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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

WILLIAM DONOVAN, aged nineteen
years, who won the recent six-days'
race on roller skates in New York, COW
ering 1902 miles, has since died OF
acute pericarditis, His physician said
that the exertion of the race had left the
boys heart in very weak condition,
and made him very susceptible to cold.
The cause of his death was exposure
after recovering from pneumonia, which
was contracted by his going out doors
too soon after the race.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

BUDDENsICK, tle builder of the row
Of houses that tumbled down recently,
and for which he has been indicted for
manslaughter is said to have con-
'tructed nearly four thousand houses
in New York. The tenants of these
must find the accounts of his building
methods very interesting reading.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01
Eleven Miners Buried Alive in Snow

LEADvHLE, Col, April 27.-A terrible
disaster is believed to have loccurred about
two weeks ago at Homestake Mountain, on
the Eagle River The news only reached
here Saturday. Eleven men had been
working at the Homestake miae and as
nothing had been heard from them for
fortnight man started out to see if any,
thing had happened to them. On arriving
at the fit where the two cabins had been
located he found everything buried deep
under snowslide. Not sign of life was
visible in any direction, and no doubt is
entertained that the man were all buried
alive
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01
Six Deaths Result from a Kentucky ARRAY.

FRANKFORT, KY. April 24.-Harry
Cockrill and his brother BUD Cockrill,
OF Dev.ne, Estill County, with several
assistants, were bringing RATS down the
Kentucky River yesterday, when they OBJ
Served that BUD Parker, and brother, of
Clay S Ferry, with several assistants, were
behind them with RATS. The Cockrills
shouted to the Parkers to guide their RATS
SO as to avoid a collision. The Parkers
could not guide their RATS owing to the
swiftness of the current, and collision was
the result, the RATS belonging to Cockrill
being broken up. Hot words followed, pis-
tolls were drawn and both factions began
shooting. The two Parkers were killed in.
stantly and four others mortally wounded.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

tGovERNoR PNGREE's Arbor-D Day proc
lamation in Vermont was prefaced with
the remark of the Highland laird
"Jock, when ye haze naething else to do,
you may be sticking in tree; it will be
growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01
A Young Lady Expires from Fright.

MIDDLETowN, o., April 27.-Miss Ella
Taylor, handsome young lady of twenty
years of age, was passing by the cemetery
on Fourth street last Friday even
ing, in company with number of young
people, when one of the party eX-
claimed: There's ghostv' All started
to run, when Miss Taylor fell and expired
before medical aid could be summoned.
There is great Indignation over the sad
event, and the unfortunate girls relatives
talk OF attempting to take the law on the
senseless young people who are responsible
for hor Taoth
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

BABIES that were born after the first
money was appropriated for the new"
capital OF New York, voted at the
Albany municipal election recently, and
The Legislature passed bill appropriate
ing $1,000,0 900 to complete the building.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

Down in Mississippi man has been
sent to jail for thirty days for play
fully pointing an empty gun" at an
other person. Every State should have
a law making the sentence in such
cases 365 days instead of thirty.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

On Monday three venerable gentle
men of this city met on State street who
were born in Boston in the years 1900,
1903 and 1904. The three in their youth
attended Master Stamford S school.
That they are of the genuine Boston
stock may be inferred when we state
laat the fathers and grandfathers of the
Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

The name Metis, used frequently in
connection with tie Riel rebellion, was
originally applied to all mixed breeds
Of the Northwest. There are two d.
visions of Metis-the Metis Francois,
Or Canadians, and the Metis-A nglais
descendants of officers of the Hudson
Bay Company.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01
Millions of AIackereI.

NEW YORK, April 2s.-The biggest
haul Of mackerel ever caught in these
waters was brought in by the fleet on Satur.
day. Fine mackerel were selling in Fulton
Market yesterday for one dollar the wagon
load and at retail for five cents a dozen.
More than two millions of the fish were
caught within twenty-four hours at point
one hundred miles south of Banegat.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

WILLIAM PEAK, of the once-famous
family of bell-ringers, in a recent letter
to friend in Syracuse, N. Y, says that
ne and Mrs Peak have been offered a
home by relative living in Williams
burg, N. Y. They have been inmates
Of the Cortland County IN. " Poor
house since January /.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01
Appointments for the Soldiers Home.

