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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13
LATER.

/ 9 The low lands south or Carrollton, NO.,
bordering on the Missouri River, were sud-
denly inundated on the night of the 10th,
caused by heavy gorge of ice near Wa
verify. FARM houses were surrounded
with water, cattle were imprisoned on
small high spots, and great destruction to
property, was feared. One man lost his
life and many families were rescued in
boats.
TWENTY buildings, including the Central
Hotel, were destroyed by fire the other
night at Newbern, N. c., causing loss of
100000.
The coal miners strike was spreading
on the 10th in the Pittsburgh District.
Some of the operators were paying the
advance demanded, but others said they
would never yield.
IT was reported on the 10th that Ell
Mehdi had left Khartoum for fear of as
sassination by his enemies. He was fear
full of treachery and had doubled the guard
about his person.
A FIRE recently destroyed the barn of
ID. P. Tickle, near Galveston, Ind, and five
valuable horses were burned to death.
The Atlantic Cotton Mills at Lawrence,
Mass, shut down on the 10th, throwing
one-third of its machinery and 400 opera
tives out of employment.
For killing his mother George Snyder
has been sentenced at Hamilton, o., to be
hanged June 10.
BUT one vote was cast for United States
Senator at the joint session of the Illinois
Legislature on the 10th, Mr.. Streeter cast
ing his ballot for General Black.
A BODY of $50 militia was on the 10th
sent from St Louis to Sedalia, Mo-, to
protect railway property from the
strikers, who were said to have assumed a
threatening attitude.
In MUrfreesboro, Tenn, the other day
Dan Mosley and Gid Butler, both colored,
were fatally crushed and burned by the
! fall of the walls after a fire.
A PROMINENT military officer at King
ston, Can, received letter on the 10th in
| forming him that $500 Fenians were drill
| ing at Buffalo, with view of making a
raid on Canada.
THE Agricultural Department at Wash
ington estimates that of last years crop
675,000,000 bushels of corn and 169,000,OOO
bushels of wheatremain in farmers hands.
| THE Woman Suffrage bill has passed
both houses of the Dakota Legislature.
| THE United States Senate on the 10th,
| by a vote of Sc to 20, decided that the Gov
ernor of New Hampshire had the right to
appoint Senator to fill a vacancy until
the meeting of the Legislature in June,
and Henry W. Blair was accordingly
sworn in. memorial was presented from
the Governor of Arizona asking the APP
pointanent of a fourth Judge of the United
] States District Court
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13
DANIEL j. MANNING.

Mr. Manning the appointee for Secretary
of the Treasury. was born in Albany in 1881.
His father died a few years after his BIRTH
leaving his widow, son and daughter unpro-
vided for. When nine years of age Dan be-
gan TO earn his own living as an Grand boy
in the Argus Office, and it was there that he
acquired all his education and experience.
Mr. William J. Cassidy, the owner of the ar
gus, was not slow in discovering the peculiar
talents of his errand-boy, and made him re-
porter before he was fifteen years old. Man
ming acquired in this position an ex-
teasive acquaintance with public men,
as the Argus Office was then the head
quarters of the Northern Democracy.
All through the War he reported
the proceedings of the New York
Senate. and also all political conven-
tons of Importance held in the State of
New York. At the death of Cassidy in 1871
Manning became the Manager of the argus
Company, and improved its business facilities
in skilltul manner. He also took an active
part in the management of the Commercial
National Bank. at present Manning has
withdrawn from the active management of
the Argus and devotes himself to the manage
ment of the Commercial National Bank
of which he has been President for sew
eral years. His first wife died about four
years ago, and about three months ago he
ventured again on to the sea of matrimony,
leading 10 the altar Miss Fryer, the only
daughter of an Albany dry-goods prince.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13
THOMAS F. BAYARD.
cal sketches.

