The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-04-01

DelaWaT6 sui CllngS 10 TIC whip
ing post and other relics Of barbarism
Her Legislature yesterday refused to
ratify the fifteenth amendment to the
Constitution.
The Spanish Consul in New York
sent to the Governor General
of Cuba on Saturday this brief and
suggestive telegram : t" The Island
of Cuba is lost to Spain"
As George Brown, Of Elkhorn
Ind, was in the act of retiring to
bed, he threw his revolver down and
the pistol going off, the bullet passed
through the head af his son, aged
twelve years, killing him instantly.
Iowa wheat is getting its name up.
Some three months since the merch-
ants of Liverpool ordered 100000.
bushels Of best amber Iowa." and
now comes an order from Barcelona,
Spain, for 100000 bushels of the
same kind.
A man in DanvilIe, Virginia, went
down well to clean it out few days
ago when a pile Of rocks caved in and
buried him. The rocks were over him
to the depth of twenty feet, and he
remained for seven hours in this
situation, but was fnlaIy rescued,
though badly bruised.
It is stated that one fifth part of
the Jesuits in the world are at present
actively at work in the United States
They have been successfully Danish
ed from every nation Of Europe, ex-
cept England; yet they meet with no
resistance at this side Of the Atlantic
In the Swiss canton of Uri, printers
and editors are whipped on the bare
back for publishing articles which the
authorities do not like. In Bohemia,
editors who assail the Government
are sentenced to Imprisonment. In
Mecklenburg the opposition papers
are not allowed to publish leading
articles.
A boy was recently excused from
school to attend a funeral, but a tru-
ant officer found him soon after,
Witnessing a game of base ball. and
asked him why he did not go to the
funeral. With the utmost GOODNESS
the youngster replied: I went down
to the house to attend it, but the man
isn't dead yet"
The plans for the great bridge
across the East river between New
York and Brooklyn, are being rapid
ly matured, and the work will soon
be begun. The structure will be a
suspension bridge of the enormous
span Of 1000 feet, and will be one
of the finest specimens Of engineering
in the world.
Memphis was visited on Sunday
last with a terrible hail storm, which
did great damage. Scarcely pane of
glass was LEFT in the city. Shrubbery
and fences ware demolished. A negro
man was found dead the next morn
ing who had been caught in the storm
while drunk and killed by the hail.
Many hail stones were as large as
hens eggs.
Victor Emmanuel has ninety-seven
palaces. The Emperor of Russia
has sixty-two; the King of Prussia
seventy-four; Napoleon eleven official
ones, and ninety-three which he
might occupy as chief of the State
Francis Joseph of Austria has up
wards of one hundred. Isabella of
Spain had fifty two, and she has now
only one, which was formerly a
private boarding house.
DR.. Willard Parker lectured Friday
night in the .Olivet Chapel In Second
street, on the human body, as ''the
house we live In" it was familiar
aud instructive account Of the general
laws Of life in outline; the principal
point arrived at being that intellect
is foo highly, or at least, too exclu-
sively valued in our modern system
of social life, and that the regulation
and direction of force, both mental
and physical, by moral motives and