The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-11-07
Miscellaneous Items.

*. advertiser says ''Phe present wonder
fui drouth is the subject of daily increasing
anxiety in our community. Farmers from
the country complain that all the wells and
streams are drying up, and that at a time
when the food gates of Heaven are usually
open. They express fears that we shall
not have sufficient rains to fill the streams
and wells before winter is upon us, causing
suffering and great Inconvenience during
the whole winter season. We know that
like apprehensions are felt in our city, and
great Inconvenience is already experienced
from the failure Of large number of wells"
The Capitol bnilding at Washington
lit is stated, originally cost about 81, AGO.,
600. The additions, alterations and extern
sions of this building which are nearly
completed, it is estimated will cost $12,-
| 100000 as s
| 70 The new California State House is to
| be a fine one. 1t covers, with its angles,
nearly 10000 feet, and from its present
| ground line will be 226 feet to the top of
the dome, the circumference of which at
the roof will be 267 feet. We hope the
Earthquakes will treat it tenderly. a
I & IeaLuTBS
| of the manufacturing interest has been the
steady decline during the past season OF
cotton. Cotton has fallen over six cents
pound since July. The English cotton
market is exceedingly heavy. There is
at the present time little or no speculative
demand, and the consumers are about the
only reliance of the American shipper
Que great cause of the decline in the price
of our cotton is found in this fact that the
cotton of India has been improving won
derfully within the past year or two.
--Snuff taking is increasing in France
more rapidly than the other modes of using
tobacco. In four years the quantity con,
stunned has increased ten per cent.
Cashmere goats are becoming very
common in the west The Ohio Cashmere
Company has purchased 100000 worth
W thin year. lilaTGa a4t'21
Chicago elected only county officers. The
majority is about 1000
A Houston newsboy died of yellow
fever on the Esd. His last words were
Here's your Duly Telegraph.
Female Suffrage has been defea ted in
Kansas. tsesa
| THE Historic Daytime, from the
creation of man till the final Judgment, is
i in Gods sight as one day, and that day is
Ian high day in the calendar of heaven.
I0n8it at early dawn, man was made in
Gods image, and lost that image by his
own sim. On it at higA noon, the Son of
God took human nature, and died the Just
for the unjust. Ere It's evening close in
darkness, 8 the whole family of God" will
have been born and educated for glory
/ This day, IN the midst of eternity, though
it seems like lone star ia the blue sky. il
i greater than human thought at it's utmost
stretch can measure Man signalized this
lday4 by making it a day of perdition; Goo
Isigaaiized it a day OF salvation.
Rec. Vim. AY9sOt. @
4 EgrA small boy out West was assisting
his father 70 mark sheep with paint and
brush The father would catch a sheer
and say to the boy, SHARK that After
the job was done the boy started for hi
home which was some distance and wat
overtakeu by minister on horseback, whe
;seeing the boy barefoot, invited him to ride
behind him After the boy was seated he
4 began to catechise him thus.
''My lad, do you attend the Sabbath
ISchool?' 50 a"' !''s'. N'''
''Nop was the reply. t....t.-
a 80 You should attend the Sabbath School
mark that All go1d children should at
tend both church and Sabbath School,
mark that !"
After many more scenarios of this kind
the boy replied
d 81 have marked your back all over now
and itlooks like thunder!"
iiEhe reverend gentleman was somewhat
!, astoDished when he examined his coat
4 An Irishman's friend having falIer
into "a slough, the Irishman called loudly
to another for assistance. The latter who
was bqsny engaged in cutting log, and
wished to procrastinate, inquired, 4" How
deep is The gentleman in ~ Cup to his
ankles, was the answer ''rhen there is
ifplenty OF tIlne,' said the other. eNo
there s not rejoined the first, Il forgot 10
tell you he's is in head first. y
lima lecture upon newspapers, deliv.
cred in Philadelphia by Rev. Dewitt Tall
madge be paid the press the following
fine compliment g | now declare that /
consider the newspaper to be the great
agency by which the Gospel is preached,
ignorance cast out oppression dethroned,
crime extirpated, the world raised, Heav en-
rejoiced, and God glorifed. In the clank-
ling OF the prin ting press, as sheets fly out,
5II bear the voice of the Lord Almighty pro-
claiming TO all the dead notions of the
earth, Lazarus, come forth!' and to the
dretreating surges of darkness 'Iet there
be light" ia.
L ---Od newspapers mixed with clothing,
liz is said, will prevent mice from gnawing
the latter. Mice. it seems, have a literary
turn TOOTH for printers ink, and will
not modest cloth so long as thep can get
ipaper.7aa o. a2a"'
A SPLENDID CoNrRIBUrIoN.--It is officially
announced that the centenary contributions
eff the Methodist Episcopal churches, as far
as heard from, exceed four millions of dol
lars; and it is estimated that when the
Western Conferences are heard from, the
whole sum will nearly reach six and one half
million! s1aat
l. There are two eventful periods, . says
the Ledger, Sin the life Of a woman. One,
when she wonders whom she will have
the other when she wonders who will have
her.
"A Coquette is young lady of more
beauty than sense; more accomplishments
than learning more charms of person than
graces of mind with more admirers than
fria,ds
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