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The weekly Columbian., 1857-01-17
HUMOROUS.

How young men consent to loaf about
the corners as they do when good dose
of arsenic can be purchased for ''quar-
ter" is really surprising. It's something
that we can't understand.
Miss Tucker says it is with old bache-
lors as with old wood; it's hard to get
them started, but when they do take
flame, they burn prodigiously.
One person having asked another if
he believed in the appearance of spirits,
No. was the reply; but | believe in
their disappearance, for I've missed a
bottle of gin since last night
A celebrated physician boasting at din
ner that he cured his own hams, one of
his guests observed -" Doctor, | would
a great deal sooner be your ham than
your patient
An old writer thus describes talka-
tive female: Il know lady who loves
talking so necessarily, that everlasting
rotation of tongue, that an echo must wait
till she dies before it can catch her last
words.
A wag passing by a retailers shop,
and seeing him measuring out molasses,
called out TO him, d" Sir, you have a sweet
run of business
Some editor says that the destiny OF
the world often hangs on the smallest tri-
hes. A little milf between Charles Bo-
naparte and his love Letitia might have
broken off marriage which gave birth
to Napoleon and the battle of Waterloo.
To which the Chicago Adcertser says
"Yes, that is the fact. Suppose a little
milf had taken place between Adam and
Eve! What then p
ARIsTocRACY.-Ac cornet of hussars,
who was not the most polished in his
manners, having joined his regiment, was
asked by his colonel what his father was :
GA farmer" said the cornet.
PITY your father did not make you
follow his trade
"Pray, sir" asked the cornct, "what
is your father ?"
GA gentleman, sir
"Pity he did not make you one," re-
piled the cornet.
The QUESTION NEATLY POPPED IN
LEAP-YEAR.-"W What a strange thing is
acquaintance" said beautiful girl the
day to friend of ours; "a year ago we
had not seen each other; many season
had rolled its course, bringing hope, hap
piness, and perchance sorrow to each,
without the cognizance of the other; and
n0ac we are so intimate Z" Our friend
says she looked so lovely he could not
help pressing her delicate cheek; he ask
ed her if he had aught to do with the
happiness of her future" "You are in
all my dreams of the coming days." re-
piled she.
ONE OF THE BEAUx.-The Cincinnati
Commercial tells the following good sto-
ry:
A young man from the town of S
in Richlapd county, Ohio, lately visited
Cleveland, accompanied by fair damsel
The young man never having been much
from hum,' was somewhat unaccustom
ed to the usages of the world. He put
up," at the Weddell and ordered dinner
which in due time being announced, the
young gallant boldly walked into sump-
tuous repast, leaving the young lady alone
in the sitting room. After partaking oi
a ameal that astonished his stomach, he re-
turned to his companion-who was ra-
ther surprised at this proceeding-and re-
marked: The dinner was darned good
why didn't you buy some :"
The above is an actual fact. which we
can vouch for. The young lady was six
teen hours without any thing to eat
The weekly Columbian., 1857-01-17
QUITE A HoLE-The Bottomless Pi1
Il IL I

QUITE HoLE.-The Bottomless Pit
in the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is
suspected by many to run through the
whole diameter of the earth The branch
terminates in it, and the explorer sudden
ly finds himself brought up on its brink,
standing upon its projecting platform,
surrounded on three sides by darkness
and terror, gulf on the right hand and
gulf on the left, and before him what
seems an interminable void. He looks
aloft; but no eye has yet reached the
top of the overarching dome; nothing is
there seen but the flashing of the water
dropping from above, smiling as it shoots
by in the unwonted gloom of the lamp.
He looks below, and nothing there meets
his glance save darkness as thick as lamp
black, but he hears wild mournful mel
ody of water, the wailing Of the brook
for the green and sunny channel left in
the upper world never more revisited.
Down goes rock, tumbled over the cliff
by the guide, who is of the opinion that
folks come to see and hear, not to muse
and be melancholy. There it goes
crash it has reached the bottom. No
bark it strikes again; once more and
again, still falling. Will it never stop
Ones hairs begin to bristle as he hears
the sound repeated, growing less and
less, until the year can follow it no long
er. Certainly if the pit of Frederick
shall be eleven thousand feet deep, the
Rotto,y.laSc p;t of tbo Mammoth Cov,
must be its equal.
The weekly Columbian., 1857-01-17
" EEKLY COLU MBIAN
Lula at her Harp.
BY 7. b. ALpHICH.

