The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-30
People and Things.

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People and Things.
, THE railroads in India are built by
women.
In England last year $1,000 postage
stamps were found loose in the postal
boxes.
IARTEsIAN well borers in Tu1are, CAL.
have discovered vein of gold bearing
quartz at a depth Of 268 feet.
The mining industry of Colorado has
been carried on sixteen years, and the
total product has been $50, 461, 363.
For OBTAINING Mr.. Witcher, tailor of
Cowes, England, some two hours and a
half in custody for refusing to pay a
penny toll demanded of him by the
southampton and Isle of Wight Steam
Packet Company, a jury in the Queens
Bench Division gave the former $3.50
damages.
TIE Albany argus says that Miss
Kate Noyes, of Lansingburg, is in crit
cal condition from poison, arising from
kissing her deceased niece on Sunday,
who died of diphtheria. The young
lady had slight sore on her lip at the
time. A swelling commenced in her lip
which soon extended to the nose, and It
is feared the difficulty will reach the
brain.
! Mr.. JAMES L. FIELDS visited Pome-
roy, the boy murderer, in his Jail re-
Gently, and learned from him that he had
been great reader of blood and thunder
stories. He had read sixty dime novels,
all about scalping and other bloody per-
formances, and he had no doubt these
books had put the horrible thoughts
into his mind which led to his murder
GUS acts. 6fT
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, and his sons
Henry Brooks Adams and J. Quincy
Adams, Sam Bowles, Edward Atkinson,
James Redpath, Carl Schrrz, A. T.
Stewart, Charles Norhoff, John T.. Hoff-
man, James A. Garfield, Horace White,
Henry Ward Beecher, VIM. g. Bryant
and Reverdy Johnson are honorary mem
bers IN this country of the Golden Club
In London. san rsa
CHURCH property is taxed in Califor
mia, and this exception to the general
rule among the States was brought about
by the heather. It was found that the
Chinese availed themselves of the ex-
emption of church property to evade
taxation on their joss houses, which are
very numerous, and mainly merely
opium smokers resorts; and, to prevent
this, it was found necessary to make
general the taxation of all real estate
used for religious purposes.
CASTLES IN SAND.
Two children were making the most of the day
In the sand their castles building,
While out in the harbor the sunset gold,
Was every vessel gliding.
But the sea came over the castles dear,
And the charm of the sunset faded; M
O! after labor is lost may we
Go happily home as they did.
For we build and build in different way,
Till our heads are wise and hoary; 4TA
But after it all the sun goes down,
And the sea-'tis common story.
The average rates for all distances
charged by the great lines of transporta-
ton in this country are:
Mills per ton,
aa per MILE
BY ocean. Observation-Disclosures
BY river
By canal ~
For through business, the distance
varying from 500 to 3, 900 miles, the rates
charged average:
per mile.
BY ocean .-................' 5-!O
By lake. .............s..... o-1O
by rlVeF..... .................... ...''....-.
BY canal ................ .....I
By rail ............... ..............-......1O
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