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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-30
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The President has appointed William
P. Chandler, of Illinois, Surveyor General of
Idaho Territory.
Secretary Sherman submitted fnan-
cial statement to the Cabinet. at meeting
the other day, showing that there is falling
off in the revenue receipts of the present fis-
cal year, thus far, of $1,000, 900, as compared
with the corresponding time last year; also,
showing decrease of $4,000, 900 in the Gov
eminent expenditures.
Numerous localities in Illinois and
Wisconsin were visited on the evening of Nav
% by the storm-king, and suffered vast de-
struction of property and serious loss of life
At Mineral Point, Wis, the tornado appears
from the results to have been the severest
fully score of dwelling-houses and other
buildings being utterly demolished and as
many more unroofed and otherwise in
jured. The contents of some were
blown fully half mile away. Eight
persons were killed outright, and many
others wounded some of them beyond hope
of recovery. The loss of property is esti-
mated at over 100000, without reckoning
horses, cattle, etc. Everything in the line of
the tornado is laid low, huge trees being
carried hundreds of feet, huge rocks being
misplaced, the ground plowed up, etc. At
Paoli, Oregon, Mount Vernon and other
towns west Of Madison the hurricane was
nearly as severe as at Mineral Point. Houses
were unroofed, barns and fences Frustrated,
and many persons injured. On the same day
a tornado swept through the town of Barring
ton, Cook county, ILL.,, making havoc wherever
it struck the earth and killing three persons.
Another tornado swept through Brown county,
ILL.,, and three lives are reported lost.
The President has nominated Charles
Payson, of Massachusetts, Third Assistant
Secretary of State S. A. Brown the present
Chief of the State Department, to be Consul
at Birmingham, England; o. M. Spencer, of
Iowa, to be Consul General at Melbourne
Australia. Consuls, Charles M Murphy, of
New Hampshire at Moscow, Russia John F.
Hazelton, of New York, at Genoa, Italy;
Charles E. Jackson, of Wisconsin, at Antigua
and John B. Gould at Marseilles, France.
The customs agents of the treasury
have discovered an extensive scheme for
smuggling cigars into New York by throwing
them overheard in rubber bags from incom-
ing steamships outside of Sandy Hook. This
practice has been conducted with great success
off the Florida coast on cigars imported from
Havana.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-30
POLITICAL POINTS.

The Nationals of Indiana met in State
Convention at Indianapolis on May o. and
nominated the following ticket: Secretary of
State, Henry James; Auditor, Jacob F. Bird:
Treasurer, r. p. Main; Attorney General, David
Moss; Superintendent of Public instruction,
Prof. John Young.
The Republican Convention of Yer
mont met at Burlington on May %. Col. Red
field Proctor WAS nominated for Governor, E.
P. Cotton for Lieutenant Governor, and John
A. Page, present incumbent, for State Treas
urer. The resolutions declare that "the
motives and general course of the adj
ninistration of President Hayes have our
hearty appreciation" and condemn as
"unfair and revolutionary the measure Of the
Democratic House of Representatives to in
vestigate part only of the facts pertaining to
the Presidential election, and consider that
all efforts to reopen question of such magni-
tude, after it has once been lawfully, and we
believe Justly, closed, are detrimental to the
prosperity and perilous to the peace of the
country, deserving the apprehension of all
gOOQ ClClZ0HS. se-it ~
The Democrats Of Pennsylvania held
their State Convention at Pittsburgh last week
Andrew H. Dill was nominated for Governor
HI. P. Ross for Supreme Judge, and j. Simpson
Aprica for Secretary Of Internal Affairs. The
platform adopted declares that the Republican
party, its measures and it's men, are
responsible for the financial distress anc
misery and want that now exist thai
it's present hold upon the Fedora
power was secured by fraud, perjury, and for
gerry; that further contraction of the volume
of United States legaltender notes is unwist
and unnecessary; that treasury notes ISSUED
| in exchange for bonds bearing a low rate Of
interest is the best form in which the credit Of
| the Government can be given in paper cur
rency; that the public lands are the common
property of the people, and they should not b.
sold to spectators, nor granted to railroads Of
other corporations, but should be reserved al
| homesteads for actual settlers that "thor
ough investigation into the electoral frauds o.
1876 should be made; fraud should be ex
posed, truth vindicated and criminals pun
ished, but we oppose any attack upon th'
Presidents title as dangerous to our institu
tons and fruitless in it's results
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