Mr.. Kayard is the oldest in continuous serv-
ice of the Democratic Senators. He is now
serving his third term and has been Senator
for sixteen years. He succeeded his father.
He is the third in direct line in his family in
the Senate. He will be ffty-seven years of
age the 18th of October, but does not look a
day over fifty. He is very tall, with good,
wel-filled-out figure, although he is by
no means stout He is a man of very
pure private record and one of the
highest-minded men in public life. He has a
moderate fortune of $150000to 100000. This
is the result of the natural increase of the in
heritance left him by his father. He has two
daughters and three sons, who are grown.
One of his sons is now engaged in teaching a
country school in Maryland. Mr.. Bayard was
born at Wilmington, Del. He received his
education at the Flushing School, which
was high school of good standing. He
had no collegiate education. He was
early destined for mercantile pursuits, bat he
preferred the law. He was admitted to the
bar in 1851. He continued to remain in Will
mington il the practice of his profession,
with the exception of two years-l855 and
lS56--when he went to Philadelphia. He was
not pleased with the result Of his expert
ment, and returned at the end of the
two years TO Wilmington. The only
office that he ever held before he was elected
to the Senate in 1869 was the Office of Dis
trict-AttOrney of Delaware, which Office he
held from 1858 to 1854. He was ranked as one
of the best lawyers of Delaware. He is one
OF the most regular of Senators in his attend
ance upon the sessions of the Senate.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

THE officers of the Newport Or. IL
torpedo station recently experimental
with some torpedoes on the ice, and the
water and ice arose in vertical column
some two hundred feet. The holes
blown out of the ice measured about
thirty-tive or forty feet across, and the
ice was shattered for some distance be-
yond that. These torpedoes were said
to be charged with about thirty-four
pounds of gun cotton each, which is
estimated to possess force equal to
two hundred pounds Of gunpowder,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13
WILLIAM c. WHITNEY.

Mr.. Whitney is the son of the late General
James S. Whitney, formerly apolitician of note
in Massachusetts. He was born at Conway,
Mass, in 1S4O, graduated at Yale College in
1868, at the Harvard Law School in 1864, and
then went to New York, where he was admit
ted to the bar. Whitney devoted him
self without delay to getting into pol
itics, and thereby became the Corpora
ton COunsel-an appointive office-on the
downfall of the Tweed ring. In business he
was successful, and be made a considerable
start towards fortune when he gained so
tora daughter of Senator Payne, of Ohio, that
his own accumulation at the bar was insig-
nifcant by contrast. He was in a sense, dur
ing his early political career protege of Sam
uel ]. Tilden, for whom he labored hard in
1876. In politics he is wonderfully clever
at organizing and promoting measures for
dQf1nita objects
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

DURING 1884 the aggregate loss by
fire in New York City was SO, 474, SAT.
The total expense of the fire depart
ment was 81, 266, 4S1. There were 272
persons killed and injured at fires, and
fifty people rescued by the fremen.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

AN English astrologer having pre-
dicted the death in the autumn of the
foremost American statesman, sleep has
fled the eyelids of every Congressman
at Washington, to say nothing of few
odd hundreds of Governors and Mayors
all over the country.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

War was Professor of Political Economy and
Social Science. From 1867 until his election to
the Forty-third Congress he was Professor Of
Law. He only served part of the Forty-fo1lrfil
congress, when he was elected to the Senate
turing the War of the Rebellion he was, until
1903, Lieutenant-Colonel in a Mississippi
regiment. In that year he was sent as the
Minister of the Confederate Government to
Russia. Mr. Lamar is a widower and has
no fortune outside of his official
salary He lives very quietly. He is
MAJ slightly above five feet
ten, with large, wel-roundcd figure. His
head is large and thickly covered with grayish-
Drown hair which falls in straight parallels
upon each side of his face into long roll
which curls in at the back of his neck
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13
WEST AND SniIrH

A FIRE few days ago destroyed the
post office and custom house at Bismarck,
DIT
The other night Jacob Snyder, aged
twenty-five years, of Akron, o., went
crazy and tried to stranglelhis infant child,
saying the Lord told him to kill her. The
neighhors rushed in and bound him. saw
ing the child.
On the 9th the Minnesota Legislature adj
journed sine die.
A COLLISION occurred near Grenada,
Miss, the other night between mail and
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

