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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19

of Statistics show that during the month of No
vember there arrived at theport of New York
$3.50 immigrants, of whom 8, 6O4 were males and
2,A8 females.
{ According to returns and estimates
collected and compiled by the Agricultural De-
partment in Washington, the present years crop
of wheat in the United States yields the enor-
nous total Of 425, 1000 bushels
THE first day Of january is the time
finally fixed upon for the starting Of the excur-
sion Of Chicago merchants and manufacturers
for the City of Mexico. The party will be
joined en- route by one from st. Louis They
will proceed to New Orleans, and there take a
steamer for Vera Cruz. After spending some
!, three, weeks in Mexico, they will return, via
Galveston, Tex. II EE Ca Ut f*tk
A Boston fool, named Henry Burrill,
will start, in a few days, to cross the Atlantic,
double the Cape of Good Hope, and cross the
Indian ocean to Australia, in boat nineteen
feet long and two and one-half feet deep.
If Wade Hampton lives to take his
seat in the United States Senate South Carolina
will be represented by two men with wooden
legs. Senator Butler lost one of his legs in a
cavalry charge at Brandy Station, S. G.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19
NEWS OF The WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

The Russians are concentrating all
their forces in European Turkey at Adrianople
except $4,000 mer left in Bulgaria. It is an
nounced that they will maintain possession Of
Adrianople with a large force until defnitive
treaty is signed, covering the points of the
treaty of San Stefano not expressly annulled by
he Berlin Congress.
The collapse of the Afghan defense
against the British invasion is indicated in the
cable dispatch announcing the arrival within
the English lines of deputation to invite the
military commander to enter Cabul and organ
ize government to take the place of that of
the fugitive Ameer, who is said to be cordially
disliked by the Afghans
Italy and New South Wales are in the
full enjoyment of ministerial crises.
After long debate, the motion in
the British Parliament for a vote of censure on
the Afghanistan policy of the Government was
defeated by majority of 1o1, being nine or
tenless than had been counted upon by Beacons-
fields supporters.
The Grand Duchess of Hesse- Darn
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The report that Attorney General
Devens was about to retire from the Cabinet is
now positively denied
The bill for the payment of invalid
and other pensions for the next fiscal year, as
it passed the House last week, appropriates
$29, 1866, 0OO being $3.50, 900 less than the amount
estimated, and Sc, 500 less than the appropria-
ton for the present fiscal year.
Advices from Washington indicate
that there wilt be no serious opposition among
army officers to the bill for reorganizing the
army. ~ '.43''3 go r.. ?. TUt
No information can be obtained from
the Patent Office as to Edison's electric light
patent The officials prefer that Mr.. Edison
should make his invention public.
The Yellow Fever Committee has APP
pointed Messrs. Harris, Matthews and Conover
a subcommittee to visit Memphis during the
holiday recess, and Messrs. Eusts, Lamar and
Paddock, subcommittee to visit New Orleans
at the same time. 2&
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19
Divisions of Time.

Solar Day is measured by the rotation of the
earth upon its axis and is of different lengths owing
to the ellipticity of the earth's orbit and other
causes; but mean solar day, recorded by the time
piece, is twenty-four hours long.
An Astronomical Day commences at noon, and is
counted from the first to the twenty fourth hour.
Gnu Day commences at midnight and is counted
from the first to the twelfth hour, when it is re-
counted again from the first to the twelfth hour.
Nout5ca! Day is counted as a. civil day, but COM
mences like an astronomical day. from noon.
A Calendar Month varies in length from % to 81
days. Mean Lamar Month is 30 days, ~ hours, a
minutes, seconds and 5.24 thirds.
A Year is divided into 365 days. ,f..rs
Solar Year, which is the time occupied by the
sun in passing from one vernal equinox to another
consists of 1866 1924 solar days. 365 days. hours
4S minutes and 1886 seconds a'
A Julian Year is 365 days. A GYegorio1a Year is
365.s425 days. Every fourth year is Bissectile or
Leap Year, and is 366 days. The error of the
Gregorian computation amounts only to one day
in 1871 1896 years
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19

stadt, Princess Alice, second daughter of Queen
Victoria died at Darmstadt, Germany, on the
18th Of December, aged 35.
The reduction of wages in England
continues.
A mob drove the English and Austri-
an members Of the Roumelia Commission out of
the Yeni Saghra.
Count Andrassy has declared that the
annexation of Servia and Montenegro would be
perverted and unhappy policy.
AConstantinople dispatch says the
Council Of Ministers has decided to settle with
out delay the questions pending with Greece,
Persia Montenegro, and Austria, and conclude a
defnitive treaty with Russia as soon as possible.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINas

Wade Hampton was elected United
States Senator from South Carolina, in place Of
Patterson His leg was amputated the same
day that he was elected
Visible supply of grain in the States
and Canada: Wheat, 1S,2oo,oOo bushels; corn
$500 bushels; OATS 2,45o, 900 bushels; rye
1,290,oO bushels; barley, Sill, 900 bushels.
The cotton crop of 1878, in round
numbers, is 5,197, 900 bales, allowing $50 pounds
to the bale
Henry Wells, the weI-known express
man, has just died in Scotland, whether he went
for the benefit of his health.
Official returns made to the Bureau
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19
POLITICAL POINTS.

Prince, Democrat, has been elected
Mayor of Boston by 1,106 majority
There is to be a meeting at Washing
ton, on the 22d of February, of all the National
Greenback Congressman elect to the Forty sixth
Congress. The object of this conference, a call
for which has already been issued, is to get all
the National members of the next Congress to-
gether for the purpose of comparing views,
and, if possible, determining upon plan of
action. 1.E ~ r. .". &.s..t ~ @
A Washington dispatch says Senator
Thurman positively declares that he will not be
a candidate for Governor of Ohio.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

EaSt.
The New England States and portions
of New York and Pennsylvania were visited by
a terrific rain-storm on the 10th inst, swelling
the rivers and creeks to an unusual height and
causing a vast destruction of property Many
railroad bridges and culyerts were swept away,
and several accidents to trains are reported, at
tended with some loss OF life.
Place & Levy, glove manufacturers,
Gloversville, N. Y, liabilities 100000, and
Lull & Sage butter and cheese manufacturers,
Chenango county, Wy, liabilities $780, 600, are
among the heavy failures reported from the
East fh0't '.aa
The First National Bank and Com
mercial National Bank of Saratoga, N. Y, have
shut up shop
Hanauer Lichtenauer & Co.. whole
sale dealers in clothing, st. Paul, Mimi, have
failed for 1920, ooo
The great dry-goods house Of Dodd,
Brown & Co., ST. Louis, has been forced by
creditors to make an assignment. IA b .at'
Mrs. Harrison and her three children
were found murdered in a ay-stack on their
farm, recently, a few miles south of Kearney,
Kearney county, Neb a't" @l:}+
Two alleged cattle-thieves, named
Ketchum and Mitchell, were recently taken
from the possession of the officers Of the law in
Custer county, Neb., by mob of masked men,
who tied them to tree and burned them to
death. Js %1%, # 435 G
NJ MrFC. W. Lane, living on the Missis-
sippi river, four miles below Sabula, Iowa,
placed his wife and two children on a hand
sleigh, and took them out on the river for a
little diversion, he showing them ahead of him
by means of handles attached to the sled.
While thus engaged the ice gave way, and the
entire family were precipitated into the water
and were drowned Several persons witnessed
the distressing accident, but were powerless to
render any aid. -. t..-..a t..t.4 E..
"..a. H. South. ..~
A dispatah from Waco, Texas, says that
near Summerville, masked men surrounded the
house of John Stull, and threw torpedo in
side The inmates while rushing out were shot.
huI us oIlllGu dIIu OOuu OGul W0IG hlllou, duO
Smiths wife and baby wounded The assassins
are unknown.
A state of lawlessness still existed in
Breathitt county, Ky, at last accounts. The
rival factions continue to shoot each other like
barbarians at every opportunity. The State
militia has been sent to the scene of the out
RACES, but they seem powerless to suppress the
spirit of lawlessness that seems to have seized
upon an entire community. 1
A mob broke in the jail at cambridge,
Ga, a few nights ago, and literally riddled with
bullets William Cooper, negro, confined for
the murder of prominent citizen named John
McGoughey. He had been previously
wounded by the mob.
Three negro incendiaries were shot
to death by a mob in Lake county, Fla, last
week.
At Winton, Hartford county, n. c.,
Samuel Jacob and Ebert Gotling, colored,
have been sentenced to six years in the peni-
tentiary, having been convicted of assault and
battery with intent to kill Marcus Williams,
colored, for voting for J. K. Yeates, Democrat,
for Congress. .i4 s ..#t.' ..# .5.H
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19
A Type-Setter Fiend.