WASHINGTON, April 27.--General Henry
j. Hunt, retired, has been appointed Gov
ernor of the Soldiers Home at Washing
ington, vice Colonel Samuel D. Sturgis, and
Captain Robert Catlin has been an
pointed Vice-Governor. Surgeon c. G.
Byrne has been detailed for duty
at the home. The selection of General Hunt
gives great satisfaction here. He is one of
the best known of our soldiers, and well
known to the country at large for his COM
mand of the one hundred gins with which
he opposed Pickett and Longstreet at Get
tysburg. General Sturgis' administration
has been in every way satisfactory.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

Hon. John NJ. Francis, the United
States Minister to Austria, was among
the select few who were allowed to wit
ness the annual ceremony of washing
the feet of the poor. which was per-
formed at Vienna recently, in celebra-
ton of the voluntary humiliation of the
Saviour. Twelve picturesque beggars,
with very ragged garments and sus-
piciously clean feet, had their feet
touched with a sponge held BY His
Majesty. the Emperor Francis josef
The feet We're subsequently wiped by
Archdukes of the Empire
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

THE Governor of Kansas, in his re-
cent Arbor-Day proclamation, said the
State which the pioneers found treeless
and a desert now bears upon its fertile
bosom "more than 100000 fruit
trees and more than 100000 acres OF
forest-trees, all planted by our own
people. y The Governor also says:
THAT there has been an increase in
the rainfall in Kansas is fully proved
by the statistics of our oldest meteor
ologiStS."
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

The great seal Of the United States is
nearly worn out and new one will be
substituted at an early day. The seal
now in use does not correspond in sew
eral details with the description given
in the statute by which it was author
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

GENERAL GRANTS old war-horse,
which he rode when he entered Vicks-
burg at the time of the surrender OF
that place, has been kept at the Ma
Lional Cemetery ever since until recent
ly, when he was sold to Manuel How
khnl
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

AT the last session of Congress law
was passed providing that enlisted men
in the army may retire after thirty
years service on three-fourths pay and
allowance.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

BALTIMORE, Md, April 27.-Mamie Ev
ans, aged seventeen years, died Saturday al
her parents residence, No. 293 Ram
say street, from the effects OF
excessive rope-junping. Miss Ev.
ms on Friday last was jumping rope in
company with some companions, and stated
she intended to jump one hundred and fifty
times without intermisson. She had just
completed her one hundredth jump when
she fell unconscious to the pavement She
was taken home and remained unconscious
until her death.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

In divorce bill recently filed at
Pittsburgh, Pa, Thomas Carney relates
how his wife's passion for baseball, in
tensifed by reckless betting, made a
wreck of his previously happy home.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

For their Easter Sunday breakfast
the convicts in the Ohio Penitentiary
had $500 boiled eggs, with other luxu-
ries, or just three eggs to each member
of the Institution.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

"A Lawrence episode: Man. Bakery.
Pie. Man steals pie. Eats pie. Police
man. Sees man. Takes man. Court.
Judge. Six months. Appeal. Bonds
$500. Nary bond. Jail. Beware of pie.
--Los0eH GLASS; Times.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

THE five new counties created by the
last Nebraska Legislature are named
Blaine, Dawes, Sheridan, Logan and
C;ouv
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

AT recent session of the New York
Presbytery it was resolved to petition
the next Congress to abolish Sunday
mails, trains and parades.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01
Cholera in Calcutta.

WASHINGTON, April 2S.-The Marine
Hospital Bureau is informed that cholera is
prevailing In Calcutta to an alarming ex-
cent
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01

The States of Massachusetts,, New
York and Dakota will each take CEN
sus this year.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01
JAVA SHAKEN AGAIN.
RUssIA's CURT REPLY.

