Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-11-09

puN aiCloli Vi HIS idlS ldtueTB AlIS iloil'
Tibbets,) made him present of $500. He also
presented like amount to the Rev. clergyman
ofthe church of which his father was member.
We suppose in the case of the Physician, this
present Of Mr.. tt bats was from gratitude in
having been specify put in possession of hand
some patrimony.
Some twenty thousand acres Of land in Catta-
raugus CO. New York, have been purchased by
Rev. Mr.. Dove, of Ireland, for two dollars per
acre, and he has sailed for Ireland TO bring over
a number of his countrymen who are to occupy
it,
LARD On--In Cincinnati it is calculated that
100000 pounds of lard will be run into lard
oil this year, two sevenths of which aggregate
will make stearine, the residue oil, say about
10000 barrels OF AZ gallons each.
A new paper bearing the name Of the Califor-
mia Wing, is to be commenced in San Francisco
about the first of January next, to be published
weekly at $40 per annum. -
The potato crop in England and ireland, ac-
cording to the latest accounts is likely to prove
a failure. Decay has commenced, sinilar to that
of previous years. ~.'.
POPULATION OF SOUTH CARoLIyA--A census
of the free white population of South Carolina
has been just taken, showing the number to be
280,385, being an increase of 1863 in the last
ten years.
A bill favoring the election of Judges by the
people, has been reported in FORM in the Tennes-
see Legislature.
THE COOLIDGE AFFAIR.-There is consider
able excitement in Maine, on its having been as
certained that the body buried from the prison as
DR.. Coolidge, is that of another person, and that
the doctor has escaped. His father says that the
Doctor was man of effeminate appearance, with
very light beard The beard on the corpse was
heavy with heavy eyebrows and a large head
which the Doctor had not. From all that could
be collected, it was declared that this was not the
body of DR. Coolidge There is no event in his
tory like this. Prisoners have escaped in variou.
DISCUSSES, but here is one who lies, whose dead
body is seen in prison, who ia buried, and urOn
suspicion is disnterred, and found not to be the
man. Why have they not been examined?
Trus.-We are linked together by thousand
ties. cannot smile while you are weeping
you cannot be merry if | am sad. Therefore lot
us make a covenant with each other, that we will
withhold our sorrows and impart our Joys We
talk of the human family. but we do not think
enough of the deep significance of the term. Oar
! brotherhood is larger than the domestic circle
!
home, vet acts of kindness and word. of friond-
ship should have no narrow limits.
METHoDIsTs IN MIcH1GAN-The MICHIGAN
Annual Conference publishes the following
statement in regard to that Church in Michigan:
Number of churches in tbs State, %
parsonages, 80
members, l4G05
on trial, laps
local preachers, 1872
Amt contributed-bible cause, & $50 90
." missionary cause, 1872 80
Claims of salaries of all preachers
/ during the year, 24,S74
Of which they received, l962J
Deficiencies, 526S
! GEoRGIA-The democrats have majority OF
/ three in the Senate, and four in the House.
Towns (Dem) majority for Governor is about
! 3,400.
Harvard University numbers ST students this
| year, being 70 over the last season. Of these
there are "a law students, l27 medical, II diyin-
! ity, 80 science, and resident graduated
The Potato rot has appeared in some parts OF
Maine. Many of the farmers fear that they shall
not have single bu.le
! Since the opening of navigation up to the 18th
inst, 100000 enigrants arrived in Canada from
Europe.
The office of Alcald. Of San Francisco. Yields
an income of 800 daily.
Arrest Of NodI Ariiste. .-The New York
police made descent upon a troupe of four mo-
del artistes while engaged in their exhibitions.
the other evening, aud committed them to Jail in
default of $500 bail
The n. Y. Herald in allusion to the probable
discovery of STA John Franklin, says ii hopes no
further effort will be made to penetrate to the
North Pole and it costs deal OF money and
don't pay.
Judge Hart, of Cincinnati, lately caused the
" criminal box" to be taken out of court on the
ground that no man need be disgraced before he
is found guilty of crime.
Edgar a Poe died at the Washington Hospital
in Baltimore, where DIR. Lotland, the Milford
Bard passed SO many of his later years. labor
ing under the effects of delirium tremens, the
same disease that wasted away the former talen-
ted poet.
LOOKING AHEAD.-The Boston Committee
have addressed a letter TO the New York board
OF trade, Mountaineering upon the recommendation
by the Chamber, of Whitney's plan for rail road
to the Pacific, and protesting to show by figures
that it could not be executed in the way proposed
in Serenteea hundred years.
WISE.-The Philadelphia Enquirer states that
in Berks county, Pa, about six thousand gallons
of wine ere made, per 1nnum. In this county
there are three thousand acres Of vineyard land
H0n0rS to Medical Martyrs by the order of
the French Minister of Public Instruction. the
names Of the physicians and medical students in
France, who have fallen victims to their zeal in
treating cholera patients, are to be inserted on
marble tablet in the Dupuystren Museum.
The steamer J. D. Morton has been chartered
for two years ley the Messrs. Ward TO run on
lake Michigan in connection with the Michiga
Central Rail Road Line.
In The WRONG BED.-"Landlord, (hiccup)
don't think I'll stop here (hiccup) any longer
Your beds are roomy (hccup) enough, (hicuup)
but they are so Id lumpy, (biccup) fellow
fesls chawed up rather than refreshed by sleep
ing IN them" These remarks rather astonish-
ed the keeper of one OF our hotels the other NOR
ming, till he discovered that his guest had mistar
ken bed OF anthracite for bed No. 2O-in othe.
words, the coal bed fora couch badstesd Fo
bew;ldering people that gin and sugar has great
deal to answer for Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Willis, in one of his latest excursion letters,'
new feature into the "phvsics ge-
ography" ofthe country. Speaking of Cape Cod,
he says-"lf you look at it upon the map, you
will see that it resembles the lifted leg of New
England in the act of giving the enemy a kick.