AN Oakland (Cal.) agriculturist is
making an effort to introduce the culti-
walton of tea in that State. He has over
two thousand tea plants in very thriv-
ing condition, and when they arrive at
the age of four years he will obtain Jap
anese labor and pick and cure. He has
also a number of camphor trees that are
growing well.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

OFFICIAL reports say that the troops
of the False Prophet of the Soudan mas
sacred 1000 persons when they captured
the city of Khartoum, besides killing
General Gordon and his garrison.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

: A FIRM in New York recently shipped
one pump to England, on contract
with the British Government to run
pump line two hundred miles across
the desert from Suakim to Berber, to
furnish water for locomotives and
trOonS
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

THE total loss in the New England
fisheries in the ten years from 1873 was
147, of which number 80 foundered at
sea, seven of the latter being abandoned
in a sinking condition. The total value
of these vessels was $780, TIE
total loss of life was 1888 men, 895 of
whom went down in their vessels, which
foundered at sea.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

A CLAIM is made by Mary A. Lincoln,
of Agawam, Mass, to the land on
which the city of Bath, Me-, is built.
She has written to Governor Robbie
offering to accept $1,000,0oO and go
ho1vae
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

THE United States Senate consists Of
rs members; the House of Representa-
tives of 1926. Each of them receives
$4,000 year For clerks and messen-
gers the Senate pays $4,000 and the
House $4,000. 1t costs money to sus-
tain dignity, but it must be sustained.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

The Western fever is once more rag
ing in Vermont, and from present indi-
cations at least 1000 citizens of the
Green Mountain State will effect a set
Element beyond the Mississippi this
year. Among those who are going to
Dakota are nearly one hundred old sol
diers
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

In the East, and especially in Persia,
punishments of women are very uncom-
man. There is no women's side to the
jails in Persia; and during the last
twenty years there have not been six
executions of women, probably.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

A MAN in New Haven, Conn, is Civ
ing his Oldest boy sun-baths in con-
servatory instead of sending him to
Florida, as the physicians advised. The
boy is getting better.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

IT is reported that the Federal Assem-
bly, of Switzerland has resolved to ex-
pei from the country one thousand An
archists who have sought refuge there
in order to concoct plots against other
countries.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

Mr. Lamar is forty nine years of age. He is
one of the scholars of the South, and has
had, probably, a wider range OF experience
than any Of his Southern associates. He is
native of Georgia, and is related to the
family of Howell Cobb and other equal
IL noted Southern families. Mr.. Lamar
served q short time in Congress before the
War, but he made no part uIar mark then.
His erlogy of Charles Sumner gave him
instantly a National reputation. Mr.. Lamar
was educated at Oxford, Ga. and grad
uated at Emory College in that State. He
STUDIED lsw at Macon. Ca. and was admitted to
the bar i'll 1877. He soon Efter removed to Ok
ford, Miss THIS has been his home ever since.
Here he hss been lawyer, planter, and pro-
feSsor during Il long term of years. He was
FIRST Professor Of Mathematics, and after the
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

JUsT before his term of office ex-
PRED, President Arthur appointed Mrs.
j. N. Granger postmistress of Clifton
Springs, N. Y. Mrs. Granger was an
only sister of the late Stephen A.
Douglas, and has all her lie been a
strong Democrat.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

IT is authoritively stated that the
disease from which General Grant was
a recent sufferer was a superficial in
fammation of the tongue superinduced
by excessive smoking. Cancer was at
first SUSPECTED.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

William Freeman Villas is descended from an
old English family. He was born in
father, Judge Levi b. Villas was a member of
the Vermont Legislature at the time and one
of the prominenJ old-school Democratic pol
iticians of the Green Mountain State William
f., who inherits so many sterling traits, phys
ical and mental from his sturdy, hard-headed
ancestors, was graduated from the Wisconsin
State University in lS5S,at the age of eighteen.
Two years later he won his degree of LII. ID.
in the Albany Law School, and was admitted
the same year to practice III the Supreme
the active practice of his profession at Mad
ison, Wis, swinging his single to. the
breeze on his twentieth birthday the 18th of
July. 1860. In 1862 the war spirit overcame
him, he raised Company A, which elected him
Captain, and the 18th of August was mus
tered into the Twenty third Regiment of Wis
consin Volunteer Infantry. On returning
from the war Colonel Villas resumed the prac
tice of his profession in Madison, in which he
has been remarkably successful throughout
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

THE four counties in West Virginia
which form the Panhandle of the
State are making an effort to be sep
arated from that State and attached to
Pennsylvania.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13
Extra Session of Senate-XLIXth Con-
oress.

