The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-04-04
STATE ITEMS,

deaths occurred in Milwaukee, Of which
90 were from small pox,
A. Fond du Lac justice has fined a man
800 for selling gift concert tickets.
An Oshkosh hen has laid an egg on
the she'll of which was inscribed the
legend, "War with England, 1872" That
egg must have been sired by game cock.
The number of saloons n Appleton will
probably soon be diminished.
gentleman writing from Waupacs
County on business says" Here's to sleepy
Oshkosh! The Northern Railroad is all
folks Of Oshkosh think Of this?
Prof. Brand, of Madison, holds a mu
steal convention at Appleton on the 18th
Of May to continue one week.
NJ. T. Lindsey, of GreeE Bay, Grand
Master Of the Odd Fellows, was presented
with beautiful cane at Madison the
other day.
A factory for the manufacture of light
ning rods has just been started at Apple
ton.
The scheme Of uniting Green Bay and
Fort Howard under one municipal govern
nlcnt was defeated by vote Of 81 to 382
Hay is worth $25 per ton in Embarrass
and in the vicinity OF New London. The
long, cold winter has advanced the price
OF fodder and coarse grains.
The Chiffon Times denies the story Of
the Menasha Pres that & man was allowed
to suffer fifteen days without food or water
ut Clifton. The TEnoss says there was not
word of truth IN The whole story
Eliau COlmGn, of Fond du Lac, and
Emil Walber, Of Milwaukee, are said to
have made the most lively chairinen in
committee Of the whole in TIE Assembly
On Thursday Mr.. Walber ran through
forty one bills in one hour, and on Friday
Mr.. Goldman ran through for.y-two in
! twenty five minutes. Of course they both
had Il willing ana unobiecting House
The mills in Fond du Lac are being re
fitted and put IN readiness for active work
as soon az the river and lake are cleared
CT ice A larger amount OF lumber than
usual will be cat the coming season.
Fond du Lac claims that Milwaukee
has ignored q promise to aid in Tho build,
ing Of a road between the two cities ;and,
as the former has voted $4,000 towards
the enterprise, it's people are indignant at
the course Milwaukee, has taken.
! The GAINESVILLE Gazette says: When
! you ind newspaper ON ball room floor
! it isn't always proper TO pick it UP and
wonder where it came from and ask un
necessary questions concerning the pecu-
ilarity of the folds. We know of & young
| ,aan who did so not long since and he could
not get another girl to dance with him
during the evening. Accidents will hap
pen III such busting throng Of people
as are generally congregated upoa ball
room floor.
The Oshkosh Times notes the death of
james Curran, in that city, on Friday last,
of an apoplectic fit He was ono Of the
Curran brothers, of Stevens Point,
fAnily we'll known throughout the north
ern part of the State.
A JOINT sock company has been or.
gained for the purpose of starting auoth-
er paper mill at Neenah. Judge Hami
ton is at the head of this enterprise, w hich
starts with capital of $4,000
TIE directors of the Necehah (JuneaI
co1nty,) Cranberry Company advertise
for proposals for cutting from one thou
sand to i've thousand rods Of bitches on
the marches owned hy this company
The Gslena Gazettc states that Ora Nv ford,
Mills & Co., are about starting a nitro
glycerine mapufactory at some place near
Hazel Green. Grant County. They have
proved beyond question by their expert
ence in running their great level through
solid rock to drain their lead mines, that
there is great economy in using nitro
gyccrine for blasting in mines and levels;
and hence they believe there will be a |
demand for the article in the mining re. |
gion.
Four Waupun ministers have received |
donations during the winter amounting
to nearly $l.lOO.
There were 81 schoolhouses burned in |
Northern Wisconsin in the October fires
The United States light keeper on
Green Island III Green Bay, states that at
the time of the PeshtigO fire, the gar
Tnents from the family wash, hanging up.
on the clothes line in the yard, were sat
urated with turpentine brought in fine at
noSphere over the water from the land
ten miles distant.
The Green Bay Adrocate says: at
seems as ii the disastrous fires which
swept over this region last October had
become SO deeply seated in the soil, that
they never can be extinguiShsd. Smoke
may be seen issuing from the ground
where the snow has melted off, in many
places, and especisllyin tho low ground l
near the bay shore at lower Red River.
1t is where the ground is swampy,and the
soil is filled with small roots, that these
fires hold withsuch pertinaclty,--favored :
BY the long and severe drought" !
A man in Columbus is living with set ,
of false teeth in his stomach. 4..
The Waukesha PLGindeGls1 announces
that on the goth inst. gift enterprise (
comes off at Merton for the benefit Of the {
Baptist and Methodist churches H i {