The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-09-17
gaf Senps!ss Teleorapll.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1868.
Miscellaneous Items.

The Hartford Post says that the only
luck the Democrats ever had in Vermont
was when they carried ST Adams during
the war That time they came in from
Canada.
| The New York Herald says: Cali the
acts before us, and all the signs of the
lines, indicate an overwhelming triumph
, to Grant and ColfaXn
There are eight hundred and thirty
miles of Canal in Ohio.
| The leading lecturers have reduced their
| lrices for the coming season.
| The sixth clause of the Democratic plat
form pledges it to a reform of abuses"
Clearly mistake 1t means the "abuse OF
reformers "--NelC York Itjbat1ae.
The Chinese are passionately addicted
to theatrical performances. Rich and
poor, mandarins and people, with out eX-
caption, doat upon the drama in every
style. There is hardly any village SO
small as to be destitute in this respect
The State of Michigan is about to erect
soldiers monument which will cost $74,
600. Of this sum $48, 900 has already been
secured 1t will contain eleven pieces of
statuary, two basso relieves, and four allie
gorical figures,
A party of surveyors has latey discover
ed extensive ruins on the banks of the
| Little Colorado river, in Arizona, which
extend along the banks of the river for
miles The walls of the buildings are in
some cases six or eight feet high, and old
canals can be plainly seen.
! During the whole of july says Ma
plies correspondent, "MOunt Vesuvius has
! been in state Of greater or less eruption,
and has exhibited a most MAJ nificent
spectacle For four months, wit in few
DAYS, it has been continuously pouring
forth lave, in spite of the predictions Of
the learned that the end was drawing
near.
The Republican victory in Vermont has
already sent gold down and Government
bonds up. If a thirty thousand State ma
iority has done so much, what will the
credit Of the government be when Grant
sweeps the country with million? Taxes
and the debt alike viii disappears peace
cOmeSi in.
Spurgeon says '1'he world maintains
| its players and fiddlers far better than the
Christian church remunerates its ministers;
and dancer or an actor will receive more
than the most learned and edifying di-
vine"
The grain crop in California this year
will be immense. At least 20,000,000
bushels of wheat have been harvested
The grape crop is also above the average
The Killbourn City CWis,) Mirror re
lports that 10000 women are picking hop;
in Columbia county, in that State
One steamer took $4,000 watermelon,
from Philadelphia to Boston the other day
Vineland, N. j., has already shipped
more than SO tons of that fruit to the
"Hub"
The Roman Catholics are building, il
Columbus, Ohio a Cathedral one hundred
and eighty seven feet in dimensions, will
a tower two hundred and fifty feet il
height The style will be that known a
the Early English
HARPER's WEEKLY pertlnently ask
why do not the Democrats declare tn
real secret Of their hostility to Gen Grant
chat he compelled Lee to surrender
AN old lady on a steamboat observe,
two men pumping up water to wash til
deck, and the Captain being near she ac
costed him as follows swell, Captair
. got we'll aboard, eh?" "Yes ma'am, a
ways carry one,' said the polite Captain
''Well, that's clever | always dislike
this nasty river water, especially in do
days"
> Rev Danial F. Potter brother of Hor
John Potter, of Wisconsin, is the Repnblica
candidate for Representative in the Main
legislature from Topsham. If
: A very enterprising Italian is gettin
up a cOmpanyto reclaim and cultivate til
Desert of Sahara by digging artesian wei
G in the sand.
The Catholics are laboring among I'll
freedmen in Baltimore in their schoo
a and churches white and black sit togethe
:. the priests openly declare the doctrine til,
y "God makes no distinction, and the churc
ID cannot"
Horati0 Seymour was chairman of I'll
= National Democratic Convention whicl
le at Chicago, in 1864, declared the war
q be a failure and called for comprOmE
"a land surrender. He has never apologize
for his part in that infamous white -teatI
Nc cred gathering, nor has the Democrat
n party ever officially or other wise retrac
Il ed this offensive slur on the brewery an
efficiency of the volunteer army l'
A LARGE FARM-The st. Paul Pre-.
- says that Commodore VIM. F. DaYidso
well known in the Mississipy valley fc
his connection with steamboat enterprise
on the upper Mississippi, has entered, o
the Sioux Reservation, in Redwood cour
ty Mimi, seventeen thousand acres {
excellent wheat lands, and next yea
comtemplates breaking EXTENSIVELY o
this tract preparatory to raising wheat til
following year The land is but FEY
miles from the Minnesota river
Rev. Mr.. Mcnamara, formerly rector of 81
Matthews church, Kenosha, and more recent
ly of Whitewater has accepted call to be
come rector of Christ Church (EpiscopaD, i
Lacrosse.
FEARFUL TRAGEDY IN sr. LOUISA fearf
tragedy occurred last evening in a
alley near Biddle and Tenth street. The par
ticulars are as follows: John Bnrns and Mich
ael Leonard engaged in fight that wa
caused by indecent propositions made b
CROP PROSPECTS IN Naturalization
the Irish Farmers Gazette of the 15tl
of August, we condense the following a
about the average condition of crop
through the island; Turnips, those eariy
sown, almost failure; such as have with
stood the drough and the rsvages of in
sects are hard and stringy. Those late
sown, particularly When on damp groun(
look better. The crop Of potatoes vii