THE President on the 5th sent to the Senate
the nominations of Thomas F. Bayard for
Secretary of State, Daniel Manning for the
Treasury, William c. Endicott for the War
Portfolio, William G. whitney for the Navy,
L. @. G. Lamar for the Interior, William r.
Villas for Postmaster General, and A. H. Gar
land for Attorney General Senator Riddle
berger objected to Mr.. Bayard for his attitude
on the Irish question, and consideration of
the list went over for the day.
Mr.. VAN WICK introduced resolution in
the Senate on the 9th directing the Secretary
of the Interior to report the facts connected
with the hasty issue of land patents to the
New Orleans, yicksburg Baton Rouge Road.
The members of the new Cabinet were con-
fir1ned.
A LONG debate took place in the Senate on
the 9th over the issuance of patents to the
New Orleans Baton Rouge & Vicksburg
backbone Railroad. Communications were
read from the Secretary of State, the Secre-
tary of the Interior and the Attorney-G eneral
conveying notification of their acceptance of
Cabinet positions and requesting the Presi-
dent of the Senate to notify the Legislatures
of their respective States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

FsAFTER great elaboration Wiscon-
sin jury has decided that kisses are
worth one cent apiece when taken at
wholesale rates.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

SAN JOSE is the only city in Califor-
MIA with population exceeding 10000,
that is not in debt There are but five
such in the United States.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

Mr.. Garland was educated at St Mary's ana
St. Joseph's College in Kentucky. He was adj
mitted to the practice of law in 1853 in Wash
ington. rl1. In 1856 he went TO Little Rock.
He was a member of the State Convention in
1861 that passed the ordinance of secession.
Later in that year he was elected member
of the Provisional Congress of the
Confederacy that met at Montgomery,
Ala He was after that made q mem
Der of the Lower House of the Confed-
crate Congress when Il met at Richmond.
Garland was later member of the Confed-
crate Senate and was in that body at the time
the Rebellion closed. His people in 1867
elected him to the United States Senate. He
was refused admission fher, because the
State was not then regularly admitted back
in the Union
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

AN Indiana husband is very particu-
lar. He thinks that because his wife
has scalded him eighty-one times with
hot tea he is entitled to divorce.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

ROBERT BONNER announces that he
has declined all offers to exhibit Maud
S. during the coming season. She will
not be allowed to trot for money.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

II Is estimated that there are $1,000
people on roller skates in New York
every night. A miniature city on
wheels.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13
Mrs. FRANK LESLIE says she is too
busy to get married.

A BRIDE in Indiana, whose father
gave her $4,000, was permitted to eat
pie with knife without criticism.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

FRANK DAVIS, of Clinton County,
the tallest man in the Missouri Legisla-
ture, stands seven feet in his stockings.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches
xLvlIIth CONGRESS.
Second Session.

In the Senate on the 4th all of the remaining
appropriation bills except the River and Har-
bor) were passed. A communication was re.
ceived from President Arthur nominating
Ulysses S. GRAFT to be General on the retired
list of the army and the nomination was
unanimously confirmed. Mr.. Hendricks
was then sworn in as Vice President
by Senator Edmunds when the Senate adj
journed sine die. Mr.. Hendricks Immediately
called the new Senate of the Forty-ninth Con-
gress TO order in extra session. In the
House the bill to place General Grant or the
retired list of the army was passed-198 10 70.
sine die
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13

