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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-23
town or city, a spirited oppol

town or city, spirited oppoI
sprung up to it, and exists to-day
more or less vitality in every sc
where the bird is fairly settled. Y
books have been written pro an6
and naturalists have waged unrele.
war upon one another, as they di.
in estimating the value and the SCI
of Pyrgita donaestica; but, in the
ment of the writer, the entire pra
bearing of the controversy has not
fully presented by either the frien
the foes of the little finch, forit
seem clear enough to those whe
follow the line of argument in
article that, while the house-sparr
eminently fit and wonderfully well
stituted for life in Northern cite
1t is a sad rowdy and nuisance /
country; while in the former ci
renders admirable service in desire
insect pests that disfgure the s
avenues of city forestry, yet in tn
ter field it cannot compete with on
tive birds in chronological serv'
man, and. having given good reaso
dislike on the part of the grove
fruit, they are doubly incensed be
the law will not allow them to S
trap, or destroy the enemy. Pre-
". Elliott. IN HGrper's MGgGzj7l,
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Flannel ShrOudS.

At the Restoration the clergy
the existing registers into their {
and became the national regis
During the reign of Charles IL. a :
lar act was passed, which has left {
spicuous mark on the parish re
It was meant to lessen the i'm
ton of linen from beyond the sea.
to encourage the wooden manuf;
of this kingdom;" and with thes
jects it provided that the dead S
be buried III wooden only. Comp
with its requirements was often
in the registers; occasionally in
burial-entry individually, as at
Brandenham. in Norfolk. where
insertion contains the wolds; "T
in wooden, and nothing but WOO,
appeared by affidavit" This af
the statute required tc be mac
friends of the deceased, and I
brought to the officiating clergym
prejudice still existing among
lower classes in favor of shrouds
of flannel is, no doubt, an outg
from the now-obsolete comp
usage of 200 years ago.-Cor1ohjll
Gzi21e.
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RankruntcY Statistics.

Dun, Barlow & Co., in their quarterly report,
just issued, make a favorable report of the
state of trade for the third quarter of the year.
The failures in the United States in the last
three months number 1862, less than one-half
those for the third quarter of 1873 the precise
decrease being 1881, while the liabilities show
even much larger proportionate reduction,
being less than one quarter of what they were
in the same period of last year. The
figures for the quarter just ended,
therefore, add another to the many
indications of the wonderfully in
proved conditions of trade throughout the
country. For the nine months of the two years
the comparison is almost as favorable as for
the quarter just closed. the failures for the
past three quarters in 1879 being $500 IN num-
Der, as against S,678 for the nine months of
1878. The liabilities are $Sl, 100000 for the
first nine months of 1879, as against s197, 600,
600 for the same period of 1878, reduction In
liabilities of more than one-half.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-23
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Returns to the Department of Agri-
culture for October show an average condition
for the cotton States of 81 per cent, decline
since Sept 1 of per cent. Compared with
October, 1878. there is decline of per cent
The condition then was co. Storms of great
severity visited Louisiana and Mississippi,
causing great damage Insect injuries are not
reported to any great extent; although almost
universal, their appearance was too late to do
much damage. Unfavorable weather in Ala
bama and Georgia, in September, was report
ed. Drought in Texas has shortened the pros
pect in that State nearly Is per cent.
Resumption began at Washington in
reality on the 18th inst 1t was mid-month pay
day, when in the Treasury Department the
clerks received their semi-monthly salaries.
Every dollar Of these salaries was paid in
specie, 10 per cent in silver dollars and 80 per
cent in gold coin.
The commission appointed by the
President to visit Cuba and investigate the
yellow fever has returned to Washington, hay
ing spent three months on the island The
uuot III WOuIu Do lupOSSAUIc
at this time to furnish for publication any in
telligent synopsis Of the work of the commits
sion, because of the great mass of material
which must be classified and collated. They
state however, that the commission dis
covered, beyond all controversy, that yellow
fever permanently dwells in Cuba
and that hospital and other statistics in the
possession of the Commission show that dur
ing the period embraced between 1856 and the
present time scarcelya single month has passed
without deaths from yellow fever occurring on
the slaud.
The Chief of the Bureau of Statistics
reports that the value of exports from the
United States of live animals of all kinds in
creased from 5S44, 653 during the fiscal year
of 1878 to $11 ,4S7, 754 during 1879 OF the total
exports of live animals the last fiscal year, Il
per cent. was sent to Great Britain. The value
of exports of cattle increased from So, s96, SIS
during 1878 to $s,379, 200 in 1879
Speaker Randall, Chairman of the
Committee on Rules, says that that committee
has completed it's task, and has reduced the
present rules to fifty, and has made them so
simple that it will be in the power of any men,
Der OF ordinary capacity to understand them.
A meeting will be held in Washington soon for
the purpose of acting upon the codifcation and
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-23
one-legged tin-peddler named Edward Fogarty

