The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-09

of 10000 cases, and the possible payment of
g. 900, 900 annually.
The Secretary of the Treasury has sent to
Congress his estimates for the fiscal year end
ing June 80, 1877. The following is reca-
pitulation by Departments Congress, 6'950,-
ATS; Executive $78 400; Department OF State,
! 81, COL 95; Treasury, Department, $17l,l95,-
267 War Department, $57, 430, 499; Navy De-
partment, 500, 1872, 1926 Interior Department,
$40, 594, 125; Postofice. SO, 1862, TIA; Depart
ment of Justice, So, $500 Agriculture,
1921, 565; grand total 1914, 612, COG. The APP
priations for the fiscal year ending June 3d.
| 1885, were SIG, 1854, 592 less than these esti-
mates. r
Political.
At meeting of the Executive Committee OF
the Independent party in Chicago last
week, it was decided to hold a National Con-
vention of the party at Indianapolis, in May
next, to nominate candidates for President and
Vice President 1855
The election of Kerr to the Speakership Is
due largely to the untiring industry OF the III
inois delegation. 8
The new Doorkeeper Of the House at Wash
ington occupied the same post in the Confeder-
ate Congress at Richmond.
General
Gems. Pope and Schofeld, in their reports,
recommend that the Indian Bureau be trans
ferred to the War Department. and that troops
be stationed on each reservation to watch the
Indians and prevent them from going on raids
Recent fires At BellviIle, Canada -loss
$3.50, 900; Oberlin, O., 100000; Wheeling, w.
Va, $4,000; Ottawa, ILL.,, $4,000; Melrose
Mass $40 600; Lowell, Mass, $4,000.
/ News has been received in Washington of
| the death. in China, of the Hon. Benjamin p.
| Avery, the American Minister to that country,
who was appointed about two years to succeed
Minister Low. a4
/ The Centennial Committee the Opening
! Ceremonies have selected VIM. M. Evarts for
| the orator, Henry W, Longfellow for the poet,
and grandson of Richard I'll. Lee, of Virginia,
| for the reader of the Declaration of Independ-
ence.
| Susan DENIM the well-knewn actress, is dead.
/ The cable brings news of another ocean dis
aster The Atlantic steamer Deutschland has
been wrecked in the North Sea, and a large
number of her passengers and crew lost
4tsalani l4o Foreign.
! The French Assembly has carried through its
/ final passage the Electoral bill which has been
pending before that body for several weeks.
The reimbursement system of voting, con-
tended for by the Ministry and vigorously
combated by the ultra Republicans is lncorpo-
rated in the measure.
A Berlin dispatch announces that Count Won
! Arnirn has been indicted and will be tried for
treason.
Austria has sent to the European powers a
| draft of reforms to be submitted to the Sultan
of Turkey.
/ The cruel war in Cuba still RACES. Three
hundred Spanish troops were recently am
pushed and slain by body of insurgents.
Russia has annexed the northern half OF
Khokand.
A Madrid telegram of Dec. says: The
Spanish note to the United States promises
gradual emancipation; increased freedom OF
conscience that foreigners when arrested shall
have immediate hearing that legal redress
shall be obtainable for past injuries Great
anxiety exists in Madrid regarding the reception
of the note in Washington. The note is Spain
ultimatum.
Shocking accounts are received of the desti-
tuition and wretchedness of the refugees from
Herzegovina, who have crossed the Austrian
frontier into Dalmatia to the number of 150, 900,
and of the internal barbarity of the Turks,
whose treatment of their captives would dis
grace band of Comanches.
Order reigns in Khokand. The insured
tionary natives, to the number of 10000, were
lately encountered by Russian force and de.
feated with great loss, and the rebellion seems
to be ended.
Lord Derby says England bought the Suez
Canal solely to prevent a preponderance OF
foreign influence in its control. 1t is also
stated that Frances reasons for rejecting an
offer to purchase the property was the fear OF
war with Germany.
The young man with the unpronounceable
name, who was to wed Bismarck's daughter, ii
dead.
The Khedive of Egypt is prosecuting the wal
vigorously against the Abyssipians.
The Prince of Wales is having jolly ole
time in India.
The cable brings news of two terrible collier!
explosions one in Yorkshire, England, result
ing in the sacrifice of 140 human lives; thu
other, by which some 90 miners were killed, il
the south of Wales.
It is said Russia will propose an internationa
conference on the Suez Canal question, and i
her demand is refused will claim freedom o.
action in the East.
FORTY.FOURTH CONGRESS.