the question be asked, "What shall we
do with the TramPs?'
Miss Ella Scott left here on the 18th, Tor
Kansas City. No, where she goes to meet
her intended husband, who lives at IrlnI-
dad. Colorado. We wish her pleasant
Journey and q happy meeting.
Miss Anna Toll IS visiting friends at
Wilmington, Ohio.
Mr.. Kendall Bowen has moved to his
farm near Sardinia.
Mr.. w. Cumberland occupies the house
vacated by Mr.. Bowen, and Mr.. L. b. Gro
zIer has charge Of the Buford Hotel
MIRA. II. Moon attended the meeting Of
the Directors Of the R. w. & d. n. q. Ry.
| Co. at Ripley, on the 18th, and reports
/ prospects Aatterlng.
A Township Teachers Institute, was
/ Organized here on Monday night, 18th inst.
Angus.
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-11-28
'sVyho Killed R7anmiseI ~

The question Is asked, NhO Killed
Maumisel at Sabina?" Directly, it appears
that two men did it.-IHdTseiy, the rgteTs Of
Ohio did Il.
I sometimes think about one-half Of our
voting population ought to be sent to some
Lunatic Asylum. 1t would seem so, judg-
ing them by their actions. There is not a
sane person in our land, but knows that
saloons or whisky shops are only blight
and curse to community, without any bene-
fit, and knowing the fruits Of such places.
when we give our votes in any way to
establish, support or protect them, We
should be held accountable before an in
telligent world and a Just God, for all the
crimes and miseries that are committed
through their influence.
I know that three-fourths Of our voters
wish there were no such places in our land,
but they have not the courage to act out
their honest convictions.
When I see thenOble and consistent course
Of our Temperance JrJmeH, and how fear
lessy tieY meet the enemy-nO waverlng to
the right or left-but marching straight
forward, and then look at our mcH, and see
how they quibble, twist and "pollyfox,' /
am utterly dishearteued. Some appear to
be almost afraid Of their own shadows
talk one way and r7,s and act another
What a pity q man cannot be a man!
Belfast, 0. tLOHA-
The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1878-11-28
Belfast.

Another Of our Old pioneers Is gone.
cold Charley Freeze was buried at the.
Dunkard cemetery on the 9th. He came
to this State about 1881, and was near oJ|
years of age when he died.
Charles Storer lest his only child on t. e
9Th, by diphtheria- Several other ca
here.
Rev. Hampton Williams, OF KY, recent
w paid his friends and relatives in this
vicinity a visit, and has gone back TO his
circuit, C'Fox Springs again. lie
preached several good sermons while here.
Greenberry Smart, after visiting here
month. started for his home in Kansas, on
the 18Th. Several social dinners were
given him, by Mr. Josiah Williams, Mrs.
Isaac Hottinger and Mr.. J. A. Smart. lie
is a man Of good natural gifts, and an ez-
horter in the Christian church. He moved
from here some y years ago, and sill takes
the News. He says it would be hard to
keep house without 1t. Sensible.
Mr.. s. S. Weaver started for Missouri on
the 10Th. to visit James and Thos. ii. Bas-
kin. and bring back old Mother Baskin,
his mother-fn-law. She IS the widow Of
Andrew Baskin, who died about 80 years
ago.
0Ourcorn Is rather poor, and not very
sound at that.
Wheat, early sowing, is doing poorly
| The fly is very bad.
Apples are not keeping well-rot.ine
| badly.
Cabbage almost an entire failure, anl
potatoes not much better here.