There has been serious rioting in
Constantinople. The troops fired on the mob,
killing twenty-one and wounding seventeen.
Property in Caracas, Venezuela, to
the amount of 100000, was destroyed by the
earthquake of April H. The water in the
uge on the shore--a case Of jumping from the
frying-pan into the fire.
A London dispatch says it is now more
than probable that the congress will meet dur
ing the first fortnight of June also that. owing
to the unsettled state of public affairs In Con-
stantinople, the English feet will probably
move to the Princes islands.
Count Schouvalof returned to London
last week, and it is believed his mission to st.
Petersburg has been highly successful.
The Turks have defeated the Cretan
insurgents in several encounters. The Brit
ish Consul at Canea has proposed an armis-
tice. 5HAl Z 5i
News comes from Samoa that the Brit
ish gunboat Sapphire has seized small vessel
representing the Samoan navy, in satisfaction
of an indemnity claimed for losses sustained
by British subjects at the time of the Stein
berger troubles.
Rain has fallen at last in the provinces
of China devastated by the famine, but, while
the showers give assurance that the next har-
vest may be beuntiful, they provide no means
for the subsistence of the people in the In
terval. Many thousands more will probably
perish of starvation before food can reach
them. 9a
a dispatch from Trebizond states that
the Russians have received a reinforcement OF
10000 men. Putrid fever is ravaging the gar.
rison at that place
The instruction in Lazistan against
the Russians is spreading. 1t is estimated that
between 10000 and $4,000 Lazis are under
arms These are prosecuting guerrilla war.
fare against the Russians about Artvin and
Batoum. rp
Seryia has placed her army on com
plete war footing, at the request of Russia,
and sent large forces to the Bosnian frontier.
The Gar is sending money to the Servian cap
ital, to pay for the supplies rendered necessary
by the general mobilization. 3
The Russians affect to be confident Of
peace and yet they have given their war pre-
parations sudden acceleration that would al.
most make it appear that they are really GER
tain that the conditions which Count Schouva.
loft takes to London will be rejected, and wal
will follow.
A London dispatch states that the
Russians are concentrating an immense army
on the frontier of Austrian Poland.
Four hundred Mormons have just
sailed from Liverpool for Utah.
A Rome dispatch says the health Of
Pope Leo declines daily, but, unless the physi.
clans insist upon his departure, it will be diff.
cult to induce him to go to the country.
Cable dispatches fully confirm previ-
GUS reports of the success of schouvaloff &
mission, and the actual agreement of all the
powers to be represented in the congress,
which will assemble on the 18th of June.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-30
Coal in the British Islands.

Last year the output Of coal in Great
Britain and Ireland was 49,, ZOO, 900 tons.
A cubic mile is equal to lat, 1873, 900, 600
cubic feet, and, allowing 29s cubic feet of
coal in the solid to weigh ton, we have
5000, 900, 900 tons of coal in cubic mile,
and this is a greater weight than has yet
been raised in the British islands. Ac-
cording to the most trustworthy statis-
tics, the end of 1878 will just complete
the first cubic mile of coal, exclusive of
waste in mining. IRON (LondOn).
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-30

Villas and Clerk Spooner to supervise the
2OO-page pamphlet volume of changes
which will accompany the original bill.
The committee will meet at Madison on
the 31st inst, to put the finishing
touches on their report and get ready
for the extra session, which will COM
mence on Tuesday. June 4.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-30

Davis, with one companion, attempted to seize
an illicit distillery on Saturday in Grundy
county. They were attacked by seven men,
Davis killed one, wounded one, and captured
one of his assailants, but had to leave the dis
tillery without completing it's destruction.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-30
Chicago Sending Live Cattle to Gel
manV.

John M. Wilson, United States Cor
sui at Hamburg, reports to the Secre
tary of State that the export of live cal
tie from Chicago to Germany promise
to become business very remunerativ
to both Germany and America. Tn
province Of Schleswig- Holstein has Ion
been famous for its fertile pastures
Cattle fattened there command highe
price than those fattened in any othe
part of Europe, as they make superio
beef. Till lately, the province, whicl
breeds little stock of It's own, has i'm
ported it's lean cattle from Denmark
The growing demand and the rist
IN the price of beef have caused
lean cattle to become so dea
in Denmark that other sources of suppl,
were looked up. Some of the principa
cattle graziers dispatched one of then
steamers (the Schleswig) to New Yorl
for cargo of cattle, which were pur
chased in Chicago and vicinity. The
steamer returned within six weeks aftel
date of sailing with cargo consisting O
800 lean cattle, COW, 2 bulls, buffalo
Is horses, 80 fattened hogs, and 104
head of fattened cattle, most of which
were landed at Southampton and sole
there at high prices. The rest of the
cargo discharged on the 9th of April at
Toeming. seaport. town on the River
Elder, near the North sea, from which
all the cattle fattened in Schleswig-Hol-
stein are exported. The cattle, on landing,
we're found to be in excellent condition,
having suffered but very little from the
sea voyage. The experiment was so
successful that the parties interested
have ordered their steamer to return for
another cargo. The Hamburg Consul
thinks it not unlikely that the graziers
of Schleswig-Holstein may come to i'm
port their entire supply from the Unit
ed States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-30
TEE Governor Of Connecticut is will

