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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-09-12
THE YELLOW FEVER.
-TRICkE$ MEMPHIS - Jay GoTiD'S Liberal
RESPONSE 10 1HE HnWAED~' APPEAL. FOL

STRICKEN MEMPHIS - Jay CORDS Liberal
RESPONSE 10 1HE HoWAED~' APPEAL. FoE
AID.
MEMPHIS Sept. ;. - The following talc-
gram from Jay Gould has been received hy
the Howard association
Il send you hy telegraph II, 600 10 aid the
Howard association. am certain gcncrnus
people throughout the country will contrib
ute literally to aid your stricken city: ai any
rate keep on at vour noble work till tell
You to stop, and | will foot the bill What
are your daily expenses? Answer
The following response was sent in reply
Your handsome donation of -. 600 To
the Howard association of Memphis to hc
used in relieving the sick under our care is
most gratefully Acknowledged The gTand
sentiment You express 10 continue our noble
work and in The event that our appeal to the
generous people Throughout the nion is
not needed that you would foot the hill has
nerved us all and strengthened our faith in
the cause in which we are now engaged
Such libcraliv will doubtless find a respon-
sive echo in the breasts of the charitable Of
the nation. Our expenses now aggregate
= 900 daily Should the fever continue to
spread the expenses will necessarily increase
Signed ". J. Smith acting president Of the
Howard assoCiaiinn.
TnE FEVEE's rEoGEE--
Ninclccn new eases in all twelve white
were reported to-day.
The rules and regulations governing pick
cts and patrols on duty in the suburbs were
promulgated to-day. The most important
provides that neither lint, cotton nor seed
cotton will he allowed 10 enter Memphis dur
ing the epidemic \ petition signed h,
a.,
the enforcement OF this rule has been pres
entcd to the superintendent Of quarantine.
Geo. {. Freeman, president of the Saynn-
nah, Ga, Benevolent Association, telegraph
ed 10 the Howard assoclaicn To draw ON him
for five hundred dollars
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-09-12

\ rais despatch mentions thu arrival
ihcr, ut released Communists, and the scenes
of reunion with relatives nl the depot were
quite affecting. There WIS u" disorder, and
the returned men are very quiet
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-09-12

SECRETARY SHERMAN has recently issued
an order requiring all officers and employees
of the Government TO receive 10 per cent Of
their salaries in silver dollars The President
and all the members of his cabinet are so
paid, and the rule is also applied to Senators
and Representatives in Congress. Accord
ing to the Washington Starthe silver dollars
are so abundant in that city that they are be-
coming Il nuisance The other day cheque
was sent to the scrgcant-at -arms~of the
House by Representative John 7. Harris of
Virginia for 5000 The messenger who bore
it demurred about receiving $50 of the
amount in silver, but the cashier told the
young man to tell Mr.. Harris he had voted
for the bill which made the coin. and that
not only he hut all members Of Congress
would be paid 10 per centum in silver on
their salaries hereafter, as the treasury made
the sergeant alarms take it. and there was
no other course left him than TO pay it out
1t is Il great pity that the silver -huzzard Con-
gressmen can't he compelled to take AT least
50, instead of ten, per cent Of their salaries
in the etfigies of the abominable bird
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1879-09-12
NUMBER II.

The war between the Tammanyites and the
anti-Tammanyites of New York waxeth
warm AT u recent meeting of the last named
an address was adopted warmly endorsing
Governor Robinson, and charging Tammany
with responsibility for the brutality Of the
New York city police, and for all the many
shortcomings Of the city government. With
the Democracy in such a chaotic condition,
Republican victory can not he regarded as
at all improbable.
The New York Herald has got Senator
Conkling almost landed in the White House
on paper Governor Fenton it says, helped
to nominate Mr.. Cornell by trying to secure
support for Secretary Sherman as Presiden-
tial candidate When this was discovered
some of the Robertson men went ovcrto Mr.
Cornell that they liked him, but they
were not inclined to help Mr.. Sherman at
the expense of Mr.. Conkling. Mr.. Conkling,
the Herald thinks, will have the help of the
administration in carrying New York in
November. for they dare not give Mr.. Cor
nell the cold shoulder: and if New York
goes Republican this fall. New York willmakc
its Senator the Presidential candidate next
year; and the reformcrs will all vote for him
after little Squirming.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21

