Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-07-22

having 10 be removed IN consequence of GER
tain architectural repairs in progress, the cof-
fin was opened in the presence Of the chapter.
10 everybody's surprise nothing was found
but the bones-the rings, the gold and silver
chalices, the tiard, all studded with precious
stones, had disappeared. Their existence in
the coffin had been verified about so years
ago."
The Railway Times gives the following as
the average expense of running engines and
cars on railways:
! Locomotives alone, 90 cts n mile
Do. with l passenger and
baggage car, Of
Do. baggage aud passen-
ger cars, 20 /"
Do. l do. and do. 81
Do. l do. and 4 do. 33 "
Lightning and Lotteries.-It is fact that
the number of persons annually destroyed by
lightning Is greater than the number of those
who draw any considerable prize in a lottery
so that the man who buys lottery ticket
may have Uncomfortable reflection that what
ever chance he has of drawing prize, he has
a still greater chance of being killed by light
ning.-New Bedford Standard
r. R. IRoN.-There were 144.145 tons
of railroad iron received at this port for the
month of June, and 1921 for the month of
May. This would make LAG, 400 tons recei-
we'd during the season for the different rail
roads now in construction. AT $40 ~ ton,
it would be worth the large sum of $I0,252,-
600! A large quantity of it has, however,
been purchased at much less cost than $40.
-Chic. Dem.
Terrible Earthquake IN Persia.-A let
ter from Ezeroum, June Sd, states that ter
rible earthquake had occurred at Shiraz and
kashan. AT the former place 10000 to
$4,000 persons We're killed in one night. and
pestllence arose from their unburied corp
ses.
The Cholera was raging at Teheran (tho
CapitaD and Locusts were rayaging Ispahan.
The Corporation of Trinity Church, N.
T., has appropriated 81 900 for the construc-
ton OF monument to the memory of the
Americans who died in the English Prison
Ships in the war of 1912. 1t is to be of
brown stone, seventy three feet high. 1t is
to be placed at the top of a series of steps "a
feet square at the bottom.
The PACIFIC RA1LRoAD-ENcoURAe
OFFER.-A Telegraphic Despatch from New
York under date of July 6, states the fact that
an English company have offered to take the
securities of the Pacific Rail Road Company
and advance money thereon. The offer is,
for the present, declined.
BARGAINING AND PAYTNG.-The Leoisla-
ture at the commencement of the regular ses
sion, authorized the taking of papers, which,
at the highest regular price, S so each for
the session, would amount to but $2,4OO-
They paid for these same papers, nearly S;r
Thousand Dollars!
DRoUGHr IN GEoRG1A.-The Georgia pa
pers represent the crops in some parts of the
State as entirely destroyed, owing to the great
drought which prevails. The young cotton
is also more or less injured. There has been
no rain for three months in many parts of the
State.
Forty-two Choctaw Indians have arrived
at New York, on a visit to the Worlds Fair.
The company is composed of Is females 90
men and children. Dressed in their ma
tive costumes, they will give while here, ex-
hibitions of their modes Of life, national songs
and dances.
SOMETHING NEW It is new thing I'M
der the sun for a steamboat to 60 to Albany
and return in one day. as a regular daily bu-
siness. The Francis Skiddy has made this
leaving New York daily Except
Sundays,) at o'clock, A. NJ. and Albany at
8 o'clock p M.
LADIES AT ELECTION ladies of Grand
Rapids, Michigan, attended the polls on the
goth, to urge their husbands and brothers to
vote for the Maine Law. They were of course
successful. In Leoni the ladies also came out
and the town gave 200 majority for the law.
The suit against M. Forrest for an assault
on n. p. Willis, has terminated in favor of
the latter. Damages were awarded i'll the
lower court, but the case was carried up and
the Superior Court has affirmed the Judge
ment of the court below.
re Hon. William G. Rives, of Virginia,
formerly United States Senator, Minister to
France, ETC., has engaged to deliver the Ad-
dress before the State Agricultural Society,
at the annual Fair at Saratoga, in Septem-
Der.
One Of the largest Shaker societies in the
world is located at Union Village Warren
Co. Ohio. 1t was founded in 1905, and now
numbers near six hundred persons. The So
ciety own over 1900 acres of cultivated
land.
Rich Mechanacs.-At Worcester, Mass,
Ethan Allen, of the firm of Alien d. Thurber
pistol makers, has just built residence at an
expense of 81, 5000. 1t is one of the most
elegant residences in Massachusetts.
On the late excursion of the new steamer
Mississippi, from Buffalo via Cleveland and
Toledo to Detroit, there were fifty editors
on board, Ohio Was very strongly represen-
ted