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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
A Puzzled Subscriber.

The subscriber of contemporary
walked into the Office one day recently
and said. to the clerk: 81 see a lot of puffs
about your paper in to-day issue taken
from country exchanges" Eyes,
said the clerk. "Tbey are spontaneous
outbursts of enthusiasm and go to even
up an exchange with those fellers. :"
swell, don't know anything about
that, but to read these notices makes
one think that sometimes you get some
thing good in your paper and | just
called in to say wish you'd send me
the same edition you send those fellers.
for, as it is, Pm getting left. PITTS.
bArqh IeLeqraph
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

GALVESTON, Tex, Aug. 29.-The strike
on the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway
at this point has assumed a more serious
phase The Knights of Labor have con-
troll of the yards and shops of the company,
and have killed all the engines in the shop
that have arrived since the strike began.
except passenger engines. The strikers are
orderly. At Temple the strikers prevented
the hitching on of two cars containing per-
ishable freight to the passenger train. At
Tyler the Knights have demanded of the
Texas d ST. Louis Railroad the wages due
them for the last three months, and the
company viii eoueede their demand
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

Mr.. CLIFFORD LLOYD, who was
special British Magistrate in Ireland
during the Spencer administration, has
written q letter advocating local self
government for that country. He IA
vors the abolition of the entire system
OF Irish bureaucracy, and the incor-
poration of Ireland as an integral part
of the United Kingdom. In recent
speech at Arklow Mr.. Parnell said it
would be impossible to revive the ma
tive industries of Ireland without a
free elective National Assembly, pos
sessing control over the political and
economic affairs Of the country.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
The Flood in China

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.-Details of the
destruction in Canton (China) and vicinity
been received by private parties in this city.
The flood was the most serious which has
visited Canton in thirty years. More than
ten thousand persons lost their lives, and
far greater number are left in starry
ing condition. Entire villages were in
quilted, and the rice and silk crops in the
vicinity were almost ruined Rain fell the
latter part of June, filling and oyerf1owing
many of the rivers. The streets of Canton
were flooded for over week. At Rez Nj
City the water broke through the city wall.
1t is reported several thousand people were
drowned in that place
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

The first volume of General Grant s
book is in type. The manuscript of
the second volume is all written and
completed as originally intended, and
will in due course be published as pre-
pared by General Grant himself. 1t
comes down to the close of the civil
war The first volume will be pub
lished about the first of November and
the second volume next March.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

THE Pullman Car Company, at Chi
cago, began work on an order for one
hundred flat cars one day recently.
Twenty-nine gangs of four men each
went to work at seven a. m, The first
car was completed in two hours and a
quarter, and before eleven o'clock
twelve cars moved out of the shops.
The entire one hundred were finished
at five p. M, and an hour later twenty
four of them were lettered and ready
to ship,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

IDA LEWIS, the Newport Harbor
heroine, has had, for dozen years, a
faithful companion on her little rocky
island, big black Newfoundland doc,
which recently died, causing her great
grief. 81 remember well, long ago, "
says one of her acquaintance, "her
putting her arms around the big affec-
tomato fellow and saying: Men have
not been good to me, and 1 love dogs
better. Her matrimonial venture was
most disastrous, and this dog was her
only protector.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

VERY severe volcanic disturbances in
1856 are predicted by French scien-
tist to occur at time when the attrac-
tive influence of the solar system is
most strongly felt upon our planets, or,
rather, when that influence is most I'M
evenly distributed during near APP
proach of the great attractive bodies.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

AT Oakville, Can, the champion
mean man has been discovered in a
resident for whose dying wife the doc
tor prescribed wine Wine could not
easily be had, and the doctor furnished
some from his private stores, When
he sent in his bill the sorrowing
widower laid an information against
him for selling liquor in q prohibition
county contrary to the Scott law.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

THE National Temperance Society
recommends that the week beginning
September 20 be observed as the Cen
tennial Temperance week, and urges
all temperance elements to combine in
their respective communities in holding
public meetings at which the work of
the century can be reviewed and plans
formulated for greater efficiency in the
f1tura
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

The Mexican editors who recently
did this country have been welcomed
home again as though they were heroes
returning from war. They point with
pride to the fact that they travelled four
teen thousand miles in the land of the
Yankees without an accident of any
kind. The trip cost them about sew
enty-tive dollars apiece.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

MANY Of the half breeds in the Turtle
Mountains OF Dakota have lately made
from twenty-five dollars to forty dollars
week hauling buffalo bones to Mime
wauAon. Competition among buyers
ran the price up to over twenty dollars
a ton
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

THE Maumee Valley Monument Asso-
citation was organized the other day at
Turkey-Foot Rock, twelve miles from
Toledo, O., the site of the battle of Fall
en- Timbers, in which General Wayne
won his decisive victory over the In
dians of the Northwest, Congress will
be asked for an appropriation to mark
the historic ground with suitable monu-
mantS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

Mrs. GRANT has grown much at
tached to the cottage at Mount Mac
Gregor, where the General died, and it
is reported that she will remain there
until October, as she feels better able
to bear her loss in that retired place.
She has left the cottage but once since
her husbands death.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

FATHER" LEVI ALLEN, known to
Second Adventists for these forty and
odd years by his attendance at their
camp meetings, and to Methodists be-
fore that time as well, died at Chicopee
Falls, Mass, few days ago, in his
eighty ninth year.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
Deadly ThunderboIts.