one-legged tin-peddler named Edward Fogarty.
Evidence points to Henry Christensen and the
wife of Fogarty as the authors OF the crime.
After numbering their victim they carried the
body some distance, placed it in clover rick,
and then set fire to the rick, partially consum-
ing the corpse. Christensen confesses that he
killed Fogarty, claiming that he acted in self
defense.
William Howard, ex-City Treasurer
of Madison, Ind, who was shot in an alteration
with Maj. Simpson, editor of the Madison Star,
died on the 18th inst simpson, who was out
on ball. was rearrested; also John L. McFet-
ridge, local editor of the Star, who is impli-
Gated in the affair.
Cincinnati papers report that the
Ohio river is lower than it has been for twenty
years. At hundreds of points between Cincin-
natl and Pittsburgh it can be forded easily.
Scarcely boat can be seen anywhere. Navi-
cation is nearly suspended, and freight is
piled up in great quantities at all points be-
tween Pittsburgh and Louisville waiting for
the rise.
A package of circulars from Prof.
Wise's balloon Pathfinder were picked up a
few days ago On the beach of Lake Michigan
near Lake Station, Ind. This leaves no doubt
that the balloon seen in that region on the day
of Wises ascension was the Pathfinder, and
strengthens the theory that the vessel and its
passengers were lost in Lake Michigan.
A frightful tragedy was enacted in
the city of Bloomington, Ill, on the Goth of
October. At noon of that day, William Hogg,
an old and respected business man Of Bloom
ington, entered his home. and, drawing Smith
| & Wesson seven-shot pistol, shot his daughter
Mamie, aged is, probably fatally. She was
stopping filing a valise with clothing, and fell
over insensible, the ball entering just behind
the ear and passing downward into
the throat. Hogg then went into the
yard, where his son Willie, aged H. was playing,
and, calling him to him, shot him in the same
place He then placed the revolver to his own
head and fred, the ball entering his temple and
lodging in the BRAIN Willie, not being stunned,
ran away. The father was on his back on the
floor of the summer kitchen, with the pistol in
his right hand, and the blood pouring from his
wound. Hoggs wife was absent at the time
and so probably missed a terrible death. Hogg
died in about one hour. Financial trouble is
supposed to have caused the deed.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-23

for preparing report to be submitted to the
House Immediately upon the assembling of
Congress The present rules are 166 in num-
Der, aud so complicated and cumbrous hat
very few Congressman ever become familiar
with them
The Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. has telegraphed to Revenue Agent Blocker,
of North Carolina, to cause the seizure of all
fraudulent distilleries, and the arrest and Wig
orous prosecution of fraudulent distillers and
dishonest officials
The Supreme Court Of the United
States has sustained the constitutionaity of the
Pacific Railroad Funding law passed in May,
1878 by which the Pacific railroads who are in
arrears upon their obligations to the United States
Government are required to set apart certain
portion of their earnings each year for the ex-
tinguishment of such debt4. Dissenting opin-
ions were filed by Justices Strong, Bradley and
Field.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-23
Frightful Indian DepredatiOnS in
Mexico,

