Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1847-12-24
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lay and clerical gentlemen. Mr.. Mail, editor
of the Noncoulormist is reported in London
papers, to have said, he verify believed that
two more PaFiamcnts, lasting their natural
term, would he sufficient for carrying the
objects of the Association. The blect had
taken deep and and lasting hold OF popular
mpathIes--common sense estimated 1t
rightly-and the time would soon come
when the people OF tha; country would bear
the thradom Of state church no longer.
The establishment was doomed-nothng
could save IT, The reason, the common
sense, the feeling of Justice the religion of
the l9th rtntury--all declare in the face OF
heaven that it was a monstrous wrong, and
should not be. One potent consideration,
which cannot fail to make its way III a coun-
try like England, was the great economical
benefits of divorce of church and state. If
the eleven millions sterling now annually de-
voted to keeping up an ecclesiastical standing
army were TO be applied To civil purposes,
il would create a state Of finances that would
justify vast decrease of oppressive taxation.
Right or wrong, this is an argument which
will be apt to be ielh"
A College Joke.-An old lady meeting
a Cambridge man, asked how her nephew
behaved himself. Truly, madam says
he, he's brave fellow, and sticks close to
Catherine Hall name of a college -
VOW said she, | feared as much; he was
always laundering after the girls from a
boy
Corn crop ofMc United Sates.-Thc
amount Of corn raised in the United Statcs
in 1915, according to the estimates Of the
Patent office, was 1899, 900 bushels. In
lS46, ii is believed the crop reached 4G0,-
100000 bushels; and this year-lS47-it
is thought by those competent to form an
opinion, that we shall have full 600, 100000
of that valuable product--so much greater
was the breadth of land sown, this last
year, over preceding scasons.-Gem.
HOl0 TO dispose Of MertcO.-Gen. Scott
has submitted his views TO the President on
three propositions: lst---to hold posses
sion of the mines, public lands, revenue, and
from them draw the expenses of the war
until the MeXicans consent to conclude a
peace. 2d-to occupy and hold a line, as
recommended by Calhoun and Gen. Tay-
Tor. 3d-to occupy the whole country UNI
der martial law, until treaty is concluded,
Gem ofhe Prairie.
Large Hog8.-The Louisville Journal
says, two hogs were brought, a day or two
since, to Aliens pork house in that city,
from Nolin, Hardin county. The two
weighed sirtten handred pounds, and one
Of them upwards of nine hundred.
Wheat appears to be the principal crop
in Oregon, In 1916 there were one HIM.
dred and fry thousand bushels raised.
The crop this year, it is thought, will great
ly exceed this amount.-Gem.
The National Committee of the Liberty
League have called Convention at Seneca
Falls, n. Y, on the 18th, | 9th and 18th of
December. tits made necessary, they say,
by the degeneracy of the Liberty party.
Internal Improvements IN Ne,c Iork.-
A bill has passed both branches of the Lee
gslature appropriating 100000 for differ
ent internal Improvement purposes. One
hundred and fifty thousand dollars are ap
proprlated for the construction of a slpelrom
the Canal to Buffalo creek, and Two basins
for the accommodation of lake vessels and
canal boats. The balance of the 100000
is to he employed in the construction of a
new tier OF locks at I.ockport, and the en-
largoment of the canal At other points.
SHEBovGAN.-The population of this
fiourishing town atthc present time amounts
TO 1929. Last year the population was
less than 700. This is nearly doubling in
one year.
A Deceived llUsnANp.-Onc Of our com
patriots, saws the Courier dies Etats Uns,
resident of New York for the last few years
no longer able to endure the absence Of his f.
wife, whom he had left in France, sent her
the sum of scvcn hundred francs to pay her
passage home, and soon received her in his I.
expecting arms. The happy day of arrival .
was spent IN the purchase of presents. The F.
enchanted husband thought nothing of cx.
pense, but with his wife on his arm, a plea
sure which to HIM had the piquanry of no.
Yelty, he spent his money with a glcty that
every good husband will comprehend. His
purchases terminated, they entered together
the conlugal roof; but here, when the too
conhding husbrnd, who had left his wife an
instant alone. returned. she had disappeared, .
Shall we own it! She had gone oil with the
purchases, and with 4 young American, a
of her voyage, who had made (
love to her during the passage. As for the
poor husband, his passage money, presents.
his wife, and his dreams of connubial fell /.
city were all flown.
To care Hams and other Pork for Ba- +
them in n strong brine; after they
have been three days in it, add one ounce
OF sal,pctre, and pint of molasscs to each .
hundred pounds. In icw days they will
be tit to smoke, without further preparation, I.
or the smoking can be deferred any length
of time to suit convenience. Beet NAV be
prepared for smoking i'll the same way,
only the brine should be much weaker
Farmer and Hcchdnic.
On TUE SAFE SIDE 1t is said by one
who knows, though we do not vouch for
the fact, that Young man in New Haven, .
Conn, OF great economy, was accustomed,
before his marriage, TO ride out with his be-
but with the express stipulation.
that in case he did not marry her, she should .
pgU hair the eyDPaSe of the tram