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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-13
FRANCE.
Biography of the New President

Francois Paul Jules Grevy was born
Aug, 10, 1918. He became an advocate
at Paris, and acquired influence as an
opponent both of Socialism and Bona
partisan, and after the February revolu-
tlon was member and Vice President
OF the Constituent and Legislative As
semblies from 1S4s till Dec. 2, 1851. In
l84S he proposed that the Executive
should be chosen by the National As
sembly and hold office at its pleasure
with the title of President of the Coun-
Gil OF Ministers. In 1868 he was named
6dttonaer of the Order of Advocates.
He was elected to the Corps Legislatif
in 1868 and 1859, and in 1871 to the Ma
tlonal Assembly by three departments,
taking his seat for that of Jura, his old
constituency. He was President of the
Assembly from March, 1871, to April.
1878; but declined the invitation of
President Theirs to serve longer in that
capacity. Z a,t1 .st'd It'll aaa
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-13

met DR.. Hall, whom he asked to cali
and see his patient, and aid her restora-
ton if possible. He, too, decided that
she was dying. He left medicine, and
directions to apply blister at a certain
time, but before the time arrived she
was dead.-B1e11o Vista Ca. Argats.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-13
he Nenosha telegraph
zENOsHA, WIS, FEB. 49, 1879.

For the relief of the bereaved or
ans of the victims of yellow fever at
South, it is proposed to establish a
central orphans home. The
tional Relief Committee and South
, Congressman are urging the meas
J, and endeavoring to secure charter
m Congress.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-13

( A MEETING of the st. Louis clergy
IS held to discuss proposed changes
the marriage law. The Chairman
'ad memorial that had been prepared
y a committee for presentation to the
legislature. care you reading from a
unday newspaper the Rev. Mr..
larshall asked. The Chairman said that
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-13

One hundred dollars borrowed at 6
per cent, with the interest compounded
annually, will amount to 1882 in fifty
years, while the same 500 borrowed at
s per cent. will amount to 1880 in fifty
Years. One thousand dollars at 10 per
cent, compounded, will run up to
SLY 800 in fifty years.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-13
Barratry.

John G. O'Sullivan, member of the
Common Council of Harrison, N. J.
has just been convicted, in the Hudson
County Court of general sessions of
barratry. His was the first 6ndict-
ment ever found in New Jersey for that
offense, and he is the third person con-
victed of it in the United States. The
crime is defined to be "the stirring up,
moving, promoting, exciting, or procur-
ing suits and proceedings at law or the
spreading of false and malicious rumors
yexatiously, and to the disturbance OF
the public peace and quiet
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-13

SIXTY head of Kentucky cattle were
recently shipped from New Orleans to
Liverpool. This is the first shipment
from that port.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-13

YoUNG man devoted to and expressly
manufactured for society, clasping his
head in agony-"Ah, by Jove, how my
head aches! Awfully, by Jove!" Sym
pathizing friend, student in den
tai room-"Oh, you'd better have it
pulled then, after thoughtful pause,
"or filed Patient moves away with an
injured air, and the young dentist smiles
after him more thoughtful than ever
Burlington Haaok-Eye.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-13

Interest Laws in the United States.
The following table gives the laws of
each State and Territory regarding
rates of interest and penalties for u.s.
ury:
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-13

LONDON thieves cut Off the hair of
young ladies who look into shop win
dows.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-13

Penalties for Usury.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-13

ment to him fur the mules that John
Morgan took, the hopes Nv the South
for free Government are forever
dashed, and that freedom may ez well
commence her shreek.
The redin Nv Mr.. Braggs speech hez
plunged the Corners into gloom, from
which it will take months to arouse it.
Biznis is deprest, and there is general
stagnashen. Bascom refoosed credit at
his bar to wunst, and we hev to depend
on chance commercial tranelers from
Louisville for what refreshers we git.
We sit and sit afore his fire, and wonder
eff the time will ever come when sup
plies will be regler, and the worm that
dieth not in our stumicks will ever be
sufficiently stated All this we owe to
Bragg NV Wisconsin.
never want to see Dimekrat electid
from a State like Wisconsin. They
amt half baked. Wat Bragg shood hev
done wuz to vote for that clame, and
take defeat, when he came up for re-
eleckshun, like man, trustin the next
Dimekratic President, which will be
under Suthern control, to give him a
furrin mishun.
Sich Dimekrats must be red out NV
| the party. We didn't come back into
the Yoonyun to play second fiddle to
the North. Wv the Radikels North we
expect opposlshun, but Nv the Dimoc-
risy Nv the North, submishun. Nothin
less will anser. The Braggs must either
git into their old places or go out
among the Abishnists, where ther is
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-02-13

