The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-02-27
Miscellaneous Items.

1t is said by an Indiana paper that up
wards Of ten thousand persons have become
church members in that State as the results
of the revivals experienced there.
| Elder Jacob Knapp, the well known bap-
fist revivalist, is preaching to crowded
houses in California.
The Princeton Republic wis states thai
the religious revival there is assuming pro-
portions which astouishes the members of
the churches themselves,
Central Park, New York city, has already
cost over ten million dollars.
Fifty cents per dozen is the very liberal
price paid in New York city for making
common overalls.
French Statistics show that during the
past thirty years more than ten thousand
people were struck by lightning in that
country. Science has not yet found the
means Of preventing such casualties
Tho California State debt under Repubi-
can management has been reduced over
five millions of dollars in four years.
fredericksburg, Va, is glad to see many
Northern aud Western men looking for
land with the int ention of settling.
When TIE Pacific Railroad is completed
traveller may go round the world in three
months
IA man who'll malciousy set fire to
barn, said Mr. Slow, ''and burn up twenty
cows, ought to be kicked to death by
jackass, and I'd like to do it,
The New York World says over 10000
persons in that city applied for aid to the
Association for Improving the Condition of
the Poor, during the month Of January.
| The Indianola Visitor says rain has not
fallen in that part of Iowa, to any consider
able amount, since October last. The cis-
terms of Burlington are nearly all dry
| The culture of the castor bean has been
introduced into Texas 1t is believed that
not less than seven thousand acres will be
planted the coming season.
The classic city of Athens contains nearly
fifty thousand thieves, which considering
its population, entities it to a feeble COM
parison with New York.
There is general complaint all over New
England that wells and cisterns have failed,
and that there is a greater want of water in
streams and springs than has been KIN own
before in winter for twenty years
New Orleans has more miles of street
railway than any other city in the world,so
it claims.
The Prairie du Chen (Wis) Union re-
ports that Miss Mary Porter, daughter Of
Rev. jeremiah Porter, Of that place has
gone East, preparatory to sailing in March,
as a missionary teacher, to China
Brick Pomeroy is to remove to Cincinnati
Robert Dale Owen is preparing new
volume on Spiritualism
The number of infant baptisms in the
Methodist Episcopal Church, during last
year, was Al, 658, the largest ever reported,
presenting also the largest annual increase.
The largest leather belt ever constructed
has been made in New York, forty seven
inches wide, three quarters of an inch in
thickness, one hundred and five feet long,
eighteen hundred pounds weight, and costs
two thousand dollars
Dan. Rice rents pew in evety church
in Gerard, Pa neither drinks nor gambles'
keeps three trained horses, and makes $780,
600 a year in the sho business
A fatal decease among the swine is re-
norted ia several parts OF Ohio In block
ine county, some farmers are losing from fiji
teen S to twenty hogs day. The disease is
said to be an affection Of the throat. 1t has
also prevailed to some extent among The
turkeys.
There is strong man in Chattanooga
who picks up two barrels of flour and walks
about with one under each arm.
Two young woman Of Vienna lately wal
tied ON wager until both fell exhausted
on the floor, and both have since died Of
hear. disease.
The Hebrews Of Milwaukee have inaugu-
rated new benevolent society, which is
doing large amount of good to the poor OF
that city.