The reduced tax on tobacco has
been in effect long enough to furnish
some indication of it's effect on the
revenue, and the advocates of the change
find their theories and predictions
already confirmed. The reduction of
the tax from "a cents pound to Is be-
gan on the LIST of May, and the returns
for May and June show total revenue
of $10,121,751 at the lower rate, as
against but 81 ,524, ST in the correspond
ing months of 1878 under the old fig
ures. The great bulk of this increase
occurred in May, and is attributable to
the fact that the agitation of the sub
ject had largely interfered with sales for
several weeks before; but the revenue
for June, when the business had settled
back into it's normal channels, was over
$4,000 more than for June of last year
The advocates of reduction insisted that
the change would both increase con-
sumption and diminish the inducements
TO evasion of the tax, and the figures
promise to show that they were right.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21

OF the $9,500,000 appropriated by
Congress and about to be expended for
river and harbor improvements, $780,
600 is for the New England States,
$518,000 for New York, and the rest as
follows: New Jersey, $4,000; Penn
sylvania, 1857 900; Delaware. $22,500;
Maryland, $175,O0O; Virginia, 1896, 1000;
West Virginia, $1S6.000; North Caro-
lima, $223,500; South Carolina, $780,
600; Georgia, $191, 900; Florida, $685.
600; Alabama, $38O,O0O; Mississippi,
$4,000; Louisiana, $655,0O0; Texas,
$266,O00; Arkansas, 100000; Missouri
$74,OOO; Tennessee, $121,000; Ken
lucky, $4,000; Ohio, $220,O00; Indi-
ana, $4,000; Illinois, $165,000; Mich
igan, $548,000; Wisconsin, $362,50O;
Iowa, $134,5OO; Minnesota, $57, 500;
Kansas, $4,000; Nebraska, $4,000;
California, $243,OOO; Oregon, 1922, 1000;
Dakota, $4,000; Montana, $4,000;
District of Columbia, $4,000; Missis-
sippi river, $465, 900; Missouri river,
100000; Ohio river, $4,000. Nevada
is the only State which does not receive
direct pecuniary aid from the act.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21

are. wonderful. A fireman drank
twelve glasses of beer while a church
clock was striking II, the time being
about half a minute. DR.. Noef1er
drank eight gallons in two hours, and
his competitor in trial Of capacity was
not left far behind. Noef1er is regard
ed as the Cincinnati champion, but
there are several men in that city who
have emptied an eight-gallon key in
three to five hours. An old employe of
a brewery has drunk fifty glasses every
day for eighteen years. Brewers men
generally drink heavily. in one brew
cry they are allowed from six to four
teen glasses each per day, according to
their age and work. Cards are placed
behind bar, and upon them the names
Of the employees are written. A man
goes to the bar and asks for glass Of
beer. and hole at the same time is
punched in his card. When the num-
Der of holes corresponds to the num-
Der of drinks allowed him for the
day, he can have no more, though the
day may not yet be more than half
spent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21

A SHIP CARPENTER at Belfast, Me-,
$ concluded to spend the rest of his
in a chair. When wages were re-
iced he declined to work any longer,
d seated himself in a rocking chair
Ear his sitting-room window. There
} remains all day long, only rising to
} to his meals or to bed. His chair
pckers have worn grooves in the floor,
Id on the window sill, where he drums
lily as he rocks to and fro, are the i'm
rints of his fingers. He is supposed
} have some savings On which he and
is wife live.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21