WASHINGTON, Pa, Sept. Sunday
afternoon William Miller, who lived near
Lindley's Mills, Norris Township. was sit
ting on the porch in company with his wife,
when binding flash of the electric fluid
struck the house and killed the couple in
stantly. Miller was well-to-do farmer and
respected citizen.
WAHPEToN, D. T., Sept. 1.--During a
rain-storm Saturday afternoon the barn of
E. E. Redmer, three miles from here was
struck by lightning, which killed two men
and injured two others. One of the men
killed was George Emery, of St Croix
Falls. The names of the others are not
known.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

A SENSIBLE Judge was that in Oak
land, Cal, who declined to give natur-
alization papers to Canadian, because
the applicant knew so little as to be-
lieve that King ruled the United
States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
Important Decision Entitled to an In
crease of Pension.

New YORK, Aug. PA Washington
special to the World says that Pension
Commissioner Black has ruled that two
Union soldiers, each of whom had an arm
amputated below the shoulder, are entitled
to an increase of pension to $3.50 per
month under the act of March 3, 1885. This
act pensioned soldiers who had an arm
taken off at the shoulder joint. The de-
cision also covers. it is believed, all cases of
amputation near the elbow, knee or hip
joint, where tine cut is so near as to render
the remaining bone useless.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

TEN THOUSAND English agricultural
laborers will be settled in the Northwest
Territories of Canada, if a suitable
point of land can be obtained from the
Dominion Government.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04
Five Persons Terribly Burned by an Ex-
plosion of Natural Gas.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. Five persons
were terribly burned yesterday morning by
an explosion of natural gas in S. S. Marvin
& Co. s steam bakery. The firm recent
ly introduced natural gas into their ovens,
and this morning the FIVE persons
named were engaged in experimenting on
the manufacture of new line OF goods.
The gas had been turned off probably an
hour, and about eleven o'clock Engineer
Stafford advanced to the mouth of the oven
to reight it. Instantly there was an ex-
plosion, and the flames shot out of the
mouth OF the oyen enyeloping all in the
room. Two of the injured will probably
die from inhaling the gas
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

IN the New York Coffee Exchange
there are specimens of more than six
hundred varieties of coffee, and there
are remote districts still to be heard
from.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

HARRISON, General Grants body
servant has been engaged by Mark
Twain as canvasser for a bust OF the
dead General.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

NINE monuments to General Grant
will be erected in this country unless
some of the present projects fail.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-04

JOHN B. COUGH, who recently COM
pleted his sixty-eighth year, is said to
be seriously failing in health.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-05-13

A description of the courting costume
not court costume-of youugster in
Portland, Me-, as lately as 1868, shows
that in addition to his laces and his sat
in small clothes. he actually wore two
watches, one on each side. Thus re-
Gently have men abandoned the realms
Of personal adornment.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-05-13

Every person who would live well
should get so thorous shly rested once in
every twenty -four hours as to feel
bright, fresh, active and strong. Many
do not do this, but 60 on feeling tired,
overworked, i'll at ease, sick, never be-
ing rested from morning to night. No.
course could be worse.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-05-13

A defeated candidate for judgeship
in Louisiana has entered suit against
his successful competitor on the plea
that the returns amounted to refiec.
tion upon his character, and caused him
anguish, mental torment, grief and
chagrin to the valne of Sl9, 900, in adj
dition to loss of Sl2, 900 salary.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-05-13
CHAS. CHENOWETH,

COUNTY school superintendent, In.
Osurance Agent, Commission Agent and
Notary Public
ON tiice..-Book store, near Corner OF Bridge anc
Third Streets.
Acknowledgements, Atfidavits and Deposition,
taken, and all Legal Instruments of Transfer
drawn with Care. acssO n. "s m ls IT. a
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-05-13

Chow Chow, an aged Chinaman at
Yuma, A. T., who had been suspected
Of selling liquor to Indians, jumped in
to the Colorado and drowned himself to
avoid arrest by the United States su-
thorities.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-05-13

One Of the most successful remedies ever
advertised Is Kerrs Asthma Cure 1t cures all
pan-, colics or cramps, and general debility.
Try il and be convinced. - s-- pl-ly
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-05-13

Stealing a red.hot stove has been
oveIdone by the thieves who the other
night stole the corner stone of the Simp-
son Methodist church at Long Branch.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1885-05-13
6 Rocky Mountain
c. O A L
COAL !