The intelligent compositor
abroad in the land, as will be seen (
the annexed from the Elmira Gazett
"a certain composition, not forty fe.
from us at the present moment, in sc
ting up take of the steamship acc
dent, made it read, the Pommeran
had six bull-heads.' We know whe
the owners of the Pommerania can fir
a seventh, if they are in need of a
other" tr5
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19
C7sTOnOLOgic0L Er0S.

Being common year of 365 days, and the 103d
year after the American independence, corresponds
to ii. ,.. e.uy. .t#.e ....; g.
The year 6592 of the Julian period;
i" 7367-S8 of the Byzantine era;
4" 5639-40 of the Jewish era;
1882 since the foundation of Rome;
1926 since the beginning of the era of Ma
.. .. honassar, which has been assigned to
Wednesday, the Goth of February, of
ID " the year 1867 of the Julian period, cor
responding according to the chronol-
ogists to the 747th, and according to
the astronomers to the 746th, year be-
fore the birth of Christ: u
2191 of the Grecian era, or the era of the
SeleucidR;
" 1896 of the era of Diocetian
" 1897 of the Mohammedan era or the era
" of the Hegira; 1862
1897 of Mohammed begins December 18th.
" 500 of the Jews. tf-f sen E..
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19
EcIiDses for the Year 1879.

There will be three eclipses this year. follows:
1. An annular eclipse of the sun, January 49, In
visible in the United States.
II. An annualar eclipse of the sun, July 49, In
visible in America. 5....
ILL., A partial eclipse of the moon, December %.
Invisible in North America. 'tf.8
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19
The -Four Seasons.
To ascertain the Length of the Day and
Ni0Ett.

At any time of the year add twelve hours to the
time of the suns setting, and from the subtract
the time Of rising for the length of the day. Sub
tract the time of setting from twelve hours and to
the remainder add the time of rising next morning
for the length of the night These rules are equal
ly true for apparent time. -'t.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19
Commencement of the Year.

By the reformation of the calendar by Pope Greg
DRY KILL the year began on the LIST of January, and,
consequently, whenever and wherever the NEW
STYLE of reckoning time adopted, then and there
commenced on this day. IL ~
Previous to the of the Gregorian calendar. the
years had different days of beginning at various
times in the and different countries, and occa-
sionally at the same time in the same country.
In most countries it began on one of the following
days:
Christmas day, the 25th of December;
Circumcision day. the list of January; r...
Lady day, the 25th of March;
Easter day, the day of the resurrection of our
Lord.
In England. in the seventh and so late as the
thirteenth century, the year began on Christmas
day; but in the twelfth century the Anglican Church
commenced the year on the 25th of March, as did
also the civilians of the fourteenth century. This
continued until 1852, the time Of adoption of the
new style. By this it appears that two modes of
reckoning the commencement of the year have gen.
orally existed in Great Britain and it's colonies.
causing what called the CIVIL, ECCLESIASTICAL,
or LEGAL YEAR, and the HISTORICAL YEAR. The
last named of these has commenced on the list of
January for long period of time. ."'"'
In New York, under the Dutch the new style was
used; but the English in 1862, introduced the old
style, which continued till 1852 when the new style
was restored. -- .. .....
In Canada new style was uniformly employed,
and old style in New England. Hence early dates
seem to be given differently, according to the place
of the writer's residence.
Ihe Days of the Week.
Each day dedicated to heather deity, as follows:
Dies Soils DAY of the Sum ...... Sunday.
Dies Lu7ag day of the Noon. .... Monday.
Dies Mdrtas DAY of Tuisco). Tuesday.
Dies Mercurii DAY of Woden) -. Wednesday.
Dies Jo0is DAY of Thor. .......... Thursday.
Dies Veneris DAY of Freya). ...... Friday.
Dies Satu'7ed DAY of Sator). Saturday.
Leap Year. ..
Every year the number of which is divsible by
four without remainder, is leap year, except the
last year of the century, which is leap year only
when Invisible by 400, without remainder. Thus
the year 1900 will not be leap year.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-12-19
The Days of the Week.
Leap Year..