BY 7. B. ALpiICH.
mellow music haunts the night
The tinkling of a harp-string fills
The air with shapes, and sends troop
Of dreamy echoes through the hillsl
The town, the moor, the sandy beach,
Seem wrapped in some sweet mystery;
walk, as 'twere in Fairy land,
And unseen Fairies walk with me.
lis only Lula at her harp,
And nothing cares the little maid
Whether she charm me, listening here
Or yonder beetle in the shade
The weekly Columbian., 1857-01-17

INDICATION OF CHARACTER.-OOSefV-
ing persons move slow-their heads move
alternately from side to side, while they
occasionally stop and turn round. Care
ful persons lift their feet high, and place
them down fiat and firm. Sometimes
they stoop down, pick up some little OBJ
struction, and place it quietly by the side
Of the way. Calculating persons gene
rally walk with their hands in their pock-
cts, and their heads slightly inclined.-
Modest persons generally step softly for
fear of being observed. Timid persons
often step off from the sidewalk on meet
ing another, and always go round a stone,
iastead of stepping over it. Wide awake
persons "toe out" and have long swing
to their arms, while their hands shake
about miscellaneously. Careless persons
are forever stubbing their toes. Lazy
persons scrape about loosely with their
heels, and are first on one side of the walk
and then on the other. Very strong.
minded persons have their toes directly
in front of them, ard have a kind of stamp
movement: Unstable persons walk fast
and slow by turns Venturous persons
try all roads, frequently climb fences in
stead of going through the gate, and new
er let down bar. One-idea persons and
very selfish ones "toe in." Cross persons
are apt to hit their knees together. Good
natured persons snap their thumb and
finger every few steps. Fun-loving per-
sons have Jig movement. Absent mind
ed persons often take the wrong road
and sometimes find themselves up to their
knees in mud-puddle, although the side
walks are excellent. Difnifed men
move slow and erect. Fast persons cut
across the corner, kick every dog they
meet, knock down the little children, run
against the ladies, and hit every twelfth
mans ribs with their elbows. Very neat
men occasionally stop to wipe the dust
from their boots-their hands hang by
their sides. Very polite persons ale
sometimes seen bowling in their course
to black servant girls and black stumps.
A TouCHING CUsToM-A common
practice in Paris, which impresses a
stranger favorably, is that of lifting or ia
king off the hat when funeral passes
A writer on this subject relates the fol-
lowing:
"Some years since, we were one of
that rushing throng ever pouring down
Broadway. When in front of old Saint
Paul's, all eyes were attracted by the ap-
pearance of the crew of the French war
vessel, La Belle Poule, which then visited
the United States under the command of
the Prince de Joinvile. The crew were
in their naval dress uniform, bright and
beautiful, and were sauntering along, see
ing the sights. All at once they stopped,
formed line, faced inward, and uncover
ed. How exquisite and touching was
the scene, when we discovered in that
thoughtless, busy, hurrying crowd, man
of foreign birth, under whose arm was
carried a tiny coffin, and by his side the
stricken mother. They were in search
of burial for their babe, and were iostled
and unheeded in that gay torrent of hu-
manity, until they met these hardy, tenn
pest-tossed mariners, who, on the instant,
with barred heads, stood in silent respect,
while the sacred ashes of the unknown
infant were passing. Such are French
manners"
The weekly Columbian., 1857-01-17

People are prone to condemn in others
what they practice in themselves without
scruple. Plutarch tells of wolf, that,
in peeping into hut where a company
of shepherds were legaling themselves
with joint of mutton, exclaimed
/" What clamor they would have
raised if they had caught me at such a
banquet!''
The weekly Columbian., 1857-01-17

Life without any fixed aim, is compared
by an old poet to throwing buckets into
empty wells and growing old in drawing
nothing up"
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22

