The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-07-29

near Fernandina in that state.
Ex-Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnson has
been elected President of the Arkansas In
dustrial University.
E. Nutting s. Co., stave manufacturers, OF
Indianapolis, have failed Liabilities, Szoo'-
600 : assets $15O,000.
Legal proceedings have been commenced IN
New Orleans against State Auditor Clinton,
Treasurer Dubuclet. Secretary OF State Des-
londe. and Speaker Lowell. The charge is
misdemeanor in Office, for funding warrants to
large amount representing an illegal claim
against the State of Louisiana
A man named Johnson, with his wife and
five children, attempted to ford the Coosawat-
tee river, near Atlanta, Ca, few days SINCE
but their wagon got into deep water, and all
the children we're drowned.
Washington.
President Grant paid flying visit to the Cap
Hal on Wednesday, held three hours cabinet
meeting, at which all the Ministers were pres
ent except Belknap, and returned to Long
Branch the same afternoon.
At a recent meeting of the Cabinet the Gu
ban question was discussed, and it is authorl-
tatively announced that the United States will
no longer maintain strict neutrality, but
accede belligerent rights at least to the strug-
ling patriots
| Secretary Fish has received information that
an association of counterfeiters, with their
headouarters at Barcelona, Spain, are prepar-
ing to issue in this city $12 100000 in counter
felt notes of the Bank of England and Bank OF
France.
The President has appointed ex-Gov Wells,
of Virginia, to succeed Fisher as Attorney for
the District of Columbia.
Commissioner Watts of the Agricultural
Department, in an interview with correspon-
dent the other day, stated that the late reports
concerning the harvest of fall wheat justified
him in saying that doubtless rs FER cent. OF a
full crop would be realized, when 65 per cent.
has really been anticipated. He thinks the
spring crop will prove full one He is not
confident about flush market making low
prices. He says that he has often seen the
contrary, where wheat would advance very
steadily upon flush market. He says the
scanty harvests in Franco, Germany, and
England this year will do much to keep up
good price for cur home wheat
A curious story has been raked up among
the old accounts in the War Department. show
ing how clerical error lad tragic result
An officer during the war was wrongfully
! charged with a defalcation amounting to
i 81, 600, and, being unable to readily demons
| trate his innocence, he committed suicide
! There has been small steal in the Treasury
DISCRIMINATORY thousand dollars-but It
occurred among the girls who are engaged Ii
counting the packages sent for redemption by
the banks, and has consequently created good
deal of futter.
Avery, the indicted Chief Clerk of the Tres
ury Department, has been dismissed.
General.
| Dispatches received from all parts of the
country, East, West, North and South report
an unusually abundant harvest in corn, rye
barley, oats and potatoes, with a fair yield OF
wheat, while the yield of the grasses is said to
be enormous. The failures noted are in COM
paratively few and limited localities A large
proportion of the crop is already harvested.
The July returns to the Department of Agri-
culture show that the acreage in corn is about
| per cent. greater than last year. New En-
gland has reduced her acreage about 1179 per
cent. and the Pacific States about Per cent
All the great corn-growing regions have in
creased their acreage, the Middle States q per
cent, the South Atlantic States 8, the Gulf
States 10, inland Southern States IL, States
north of the Ohio z, States west of the Missis-
sippi IA. The condition of the crop is below
the average in the New England, Middle and
South Atlantic States, the minimum condition,
80, being in Rhode island. Florida and Ala
bama are also below the average, but the other
Gulf States and inland Southern States are
above the maximum, liz, being in Mississippi.
ALI other States, except Missouri, 1O5, are below
the average, minimum condition. 80, being in
| Wisconsin.
| Chewers of ethe weed" will take comfort in
the announcement by the Department of Agri-
culture that the tobacco crop promises heavy
| yield.
! cable telegram announces the stranding,
on the English coast of the steamer Abbots-
ford, of the American line, Philadelphia. All
the passengers and portion of the cargo were
saved.
1t is now highly probable that stop will be
pun W ClI0 CdCIl0-SO0dllllS OPOAnUAOAo VI uAOAA-
can bandits. The United States government
has purchased the steamer Planter, which
draws only four feet of water, and is arming
and manning her for service on the Rio
Grande. Other steamers of similar char
acter will be purchased and fitted out for the
same purpose.
! Four millions of silver, it is stated by
Washington telegram will be coined at the
several minis before the close of August, and
the Treasury Department promises that hard
money shall shortly take the place of bank notes
and greenbacks.
A London telegram announces the death, at
the age of 81 years, of Isaac M. Singer, the in
ventor of the Singer sewing machine.
The Postmaster General has decided to put