Every year the number of which is divisible by
four, without remainder is leap year, except the
last year of the century, which is leap year only
when Invisible by 400, without remainder. Thus
the year 1900 will not be leap year.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-07-05
The New U. s. Marshal For Arizona

The President has appointed Major Craw. ley P. Dake of Romeo, Michigan, to be U. S Marshal of Arizona. Major Dake, at the date of his appointment was Chief Deputy [. s. Marshal at Detroit. He is an old Union soldier, having raised a company of l22 men at the outbreak of the Rebellion He was then gazetted as Captain of the Fifth Michigan Cavalry. He was in all the fights and skirmishing of the Curtis brigade on the Potomac, and in Western Virginia until 1865, when he returned home with the rank of Major and the appointment of Lieutenant Colonel to assist in raising the Thirtieth Michigan Infantry. The close of the war, however, happily prevented his regiment from taking the field. Major Dake was shortly afterward appointed United States Assessor of Internal Revenue, and served in that capacity until the consolidation of his district. The Detroit Evening News closes an account of Major Dake's past services by stating that ''his record as soldier and officehOlder is unexceptionable," and that the Territory of Arizona may be congratu- lated lon its acquisition of gallant soldier, an honest and efficient official, and courteous gentleman"
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-07-05
CleOPatra's Needle.

Cleopatra's needle is to be toygcd down the Thames this week and hOisted on a pedestal prepared for it at the Adelphi steps, on the embankment. \ cradle has been constructed to facilitate the landing, Dantzic timber, American oak and pitch pine furnishing the material: and the bal last employed to sink it is composed of about 1G0 tons of chalk in the first instance. then about S0 tons of sand. on the top of which the ten tons taken from tine needle and more than s0 tons of shingles will be added. IL is intended to float the needle at high tide on to the cradle. and its cylin- drical form suggests the eXpedient of roll ing it onto the embankment. That accom- plished, six hydraulic sc:eWjacks of 100 tons power and two of % tons power will be brought into acquisition to place the obelisk in position.-t New York Herald June 1j.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-07-05
\ Profitable Cup of Water.

During the war our townsmaa, James F. MOore' on one occasion went out in front of our lines to give some water to a wounded Yankee, who was dying in helpless con- dition upon the grounds but lately occupied by the Federal forces, and from which they had recently been driven. The man was crying piteOusly for water, and the bullets were rattling around from both armies. Moore said he intended to risk the exposure to do deed of mercy, and went out to him. It proved to be Captain of Pennsylvania regiment, who was profuse with thanks, and offered Moore his gold watch, which the gall lant Confederate declined. He begged for his name, that he might. if he survived the war, remember him. This he wrote down in his memorandum book .--The captain re- cenrly wrote here to know if Moore was living: said he was rich, but dying of con- sumption, and desired to provide for him in his will. MT. Moore wrote to him and re- ceived a friendly letter in reply, telling him there was S10,000, set apart for his use, to be paid in instalments of 5000 each. The Federal officer has since died, and the other day the payment of S2,000 was received. Truly. tis good to give even cup of cold water in the right spirit. VI Fort Smith Herald
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-07-05

The la;est news from Oregon shows that in addition to Representative in Congress and the State Legislature, the Democrats have elected the Governor. II was at first supposed that the Republican candidate. MT Beehman, was elected. but the full rc- turns elect Thayer. Democrat. by a majority of 49. In the Legislature the Democrats will have a free majority of l0, the status beIng Democrats, 50. Republicans, 3G. and Independent. 1. That insures the election of Democratic Senator to succeed Mitchell. It is claimed by the Republicans that Mitch ellis personal unpopularity was the cause of their defeat. The disgraceful developments in the Grover investigation of last Summer, showing q corrupt effort on the part of the Republican managers to smirch that gentle man and oust him from the United States Senate. has had as much to do with the mat ter as anything else.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-07-05