A Denver Coli dispatch of Oct. 16
Nothing was heard of the Apache India
der Victoria after the 5th ult., until last
day, when news came of the massacre ,
zens near Hillsboro, the scene Of forme
cuities. The dispatch states that the J!
made their appearance in Messila vail
Saturday, and continued numbering and
ing on Saturday, and on Sunday d p
thirty men were attacked by about 100
and so fal but one escaped. 1t is repor.
nine men and two families, WI
exception of two persons, were
at McEver's ranch, fifteen miles from
boro, the women being outraged
to the killing, and the bodies of themen
Loyd's ranch near by was burned, and
Mexicans killed. It is believed the
scattered before die advance of the
and consolidated in the rear, commit
depredations reported. There are sc
soldiers in the field, and authority hi
granted to enlist Jwenty-four Navajo
Companies are forming at Las Couces
Mexilla. On Tuesday there was meet
in the Office of Gov. Wallace, at Santa
a committee of safety appointed. The
torial officers joined with the Govern
telegraphed to the Secretary Of War al
Pope for rations for 500 men for sixty
A dispatch from Tuscon, Arizona,
special to the Daily Star from SLY,
n. M, says: "The Indians have been
ting terrible depredations in the Rio
valley and southwest of Fort Cumming
several days past the people of Colorat
been besieged, and have been tishtin
Saturday, They appeal loudly for a.
Sunday volunteer compan, of thirty
under Capt John G. Crouch, went Tro
sila and Couces to their aid. They
Indians near Colorado, eighteen miles
Slocum's ranch, on the side of thl
After severe fight the volu2teerf
compelled to fall back. They
running fight into Slocum's ranch,
killed in this fight were W. T. Jones,
Clerk of Donohue county, and four Nc
On receipt of the news at Messila two
MES of eighty men were raised by Col.
son, composed of the best rnen in Mess
ley. Two trains were captured yester'
the west side of SIocum's. In one o
eleven men, one woman and one chill
killed. In the other all hands escaped.
trains were scattered and some of Il
were killed and others left standing II
yokes. The corpses lie all along the roa
stage from the east arrived this morni
hours late, and reports that number
pie are known to have been killed wit
mast fo11r or five days
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-23
SoMEETIC INTELLIGZECZ.


The death of the venerable Henry G..
Carey, of Philadelphia is announced at the ad-
vanced age of Sc years. He was the best
known of American writer's upon the subject
of protection.
DR.. LIE Moyne, the cremationist, who
built the furnace at Washington, Pa, died
lately, and was burned in his own crematory.
Henry FL. Farnum, President of the
National Bank OF Port Jervis, N Y, died a few
days ago, aged II years. He was married
six days before, and leaves to his widow
100000.
A boat-race between the two crack
oarsmen, Courtney, of New York, and Hanlan,
of Canada, was extensively advertised to come
off at Chautauqua lake, N. Y, on the 10th of
October, and many thousands of people as
sembled to witness the match No little excite
ment was caused by the discovery that some
time during the preceding night Courtney
boat-house had been broken into and
his two favorite boats sawed in
twain. In consequence of this bit of
rascality, Courtney declined to row. Hanlan
then went over the course alone and put in a
claim for the stakes
The remains of the late DR.. lie Moyne
were cremated in the furnace erected by him
at Washington, Pa, on the 10th inst. The
process of incarceration was rather slow, on &C
count of the insuficiency of heat but the
managers of the affair claim that it was a
success
Rt. Rev. William r. Nottingham,
the Episcopal Bishop of Maryland, died at his
summer home in Orange, N. j., last week,
aged "a years. He had been confined to his house
for nearly a year.
Freeman, the Pocasset (Mass.) fana-
tic, who offered up his little daughter as sacri-
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-23
Coinage.

The annual report of the Director Of the
Mint will show that during the fiscal year just
ended there were coined, in gold, of double
eagles, 1857, 1884, $40; of eagles 81, O31 ,440; of
half-eagles, $1,442,130; of quarter eagles,
81, 1865 800; of three dollars, $109,182 and Of
dollars, 5000. The silver coinage shows the
following result: Dollars, $27, 227, 800; half
dollars, 1925; quarter-dollars, $112,50: dimes,
$45 Prior to the beginning of the last fiscal year
there had been total coinage of silver dollars
of only $16,6l9,33S During the last fiscal year
alone, therefore, there were coined of silver
dollars some 100000 more than had been
coined in the entire history of the Government
to that time. The total number of silver dol
lars coined and in circulation July last was
$43, S46,888. It will be seen that almost the
entire time of the mint was devoted to the coin
age of the standard silver dollars, and Of dimes
there were coined but $45 during the year, and
of Gaarter-dollar pieces but $112.50. The total
result of the operations of the mint for the last
fiscal year was as follows: Gold, $40, 1856, 912;
silver, $27. 227, $3.50; minor, $97,79S. Total
$68.512.5 92 so.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-23
Postal ExnnnSeS.