The Aldermen of the several Wards present
ed their reports of the work done upon the ap
portionments made Sept. 25th, which report,
were accepted and approved.
A petition for side walk on the south side
of Pearl street was received and referred to the
committee on Roads and Bridges.
A petition in regard to the cancellation of the
certificates for lands sold to Richard Cox, at tn,
tax sale of 1857, WAS received and referred to the
committee on Judiciary.
Alderman Strong moved that the report Of the
committee in regard to the tax certificate of Mr.
I. ID. Bond, which had been laid on the table
be taken up; which was agreed to.
The question then being upon the adoption o.
the report, it was adopted, and the sum of one
hundred and two dollars and ffty-six cents ap
propriated to Mr.. Bond.
Alderman Crosit moved that special election
be held in the third Ward of the City the third
day of November next, for the purpose of elect
ing aSupervisor to represent said Ward in the
County Board of Supervisors, and that the May
or be instructed to issue Proclamation to that
effect. Notice of said election to be given by
publishing the proclamation in one of the news
papers of the city, and by posting three notices
in said Ward which was agreed to.
Sheldon Fish requestedpermssion to assign
his Liquor License to James Mcbride; which
was agreed.
An Ordinance entitled "An Ordinance, provi-
ding for the levying of special tax for Hsrbor
Purposes" was submitted, and adopted.
Aid: Strong moved that the Mayor be instruc-
ted to order the election as required by the ordn-
anee providing for the levying special tax for
Harbor purposes, which was agreed to:
The council then adjourned, = -
ne. II + WEST City Clerk:
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22
COMMERCIAL. AND rrNANcrAY..

1t is said that, at the east since the suspen.
sion of the New York City Banks, and their
subsequent arrangement to receive on deposit
and pay out the State Bank bills, times have
eased up little-that money rates are shade
easier--that stocks have advanced, and slight
improvement and demand for, and prices of
grain is perceptible. This is encouraging, as
far as 1t goes, but it has had as yet little effect
in this part of the country. All classes are still
groaning under the pressure of hard times here.
The farmers, as general thing, refuse to bring
forward their grain to any extent, at present
prices. Few have responded to the proposition
OF the merchants, issued last week We think
this is wrong on the part of those indebted to
merchants or others. The probability of high
prices, this fall, is very small and yet the only
hope for an improvement in the money affairs
is the disposal of the seasons crop. The pc
Of higher prices next spring, in our estimation,
is based upon an uncertain foundation.
There will not be as great home demand for
consumption in the eastern States as there has
been in years past, from the fact that the high
prices in those years, have stimulated produc-
ton to the utmost. There is every reason to
conclude that the foreign demand will also be
diminished. What then is going TO bring up
prices to the old Standard
1t will be seen that in all the principal msrts,
the prices have downward tendency:
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22
MARRIED..

In Prattsburg steuben Co. N Y the 9thHns, at the
residence OF the brides uncle l. r. Hopkins ESQ., by the
Rev. B. c. Smith, Mr. HIRAM JOHNSON, of Kenosha Wis,
and Miss MARIA :. BRI6ss, ofthe former place
On the 10th ihst by the Rev John Parksn, Mr. DANIEL
WILLIAMS and Miss JANE RDMUSps, all of Paris Kenosha
Co, Wis.
In Bristol the l4th instant by Rev. r. Lawson, Mr..
NARO DEEEmCT of Salem, and Miss PHKBE A. daughter Of
Mr. Peter Smith, Of the former place.
At Granville ~ " on the sth instant, by the Rev. Dr.
Lambert Mr. Horace RrBLEE Of Madison, Wis, kdtor OF
the State Journal and Miss KATE HoPxIxs OF the former
place.
At San Francisco Call Aug 3D. 1857, by the Rev. NJ. J.
onsayes Mr. GEoReE P. LAIRD, Of Gen Laird Of New
York to Miss ANNA OTIs, OF PetaumR.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22
I'll arine -: 8etorA.
PORT OF KENOSHA.
For the Week Ending Oct. III 1857.