AMSTERDAM, April 23.-A dispatch from
Java says that Smerau Mountain, the larg-
est and most active volcano in Java, situat-
ed on the confines of Passoeroean and Prob
Olingo, has burst into state of eruption.
A large coffee plantation cast of the noun.
tain has been destroyed. No less Of life 10
yeposssd.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-01
WILL FARLEY NO LONGER.

Russia Informs England that She Will An
swer No More Questions = Gladstone's
Demand for an Investigation of Roma
roffs Action Set Aside - British Troops
Pouring Into the Barracks Volcanic
Eruution In Lava.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
WASTE IN ROOFING.
Economy in the Construction OF Barns
Desirable.

There are many wastes on the farm
which do not seem to be understood by
farmers as such, but there is not any,
thing more palpably wasteful than the
numerous roofs on low buildings which
will be found upon a large proportion
of farms. Shingled roofs are expensive,
and should not be uselessly multiplied.
Our farmers have, probably, copied
much from the practice of English
farmers. In that country the farm
stealing covers a very large space.
Sheds and stables for stock are built
only Just high enough to work in,
nothing stored above, but all these
roofs are maintained simply for the
stables; and after maintaining roofs
enough TO cover barns to hold all their
crops, whether of grain or fodder,
they stack out all their grain and hay,
and then carry every feed by itself
from rick-yard to the stable, requiring
nearly four times the labor in feeding
necessary il the hay or fodder were
stored in the same building with the ami
mails. A low building requires the same
foundation and roofing necessarily the
buildings were made high enough for
large storage. Our farmers do little
better than this, but the waste is large
here. Note the large number of low
buildings, where large roofs are kept
up simply for stables. II is not too
much to say That thousands of farms
can be found where one-half the roof
ing used would accommodate the stock
and all the storage required by build
ing one large barn of proper height.
Barns are also more economical to be
built wide instead of narrow and long.
Barns should never be built with posts
lower than twenty feet, and if of con-
siderable size should be twenty-five feet
high, and use some long braces to make
the building stiff. One long brace does
more to stiffen a building than many
short ones. As we have intimated
above, the labor of caring for animals
is less when everything needed is under
the same roof. Make everything as
compact as possible, for this requires
the least travel in feeding the animals.
--Lire Stock Journal.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25

and large barrack square; "a pow
der magazine and workshop for the re-
filling of cartridges; (S) a large Roman
Catholic missionary building, estab-
lished in 1913, a stone building with
garden, church, ETC.; (9) a small Coptic
church.
As to the attitude of the population,
Lieutenant-C Colonel Stewart wrote on
January 16, 1888: 'Of the fifty or
fifty-five thousand inhabitants Gnclud-
ing thirty thousand slaves) of Khar-
toum, if am to believe what l hear, l
must consider the majority as I'M
friendly to the Government. l have
been assured that many Government
employees, and nearly all the native
traders, are secret partisans of the
Mehdi, in the hopes that he will re-
establish the slave trade. 1t is qucs-
tionable how far these statements are
justified, but perhaps shall not be far
from the truth in saying that the ma
jority will take whichever side they see
is the strongest Chicago Times.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
Catching an express" Train.

Several men were at Wabuska the
other day to say goodbye to one of
their number who was going North.
Just as the train was fairly under way
the departing vaquero shouted back
that he had left his overcoat. A short
search resulted in finding the article,
and hurried discussion arose as to the
best way of restoring it TO its owner.
when it was suggested that, had they
been quick enough, one of them might
have caught the train on his horse.
The suggestion was like fash of fire
to powder, One glance after the fast
disappearing train and Dan Farley was
in the saddle, plunging both rowels in
his steed and away and away, over
bitches, through the sagebrush, up the
hills and down the hollows, riding as
though for dear life, like a mailman or,
more reckless still, like n thorough
bloodcd cowboy. 1t was hard run,
but in a mile and half Dan overhauled
the train and the conductor slackened
speed so that he could deliver the coat
1t is needless to say that Dan rode a
good horse. Territorial Enterprise.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
VIBRIONS.
A Curious Word, sIgnifying SpiritIess,
Cold-Blooded People.


