Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1859-04-21
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WE LEARN from the Be!oit Journal that SOM
| forty persons from that place and neighborhooc
left for Pixies Peak on the 18th
SCARLET FEvER,- This dangerous and ia
tai fever has been making sad havoc among the
children in this vi lage for the last month or two
several having died from its effects. -Jefersonian
II has been said by somebody that change is
written upon every mundane thing Such NAV
be the case, but there many things-pockets
for instance-tnwhich there is no Change
A LADY writing from Texas, speaks of wa.
king up one morning and finding herself i'll bed
with serpeut. A great many ladies have found
themselves IN the same predicament-and some
entlemeN.
The total Indebtedness of the city ofRaeine.
is $392, lo5.52. The expenses for the city gov
efnment the past year was $9,679.4S OF the
amount of Indebtedness $500, 900, exists in q
bond to the Racine aud Mississippi Road.
The Republicans of Michigan were warned
that if they adopted a registry law they would
run the risk oflosing the State. They did adont
I, and their majority was never greater than at
he recent judicial election.
MELANCHOLY CASUALTY.-On Saturday a.
ternoon last, rs Martin Weber and his wife of
the town of Germantown, Wis, were WORKING in
sugar bush, near the line of the La Crosse
Railroad, they were both struck by !ipbtninp
and instantly killed. They leave a large fam,
lily of children to mourn this sudden and fatal
stroke.
1t is related of a we'll known English editor.
that just before finishing his apprenticeship to
the printing business, he paid his addresses to
the daughter OF an eccentric clergyman, and
frn n6 emit \.
was ms surprise, when on going to church on
the following Sunday, the old gentleman gave
out as mis- text, My daughter is grievously tor
mented with devil"
~ The Republicans of Wheeling
Virginia, have memorialized the Ma.
tlonal Republican Committee to hold
the National Convention there in 1850
LA CRossE.-The Democrat saws that
many splendid editices for private resi-
dences are being erected in every ward
OF the city.
Pixies PEAK.-The Chicago Herald
says that special train Of tsce1oe ears
left that city on the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy Read, all laden with men
women, children and traps, consigned
to Cherry Creek and vicinity.
Nine and half millions of acres of
the pubic lands in Kansas and Nebraska.
which were withheld from sale last wear
on account OF the financial reyuision'
will be in market in july, August and
September. 1t is expected that these
sales will increase the rev'nue ofthe next
fiscal year, very materially.
DEsTITUTIoN IN MIcHrGAN-It is
found as the result of careful inquiry NV
the local authorities that l89 out of 87l
families in Montcalm County, Michigan
are in state of restitution. The report
of the Board of Supervisors SAYS that
" they are in such straitened and neces.
sltous circumstances as to REQUIRE aid
beyond their own means to enable them
to procure suitable food, and seed for
spring crops" The Board proposes to
borrow, and pledge the faith of the co u n.
ty for repayment, $4,000 for immediat tic
use in relieving the wants Of The
distressed.
Inc L arlS correspondent OF the Boston Travel.
Ter, gives an amusing account of the arrest o.
VIM. Lee of Boston, suppOsing him to be an Ita
ian Red Republican He was walking in the
Tulleries, when he was siezed by two secret
policemen, and taken before the Commissary of
Police. The correspondent writes
Mr. Lee explained to the commissary whom he
was, and showed him his passport which he for
tunately had in his pocket. The scene changed
instantly. The Commissary of Police asked him
ten thousand pardons for the inconvenie nee tc
which he had been subjected land hoped he would
forgive! the stupidity of the policeman. The
Commissary soundly rated the officers. He told
Mr. Lee they were charged to arrest an Italian
Red Republican, who was supposed to be turk
ing in Paris with intent to assasinate Louis Ma
poleon, " and am sure" added the Commiss a
ry, with smile, 'that you are no Red Repub
Republican voyez vous exclaimed Id the Com,
miSsary, turning to the policemen, who looked
as though they could creep into some hole
C'est un negro des Etats Unis; He is Negro
from the United States"
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