Ho1G NDI MEN oEo TIA.
For the Week. Ending Oct. Ia 1857.
OFFICE KESosHA PIER Co.
Arrived.
Is stmr Traveller Sweeney Mi-2 pipes liquor l pair
springs box glass 10 passengers
stmr Planet, Butlin, Chicago-l6pkgs mdze 10 pass
Schr Ocean, Miller, Grand River.-64 IN hard wood
lumber.
Spartan Scott, Grand Rver-wnd bound loaded
with lumber for Waukegan.
Deer Mcdonald Holland-do loaded with hem
lockbark sprung leak sunk in the harbor.
Gallooe, Buien, Nuskegon-3S III lumber
II stmr Planet, Butlin, Milwaukee.
stmr Traveller sweeney ,chieago-9 bbls high wines
hbls apples empty bbr bbls 81 pigs mdHe.
Prop Quincy, Hamilton, Chicago-to load with wheat
for Oswego
is stmr Planet Buin, Chic-3 bdls paper pkgs mdze
schr Magnet, McGraw Newark-lOo m lath 40 lnl'br
Agins Maisilot, Mark Masliot Bufralo-93
tons lehigh cOal,2 tons marble for G Ackley.
Prop Touawonda Palmer, Buffalo,, go lbs rock salt
142pkgs mdze
Brig Robert HOLSTER Stevens, Chicago-wind bound.
20 Stmr Traveller, Sweeney, Milo bbis Tobacco.
5chr Col. Glover, hlnitowoc-50 m lumber N hath.
Major Kirby EricksonPt. Washington--57 cords
Whiri-wind, Francis, Wolf Rver--s5 cords wood
cords shingie bolts 200 cedar posts.
Nichols, Edwards, Chicago-to lay up / pass.
Prep Mendoza, Spencer Cleveland-Ss kegs nails As
Demijohns 6boxes glass ware.
Stmr Traveller Sweeney Chicago horses stoves IL
bids russia iron l43 pkgs mdEe.
Cleared;
is stmr Traveller Sweeney Chicago butter pass
Stmr Planet, Butlin, Mwaukee-l5 frkins butter from
E17 schr Spartan scott, waukegan-umber.
Ocean, Miller, Grand River
Schr Galooe, Bullen Muskegon.
Stmr Planet, Butlin, Chicago express package.
Suur Traveller Sweeney, Milf passengers
Is stmr Planet, Bdtlin Milwaukee
Prop Quincy Hamilton 0swego-S,2s5-l 2 bush wheat
10 Tonawanda, Palmer, Chc-l COW & pie plant
root
% Stmr Traveller, Sweeney FChicago-2S boxes starch
wagon boxes Old brass copper.
S,hr Col. Glover, Kahler, Nanitowoc-ls bbls beef
.schr Magnet, McGraw, Newark Dbl beef1 Dbl pork
Is bush oats box mdLe.
Prop Mendoza, Spencer, Chicago.
Brig Robt HOLSTER, Stevens Green Bay.
81 SJur Traveller, Sweeney, Mil
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22

Milwaukee Market.
Milwaukee, October 81.
wBEAr-market dull, buyers holding of. The sales yes
terday rates lower than those Of Monday Spring
sold at 65a69, extra taken T1a72 Winter T5as3
Rye, 50a55 and dull Barley, sales noted Oats 30a33
Corn retailing at 69a61. Potatoes, 25a37 1-2.
Chicago Market.
Chicago, Oct 20-Market unsettled, heavy and dull
Receipts continue Urge Flour not 4425 and slow
that Wheat Csc Corn, dull Oats 25c in store, and dull
at that.-,j0IrHdl.
BUFFALO, Oct Colour active, favorng buyers; ZOO
at 4S7 super Ind 5a5,25 H., Mich Ohio. Wheat
closes steady soc chic SPRING So nil club FOG for white
Wis. Corn 57a57 1-2. Oats a. Barley, 81 1-2
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22
kENOSHA COUNTY BANK,
KENOSEVA MIS-

FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC EXCHANGE.
Sight exchange on New York always for sale.
Interest allowed on special certificates of depos,s
Notes, drafts and certificates of deposit cashed or
collected at current rates of exchange without othe
barge
ncurrent Bank Notes Bought
Goid and Silver cuin bought and sold
Land Warrants ordered at any time from New
AV'A J. Il. KIMBALL. CasAisr.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22

RE The work on the Capital extern
sion is being hurried up considerably.
The force at work has been largely in.
creased lately. Mr.. Ryecraft, the con.
tractor, has gone East as far as Detroit,
to hurry.aforward the iron castings and
other material ordered for the Capitol.
He is making every exertion to speed
the work along and the masonry is OF
the most substantial and workmanlike
character. Journal.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22
Common Council:

REGULAR MEETING, Oct 18th, 1857.
Present-the Mayor, and all the Aldermen.
The minutes of the previous meeting were read
and approved.
The following bills were then considered and
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22

