The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-01-28
Miscellaneous Items.
A letter from San Francisco, speaking

mechanic, and not worth dollar. To-day
he is worth at least 100000 i'll hard
coin, and his income from one mine alone
in White Pine is over 81, 500 day He
is investing his money in real estate. IN
San Francisco. The other day friend
was joking him on the subject ofmarrlage,
remarking that he could now marry any
young lady in San Francisco to which he
replied: "Well, | knew gal out West
who was willing to marry me When
hadn't cent, and now I'm able, III gong
to marry her"
The report ofthe American Colonization
Society shows that the receipts last year,
from donations, legacies, etc, were over
$4,000. Over $4,000 were paid to trans
port emigrants to Liberia; $4,000 to re
pair their ship, and $4,000 for other pur~
posss. The expenditures during the last
three years have exceeded the receipts by
s $4,000, and they call for more income.
The emigration fell offnearly two hundred
last year.
TheS1bbath preceding the inaug lratio1
of General Grant as president, will be one
of great interest to all persons then in
Washington, and to the public generally.
The Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal
Church of Washington, one of the finest
Protestant churches in America, is to be
dedicated on that day. Three sermons will
be preached, by the Rev. William Morley
Punshon, Bishop Simpson and I. NJ. Eddy
D. D., of Chicago
A CELEBRATED lawyerand Governor of
South Carolina had been employed to de
fend fellow indicted for stealing horse.
The evidence was plain against him, bat
the Governor made such powerful speech
that the jury at once acquitted him After
he was turned loose he was accosted by a
friend ''Now Jim, honor bright did you
steal that horse?" Well, Tom for long
time I thought stole him, bnt since /
heard the Governors speech l don't be-
lieve [ did"
TIE Mount Gents tunnel is doubtless
the most daring feat of civil engineering
ever yet undertaken The work was not
actually begun until November 1860. The
tunnel will be seven and half miles in
length. There is difference Of level of
435 feet between the entrance Of the tun-
mel on the French and on the Italian side.
The rocks through which the excavations
work in consequence of their varying
character. Before the work was com
menced it was necessary to survey the
intermediate country with great accuracy,
in order to determine the exact direction
of the two tunnelings; otherwise they
might fail to meet by two or three hun
dred yards 1t is not easy to conceive
how terribly the delicate processes involv-
ed in surveying were 'interfered with by
the constant storms of driving snow and
rain, which sweep through the Alpine
passes. But the work was at length
completed with wonderful exactness. The
tunneling is progressing rapidly, about
three-quarters of the distance having been
completed; and it is hoped that the re
mainder will be finished early in 1871.
The Woodstock 0Il) Sentinel states
that Captain E. D. Bond, formerly of the
9Th cavalry, eloped on the night of the 14th
instant with Miss Ada Fellows, leaving a
wife to whom he had been married num-
Der of years She did not ego crazy" but
applied for a divorce.
Chang and Eng, otherwise known a
the Siamese Twins, have visited Edin
burgh, to obtain the advice of Professol
Syme, as to the ACCESSIBILITY Of sevcrine
the intercommunicating band by which
they have SO long been held together
After careful examination, Professor
Syme said that such an operation would
prove highly dangerous to their lives,and
accordingly he advised that the operation
should not be performed. Sir James Y.
Simpson, Bart, also entertains the same
view
A bill has been introduced into the
legislature of Tennessee by Mr.. Nelson, Of
the senate, giving the elective franchise
to women. 1t was referred to the Judicial.
ry committee.
In the Kansas legislature, on Thursday
last, a resolution was introduced asking
Congress to submit and amendment to the
constitution giving suffrage without res
pect to sex or complexion.
The Militia Bill just passed by the leg
islature of Tennessee gives the Governor Of
the state absolute power to declare mar
tial law at his will, and to call out the
military force ashe may think proper
Josiah Quincy of Boston, in his address
before the Social Science Association, last
week, attributed the high price of proyi
sions to the exorbitant rates of trasnporta
t1on charged by the railroad companies
The new hall of the Grand Army of the
Republic, in Chestnut street, Philadel
phia, was dedicated On the 18th inst. The
presiding officer, Gen. Owen, stated that
the Grand Army of the Republic now
numbers 100000
Only six months ago, woman's coop
erative association was organized in Sar
Francisco, with a capital of $4,000 II
has furnished work to 1862 women has