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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-11-14
THE CANADIAN FLOODS.

Nearly Halfa Million OF Damage-WharVes,
Shipping and Houses Observation-Disclosures
Sixty Feet High-Two Lives Lost.
QUEBEC, Nov. 1.-THE loss by the high
tide Wednesday night is now estimated at
$250,000. Another high tide has taken
place last night but it is not expected to be
as damaging as that Of Wednesday, Dis
patches from various points along the St.
Lawrence state that there was not such a
storm as that of last night for the past fifty
years. So far no lives are reported lost
At Paspebiac fishery establishment
was considerably damaged, and also
several fishing boats. At Little MetS
all the houses along the shore were carried
off, also boats, fences, bridges and the
shore is strewn with debris and household
effects. The suffering from cold and hun
ger is intense. At LIslet the damage is
estimated at $751; All the shops in the
village are flooded. The wharves are more
or less damaged and the pavements in the
streets has Heated off, and the village is in a
dilapidated state. At Matane Price Bros.
u Co. S wharf has been carried away Sew
eral persons have been obliged to leave
their houses. The damage is about IS, 600.
Considerable damage was done at Tadousac,
but can not be estimated at present. At
Trols PiStoles three yachts and schooner
were destroyed, the wharf carried away, and
other damage done to the amount of $780,
600. Two ships which were Off Kamour-
aska yesterday are missing. They may
have dropped their anchors or run
for Quebec. Two .Sch0oners at Brandy
Pots broke their chains and went adrift.
At E~er-du-Loup the old wreck of
the Margaret Mr. was washed ashore and
another schooner went ashore near there.
Tho steamer Union had very narrow es-
cape from wrecking while lying at the
wharf at Les Eboulements. The passen-
gers were all landed at the commencement
of the gale. The cargo was damaged by
the rolling and shipping of seas. At Sandy
Bar fourteen houses were carried away.
The loss is about $25, 900.
FARTHER POINT, Nov. THE storm
ragged fMicusly during the night. Pilots Of
fifty years experience, who remained in the
Signal Bureau all night, state that they do
not remember ever having seen and felt
such O storm. The waves mounted to height
Of fifty to sixty feet At one time during
the night they fully expected to be wiped
out. The water is still roaring and splash
ing. A party of boatmen sent out with a
pilot to board the steamship Lake Nepigon,
OH her way to Quebec, returned minus two
of their number, who were washed over
board and not afterWard seen.
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LATER.

THE canvass of the vote in the various
counties of New York State by the County
Boards began ON the 18th, and the result
of their findings will determine the Presi-
Dental contest. Several days would prob
ably be required to complete the canvass.
Later returns make the complexion of the
next Congress as follows: House-Demo-
Gratis, 1S3; Republicans, al; Greenbacker,
l. Senate-Republican Al; Democrats, 35.
MAUD s. made mile in 2:09A at Lexing-
ton, KY, on the 18th, beating sher best rec
ord, which was 2:09sl,
A FATAL disease has broken out among
hogs in some parts of Canada, from which
many have died, and farmers were on the
18th slaughtering their stock in large num-
bers to save themselves from further losses.
A SEVERE shock of earthquake was felt
at Salt Lake early on the morning of the
18th, and many people arose in fright, but
no damage was done.
In proclamation addressed to the citi.
Zens of three counties in the Hooking VAL
ley, Governor Hoadly, of Ohio, on the 18th
gave g. warning against incendiar,sm,
threatening to use the entire militia of Ohio
for it's suppression.
JAMES SCHUYLER CROSBY took the oath
of office on the 18th as First Assistant
Postmaster General, and began the dis
charge of his official duties.
AN anvil exploded during Democratic
celebration on the 18th at Luling, Tex, in
stantly killing two young men, Buck
Wright and Monroe Fay.
BOTH propositions recently submitted to
the voters of Illinois-the constitutional
amendment charging the veto power and
the appropriation to complete the State
House-have been ratified by large MAORI
ties.
A DIAdoND-BRoKERi in Boston. named e.
Poppelhower, disappeared on the 18th with
jewels Of great value, several firms having
each intrusted him with goods valued at
$12, 900 to $4,000.
NONE of the State officers of Connecticut
having received majority of the votes
cast at the recent election, the Republican
Legislature must elect the entire State
ticket.
THE New York Central Road was on the
18th still asking $12 for tickets to Chicago
from New York, nearly all other lines
asking only $1,000.
THE annual Fat-Stock Show under the
auspices of the Illinois State Board Of
Agriculture was opened in Chicago on the
evening of the 18th.
CHOLERA in its most fearful form pre-
walls at Paris to an alarming extent.
Eleven deaths and ninety seven new cases
were reported during the twenty -four hours
ended at nine p. m. on the 18th, exclusive
of those occurring at the hospitals, which
were overcrowded with patients suffering
from the dread
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The EAST.

