The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-11-26

It is stated that President Grant has written
to Minister Washburne offering him the port
foliosof Secretary of State.
The belief that Miss Winnie Ream, the
sculptor, will be selected to make statue the
of Admiral Farragu creates much dissatis-
faction in art circles.
The Commission for the examination of the
subject Of an inter oceanic canal across the
Isthmus of Panama, met at Washington on the
i Goth inst. to examine the different reports
| presented, and to determine the practicability
Of the work. t
4 The production Of spirits lastyear was &c.
| 572, 062 taxable gallons. The government
received $49, 444, 900 from this source. The
i government also collected tax on nearly two.
billions of cigars, nearly hundred millions
more than paid taxes last year. a 2 MI
From dispatch to a Western paper we
learn that the views which the Presi-
dent will probably submit to Congress on the
| Civil Rights bill are foreshadowed by the
| opinions which he has expressed within day
or two, in conversation, to some of his
| friends. He says that he has always looked
upon some of the measures advocated in that
direction as exceedingly unwise. He does
not think that legislation designed to regu-
late the social relations of any class of people
is judicious as it generally gives rise to
state OF feeling calculated to do more mis-
| chief than good.
j The Legislative, Judicial, and Executive
/ Appropriation bill for the next fiscal year
4 = 4 l,rn
ton from last years estimates Of. to 10 per
/ cent. 49,. .r =
Mullett, the Supervising Architect of the
| Treasury, has rendered his resignation to the
Secretary of the Treasury on account of GER
tain disagreements between the two officials.
~'''~8 ~ssA~ Political.
Ex-Gov. Randolph seems to have the In
Senatorship.
The President declines to interfere in the
Arkansas gubernatorial imbrogio.
Senator Chandler sends word to a friend in
Washington that his re election is assured.
The Republican majority on joint ballot in
the Michigan Legislature is estimated at %.
General. #s #H
The law, which goes into effect on the LIST
: of January next, requiring the prepayment OF
postage on newspapers. will, it is thought,
largely increase the revenue from that source.
At present the postage is collected in amounts
of but few cents, and frequently is not col
lected at all. The new regulation will insure
the collection If all postage in bulk, thus saw
ing expense and trouble. The subscribers to
newspapers, not the publishers, will be the
gamers by the new system, as publishers can
not afford to increase their subscription rates
on account of it. r
The pension service of the United States
will cost $780, SOC, 900 next year. Four hundred
and ten widows of soldiers of the Revolution
draw pensions. g"e 81
Fred Myers and VIM. Murray are in custody
at Pittsburgh, charged with the murder and
robbery of farmer named Gotthard VAIL, in
the suburbs of that city, last week. Myers
has made a full confession of the crime.
Cincinnati police officers have recovered
about $4,000 from the late express robbery.
There has lately been enough lawlessness
in Williamson county, Ill. Gin the third tier of
counties from the southern boundary, to
engage the attention of Gov. Beveridge. A
band of fifty or sixty men is ordering citizens
to leave the county on pain of death. The
Governor promises to put stop to it. !
The strike of the New York 'longshoremen
has been partially successful.
Judge Blatchford, in the United States
Court, at New York, last week, directed a
| Of
ex-Gov. Caleb Lyon, of Idaho, in suit on
his official bond. Lyons accounts were $46,-
585 short, of which amount he claims to have
been robbed.
Foreign ,.s.
Disrael has written letter to Sir Henry
Rawlinson, announcing that the British gov
eminent, in consequence of the Representa-
tons of the Royal Geographical Society and
other learned bodies, has determined to or
ganize Polar exploring expedition without
delay. r@D II 6|a CA
The Russian government has addressed q
note to the European governments asking for
a statement of their objections to the proto-
col which was the result of the deliberations
of the Brussels Conference last summer
The conference was thinly attended, and
Russia would like to get up another.
In the German Reichstag, President Forken-
beck resigned his position recently, because
action was taken contrary to his views. On
the same day the Bank bill was referred to
committee, which is considered equivalent to
a defeat of the government.
At large meeting of Roman Catholics in
London resolutions were unanimously adopt
ed declaring that the civil loyalty of Catholics
was in nowise affected by the decree of Papal
infallibility.
Lersundi, formerly Captain General of
Cuba, died in Spain recently.