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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23
A SPANISH HEROINE.
a Girl OF Thirteen Captures Half a Dozen
Robbers.

Robbers.
A whole band of robbers was very
neatly trapped in La Carolina, Spain
by the bravery OF girl of Ii, who has
become the heroine Of her neighbor-
hood. She is the daughter of farmer
named Fueras, and is called Caramita.
The family consists of the husband and
wife and daughter. The farmer sold
some cattle for 81, 500, and had the
money in the house. A band of rob-
bers knew of the sale and the money
and laid their plans to rob the house.
After the farmer had gone out with his
workpeople, a couple of strangers ap-
preached the house-a man travel
stained, supporting a woman who
seemed unable to walk any further.
The man told the farmers wife that he
was going to distant village with his
wife, and she, being i'll, had broken
down on the way. He asked permission
for the sick woman to enter the house
and rest while he went to find con-
veyance to enable them to con-
tinue their journey Permission was
granted, the woman taken in and the
man left. The sick woman partook of
some refreshments, and the mother and
daughter went on with their work.
Very soon Caramita discovered that
their guest had on pair of pantaloons
under the gown. She communicated
the fact to her mother, unobserved by
the visitor, and the two managed quick
~ to slip into another room, close and
lock the door. The visitor, left alone
and knowing that his character had been
discovered, threw off his disguise and
ordered the women to open the door or
die. The door was not opened, and the
robber began to cut through it with a
knife. At length he hacked hole big
enough for his body, and he began to
crawl through it. The woman tainted
and fell on the floor. The brave girl
seized cher fathers gun, which was in
the room heavily charged with buck
shot, placed the muzzle against the side
of the man, now half way through the
hole, and unable quickly to get either
backward or forward, and pulled the
trigger. There was an instantly dead
man and q loud report. The other
robber, lurking in the neighborhood,
heard the shot and returned to the
house to find his comrades body plug
ging the hole in the door and hanging
there. Before he could remove the
body, which was held in the opening by
the girl, and enter the room where the
mother and daughter were, the father
came with force sufficient to capture
the other robber. Then they sent for
some police to take charge of the living
robber and the corpse. On the person
of the dead robber the police found
two pistols, poniard and a whistle.
The whistle was treasure now, as there
were doubtless more robbers within its
call. The police sounded the whistle
and concealed themselves in the house
to await results. The shril call brought
four more men into the house, where
they were Gagged and ironed, and all five
we're marched to jail in good ordet, and
the dead robber was buried. Little
black-eyed Caramita saved her own and
her mothers life and her fathers
money, made six robbers fewer in Spain
and herself the heroine of La Carolina.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23
One Advantage.

There is one good thing about this
electric light. When a mans collar
button gets away from him and starts
off on an exploring expedition across
the room, he can look under the bureau
for it without resorting to the danger
Gus and unsatisfactory expedient of lay
ing glass kerosene lamp down on its
side on the floor. That is, if the i'm
preston we have received is correct,
that the electric light makes all light
and no -EGchd7oge.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23

of erysipelas. Other testimony, how
ever, by gentlemen who ought to know,
shows that the Capitol is miserably ven
tilated, and that disease and death are
the direct results of vitiated air in the
legislative halls of the nation.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23

FROM returns made up in England
and sent to Washington, it appears for
the nine months of last year, ending
Oct. l., there were imported into En-
gland AZ, 1872, 1902 cwt. of wheat, or about
100000 bushels. The remarkable
fact in the return is that nearly two
thirds came from the United States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23
OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
Sliding Down Hill.
Urn fine hill down the mill

kC1ssAAA$9 1/oaa AAAAs
Down the hill, down the mill,
Gay1y now we slide:
Through the white and glistening snow
See the runners glide!
Here we go. swift and sure.
Bound to have some fun,
Scamper off, boys and girls,
Gayly jump AMI run.
bright the sun is shining now
Through the frosty air,
Making all the ice clad hills
Radiant and fair!
Off we go! Off we go!
Shouting with will,
No such fun in all the world
AS sliding DOM The hiU."
Have a care, boys and girls,
Have an earnest care!
For there is another hall
Which seemeth very fair!
Downward. downward lies its course,
Glistening bright and still;
But it is a sad mistake.
Sliding down th0t hill!
frs. e. N. Turner. IN YUuth's Companion.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23

HERE is another good man gone
wrong" The Treasurer OF the Massa-
chusetts Home Missionary Society, in
the hope of enriching the Golfers of the
society, invested large sums in Chicago
and other Western mortgages, and the
result is that his accounts are shorta
some 100000.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23
Views from Two StandpOints.

