Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1859-01-13
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North Carolina is the only State in
the Union that excludes Jews from Of
| fee.
On the 4th inst, the city of Munich
celebrated the tooth anniversary Of its
foundation.
A bill is before the Arkansas Legisla-
ture to suppress the sale of patent med
icines lii that State.
Henry L. Ellsworth has given, by his
will, all of his large property, except
about 100000, to Yale College. 1t is
estimated that the College gets $780,
900.
An organization known as the League
of United Southerners, has issued very
formidable pronun ciamento advocating
the dissolution Of the Union, and the
erection at once Of q model Southern
Republic.
From recent report of the Secretary
OF the Interior made to the Senate, it
appears that the entire cost Of Govern
ment buildings in Washington, includ-
ing statuary and paintings, has been
$l4, 7o9, S39,O9.
The New York Tribune says there is
no city III the Union the banks of which
are in SO strong position as those of
New Orleans. The specie reserve is
over eighty per cent. On the loans, and
nearly seventy per cent on the deposits.
The minutes of the thirteenth annual
session of the Wisconsin Baptist State
Convention shows the following stats
tics: District associations, 8; whole
number of churches, 178; pastors, los ;
baptisms, 1,l77 deaths, 10; excluded,
100; total number of members 1889.
Two singular suicides are recorded
in the French provincial journals. One
was of a young man at Orleans, who
threw himself head foremost from the
top of poplar tree Seventy-fve feet
high; the other of a young man at
Reichenstein (Haut-Rhin,) who lighted
ball-cartridge in his mouth.
The vastness of the Russian empire
will be somewhat appreciated, when it
is known that the distance from Mos
COW, the heart of European Russia, to
lrkutsk, the capitol of western Siberia,
is 1926 miles-or farther than from
New York to San Francisco. You can
travel 1000 miles farther east, and all,
too, within the Russian empire. 1t is
colossal sovereignty in land, popula-
ton, and power.
The New York Herald has the fol-
lowing: "California gives us a million
week. All the other fields we can
safely say, with what facts we already
have will give us at least half as much
Our gold crop is therefore likely to be
for years to come at the rate Of q mill
lion and half per week, or seventy-sev-
en- millions of dollars per annum-equal
to one-half Of the value of the cotton
crop of the country"
The improvements in Paris are to be
continued on even more gigantic scale
that heretofore. Twenty one vast thor.
oughfares are to be cut through denselv
built quarters in Paris. The expense is
estimated at $50, 100000. The govern
ment of France and the city of Paris
have entered into "a compact for the
completion Of the whole enterprise in
ten years. France pays $lO,00O,Ooo
and Paris S26,ooo,OOO. The object of
Louis Napoleon is not merely to make
Paris the most attractive city in the
world, but to so widen the narrow
streets as to render the erection of bar
rlcades impossible. With few thou
sands OF troops, the Emperor can al
ways keep Paris in subsection. The
bloody rebellions which have repeated
ly signalized the history of Paris can
never occur again.