Potter, the wheelbarrow tramp. will leave Omaha, for San Francisco, July 3d.
 July was named for Julius Cesar. who entered and left the world in q very irregu- lar manner
 Fred Wye, editor cf the Omaha News. has been arrested on a charge of criminal libel. J. C. Wheeler, Is also to be arrested. In Wyoming Territory no sort of busi- ness men are required to pay license of any kind, except the liquor and cigar dealers.
 From perusal of number of our east ern exchanges we learn that Pennsvlyanis Is dreadful unhealthy State in some re- spects. We sec that within less than year Molly Magnire has lost seventy of her chil- dren by throat trouble.
 The trade in American beef and mutton has rapidly grown iH England < few years ago 1t was sold at heavy discount under English stock. Now it is eagerly sought. Our trade in beef and mutton this year will amount to SS0OO 900.
 To obviate the inconvenience of affxing ! revenue stamps to small packages of tobacco the Internal Revenue Bureau has determined to issue stamped labels or wrappers. to be printed by the government from the designs of the manufacturers. Private printing . offices will hardly like the ijea.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-07-05

Governor Mccormick, our Commissioner to the Paris Exposition, complains that the limited amount of funds at his disposal and tn. tardy, slovenly way in which everything has been done by our people has placed our exhibit st very great disadvantage in the big show. Each nation was Co build its own facade to show its own peculiar architecture, and every nation except the United states has done so. Some of the fourth rate na- tions spent millions of dollars in the cree tion of facadcs, while our government al- lowed Gov Mccormick only SG.010 for the purpose With this amount Murat Hal stead says "they'ye put up something the like of which has never been seen on the face of the earth. It> the - looking unlike anything that has ever been seen be- fore. It would make a good front t,r 8 lager beer saloon.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-07-05
An old Newspaper.

There has lately been discovered in the library of the University of Heidelberg, a copy of newspaper which proves to be the oldest periodical of which there is now any certain knowledge. It is quarto volume bearing the date 1000, and is supposed to have been printed by John Carolus, of Strasburg. The paper was issued weekly each number consisting of two sheets. Ii was mainly occupied with letters rom cor respondents 1T. adjoining tates, which were contributed regularly. It is interesting to note the letters from Vienna were about eight days on the route, from Vemce II to F days, from Rome 2i days. When the matter contained in the letters, together with the news retailed at second hand failed to fill the sheet, the remaining space was left blank.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-07-05

COMBINATION OF NTCKEL.-Boussinga has experimented to find whether the car buration of nickel would affect it like iron, and, if SO, whether its combination with steel would render it less oXidizable. AL though he was able to carbonize the nickel as highly as steel, he did not find any in- crease of elasticity, hardness, or resistance to tension he was unable to temper 1t; and the alloy with iron easily rusted, unless the nickel was in very large proportion. Da- monr found, meteOric iron of Santa Cate riua. 3i per cent of nickel. Boussingault exposed piece of it under water, for more than a month, without finding the least rust. He then made very homogeneous alloy, by melting 63 parts of steel with 37 parts of nickel, was malleable and resisted the action of the water as we'll as the Santa Caterina iron.- Comptes Rendus.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-07-05
spiriiualism in Europe.

What is called Spiritualism seems to be far more rampant in Europe than it Is here Like many American inventions, it meets with greater favor there than in the land of its origin. In London and in the leading cities of Great Britain, spiritual seances are said to be a sort of entertainment as common as kettle drums and dinner parties. They are very fashionable. and everybody ~hG iS any body attends them. Pictures of mediums and materialized spirits, as they appear in open circle, are published in the English spiritual journals. Slade, has received magnificent presents of watches, jewelry and diamonds in Berlin. His seances have been attended in Germany and Russia by the highest nobility. m the capital of the former empire he exhibited to the Chief of Police and the court conjurer, who narrowly watched the proceedings, made oath that the phenomena were not tricks. Mrs. Mac dougal Gregory, widow~Of Professor Greg Ory, of EdinburS University, is pronounced firm believer. She gives spiritual Tecep- tions-sO they are styled-and they are at- tended by high church dignitarIes, some of whom are asserted to have proclaimed the truth of the pew philosophy from the pulpit. The Imperial family of Russia and Germany, Bismarck, President MacMahOn, Gambetta, Gladstone, Disraeli, Browning, Carlyle, Ten nyson, and all other renowned personageS, are reported to be Spiritualists.