Cold-Blooded People.
We meet them everywhere. They
are people who dress well, who are
seen in public places, and who glide
through life in an automatic way, that
in any one else would be attributed to
human numbness of nerves. They
never do anything but draw nutrition
from whatever they can attach them
selves to. This popularity is the first
to strike the general mass of intelli-
gent people. The vibrion takes every
thing society or the community offers
in the way of profit, and gives nothing
in return but narrow, petty, misera-
BILE, self-seeking existence. If he by
any means gets into the church he alb
serbs all that religion has to offer, but
gives back nothing-perfectly willing
to take all religion has TO give. The
pious layman vibrion possibly pays for
a pew, attends church piously, picnics
solemnly, suppers sadly and banquets
with grief The vibrion has no nerves,
electricity would not shock him, nor
any one, male or female. The vibrion,
unfortunately. is youthful, as a rule.
If he is in business the vibrion takes
advantage of all circumstances, but
does nothing for the commercial inter-
ests. In politics he is willing
to accept Office and emoluments, but
10th to contribute of his means toward
the common veal. As curiosity the
vibrion may be interesting, but as be-
ing in the semblance of man he is
more dangerous to society than any
member Of that class which is supposed
to demand the constant attention of
the police, and would be of little use
even to the doctors to dissect, as he is
deficient of heart and nerves. This il
given as study of class. 1t is ex-
aggerated to some extent, but there is
an approach to reality. II is bad
remove from the masher.-N Y
Herald.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Did you know that milk which has
turned or changed can be sweetened
and made fit for use again by stirring
in little sodap-IOted Blade.
1t is worth recollecting that bar
soap should be cut into square pieces
and put in dry place, as it lasts bet
ter after shrinking Philadelphia Press.
When the angles of the horses
mouth become sore from the pressure
of the bit, apply pulverized alum and
honey, in equal parts, four or five times
a day, and use n wide bit.
When it is desirable to promote the
growth of horses hoofs, the best
method is to keep them frequently wet.
The simple application of water is all
that is necessary.-4urJ, Field ana
Farm.
The elasticity of cane chair bot
toms can be restored by washing the
cane with soap and water until it is
well soaked and then drying thorough
ly in the air, after which they will be-
come as tight and firm as new, If none
of the canes are broken.
The mulberry is good tree to
raise in a poultry yard. 1t is hardy
and long-lived, and the fruit is popular
with the hens, besides being very nice
for the children. The leaves are largo
and the shade it makes is dense, which
is desirable also in summer.
Wherever, says the Massachusetts
Ploughmdn, a good. live Farmers
Club exists, there is but little chance
for swindlers to succeed; this they have
learned, and so, as n rule, confine
their operations to farmers who stay
at home and do not read the papers.
Two main points in a good farm
wagon are lowness, to save lifting, and
a cut-under, for convenience in turn
ing. The latter, however. calls for
very low fore wheels, and the low
wheels call for springs, TO modify the
suddenness of the lift over Obstacles
~ Y. Times.
"A small currant cake. to be eaten
fresh for tea, is made of half cup of
butter, one cup of sugar beaten to-
gether, two eggs, half cup of sweet
milk, one and one-half cups of flour,
one teaspoonful and half of baking
powder; stir in one cup of well washed,
drained and dried English currants; il
they are not quite dry sprinkle little
flour over them.-DetrOH Post.
A bread-crumb omelet is excellent
if served with roast lamb or veal; one
pint of bread crumbs, large spoon
full of parsley, rubbed very fine. half of
tiny onion chopped fine. Beat two
eggs light, add teacupful of milk, a
trace of nutmeg, and pepper and salt
literally; also lump of butter the size
of small egg. Mix all together, and
bake in slow oven, on buttered pie
plate: when light brown, turn it out of
the plate, and serve at once.-N T.
| Post
GOOD housekeepers are frequently
annoyed by oil marks on papered walls
! against which careless or thoughtless
persons have laid their heads. These
unsightly spots may be removed by
making paste of cold water and pipe
clay or fuller's earth, and laying it on
! the surface without rubbing it on, else
the pattern of the paper viii then likely
be injured Leave the paste on all
night. In tho moonlight it can be
| brushed off and the spot will have dis
appeared, but renewal of the opera
! ton may be necessary if the oil mark
Is old.-Philddelphia Press.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
One of the latest contriyances:

