The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-17

middle of July, ana viii proceed thence 10 the
various Sioux agencies.
The Treasury Department has issued the
new regulations relative to the examination OF
baggage of passengers from abroad. Every
passenger will be compelled to make sworn
statement of the number of packages contained
in each package, and to specifically state Wheth-
er there are any articles intended for use OF
other persons. Any Misrepresentation OF facts
will subject the baggage to forfeiture.
General.
Judge Kelley, of Pennsy lvania, is reported
as having expressed an opinion that the gov
eminent is upon the verge of bankruptcy, and
that the only way out of the present troubles
is the calling of a special session of Congress.
Judge Nelson, of the United States Supreme
Court, sitting as Judge of the United States
District Court at Winona Mimi, has rendered
a decision affirming the constitutionality OF the
Civil flights bill.
After thirteen years and repeated fruitless
efforts the iron safe of the United States man
of-war Cumberland which was sunk in Hamp-
ton Roads by the Rebel ram Virginia in 1862,
has been recovered by a party of divers. The
gold, which will go to the lucky finders.
An American fishing-boat has picked up and
brought into st. Johns, N. B., nine Of the crew
and three of the passengers of the lost steam
ship Vicksburg.
Several oil tanks and two or three warehouses
belonging to Lockhart & Frew and. Graft, Ben
nett g. Co., just outside the city of Pittsburgh,
were destroyed by fire lastweek. About $50, 600
barrels of oil were consumed. Total loss,
$4OO, 900.
The grasshoppers have forsaken Western
Missouri, and are taking their fight northward.
Tom Mcclellan a notorious desperate, made
famous by the tragic end of his counsel, Hon.
c.. L. Vallandigham, who lost his life in explain
ing some points in the trial of Mcclellan for the
murder of man named Myers, was assassin
ated in his saloon at Hamilton, Ohio, at II
o'clock last Monday night. 3g a
1T .TfH POLITICAL. E
The Justices of the New Hampshire Superior
Court rendered long opinion to theSenate,
recognizing the Democratic Senators as the
duly elected members from the contested dis
tricts, and declining to go back of the action
of the Governor and Council in declaring them
entitled to their seats, on the ground that the
judiciary has no right, to interfere with the
action of a coordinate branch of the govern
ment. qzm M n
The executive committee of the 'Independ-
ent Reform" party of Illinois, liz session at
Bloomington. last week, decided to call no
State convention this, year, but the members OF.
the party throughout the State were advised to
make nominations for local offices in the sew
eral counties. e sod
The Legislature of New Hampshire elected P.
G. Cheney, Republican, Governor of the State,
vice Weston, Democrat. 4
Bills have been introduced in the British Par
lament for the regulation of strikes. They /
provide that breachesEof contract calculated to |
cause public injury by work people employed in
public capacities, as in the, supply of gas andeI
water, shall be dealt with eriminally.
The California Republican State Convention
met at Sacramento, on the 11th and nominated
the following ticket Governor, L. G. Phelps;
Lieutenant Governor, Joseph M. Cavis; Secre-
tary of State,sO. II. Hallett; Comptroller, J.-J.
Green; Surveyor, r. E. Gardner; Treasurer,
William Beckman; Attorney General, E. D.
Sawyer Clerk Of Supreme Court, Grant J. Tag
CART; Superintendent of Public Instruction,
Ezra G. Carr. The platform adopted recognizes
the career of President Grant; accepts the let
ter of the President as final settlement of the
third-term question; declares that the sThir
teenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments
to the Constitution should be maintained; con-
denim that portion of the..Southern people who
intimidate colored voters; demands economy
and honesty in the administration of State and
county goYernm ents; and that the State and it's 1
common schools be kept free from ecclesiasti-
cal or secular controls declaration of war upon
the railroad companies which deny and resist
the right of State regulation and control of fares
and tolls and pledge that the Republican
members Of the Legislature will vote for fair |
and reasonable reduction in this direction.
e ForeIer.
Weisinger, who attempted to eztort money
by duplicating persons in the plot to assas-
sinate Bismarck, has been committed for trial
at Berlin.
From Panama is reported the loss of the |
English ship Prince Alfred, with guano, for |
London. She foundered at sea in the vicinity
Of Coquimbo. The crew were saved.
Dispatches from Spain state that the
Alfonsist government is in weak and totter-
ing condition, and that the Carlist cause is
improving daily and gaining much strength.
Fourteen stores besides several dwellings,, |
we're destroyed by fire in Toronto last week, |
causing a loss of $55O,000, large part of
which is uninsured. A fire at Minatitlan,s
Mexico, destroyed property to the value of
$400, 900.
Gov. Davis, of Minnesota, declines to be
candidate for denomination to that Office, but
intimates a willingness to go to Congress in |
stead, as the successor of Bill King.
=, nrdor hoe hon,, icr,,nd from +In I,,n,noral