When we are in our teens, or just out
of them, we say, what nonsense" when
we read Of "a young man Of 49," But,
as soon as we get past 30, and meet the
same phrase, it strikes us as perfectly
proper. Human nature is a rum GUS
toner Albaaay Fve,ai7ag Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23
Ghe Nenosha telegraph


The American railroad construction
for 1878 amounts to 2,6S8 miles, the
largest for any year since 1873. It has
been mostly in the Middle and North
western States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23
Forests ii, EurOne.

The proportion of land covered with
forests throughout Europe is 20 per
cent, of which Russia and Sweden fur
nish the greatest part. In Russia, 40
per cent. of territory is covered with
woods, and of this some 20O,00O,0OO
acres are covered with pines and other
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23

LONDON fogs are notorious, but Paris,
the city of perennial brightness, is oc-
casionally as murky. People could not
see to read there on the day before Christ
mas.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-01-23
THE FROST KING.

VI - n The FhUbI hINU.
+ He went abroad last night
On a fierce and wild foray,
= And treasures bright. in his frosty flight,
I l From the hil1sides bore away. "
Earth mourns to-day in gloom
+ = For a crushing hand was laid
On leaf and bloom, and rare perfume,
s.s In woodland, glen and glade.
He tore the garlands down II
u That the glowing autumn t1ined.
! And his faded crown of russell brown
In her golden temple shrined.
Frost King our hearts still yearn
I -N For the vanished summer hours,
And sadly turn from thy blackened urn
Of blighted buds and flowers.
--you4,nnl of Education.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-01-16
Is the Democratic Party Re
sDOnSible

1t has been said by The Nation that it
would be hardly fair ''to hold the Democratic
party responsible for the doings of Mr.. Til.
den and his immediate adherents" Yet the
same Nation has been continually insisting
that the Republican party must be held re-
sponsible for the doings, not of its candidate,
its official head, or its organization, but of in
dividual Republicans who claim to lead or
represent that party at the South.
The plea is thin. The men who acted with
Mr.. Ilden were not merely his adherents;
they were active, prominent and influential
Democrats. Mr.. Marble was for long time
the editor and chief owner of the metropoli-
tan Democratic journal. Mr.. Pelton was
Secretary of the Democratic National Com
mittee Mr.. Weed was very active and
influential Democratic leader in the largest
and most important State in the Union. Mr..
Woolley was one of the most active and
prominent Democrats inIthe State which ranks
second in political nportance-since the time
Of State elections in Pennsylvania has been
changed. Mr.. Barnum was Democratic
Senator, and very active member OF the
Democratic National Committee. Messrs.
Gordon and Kelly were Democratic Senators;
Mr.. Randall is a Democratic Speaker; Mr..
Bigler was formerly Democratic Governor in
Pennsylvania; and the Democratic State Com
mittees of Florida and South Carolina con
stantly telegraphed to Pelton with apparent
knowledge of the secret propositions which
had been forwarded to him at No. I5 Gra-
mercy Park. If these men, or any of them,
had no knowledge of any corrupt transaction,
they can offer something beside silence or
vague denial, and it is high time for any who
can to do so. But it is nonsense to say that
the Democratic party is not to be held in any
way responsible for the acts of its most active,
prominent and effective workers.
The plea is too late by something like two
years. Early in 1877 the nature of the Ore
gon transaction was fully exposed and proved.
Has the Democratic party taken any steps
whatever to rid itself of responsibility? 1t
has shielded Tilden, Pelton and Kelly, and
suppressed evidence in regard to them. 1t has
permitted the same corrupt clique to dictate
the creation and selection of Committee of
investigation, in order to keep Tilden's fraud
ulent claim alive. 1t has obeyed to this hour,
through the majority Of its representatives in
Congress, both as to the acceptance Of hired
and perjured testimony to blacken the names
of Republicans, and as to the suppression of
inquiries about Tilden's bank books, the ci>
pher dispatches, and other matters liable to
involve Democrats, the directions sent from
the very house from which the acceptance of
corrupt propositions were sent, and more
than once the orders to Democratic represent
atives have been borne by the same nephew
who forwarded $4,000 to bribe Republican
elector in Oregon. What does the word ere
sponsible" mean, in the dictionary of lop-
sided 'lndependent Pm. Y. Tribune.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-01-16
Shut Out in the Cold.

