The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-11-05

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picked up iRsensible. ,9fH9fa
A boiler explosion at the Vulcan Iron
Works, St. Louis, caused the death of three
men. ALI AA
i Gov. Allen, of Ohio, has designated the
26th of November as a day of thanksgiving
and prayer.
The South ~ m n
Twelve counties in Alabama report the
average increased cotton yield at Is per cent;
twenty-four count ties report a decrease of Is
i per cent. The crops will be picked cleaner
and earlier than usual. Fifteen counties in
Mississippi report an average decrease of SO
per cent. Lowndes county shows an increase
of Is per cent 9e3@ese@E
An alteration took place in the streets of
! New Orleans last week, between Maj, Burke,
a leader of the Conservative party, and Gov.
Kellogg, which had it's origin in local politics.
Burke took unbrage on reading some letters
4 addressed to the press by Kellogg, in which
the Major was reflected upon, and when they
met the former drew a cowhide and struck
Kellogg several times. Pistols were drawn
on both sides, and shots exchanged, but no
serious damage was done.
/ The great Vinewood herd of short-horn
cattle, owned by B. B. Groom, of Winchester,
KY, was sold on the 29th ult., and is said to
have been the best large sale of Dur
hams ever made in the world. One hundred
head of these fine bovines were disposed of
at an average Of $500 per head.
Gov. Leslie, of Kentucky, has issued q.
proclamation offering an aggregate reward of
| about $4,000 for the capture of the masked
ruffians who recently shot young negro girl
in Shelby county I@I4f rcd T0yGt III
Hon. Jeremiah White, one of the owners of
the Houston County (TexD Democrat, was
4 shot and killed by John 81. Hubbard....last
week. rs-rerrr2y7s rry7tYa owW zHnH
New Orleans is in arrears to it's fire depart
ment for several months pay-$7OO, OOO-and
the fremen have threatened to strike on
| Nov. Is, unless their demands for settlement
are complied with.
Louisville, KY, is shown to be the largest,
market in the world for leaf tobacco. The
sales of that product during the past twelve
months aggregate $3.50 hogsheads, against
| 53,056 in the twelve months previous the.
total amount of salee being ST, 677,710. #
Gen. Humphreys, the Chief of the Engineer
Corps, has recommended an appropriation of
$780, 900 for the enlargement of the Louisville
and Portland canal, according TO the plans
heretofore reported.
i ac.o Washington. II b Errg5 sF
ALI the United States Treasury officers in
Texas, excepting one Collector of Customs
and one Cellector-o of Internal Revenue have
been removed by the President. The follows
ing are the new appointees: Gen. B. G..
Shields, Customs Collector at Galveston;
Ridge Paschal, Customs Collector at Corpus
Christi !; Wesley Ogden, Customs Collector at
Indianola Gen. Malloy, internal Revenue
4 Collector for the Jefferson District; Robert
f. Campbell, Internal Revenue Collector for
the Austin District. None of these men ap-
piled for the positions and they are said to
be men of honesty and integrity. The Post
masters at Galveston and Houston have also
been removed and new men substituted.
The internal revenue receip rs for the pres
. emit fiscal year promise to exceed the esti-
, mates of the Commissioner.
Judge Humphrey, who is presiding over
the court now engaged in trying the safe
burglary censpirators, warned the newspaper
reporters that they must make no comments
on the proceedings of the court, for he had
the power to lock them up for contempt.
The War Department holds that retired
ofhoer vacates his rank by accepting a civil
Office. If Gen. Meigs does not accept the
Russia mission he will probably be retired and
, Gen. Ingalls, be made Quartermaster-Gen General
, The Congressional Record in seven vol
at the last session, has just been printed.
Secretary Bristow has had under considera-
ton for some time the question whether Fed
eral oficeholders should be allowed to become
, candidates for election for Offices while they
held their positions. A##@f1 Fl
J, Dockray, the American who was arrested
, by the Spanish authorities in Cuba, writes
| from Santanda, Spain, that he has been SEN
} fenced to penal colony in Africa for term
| Of ten years.
The attention of the Postmaster General
r has been called to the fact that the salaries
of Postmasters in large towns and cities are
entirely out of proportion to the work per-
formed.
The internal revenue receipts for the month
ending Oct. 81 were SO, 2O4 871 for the off,
cial year, 1886, 582, 498.
Gen. Spinner will in his report renew some
of bis old recommendations with respect to
the currency, and will have some new sugges-
tons as to the means by which the ultimate
resumption of coin payments can be attained
The Secretary of the Treasury has issued q
call for $5,000,000 of coupon bonds, five
twenties. to be redeemed Feb. g.. at which
date the interest upon them will cease.
, During the month of October the public
debt was reduced 1851, 434. The following is