The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-17
The South.


The South.
There is dead lock in the business of the
New Orleans City Attorneys Office, through a
conflict of opinion between the City Council
and Gov. Kellogg as to whether Walshe or
Jonas is entitled to the office. The city au-
thorities will not allow Walshe to exercise the
duties, and the courts will not recognize
Jonas SO it makes nice middle.
A bold and daring robbery is reported
from Corinth, Miss. Four mounted men
rode up to the Tshomingo Savings Bank in
broad daylight. Two of them entered the
building and compelled the President OF the
bank to surrender the keys of the safe, from
which they took about $4,000 in currency
and diamonds, mounted their horses and es-
capped in safety.
Dispatches received in Washington tfrom
Louisiana foreshadow trouble, and proba-
bly, bloodshed, in that State. 1t is intimated
that if the Returning Board counts in Kel
logg Legislature the most disastrous results
may be anticipated.
Col. Samuel B. Thomas, one Of the richest
men in Kentucky, died in Louisville last week.
The grand jury at Frankfort, KY, has
found an Indictment against Thomas s. Jones,
the present Clerk of the Court of Appeals.
charging him with usurping an Office estab-
lished by the Constitution, by being ineligible,
from the fact that he accepted challenge to
fight duel.
Imam interview with Representative Sheldon,
recently, the President said, in talking of
Louisiana affairs, that he did not deem it ad-
visable to take any further precautionary steps
to pre- cent an outbreak against Kellogg, but
that if violence was again attempted he would
resort to exreme measures and subject the
ringleaders to severe punishment.
Alarge number of citizens of Vicksburg have
issued an address giving a statement of the
troubles there. They charge vast amount of
official corruption, and accuse Gov Ames of
being chiefly instrumental in fomenting the
strife.
The Congressional committee appointed to
| investigate affairs in Arkansas will it is
thought, report against the claims of both
Baxter and Garland. This will involve the
| overthrow of the existing constitution and
| the restoration to power of Joseph Brooks.
The cotton crop of 1874, as estimated by
the cotton-growers in their returns to the
Department of Agriculture, somewhat ex-
ceeds $500, 900 bales. The yield per acre is
reported less than in 1878. In most of the
States the weather for ripening and gather
ing the top crop has been very favorable.
Reports are nearly unanimous in stating
that the proportion of lint to seeds is large.
little school rumpus has been created in
New Orleans by the introduction of half a
dozen colored girls as pupils into one of the
female high schools, Over fifty of the
graduating class withdrew upon the entrance
of the negroes.
Washington.
Secretary Fish has received an important
dispatch from Minister Gushing, at Madrid,
announcing that he had received an official
communication from the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, in which naturalization for the
American citizens captured on the yirginius
was virtually conceded.
A 1aoUe pros. has been entered in the safe
burglary case, and it has been given out that
the Attorney-General will not prosecute it
farther.
The report of the Commissioners of the
Freedmen's Bank shows that the indebted
ness of the institution is about 49, 900, 900,
and the assets at their full value amount to
but So per cent. of the sum.
'
sition is now under consideration by the au-
thorities of the United States looking to the
cession to the United States of strip of ter
ritory on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande
running back from the river to the
mountains. This cession is proposed
to be made by way of indemnity for
the past and security for the future, and If the
negotiations are successful it will, it is be-
ieved, enable the United States government
to put an effectual stop to the raiding and
marauding of thieving bands of Mexicans
that have committed such great depredations
on the people of Texas.
The Northern Pacific Railroad Company is
at Washington in force, working up bill for
extending government aid to continue the
building of the road
The House Ways and Means Committee has
decided to continue the investigation into the
Pacific Mail subsidy legislation of the Forty
second Congress. Some startling revelations
are looked for.
Representative Farwell, of Illinois, has
prepared currency bill, the main features of
which are free-banking, and the retirement of
one million in government bank-notes each
month, beginning with July, 1875, until
the notes not redeemed are at par with
gold. The Secretary is authorized to use the
surplus in the Treasury for the purposes of
the bill, or if he has not available funds, to
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