Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1850-06-07

An eastern exchange states that villages are
springing up along the line of the Hudson River
Railroad. A farm inNestchester scarcely worth
$50 per acre before the construction of the road
has been sold in village lots for $4,000.
A Lady from Litchfeld, Connecticut, las.
week, while on the Naugatuck rail road, had the
misfortune to lose all her moIey, S265. Be-
fore the train arrived at New York $40 was
made up by subscription, and the remainder,
1925 was given by one individual, who refused
to give his name.
The Missouri SUxK-The steamer Ms
Souri one of the largest and finest boats on the
Mississippi. sunk in deep water. The boat is a
total loss. Loss $4,000, insurance $4,000.
The number of public schools in n, York CITY
is 10. The average attendance for the wear
ending February lst, was 25,997 The cost of
maintaining these schools ives S23S, 300, being
an average cost of 1864 for each scholar
PAYING DEARLY FOR NOTHING. Col. BRYANT,
O! San FRANCISCO, paid out $4,000 to $4,000
to securei possible, his election to the Sherifalty
of that county, and failed. The Col. was broken
down by the expenditure, and has opened mante
bank to repair his fortunes.
KNEW HIS CATECHIsM.-A little fellow was
questioned by his mother last Sunday from the
calechism. Among other questions she asked
''Who was cast into the fiery furnace" With
much promptness he replied, "Dr. Parkman."
The Cincinnati Gazette states that Mr.. J. Da-
Wis. f Ross county, Ohio, cultivates 1900 acres
OF Indian corn; and that he has this winter; "a
corn crib filled, which is three miles long, ten
.eet high and six feet wide!'
THE LENGTH OF DAYs--At Berlin and Lon
don, the longest days has l6d hours, at Stock
holm and Upsal 49, at Hamburg Dantzic. and
Stettin, II, and the shortest 7. At St. Peters
burg and Tobolsk the longest has Is and the
shortest 25 At Wanderous in Norway, the day
lasts from the DIST of May to the 23d of July
withour interruption; and at Spitzbergen, the
longest day is 3 months.
Experience, says Coeridge, is like the stern
lights of a ship, revealing dangers only after we
have passed through them, and shining on bars
ana breakers after we have become imperrilled
among them.
Socrates being asked what was the best mode
of gaining high reputation, said, 'To be what
you appear to be-
TRIP OF THE AsIA-The new British steanl-
ship Asia, which left Liverpool at P. NJ. Of the
18th ult arrived at Boston at p. NJ. of the 2Sth
making the trip across the Atlantic in the unpre-
cedentiy short time of nine days and eighteen
hours.
A colorsd man in New Orleans, who was en-
ployed as a masonin the erection of the Cathedral
has sued the contractor of the building, for dam
ages sustained by the falling of the tower, where
By the plaintiff alleges that he has sustained in
iuries that will lame him for life. He lays hi.
claim at 1866.
The value of peroxide of Iron as an antidotc
for Arsenic has been recently con firmed BY tht
discovery that chalybeate waters contains larg'
quantities of this deadly mineral, but in perfect
ly innocuous stale, owing doubtless to the pres
ence of the Iron.
The cholera has reaPpeared in the county O
Carlow, Ireland