The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-09-08

into new places, but there are few. soul
worth saving. Duluth has one new
church in process of erection, built BY
Jay Cookies colporteur, who travels il
the interests of j. G. and the Episcopa
denomination. The rest OF tn,
preaching is done it thestreets, and
this afternoon I stood for fifteer
minutes and listened 30 a oud-throated
, red haired, square awed, shepherd of 8
motley Israel, consigning every mothers
son of them to eternal damnation. There
is magnificent echo here, and the dis
tant hills repeated that word damnation
: so often that it seemed to me all nature
had got into swearing fit. There is a
very creditable hotel here, the only build.
ing, in fact, in the city which has got
thoroughly painted and looks lit to go
out into civilized urban society. There
is theatre held in shed, where a
grand star combination from the
4 leading theatres Of the East Is playing
the i" new sensation" 8: Under the Gas
Light" pronounced by press and pub
lie " to be the great dramatic event Of
the age" There are two newspapers
here When one of the editors is not
threshing some gambler on street cor
ner, he is singing ink at his brother ed
itor, who burns the midnight oil over
lager beer saloon. The Issue Of to-day
contains IL leader in double loaded brc
yier, proving conclusively that Duluth in
a year s time will. outstrip' Chicago, ~ and
endanger New York, being the nearest
point TO everywhere, and destined to con
vey the products Of the Red River Valley
q, tok. h., ~, &c Fol
and the teas of China, to every hamlet
IN New England, and that small subur-
ban places like Philadelphia, Cincinnati,
Lake Forest, Milwaukee,, and Anamosa.
are already left out in the cold. l pre-
sumo that few weeks hence, when ma
ture locks them up with her icy letters
and they have to bestir themselves for
something to eat, they will sing smaller
| In the mean time take it Duluth is ad-
vancing morally, as the same issue con-
tains the following touching announce
ment. "
81 ao NOTICE. af Q .a
Il having told Mrs. Mallory and Mr..
and Mrs. Gundy that, Adam .Belworth
stole two shirts from me, / wish to say
that | was mistaken, and he is not the
man. j. SCHAFFER."
In the same paper I find straw which
shows which way the wind is blowing
A carpet has been sold to go to st. Paul!
York to shiver In the minds eye of the
Duluthian, he sees the industries Of
Administer and Brussels in the Dulles of
the St. Louis river, the looms of the old
world droning and the carpet stores Of
Chicago closed. The real estate column
informs me that lots on Superior street,
the main street of the place, can be
bought all the way from 1925 to $3.50 per
front foot. Wandering through the
streets this afternoon, it was with some
difficulty picked my way through the
stulnps, and once found myself brought
up standing IN front of gully with
charming swamp hole at the bottom of it,
which was finally circumna yigated by
detour into the ajacent country Go
back off this street few rods, where the
pines are not yet cut, and you can buy
land for 1926 per acre. There is one two
story frame building in Duluth and one
Of brick, but palatial mansions by the
mile on paper; small mansions of one
story by the acre, and all need paint.
The first painter who arrives in Duluth
provided his paint brush be stiff and
industrious, and his paint be not over
honest in the matter OF barytes, will be
its future millionaire. Cucumbers, how
ever, are fearfully high. would rather
take my chances in stack Of black cats
with branch OF catnip in my hand,
than to land on Duluth dock among its
natives with crate Of cucumbers or any
fl,o.< IL h. Cal,
/ year Duluth lives on salt mackerel and
canned lobster. Duluth has no harbor OF
its own which would protect yawl boat,
so it is going to take the pennies off the
dead mans eyes by running a canal
through Minnesota Point few rods
and stealing the harbor Of Superior City,
which can be made available to protect the
shipping of Duluth. if it ever has any,
by dredging out its yellow quicksands
Though why shipping should seek har-
Dor at Duluth when nature has made the
most magnificent harbor in the world ut
Bayfield,, deep everywhere, large enough
to accommodate the fleets of all nations,
and so securely land locked by the Apos-
tie Islands that the most persistent storm
can never get into it without washing
twenty five islands off their rock founda.
tions, passes all comprehension. 1t is
possible that nature, common sense, and
clear profit may be overcome by specula-
ton, but not probable; and in any event
not for any length of time. This Min
nescta Point is. natural curiosity of
itself. On one side the lake; on the
other low, marshy, overlooked grounds,
bordering the St. Louis River with
fringe Of wild rice, beloved of ducks and
mud hens 1t is covered with squatters,
and inhabited promiscuously by Irish,
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