Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-01-07
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A farmer in Saratoga county boasts Of
bull calf months old, which weighs TIA
pounds. His average gain has been 3
lbs. 10 OF. per day.
1t is estimated that from twenty to
twenty-five millions Of pounds of tobacco
are annually snuggIed INFO ;ho- United
kngdom-a larger quantity than finds It's
way into the market in The legitimate
course Of trade.
The long projected idea Of carrying on
the correspondence between Europe and
Peru, across the Isthmus Of Panama. it is
said about TO be realized but overland, no.
by means Of a canal. The transmission
Of the mails 10 Lima is expected 10 occupy
CD days.
Railroads in Gernany-There had
been constructed, at the end Of August
last, eleven hundred and eighty miles Of
Railroads in Germany:
In Belgium the system of railroads is
more perfect than even in Great Britain,
and they arc represented, by persons re-
Gently in that country, TO more than real
ize the expectations Of their iriends-par-
,icularly in tho carriage of freight.
PAY OF JURoRs.-lt is complained Of in
New York that the pay of Jurors is made
quate 1t has been suggested by Judge
Of one of the Courts, 10 place the pay Of a
Ju or at l,25 per day for the days he is
in attendance, and limit the fine for non
attendance, instead of SIS for the term as
it is now, TO 50 per day for each day the
Juror is absent.
The late crop Of potatoes in Ireland is
found TO exceed the produce of any one
year on record.
Mr.. John Hightower, of Merange coun-
ty, Ala. died in August last, having attain
ed the remarkable age Of one hundred and
twenty-six years. lie was soldier oc the
revolution, was at Braddeck's defeat and
received severe wound in that battle.
An Ancient "Shootirg ave were
shown yesterday, says an exchange, an
old Queen Anne's nusket, which was lost
overheard by the British when they land
ed on the souh-sids of Long Island, in the
Revolution. 1t was fshed up by fisher
mon. Ii is heavily crusied with pebbles,
oyster shells and rust, and is grea, curl
osiiy.
The Ouachita Courier gives an account
of the most severe hail storm ever experien-
ced in Louisiana, and which visited that pa
rish on the 6th ult. Many of the stones
were the size Of hens egg. Fowls were
killed, the cotton left in the fields was COM
pletely destroyed, etc.
Two large brick buildings at Fell's Point,
Baltimore. one owned BY James Wheeden-
head, occupied by Samuel Sloss as a tavern,
The other owned by J. B. Howell and others
and occupied by Richard Ruit, instrument
maker, were consumed on Wednesday NOR
ming.
The select committee of the Ohio Senate
TO whom was referred the subject of the dis
abilities of the people of color under exist
ing laws of the state, have reported in favor
of the repeal Of said laws.
In Illinois, full sounding period and
melodlous combination of musical words,
is called in familiar editorial parlance, I" a
rolling prairie paragraph"
A Nantucket whaleman saw. ,ha, he ne.
yer raised his glitiering lance TO pierce the
"marvellous fish, but he thought of the
words OF Byron, ITO grease we give our
shining blades"
The amount annually paid in Lowell for
the wages of labor, is said TO be one mil
lion, eight hundred thousand dollars.
proposition for Register of voters is
now before the Ohio legislature.