The estimates for the Postofice Department
for the next fiscal year have been completed
The total expenses of the department are esti-
mated at $39, 800, 900; its revenues at 49,, 2lO-
coo, leaving deficiency to be provided for out
of the general treasury of $7,710, SOC. The
amount so provided for the current year was
$5457,37 TO- The estimate for inland rail-
road transportation is $40, 100000, an increase
of 100000 above tine appropriation for the
present year. That for the stage routes, 81,
375,000, increase of 81 ATS, 900 over the cur
rent years appropriation.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-23

In the San Francisco County Court
the other day the Judge solemnly pre-
sided over the decapitation of chick
ems head. A knife, a blood-bespattered
tub and Topping chickens nlakea queer
scene in court room, but ST Que, a
Chinaman, was only taking an oath.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-23
POLITICAL POINTS.

Elections were held in Ohio and
Iowa for State officers and members of Jhe
Legislature on Tuesday, the 18th of October.
In Ohio there were three candidates for Gov
ernor-Charles Foster, Republican; Thomas
Ewing, Democrat, and A. Saunders Piatt
Greenbacker. The vote of the State in recent
wears has been as follows:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-23
The Ute Indian War.
DENVER. Oct. 16.

DENVER, Oct. Is.
Word is received from White River Agency
that the women and children, the money and the
papers atthat agencywhen the outbreak occurred
are all safe with Mrs. Meeker, and are shortlyto
be sent to Los Pinos Agency. The troops at
White river have been reinforced, and water
and provisions are plenty. At Los nos no
fears are felt of any trouble with the Indians,
unless troubles caused by the whites, who since
the White river uprising are more than ever de-
termined that the Utes must 60" If this de-
be plenty of it, for nothing is more certain than
that the immense region in Colorado now &C.
cupied by few hundred worthless Indians
will soon or late be cleared of these incum-
ORANGES and distractions to settlement and de.
velopment
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Ewing, DemOcraG, ana A. OaundeTS fGAbt,
Greenbacker The vote of the State in recent
years has been as follows:
,o. Year. Rep 10 De; 1em: Gr5 ok; Proh,
1877. ..249105 271 .625 29,4O1 1896
1876. .33O,695 1913 1872 3.O57 1886
At the election held on the 14th inst. the entire
Republican ticket was chosen by plurality of
about 10000. The Greenback vote was unex-
pectedly small Following is list of the State
officials elected:
Lieutenant Governor. ...... Andrew Hickenlooper.
supreme Judge. .......... William ". Johnson.
Attorney General. .......... George K. Nash.
Auditor. .....................Joh John +. Oglevee
treasurer. Recommendations. Joseph Turney.
Member of Board of Public
Works. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS James Fullington.
The Legislature is Republican in both
branches by small majorities, which insures
the election of Republican United States
Iowa there was also triangular con-
test, John FL. Gear, having been nominal
ed by the Republicans for Governor, Henry
Ell. Trimble by the Democrats, and Daniel
Campbell by the Greenbackers. Gear is elect
ed BY. a majority of upward of 10000 over both
of the other candidates. The vote of Iowa in
recent years has been as follows
Year. Rep DeD Grbk.
1875. 1854 1902 1913 ST.
1877. ..................121,54 $40 1883 81 229
1876 ...................17 III 332 112,121 ..,...
The Republicans this year secure the Legis-
lature by the usual heavy majority.
Official returns of the late election in
California show the vote on Chinese immi-
grafton to have been; In favor, 8S3; against,
1874 6S3
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-23
RAWLINs, Wy. T., Oct. 16.

4tANLANo, wy. L., OC% III.
A courier just in from Merritt's command
reports that the troops are at the White River
Agency; that they have been scouting through
out the country for fifty miles about them, and
have been unable to find single Indian. 1t is
evident that the Indians have gone south and
split into small ban ls, going into the various
agencies. The troops will have an all winter
campaign to ferret out those of the savage
tribe who brought ON the trouble.
DENVER, Oct. 20.
In accordance with orders from army head
quarters, the troops now at White River Agency
will, with the exception of q small force left at
the agency. return to their respective stations.
A force will be concentrated at some point in
the southern portion Of the reservation to con-
duct operations against the Utes should they
Sail to deliver up the parties engaged in the
killing of Maj, 1hornburGh. Gen. Mckenzie,
commanding the Fourth cavalry will be placed
IN charge of the latter force. Thus it is seen
the camp ,ign against the savages is virtually
abandoned. The danger Of a winter campaign
in that country is given as the reason of the
order.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-10-23

