The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-07-09
GENERAL,

The census notes The official re-
turn of the Census Supervisor shows the popu-
lation of Philadelphia to be 847, $40. Omaha's
population foots up 3O.6O5, gain of $4,000 in
ten years. Terre Haute has population of
26,519, and is now the third-largest city in In
diana. Indianapolis numbers 75,077 people !;
Ca gain of As per cent. in ten
years., and Springfield, ILL.,, 1868 Sixty
one national banks were organized in this coun-
try during the fiscal year which closed June 80.
Twenty went into voluntary liquidation during
the same period.
OVER 1900 immigrants arrived at
Baltimore in one day, last week, and left imme-
diately for the West. =. President Hayes has
been made an LII. D. by Yale College.
CENSUS items: Elgin has popula-
ton of 1O,04O; Cedar Rapids, 1O,19O; Lancas-
ter, Pa, 25,846, and Salt Lake City, 81 900.
The Territory of Utah contains $4,000 people.
The United States man-of-war Ten
nessee has been ordered to Immediately proceed
to Cuban waters to make searching examina-
ton of all circumstances in connection with the
recent Spanish outrages, and to report as early
as possible. The census returns give New Or
-
ten years ago. South Bend. Ind, has more
than doubled its population in the last decade ;
it has now 1924, against 6,118 in 1870. -. The
Anthracite, the smallest steamer that ever
crossed the Atlantic ocean. has arrived at New
York. 1t left Falmouth, Eng. 26 days ago.. !.
The June report of the Department of Agri-
culture shows the following i'll relation to crops
throughout the United States: There is an in
crease of 2 per cent in the acreage under oats,
NJ Of Ioa 10 lny,%
promising yield of IL per cent greater than
last year. The acreage under rye and barley
has decreased since 1879, but the yield will be
about the same. Glover has an increased
acreage; the increase, however, is confined to
the cotton-growing States and the Pacific coast.
The condition of the crop is not good. Fruit
of all kinds will be quite plentiful, much more
SO than for the previous year.
A MINNESOTA physician, DIR. Tanner,
maintained that a man could live forty days
on water alone, and to prove the correctness
of his theory went to New York, and, under
the watchful eyes of a committee of local
DOCTORS started out to put it to the
test telegram from that city on
July reports progress as follows DR.. Tan
ner at noon to-day closed the eighth day of his
continuous fast He has lost sixteen pounds
in weight since the beginning, and now weighs
141M pounds For the past two days, however,
he has lost only three-fourths of pound daily.
He spent most Of his time to-day on his cot, and
great deal of the time lay prone upon his face
and stomach. He did not sleep well last night,
and was unable to-day to make up his rest. and
along toward tonight he became quite peevish
and irritable. In the evening he took walk,
accompanied by his watchers.
FOREIGN. ~
In the shooting at Dollymount, Ire
land, OH the Both ult., the Americans were again
victorious, Laird carrying off the se10 cup. and
Scott that presented by the Earl of Spencer,
The religious DEGREES were enforced in France,
on the 30th ult., the Jesuits quitting their es-
Establishments under protest and declaring that
they yielded only to force. There was some
disorder at Ayignon, Marseilles, and other
places on the part of sympathizers with the
banished brotherhood.
FOURTEEN horses imported direct
from Kentucky were scId in London at an aver