The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-13

Legislature refused to allow woman
preacher of Nantucket to perform the
marriage ceremony.
A MAN was lying seriously i'll at Al
bany, n. Y, recently, owing to arsenic
and other ingredients used in compo-
sition by dentist in filling his teeth.
The Secretary of the Navy has au-
thorizcd Lieutenant George w. Stoney
to make further explorations in Alaska
with party of three officers and ten
men.
DE WITT c. SPRAGUE, of Washing
ton, has been selected as the poet for
the annual reunion of the Army of the
Potomac, to be held at Baltimore in
May.
Mrs. Rosa MEHRER, a poor Swiss
woman living in miserable tenement
house in New York, is said to be the
heir to an estate worth S18,OO0 900 in
Switzerland.
A LECTURER in Boston said the other
day that the resources of Alaska were
gold, silver, seal-skins and Goldfish.
Evidently it furnishes all the requisites
for aristocracy.
The inhabitants of St. Augustine,
Fla, are making preparations for the
celebration of the 350th anniversary of
It's founding, which will take place on
March n and 2S
A FARMER in Berkeley County, w.
Va, fortified his chicken-house with
dynamite bombs few nights ago. Now
he hasn't any house or chickens, and
colorcd neighbor is similarly scattered.
ONO leads in the murder statistics
for 1884 with 189, Texas following with
1874, Kentucky 178, Missouri LAG, Ten
nessee 1877, Georgia 1876, New York 125,
Pennsylvania 100, Michigan 1O9 and
Virginia 1872
WHEN the news of the death of
Elizabeth Berry, of Derry, Pa, was
telegraphed to her father in Ohio few
days ago he dropped dead without a
word. The news of this, following on
her daughters unexpected death, was
too much for the mother The three
were buried together.
BEGINNING life as a peddlor Frank
Jones, of Portsmouth, N. H., is now
one of New England wealthiest men.
His cart was gorgcously painted, and
bore on one side the words: Good
weight, marm." He owes much of his
remarkable success in life to the fact
that he lived up to his motto.
MIR. ERAsTUs CORNING, of Albany N.
Y, in notifying tenants of his who
work for the iron and steel company
belonging to him, that they will not be
pressed for payment of rent until the
times are easier, is worthy of COM
mendation and emulation. Such acts
must go far to harmonic the relations
OF capital and labor.
UPON the assembling of the Kansas
Legislature this year enthusiastic gran
ger members hung upa huge banner
behind the Speakers desk with the
following legend: "Praise God from
whom all blessings fow# Corn, 19O,-
sos bushels; wheat, 4S,050, 431 |
bushels; cattle, l,S5S,925; fruit, $751;
715 acres hay, 7,106,36 tons.
The National Board of Health is out
with gloomy statement, which is in
tended TO call the attention of Congress
to its duty of providing against the
threatened epidemic of Asiatic cholera.
The report shows that in every instance
where the plague has become epidemic
in Europe it has broken out in this
country either the same year or the next
year.
SOME men were at work near Utica,
N. Y, recently COMPRISING hay for
market, when one of them, in fun, put
a lad of fifteen into the empty com
press The driver of the team, seeing
the follower" in its place, started his |
horses and before the boy could be
rescued he was so badly squeezed that
his life was despaired of, or, at best, it
was certain he would be crippled for |
life from spinal injury,
Attest of long-dstance telephoning
was made at the office of the Chicago
Postal Telegraph Company few even
ings ago. On one wire ten cells were
used and on another eighteen. Undue
ton int6rfered somewhat with the test,
but twas considered satisfactory the
conversation of Several persons who
were in the New York Office being
heard almost as distinctly as if they had
been only y mile or two away.
Ii is announced that plan is to be |
put in operation to illuminate the At
lantic Ocean by means of electric lights
actually to make path OF silver
light" across the water from the banks
of Newfoundland to the shores of Ire
land. Ten vessels are to be anchored
at distance of two hundred miles from |
one another in straight line, each
riding at "a mushroom anchor, which |
permits the vessel swinging round with
the tide without fouling her anchor"
These light ships are also to be con-
nected together and to the shore by an
electric cable, and be able to send mes
Sages to any part of the world.
AT late meeting of the French Acad-
envy of Sciences M. Pasteur read a let
ter of M. Buteau's on the utility OF |
microbes in the system of creation, the
writer maintaining that vegetation
would be impossible in world in which |