The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-09-29
NEWS ITEMS.

Joseph E. Davis, brother of jeff. Davis,
died in Vicksburg on the 18th, aged 81
years. agdt q
Red Cloud is at Fort Laramie, waiting
for the distribution OF eight or ten car
loads of Indian goods, sent out for his
tribe, but which have not yet arrived
there.
The ex-rebel guerrilla Mosby is spoken
of as q candidate for United States Sena-
tor from Virginia.
William Adams, who was, a dozen
years ago, Mayor of Allegheny City, Pa,
was arrested, last week, on the charge of
passing counterfeit money. mb ah
The report that Pierre Carme, the
celebrated billiardIst, formerly of Chica-
go, was murdered by brigands in Mexico.
is unfounded. He is well, in the city of
Mexico.
At the fat mans dance at Ceder Grove,
R. l., there were three hundred present.
Each one was weighed before being adj
mitted. Each one weighed his two
hundred and upward. 81.
The State of New Hampshire loses
between $4,000 and $4,000 by the de-
falcation of Davis, Treasurer of the State
Reform School.
A New York wedding, last week, was
distinguished by the gift to the bride of
100000 diamond necklace, and 30, 600
worth of silverware.
Vermont butteris retailing in many
towns of that State at forty-two cents
pound.
1t is an Indiana paper that says but
few readers in the United States of Napo-
Icons dispatches that the soldiers were
full of elan know that the word means
BEANS"
The Secretasry of the Treasury, in New
York on Thurs day, accepted government
b onds to the amount of $3,000,000, in
stead of $4,000, 900, as advertised for.
The total population of New York
City, as shown by the census just com
pleted, foots up 885,026.
A woman at New Orleans undertook to
cowhide storekecper, few days ago,
for insulting her. While she was
striking him with the raw-hide upon his
shoulders, he seized hammer and split
her skull with it.
A national library is being built at
Salvador, in Central America, for which
5000 volumes are provided, and the
government is increasing the amount of
gratuitous Instruction.
David F. Biyins, the man who murder
ed his father, mother and wife, in Wood
stock, Michigan, in March, 1866,
and then undertook to burn the house
over their dead bodies, died in the prison
at jackson on the Both ult.
Ole Bull has purchased residence in
NJ l,,r
the coming winter.
The hog cholera is very extensive in
its fatal effect in the southern part of
Illinois. One farmer has lost sixty pork
ers recently from the disease.
Near St. Joseph, Michigan, man
lately played ghost on an old farmer,
who believes in muscular Christianity.
The ghost was taken home on wheel
barrow
Omaha has population of $4,000 !;
Council Bluffs, 1900; st. Joseph, Mo-,
$4,000; Leavenworth, $1,000; Kansas
City, 10000.
St. Louis has 115 miles of sewerage,
and is still investing $4,000 month in
the same line.
Detroit has population of 1880 !;
Grand Rapids, 1851; jackson, 11,44S :;
Muskegan, 5000; Flint $500; Ann Ar
Dor, $500.
Louis Ayestarian, recently Cuban
representative at New Y ork, was captured
in schooner at Cayo Romano, Cuba,
while attempting to return. He was tried
by court martial last Friday evening and
shot Saturday morning.
Frederic Douglass, the celebrated col
ored orator, has become the editor of the
Neao National Era, new weekly paper
in Washington. The first number of his
paper marks him as able with the pen as
with the tongue.