NEW YORK advices of the 9Th state that
the Tammany candidate for Mayor of New
York City was defeated in the recent cleo
ton by over 10000 plurality. Ex-Mayor
Grace, the candidate of the County Democ-
Tacy, was elected.
BARTHOLOMEW HAAS, a real Hesitate
agent, while i'll a drunken state at Jersey
City few mornings ago, shot his wife
fatally and then shot himself dead.
THE failure is announced of Abel D.
Breed, a New York merchant, for $1,000
On the 9th the New York Central and
West Shore Roads were selling tickets tc
Chicago for SO, and to st. Louis for $15.
In a dynamite mill near Stouchburg, Pa,
au explosion on the afternoon of the 9th
blew three men to fragments and dernol-
ished the mill. The defamation caused the
collapse of q chimney sta at Rohesonia
ten miles away, upon which q number OF
masons were working, six of whom were
killed.
on the 7th tickets from New York tc
Chicago were selling at $3.50 by the West
Shore Road and $ll over the New York
Central
In recent collision of West Shore trains
at Rochester, N. Y, conductor and brake.
man were fatally injured and passenger
had five ribs broken.
A FIRE recently destroyed the wholesale
clothing house of Theodore Dissel 81 Co.
in Syracuse, N. ", valued at $50, 900, ant
one thousand worhmen were thrown out Of
employment.
AT the port of New York the imports Of
dry goods for the seven days ended ON the
9TH were $1,411,0Q0, and the amount mar.
keted, 81 ,SS3,000.
AT Fall River, Mass, most of the mills
agreed on the eth to close for one week.
THE doors Of the banking house of James
NJ. Masterson ES Co., at Mount Vernon, N
Y, were closed on the Sth.
THE failure is announced of r. A
Wright, President of the Hanwel Furnace
Company of New York, for $612,000.
AFTER all expenses are paid the estate o.
Charles G. SWatton (Tom Thumb) shows {
balance of $16,431.
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL.

Education is on the increase. There
are twenty-five public schools m Al
turas County, Idaho.
Over 10000 copies of the Bible
have been printed every day for the last
thirty-four years.-N. 7. Tribune.
The real object of education is to
give children resources that viii endure
as long as life endures.-6ydney
Smith
AT Bowling Green, Ky, it is neces-
sary for the churches to take out board
ing-house licenses before they can give
charitable suppers.
"A frame school-house in the Cats
Kill Mountains, which is used for
church purposes, is papered with pict-
ures from illustrated papers published
during the rebellion.-1roy Times.
Since he has attained his majority,
in 1868, the Duke of Norfolk has, in
one way or another. given more than
50. 900 to the Roman Catholic
Church, besides princely sums devoted
20 private charities.
The Superintendent of the Phila-
delphia Public Schools declares that &c.
900 children of that city are growing up
without schooling. At least 10000 of
them, he thinks, do not go to school be-
cause there is no room for them.
The schoolmaster who sat down on
large disk of shoemaker's wax, which
the boys had placed in his chair, stuck
to business very closely. In fact, he
stuck there until about eight o'clock in
the evening.-Batrljngton Free Press.
"A good old Congregational pastor
used to say that there is a town officer
mentioned in the New Testament to
whom he had been more indebted than
20 almost any other man: ''the town
| clerk of Ephesus, who Acts xix. So adj
Tised 'to do nothing rashly.'"
AT the recent examination of Rev,
M. G. Stebbins for the pastorate of the
church at Cornwall, President Hamlin
inquired if we have the right to fix the
Bible over to suit ourselves; to which
the candidate replied: 81 am accus-
toned to look upon the Bible as iu-
tended to fix us over. "-ROcbeSter EG-
press.
The New York Freen1an'S JoUrn0J
| UO0S uOb UeIlGV0 LndG cOuNeHb SCuOOlS
should be fashionable resorts merely for
the young ladies of rich parents. 1t
says: ''There is no necessity for convent
schools unless they send out into the
world Christian gentlewomen. If they
become servile to wealth, they should
close their doors to pupils and take in
the poor and the sick"
MANY of the country schOo1-hOuSes
in Europe have gardens attached to
them, says Prof. LAM. This is espec-
tally true of Germany, Switzerland, Bel
gium, Holland and Denmark. These
| gardens are used not only for ornament
and to grow vegetables for the use of
the teacher and his family, but they also
serve a purpose in the work Of instruc-
! ton. Children in these schools are
generally taught the elements of agri-
culture and horticulture, and these gar
dens are used to illustrate lessons and
to try experiments.
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Panacea for Trouble.

