The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-04-19
PEOPLE AND THINGS.


Horse-Tree.
ATTORNEY GENERAL DEvENs is a bach
elor. Now, girls
KING GEORGE, of Samoa, is building a
palace to cost $4,000.
Two NEW English prisons have been
entirely built by convict labor.
John E. OWENS ("Solon Shingle'')
owns 81, 100000 in real estate alone.
A BROTHER of Tom Hood is doing
fourishing business as a florist in Ber-
gen, n. j. hss. ersef ~
The Congregational churches in Bos-
ton raised $40, 142 for foreign missions
last year,
The Governor of Missouri has signed
Bounty bill, offering 5 cents each for
rat-scalps. 81. 49, 80 -. ~. ~.
MISS COLEMAN, daughter of the late
Robert Coleman, isthe wealthiest woman
In Washington. rr. asr,.- =. t..
OAKEY HALL can claim that his last
appearance attracts great deal more at
tention than his first. E.. .--
CORY up" and "cheese il" are ex-
pressions used in the cultured Union
League Club of New York.
AS WILLIAM HALnErr, ST., of Athens.
Ohio, came out of the penitentiary, his
son, William Hallett, Jr., went in. 49,
NELLIE GRANT SARToR1s' boy baby has
been named Jules, which is an adapta-
ton of his grandmother's name of Julia.
DIR. DAMRosCH owns violin more than
200 years old, and valued at $1,000.
The treasure was made by Magini of
Prescia. .,
GEN. ROBERT TooMBs says that he is
the owner of seven barrels of type-the
remains of the fortunes Of twenty editors
of Atlanta. s.e tf -. +e-...l
A PARTY of fourteen New Workers, in
GLIDING several ladies, talk of making a
voyage around the, world in a 100-ton
schooner yacht. fta s.9 a-..4 .
Mr.. GORDON CUMMING, the Scotch lion
hunter, is to be married next month to
Washington belle. In this case he has
been the lion hunted. ..f ....t
The engineers who have been examin-
ing the Niagara suspension bridge have
reported that the structure is entirely
safe for the transit Of railroad trains.
In Missouri there are 725, 72S school
children. The amount of money to be
appropriated by the State for the sup
portof the schools this years. 1868, 667.71,
or 743 cents to each child. ~
The bronze statue of America, fe-
male figure thirteen feet high, which is
is surmount the soldiers monument on
Boston Common, has just been success
fully cast in Philadelphia.
Mr. JOHN RUsK1N, whose days are in
the yellow leaf, is reported to have re-
marked, the other day, 81 cannot look
with the old enjoyment upon the setting
sun, it seems to sink so fast"
The church of Dr. Hail. in New York,
has given over $4,000 to charitable OBJ
jects during the year its collections for
foreign missions amounted to $34, 800,
and for domestic missions to $4,000.
The history of the Second Zouaves,
one of the most distinguished regiments
in the French army, has been published.
It states that during the nineteen years
OF it's existence no less than 200 of it's
officers and 5000 privates have fallen in
battle.
A LAWYER and minister, both impe-
cunious, boarded with certain widow
lady at the South End, Boston. Neither
could pay his board bill. The lawyer
married the lone woman, and the minis
ter performed the ceremony, thus squar-
ing accounts.
SENATOR GORDON, Of Georgia, had a
young daughter born on the day the Cab
met decided to remove the troops from
South Carolina He intends to wait till
the troops are ordered from the Louis
lana State House, and will then have the
infant christened Caroline Louise Cor
don. s..l
THOMAS CAHILL is before the Massa-
chusetts Legislature with claim for
damages for his arrest and prosecution
some years ago on a charge of numbering
Bridget Landegran. He was discharged
at the time and the murder forgotten,
until Piper, the slayer of Mabel Young,
confessed that he killed Bridget too, and
hence CahilPs claim for compensation
for his suferings.
OECRETARY EVARTS proposes to reOr-
ganize the Consular system, after the
plan adopted by Great Britain. In MAX
ing appointments for Consuls it is pro-
posed to select men familiar with COM
merce and manufactures, selecting COM
mercial men for commercial districts, and
for manufacturing districts men acqaint-
ed with the special manufactures of the
districts to which they may be assigned.
THERE is a newsboy in San Francisco,
James Handley by name, who is rapidly
acquiring fortune by the sale of papers.
He is but IA years old, yet owns two
houses and several building lots on Tele-
graph hill. He recently built third
house there for 81, 800 and sold it to his
brother for So, 200. The brother, also
newsboy, sold it again for $500. jim
my aspires to a profession, and attends
the Lincoln school, where he stands high
in his class.