The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-08-19

different tribes of Sioux in that vicinity for the
past two weeks regard their efforts as very sue
cessful. All the northern tribes will be repre-
scented at Red Cloud, where grand council Is
to be held September 1.
During the recent high water in the Ohio
river the levee at Shawneetown, ILL.,, gave way
and the whole town was flooded with eight feet
of water, causing immense damage to property
Fortunately the people received timely warning
of the impending disaster, and by fleeing to the
hills back of town saved themselves from
drowning.
The editor of the Lawrence (Kansas) Spirit
of Kansas, has sued the editor of the Lawrence
Standard for libel, laying damages at $4,000.
Jeff Davis will deliver the annual address at
the Bartholomew (Ind.) fair in September.
The Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw Railway Com
pany are selling round-trip tickets from Peoria
to New York for $50.
JEFF Davis will not. after ALL deliver an adj
dress before the Winnebago County (Ill.) Ag-
ricultural Society, he having declined oappear
on account of the opposition manifested at
Rockford.
A frightful accident occurred last week on
the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, at Loogootee.
Ind. The express train going east at the rate
of forty miles an hour ran into an open switch
and collided with the mail train. Five persons
the mail agent and baggage-master of the
employee of the mail train-were killed outright,
and six or seven passengers injured. On the
same day a passenger train on the same road
was thrown from the track near Huron, Ind,
and the engine and tender plunged into Beaver
Creek. No one was killed. The cause of the
accident was the removal of a rail, the design
of the perpetrators evidently being robbery.
nurse in the st. Louis Insane Asylum, the
other day, gave three troublesome patients an
overdose of conium in order to make them
sleep soundly. He succeeded beyond his calcu-
lations. The poor lunatics never awoke from
their sleep.
Mr.. James H. McVicker, the popular and
enterprising Chicago manager, has leased the
Grand Opera House in that city, and will run
it, with first-class comedy company, under the
name of the sNew Chicago Theater." Nc
Wicker thus becomes the owner of the two best
theaters in the city.
The miners in the Black Hills recently held a
meeting and resolved to peaceably abandon the
region for the present. Late reports from there
say the men are nearly all leaving. A few on
the upper and remote creeks, it is said, will
remain.
Washington.
The government win probably recover all the
money stolen from the Treasury by the clerk
Halleck. Three-fourths of the amount has al
ready been secured, and the property of Ott-
man, Halleck's partner in the theft, has been
attached to make good the balance.
The Comptroller of the Currency has just
completed his abstract of all the reports Of the
national banks in the United States. There
were 2,076 banks of this character in operation
at the close of the fiscal year, having an aggre-
gate of individual deposits on hand of $685.
Ats, 63O.48. The surplus fund of the banks
amounts to 1888, 169, O96.79 the capital stock
paid in, $5O1, 1858, $50. so; national bank notes
outstanding, 1918. 148, 4O6; specie on hand,
$18, 959, 1920; whole amount of business done,
81, 913, 239, 201.16.
United States war vessels have been ordered
to Panama and Aspinwall, owing to the politi-
cal disturbances in the United States of Co
lombia.
The Postmaster General has arranged with
the Occidental and Oriental Steamship Com
pany for monthly mail between San Francisco,
Japan and China, at the sea postage rates as
full compensation for the service, which will
amount to not over $500 per month.
Gen. Babcock, Superintendent of Public
Buildings asks $773, 1000 as his estimated ex-
penses for next year.
Washington is almost deserted, and all bust
LESS of Importance is at standstill. During
several days of last week there was not Cabi-
net officer in the city.
The Secretary of the Treasury has just is
sued the twenty fourth call for bonds. The
amount called for is $1O 900, 600 OF the issue of
5-2Os of 1864.
Postmaster General Jewell has removed a
large number of Postnasters for seeking to in
crease their salaries by forced sale of stamps.
| Secretary Bristow and Treasurer New are on
the best of terms, all reports to the contrary
notwithstanding.
The following is an official statement from
the Treasury Department of the government
receipts and expenditures, by warrants, for the
year ending June 80, 1875:
RECEIPTS.
Customs .doI *
Internnl revenue. .............."... llU,UUi 495
Sales of public lands ............... 1,413,640
Miscellaneous sources l94ll,l.
Total. 1926, OOo o51
EXPENDITURES.
Civil and miscellaneous II, O7O 7o2
War Department Observation-Disclosures. 41,12C, 645
Navy Department ................... 2l,4Sl,616
indians and pensions ....s............ 37.e4o8I3
Interest public debt. ............ 1O3, O93,544
Total ordinary expenditures. $274, 623, 1872
The Postoffice Department will ask the next
Congress to devise law fixing some other
standard for Postmasters' salaries
Postal cards to the number of 1925, 600
were issued during the month of July.
The hnrsted Freedman's Bank will pay 20 per