Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-03-26
EXTRACTS FROM LATE FOREIGN
PAPERS.

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eiobt, leaving an immense fortune. This
he accumulated by buying and selling land,
bv purchasing reversions, and by granting
loans of money at usurous interest. lie
was blind for the last twenty years Of his
life, and yet examined, personally, all the
property purchased, before the concluded
the bargain, which he took care should be
a good one for himself. When land was
the object, he went over every part of it,
and when house was offered 10 him, he
visited every room from top to bottom, RUM
ing his hands over all that he couldtouch,
and making his guide give him the details
of such parts as he could not reach. He
had, it is affirmed, between 5000 and 1000
persons who owed him money, and when
ever it was required to settle an account
with anv one oil these. his numerous debt
ors, he Immediately gave from memory,an
accurate statement of every item, principal
and interest, dates and circumstances, being,
in fact, "a living journal and ledger. IGalig
mani
A letter from Rome, December %, in
the Universal Gerlan Gazette says-''The
french journals will announce, perhaps,
that some troubles are taking place IN this
capital. To avoid all mistakes this is what
has occurred: The public dancers had
the right, from very distant period,of ap-
peariDg on the stage in exceedingly thin
clothing. This became at last so scanda-
lous, that the authorities had ordered the
dancers Of the Apollo Theatre to dress
more decentlv. This change was not 10
10 the taste Of the public; and both in and
out Of the theatre, some quarrels took place
between the citizens and the military
Some persons were arrested, and order was
then restored"
A letter from Mannheim, in the Journal
de Frankfort, states that DR.. GNldschmidt
of Gottingon, has discovered that the little
comet, seen at Paris in November, de-
cribes an ellipse altogether differing from
the usual parabolc orbit of comets, and re-
wolves round the sun in somewhat less than
seven years. lis orbit comes nearer to Il
circle than that of any other similar body
yet discovered.
We understand that n steam-carriage
has at last been invented, adapted in every
respect for ocomolion on common turn
pike roads. The carriage for passengers
is something like an ordinary stage coach,
and is propelled by an enigma on two extra
wheels, fitted closely TO the rear of the car
rage, but which can be disconnected at
pleasure. The machinery is much simpl-
fled, aud is rendered so compact, that it can
be placed upon patent springs OF such Il
construction, that It's liability TO derange-
mcnt from the uneveness Of surface on com
mon roads is entirely avoide J.. This ap
pears 10 be "A most important improvement,
as II gets rid OF the only obstacle hitherto
found insurmountabie in the way of sue
cesslul locomotion on common roads. Ii
has already been run several thousand
mics over some Of the worst roads in Eng
land, ascending and defending the stecpcst
hills with facility and safety, and maintain
ing the average speed of fifteen miles az
hour. A company has been formed to
bring il into use. Tendon Paper.
TIE last o fire StuurtS.-Ths mGst won
der(ul character still lives ut Tweedmouth
having completed his ll5th year at Christ.
mas, lS43 Ills father, General John Stu.
art, was a cousin of "Pr,nce CHARLIE the
Pretender. His grandmother was the lady
OF Arice, well known in the old Scotch
battles during the rebellion of 1745. Pres
;onpans and CoIIoden, and has spoken to,
and partaken wine with the Pretender.-
He served on the side of the Rovalists in
the American war,and was at the battle oil
Quebec, where General Wolfe lost his life
at the moment of victory. He served or
board man-of-war for many years. under
those naval heroes Admiral Rodney anC
Rear-Admiral Hood. He has been five
Times married, and now lives with a fftl
wife, 80 years younger than himself. II,
has had by his several wives d children
ten Of them have been killed in battle, fiv,
of them in India, two at Trafalgar, unde
Nelson. one at Waterloo, and two at Al gi
ers. For nearly sixty years he has tray
elled in the Border districts as wander
ing minstrel, playing on a fiddle, but h.
never asked aims from any one. Hun
dreds of person can bear testimony 10 hi
amazing strength, from which circumstanc,
he got the bye-name Of Jenny Strength
Among other featS he could carry ,
FOUNDER cannon, and he has been known
10 lift cart-load Of hay,w iglng ton ant
n half, on his back. Many a time he ha
taken up jockass, and walked throug
the tollbar carrying it on his shoulders.
will be long before we can look upon hi
like again.or hear. his stories of l745, an
his glowing descriptions OF the Young Che
Waller. Perlhshire Advcrtiserl
Education ofhte Poorer Classcs.-Fron
return made to the visiting justices ofth
Houses Of Correction, Coldbath-feds.l ap
pears that out of 1904 prisoners confne,
IN that prison on the 18th inst; viz: So
males, and 260 females, it was acertainet
that nine females only could read and writ
wel,with a knowledge OF other languages
and arithmetic; 81 males and - female.
could read and write well. without knowl
cage otother languages, and arithmetic;25c
"S.es and 60 females could read and write
',u'e; PA males, and l05 females. coulc
c"'y read little; and 200 males. and &C
'G,"a'eS' could neither read nor write n
In the rePublic Of Hayt, Brown tolls Nc
man was tried Co. s,o.l. ~ =" WIS VS.