Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1854-01-06
STATE GLEANINGS.

The GAINESVILLE Gazette says from eighty
eight 70 ninety-one cents was paying for wheat in
that city last week; and the editor saws he
counted eighty one loaded wheat wagons on one
side of the river, one day on his way to dinner,
and thought the other side equally full.
A discussion is going on in Milwaukee in re
gard to the propriety of taxing Church Property.
The cars are running to Stoughton, within six
teen miles of Madson and the Madison Jour
nal says the Company intend to complete the road
to that place by the 5th of February
The Fifth Annual Pioneer Festival of the early
settlers of Jefferson County, was advertised in the
WATERFOWL papers, to come off in that city yes
terday.
The Watcrtown Chronicle mentions n new vari-
ETY. of Spring Wheat, called "Eldorado." which
it says is said to be very superior and free from
smut
1t also mentions that Mr. Bcal, of Ixonia, of that
County, raised nine thousand eight hundred and
nine pounds of hops off an acre Of land, which he
sold to neighbor for 81 49, at 8 cents pound
who pressed, packed, and took them to market
and realized 500 profit.
The Stevens Point Pinery contains an advertise
ment over the signatures of Tank Martin. Wood
Wilcox, Merrill, Peak, Fisk Howe, Ellis, and
Bradley, stating that One Hundred thousand
Dollars of the Capital Stock of the Green Bay
and Minnesota Railroad Company had been taken
five per cent. paid in, and calling for meeting at
Green Bay on Monday last, to elect officers also
notice of an election Of officers of the Appleton
and Stevens Point Plank Road Company and a
large quantity of new advertisements This lat,
ter indicates what is doing in the northern part Of
our State
1 Inc Madison AIYdS says wood is selling in James
vile at five and six dollars cord while it has ne
yer sold higher than t,co ooilurs at Madison al
so that Madison has public debt, that the lands
around it arc equal to any portion of the State;
and urges thence the advantages of settling al
that place.
! The Grant County Herald says there are Nine
/ Hundred Thousand Acres of land in that County,
and that -Four Hundred thousand acres thereof are
'"'entered. The population of the County is 90
900, and the taxable property over Sl,8Co,co,.
y Rev, Edward Morris has commenced courSs
of alternate Sabbath Evening Lectures at Potosi
The subject of his first lecture was The manifest
/ destiny Of Amer1ca. What will the Reverend say
to John Mitchcs position at the recent meeting at
New York, when he said " AS for Manifest DeSti
ny, SPIT UPON IT!
The Green Bay Adcocate says in n family in that
village, GREAr-GREAT-GRANDM MOTHER cXclan-
gcd presents with GREATGREAT-GRANDDAuG
TER, on last Christmas day
Three miles of the Green Bay end of the Green
Bay and Tayclecdah Plank road have been com
pctcd sometime, and the Adcocate says the receipts
amount to twelve per cent.
The Fox River Improvement Companp,has 10.
Gated its warehouse and other buildings in the
town Of Howard, Green Bay, opposite the Asto
House. X. a. Darling, of Fon du Lac is Trca
surer of the Company.
! At Oak Orchard, eighteen miles north Of Green
Bay eight hundred barrels of white fish have been
taken with only TWO scines, this season.
The housc of Mr.. Webb, near Stevens Point
with all its contents DESTROYED by fire III,
10th instant; and the infant child of Mr. Webb
was badly burned,
There is project Of building steamer to run
on the Wisconsin River from Stevens Point to
Wausau, fortyivc miles.
jeremiah Crowly has been appointed postmastcI
at Menasha, in place Of Mr.. O'Connel, resigned.
There was six inches of snow at Madison on the
3Gth ultimo, and the slcighing good,
The Journal office has been removed into Gov
Farwell's new block,
Lead ore has been discovered in the western
portion of Waupacca County.
Arthur Reslcy last year Member of Assembly
from Outagame, on the evening of the 2Oth ulti-
mo, gave Fancy Dress party at the Washington
House, Green Bay. The Adrocate contains IL
long description of it, according to which it mus,
have been brilliant affair
John b. Jacobs and two Others in going from
Green Bay down the Bay in an open boat recent
", got so hcmmcd in by ice making around them, |
that they could not proceed and had to remain
all night within mile and half of shore, waiting I
for the ice to- get stout cnough tic bear them.
The Register says new bank, intending to issue
notes, is about starting in Watcrtown.
The ddcocdte says the new bank at Racine has
commenced swimmingly. The first days depos
its were over IS 200 the second overran $4,000.
Mr.. Chas. Rider has commenced new schoon-
er at Racine; keel IL feet, beam PC, depth Of
hold y,
The Supreme Court has resumed its session.
The new Hotel at Madison is open for the
ception Of guests.