Mr.. EDIIoR-It has come to that at
last, right here in the temperance viii
lage of Centreville, where there is not
a grogshop nor place where drink
ing man can become intoxicated. 1t is
well known fact that the Murphy
movement f1ourished here at blood
heat for season, every person turning
out to hear the lectures; the churches
were thrown open, and and those in
favor OF temperance were invited in
to work in the great and good cause.
Stree that the excitement has worn
away, md the meetings have been
more sparsely attended, though occa'
sionally we have very interesting lee
lures. Those persons who ut one time
sat upon the throne prUclaiming tenn
perance to the people, declaring they
intended to work for God and for tenn
perance while they lived, and urging
others to come, in their familiar words
of "you will never rue it, my word for
it-you will never rue it," are to-day
guilty of turning the temperance
Meeting out in the cold; that, too, when
the thermometer stood 230 below zero.
The officers and members of the M. E
Church, of this place (Centreville) took
an active part in the movement, wa
wing their Murphy cards high before
the eyes of the people that they might
see they had Murphy, and proclaim
it it In all the land; but lOi the Trus'
tees of this Church, where are their
Murphy Cards, with the wordss, "God
helping me-" to which they subscribed
their names? Has God ceased to help
them? or was it little piece of hypo'
critical deception?
On last Sunday notice was sent to
the M. E. Church, requesting Rev.
Dartz to announce temperance meet
ing for the next evening. The Trus-
tees had either previously decided or
at that time, that the temperance
meetings should not be held in the M.
E. Church, and the sexton was so in
structed. II we knew they were pos
sessed of pure Snd undetiled religion,
and these temperance meetings were a
hindrance to their enjoyment of it, we
would not say word, but the latter
we doubt and the former shows for it
self II is we'll known fact that the
aters are considered by all christian
denominations piece of the DEVILS
work, but these pious people in this
same M. E. Church last fall did erect a
stage, which occupied the width and
one third of the length of the Church,
sent away and got scenery and cur
tains, and arranged the stage in theat'
rical style-had bills struck and posted,
and played "Ten Nights in a Bar
Room" for two nights. They say they
did sll this for the Lord, and are will
| ING to do more. even if they exhaust
all OF the DEVILS machinery by using
! it in the house Of the Lord.
Lastly, they hid Christmrs tree in
the Church, sn oyster supper in the
school house, u-ing the latter as a
kitchen and dining room. This was
all for the Lord. If the peoples Church
and the ppopl, 5 school house, can be
used for theatre AMI oyster saloon, why
( not use the peoples Church for tempe
rance meetings? ZERO.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-01-16

nation, cyclopedia of what that class call
knowledge, but which is really, in large de-
gree, misinformation.
The tongue is not only an evil when it lies,
but very often when it gives utterance to the
truth. The truth is not always to be spoken;
never unnecessarily to the injury Of neigh
Dor. Neither should 1t be used in a way to
cause unnecessary pain. The golden rule il
lustrates this point admirably, and if people
would do unto others as they would have 9th
ers do unto them, the scourge of which we
write would prevail in a very mild form.
1t may be remarked that the real gentleman
or lady, or to use better terms, the real mar
or woman, win not gossip at all, and when
you meet gossip it win always be safe to
conclude that the person is sadly deficient in
education or in moral perception, or both, and
is safest at u respectable distance.
Job was greatly afflicted. He lost his chill
dren, his focks and his herds; he was cover
ed with boils; he had indisereet friends who
tortured him, and wife who tempted him;
but the assurance that he would be protected
against the ''scourge Of the tongue pust, in
the midst of his bodily and mental sufferings,
have been a great comfort. Cincinnati
Weekly Gazette, 1st inst.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-01-16
The Farmer.-EngIand and Amerr
lea.