One of the latest contrivances: A
genius has invented a cushion with a
spiral spring, TO be worn by skaters
where it will do the most good. When
a skater who wears one of the contriv-
ances sits down unexpectedly and in
italics, as it were, the spring throws
him right on his feet again before he is
fully aware that there has been an ac-
cident. The other night a young man
provided with one of these inventions
fell little too hard, and the spiral
spring reversed him so violently that
the rebound pitched him forward and
broke his nose. He will sue the in
ventor for ten thousand dollars dam.
ages.--NorristopD Herald,
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
The Big Horn (Montana) Sentin,

The Big Horn (Montana) Sentine,
illustrates in the annexed paragraph
how the freedom of the press must be
upheld occasionally in territorial sec
tons: Thomas Beecher, alias the
kid" attempted last Saturday even
ing TO suppress the freedom of the
press by attacking our local scribe with
a deadly weapon, which resulted in the
kid" finding himself laid out under
one of the Star of the West billiard
tables.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25
he WANTS TO BE A MuFF.

Beneath her chin, her bangle pin
Reflects each glancing wave of light,
As IL some charm lay far within
The little dots OF metal bright.
And faith they seem to take delight
In nesting there. Is envy sinl
I'm sure that am envious quite
To be the pin beneath her chin.
Her little mutt is wee enough
To grace Paris dolls trousseau,
And yet her hand and snow-white cuff
Seem quite content in there 10 go.
1t holds her hand quite tight, l know,
And when the wind is blowing rough,
As on we walk through drifting snow,
wish my hand could be--her muff.
Washington Hdtchet.
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25

Among the persons calling at the
Office of the Register of Wills in Phila.
delphia recently was determined
looking young man, with bride and
some rope on his arm, who demanded
a mule and a COW which his uncle b 90
bequeathed him.-Pailadephts T,RSs
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25

In shape Khartoum is very irregular.
Its appearance is also poor and miser-
able. Except the Government house
and one or two other buildings, there
Is hardly house worthy of the name.
The houses are mostly built of sun
dried brick, generally without an upper
story, and nearly all surrounded by
court yards with MUD walls.
To prevent these crumbling away
during the rains, they are every
year plastered over with dung
before the rainy season commences,
This piastering process is doubtless the
cause Of good deal of illness. As the
town is so low, there is no drainage,
and the consequence is that during the
yains the whole place is deep in water,
and it is almost impossible to move
about. As there is no stone through
out the whole district, the streets are
full of dust during the summer and
mud during the rains. The chief build
ings are: ~ Government house and
Office, large brick buildings on the
banks of the Blue Nile; (2) arsenal,
with smithy, carpenters shop, smelt-
ing-fHrnaces, stoves, etc; attached to
this arsenal are some fourteen steamers
for the navigation of the rivers, and
also boats of various kinds; (3) large
commodious hospital built by Colonel
Gordon; az mosque or jami built by
Kurshid Pasha; (5) a sibil or small
mosque, provided. with well. and
some rooms for the convenience OF
travellers and poor people; (6) a large
barrsck Of mud without an upper story
The Concordia eagle. [volume] (Vidalia, La.) 1873-1890, 1885-04-25

Old Liberty bell was cracked in
1928 while ringing in honor of visit
Of Henry Clay to Philadelphia,