Elk. Judge William Crowninshield Endicott
was born in Salem about 1921 His father was
William Putnam Endicott and his mother
Mary, daughter of Hon. Jacob Crowninshield,
who was Representative in Congress. He at
tended the Salem schools and graduated from
Harvard College in the class of 1S47., He mar
ried his cousin.a daughter of George Peabody,
and bas two children, son and daughter
Judge Endicott studied at Harvard Law.
School and read law in the Office of the late
Nathaniel ]. Lord. He was admitted to the
bar about 1850, and few years later formed
partnership with the late ]. w. Perry and
continued with him until his appointment by
Governor Washburn to q seat on the Supreme
Bench in 1871
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-08-27

1885, Complaint having been entered at this
ONCE by William Prieb against Fred shafts for
failure to comply with law Rs TO Timber-Culture
Entry No. 1913 dated Sept. 24th. 1881, upon the
neL sec. Is. l2l, SIS, in Day county, D. T. with q
view 20 the cancellation OF sRIS entry: contest
ant alleging that claimant has failed to plant TO
trees, seeds or cuttings five acres OF said tract
cultivate any portion OF said tract the said par
tses are hereby summoned TO appear at this
ONCE on the oath day OF september, 1885,, at 10
o'clock a. m, to respond and furnish testimony
concerning said alleged failure.
g, WILLIAMS. Register.
IS ii. X. PEAsE, Receiver
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-08-27
MORTGAGE SALE.

WHEREAS Niles @. Parker q single an IN.
married man cfClsrk county Dakota did exc.
cute aud deliver 20 G, W. Abel trustee OF Huron,
Dakota hts certain indenturc Of mortgage dated
the hrst day OF April A. ID. 1854, which said
mortgage was recorded in the Office OF the Reg
lister OF Deeds, Of said Clark county on the 18th
day Of April A. d. 1854 at one O'Clock and forty
minutes 4. NJ. In book 4 Of mortgages on pages
3s7, SIS and 500 upon tbs north weHt quarter Of
section 81, township 40, range SO. west OF the
5lh'P. NJ, containing ia and 3o-l00 acres to
secure payment Of an Indebtedness OF thirty
three dollars and seventy five cents 1888. 75l due
from said Miles q. Parker to James d. Russell
which said debt Is evidenced by five several
promissorS notes each for the sum OF six dollars
s sIa ssseh.Snye cents % rsid notes being
to said James d. RUSSELL all OF said notes bear
Ing date the first day April A ID 1884 aud due
respectively April LIST lss5, April lst 1885, April
S 1897, April lst 1858, April LIST 1883, all bearing
Interest Al the rate Of ten per cent per annum
AFTER maturity.
WHEREAS, II was provided In said mortgage
that II the said Miles q. Parker should fsi: to
pay any OF the said notes within ten days after
maturity thereof then the whole of said remain
ing dsbt should at the option Of said James B
Russell or his sssigne become thereby immed.
lately due and payable aud II should be lawful
for the said u. W. Abell TO fofeclosc said mortg-
age and to sell and coyey the said premises al
public auction In the manner provided by Law
for sales OF morigaged property, and
WHEREAS, default has been made in the pay
and sal! note remains wholly unpaid for more
than ten days amer its maturity and the said
James d. Russell has declared the whole OF said
Indebtedness and interest Immediately due and
payable whereby the amount Of said debt now
payable and claimed to be due il thirty three
dollars and seventy five cents principal and
interest besides ten dollars attorneys fees 1sipu.
lated therein 10 be paid for forsclosing said
mortgage.
WHEREAE no suit Of law has been commenced
TO collect said debt and Witnesses since the max
ing O said mortgage the said premises have
been by act Of the legislative assembly Of 1885
included within ths boundaries OF Day county
public notice is hereby given that by virtue Of
the power Of sale contained in said mortgage
and in pursuance Of the statute In such case
made and provided, sale OF the above dss
cribed premises will be made at public auction
either by the undersigned or by The sheriff Of
Day county at the front door OF the post ONCE
in Webster in said Day county Oh Friday the
18th day ofSeptember A ID 1885 at l0O'clock in the
forenoon and shall apply tbs proceeds OF said
sale in payment Of the said mortgage debt and
tho costs OF foreclosure of said mortgage.
1881 Il. W. ABxLL. Trustee.