The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1867-11-07
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Saginaw, Mich, has just opened new
and splendid hotel, called the Taylor House.
The apple crop has been almost total
failure in some parts Of the Ohio Western
Reserve The Chronicle says apples are
being brought to Trunbull county from In
diana and Michigan .21ih ---.'' 81,
General Mcclellan, General Hooker, and
7. Buchanan Read are in Paris. slE
Ten thousand Virginia negroes have
learned to read during the past year.
None Of the 1000 students at Oberlin. use
tobacco. DORIS --btT fi7ch ,agg1 =. :.
The homeopathic college of Pennsylvania
has determines to open its doors to worssn,
provided sufficient number offer to make
It desirable as a test of its benefits. We re-
cord the fact as an evidence of progress.
Two men recently died suddenly at Ca
madam tavern after drinking cup of coffee.
The landlady called the police, who suspect
ed her of poisoning the men. She protested
that she had not, and to prove the harm
lessness of the coffee drank cup herself,
when she also fell down dead. An examin-
alton of the coffee pot showed that bunch
of matches had been boiling with the coffee.
The experiments in New York with the
electric light, as substitute for gas in
lighting the city, continue. The last exper-
iment was made on the Battery. and the
electric battery of fifty six magnets was
driven by small steam engine. From
this wires were conducted to the upper part
Of the tower on the Battery where they
were connected with carbon crayous. The
light made was very brilliant, illuminating
the city and harbor for a great distance
These experiments are to be continued.
The first lager beer drank in Cincinnati
was brought, many years ago, from Potts
vile, Pa. Now there are twenty-four inn
mepse breweries making lager, and num-
Der OF smaller ones that make the quickly
fermented summer, or scbonk beer. The
general wages for foremen and brewers are
from 81, 800 to $4,000 a year, and hands
from $50 to 800 per month, and beer dri-
vers $40 to 500 per month, and ten cents
for delivery and return of each keg.
A Barre (Mass) tombstone has this inscrip.
ton: ''In memory of Mrs Lydia Barnett,
consort of Noah Ripley, Esq, by whom she
had 8 sous and II daughters, II Of whom
have lived to have families. Her descend
ants, at the time of her decease, were 81
grand children and log great grand-child-
ren She died June IT., aged 81. MANY
daughters have done virtuously, but thou
hast excelled." ke4 u " +"
TheRev Hiram w. Beers, of Chicago.
has accepted the call to ST. Pauls Episcopal
Church of Fond du Lac, he intends to re-
move thither about the first Of November
The Oswego Palladium tells the follow
ing: A 'Vermonter," one of the passen-
gers on the steamer Ontario Captain Estes,
was charged fifteen cents by lad for Civ
ing his boots a shine. The Green Mountain
boy refused to pay, and appealed to the cap.
tain, who told him that he believed fifteen
cents was the usual price for such service.
'EWaal, by thunder" said the Vermonter,
II shan't pay It'll Why, look here, captain,
deown our way yeou kin git whole box o.
blackin' for ten cents" asrG,l4.s
Last Wednesday afternoon; the last one
Of the one hundred columns completing the
portico of tue capitol at Washing ton, ID. O.,
was set in it's place The first column on
the extension was raised on the east side Of
the Senate wing on the 9th Of November,
1860, the day on which Mr.. Lincoln was
first elected to the Presidency The Stone
work is rapidly approaching completion,
and by the middle of October the last piece
of marble will probably be ia its place and
the whole work completed before Congress-
meets ia November.