The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-01-05
NEWS ITEMS.

Mrs. Belknap wife of Secretary Bel
KNAPP. died Dec 28th. 1870.
An Ohio woman has sued her husband
for divorce because he refused to believe
| IN the damnation of unborn infants.
The siege of Paris has added to the vo-
cabulary. Thus We hear of pigeoning"
messages, AMI !" balooning' dispatches.
The school Board of Lynn, Mass, has
six women on it, ana they make good
members.
There is a family in Muncie, Delaware
county, Ind, consisting of father, mother,
and twenty-one children.
The Lincoln monument. at Springfield,
Ill, is about half done, and will be com.
| peted and dedicated on the 4th of next
July
A boy, named Cooke, who had gone
into a stable to rest, near Calvert, Texas,
quite recently, was mistaken for wild
beast by an affrighted brother, and had
his brains blown out with a shot gun.
Many Eastern people have been poi
soned by wearing crimson wrappers
drawers and stockings, from the aniline
used in the dye, and have only saved
their lives by adopting white undergo
ments.
Large numbers of beavers are said to
have made their appearance near Mt.
Carmel, Franklin county, Ind, and are
engaged in building dams and preparing
for permanent settlement.
Lady Pigott, ar English woman, very
famous as an agriculturist, is now nurs-
ing the wounded at Metz. She describes
the Prussians as cloud and consequent
tial, the French "palc and haggard,"
and both weary of war.
Widows are estimated by the square
mile in New Hampshire, twenty to q
mile being thought about fair. In some
places miss is counted as good as a
mile-of widows. sH
The German Fair in Philadelphia will
have representation Of the battle of
Sedan, comprising upwards of 5000
moving figures.
geese are so plenty in California that they
give as much annoyance to railroad men
as grasshoppers do in summer.
A physician in Portland, Oregon, was
fined $50 for not reporting to the city
authorities q case Of smallpox which he
was attending.
| A couple of farmers in Hardin county,
Iowa, went to law five years ago over
$25 The suit has just ended, and both
contestants had to sell their farms to pay
the costs.
A man in Waukegan, Mo-, celebrated
an uncommon drunk few days ago by
chasing his wife up an apple tree, throw
| ing his children cut of the windows and
! 1rOwninr himsnlf in n waI1
The Richmond papers say that all the
tobacco manufacturers of Virginia look
forward to a prosperous money making
season next year. Very little of this
years crop has yet been placed on the
market.
The receipts of minstrel show in
Michigan, one evening, were only eight
cents whereupon the leader killed him
self
One Of Philadelphia meanest mon
has found that the pecuniary value of the
Christmas presents he received is less
than the value of those he gave, and he
has written letter to the Press com
planning of it.
A South Carolina mother, when she
found, too late, that her daughter had
eloped With member of the Legislature,
seized her trunk at the depot, and assert
ed her vanishing authority by burning
its contents
The Elgin Waschnan and the Gazette
have been consolidated. The paper will
be hereafter run by stock company, and
will be called the Gazette.
A dispatch from Versailles, dated Dec.
23d, says scheme to assassinate the
King of Prussia, Won Moltke and Bis
marck, was discovered there a few days
since. 0
DR. Helmbold, the 4" Buchu" man, re
Gently gave big dinner at Wizards
Hotel, to members of the Press, in re-
cognition of the agency whereby he has
accumulated his immense fortune
A. T. Stewart is worth sixty millions
Of dollars The interest on his money
amounts to ten dollars a minute, day and
night.
The Lafayette Qnd.) Journal says that
of two car loads of hogs shipped from
that city to Indianapolis on Friday even
ing, only ten arrived alive, all the rest
being frozen to death.
On Friday last, Mr.. John White, an
old citizen and well-known banker, of
Oskaloosa, Iowa committed suicide by
hanging himself in his barn.
Net receipts at the Patent Office last
year nearly $4,000.