The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-14
NEWS or TIL WEEK.
The East.

other in final conflict, Henry Ward Beecher
and Theodore Tilton have at length met face
to face, the great trial having commenced at
Brooklyn, in the City Court, before Judge
Nelson, Jan. 5. Three jurors were chosen.
The great mass of attendance at the Tilton-
Beeeher trial is composed of the 1 800 jurors,
from whom the twelve good men are to
be chosen. On the 9Th inst, a lady was OBJ
served pushing her way through the throng
to the front, when Judge Nelson instructed
the officer in charge of the door that no ladies
were to be admitted whereupon the lady was
ANONYMOUSLY excluded.
The reduction of wages of mill operatives
at Fall River, Mass, which went into effect
Jan. l, is causing much distress. The wages
of weavers, men and women, range from So
to $3.50 per week; of the spinners, who are
all able-bodied men, most of them with fam
lilies, SO to $11 The operatives are discour-
aged at the prospect, and general strike is
anticipated.
The West.
Chicago elevators, as per official figures,
contained on the 9Th inst. 2, 373, 1872 bushels
of wheat, 1921, 401 bushels of corn, 486, III
buahels of oats, 22,179 bushels of rye, and
333, 1913 bushels of barley, making grand
total of 4,5O6,871 bushels, against 4,034,86
bushels the previous week, and 1926, sos
bushels at the same period last year.
The South.
Two Of the elected members of the Louisi-
ana Legislature have. entered suits against
Sheridan and Emory for $4,000 for being
driven from the State-House.
Gov. Kellogg, in testimony before the Con-
gressional investigating committee at New
Orleans, stated that he had information that
had laid their plans and determined upon an
attempt to assassinate the President of the
United States. The organization which he
referred to was composed of ignorant and
reckless men, who probably argued that the
President was responsible for his (Kellogg's)
government.
A New Orleans dispatch of the 7th inst.
says: Mr.. R. Fl. Mari, representing the
White League waited on Gen. Sheridan last
evening and stated that the White League
Gen. Sheridan has expressed himself as de-
termined to break up the organization, and is
going to compel them to disarm."
New Orleans advices of the 9th inst. re-
port everything quiet. There is move
ment among many prominent Republicans
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Judge Henry G. Dibble has written and had
published letter, addressed to the Congress
sional Investigating Committee, urging such
a course. The plan is to have a bill passed
by Congress providing for a provisional gov
eminent for the State, under military rule
Gen. Sheridan has addressed the following
kilograms to the Secretary of War:
NEW ORLEANS La, Jan. s.
W W. Belknap, Secretary of War, Washington,
D. c.:
Several prominent people here have for the last
few days been passing resolutions and manufac-
turing sentimental protests for Northern political
consumption. They seem to be trying to make
martyrs of themselves. 1t cannot be done at this
late day. There have been too many bleeding ne
groe and ostraciZed white citizens for their state
ments to be believed by fair-minded people,
Bishop Wilmer protests against my telegram of the
4th inst, forgetting that on Saturday last he
testified under oath before the Congressional Com
mittee that the condition of affairs was substan-
TALLY as bad as reported by me. shall soon send
a statement of the number of murders committed
in this State during the last three or four years.
the perpetrators of which are still unpublished.
T will ctar+Ia Won no
in the thousands.
pretended.
(Sgned) P. Fl. SHERIDAN,
Northumberland.
NEW ORLEANS, JAM 8, 1876.
W. W. Belknap, Secretary of War, Washington,
d. c.:
shall send you, this evening, a report of affairs
as they actually occurred here on the 4th inst.
My telegram to you of that date, and those of the
5th and 9th inst, truthful of the condition of
affairs in this section and strike so near the water
line, that ministers of the gospel and othens are
appealed to to keep the ship from sinking. HUI
man life has been held too cheaply in this State
for many years.
(Signed) P II. SHERIDAN
Lieutenant General.
Gov. Kellogg and the leaders of the party
in Louisiana repudiate the letter of Henry @.
Dibble proposing another reconstruction of
the State.
The City Council of New Orleans has
adopted resolution stigmatizing the state
ments of Gen. Sheridan regarding the in
security Of life and property as an Infamous
libel.
Washington.
Secretary Fish is reported by Washington
dispatch as having no doubt that the indem-
nifty from Spain for the virginius outrage
will be secured, with the amount fixed by
arbitration, as was the case in the settlement
with Great Britain.
The friends of free Cuba in Congress have
determined to introduce and press to a vote
at as early day as possible a resolution
recognizing the independence of the island.
A faYnaIa 1ohhvi OF is now sold +O hove He