SooToH Presbyterianism is torn by
he case of the Rev. DR.. Macrae, who
as been tried and suspended for dis
elieving the doctrine Of eternal pun
shment. Before the Synod in Edin-
)urgh he endeavored to prove from
he scriptures that the bad have not
he same possibility of life in them as
he good, that evil has no everlasting
existence, and that the universe will
eventually be purified from sin. He
lisclaimed any intention of imposing
q new dogma ON the church, and
only asked liberty to hold his own
views. The majority against him was
overwhelming.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The deepest running stream that is
known is the Niagara river, which, just
under the lower suspension bridge, is
700 feet deep by actual measurement.
ACCORDING to writer in the Fort
qojghtly Revieav, the game of croquet,
and an endless variety of other familiar
games, can be traced far back in the
Sassanian dynasty, and was in vogue
there before the eighth century. It was
played with the long-handled mallet
called cha1gaaa. This instrument is re-
ferred to in the tales of the Arabian
Nights"
In Amsterdam, Holland, several per-
sons have been poisoned by the use of
enameled cooking vessels of Belgian
and German manufacture. Some of
these utensils were tested with diluted
acetic acid and common salt heated in
them for two hours. The solution OBJ
tanned yielded considerable oxide of
zinc. Combinations of zinc are consid-
cred very injurious to health; and, as
food often contains mixtures of salt and
vinegar, pans which are thus affected
must be regarded as unsuitable for the
kitchen.
POET laureate is title bestowed by
sovereigns at various courts, and SO
named from the tradition that Horace
and Virgil were crowned with laurels in
the Roman capital. In 1341 Petrarch
was crowned poet laureate, and this has
been called the first instance of the
title. The first English court poet was
John Kay or Gains, appointed by Ed
ward ~, and was the first to receive
the title The yearly fee of the poet
laureate was formerly 100l and tierce
of Canary wine, but since 1913 the wine
has been committed for money.
The iron horse does not last much
longer than the horse of flesh and bones.
The ordinary life of a locomotive is 30
years. Some of the smaller parts re-
quire renewal every six months; the
boiler tubes last five years and the crank
axles six years; tires, boilers and fire.
boxes from six to seven years; the side
frames, axles and other parts thirty
years. AL IupOIGdI1t advantage is GuhG
broken part can be repaired and does
not condemn the whole locomotive to
the junk-shop, while, when a horse
breaks a leg, the whole animal is only
worth the flesh, fat and bones, which
amount to very small sum in this
country, where horse-fesh does not find
it's way to the butchers shambles.
The religious belief of the nineteen
persons who have filed the President
ial chair in the United States, as indi-
Gated by their attendance upon public
worship, and the evidence afforded in
their writings, may be summed up as
follows: Washington, Madison, Monroe
Harrison, Tyler, Taylor, and Buchanan
were Episcopalians; Jefferson, John
Adams, J. Q. Adams and Fillmore were
Unitarians; Jackson and Polk were
Presbyterians; Mr.. VanBuren was OF
the Dutch Reformed Church; Presi-
dent Piercea Trinitarian Congregation.
alist; Lincoln attended the Presbyter.
ian Church, though he did not belong
to any; Johnson was a Methodist
Grant and Hayes also attend the Meth.
odist Church, but are not members.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21

The latest scheme out is for rail
id across the Desert of Sahara. Some
ench engineers have been investi-
ting, and they think the project quite
lsible. The distance is about 1000
les, and the cost of building the road
roughly estimated at $8O,O0O,0OO, but
would open up the richest regions of
ntral Africa, and stand chance of
ying good dividends. But. what
til propositions to food the desert
d to build railroads across it, the old
hara of the biographies is fast losing
ancient air of mystery.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21

QUITE ripple has been raised in the
relations between England and France
by the alleged interference OF Queen
Victoria in the Bonaparte family quar-
rel. American correspondents allege
that Prince Jerome refused to see the
Empress on the occasion of the Prince
Imperial's funeral. So far from this
being true, the Prince went directly to
Camden Place upon his arrival at CHS
elhurst. There no less parsonage
than the Queen of England accompa-
MED him to the boa1doir of the En-
press, in order that a reconciliation
might be effected between them. A
burst of uncomfortable grief, however,
prevented any communication between
the personages, and the Prince was
compelled to withdraw. In the mean
time, it is stated that the Princess
Clothilde will herself hold the inter
view which SO signally failed in the case
of her husband at it's very threshold.
Some of the British journals deprecate
this interference on the part of the
Queen, and add that it will greatly in
crease the desire of her people that she
shall take no undue personal part in
foreign affairs, and also that the French
Republic may be left to pursue it's
course undisturbed by dynastic in
triu71ns
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21

IT is estimated that over 100000
,ople have taken up homes in the West
d South in the past five years. Of
is number not over 100000 can posi-
= have been supplied by foreign i'm
igration, the rest of the total of L.
$1,000 immigrants in those years stray
g from the East. At least 1,880,000
ople have, therefore, gone from the
.st and from Virginia and Kentucky
the last five years, over 100000 of
EN- during 1878 and 1879.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21
he Nenosha Telegraph
1NOSHA, WIS, AUGUST q, 1879.