Legal Rate al
STATES AND TER. Rate losoed byl
RITORIEs. Of Int contract Penolt
% CT % cent.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-01-24

The chief of the Voudoo doctors in
Louisiana is a tall colored man named
Anderson, half African and half In
dian, with very long hair and whisk-
ers. He is intelligent, shrewd, and has
smattering of medical knowledge ;
but he fourishes by exciting and pan
dering to the superstitions of the
negroes, who regard him as veritable
devil in human form. He sells charms
for protection against disease and witch
craft, and credulous white persons are
among the purchasers. 1t is thought
by some that he has protested super
natural powers until he really believes
in himself.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-01-24
HENRY KOCH. J. T., wETZEI..
KOCII & WErZEL,
Dealers in all kinds of
HOU S E H OLD FUR 1T RE,
COFFINS, COFFIN TRIMMINGS, sc.

satisfaction guaranteeL. All orders for
Furniture promptly attended to. Collins
supplied at short notice, with services of
Undertaken, if desired.
Store and shop on Grand street, opposite
McFee's drug store. An inspection of our
work and furniture is respectfully invited.
January l, 1879. 1y
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-01-24
RIDICULOUS FIASCO.
Especial to Cincinnati Enquirer.

Especial to Cincinnati Enquirer.l
Last summer, when the Potter In
vestigating Committee was making
inquiries into the genuineness of the
Electoral certificates up from the State
of Louisiana, it was developed by the
testimony of one of the Republican
Electors, named Levissee, that both
his own name and that of another
Eiector named Jeffrion had been
forged. Ever since this disclosure the
Committee has been zealously endea-
voring to ascertain who committed the
act.
While in rather quandary concern
ing the matter, Chairman Potter re-
ceived letter from one Thomas s..
Kelly, colored man who was en-
ployed as messenger to kellogg when
Governor of Louisiana, which set forth
that he saw the forgery committed,
and would indicate to the committee
who did it. Kelly was accordingly
supoenaed. He appeared before the
committee on Friday last, and, after a
series of evasions, asked delay until
to-day before replying to the direct
question, "Who committed the for
gerry "' The respite was granted.
To-day Kelly appeared on time before
the committee. The committee-room
was crowded with anxious spectators.
Ben Butler was on hand to await
the startling disclosure. After some
adroit questioning by Chairman Pot
ter, the witness stated that one d. p.
e blanchard, q clerk in the Governors
office, was the guilty party. "But he
is dead" said the witness. For few
seconds there was absolute silence.
Then Butler laughed little. Then
Potter, then Reed with his deep base,
then the spectators, and, finally, there
was royal horse-laugh all around.
The negro had, like the hero OF dime
novel, got the curiosity of his hearers
we'll worked up, and then unloaded a
aoenoument more ludicrous than ghast-
~. No one believes that Kelly told
the truth. He evidently meant to
give the true forger away when he
wrote the letter to Chairman Potter
that he would. He, likewise, PLAYED
his cards quite skilfully. First, by lust
testifying enough under oath that he
meant to expose the true version of the
forgery unless he was induced by othe,
than truthful reasons to do otherwise
and getting delay long enough to die
tate terms. Thus has ended rather in
gloriously a long still-hunt in the pur
suit OF knowledge.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-01-24
DANIEL wEBsTER's MONEY MATTER.