We cannot imagine anything more
likely to check the American farmers
disposition to grumble (traditionally
supposed to be inherent to all farmers
and all Englishmen), than careful
comparison OF his own with his trans
atlantic confrere's position.
A brief glance at the present state of
affairs In England, then, may not be
amiss at this season OF the year, when
all careful men are aptt sum up the
results of the past years labOrs, and
eudeavor to estimate the prospects for
that upon which they have just en-
tered.
One fact alone speaks volumes as to
the hardships Of the British farmer.
He is paying a rental per acre Of IS to
to $15. On two hundred acre farm
this amounts, at an average of say
$40, to yearly tax of $1,000, enough
to purchase the freehold of good farm
In almost any of the Western States.
1t is true his labor Is cheap, being fur
nished by a wretched class of peasant
ry that may be said to have no coun'
terpart In this country, and 1t Is i'm
possible, In that thickly settled coun'
try, for farmer to be very far from q
market; but none of these advantages
can adequately compensate for yearly
rent equal to, at the very least, one
half of the value Of the western farm
er's land.
At the present time the English
farmer Is probably more impressed
with the fact of the terrible competi'
tion waged against him by the Amer
lean farmer than ever before. II he
glances at the figures Of American ag-
ricultural imports into his own eoun-
try during the past year, he finds that
these amounted to over 500. .O00, ,OOO(D
And he can find indications In the
quality and price OF almost every arti-
Gle that the competition Of last year Is
but the beginning OF Q still more for.
midadle invasion into the country Of
American farm products. 1t is, in
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-01-16
belmont countx. ohIo.

deed, difficult to see what Is to check
the growth of this branch of our ex-
port trade.
es OF England, suffering from q con-
stantly increasing commercial depres-
sion and large surplus in the labor
market, are necessarily disposed to en-
courage, for the sake of keeping down
the price Of food, the very competition
viii their agricultural fellow coun-
trymen so much deplore. It is doubt
less largely due to the influence of
these classes in England that the cattle
contagious diseases bill, or at least its
application, has been lately modified
as regards American and Canadian
live stock, Ga
The very low prices prevalent sin
this country during the past year in all
kinds of American products, of which
our farmers have so loudly com planned,
have no doubt been advantageous in
this n spect: that they have compelled
their large diversion to European mar
kets, resulting, no doubt, In the per-
manent establishment of q trade which
must continue to grow year by year.
III IL not easy at present to see what
remedy lies within the reach Of the
undersold British farmer. The ulti-
timate result will undoubtedly be to
compel reduction in farm rentals, and
thus cause large share of the loss to
fall upon those who are certainly bet
ter able to bear 1t, namely, the landed
proprieters. 1t is quite likely, too,
that an increased emigation will fol-
low from this state of affairs.
In the meantime our American
farmers may we'll take heart and con-
gratulate themselves upon their own
hopeful condition. They have but to
make the most OF their opportunities,
and it is difficult to see why their fu~
ture should be other than such as to
enable us to wish them, in all conf
dence, Happy New Year, and many
of them.-Farmer's Review.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-01-16
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.


THE countenance is pale and leaden.
l. colored, with occasional fushes, or
a circumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pu-
pills dilate; an azure semicircle runs
along the lower eye-lid the nose is IT.
ritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds;
a swelling of the upper lip; occasional
headache, with humming or throbbing
of the ears; an unusual secretion of
saliva; Shiny or furred tongue; breath
very foul, particularly in the morning;
appetite variable, sometimes voracious,
with gnawing. sensation of the stom-
ach, at others, entirely gone; feeting
pains In the stomach; occasional
nausea and vomiting; violent pains
throughout the abdomen; bowels IL
regular, at times costive; stools Shiny;
not unfrequently tinged with blood;
belly swollen and hard; urine turbid;
respiration occasionally difficult, and
accompanied by hiccough; cough
sometimes dry and convulsive; uneasy
and disturbed sleep, with grinding of
the teeth ). temper variable, but gener-
ally irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DR.. c. McLANE'S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect cure.
IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form; it is an innocent prepara-
ton, not sapa6k Of doing the sAgAttsf
iyn,y to tie msos tender Infant.
The genuine DR.. McLANE's YER
MIFUGE bears the signatures of c. Nc
LANE and FLEMING Bros. on the
wrapper. -:o:-
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-01-16
BE sure lbs Your wife.

