Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-06-10
News and Miscellaneous Items.

ilit'i lie ana 9SoUU worth or property be-
side the rail road depot, was the direct result
Of drunkenness.
New PoTAToEs IN IowA.-New pota-
toes, full grown and delicious, were offered
for sale at Burlington, on the 3lst ult.
1t is very common that man too poor to
take newspaper, always spends shilling a
week for pig-tail tobacco, and dollar for IL
quor.
1t is proposed to build 80 miles of the Du-
buque and Pacific Bail Road, so called. As
a condition of assistance from others, Dubuque
county is to subscribe 100000; Dubuque
city 100000, and private individuals $780,
900.
EARLY WHEAT-We are informed that
wheat in some portions of this State has al
ready begun to head out This is consider
ed remarkably early. The crops of wheat
and grass are represented to be most luxuri-
ant.-Detroa advertiser, lSt INST,
Hon. VIM. H. Seward is expected to de-
liver an address at the opening of Capitol
University, at Columbus, in September
WHEAT CRoP.-In some parts of Ohio
the wheat crop has been severely injured By
the fly.
The Crystal Palace in London covered 20
acres; that Of New York covers 2i acres
That cost 9176,000, ($9O0,O00) this at least
100000. That occupied eight months in
its erection; this has already consumed that
SIMON oNtioa anJ M m oot bo Hn;ebol G., ,>,o
ny weeks yet.
A new Catholic paper to be called the Sen
hneA, Is soon to make its appearance at Buff
falo
RAIL ROAD IRoN.-From the money ar
ticle of Thursdays N. Y. Tribune, we ex-
tract the following note of sales of rail road
iron, which are worthy of remark:
We notice sales of about ten thousand tons
of rails within the last ten days at about $40
for immediate delivery, and $65 for future
delivery.
The last deliveries of rails to the Ohio d
Pennsylvania rail road from the Great West
ern Iron works, were made at s75 per ton.
Col. Fremont is still detained in London
by the legal proceedings against him there,
the action of Congress not having been suffi-
cient to free him.
THE SEAsoN.-We hear very flattering
accounts of the prospects of the season from
the farmers Of our county. Grass is very
firmly and thickly set and growing finely,
while the fruit trees and crops promise luxu-
riantly, and are full three weeks earlier than
last year.--Portlohd Naine) advertiser.
COOP PRIcEs.-Capers d Hayward sold
yesterday, at their sales-room, Adgers wharf,
a blacksmith, for $500; a bricklayer for
S1,l3O; and a single female slave for $500.
-Charleston Mercury.
Bad prices, we should say. When to OBJ
tain the raw material" for labor, such in
yestmcnts Of capital are necessary, the prices
are bad. Plenty of white female servants
can be had here-not ooned, howeyer-with-
out any $500. No country can flourish un-
der such prices, not for labor but for the OPP
rortunity or privilege to use what can be got
for the men and women that can develop it,
" Y. Express.
What meals this renewal of "agitation z"
And by the New York Express, journal that
the Castle Garden Safety Committee paid for
setting up with the Union
Such a paragraph, six months ago, in the
Evening journal; would have been seized up
on by the Express as conclusive evidence of
design to dissolve the Union.
What-we repeat the question-does all
this mean? Have the cotton folks stopped
payment? Or is the Express on another po-
litical tack ?-Albaay Erening Joarnal.
The New York Evening Post puts down
Mr.. Vroom of New Jersey, recently appoint
ed minister to Berlin, as free soiler of the
straightest sect.
The Houston Telegraph asserts that the
Texas gold diggings are real. Parties are
constantly going and returning with dust.
Mrs. Stowe has been offered by an Edin-
burg publishing house, the sum of $40 900,
and half the proceeds Of the work after that
sum is realized, for temperance tale.
Mike Walsh dined with the President the
other day, and surprised Mrs. Pierces ideas
of propriety somewhat by telling what glo-
rious fishing frohc he had the Sunday before.
Mike forgot that the General don't indulge
in those sports now.
DIR. Bailey of the National Era, with his la
dy, sailed for Europe in the Baltic yesterday
He will be absent three months, and mean
while, the paper will be under the editorial
charge of DR.. Elder, A. NJ. Grangewer, and
j. G. Whittier ~z
Some twenty-five liquor sellers in Salem,
have been indicted by the Grand Jury of Es-
sex county.
ENGINEERS WAGEs-The Association of
Steamboat Engineers have held meeting
and resolved that the wages of first steamboat
engineers shall not be less than $3.50 per month
and those of second engineers not less than
SIS. Apprentices not to be taken for less
term than three wears.
The CRoPs.-Om Exchanges promise we'll
for the crops throughout the State. Wiscon-
sin bids fair to astonish the old Eastern States
in the way of crops this year-From all we
can hear, old Washington county will even
astonish the rest of Wisconsin in that line.
2 j.. -