Every once In while somebody
contradicts in the public prints the
stories always circulating about Daniel
webster's extreme carelessness In
money matters. A writer In the Bos-
ton Commercial Advertiser has just
denied that Rufus Choate ever lost
dollar by endorsing the Massachusetts
stateman's notes, and that the latter
invariably paid strict attention to his
paper maturing at the Merchants
Bank in Boston. If this be 80, Choate
and the Merchants Bank must have
been exceptionally treated by the great
expounder, who was half Harold
Skimpole, though in a grand, lofty
way. AT this late day there can
hardly be any reasonable doubts as to
Webster's financial habits, notorious in
Boston and Washington, and almost
friends used to say that he did not
contract those habits until he had been
q long time in the United States Senate
and been obliged to relinquish a very
lucrative practice. This can scarcely
be correct, because persons who knew
him Intimately in his early life were
wont to speak of him, to put it de-
liberately, as entirely devoid OF bus
mess methods and business ideas.
Charles Sumner mentioned more than
once an experience with the god-like
Daniel, whose successor he was 1851
in the National Senate. 1t was while
Sumner was practicing law in Boston,
years before he had acquired any gene
raj reputation. He and Webster had
defended the Commonwealth in a suit,
services. One day Webster stepped
int Summarize 1f8no i6 ~
going over to the State House, Sumner,
to get my $1,000, and I'll get yours,
too, if you like" Sumner lit seems
that he had some knowledge Of his late
associates pecuiiarities) declined the
proposal with thanks, and when it was
urged, declared emphatically that he
preferred to let his money remain
where it was. All right then,'' re-
piled Webster, and departed. But
when he went to the State House he
drew Summers fee as well as his own,
the clerk having no doubt that he had
been authorized to do so and the en-
inent barrister, it is understood, died
indebted to his younger colleague for
the amount. Webster's fame was that
he never took any notice of his debts,
and that he was totally reckless of
money. All he wanted was supplied
Wy HAo DOSlOA SaNuuAlctSS oilA ~ SAAppoU
through his fingers like quicksilver.
He appeared to be SO fully aware of his
idiosyncrasy as to jest about it. A Vir-
ginian politician once told him in
Washington that he ought to be a
SOutherner, because he was so genial
and so eloquent. &C That is not the
only reason,' remarked tho Senator
" What is another ?'' "Because ]
never pay my debts.'' Daniel Web
ster was unquestionably a great orator
Il great lawyer, a great intellectual and
political force, but surely nobody who
ever knew him would charge him
with tho smallest concern about his
debts
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-01-24

Good at a bargain. DotinG mother :
&c Yes, shall be happy to give you the
wages YOU ask, but shall expect you
to love tho dear children" Nurse !:
"I shalt be very happy to do so,
ma'am but, of course-that would be
an eXtra.''
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-01-24

The Potter Committee have resolved
to enter into an investigation Of the
" cipher kilograms, and have asked
tho House to grant an additional APP
preparation for that purpose. The Re
publicans of the Committee RETAINED
from voting upon the proposition.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-01-24

The British forces in Afghanistan
have settled down into winter quarters,
and little more will be done in the
way of conquest until the spring opens,
when there will be little left to con-
quer, as the native Chiefs and Khans
are coming forward with pledges of
good will and fidelity to the invaders.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-01-24
T OUISIANA AS II is.

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251 Pages.
rs Zopo9rotlohu and Tt.1,tctdle Resources.
BY DANIEL DENNETT.
Price SO cents, postage IL cents-Libera
reduction to dealers-1o, 900 copies just
published, 5000 copies sold.
Tho Editors Of New Orleans have given this
book strong endorsement.
1t is a book which has been long wanted
and often called for. I am selling copies
daily that are mailed to all parts of the
world.
GEORGE ELLIS,
Opposite tho Post Office.
MIR. Dcnnctt'S Louisiana As 1t Is is pre-
ciselY the book that has been called for.
1t gives general satisfaction to my patti ons
in city and country.
G. G.. HALEY,
10 Commercial Place.
Tho book just issued by Mr.. bennett,
Louisiana as 1t Is, supplies a want long
felt by residents and strangers. Til ede-
nland tor the book is active, and is steadily
increasing.
J. A. GRESHAM
% Camp and 119 Canal Street.
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NOTICE.


UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE
Nc,o Orleans, La.
Whereas, The United States Land Office
at Monroe, Louisiana, has been discontin-
ued, and the records and business thereof
transferred to the United States Land Office
at New Orleans, La. This is, therefore, to
inform all persons having official business
within the late land district of Monroe
that this office will DO III readiness to re-
ceive application for the entry. of public
lands, under the laws of the United States,
from and after the fifteenth of january,
1879. WAI. NJ. BURWELL. Register.
lS:6t GEO. BALDEY, Receiver.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-01-24

There is II man in Kansas who is
said to have superintendent the lynch
ing of nine men. He is usually sent
for when mob intends to- hang any
body. His nickname is Jack Ketch,
and he is proud of it.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-01-24