SNOW is shoveled out of large
mite building in Boston every morn
:, and the boys may play at SNOWFALL
: in a temperature of 80 degrees, if
~ are quick about it. This building
a warehouse for the storage of per
liable provisions, and the air i'll it is
pt at 40 by refrigeration with am
onia. The snow gathers constantly
the machine-room.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21

The economical side of woman's char
acter shines forth with radiance when
she succeeds in fastening an eighteen
inch belt around a twenty -two-inch
waist. Her justifable pride in making
both ends meet deserves commentator.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21

In other words, during the eighteen years of
Republican rule, the country has exported an
aggregate surplus of the products of labor
more than $6Oo, OO0,0 600 greater than during all
the previous existence of the Government!
TESTIMONY OF THE PosToFFICE DEPARTMENT.
The business of the Postoffice Department is
one OF the best obtainable opponents of the &C
tivities which constitute national and individual
progress, and the most reliable index to our
commercial, Industrial, social and intellectual
advancement What do the statistics of that
department teach?
In 1873. $29, 277 SIT
In 1850. S,51S 067
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21

EXPLOITS in drinking lager beer are
receiving the attention of the Cincin-
natl newspapers, and some of the stories
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21
$2O,759,45O
An increase Of 243 per cent.

An increase Of 243 per cent.
Aggregate receipts of the Postoffice Depart
ment fer the periods stated below,
From 1890 to 1860, inclusive I'll years. $174501 sol
From 1870 to 1878, inclusive rs years.. 341 roo 059
From 1872 to 1878, inclusive Is years. 1872 4l7 906
These statistics reveal the astonishing facts:
First-That in eighteen years of Republican
administration the aggregate receipts Of the
Postoffice Department have been nearly double
the entire aggregate for seventy one preceding
years.
Second-That the aggregate receipts for the
last six years exceed by S., 9S6, 1856 the entire
receipts from the foundation of the Govern
ment to 1860.
TESTIMONY OF INTERNAL COMMERCE.
Turn next to the evidences of industrial
progress by our internal commerce. 1t is i'm
possible to state accurately the increase since
1850, because there are no available statistics
on this subject, but it can be estimated approx
mately from certain known facts.
About 90 per cent of our internal commerce
is conducted upon railroads. The New York
Central and the New York and Erie railroads.
both being in an old State, may be taken as fair
opponents of the increase in railway transport
alton, and hence of the increase of internal
commerce. think It will be found that like
proportionate increase has been made on all
the other railroads of the country
Tonnage moved one mile by the New York Cen
trail aid the New York and Erie railroads.
Tons.
In 1870. ,oU9 III SU5
III 1ooo. 4lo,5lo,Io|
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21
1,657,591
677647
Increase, $50 per cent.

TOTAL DOMESTIC EXPORTS.
Ii we turn to the total domestic exports, we
md that the aggregate since 1860 is greater by
SOUL, 739, OH that the total aggregate of domes-
tic exports for the seventy -one preceding years,
as Will appear from the reports of the Treasury
department.. The aggregate exports of domes-
tic merchandise were:
From 1861 to 1873, nclusive-eighteen
years ................. ST, sic O6S, 1916
From 1890 to 1860, inclusive-seventy-
one years.. .................. 6,014 329, 1874
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21
2,S9O,S04,O1S
Increase. 600 per cent,

IHCTBas6, U5U PCT C6lIE
tonnage moved one mile" is the formula
adopted by the leading railroads to compare the
business of one year with another The per-
centage of increase is dou btless larger on many
of the new roads than on those I have selected
but these probably present the fairest illustra-
ton of the general increase throughout the
country
Railroad mileage of the United States:
Miles.
In 1878. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 81 9S5
In 1860. 80 1862
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21

Increase. over 643 per cent
provisions" embrace bacon and hams, beef,
butter, cheese, condensed milk, eggs, fish,
lard, preserved meats, mutton, oysters, pick
tables, but do not embrace sbread and bread
stuffs."
PROGRESS OF OUR MECHANICAL AND MANUFACT-
URING INDUSTRIES.
Total exports of domestic manufactured arti-
cles
LII 1910 81 oo,1 g. ia
In 1860 Observation-Disclosures. a., 40S, 934
5 92.762, 1857
Increase, 21S per cent.
Pig iron produced in the United States:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21
$279.477,9S2
Increase, over 100 per cent.