Last night two buggies stopped at
the Capitol hotel, says the Arkansas
Democrat, and two gentlemen jumped
out almost simultaneously and went
into the hotel, leaving two ladies in
their respective buggies. One of the
men came out in advance OF the other,
and by the uneertsin light thrown
from the hotel was led aside from the
actual fact in the little matter of get
ting in the right buggy. In q word,
Mr.. ]. got In with Mrs. F., who were
as totally unknown to each other, so
far as acqaintanceship Is concerned, as
If one had died ten years ago In Africa
and the other hadn't been born. As
married men often do, Mr.. ]. drove
some distance before speaking. FL
nally he remarked:
I've got q corn on my tOe-the one
you persist in putting your foot on,
too-that hurts about rs bad as the
common run of things generally dO.'
The lady was very much surprised,
and rather hsughtily replied:
You've been trying to pick quar-
rel with me all day, and now, to make
the matter more exasperating, you
change your voice to an unnatural
growl.'
Its you, madam, who have changed.
My voice is natural. am not trying
to assume anything. You screech like
an old gate
you are an old fool.'
'Give my teeth here; you shan't
wear them another minute
Teeth! teethI What In the world
do you mean"
But just then driving through flood
of light, the parties recognized that
they didn't recognize
Madam said Mr.. j., stopping the
horse and strengthening himself up, Il
hope you will excuse me, but I'd like
to know how you came In my buggy,
and Furthermore I'd like q little intel
ligence as regards the whereabouts OF
my wife. What have you done with
her, madam
Il don't know what you mean, SIR
Get out Of my buggyp
Your buggy? Why, madam, you
are beside yourself
Yes, and beside yourself, which fact
/ deplore to such 80 extent that l will
be forced to call the police
Policel police!' was shouted Justify,
and whsuOfiicer Daily came 10 the spot
thewoman insisted on the mans arrest.
The buggy was driven back to the
Capitol Just In time TO meet another
buggy, the occupants OF which bad =
similar experience.
Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1879-01-16
OHIO STATISTICS.
The Inmates of JaiIs and Infir-
maries Throughout the State.

The report of the number of prison.
ers in County Jails in Ohio is as fol-
lows: Total number of prisoners for
the year ending June 80, 1878, 7,719;
total number of these who were SEN
teneed to jail, Il 727; ;held for trial, 1881;
detained as witnesses, 92; insane, 263;
epileptic, 64; under Is years Of age, 326;
prisoners In Jail January 1, 1873, 5O4;
prisoners in Jail June 80, 1873, 500; to-
tai cost of keeping prisoners for the
year, $40, ,662 81; number of escapes
during the year IA.
The infirmary statistics for the entire
State furnish figures of such magnitude
that they will astonish most people
who have never examined table of
aggregates. They are as follows:
Whole number of inmates remaining
in infirmaries September 1, 1877, 6,526;
whole number received during the
year ending September 1, 1878, 6,072;
whole number born in infirmaries du-
ring the year, 349, total number of
inmates for the year, 12,765; whole
number discharged during the year,
5000; number of deaths during the
year, GOA; number removed to other
counties, States or institutions, .57;
whole number remaining September
1, 1873, 6, ,475; whole number of chill
dren under 16 years of age during the
year, 2,078; number placed in homes,
40I; number of children remaining
September 1. 1878, boys, us, girls, 572;
number of children helplessly crippled,
80; number of insane, males, 220; fe-
males, 243, total, 1853; number of epi-
leptics, males, 217, females, 200; total,
All; number of idiotic, males, 256; fe-
males, 223; total, 479; number Of in
sane removed to State hospitals since
1876, 535; number of insane returned
from State hospitals during the year,
AZ; total current expenses of infrma-
ries exclusive of farm products, for the
year ending September 1, 1878, $751;
8l7 54; total value of farm products for
the year ending September 1, 1873,
$157, ,781 60; total amount paid in coun-
ties for out door relief during the year
ending September 1, 1873, s269, ,034 81;
amount of salaries for the year, Su,
perintendents, s49,911 s.; Matrons,
$6, 9l4;amount of wages paid employees,
$49, ,633 rs; amount of per diem and ex'
penses of Infirmsry Directors for the
year, 81, ,475 65. HtHT