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

wrong.
Joseph N. Fitnoy, late Deputy Collector of
Revenue at st. Louis, has pleaded guilty to the
indictments against him. T. D. Thorpeau an
indicted storekeeper, also pleads guilty. The
backbone Of the st. Louis whisky ring is thor
oughly broken.
The Secretary of the Treasury has addressed
circular to the Collectors of Customs an
nouncing that no importation of neat cattle or
hides be allowed from England from this date,
in consequence of the prevalence of the mouth
disease in that country.
Augustus S. Gaylord, Of Michigan, has been
appointed Assistant Attorney General for the
Interior Department, vice VIM. A. Smith, re-
signed.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided that under the statutes all inventions
for ageing spirits, when brought into use In
bonded warehouses, according to the PROPOSE
ton made to the department., constitute the
work of rectiication and publication, and those
using such processes become rectifers of spirits
and subject to taxation as such.
During October 20, 1873, 900 postal cards were
issued by the Postofice Department, the largest
issue by at lesat 100000 ever made in the
same time.
Washington telegram states that large
number of special agents are employed in in
vestigating frauds in the pension business
These frauds are chiefly in the West. and there
is reason to believe that the total amount OF
money which the government is defrauded of
annually by this means is an enormous sum.
One of the special agents fixes the sum as high
! as 80, 600, OOO He thinks that amount OF
money is illegally paid out to persons claiming
be pensioners.
| A Washington dispatch says it is now certain
that three topics, at least, will be largely dwelt
upon by the President in his coming message
to congress. These three topics will embrace
the public school question, the finances and
the condition of affairs in Cuba. It is said he
| will urge, as he has done heretofore, the JUS
tice of recognizing the rights of the belligerent
Cubans; will come out strongly against the de-
mands of Catholicism; and will take advanced
! ground in favor of an immediate return to spe-
Gle payments.
The Postofice Department has ruled that
where postal card is to be sent through the
mails second time cent stamp is not
enough to secure it's transmission. It must
carry letter postage.
Political.
DR.. Isaac l. Hayes, the well-known Arctic
explorer, was elected to the New York Legisla-
ture on the Republican ticket, at the recent
election in that State.
The complete vote for Governor in Iowa at
the late election was as follows For Kirk
wood, Rep, 1875, O69 for LETTER, DEM, SO, 324.
Kirkwood's majority 31,745. There was a
scattering Temperance vote of few hun
dreds.
Ex-senator Pease, of Mississippi who has
lately held the Postmastership at Vicksburg,
has been dismissed from the Office
The full vote of Massachusetts on Governor,
at the recent election, is as follows: CASTOR,
DEM, 1926; Rice, Rep, 83,523; Baker,
Temp, 1865 Adams, Ind, LIZA; Phillips,
Labor Reform, 301.
Full official returns of the Pennsylvania
election give Hartranft, Rep, majority OF
| 1850.
GeneraI.
A Dispatch from Quebec states that during a
recent gale and snow-storm In the Isle OF Or
! leans an accident occurred at st. Famille, by
which about twenty persons lost their lives.
The people, who were principally residents OF
the island, were returning from market, and
| were being landed from steamer in scow,
which capsized, and all on board, with one ex-
ception, were drowned.
Two new planets of the twelfth magnitude
have been discovered by Palioa, at Berlin,
and the other by Paul Henry, at Paris.
Three fishermen were drowned near Harris
vile, Lake Huron, one day last week, by the
swamping of their boat.
The United States Direct Cable has been
successfully repaired, and is now in good work
ing condition. sfg aa
The colored cadet from Mississippi, who has
been causing SO much trouble at the Annapolis
Naval Academy, has been dismissed from the
Academy by the Secretary of the Navy. d,
Arrangements have been perfected by which
through bills of lading and through tickets for
passengers are to be issued from all leading
European cities to China, Japan, Australia,
and New Zealand, via New York and San Fran
cisco, and vice versa.
The steamship Pacific, which sailed from Vic
| toria, Vancouvers Island, for San Francisco, on
Thursday morning, Nov. 4, was wrecked the
same evening, forty miles south of Cape Flat
terry. The Inflated vessel had on board 1O8
persons, only one of whom escaped. The sur
vivor, Henry L. Jelly, saved himself by clinging
to the pilot-house of the wrecked steamer, and
was picked up day or two afterward by pass
ing vessel.
Charles Reade's delightful romance of g Foul
Play" has its counterpart in thrilling tale re-
| ported from New York. On lonely island of
the West Indian group four bodies were re-
Gently seen by sea-faring men. Who they
were, how long they had watched what
their presence there meant, is not revealed.
Foreign.