The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-10-21


to CHEYENNE last week, having spent five
months in the Hills The Professor reports
gold fields extending forty miles north from
Harney's Peak, and twenty miles vide, that
contain gold in quantities that will pay from
$3 to SIS per day to the man. There are bars
on numbers of streams, that will pay much
more than that. Prof. Jenney coroborates
Gen. Clusters report of the Hills, and says that
they will support thousands of miners, when
the government opens them to settlement.
The valleys are all adapted to agriculture, and
the hills and canons to stock-raising. The
rainfall is plentiful and timber abundant.
Judge Foreman, of Salt Lake, has decided
that Brigham Young must Immediately pay
over to Ann Eliza, his divorced wife, the
alimony due her, now amounting to some
$4,000
The boiler attached to steam threshing-
machine exploded upon the farm of Mr.. Her
rington, near Niles, Mich, one day last week,
instantly killing Mr.. Hathaway, the owner, and
a man named Linden. Two other persons
were dangerously wounded. Two horses were
blown to atoms, and barn completely riddled.
The South
A frightful suicide occurred al Baltimore a
few days ago. An unknown young man threw
himself from the top of the Washington mon
Gnent to the ground below, distance of
$50 feet. OF course he was instantly killed,
being crushed to shapeless mass of flesh and
bones.
A dispatch from Washington says 1.-The
Acknowledgement is IL daily receipt Of adv1ces
from Mississippi. Gov. Ames is averse to
arming the citizens of the State for their own
protection, for the reason that it would pro-
duce great excitment. Everything is report
ed quiet
Three colored men were attacked in the
streets of New Orleans by unknown white as
sassins, few nights ago, one killed outright,
another mortally wounded, and the third
slightly injured. The affair caused great ex-
element. Citizens assembled on the streets
to denounce the great wrong, and in the after
noon an immense mass meeting was held at
the Court House, when the stores were closed,
that all might participate. Resolutions were
adopted dsclaiming all responsibility for the
deed, and loudly calling for the prosecution
John Gair and his sister-in-law, Catherine
Matthews, both colored, were hung by mob
in East Felciana parish, La, last week. They
were at the time under arrest for murder and
had confessed the crime.
E Reports of the condition of the Southern
cotton crops ale very discouraging. Rain
and rust are playing havoc with the great
staple.
The epizootic prevails among the horses in
many parts of the South, though in mild
form.
Washington. . a1.41a
A Washington dispatch says: s.Although this
government has repeatedly and emphatically
expressed it's desire to the Spanish government
for the termination of the instruction in Cuba,
and rendered it's &C cd offices to produce an ac-
commodation between the contending parties,
it has never gone to the extent of the late
transatlantic story, by automatically threaten.
ing to acknowledge the rights of the Cubans in
case hostilities be not closed before the LIST of
january next"
The President returned to Washington on
the morning of the 18th inst, and the first
regular Cabinet session for several weeks was
held at noon of that day.
A singular episode happened at the White
House one day last week. An insane colored
man visited the Executive Mansion and stated
that he had been discharged from the Maryland
Penitentiary, where he was unjustly incarcer-
ated. He claimed that President Grant was his
father, and asserted this claim by reason of
signs which were given him while in prison.
He was arrested and on his person was
found five-barreled revolver, loaded in every
barrel.
THE President has made the following APP
pointments: Charles M. Lynch Collector of
Internal Revenue, Nineteenth District of Penn
sylvanfa !; George B. Chamberlain, Supervisor
OF internal Revenue Theenas J. Mitchell,
illinois, Agent for Indians OF Milk River Agen-
cy, Montana James s. H&stings Michigan,
Agent for Indians of Red Cloud Agency, Da-
kota, vice John J. Saville resigned Col. Ben.
R. Bonner, Marshall of the United States for
the Eastern District of Missouri.
Workmen on the Nevada and Northern tele-
graph extension have been driven off ly In
dams of the Umatilla tribe who threatened to
kill them if they continued.
The report of the Commission appointed to
investigate the affairs of the Red Cloud Agency
has been made public. 1t sustains Prof.
Marsh's charges of incompetency against
Agent Saville, but exonerates him FROM impu-
tations of dishonesty. The Commissioners
report that they find no evidence to sustain the
charges against the late Secretary Delano and
Indian Commissioner Smith. They recon-
mend that Agent Sayille be removed; that
J. w. Z. Slavens J. H. Martin, and ID. j. Nc
Cam be excluded from future contracts with
the government that E. R. Threlkeld be ex-
cluded from all future employment as Inspector;
that bids for flour, clothing, and wagon trans