The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-11-19
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGs.

During the ten months ending the 31st
of October, 900, 600 immigrants have arrived in
the United States.
The prediction is made that Gen. Ord
issoon to be retired and Gen. Miles given the
Department of Texas, and that Gen. Hazen will
be chief of the signal service.
The propeller Zealand, of Toronto,
was wrecked on Lake Ontario in the gale Of the
9Th inst, ana all on board, sixteen persons
found watery grave.
The National Council of the Con-
gregational Church met at st. Louis last week.
Lucretia Mott, the well-known philan-
thropist and abolihonist, is dead
Another severe gale swept over Lakes
Erie and Ontario on the 18th inst, doing CON
siderable damage to shipping. The schooner
G. W. Mowbray, with forty tons of nitro-glycer-
inc on board, drifted on pier at Erie, Pa, and
was abandoned. Her cargo was valued at
$4,000.
A frightful calamity occurred in a
mine near Stellarton, Nova Scotia, last week.
By an explosion of gas at least forty, perhaps
fifty, coal-miners were buried under heaps of
debris, suffocated, and burned to crisp, and
not one of their companions survive to tell the
story of the catastrophe. Thirty of the I'M
fortunate victims were married, and in most
instances were the chief supporters of large
families.
Smallpox is said to be sweeping OFF
by hundreds the Canadian Indians along the
Gulf of st. Lawrence. Those not afflicted flee
from the dead and dying.
1t is believed that the barge Morning
Star-Captain, J. W. Thompson-has been lost
on Lake Erie. with all hands,
Special postal arrangement have been
made between the United States and France
by which, after the LIST of January, packages of
merchandise not exceeding twelve ounces in
weight, and of dimensions not exceeding twelve
inches in length eight inches in width and
four inches in thickness, can be sent from one
country to the other through the mails.
A dispatch of the 18th inst, from st.
John, N. D., says that tremendous fires con-
tinue to rage in the Stellarton mine, but, With
the aid of steam-pumps and fire engines, the
pit is being rapidly flooded, and the dininution
in the volume of smoke from the shafts indi-
Gates the flames are being subdued. There re-
mains little, if any, prospect of the recovery of
the bodies of the victims of the disaster"
The Baltimore and Ohio road reports
q surplus fund, unrepresented by stocks or
bonds Of $4O,561, 642.37.
Bradstreet's revised estimate of the
wheat yield of the United States for the cur
rent year places the total product at over 49,
000,000 bushels. The surplus for export is es-
timated at lao. 100000 bushels.
The census of the United States will
be complete aS soon as the recount demanded by
dissatisfied or disappointed citizens of Peoria
and Fort Wayne is finished. The compilation
of figures for tho entire country will be COM
pleted about the middle of December.
The fourth annual convention Of the
Cofinmakers National Association was in SEES
sion in Indianapolis last week.
Representatives of the letter carriers
of the United States met at Indianapolis yester-
day. They will demand an increase of pay for
their craft
An appeal has been issued to the peo-
pie OF Canada and the United States for aid for
the widows and orphans of the victims Of the
stellarton calamity.
Diphtheria prevails to an alarming
degree in various sections of the Union.
Whole families have been attacked at Peters
burg, Va, and Racine, Wis. In the latter city
four children were buried from one house.
The population of New York city, ac-
cording to the official bulletin is 1,2O6, ST. The
number of males is 59O,76 and of females
615,s15; excess of females, $4,000 The native
residents are 727, 743, and the foreign-born
1884. Two-ffths of the people are, there
fore, foreigners by birth.