The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-09
PEOPLE AND THINGS.

PEOPLE AND THINGS.
A WOMAN at Fair Haven. Ct., the other
day, was poisoned by breathing the odor
OF the blossoms of an alianthus tree.
FREE MASONRY is very prevalent in
Brazil, and the clergy there are striving
to counteract its influences.
A ST.. Louis lawyer has been dis
barred for advertising that he would
procure divorces without publicity.
A SET of thieves in Mexico have dogs
trained to steal handkerchiefs in the
cathedral and other churches from the
kneeling worshipers.
A WOMAN worked six months in an
East Boston shipyard, in mems clothes.
before she was detected. She drank
whisky and smoked like a little man.
CNorNNATTs huge fire. bellrests onthe
walls of the Mechanics Institute. and
has made the walls insecure by the ire
mendous conclusions in alarms.
The number of deaths in 1876, in the
metropolitan district of London, upon
which Coroners juries returned verdicts
of death from starvation, or death accel-
Grated by privation, was forty-four.
An English clergyman has been COM
mitted for trial for hbeling a brother
parson. He sowed Whitehead is q
SCAMP" in mustard and cress in his gar
den.
VAGBANr dogs in st. Louis are killed
with club in the hands of a brawny
fellow, who slaughters them by the
hundred. The Bergh society in that
city opposes that mode, and the execu-
toner is to be tried on charge of
cruelty.
THE Georgia State Treasurer has
made statement showing that the State
debt is $40, 1897. The State is also
liable for the first-mortgage bonds of the
South Georgia and Florida railroad to
the amount of $464, 600, and has a float
ing debt Of 100000.
M. GOULD, Livingston (Me. farmer.
after picking lot of potato bugs from
his vines, ate freely of bread and milk,
crumblng up the bread with unwashed
hands. 1t is supposed that some of the
poison juice Of the bug got into the
bowl, as he died before morning.
AN English paper says that the King
Of Dahomey, in consequence of having
to pay heavy indemnity to England,
intends sacrificing 500 human beings as
fetish offering, hoping to induce the
deities to interfere, and prevent the En-
glish from enforcing payment.
PROF. TIoE, the weather prophet,
would not receive q welcome reception
in Chicago, where it is said several mem
bers Of the Board of Trade have lost
heavily through purchases Of grain made
on the strength of Tees predictions of
bad weather.
AN engineer of a train coming into
Paterson, n. j., the other day, was hor-
rified to see a boy deliberately take off
his coat, turn down his collar, and lay
down on the track with his neck across
the rail. The scared man screamed on
his whistle, shut down the brakes, re-
versed the engine and stopped the train,
just in time to see the boy rise and re-
treat with fingers to his nose. The train
will not be stopped next time
CHARLES E. DAVIS, a coast pirate, has
been arrested at Portland, Me. Though
but 30 years old, he has been pirate
for years, has served two State prison
terms for larceny, and has been a terror
to all coast towns, stealing everything he
could lay his hands on from vessels, and
also from stores on shore. He had
schooner Of seven tons, with which he
has committed most of his depredations.
and when she became too well known,
he disguised, reprinted and renamed her.
BRISTOL, r. L, dates back nearly two
centuries, and long before the Revolu-
ti0nary war her streets were laid out by
q royal engineer, who did his work so
well that no modern macadamizer has
been able to improve on it. 1t is assert
ed that this is the only ancient town in
America, with the solitary exception of
Philadelphia, where the streets are all
made son the square, and where for
the whole distance Of each one, they run
as straight as an arrow.
NJ. B. HOWARD, of Nye county. CAL.
had not enough hardihood to be poll
tician. He was candidate for State
Senator, and was defeated by a close
vote. That reverse following many 9th
ers, depressed his spirits, and he was
found dead, with the following written
on paper and pinned to his breast: 81
have had an uphill life for years. [ am
tired OF living. I have taken one of the
most powerful of narcotics, one which
science is poWerless to counterfeit. Bury
me as you find me, without singing,
without a prayer. I am not Christian
Good-by the world F."