The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-11-14
Miscellaneous Items.

miscellaneous Items.
AT wedding in Manson, Fla, last wee
the happy man was fourteen years of ag
and the blusiling bride was a widow wit
five children
A great fire took place at AIeppo, in Syr
la, few weeks ago which estroyed 60
shops and houses, aud rendered 5000 fami
lies pennIess The total loss is $500, 600
During the progress of the fire the muezzi
ans remained on the towers chanting thei
prayers as though nothing had happened
and while calling upon God to help them
moved not muscle to help themselves.
An assembly Of fifteen single ladies wal
held after church at PhillIpsburg, N. Y.
on Sunday afternoon, and on quiet anc
calm consideration resolved that they woulc
not encourage the advances Of any gentle
man. un less he was thoroughly temper
ance man.
There is strawberry patch in Alameda
county. California, of one hundred and tbir.
tty acres TIE owner is going to add on a
Hundred acres more next spring.
A boy baby in Belchertown, eighteen
months old, can tell every letter in the al.
phabet, There's precosity for you
In Green county, ILL.,, little boy was
thrown out Of wagon which ran over him
but apparently not injuriDg him, as he
arose and advanced towards the wagon
taking few steps, when he complained OF
being blind aud almost instantly afterward
fell aud expired.
A little boy at Mount Pleasant, Pa, car,
rled some powder and matches together in
his trousers pocket Another lad threw an
apple at him which hit the pocket, igni.ed
the matches and the powder, and occasioned
his death.
BY recent German invention coucus
slons OF the air are made visible. The in
tensity and duration of thunder can thus be
accurately measured by the eye
At Hartford, Conn, there is wealthy
and misery farmer, who quarreIed with
his wife some fifteen years ago, and, though
they live 10 the same house and eat at the
same table they have not spoken to each
other since. Two daughters, we'll along sin
the thirties, complete this ''happy family. !"
The way it is done at Utah: At a late
tabernacle meeting, one of the Mormon FL
ders read off list of young Mormons of va
rlous trades and capacities who had been Sc.
lected to go into the southern part of the
Territory and found new settlement They
We're ordered to find themselves plenty of
wives and start
DIR. Holland leaves hore to-day for his
six weeks lecturing tour in the West, go
ing as far as Iowa and Wisconsin. He
carries fresh and hearty Endorsement from
the Club. "-Spfingfetd (Mass) Republican
28M
During the yellow fever epidemic in New
Orleans, physician, while making haste to
visit patient in critical condition, was
arrested by policeman for fast driving
and actually detained in the station house
all night. The patient, upon the -arriv-
al OF the physician, exclaimed, sMy doctor
has given me up" and died.
An lowan in Alabama. General Datus
Il. Coon, formerly an officer of the End Iowa
cavalry regiment, was elected to the Ala
bama State Convention from the Selma dis
trict by 5000 majority.
Five little boys in Portland Maine, the
Oldest not five years old, according to the
Press of that city, whre seen drunk in the
streets the other day, and had to be carried
to the police station
A negro died lately at Yazoo, Miss, sup
posed to have been one hundred and seven
years old. He was reputed to have been
the servant of DR.. Corbin, the Attorney
General of Virginia in the days of George
Ill, prior TO the Revolution
How do You and your wife get on p
ooh, rather badly: she gave me her hand
while ago and | thanked her; she gives it
to me now every time speak, and I'd
thank her not to-" -
The Union party of Louisiana has been
organized on the platform of universal am
nesty, universal suffrage, and universal ed
ueation, with opposition to confscation.
Is The New York hotels the past year
did well. The Fifth Avenue hotel is report
ed to have made clear profit of 1925, 600;
the st. Nicholas, $4,000 the MetropoIi-
tan 100, 600; the Astor, $75, 1000; the Bre-
WORT 10000, the Clarendon, $50, 900 !;
the Barcelona (Spanish) $75, 600; the Union
Square, $4,000; the Everett, SO, 900 The
Brandreth, $50, 600 the Howard, 40, 900
the Spingler, $50 600 the St James, $40, !
600: and the Hoffman $4,000.
BAPTIsTs IN AMER1oA.-The American
Baptists Almanac for 1868, in tables therein
elaborated, informs Us that there are /, 49,.
22l Baptist communicate members con-
nected with their churches in this country
These are all regular Bapsists The figures
are based mostly upon the official returns of
1866 though in the case of the Southern
States and fey others, they are the figures
of returns that date back several years
The true estimate, Therefore, would place
the present number of Baptists still higher
than ae stated above Including other de-
nominations who practice immersion, the
Baptist family in North America contains
], $50. 517 COMMUNICATE members,
The editor of one the Bridgeport ct } pa
pers goes INTO ecstaces over four giant straw
berries just presented to him The gentle
man who raised them has had Strawberries
| from the same vines, on his table every
week since June, and expects to hav