The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-02-25
miscellaneous Items.
TuB Green Bay Gazette saws:

THE Green Bay Gazette says; 0rai
is coming in in large quantities ever
day. Farmers who have been holdln
these staples have come to the concluslo
that now is the time to dispose OF then
As a consequence our streets present
more lively appearance
Fort Moultrie, in Charleston harbor, !
deserted, being without garrison: IL
dilapidated condition shows that IL VIII
soon become one of the things OF INT
past. The chain of rebel earth work.
and batteries extending along the entire
front of the island facing the city anc
James Island remain undlsturbed.
A woman named Reed, in New Lisbon
Ill, recently brought suit against James
Burbeck for selling liquor toher husband
The jury gave verdict in her favor for
twenty dollars and half. The verdict
would have been larger, but it was proved
in the case that the woman had been In
the habit of drinking with her husband at
the same saloon. EAfFf
Frank Houston, of Pittsfeld, aA@lad
fourteen years old, recently stole his
mothers bank book and drew from the
savings bank her deposits, amounting to
$225,and then, in company with younger
lad named Collins, purchased guns, am
munition, &c, to the amount of $f5, OBJ
tanned tickets for Albany, and are sup
posed to be on John Browns tract, hunt
ing. ~'~
There is now living in Darien, Ct, in
the same house in which she was born, a
lady in her eightieth year. She has been
away from home but once in her life.
She lives within few feet of navigable
river, and within one mile of railroad,
yet has never seen a steamboat or loco
motive. -
Death of Father Hickey.-The Rev.
John F. Hickey supposed to be the
oldest Catholic priest III this country,
died at St. Agnes Hospital, Baltimore, on
Monday. He was born in Georgetown,
in 1788,and became student at st Mary's
Theological Seminary, Baltimore, at an
early age In 1914 he was ordained to
the priesthood. 71
A correspondent at Salt Lake City says
that Brigham Young has had another re
velation It is to the following effect !:
"Get thee up, Brigham, and dig canal
in the Valley, that it may be more fertile !,
that there may be fish that the sun may
be strong enough to ripen the cotton plant
and give raiment as well as food
to my saints on earth-The Lord hath
spoken. He has said unto his prophet;
brethren willing to aid Gods work should
come to me before the Bishops meetings"
From which it would appear that Brig
ham is going to try irrigation and cotton
growing. Of course, the faithful will
furnish all the teams, barrows, and labor
ers necessary to perform the work. a.
President johnson, on Monday, vetoed
the bill for an increase of the tariff duty
on imported copper-a measure that was
calculated to protect or encourage the
mining and manufacture of Americn cop
per. 1t is hoped that the bill will be re.
passed ever his veto. - f'
At the first performance Of the Spanish
Protestant services in Madrid, hundreds
ofpersons were unable to obtain admission,
owing to the want of room. The owner
OF the house in which worship is held has
received an anonymous letter threatening
him with assasinatson, ,4a. ira 64s lsta
A number ofyoung women in Massa-
chusetts manufacturing establishment re-
Gently kept silent, on a wager, fol, sixty
long minutes. f4A
A boy in Brentwood, England recently
snapped pistol ct the head of woman
it was not loaded, but the woman fell dead
killed by imagination.
It is curious fact that although the
rain keeps thousands away from church
on sunday, it does not deter single man
from attending to his business on week
day as ps. a
Typhoid fever of type that battles the
greatest medical skill is prevalent Phila-
delphia. .at rs sa.
A correspondent of the Des Moines
(Iowa) Register says that Mr.. Hospers
of Pellas lin that state, has invented a new
corn-cutter that "can be worked by one or
two horses, readily cutting from fifteen to
twenty acres 8 day. 1t runs close along
the rows of corn, q knife cutting off the
hills and gathering them into arms that
hold from four to six hills; then by lev
er, they are dropped into piles ready tx
be stood up in shocks. The machine i,
arranged that the corn may be dropped
when two hills are cut, or not till six are
gathered in. ~ s.eaaa IS !,
The French papers tells of an Englisl
mother who had just lost a lite boy
Some one came to comfort her, and re
minded her that he was then happy witt
the saints in bliss ooh, yes" cried tn
afflicted mother, 'he is in heaven, bu
Tommy always was shy, boy, and he
now among perfect stranger" .,lss ae
A ease of wife trading that occurred a
bingham, ILL, a short time since, remind