Increase, over 100 per cent
This statement does not fairly represent the
general agricultural progress during that pc
riod, because the cotton product which was
the chief export in 1860, has not materially
cotton in 1860 were $191, 500, 554, and in 1873
$1So,o31 ,4S9. Deducting these amounts from
the totals exports, of their respective years. the
following statement will indicate the progress
of general agricultural industry:
Exports of agricultural products other than
cotton.
IN $ooo, 9o4
In 1860. ................. &C.,. 55,754.3f
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$oUV,%O4UoI
Increase, over 53S per cent.
Take few of the leading items of agricult-
ural industry:
EXPORTS OF BREAD AND BREADsTUFFs.
In 1878. $1s1 TT S41
In 1865. Observation-Disclosures. A,422 $40
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21

The deepest running stream that is
known is the Niagara river, which, just
under the lower suspension bridge, is
700 feet deep by actual measurement.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-08-21

trigues.
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Increase, 2I0 per cent.
Pig iron produced in the United States:
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-28
MAERESs BY TELEGRAPH.
New York EEArskes

NEW YORK, Oct. q.
Money, easy, 6a7. Exchange steady;
4S0aa4 500. Governments quiet; new SIS,
1032: four per cents, 1859; four and q
half per cents, 1929. States dull.
Southern -four in buyers favor; COM
mon to fair extra, $5 80a6.75; good to
choice, Sc 85aS 90. Wheat feverish,
irregular and heavy; 2a4c lower; un-
graded winter red, $1.35a1 As; No. 8,
do, 81. So; No. 2, do., $1.44a1.60. Corn
on spot, scarce, firm; futures dull,
heavy aud lower; ungraded, 62c; No. 2,
611a62 Oats heavy and decidedly lower,
402a41c; No. 3, 41a4l3c; do. white,
414a413; No. 2, 42a414. Coffee firm
and quiet; Rjc, in cargoes, quoted at
142a18; in job lots 14&a193. Sugar
higher, firm and fairly active; GEN.
trifugsl 8SaS3c; fair to good refining
i. &a7&c; prime, 7gaSc; refined stronger;
r. ,ndard A. 9sA94c; granulated and
non dered, 95al0e; crushed, 10. Mo-
tos"a ,quiet and .firm with fair inquiry
poTb 'ecidedly higher, closing feverish
andnns, ~ u ettled; mess, spot, S1l.373a11.75;
no;ddlez very strong, long and short
cIaar for January 63c; short rib for
neoannhar 1915. Lard more active
and deeidediy higher, closing feverish,
advance nartly lost; prime steam, spot
e. e. sea7 49, All. Octo her, $740a7.42!; No.
yember. s.. .4Oa7 AZ J; January, 81, 40a
Z 623; February, 81. 5027 90 Whisky
nominal. $1.15.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-28
Real Estate Ira ansrers,

The following are the real estate
transfers registered in the Office of the
County Court Clerk, during the past
week.
J. Goodwin to Matthias Nichols, q
acres ia 18th dist, $25.
G. Wallace to G. 81. MeGhee, lot in
Knox vile, $1,000.
C. Wallace to G. M. McGhee, lot in
Knoxville. 81 500.
Henry Blum to Clara Blum, lot in
Knoxville, $500.
j. F. J. Lewis, Clerk. to A. G. Ed
mundson, LAT acres in 3rd dist, 81 500
M l.. Patterson, Clerk and Master,
to d. x. Young, lot in 18th dist,
ST $50. ,T e ol
Daniel Spangler and wife to Wnl
C. McCammon, Sc acres in 21st diet.
$215.9 ss+ -,
Jas. Ganus and wife and others TO J
McBee and wife, lot in End dist, SAT.
Jacob McBee and wife to Hugh
Martin, lot in End dist, $75.
John Cruze and wife to ]. MeBee
lot In End dist. $40. a
John Rice aud wife to John Jones
1acre in 14th dist, $500. s-5 lsas9
g. B. Kennedy and wife to Il. C
Weisgarber, SO. acres in 18th dist.
$1,000 e....sss5--8
G. A. Weiser and wife to Mary III
] Paine, lot In Knoxville, 5000.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1879-10-28
THE INDIANS.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.-The fol-
lowing telegram was received this
evening by the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs -
"Los PINos, Oct: 21.-Arrived
here at 2 p. m. Everything quiet
at present. Have had a talk With
Ouray and two couriers just arrived
from the hostile camps, fifteen
miles this side Of Grand River,
about half way between here and
White River Agency. Mrs. Meek
er, Miss Meeker, Mrs. Price and
her two children are prisoners in
Johnson's camp. The courier met
Gen. Adams last night, one day 8
march from the hostile camp.
Ouray believes that the prisoners
will be delivered to Adams. : +
At the Thornburgh massacre twen-
ty-three Indians were killed and two
wounded. @ After the Thornburgh
fight, the Indians, knowing Of Gen.
Merritt's approach, made prepara-
tions for great battle, and were
on the eve Of attacking when they
received orders from Ouray to cease