The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-11-04


present year is a short one, and that there is
marked deterioration in quality. The average
thus far reported is about 80 per cent of last
years production. If this indicates the total
depreciation, it amounts to nearly 100000
bushels, and gives the crop at GAG, 00O,O 900
bushels. In quality the crop averages IA per
cent below q sound condition. The condition
of the corn crop is exceptionally high. The
product reported this year falls short OF 1874
about per cent. The oats product is 5 per
cent. greater than last year. The potato crop
promises to be extraordinary, both in yield and
quality. Tobacco is per cent. above the aver
age Barley is 81 per cent. of last years crop,
and buclwheat not far from the average.
The October report of the Department OF
Agriculture contains accounts from New Jer-
sey, Wisconsin and Minnesota, showing large
decrease in the cranberry crop by insects and
FROST The rice crop of the South is larger
than usual. The sugar cane crop promises a
as generally fine. The hop crop is quite good.
The hemp crop is very fine. The number of
fattening cattle in the country is somewhat
greater than last year.
The greatest loss by the Virginia City fire
will be the stoppage of work. The destroyed
machinery for crushing ore and separating
dross from the precious metal cannot be re-
placed in less than four months. The gold
product will be lessened thereby $1,000, 900
per month, and the silver product 81, 500, 900
per month.
News has reach ed Boston that the crews of
two vessels which left that city last summer
have been killed and eaten by cannibals I'D the
South Pacific Ocean. According to the story,
the Inflated vessels-the barks Jewess and
Della M. Long-became becalmed in the vi
cinity of the Auckland Islands, were boarded
at night by.hordes of cannibals, who over
powered the crews, plundered the ships, scut-
tied them, carried the prisoners ashore and had
a big feast off them.
Political.
The official vote of Ohio at the October cleo
ton. as returned to the Secretary of State,
shows the following results for Governor and
Lieutenant-Governor: Governor = Hayes,
297, 813; Allen, 292,264. Hayes majority,
5,549. Lieutenant Governor Young, 297, 931 ;
Cary, 287, 1868. Young's majority, 1903.
The official canvass of the votes of Nebraska
at the recent election shows 10000 cast. The
new Constitution carries bynearly Is, 900, The
coupon leaving to the people the power of 10
eating the capital has $500 majority. The
coupon giving the people power of expressing
preference for United States Senator has 1000
majority. The Republicans elect everything
excepting two District Judges and one District
Attorney.
Foreign.
The Prince of Wales embarked at Suez on
the 26th of October, and Immediately sailed for
India.
The Servian Parliament has passed, by vote
of 81 to 40, motion for war with Turkey.
Advices from Madrid deny the story of the
love affair and assassination in which the King
of Spain was represented as the principal actor.
A council of physicians has declared that
Count Won Arnim is unable to bear the pro-
longed imprisonment to which he has been
sentenced.
Emperor William, in speech to the German
Parliament the other day, said that 80 far as
human Judgment can discern, peace is more
assured than at any time during the twenty
years preceding the reconstruction of the en-
pre-"
A London paper, in an article on the cattle
plague, says the number of cases in England for
the quarter ending on the 18th of October was
as follows In Somersetshire, SO, 600; Cheshire,
$4,000 Dorsetshire, $4,000; Worcestershire,
$4,000; Oxfordshire, $4,000; Warwickshire,
5000; Norfolk, $1,000; Cumberland, $4,000.
Throughout England and Wales there were for
some time over 100000 cases. The money
damage is estimated at $1,000,000.
The Carlist committee in London claims to
have news of a great Carlist victory in the
Province of Navarro, Spain.
A dispatch from Berlin reports that Arch
bishop Ledochowsh will be expelled from Ger
many as soon as his term of imprisonment ex-
pires.
England, the Hong Kong dispatches state,
still persists in her demands, which the Chinese
government characterizes as unjustifable and
indecent"
A Cairo dispatch says the Egyptian army has
entered Abyssinia, and that the Abyssinians
are retreating, offering no resistance.
News has been received of the British expe-
dition to punish piratical natives on the Congo
river, in Africa. for numbering English sailors.
The entire squadron on the west coast of
Africa was engaged, and sent boats up the
river Many villages were destroyed and a
large number OF natives killed. The British
lost one man killed and six wounded.
A force of 1900 Turks has been badly routed
by insurgents in Herzegovina.
A battle was recently fought between Liberian
troops and large body of native savages in
Africa, in which the former were totally routed,
with the loss of their artillery.
Let Us Give Thanks.
The following proclamation has been
issued by the President
Tn accordance with q practice at once wise