Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1844-04-30
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Bad,-The Springfield Gazefte SAYS:
IA physician in this town was called a
few evenings since, to en- IRISH family on
the hank of the river, where an infant was
said 10 be dying. On reaching the place, he
found the mother in a state Of beastly in.
oxication, and tina: the child had imbibed
SO much of the alcoholic poison with its
natural nourishment, as 10 be also appa-
rently senseless, from its effects.
A Hoar.-The story of two Irishmcn
finding $4,000 in the wainscotting Of an
old building in the Bowery, New York, is
an April establishment.
The people OF Connecticut carry their
temperance principles SO far as to refuse to
cat pork that has been corncd.
Gen. Morgan Lewis distinguished SOL
der Of the revolution, died on Sunday in
New York, at the advanced age of ninety.
TIE trial OF the Gordons for The murder
ofAnasa Sprague, was commenced before
he Supreme Court Of Rhode Island yester-
day, a, Providence.
"Every vegetable" said wag the other
day, in its proper season--cowlips in
spring, cucumbers in summer, canielopes
in autumn, and whiskers in winters"
DR.. John Stoughton Wacott died in
LitchfelL, Connecticut, last week, from
the efiec Of arsenise morphine applied 10
the cavity of two hollow teeth for the pur-
pose Of destroying the sensitiveness oftheir
nerves.
Although honesty is the best policy, It
will not be available in time OF FIRE.
a certain Judge in Vermont. used to
charge The Jury, that 'rhings of a doubtful
nature were very uncertain"
Mere Dcfalcations--A letter from
Washington says;-A defaIca,ion has just
come 10 light. The cupablc person is a
clerk in the War Department. Bait.
Pat.
The Norfolk papers announce the
demise Of DR.. Edward Macomb, OF the y.
S, Amy, on the 2jth olt, at Fort Monroe,
IN The Ash year Of his age. His remains
were inferred on the day following, with
military hon rs.
The residence Of Philip A. Clayton, of
Columbus, Ga, was consumed on the 9th
ult. Nothing was saved, except the lives
oil The family, ard those with great difficulty.
Loss between 5000 and $1,000. No in
surance.
A Georgia General advertiscs that here
pairs boots, shoes and frog MS as usual
hat he is not restricted with regard to cur
rency, as salt pork, corn meal, live chick
ems and hominy are all recognized by him
as "legal. tender
PcoR FELLow-An editor out west ccm-
plains that he lost case in court, was
kicked by his lady love, received gentecl
flogging from his brother, had a tooth
drawn, lost twenty dollars at faro, and had
his note protested, all on the same day
The Legislature of Tennessee has adop-
ted resolutions adverse TO tie agitation OF
the Texas question.
Mr.. Hawkins, Of Baltimore, the temper
nnce lecturer, has been employed by the
Stare Temperance Society Of South Caro-
lima, to travel through ,hst State and lee
ture for one year. For this service Mr..
II. is 10 receive 5000.
The new law in Maryland agains gamb-
ling, is rigldly enforced in Baltimore A
gambler was fined 500 there the other
day, under one Of its provisions.
The export Of tobacco from the United
States, since 1921, has neatly doubled but
that increase has been mostly to the North
of Europe, say Holland and Germany,
while to Great Britain the export has
scarcely increased at all, Notwithstanding
he population has increased 100000
souls.