The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-07-28

LOCAL BREVITIES.-We saw WnlJo FISH
last Thursday that weighed 40 pounds.
On Friday noon last the thermometer reached
par in the shade in this city Another run
away by Tim Kclley's team in this city last
Friday. Damages trifing Lots of thunder
and very little rain last Saturday afternoon.
The weather was considerably cooler after
it Two farmers who had got their corn
and rye in became excited on Main street
over the war news the other day. Nobody
wounded -. Supervisor Hoffman has been
making himself useful on Main street. The
street looks better. Lots of fine new hay
on Market square last Saturday "A Ten
nessee gentleman, spending few days in the
city, says Kenosha has the finest shade trees
he ever saw. We believe him :. Horse jock
eys are plenty in our city these days. The
old folks are ''tearers" on base ball in this
city. Another change will be noticed IN
the time table at the head Of this column.
School book publishers have reduced their
prices from to 25 per cent, and johnson is
doing the same. Quite a number of the
foundrymen last week " struck against the
hot weather. The weather got the best Of
them. We hear that two of our base ball
clubs are to play match game for the ''pop'
in few days. Our devil wants to hold the
stakes. Farmers who desire good sub
stantial dinner when they come into the city,
will stop at Cady's.. Ben Jewett is having
some of his carriages fixed up and painted
in a splendid manner. IA perfect " slab
e haSn b11iIf in thu vicinity of
Truesdells Touring will. =. Head 81 Suther-
laed are getting timber on the ground pre-
paratory to the erection of new building
for their wagon manufacturing business.
The proprietor OF the American House has
erected one building on the burnt district
Others will soon follow. Everybody and
his family were out to the picnic last Sunday
afternoon. Prof. Olker has drilled his band
so they play fright smart" Ed. Balm is
shipping q raft of his superior wagons this
season. The running time from Harvard to
this city has been reduced twenty-five min
utes-the western train making the run in
two hours. The race last Saturday after
noon was easily won by A. B. Truesdell's
little mare-time a.. We understand tLat
Prof. Olker has left the city temporarily for a
brief visit to his friends in New York. "A
few DAYS since the train on the western road
made the run from Pleasant Prairie to this
city, six miles, in eight minutes. The band
are practicing new piece. Thou art gone
from my gaze''-the music of which is said
to have cost two or three hundred dollars...
E. G. Runals has put a new substantial side
walk in front of his premises on Market
street The Old Folks have played several
games of base ball during the past week, al
ways coming out ahead. Piles of old news
papers for sale at this Office at fifty cents per
hundred ;. The sidewalk at Deans new
building is dangerous on dark nights. We
hear of one man picking himself up from the
bricks last Tuesday. .Durant, Van Arsdale
81 Co. used 1900 tons of pig iron last year in
tie manufacture of thimble skeins.. DR.. A.
8. Dennison has opened a dental office over
Ernst's store. See his. card on first page.
Wescott is remodeling the interior of his
store on Main street.