The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-04-01
Minnesota Correspondence.
For the Telegraph.
OF III6 I5IegTaPH'
ST. PAUL, MINI. March 14th, 1869

blocked, and travel generally interfered
with. During the month, the thermome-
Ger stood three days, twelve degrees be-
Low zero one day fourteen below; one
sixteen below, and one seventeen peioW.
March thus far, has been more severe than
the preceding month, with frequent hea-
w snow storms and high winds The
thermometer on the fourth indicated
twentv-three degrees below zero, and on
the eleventh. fifteen below, standing at
six below several mornings, and on the
fourth it did not rise higher than six.
The result Of this is, there are many frost
bites as your correspondent can attest
by experience, friend "Jack" made sue
cessful snatch at his proboscis, but as he
took less than half an inch, there Is
enough left The Patrons of husbandry
are in full blast here They have organ
lied state Grange, and rented Market
Hall, one of the largest in the city, for
five years-this looks permanent enough
in which to hold their meetings. They
propose to establish agents in the market
to sell the products of the farm and gar,
den and thereby do away with the pres
ent system Of spectators. They are also
negotiating line of steamers and barges
to convey wheat &c, to New Orleans, and
from thence tie Europe The farming in
of c+o +a hos c,-I;
to the monopoly of spectators and rail
roads, until every branch of it has dete-
riorated, wheat, the great staple, not
ringing enough Unmarked at the present
high price of labor, to pay for harvesting
and threshing If this enterprise can be
come universal and successfully put into
operation, it will do away with some
of the corner speculations in Chicago, and
other central markets of corn, beef and
pork. The city is merry in all kinds of
amusements. Driving and skating parks
Velocipede performances, cheapat twenty
five cents to see the exhibition, and if
you like to take ride on the "critter, 5"
tails, bumps, blackeyes, bruised bones
and noses thrown in. Some amateurs
have made such proficiency as to bestride
the vehicle in the street when they are
followed by group of gaping admirers,
who never fail to applaud the animal if
1t becomes refractory and rides the rider
Tom Thumb and troupe have been giving
number of leyees at the Opera House.
Commodore Mutt met with an accident
at the Merchants Hotel, mistook the
wrong door land entered a dark room that
landed him ten feet below in lumber pile;
he was taken up insensible, but appeared
on time with bandaged head, though
hardly able to take his part in the per-
formances Fred Douglass lectured last
Friday evening at the same place, to d
crowded house. His subject "William
the Silent, was made a companion to
the lamented Lincoln, and gave general
satisfaction The absorbing city topic at
present, is the location of new hotel.
The international burnt the Sd of Feb'y,
more than month has passed and still
locatiun for new oneapproaches no near
CT solution than the day of tire fire. At
this rate of progression the wants Of the
city in this respect, will be supplied in
about six thousand years. Some of the
plans are to build by part subscription,
others to tax the ward in which it may
be built, and others to form stock com
pany. The piers and piling for the new
railroad bridge, across the river, between
this city and Mendoza, are nearly compile
ted. After trains are enabled to cross it
is contemplated to erect large Union
Depot on the lower levee, from which all
the trains will approach and leave the
city, in connection with the steamers on
the river.
The bill passed by the Legislature to
remove the Capitol to western Minnesota,
was vetoed by the Governor It was
most infamous thing, gotten up in the in
terest OF railroad spectators. The loca-
ton selected is far from the haunts Of
man-in perfect wilderness-and no
mode of communication. If thew had
made an amendment to the bill, that no
hotel and grog-shop should ever be built
within fifty miles of the proposed loca-
ton, have no doubt the bill would have
become law, but Legislatures and lobby
lists are careful to look out for the rations
so necessary in political matters The
OIL giving ten thousand dollars to the