Life is filled with trouble, and we
must shoulder our share with the best
grace we can. We may only seek to
make them as light as we can, since to
avoid them is impossible
There is one sovereign panacea for
this. 1t is work. Brooding over trouble
is like surrounding ones self with fog.
1t magnifies all objects seen through it.
Occupation of the mind prevents this;
hard work, manual work even, gives
the mind other matters of concern, tires
the body SO that sleep viii come.
Very few suicides occur when men
are actively employed. When out of
work they think of their other troubles,
and the dependency arising from this
added one throws the mind from It's bal
ance, and the fatal deed is done. Many
man would have committed suicide if
he had had the time. Work of any
kind, especially work for others, is the
great panacea for a troubled mind
Our Homes,
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powder few days ago, and an explosion
followed, wrecking the house, and seriously
| injuring himself, mother and three sisters.
SEVERAL buildings in Cali, In the United
States of Colombia, were wrecked by
recent earthquake, and other townsin that
Republic were badly damaged.
| In France during the twenty hours
ended at nine p. m. on the 7th there were
twenty-seven new cases of cholera and
eight deaths. The tourists were again
leaving the country.
THE floods at Alicante, Spain, were
doing great damage on the It'll. Several
towns were submerged, and factories,
residences and bridges had been destroyed.
| AT Sudbury, Ont, six men died recently
| from eating pork affected with trichina.
NINE. PATTI has secured an absolute
divorce at Paris from her husband, the
Marquis de Caux.
The French were attacked by the Chinese
near Kelung on the sth and the latter were
repulsed after three hours hard fighting.
In Paris there were IA new cases of
cholera and twenty two deaths during the
| twenty -four hours ended at nine p. m. on
! the 9th.
| TWELVE of the twenty seven translators
of the new version of the Old Testament
died during the work.
| In a colliery near Tredegar, Eng, an ex-
plosion occurred few days ago which
killed fifteen men and forty three horses.
In the States of Coahuila and Nueva
Leon, Mex, riot occurred few days ago
over the election of State and municipal
officers. The militia were called out at
Sabfnas, and during the fracas twenty of
the troops and fifty citizens were killed. A
number were also killed at Santa Catarina,
while furious rioting was reported from
Bustamente and Saltillo.
| FIFTY-FIvE new cases of cholera and
twenty two deaths occurred in Paris dur
ing the twenty -four hours ended at nine
p. m. on the 10th. At Toulon there were
two deaths.
THE British House of Commons on the
10th, by close vote, rejected an amend
ment to the Franchise bill staying it's
operation until the scheme of redistribu-
tion should be settled. The bill was then
passed.
The oil-works of Stewart Bros. & Co., at
| hopAOuus 4IuS5ss wei OCoClOy ny AI0 a. lew
days ago, causing a loss of 81, 100000.
ADvIcEs from Quebec report an unusual
number of sudden deaths in. that city and
neighborhood within the past few days.
DURING gale off the Newfoundland
coast the other night the British schooners
Northern Light and Elsie collided near the
north head of Catalina. Both sank i'm
mediately. Two of the Elsie's crew, named
Carpenter ard Ford, were drowned.
A COMMITTEE has been appointed by the
st. Georges Society of Toronto, Can, to
consider the best means of preventing the
immigration of undesirable accessions to
the population.
BY the wrecking of the brig Julia E.
Haskell recently in the Bahamas, six of
the eight persons on board were drowned,
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The Word 81 Woman"

Men often misuse not only women,
says a contemporary, but the word
woman. The husband who speaks
of his wife as his woman" is hog.
The man who goes out with his wife and
registers her as his ''lady'' is abusive.
though he may not know it. The man
who goes out with several women should
not say that he is with lot of women,
but that he accompanies ladies. This
includes his wife and all others in the
company. It is proper to say good
morning, good evening, or good night,
ladies, but it would be boorish to say
goodnight women" Treat your
wife as your wife, with love, respect and
manly attention. Treat all women as
ladies, as refined, loyable women, as by
50 doing you prove yourself to be- the
possass0g 81 9eatlemenly laassiNssss
Ssi3 Ef'BErfsCi slsF-lifs}s.sis
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THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches
FROM WASHINGTON,