The undersigned has received the Agency OF
the Pleasant Valley Utah) Coal COmpa.
ny. The Coal furnisl ed from this company's
mines is OF superior quality to any ever
brought to Winnemucca, and will be delivered
to any part of town al the lowest rate, and in
any quantity.
Leave your orders at the FASHION STABLE
and they will receive prompt attention
ALEX. WISE.
Wlnnemucca, February 2l, 1885. IT
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19
NO. A.
THE "WOODLAND FARM"

situated on the road leading from Oakland to
Accident, two miles from Oakland, contain
ing " acres, well fenced and cultivated. I'm
proved by lar e tirSt-claSS mansion hOuSe
suitable fora summer resort. The farm would
suit for tirst-class mark ct garden or general
farming.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-12-19
BLACKSMITHING.

am prepared TO doall kinds of blacksmith
ing. Farmers work a speciality. Prices as
low rs can he had for first class work. Shop
near Browning House."
tf2i DAVID LITTLE
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-07
New York Stock Market.

New York, June 6.-Wall Street.
Stocks were dull and strong throughout
the first hour, and generally q higher
although Lackawanna showed loss OF
e. During the hour the whole list ad.
vanced Il to Is, except the latter
Western Union and Lackawanna, but
Union Pacific. New York Central
Northwestern and Louisville & Nash
have gained g to Il. At IL o'clock the
market was very dull and steady.
New York. June 6.-Noon-Stocks
dull. During the past hour the market
has been weak, and the early advance
generally has been lost, and at noon the
market is very dull at quotations which
are not materially different from open
ing quotations. srr ~~rr
New YORK, June 6, p. m.-Stocks
quiet, otherwise unchanged The stock
stock transactions were the smallest
Tor any day this year. The fluctu-
ations in all the active stocks were less
than one per cent, and the final tran
sactions are generally not far from the
best figures of the day. The Oregon
Railway & Navigation was the excep-
ton, declining 27s.
New York, June 6.-Governments
threes shade lower; currency 6s l
lower. Market quiet.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-07
THE CIRCUS.
$. H. Barrett & Co.'s New United
Monster Railroad Show.

The aboye-named united worlds fair
IF living wonders, including the most
etupendous menagerie. caravans.
museum and circus eyer organized,
Eiu mass its multitued of ammuse-
nents and marvels at Salt Lake City on
Friday and Saturday June 18th and
18th. Not only is it an entirely new,
bright and brilliant, but also massive,
solid. honest railroad show, owning its
own splendid outfit of cars, bringing
savage Nature. in all the majestic
iIIusb atoms of her living lessons,
directly to your doors, and added
thereto far greater and purer circus
than YOU have ever seen. No such col
Iections of rare wild beasts and birds
has ever before been concentrated under
canvas. Every continent hasc Ontri-
buted to its completeness, as every
equestrian organization of the great
foreign capitals and every leading
gymnastc school of the whole world
has furnished representatives to COM
plete the largest and most brilliantly
artistic circus ever organized on the
continent, and one in which each per-
former is special star, and one and all
imply Incompatible; while worlds of
humorous folly and a varied pro-
;Tamme of astonishing animal acts
complete an entertainment which is
he very acme of arenic achievements.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-07
PERSONALS.

BISHOP PRESTON is progressing favor
ably.
Mr.. TAYLOR, of Taylor Bros, Moab
left for home Saturday.
R. HOWE, the South Cottonwood mer
chant, was in town Saturday.
DAVID RIDEoUT, the Draperville mer.
chant, spent Saturday in the city.
Ex-JUDGE EMERSON was in town yes
terday.
MAJOR SILVA came down from the
north Friday evening.
C. R. SAVAGE has returned from a run
down south.
N. w. CLAYTON, Territorial auditor,
leaves tomorrow for brief visit to
Soda Springs.
]. VAN DUsEN, business manager for
Denman Thompson Company, arrived
last evening. and is guest at the Valley
House.
AMONG THE Raymond excursionists
is MI. VIM. H. Themes, correspondent
of the Boston Globe, and author of ION
Land and Sea" volume descriptive OF
the Pacific Coast in 1884 and 5.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-07
WHEEL NOTES.