term in the Wisconsin penitentiary, having
pleaded guilty.
The Coroner's jury has completed it's
investigation into the causes of the Michigan
Central railroad horror at Jackson, and has re-
turned verdict severely censuring the yard
master. who ordered the switch engine upon
the track within ten minutes of the time the
express train was due The jury, in the YER
dict, also censures the switchman in charge of
the engine, and the engineer of the switch
engine.
The nephew of Wise, the missing
aeronaut, who was also his manager has pub
lished his view Of the fate of the men who
went up in the Pathfinder. He is firmly of
the belief that the balloon sailed beyond Lake
Michigan and descended i'll some forest, and,
the aeronauts being injured, probably were
starved
Gen. Grant left Oregon on the 10Th
inst, and returned to San Francisco, where he
was entertained by the Forty miners at Pioneer
Hall, and presented with certificate of mem
bership in the Pioneers Society.
The determination of the authorities
at Washington to abandon the campaign against
the Utes has brought out indignant protests
from the Governor and leading citizens Of Colo
RADIO, and an expression of bewilderment and
disgust from Gen. Sheridan. The people Of the
State in which the Indian reservation lies notify
the Government, through an Inspector Of the
bureau, that the savages must be taken away,
or they will be exterminated by the State itself,
regardless of Federal law or officers. They
complain that confidence can not be restored SO
long as the murderous devils infest their terri
tory, and that their only hope for peace and
prosperity lies in the removal, dead or alive, of
the authors of all the late mischief.
Chicago's great Interstate EXPOSE
tion came to an end On Saturday, Oct Is The ex
hibition has been great financial success, the
attendance during the last three weeks having
been very large. During this period the re-
ceipts were more than enough to cover the ex-
penses of the entire six weeks
A horrible murder is reported from
Milton, Rock county, Wis, the victim being
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-05-28
MISC ..LLANEOUS.
PROPOSALS FOR SUPPORTING
THE COUNTY POOR.

In accordance with an order passed
at the last session of the Board of County
commissioners | make the following adj
vertisement, viz
That Mr.. A. FL. Stockton, of this Boa, d
OF Commissioners, is appointed a commit
tee TO secure permanent support for the
paupers of Volusia county and to this end
Is authorized to advertise for two weeks
IN the FLORIDA AGRICULTURIST and the
STAR for sealed proposals from parties who
can furnish suitable accommodations and
provide sufficient and proper food and
clothing for said paupers.
The conditions for bids being as follows.
Class No. l consists of persons wholly
destitute and helpless.
Class No. 2 consists of those capable of
partial self-suppOrt, this Board to determine
the pro rata amount to be paid for those
capable of rendering services.
The party or parties to whom the above
described contract shall be let to be the
lowest responsible bidders. who shall be
required to give bonds for the faithful per-
Torrance of said duties. The aforesaid
committee to report at the next meeting of
the Board, July Z, 1872"
Parties wishing to bid will address me at
DeLand. VOlusia county, Fla
1888 A. H. STOCKTON,
DeLand, Florida. May 8, 1879.
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NOTICE.

An persons interested will take
IA notice thar l will apply, six weeks
after date, to the Hon. +. J. LaPenOtiere,
county Judge of Volusia county, Florida,
for letters of administration, de bOnis non,
with the " i'll annexed ON the estate of Will
son w. Rees, late of Sumter county,
So"th Carolina, deceased.
H5) CHARLES MAYRANT
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1879-05-28
DINN0 Beautiful Concert Grand Pianos
I1N(Icost Sixteen Hundred Dollars, on

DIANA Beautiful Concert Grand Pianos
II1IVUcost Sixteen Hundred Dollars, on
ly -Four Hundred and twenty-five Dollars.
Superb Grand Square Pianos: cost Eleven
Hundred Dollars, only Two Hundred and
twenty-five Dollars. Elegant Upright
Pianos cost Eight Hundred Dollars, only
One Hundred and Fifty-five Dollars. New
Style Upright Pianos. One Hundred and
Twelve Dollars and Fifty cents
of 9Fsans = Tn stoS. se1 D1| two)RGAN
Dollars and Fifty cents Church Organs,
IL stops, cost Three Hundred and Ninety
Dollars, only One Hundred and Fifteen
Dollars. Elegant Three Hundred and sew
enty-fve Dollar Mirror top Organs, only
One Hundred and Five Dollars.
Tremendous sacrifice to close out present
stock. Immense new steam factory soon
to be erected. Newspaper with much in
formation about cost of Pianos and Organs
sent free. Please address DANIEL F,
BEATTY. Washington, N. j. 1925