Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1849-07-06


| fore W: heard of no cholera. Prohibit BUTCH
ering in the city, plank the streets and alleys,
| ilme the yards, cleanse the cutters, and We shall
: nave no more OF this pestilence.-C Chicago Dem.
| RATHER FIsHY.-The Troy Budget sends
along the following: " n shower of fish bones
tell lately on the plantation of Mr.. George Hen.
Gerson, West Feliciana, La, during severe
storm. They seem TO have been the bones of sea
| fish mingled with sharks teeth"
Hon Henry Clay was among the lay delegates
| TO the Kentucky Episcopal Convention, assem-
blcd lately at Frankfort
WILL KNOW BETTER NEXT TfAIE.-The Buff
ialo Republic relates that man on the fast train
last week, somewhere near Auburn, having bet
tlat ne could jump off without risk or injury,
tried the experiment and was killed instantly:
WON THE BET.-The Savannah Georgian re-
cords the feat OF negro in that city who under
took tor bet to butt over square bale of cotton
" lie took start of about ten yards, and won
his wager He upset the bale, and broke his
neck, and died instantly
western paper, in reply to such wing papers
as contend that General Taylor Is not bound by
his pledges, inasmuch as the democratic party
did not accept these pledges, says the amount of
this is, that man is not bound by promise he
makes if nobody believes him which is held to
be a new principle Of ethics.---N Y Ere. Post.
John BarnhIscr, a revolutionary soldier, died
at Quincy. Franklin county, Penn on Saturday
week, in the l06th year of his age.
SEA SERPENT---The ship Sophia Walker has
been recently chased around Cape Horn by tho
sea serpent The 'crtter" exposed half mile
OF his body to the view at one time Capt. Wis
we'll was so alarmed, that his eyes protruded out
far enough for barn doo fowls to roost upon
them; but nevertheless he retained sense enough
TO clap on all sail, and make one of the best pas
sages on record.
Since the year 1910, one thousand four hun
drCd persons have been executed in England for
crimes which are not capital. So says the Lon
don Review
Germany is now engaged in the gigantic pro-
Ject OF uniting the North and Baltic Seas II il
said that this enormous work can be done with
out locks:
AsTRoNoMIcAI.--Profes Guckman is enc
gagged in ;he construction of a Photographic ape
Paratus, by which, with the aid of Lord Ross's
great Telescope, it is expected that accurate de-
Gneations of the most distant planetary arrage4
ments and movements may be obtained.
TIE PUBLIC LANDS IN WISCONSIN. 1t is esti4
mated by those who have had opportunity of
knowing, that there will be but very little public
land left in the Milwaukee Land District, after
the present year, and that the sales this year
in the Green Bay and Mineral Point Districts
will be nearly double what they were last
Mil. ADV.
The LUTHERANs. ---There are in the United
States 30 synods of the Lutheran Church, five
OF which are in Pennsylvania. The first synod.
the synod of Pennsylvania, was established I'M
l747; the next, the synod of New York, in 1885;
and third, the synod of North Carolina in 1902.
OF the thirty synodS, fifteen only are connected
with the General Synod The whole embraces
663 ministers, 1904 churches, 5000 commu.
ncants, and a population of 100000.
n black Episcopal Bishop is about to be con-
secrated in England and sent to Africa.
Lord Stanley has been shipping many of his
poor tenants to the United States paving the
passage money himself.
Macready is the son of an Irshman who wrote
the tarces OF the "lrishman in London and the
Village Lawyer"
We see by the Green Bay Advocate. that the
works at the Portage are rapidly progressing.
1t is the intention of the Contractor to have the
Canal completed this fall. 1t thinks the route
from that place to the Mississippi will be COM
pleted by the close of the ensuing year. A
steamboat and several schooners are plying ON
lake Winnebago, and another steamboat is to be
built soon. Several new steamboats, are already
plying upon the Wisconsin River.---Ma ADJ.
1t would seem by this extract from the letter
of a California missionary, that the whole popu-
lation are not given up to the lust of gold lie
says:
''My Sabbath services are well attended, es-
pcCalJy my evening expository dscourses Our
house is crowded. Good attention is oiyeu,
The interest had been steadily increasing, and
so far as appearances are concerned | NAV feel
My written sermon in the morn
ing is well attended, but do not wish to rely
upon little popularity; it may pass away in
moment. hope some immortal souls will be
saved by my ifistrHncntality, though | am not
worthy the privilege. | have much to do. I'M
til lately met with the singers once a week. and
aided them as | was abe. | have teachers
meeting and prayer meetings to attend. Also
this evening temperance meeting. On Sab
bath, three dsCourscs and a bible class Nv
Parochal visits are not yet numerous.
GERM OF THE BRTTIsH AND FoRElGx BIBLE
SoCIETY.--ln the minute book of the London
Tract Society, appears the following under date
o: December 7, 1902:
"Mr Charles of Bala having introduced the
subject, which had been previously mentioned by
Mr. Tarn, OF dispensing bibles in Wales, the com
mttee resolved, that it would be highly desirable
to sir up the public mind to the dispersion of
bibles generally, and that paper in u magazine
to this effect may be signaIly useful. The OBJ
ject was deemed sufficiently connected with tho
object Of this society, thus generally to appear on
these minutes, and the Secretary who suggested
it, was accordingly desired to enter it,"
If any body will look now at the powerful or
CARNATIONS all over the Christian world, to which
hs simple suggestion has led, he will assuredly
have reason to learn mot to despise the day Of
small things"
Gov. Ramsey, of Minnesota, issued his proc
amation on the Ist of June, declaring that Ter.
-itory fully organized.
= A CLINAx.---The Provincial Secretary Of
Nova Scotia, in calling the attention of the Leg
stature to the spread of the small pox, said the
disease was loathsome one, destroyed life crea-
ated good deal Of terror, and injured The looks
# The inhabitants.
New USE OF GRAyITE---A Mr.. Mac Donald, in
Scotland has discovered new method of calcin-
no granite TO a fine clay Of extraordinary
:tren6th for pottery, especially for making water