THE POPE Manufacturing Company
sold over 1900 Columbias in 1884.
IT Is said that Frazer has made 2.3S
on Star machine.
JOHN KEEN comes to America this
season with his water cycle.
The BICYCLE Clubs run to the Pen
was success, and the buttermilk al
Locust Farm another.
THE CLUE, record now stands 3.O3 for
the first class and 312 % for second
class. When we consider the size of the
track, and that it was done on road
machine, we feel that we have right to
be proud of it.
WHEELMEN SHOULD use their bells in a
manner that will not frighten the timid
pedestrian. Boys, sound the warning
before you get too close.
WoULD IT not pay the parties inter
ested, to put in bicycle track on the
new race track? We think lively race
between a trotter and the wheel would
draw.
Mr.. WALTER JENNINGS rode in from
the Deseret Mills this week IN twenty
seven minutes, distance six miles, and
some very rough road.
THERE IS under consideration tour
OF the Club 10 Logan, Is svon- 10 tho
fishing season begins. This will un-
doubtedly be a pleasant affair, and
should be well patronised.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-07
LOCAL BRIEFS.

THERE IS bridge on the corner OF
West Temple and Second South streets
that IS badly in need of repairs, as it is
dangerous to pedestrians.
FULLER's HILL continues to be well
patronized. Tomorrow. ,lhe Nineteenth
Ward people go there; en- Thursday the
Sixth Ward, and on Friday the Seven
tenth.
OK TUESDAY evening next select
social party will be given at Fuller
Hill; the FGremen's fun quadrille band,
with w. ]. Crouch as prompter, will be
In attendance. ALA invited.
By REFERENCE to the advertisement
and notice elsewhere. it will be seen that
Mgr. Capel viii lecture tomorrow even
ing, In the Walker Opera House, on
rs Religion Opposed to Science?"
A MAN who was too weighted down
with bulge" to state his name, fell in
a culvert at the old Council house
corner last night; he was hauled out by
some passers-by and in very damp
condition wendell his way westward.
SEE THE inducements offered by
Auerbach 81 Bros, in their new adver-.
tisement this morning Large lines of
desirable goods are being offered at
halfTprice. The firms motto, I'VE are
never undersold," Is one which the
great public have tested for number of
years and found to be correct
MOTHER McEwAN, aged 81 years. was
stricken with paralysis on Tuesday last.
Owing to her extreme old age and gen.
eral feeble condition, there are but
slight hopes of her recovery.-tE Enquirer,
9th. Mrs. McEwan is the mother of
Messrs. Henry and Robert L. McEwan,
printers, of this city.
AT A largely attended meeting in the
Tenth Ward on Friday evening, the
question was put by the chairman: is
there any one here who knows of Regis
trar Agramonte's visiting any resi-
dences in the Tenth Ward? If there is,
make it manifest by rising" The con.
gregation remained seated. '
AT THE closing exercises of tn
Eleventh District school, on Friday. a
good time was enjoyed. The principal,
A. s. Kendall, was presented by t. 2
school with a large and handsome
album, as a token of the esteem in
which he is he'd. The assistant teacher,
Miss Cicely Coulam, was the recipient
of neat scrap book, presented by the
pupils of the primary department.
HEBE WEST, captain of the Reds, is
negotiating with several outside baseball
clubs with a view to making matches III
the near future. t. Little goes to Ogden
to-day with authority from Mr.. West
to arrange with the nine of that city for
game or series of games. The teams
of Butte and Pueblo have been written
to by Mr. West, so that ere long lovers
of the national game will no doubt wit
ness some good contests on Washington
Square. 1t is understood that Allie
Barker is contemplating managing the
Rough and Ready club.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-07
"The Household

MesSrs. Burton, Gardner & Co., the
furniture dealers, whose advertisement
appears elsewhere in this issue of
The HERALD, have obtained the exclu-
siYe agency for Utah for the popular
Household" Sewing machine, which
has recently taken the foremost position
in the California trade, THE House
hold" is manufactured by the Provi-
dence Tool Company, in whose shops,
for a period of ten years the Domestic
was manufactured. 1t was during this
term Of contract with the Domestic"
people that the Providence Tool Com
pany discovered number of opporuni-
ties for introducing improvements in
the already popular domestic: and
after the contract expired they put their
own machine, The Household. "on the
market, emb0dying in it the various
features which they claim are improve
ments on the Domestic" These feat
ures OF superiority, as claimed. are the
improved treadle which works with
greater ease and requires no oiiine. n
is seh-belter, and does away with
former inconvenience. 1t renders inn.
possible the jumping Of stitches, and it
IS constructed without packing so that
adjustments can be made easily and in
moments time; by an automatic an
Pllance threading can be accomplished
instantly, and the double feedern docs
much more even and uniform work than
n by the old principle; it has a novel
means or locking, and can nv q siDonIa
action, be placed beyond the reach of
all intruders. Lastly, the shuttle is SO
perfected as to de away with ali annoy.
i anee IN changing and threading. This
i tbat feature th1 IS considered so important
against other manufacturers for or c 5TrSs
ing it. ioi copy
Aessrs. Burton, Gardner & Co have
thoroughly investigated and tested its
, ons u.s.; ana are IN possession of numer
ana are prepared to establish its nony
larity in Utah. A'' popu-