Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-11-24
A remarkable circumstance occurred at remnles.


her fifth year. labored under an impeachment of
speech which was supposed to be inrurabe AT
that time, for some trfing indiscretion her moth
er spoke quietly and sharply 10 her. and boxed her
ears, and Tor months thereafter the child never ut
tered word. At the expiration of that time, how
ever, when the afflicted mother had become almost
frantic at her Supposed fundamentally in depriving
her child of even her impaired speech, the faculty
was again restored; and, what is still more incom-
prehensible, without the slightest impeachment of
any KIND blessing which she has uninterruptedly
enjoyed TO the present time.
The British Provinces are being deserted by me.
chanlcs and agrlcuturists, the former emigrating
to New England and New York, and the latter to
the Far West.
In the state of illinois there is pear tree which
bore in the year 1894, s4bushes of pears, and in
1910 40 bushels. The tree is said TO be 40 years
old, and TO measure 6 feet in circumference. near
the bottom of the trunk.
A lawyer in the Wisconsin legislature introduced
bill, providing that all milch cows of dairy men
be singled over, 10 preserve the milk pure and
prevent its being aduterated with water
a man named Khodum, residing in Talladega
county, Georgia becoming insane on the subject OF
biblical offerings, killed his own son, few weeks
ago, and burnt the body, making as he expressed
himself, ian Offering of lamb" The maniac
has been confined in jail forthe present.
St. Lous was set all agog lately by the strange
movements Of steamer 10 front OF that city, ma
noeuvred about for some time until the crowd on
the leyee began to wonder what was the matter.
Presently a whisper round that the cholera was
on board Every man took TO his heels and disap-
peafed quickly Il is needless TO say that the affair
was hoax, the boat merely remaining in the stream
to prevent the escape of some thieves who were on
board, uutil police officer should arrive.
The hcighth of politencss is passing round on the
opposite side of lady, when walking with her, in
order not TO step on her shadow.
The mar whowant custom and patronage should
advertise IN the newspapers 1t is the only we'll
beaten path which leads to the success in the bust.
ess affairs Of life. Men daily get rich by ADVERT
sing; sometimes SO fast that they cannot compre-
bend how tits they have done SO well.
A crockodile skeleton, thirty feet long, has re-
Gently been dug up in the mari pits of New Jersey:
and what is most curious, nndcr il an ancient coin
OF Corlnthian brass probably about the same size of
dollar ard having Roman letters on it, was found
Matches, where one party is all passion and the
other is all indifference. will assmilate about as
ice and fire. 1T is possible the fire will dissolve
the ice but it is most probable that it will be ex
dngulshed in the attempt
The National InteIligencer states that within the
last sixty days sum of money exceeding $4,000
has been received at the dead letter Office, nearly
the whole OF which has been safely returned to
those who transmitted il.
Mr.. William Hutton, of Elkton, Md, after sever
al days OF dreadful suffering from hydrophobia died
on Friday evening He was bitten upon the hand
two or three weeks ago by dog.
In Windsor Park there are now between 200 and
800 beautiful milk white goats all desceneed from
pair presented to the Queen, in Sl3 by the Shah
OF Persia.
One of the most important neighborhoods for the
production of iron on the Ohio river is at place
called Ranging Rock Within circle of2O miles
there are 30 furnaces 20 ia Ohio, aud 10 in Ken
lucky. The produce OF all combined amounts
when in full work, to $4,000 tons per anuutn
A Jesuit College has been established in New
Orleans, The building is quite large and i'm posing
and II will be inhabited by number of members
OF that order now it St. Louis
In Forsters Lives of the British Statesmen. oc-
ours the following passage: Cromwell had offered
himself as member for Cambridge; his opponent
was John Cleveland The contest was obstinately
fierce and ended in Cromwells return at last by the
majority OF single vote That vote cost Charles
|, his head, and established Cromwell at the head
of the Commonwealth
Benjamin West, youngest son Of the great painter
of the same name, died lately in London
The road existing across the isthmus of Panama
is now travelled in two days. a large number of
trucks and carriages have been sent for the pur
pose OF carrying passengers and freight
The Boston POST says, man ought to be ashamed
OF himself TO run away with another mars wife
when there many maiden ladies with their
trunks all packed, ready for start.
The Rhode Island legislature rose after session
OF four days. during which great amount of bust
ness was transacted.
The Chicago Democrat says, numbers OF fine fat
deer ere brought to market daily. The side walks
in front of many ofthe butcher shopsare piled with
them. We saw as many as twenty in one shop
Mr. Francis Hannah carpenter and joiner. slipped
from the roof of three story building, in this vii
lage one day last week and broke both ANGLES in a
shocking manner. The right foot was driven up on
TO the bones of the leg an inch and half and the
bones OF both insteps badly shattered. Drs Clarke
and Sherwood dressed the wounds. and il is now
supposed he will get along, though it must be seve
raj months before he will be able to walk, it, indeed
he ever regans the use OF his ieet-[Port Washing
ton Democrat
1t gives us pleasure to notice that our townsmen
BoStwick O Connor and VIM. II. Lord Esqrs
were admitted to practice at the late term of our
Circuit Court.-[Port Washington Democrat.
The Wings of New York have carried the Leg
lslature by large majority. Gov. Seward will
probably be the Senator TO fill the place Of John
4. Dix, whose term expires in March next.
The Boston medical and surgical journal saws the
Cholera will soon be in the United States. but its
ravages hele will probably never equal those in Eu-
rope.
The following is recorded in announcing the
deaths III California, the first Of September, after
a short illness. Mr.. Horace Northrup, formerly Of
New York, aged IS. superintendent of a company
working in the gold mines, leaving TO his brother
Joseph Northrup of Detroit. Michigan. two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. He is requested 10 come
and claim his dowry."
A person in England, lately rummaging among
his family documents. found written the back OF
old deed some words indicating that a pot o.
gold was buried in CERTAIN place in the garden Ii
was at first regarded as a hoax, but digging UP
spot au iron pot came to light containing fifteen
thousand guineas, and scrap of parchment, much
decayed, on which written, - The devil shall
have II sooner than Cromwell
An overland passage from India TO China. occu-
pying sixty DAYS. now costs about 10 pounds
nearly six hundred dollars By the American ro,fe