Brown & WEEKS have some important in
formation TO Cash Buyers in our paper this
week They have large and elegant stock OF
Goods, which it will be well to call and examine
before making your purchases. Their stock Of
Glassware, China and Crockery, especially, i:
worth looking at, if only to admire their beauty
They have new kind of ware, Silvered Glass
ware, which is very beautiful See their adver
tisement
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22

u A Midlothian farmer observed to his
pillow boy that there was fly in his milk.
%, never mind, sir. said the boy, 1T Wilma
drown; there's nae sac meikle OF
'Gudewife, said the farmer Jock he says has
Der little milk
There's milk enough for a my bread said the
| sly rogue.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22

TSee KELLOGG, TEARS Il Co.'S New Col-
umn in our paper this week They keep an en-.
rensive assortment wherein you can End alraos,
everything You may want. Go and see.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22

eE Mr.. Daniel Barnhart, of Pleasant Prairie
brought into our Office two specimens of the
growth of his orchard. One was twig of 81
berian crab apple. about Is inches in length per-
fectly covered with the largest fruit of the kind
we ever saw, the product OF graft of siberian
crab upon common stock. The other was a short
limb from an apple tree, equally covered with
fair large apples, of fine favor. With such
specimens before US. we can hardly doubt that
in time Kenosha County will be noted for fruit.
growing.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22

NEW BAKERY."-See the advertisement Of
SAMUEL VALE, in onr columns this week o.
hi New Bakery. Almost everybody knows by
experience the superior character of Mr.. Wales
manufacture, and those who do not, skos!d
Call in and see him in his new quarters.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22
KESoszA.Sept. lst, 1851
Notice

lshereby given that Special Meeting Of the PleasSn
Prairie Mutual Protection Society against Horse Stealing
vii ee held At the Peasant Prairie House, Saturday
Oct @ Tor the transaction Of such business as may come
Before the Society general attendance is particularly
requested both 81 members those interested in the Oh
y~ctS Of the society. JOHN C. HOLMES, see,y.
Sos. ers, Oct. IL 1857.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22

In The o. Paris The 18Th q OCTOBER, 1871 Mrs
MARY MEREDITH, aged 63 years.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22

INFORMATION WANTED Farmer A. takes =
hog to market, but being unable TO dispose of it
to any one man, sells it 10 B. and c.; each one
half, at So per hundred. The hog weighs 400
lbs, consequently comes to ust 500 Each man
pays $40. b. says to c., "Give me the hind quar-
tiers, you take the fore quarters, and will allow
? cents per Id. as differences" the headquarters
being more valuable per ID.
Query How many pounds shall each man
receive, and what shall be the price per h.. that
each man may receive just his $l0's worth e
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22

THE FIRST SNow.-We had little furry Of
snow here on Monday last The weather for
most of the past week has been cold, raw and
rainy, and altogether unpleasant, giving us un-
mistakable signs of the approach of winter.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22

A Coon APPoINTMENT-We are glad to
learn that our friend JOHN d. FOSTER, of this
city, has been appointed Freight and Ticket
Agent for the Chicago d Milwaukee Railroad
at Racine. That is the most important and re-
sponsible station on the Road between Chicago
Foster is young man of excellent business
habits, me.hodical and careful, and the business
entrusted to him will be promptly and efficiently
attended to: The company could not have made
better appointment. Success to him in his
new quarters.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22

10" We inadvently omitted last week to &C
knowledge the receipt of fsvors from Mr.. JOHN
HARMS, OF Bristol, He brought into our Office
some dozen varieties of apples, as specimens of
the product of his orchard. They were all very
excellent apples, but one of them was the largest
and fairest we have seen this season. 1t meas
ured IA inches in circumference, and was Of ex-
cellent flavor. Few Of our farmers can show a
greater variety or finer fruit than Mr.. Harms.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22

SWEET PoTAToEs.-Linus Woodwork o
Bristol, brought us few davis since, a mess
of sweet Potatoes, which were equal to any we
have ever tried, for which he will please accept
our thanks.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22

The person who took picture from the table
of Miss Simpsons Daguerrean Gallery one day
last week, will oblige those ladies very much by
returning the same to their rooms.
Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-10-22
MEN THAT ARE MEN.


IFUttttu9 u7sN f7tutsIoil1 lHtNtsl, 7Otct91, b0s5
And sold by every respectable Druggist in the U. 8.
Sold by +. ROBINSON, H. I. WEST, and STARKwEArEER
Co, Kenosha Thorpe Gorton, Racine; b. Cory Co.,
Waukegan: 0. Sheldon, Burlington Rice Steinnian,
Milwaukee; J. II, Reed Co., Chicago, and by all Drug.
gists. 3m12