Tee Governor Of Connecticut is will
ing to go to circus on dead head
ticket. Barnum gave him and the men,
bers of the Legislature passes to "the
only greatest show on EARTH" and the
Governor presented his in person.
There had been a change in the man
agement, however, and the chief execu-
i've officer of State was refused free
admission.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-30

A VERY simple method Of postal de-
livery is said to prevail in Spanish
provincial town. Those who expect let
tiers come to the postofice and form
queue. The Postmaster then hands all
the letters he has received, in basket,
to the first conner, who looks through
them leisurely, takes his own, if any,
and passes the basket to the person i'm
mediately behind him, and this goes on
till tie basket is emptied or the queue
exhausted.
The Chinese are, at length, going to
mine for coal themselves. A Mandarin
has permission to use all modern appli-
ances for it and lay line of rail to tie
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-30

The lemon verbena is used as tonic
for the stomach. A decoction of it made
with hot water and sugar, and drunk
cold, morning and evening, is excellent
for this purpose.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-30

The City Council of New Orleans set
out |, 500 shade trees, and only seventy
five lived.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-30

into the river below and eight of them
drowned.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-27

THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA.-The ex-
plorations of the British steamer Chal-
lenger, which have just been published
on this side of the water, mark great
advance in one department of science.
Till within few years it was an ac-
cepted theory that the bottom of the
sea, below a moderate depth at least,
was entirely destitute of animal and
vegetable life. 1t was declared that
this must be so, because it was settled
that an animal at depth of 1000 faith
oms would have to bear weight of a
ton on the square inch, the pressure in
creasing with the depth. But the
dredging of the Challenger upset this
notion as completely as the revolving
earth ignores the Rev. John Jasper.
From depths varying from 1000 to 1000
fathoms, there were brought up the
most curious and delicate specimens of
deep-sea fauna The experiment was
repeated in all the oceans. In fact, the
conclusion was reached that the dis
tribution of living animals has no depth
limit. The size, however, generally
diminishes with a certain limit of Depth
The mean depth of the Atlantic was
found to be little over 1000 fathoms,
with an elevated ridge 1900 fathoms
below the surface traversing the North
and South Atlantic.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-27

The inconsistencies and absurdities of
some of the postal regulations are set
forth in the following from the Utica
Republican: "Take the postal card, for
instance, as pointed out by our cotem-
poraries If a man has steady hand
and writes close. he may put several
hundred words on a card and send it for
a cent. If he pastes the least strip of
printed matter on it, the postage is in
creased to six cents, though he may
print on it the same matter, and by put
ting it in fine type, get several thousand
words on the card, and it will 90 for one
cent; and he may paste the card all
over with printed matter, then put it in
an open envelope, and it will go for one
cent. The card and envelope will 90
for less money than the card alone.
When will these absurdities and incon-
sistencies be abolished, and everything
go by weight at uniform price p
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-27
no turned out for them by the hundred