FhOM WASntNG On
In the United States and Canada there
we're BOG business failures during the seven
days ended on the It'll, against 267 fall
ures the previous seven days.
THE Fish Commission left Washington on
the 7th with car of carp to supply all APP
picants iu Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.
THE Presidents proclamation for Ma
tional Thanksgiving was issued on the 7th,
as follows:
1.-THE season IS nigh when it is the yearly
wont of the people t. observe day appointed
for this purpose by the President as an es-
peoal occasion for thanksgiving unto God.
Now, therefore, in recognition of this hal
lowed custom, /, Chester 4. Arthur, President
CT the United States, do hereby designate
as such day of thanksgiving Thursday, the
27th of this present November; and | do
recommend that throughout the land the peo-
pie ceasing from their accustomed occupa-
tons, do then keep holiday ut their several
places of worship, and with heart and voice
pay reverent ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to the Giver Of
oil good for the countless blessings wherewith
He has visited this Nation"
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue,
in his annual report on the 8th to une
Secretary of the Treasury, showed receipts
from all sources of internal revenue taxa
ton during the fiscal year ended June
30, 1884, Of $l21, $780, 39, as compared with
S144,553, 344 for the year 1889.
THE President returned to Washington
on the 9Th.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has appointed j.
Schuyler Crosby, Governor of Montana, as
First Assistant Postmaster General.
In his recent annual report General
Sheridan asks for arms and camp equipage
for the State militia, and recommends the
commencement of a general system of sea-
coast Notifications.
THE exchanges at twenty -six leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Sth aggregated
$710,651766, against 1868, 1887 400 the. pre-
vious week. AS compared with the CORE
spending period of 1883, the clearings indi.
Gated a. decrease Of 1915 per cent.
The United States Supreme Court has
sustained the removal of John Foster, At
torney of Saline County, Kan, for neglect
ing to prosecute violators of the Prohib.
itory Liquor law.
/ AT tho various millts the issue of silver
dollars for the week ended November s was
$396,996; for the corresponding period last
year, $5l1 900.
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KILLED BY A TRAMP.
A Wisconsin Farmer Murdered at His Own
Threshold.

Wisconsin Farmer Murdered at His Own
Threshold.
WAUKEsIIA, Wis, Nov 10.-One of the
most dastardly crimes ever committed in
this county occurred two miles south of here
Saturday night, by which the life of John
G. Atkins, one Of the best known and
highly esteemed farmers in the county,
was taken by miserable tramp.
MI. Atkins, with his wife and a Miss
Potter, had returned from Waukesha,
where they had done their Saturdays shop
ping, and the women alighted and started
towards tie residence. Mrs. Atkins upon
reaching the woodshed door exclaimed:
Some one has entered the house during
our absence, as the door is badly shattered. 7"
Mr.. Atkins started from the team towards
the house and tile women entered the
kitchen door. Just as they got inside a
man brushed past them and was met by
Mr.. Atkins at the woodshed door, and
without the least provOcation sent a
bullet whizzing through his brain, the ball
entering the right eye, producing instant
death. The man then made bis escape. An
inquest was held and verdict rendered
that the deceased was murdered by an I'M
known man. The entire surrounding coull-
Try was Immediately appriSed Of the crime,
and searching parties have been sent i'll all
directions. The excitement here tonight is
great, and if the murderer is captured he
will probably be lynched.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

ADvIcEs of the 4th from London state
that the total number of deaths from
cholera during the prevalence of the
Corsica, 100; Algiers, 200; Italy, 1928;
Spain, 490. Grand total, 1874.
THERE were during the twenty -four hours
ended at nine p. m. on the 9th thirteen
new cases and six deaths from cholera at
Nantes, France.
ENGLAND was informed by Prime Min
lister Ferry on the 9th that if China accept
ed mediation without delay France would
limit its claim for indemnity to $4,000 900.
ADvIcEs of the 9th from Quebec, Can,
state that a storm had overflowed streams
wharves and pontoons in Quebec were
badly broken and loosened. The loss
would amount to over 100000.
A HIGH tide did damage to the extent of
over 100000 a few nights ago in the lower
st. Lawrence River. The waves off Farther
Point rose to the height of fifty feet.
RIGHT Hon. HENRY FAwcETT, Postmas-
ter General of England, died in London on
the 9th.
OdOLEhA 0dS T6dppSstACQ La 1dpAcS,
Italy. During the twenty four hours ended
at nine p. m. on the 9th there were seven
cases and two deaths reported.
ADvIoEs of the 9th from Cairo states
that the rebels were concentrating their
forces on all the routes leading to Khar-
toum. Native spies allege that the Mehdi
had sent guns and ammunition to Osman
Digma to enable him to resume operations
on the Red Sea littoral.
BOILERS in the iron-works at Stafford,
Eng. exploded a few days ago, and four
persons were killed and twenty others were
injured
A FEW evenings ago Chiniquy, the ex-
priest, lectured at Montreal in Russell Hall.
His sentiments provoked riot, in which
he was rescued by the police. The lights
were turned out and the windows broken.
In Canada three more counties have
adopted the Scott Liquor Prohibition act
and one more has sustained it. 1t is now
adopted by thirty mine counties and cities.
ON the 9th Mr.. Moody, the well-known
evangelist, began q convention for Chris.
titan workers at Montreal, Can.
ON the It'll the Quebec (Can.) Central
Railway was blocaaded by recent snow
storms, and trains had ceased running.
'Siefghing was good and the weather was
cold.
a LAD narned Dsmsrs, lining near Ques
bss <aHss 4asllea dssnassshe t6A~AsNassgN9
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WIT AND WISDOM.