OF the 1874 500 ,473, 800 good resolutions
formed in this city and entered in
pocket diaries Jan. list, 1874, S96, 473, $50
had been broken beyond repairs up to
midnight yesterday. And with one of
tho lower wards yet to hear FROM
2TWcS-Jot17l0i,
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-01-24
MISCELLANEOUS.
TIP TOP
THE CELEBRATED
HARNESS AND SADDLE STALLION,

I1111sNI"oo AND 'o-ADDIAE STADIUM,
Will make the present season at my
stable on the Mcclure place, three miles
offered at $40 single leap; $40 the season
or S25 to insure a marc in foal. Money due
whom the fact is ascertaincd or mare parted
with. The colt, in all cases, standing good
for the money.
DESCRIPTION AND PEDIGREE:
TIP Tor is a beautiful bay, full 16 hands
high, strong and muscular, possessing fine
style and action. Was sired by the world
fe 1aoHmSe oid Gdwdn torrest owned by
Morgan grand dam by old Gray Eagle.
PERFORMANCES
uo has taken several premiums at vari-
GUS fairs in kentucky. Also, in ST. Louis,
Mo-, and a number of premiums at Column
bia, Fulton and jefferson City fairs, COM
peting with some of the best trotters in tho
West. He has trotted mile in $40.
March 90, 1878. H. w. MCLEOD.
The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1879-01-24

Henry Dirk fell from a balloon into
Little Rock, from II height of Il thou
sand feet.
New-York tribune., 1879-10-30
FERsOSIL.

General LOring. ex-Oilicer of the cX-hhe"
dive As IN As years Egyptian service, % saii.
acquired "A comfortable fortune. HIS annual salary
was $4,000 tn gold
Mile. Rosa Bonheur says that she has nos
oBelcd tue King of spain hfc-szs head ot dos.
&" MOI htving the honor of knowing particularly tAe
kiug OF spain, and having no right TO make MIN
present naturally drsi that ouy the ruth should 90
spoken on TINS suNJrc,.'
General Grant, it is reported, thinks of
spending part OF the Winter In the southern States; Ls
may also visit CUBA and Mexico lie wal arrive IN Ca
lena about November g. and Will remain there uutl tne
me meeting in CHICAGO OF the Army oi thu Ten
ts,rt.
OF the late DR.. j. p. Thompson, Professor
Austin Phelps The cOHgreGGti0Hal.s! that he has
known his equal for Lard Work at the age OF forty
live, waoui tAe obvious signs Of n tho couutenance.
the wsiriaes, and retceuce and irrt-Diiiiy pro-
dace b. IT, After his i've hours OF ssaut posi-
non at his Standardization hls habit write ~
% Wo AS e IA 1 a ae ' IN f9"a @ c Sr aa pss ss Si s s
ab-cit ma d iu HE conversation.
Mrs. Angelina Gumk6 Weld. the wife Of
Taeod,rc ID. Weld. the earliest OF American
aAolitou.sts. buried yesterday Hyde Park. Mss.
Tie present generation my perhaps need To be 20
minded that Angelina aud sarah Grmk6 were two Il
IA, most energetic speakers and writers ~ ths Ant
slavery rauks. They ~er, tne daughters oi dc J0En
4. Gr.kc. OF tho Soutn Carolina supreme Court. nd
hc.r father aiod and his Was divided. tfy
ton a. thea. Mrs We'd and heI sister il 30
Liet 1tts, "oro yrs acute in aeiping the .retdmer
NJ. jules Ferry, the French Minister Of Ed
ucatou hada exprricnce at the Toulouse ra..
sta the day. Just Lc WAS entering
hai blown on and before he could stoop 20 p!ck
Il D.. Eng isAman seized II ana ran away with IT,
policeman qucAy stopped him. hut he grasped IL with
the force OF vice aud declared thar neither might nor
entrea coud induce 'im 10 part with the treasure 10
was dscov red that the Eughshman was collector,
not books, coins precious stones but of the
old hats vi distinguished persons lie lives IN Parts
and owns oi head-coverings which once be-
lpnsrd TO various great peOple such the EmIeror,
MacNahon Gfevy, Gamhetta. Theirs, Victor Hugo aud
otners. II. Ferry good-nauredly accepted the coeo-
iOrs apology and promised upon his 70 Pars 70
contribute one OF ms oid hats 10 the Museum
PARIS, Oct. 29.-M. de Lesseps delivered
lecture Monday last for benefit suffer-
by the foods IN Murcia, spain, his subject being
"the Panama Canal" VI. dc Lesseps announced tnat
he would START for Panama n the beginning oi tho
month VI December.
New-York tribune., 1879-10-30