ing turned out for them by the hundred
thousand at Providence, and we have a
state of things which justifes a suspicion
that the Muscovites mean business.
Those who read my letters last year
will recollect the description of the first
New York Bench show of dogs and of
the great success which it had. The Sec
ond annual show is now in progress and
is more extensive than before, the en-
tries of "dog-fesh'' numbering over a
thousand. Beside the regular assortment
of hunting dogs there is a tremendous
congregation of the little pets, the pugs,
poodles and terriers of high life. whose
temporary confinement is in many in
stances rendered endurable by the con-
slant attentions of their proud and de-
voted mistresses. About $4,000 Will be
distributed as prizes among the winning
animals of the various classes.
The most exciting and successful
whale fight ever known in these parts
took place last week in Raritan bay, on
the neighboring Jersey coast. Some oys-
termen, seeing what they took for part
of wreck floating in the water, investi-
gated it and found it to be one of these
big fish which had strayed from its
haunts and was swimming slowly up and
down in the shoal water. One of the
men, holder than the rest, tried to stab
it with an oyster-knife, and nearly got
swamped for his pains. Later an axe
was procured and several blows dealt
upon the head of the monster by the ex-
cited fishermen, who by this time had
become reckless of danger. But even
this heroic treatment seemed to have lit
tie effect beyond engaging the formida-
BILE creature, which would undoubtedly
have escaped but for its getting aground
near the shore. Here it was soon dis
patched, measured and found to be about
forty feet in length and nine in thick
ness. 1t is estimated that $1,000 worth
of oil will be got out of its carcass.
O'Leary, the pedestrian, is back from
England loaded with honors and the
more substantial trophies of his trip, in
Guiding the grand belt, to compete for
which his voyage was undertaken, and
a magnificent clock of gold, bronze and
marble, presented by his admirers in
Dublin. besides nearly $4,000 in money.
The belt is massive affair of silver and
enameled gold. bearing appropriate in
scriptions. To make this prize his un-
disputed property, O'Leary must win
two more matches against the first chal-
lengers who put up the required stake
O'Leary states that during the six long
days of his great London walk he took
no solid food whatever, and lost fourteen
pounds in weight. When walking he
grips a corn-cob in each hand to Absorb
its moisture and give it something tc
hold.
1t is not such Improbable business
this selling out big railroad. George
Z. Curtis, who oficiated as referee fol
the recent sale of the Erie, has just beer
awarded $4,000 for this service, anG
he did not hurt himself with hard worl
in the matter either. He claimed $50,
600. RADIx.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-27


What country this is to be sure.
The wheat harvest for 1873 has already
begun in Texas, and the first car load
of new wheat left Dallas for st. Louis,
week before last. In the West the grain
harvest will begin by the first of next
month, and by the time we New Eng
landers have laid away our ulsters and
dumped our furnace fires for the season,
the Texas and Western farmers will
have their spring wheat marketed and
be spending the proceeds in preparing
for the fall trade. The Texas wheat
crop is very heavy, and unless something
very .untoward occurs to the spring sown
wheat, this years grain crop in the Uni
ted States will be by far the largest ev-
er raised here. The immigration into
the West and Southwest, during the
past year, will tell in this years crops
and will also prove a very important fac
tor in restoring the lost equilibrium be.
tween consumers and producers, for ma
ny of those who are raising wheat this
year are for the first time numbered with
the producing classes.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-27
GOOD TOOLS.

"Good tools are half the battle in
farming some one has said, and | am
inclined to think there is more truth
than poetry in it; | know it is a great
deal easier to work with good tools than
with poor ones. | have tried both and
am decidedly in favor of the former.
Good tools are far cheaper in the end
than poor ones. 1t is true poor ones
usually cost less to begin with, but the
purchaser cannot do SO much work with
them as with good ones, and then again,
there are many more repairs to be made
on them, so that in the end they are
the most expensive. For instance, a
farmer wants wagon ). his neighbor
has two which he must sell, therefore
he offers them cheap. One is nearly as
good as new, while the other has been
run many years and is weak in many
parts. He doesn't know which to buy,
but finally concludes to take the old one,
as it is few dollars cheaper and he
thinks it will do for his business as well
| as the other. So he takes it home and
goes to work. 1t does very well for q
few days, but finally he gets on toe
heavy load, drives over little stone
and whoa his wagon has broken down
Now he is in a sad fix his team must
lie still day or two, his work mus
be neglected perhaps it is planting
time, or he has lot of hay out) and h'
must go off right in the rush of work
and get his wagon repaired, costing hin
more than it would to have got the bes
one which his neighbor offered him
Now, wouldn't he have been better Of
if he hac got good wagon in the frs
blaze So it is in regard to plows
moving machines, horse-rakes, and in
| deed all other tools which farmer uses
1t is my opinion, and that of many 9th
er farmers that sthe best is the cheap
est. Therefore, when you want an,
tools, first find where you can "get tn
BEST" and then buy them.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-27

two hundred. In 1910 they had in
creased to six thousand seven hundred,
and there were eight mills and thirty
two thousand and eighty-four spindles.
At the time of the discovery of the re-
cent defalcations, the number of mills
were forty, of looms thirty-three thous-
and, spindles one million four hundred
thousand. and they yearly manufactured
three hundred and thirty-seven million
yards of cloth.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1878-05-27

One hundred and sixty sewing girls
in Paris are working upon the balloon
which is to make frequent ascents dur
ing the Exposition. 1t is to be the
largest in the world, will carry fifty
passengers and has restaurant and bar
attached. A rope eight hundred feet in
length will be attached to the bottom,
and for the sum of two francs the curious
visitors can have the windlass, which is
to operate the affair, set at work to take
them that distance above their fellow
men towards the heaven of their child
hood. Should the rope happen to break
they would go-somewhere else, but it
is not expected such accidents will
happen.