The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-08-20

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The number of thrashing mach ines il
the country is set down at 225 900, and il
is estimated that they can save five pei
cent. more of the grain than the fail
| This would save the coun try more thar
19,O00,00O bushels of grain, worth at least
100000.
A portion of the colony of Swiss settler
/ who have purchased tract of40,00O acres
| in Middle Tennessee, near Tullahoma has
already arriyedon the ground Wool grow
ing and wine raising will be their princi
pal occupations.
A large rock, weighing about twelve
tons, broke loose from the side ofLookout
Mountain, recently, and rushing down.
struck the dwelling of Mr.. Geo Ash croft
instantly killing his wife and her infant
and injuring seriously three other chill
dren.
Mr. Seth Boyden, the strawberry cul-
turist of Newark, believes that in the
course Of twenty years he could raise
fstrawberries as large as pineapples, and
Of equal delicacy with those now grown
This is a well recommended recipe for
summer complaints Cook thoroughly 9
quart of Indian meal, sweeten it with sug-
ar or molasses, and CRATE into it nutmeg
Take instead Of the regular meals.
Rev. Dr. T. L.. Cuyler, a classmate OF
General Frank Blair in one of the colleges
which the latter attended for d short time,
says that Blair's only distinction in college
was his amputation Of achoolmate S
nose with a carving knife in tipsy
spree.
The wine crop i'll France this year is
described, uniformly, as the most abundant
and best in quality that has ever been
grown within the memory Of man.
William G. Willis died in Boone coun-
ty, Ky. Aged, 40; weight 500, avoirdu-
pois.
a clergyman of Cambridge City, IN
diana, has organized a colony to emigrate
to Northern Alabama, and goes himself at
their head.
Brigham Young is building private
residence at Provo, fifty five miles south of
Salt Lake City.
The Grand Trunk Railroad is success
fully burning peat as fuel for its locomo
tives
The miscreant whose bullet sought the
brain of Abraham Lincoln, were he alive,
would vote for Seymour and Blair. Friends of
the martyred President will you vote for the
same disleyal men.
Wade Hampton, the rebel South Carolina
delegate to the National Democratic Conven-
ton, has made another speech, reasserting that
he Is the author of the claus. In the Democrat
ic platform declaring the Reconstruction acts
unconstitutional.
Alphabetically, all is well with Iowa. The
wheat is garnered, and is threshing out
heavy yield. Oats are heavier and better than
ever before known in the State. Rye barley.
etc, ditto. Corn promises more bushels than
last year, and being farther advanced than
usual at this time of year, is believed to be
insured from frost. The potato crop win be
much heavier than Tor three years past, as
the oug5 have not been nearly so destruc-
tive.
One cattle ranch in Texas is fifty miles in
extent and contains 100000 cattle Twenty
head are shipped regularly from il
Miss Lydia Howard child between fonr
and five years old, has been acting burlesone
1t private residences in London, and is said |
10 possess extraordinary dramatic talents
She Is styled The Baby Actress
1t is expected that the new Niagara Falls
bridge wall be opened to the public on or |
about the 18th Of October.
The latest letters from England show that
he drouth has not seriously aTec ed the
cereal crops, and the demand for gain from
'his country will not be SO large as Was
expected
4 larger and finer crop of corn VIII he
aised IN Virginia this season than for many
ears paat
The east Tennessee wheat crop has ali
'een harvested. ana is donble thai Of last |
ear. Oats corn, and fruits crops are fine
Spots on the sun lave lately received
more than usual attention from astronomers.
'ome OF them are very large. and 1t is ex
'ected that in day or Two one of them /
nay become visible to the naked eye, smok-
d glass being used Of course.
Among other silly stuff which Democratic
apers are endeayoring to palm of on thei |,
eaders Is story that the Coy eminent has an
lniunded debt OF four thousand million
Loliars. They evidently mean that we ought
o pay the rebel debt and for emanpinafed