The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1861-08-15
STATE ETENfS,

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Guppey hit
our boys ''plumb center"on Thursday last, when
he sent them half dozen apple pies, with &C
companying documents The apples We're
grown in the Judges orchard on the banks of
Silver Lake, and were putin apple pie order"
by A Shreck, Esq The pies were tip-top, the
boys were hungry, and altogether IL was a
great day for our Satanic, who ''senses" a
good thing, especially if it is anything TO eat
Portage Register.
They have ,.pleasant way o. doing the agree
able up north. We hardly open an exchange
from up north" but has some acknowledge
ment in it, for mess of green corn, u mess of
new potatoes, pail full of berries, big water
melon,or some such thing, which serves to keep
the editors in mighty good humor.
CRoPs.-We hear favorable accounts from all
parts of the county, in reference to the crops -
The harvest has but just commenced and the
wheat may not yield as much to the acre as last
year. but it VIII be Of Il superior quality. The
rich harvests gathered by our farmers last year
induced them to cultivate this year every inch
of ground at their command SO what they lack
in quantity will be made up i'll quality Vest
Bend Post. .Ir .-
FRUIT, From all we can learn, there never
was a more bountiful year for fruit than the
present is proving to be. Every apple tree is
loaded with iruit; and berries, urranss, &c,
have never been more abundant. In few years
Wisconsin will cease to buy fruit of Michigan
and Ohio, and will raise her own.-Home
League. w 1," t-~"
The hot weather of the last two weeks has
furnished food for innumerable items. Some
of our editorial friends have improved the occa-
sion TO give their wit an airing The following
is the way friend Thomson Of the Home League
discourseth: aa..r ..
! Hot, HOTTEST, Observation-Disclosures
That venerable parsonage, the Oldest inhabitant,
came into our office on Tuesday afternoon, i'll a
state of almost iquidity, and began to use pro-
fame language about the heat He said he had
lived North, South, East and West, and had new
er sperienced such gol blasted hot weather Gny
aokere. He declared with blasphemons empha
sis, that Wisconsin Eat allfor heat when it ,cas
hot !! Old woman is nervous, drinks green tea
and thrashes around all night, killing 'skeeters
and SIGH" like-no rest-no sleep till it's time
to get up. We loaned him DIR. Kane's Arctic
Expedition, and recommended ice water, far
and locust tree, and the old fellow went of
hopping his scarlet face with his bandanner ano
blowing like a porpoise.. " r4.l
The Manitowoc Tribune treats it in this style
HoT!-We learn thaC the Mercury reached
1925 in the shade, S lnday. 1t was hot enough
to bake eggs IN the sun. 1858
| We have been waiting all day Tor intelligence
| from our Fat Contributor" and are iearfu
that only grease spot is left to tell the tale OF
his probable fat(e). If so, he was doubles
" tried and not found wanting" 1t is cooler
to-day. sl J.. saaa e5g sEaf If. a
SUN STRUCK We were told on Saturday
| that six men in one harvest field in the town
of Willow Springs, La Fayette county, were
sun struck A horse in the same field was sc
| overcome by the heat as to cause his death
We have not heard the condition of the men
since the first ort-Minerat Point Tribune
DROWNED. On Tuesday afternoon, little
daughter of Mr.. Davidson, residing near where
the extension of Wisconsin street would strike
the river OH the north, fell out of boatin which
she was playing with another little girl and was
Immediately drowned.-Berltn C0urGnt. r-,
The Gazette says that during the late thunder
stonm,a bail of fire entered through the window
OF Il house IN Jauesviile, and passed away afte
melting the bell wire and setting some clothing
on fire i'll closet
Sun SrRUGK.-Mr. john Carter, while a
work harvesting IL a held westJbt,t our village
| last Saturday, received sun stroke. lie wa:
convey ed to his home i'll the village. where hC
suffered till about 10 o'clock on Sunday morn
ing, when he expired.-IOtca Co. AdUOcate.
IMPORTANT IF TRUE.-One of our mer
chants, says the Green Bay AdUOcate, returned
from the East on Thursday evening, brings the
report that the New York Central Railroad
Company have recentiy purchased the entire
Fox and Wisconsin, River Improvement, togeth
er with ali the boats, barges and fixtures own
ed by the Company. If the N. Y. Central have
really got control OF this great work, it Is with
the view to make some important changes, and
to crowd it through to the fullest capacity.
Sun STRUcK.-We hear of several cases Of
sun-stroke during this time of excessive heat, one
at them proving fatal. Peter Smith, of Harris
burg, while at work iii the field last Saturday
fell down senseless,a died very soon, witbpu
speaking word after the stroke.
Three cases of sun-stroke have also occurred
on Sank Prairie, but will not prove fatal The
names OF the parties we have not learned
The brute creation have not been exemp
from Jun stroke or something analogous to it
A fine horse belonging to Hon. E. w Young
of Prairie du Sac, fell dead in the sun few
days ago. An OK, belonging to Mr. Cheek, O
Excelsior, was lost in the same way,-BarobOt
Republic w.
| WHoRTLEBERRIEs. are Informed by B
S. Winship, of Tunnel City, that about sever
hundred bushels of those berries have already
been shipped from the railroad depot at tina
place for the eastern market. They have beer
bought at from to 5 cents a quart-Spart0
Eagle
The Appleton Motor says
The numerous personal and political friends
OF Hon. A. B. jackson, of this city, will be glad
to learn that he has been confirmed by the Sen
ate as Register in the Land Office at Menasha
Mr.. Mcclellan is also confirmed asReceiver o.
the same Office.
The same paper says
Three Car loads of machinery for Mr.. Hutch
inson's Wooden Mill, arrived last week. The
machinery is first class and will be put up, we
suppose, as rapidly as possible. The building
is handsome one. now about finished land adds
much to the appearance of the Water Power
| From the SOutEl-PnrsOn RrownIOw,s
Paper Suppressed.
LOUISVILLE, Aug, PA passenger arrived
here from KichmoEd, passing Knoxville last
Friday, reports Gen. Zollicoffer at the head Of
Tennessee troops there and that he mad sup