The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-08-05

The excitement occasioned by the failure OF
Duncan Sherman & Co., has been succeeded
by quiet feeling, and there is no reason to
expect other important suspensions on their
account.
President Grant was out driving at Long
Branch when informed of the death Of An
drew johnson. He was yisibly affected.
The recent transforms in Ohio, Indiana,
Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and portions of H.
nois and Missouri, were of unprecedented
violence, and the damage entailed will amount
to millions of dollars. Whole sections of
country were inundated, and crops in the low
lands entirely destroyed.
Political.
The Republican State Convention of Min
nesota was held at st. Paul on the 28th ult
John s. Pillsbury was nominated for Governor,
and J. B. Wakefield for acknowledgements.
The financial plank of the platform reads:
THAT on the present questions of the day we
favor that policy of finance which shall steadily
keep in view return to specie payments"
Foreign.
One hundred and fifty six out of the 1862 cot
ton mills in Oldham, England, are closed on
account of a strike of the operatives, and in
Ashton fifty mills are closed and 5000 opera
tives idle.
The Russian wheat crop promises good av-
erage.
Grants cotton-mills at Glasgow, Scotland,
were recently destroyed by fire. The loss is
3d. 10000
Thirty-one cotton-Inills have closed at Dun
dee, Scotland, and II, 900 persons are out of en-
ployment.
Reports from Canada are to the effect that
the crop prospects are favorable. Fall wheat
is below the average, while spring wheat is bet
ter than usual. Oats, barley, and potatoes
promises an abudant yield.
Dispatches from London and Liverpool re-
port that there has been no appreciable effect
on the general market in those cities occasoned
by the failure of Duncan, Sherman g. Co.
Mr.. PlimsolI having read an apology in the
English Parliament for his previous unjust re-
marks he was discharged without reprimand.
Large meetings of worlzingmen have been
held in England to protest against the proposed
grant of e142,OOO to defray the expenses of
the Prince of Wales visit to India.
In Switzerland the Gothard tunnel workmen,
numbering 1900, united in a strike and riotous
proceedings. The government troops dispersed
them, after killing two and wounding many
more.
A large body of Carlist troops has been COM
pletely invested at the Spanish town of SEQ de
Urgel, and must eventually surrender.
Late advices from Cuba report the capture of
an immense Government convoy and the rout-
ing of it's escort by a body of patriots.
The Spanish Bank of Havana has refused to.
loan the Government of Spain another So, 000,-
600 on account of the nom payment of previous
loans.
Rochefort, the Communist leader, now So
journing in Geneva, recently challenged the
noted Paris fighting editor, Paul de Cassagnac.
The latter replied with an excessively abusive
letter, giving Rochefort the choice of weapons.
The latter chose pistols at five PAGES, which
means death to both parties. For the first
time in his life Cassagnac, who is the hero of
twenty-five or thirty duels, refused to fight on
the terms proposed, and, according to the
French code, is henceforth to be regarded as
coward
The British Parliament has passed the bill
for tunneling the English channel.
The Braidwood Weaving Factory, in Belfast,
has been burned. Loss, $780, 600.
The harvest prospects in England and on the
Continent are improving.
An immense meeting in favor of amnesty for
Fenian convicts was held in Hyde Park, Lon
don, last week. It is estimated that 100000
persons gathered around the various speakers
stands.
Colonel Valentine Baker, who committed an
assault upon young lady in railway car, has
been found guilty and sentenced to imprison-
ment for one year and to pay fine of $4,000.
WE have now in the United States
SO agricultural colleges, with 309 pro-
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