The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1868-01-02
Miscellaneous Items

| The total loss Of lives on the lakes during
| the year now closing is reported to be 211
an increase OF just 90 over those Of 1865.
DEMOCRATIC EocNoMY. The Democratic
journals blow hot and cold with great IA
ctllty. They clamor for retrenehment, re-
form and low taxes, and in, the next breath
advocate the purchase Of Cuba for one hun
dred and fifty millions in gold! thus adding
two hundred and ten millions in currencVo
to our burdens. ils,ts .,...,.,'''. d,
Forty three million gallons Of beer are
CONSUMED inaLondon snnualIyoii5ufi 7ol
General Gillhelm has arrived at Wash q
ington from mississippi, being sentiby Gen.
Ord to represent to the authorities the ne.
cessity Of stfording relief to the suffering
( poor, white as well as black, in that State
They are in q wretched condition, and &C. i1
rrious consequences are apprehehded 10 iii9n,
Accordin gto the tables of THE lutheran
Church Almanac for 1868 there are in this VI
country 40 Lutheran synods, .withjl1,74SnI
ministers. 2,111 congregations, and 35l, $50
commandments. A division has taken place
ON the question of adhering to the whole of %
the Augsburg Confession. Ths1 General
Synod having received synod that had
formed a confession of it's own, conven-
ton Of seeding synods who adhere strictly
to the Augsburg platform was beld at Fort
Wayne, lndg November 90 ilGgoamsb bef
1T is said Of the Hon Mrs. Dennis Nc.
McCarty OF Syracuse, N. T., now spending
the winter in Paris, that she dresses mag,
Efficiently in a black velvet dress, with
train that reaches clear into the other par
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three large red roses in her hair. /. atd}
During seven years residence in Ann
Arbor, Michigan, gentleman has planted
more than ten thousand trees The place
should be really an arbor by this time.
Typhoid and scarlet fever are prevalent b
all over New York State and in the West
ern Statss- Doctors say there has seldom
been time when deaths were more fire.
quent fror these complaints than the pres
ent. 3Li F IS N.uoW I'd hIHl9 vf
Hays City is Kansas growth, where there
was not house four months ago Of 1000
inhabitants and the inevitable newspaper.
Cinnamon cannot testify in California
courts, .notwith standing the Civil Rights
bill So seitag Gaani 81 s3oG ~
In Southwestern Kansas there is a plain
thirty miles long and fiftevn miles wide,
covered with crust Of salt from one to four
inches thick. V 44~b ~ii,rr- e8t e., t,,.,-.
Mr.. Philip Decker, Of Evansville, Ind,
has placed sixty pairs OF gloves in the hands
Of Chris Hedderich, township Trustee, to
be by him distributed to the poor. -, ~.
Think Of making tour to Egypt and
the Holy Land at 80 years of age Amos
Keddall, Jackson's Postmaster General has
just done it, and is back home again as well
and vigorous as ever. 10y Wo1 e. 2aj
There are now 1853 National Banks in
operation.
On Friday morning Of last week, between
the hours Of and5 o'clock, no less than
nine dwellings were entered by burglars
at Dixon, HI, sa6m ~
r. "A Dayton stage horse has Travelled thirty
eight teousand miles in seven aud half
years.
There il said TO be- region in Peru whore
the climate restores cOnsumptivc persons to
health as certainly as night follows day. sa
Detroit has 718 places where liquor is pub
idly sold, OF the keepers, 401 are Germans
116 Irish, 1872 natives Of other European
countries aud Canada, aud only 81 were
born in this country. a
Edwin Booth realizes over eleven thousand
dollars for his recent twelve nights in st
Louis an ef lha sr5 sl8 8pf .
20 Portland is talking about grand boue-
ward, eighty yards wide, with all the mod
ern Parisian improvements. CGf g sed ii1n
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