An ounce of keep-your-mo uth-snut
is better than a pound of explanation
after you have said it.
=" Oh, for the wings of a dove" she
sang as she was puzzling her brains as
to what new ornament she should put
upon her bonnet Y0nkerS Statesman.
"A more glorious victory can not be
gained over another man than this, that
when the injury began on bis part, for
the kindness to begin on ours.-N. Z.
Ledger.
"A little boy whose sprained wrist
had been relieved by bathing in whis-
ky surprised his mother by asking:
"Did papa sprain his throat when he
was boy?"-Troy Times.
Its proof of the singular operation
of the human mind" says a mental
philosopher, that when two men ac-
cidentally exchange hats the one who
gets the worst tile is always the first to
discover the mistake"
They have man named Pyle out
in st. Louis who drives a horse-car. A
horse-car under the guidance of a pile
driver is certainly an innovation, and
there is probably plenty of punching
done on the garland possibly some
log-rolling. Boston Times.
"A father-in-law at wedding 1T
tempted to chatf the groom 81 hope
now, sir, that you will not get into any
more scrapes." 'No," said the new
son-in-law, 81 shall not have a chance
| shall never get out of this one. y
Providence Nea0s.
The Crazy Quilt!
Oh, can you see by the dawn's early light
What you failed to perceive at the twilights
A cranky concern that through the long night,
Ger the bed where you slept was so saucily
streaming?
The silk patches so fair,
Round, three-cOrned and square,
Give proof that the lunatic bed-quilt is there,
Oh, the craZy-quilt mania triumphantly raves,
And maid, wife and widow are bound as its
slaves.
D. T. H5ghmore.
4 was told a good story the other
day about a Griswold street lawyer. In
the dead of one dreadful hot August
night he was awakened by noise in his
bedroom. Hastily sitting up in bed to
find out who the intruder could possibly
be, he was confronted with a revolver
in the hands of burly burglar. PPM
looking for money, am, " Kissed the
burglar, $50 you'd better keep still"
sob! say, hold on" said the lawyer,
"lemmo get my pants on and I'll help
you hunt for it. "-Detr0it Free Press.
Mrs. Jarply to husband: How
could you stay out at the club until after
one o'clock in the morning and leave
your wife all aloneP-Mr. Jarply: You
must be mistaken, my dear; it was
only half-past eleven o'clock, OF So
Mrs. Jarply: You can't deceive me; I
was awake, and looked at the clock
Mr.. Jarply, in a deeply injured tone:
Well, Amandy, I've nothing more to
say, if you viii believe a ninety-fve
cent nickle-plated nutmeg clock, in.
stead of your own married husband
~ Y I1qdeDen6ent.
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Insanity and Death Caused by Politics.

NEW YORK, Nov. 10.--One of the hard
est workers for Blaine in Queens County
was Colonel Lendall Pratt of Hyde Park.
He was seventy-three years old, but did an
immense amount of work for the Republic
al candidate. AS election day approached
evidence of impaired reason became ap-
parent. and on Wednesday he threatened to
kill his wife, for whom he always displayed
the greatest affection. Friday his friends de-
termined to place N.m under restraint and
he was taken to the county insane asylum.
Colonel Pratt. who was a large and power
full man, fought sayagely against being
taken into the asylum, and the united eff
forts of three men were required to convey
him to his room. Early Saturday morning
he tore the iron bars from his window,
leaped out, and broke his neck. Colonel
Pratt was very intimate with Horace
Greeley, who was frequently guest at his
house in Hyde Park.