Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1851-02-28
VOL. XI-NO. 36.

barrel full in other engines. 1t is neat simple
and low priced, and sanguine expectations Of its
general adoption are entertained.
Frozen TO Death-The Fond du Lac Journal
understands thattwo persons were frozen to death
in Winnebago County, last week. They had
been out hunting, and on their return, within
sight of their homes, they persisted. One Of
them was heard in the night calling for help
His wife went out in search of him, and not be-
ing able to find him, procured help; bat he was
dead when discovered. Both had families
Have not learnedtheir names.
A shock of an earthquake was felt at Calais
Me-, at halt-past p. NJ on the 30th Of Janua-
ry, producing a rumbling and rafting sound,
which lasted about fifty seconds.
RETURNING CALIFoRNIANs.-James r. Vine
yard, William .. Vineyard, Hel Tyler, and
some others, citizens of Platteylo, returned from
California las. week, we'll laden, we presume,
with the precious metal. Others are looked for
daily Grant Co., Herald
The Cumberland Unionist says that Daniel
Brown, citizen of Brownsville, Pa, was caught
in one Of the circular saws belonging to the
Plank Road Company, and had both of his legs
cut entirely off near the hip Joint. He died i'm
mediately.
The Stockbridge Indians have obtained tract
of land, suitable for farming, on the west side OF
the Mississippi, opposite Point Douglass, to
which they will remove from Green Bay. These
Indians are civilized and many Of them are large
farmers and intelligent men.
The editor of the Danbury Times has been
presented with a dish of strawberries grown by
Mr.. Joseph Crofut since the first Of january
They are the monthly variety, and when the
plants are placed under cover and protected from
the frost during the winter as in the pre- sent in
stance, they will yield their fruit at the return Of
each month"
ding and eternal Eden.
Our wishes are but the idle blossoms of the
tree of human life, seldom bearing fruits
None 60 to heaven but those who have taste
for it on earth
A pure mind can derive more enjoyment from
this world. and from the senses, than an impure
mind This is true even of the lowest senses.
Gold is but poor legacy in comparison with
immortal thought. The one is human, worthless,
the other divine, invaluable.
Birds of Paradise always fly against the wind,
and heavenly minded souls move against the cur
rent
Some there are who gaze intently into the
well of truth, but only in hopes of seeing their
own image reflected in it,
The more tender and delicate the blossoms Of
Joy, the purer must be the hand that will Gull
them.
M. LIE e,,,.,, &C human J;soortapti ~ NO
looked f5r. not in the real, but in our fictitious
wants, not in the demand Of nature, but in the
artificial cravings Of desire
A correct taste is ever the cOncomitant of
chaste mind for, as a celebrated author has
Justly observed, "our taste commonly declines
with our merit.
The proper element Of man is constant actiy-
ity. The waters are like those of the Bethesda
pool-it IS only when they are agtaled that they
are heathful.
Mr. MURDocH-We regret to learn from the
Philadelphia Enquirer, that this distinguished ac
tor has again been i'll. lie was seized, while
plaving at the Walnut Street Theatre, with a
rush OF blood to the head and was borne inson-
sible from the stage.
William NJ. Whir, the Oldest Presbyterian
Georgia, on the 3lst ult., in the nincty-frst year
of his age.
Mr.. Geyer. the newly elected Senator from
Missouri, is a German by birth. His native
place was Franklort-on-thc-M Maine His pa
rents removed to this country when he was three
years old.
Another Discorrry-The Journal du Tam
ALLEGES that citizen of Abb has found means to
reproduce heat and steam by steam; in other
words. that by mere cficryescencc, he can boil
any given quantityof watcriby meansnta quart OF
water contained in a vase and in communication
by tubes with other vases.
Er!ezaporqneous Ta,,ning.-Wo were yes
terday shown specimens Of leather which had
been tanned in one hour hy a new process, which
has been recently patented, and is now offered to
the leather dealers of Boston. The leather ap-
ucars well is said 10 wear even better than that
tanned on the old plan, and the'materals for tan
ming costs only one half much as those used
in the slow process
A Ne.c Loconsotirs is said to have been invent
ed by Mr.. James S French citizen ct Virginia,
which will run on grade OF 200 feet to the mile.
It was tried at Richmond, and thou Oh weighing
but three tons and half carried car contain
ing ! 80 persons up such grade
A horrible murder of a negro girl, an idiot, Is
related by the New Albany Ledger, as having
been perpetrated between Madison and Client,
la. One Of murderers named Ross alias Craw-
ford, has been arrested.
Marion county, Virginia, is 50 healthy that the
Paramount Banner cannot obtain single death
to publish a man whom the editor thought to
be dead, appeared to him on horseback as he
was writing his obituary.
Mr.. Barnabas Bates of New York has memo
rialized Congress for permission TO contract with
Government to carry the mails, for letters atthe
rate of. two cents prepaid, and newspapers and
all other maable matter at corresponding re-
duction. This proposal is reply to the oojoc-
tion taken in Congress to a Two cent rate as be-
ipg below revenue siandard. The petition
was referred.
William Crafts is lecturing in Edinburg,
Scotland
Louis Bonaparte, Initiating the torso savings
Of his uncle, remarks, Ny position Is curious ,
three years ago was not allowed to enter rance
now am not permitted to qut IT." Possibly
that restriction may speedily be removed.
The late king Of Holland used to employ 'he
sbi,s of war to bring home cargoes Of produce
u-;tb which he undersod the merchants Inc
foTtune that made him king spoiled an enter