Mr. John Jay mentions the fact that while his
Commission was investigating the affairs Of the
New-York Custom House. the vile of Mr. Iurnurc.
one of the Commissioners, arrived from Europe
and was charged 81 .33l 30 duties on her luggage;
her ssteE was charged at the same time about 5000.
while the total amount collected from SIX other
passengers was only 1881 %. He adds that these
figures may to show the extent To which tho
lcvying of duties could be Influenced by fees and
favor or By hostility and rGenge." THIS seems 10 be
a very gross specimen of the sort of reckless nuu-
endo in which good people sometimes feel at liberty
to irdulge when they riding their hobbies. Ii
Mr Jay means that the whole amount collected on
the ship too little. then he states what he does
not know and has means of knowing unless 10
can tell what the passengers had III their trunks
But evidently he wishes to infer that the Custom
House officers revenged themselves upon Mr..
Turnure by levying excessive duties on his wife.
Duties are not levied at tho discretion Of the in
spect0rs. but are fixed by law. Did Mrs. Turnures
trunks contain dutiable goods. did they notf II
they did not. why did her husband pay dutyf II
they did, who should have been so prompt in-
yestigating Com missioner to that the goods
declared. and pay what was chargeable on than !
New-York tribune., 1879-10-30
MR L4Y,S LETTER

At the eleventh hour OF the canvass Mr..
John Jay takes occasion to express his dis
satisfaction with portion of the Republican
State ticket. His letter serves only one Dur-
pose. 1t shows that IN intelligent gentleman,
retired from active participation IN public
affairs, in which be once bore a conspicuous
and credltable part, may wholly mistake the
issues Of political contest and may,
in the quiet of his country y-seat. imagine that
the questions winch interested HIM years ago
are still foremost in the public mind. If the ex-
Minister to Vienna would leave his books and
his farm for Il few days, and minqlc with the
people, he would learn that they are not talk
ing about Civil Service Reform this year.
nor even about the alleged scandals Of the
American department at the Vienna Tx osition
Those questions were once interesting. They
may come up again. But just now there are
far greater matters at stake-questions touch
ing the preservation of the fruits OF the War.
and affecting the lite aud honor of the Nation
and all minor issues are pushed aside.
The Solid South has repudiated its own
State debts, and threatens to repudiate the
debt of the United States. Ii has absolutely
rullified the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments to the Constitution. 1t has practically
New-York tribune., 1879-10-30

publican party to-day are the men who
deemed it their duty to act against 1t seven
years ago.
The question of competency is not oiten
discussed in connection with State Offices, nut
It is sometimes pertinent. When any officer
has proved himself unfit for the performance
Of his ordinary duties il Incomes neccs-
sary 10 direct puhhc attention to that
fact. 1t is the duty ~ the Sccreiarv
of this State to nuti to the Sheuif IN earh
Conn-v what Offices are to he filed at the
election and also what Constitutional Amend
mcnts. if any. are TO he voted unon. Mr.
Beach. the present incumbent and canhl-
date for reelection. Issued the usual notce
this vcor. but overlooked entirely an
important Constitutional Amendment au-
thorizng the appointment of an addi-
tionnl Supreme Court Jrige in the Second
Judicial District. and designed 70 relieve the
burdens cf the bench in that District. Nr.
Beach not only overlooked il; ne proved
that he WAS ignorant of it. bv replying
IA telegram of inquiry from Mr.. Ghu-
den, one Of the secretaries of the Re
publican State Committee, that no Amend-
ment was TO ba submitted to the people
tins Fail. IL was not uhtl hc WIS
graphed the number of the chapter III tu'
laws of the last session that he learned oi tue
existence of this Amendment. 1t Is important
TO large section of orr populations
il might have been of Importance I"
the whole state. and we owe no thanks
70 Mr.. Beach that it was discovered IN nme
10 he voted on at all. II is not violent m
ference to SAY that he has proved himself
unfit for the clerical duties OF his position.
The people should do what merchant would
do with an equally careless clerk-discharge
him.