The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-01

10 FoUre from the ONCE ne Has SO long nolQ
BY the proposed change in the classification
of calf-hair and cotton goods it is thought 81,
500, 900 will be annually added to the customs
revenues.
A delegation of Wisconsin Winnebago Chiefs
have been in Washington to request that the
tribe be permitted to dissolve it's tribal relations
and become citizens.
The rumor that Secretary Bristow was about
to resign is emphatically contradicted. w
In connection with the call of $3.50, 600, 900 of
bonds for the sinking fund, several questions
have been raised as to the lost coupons. The
department has decided that all the coupons
must be deducted from the par value of the
bond and the loss borne by the owner of the
bond. There is no way of preventing the pay
ment of a lost or stolen coupon.
The Attorney General has decided that the
President has no power to fill the place lately
occupied by Judge Durell in Louisiana, there
fore the Office will be vacant until the next ses-
sion of Congress.
The Secretary of the Interior has appointed
Walter P. Jenney geologist for the exploration
of the Black Hills country.
Attorney General Williams decides that an
Indian charged with murder cannot be tried by
a military commission.
It was unanimously decided in Cabinet meet
ing, the other day, not to reopen the case Of
Fitz John Porter.
After the LIST of next May mutilated currency
will be redeemed according to rules which were
formerly in existence but afterward abolished.
Money will be redeemed according to the pro-
portion remaining of the bill.
The Court of Claims has decided against all
claimants to the Arkansas Hot Springs, and in
favor of the government.
The Supreme Court of the United States has
passed upon the question Of womans right to-
the ballot, and remanded the matter to the
States, holding that each Stats has the right
and power to settle for itself whether the women
within its borders shall or shall not vote.
Treasurer Spinner has sent in his resignation
to take effect in July. John c. New, Of In
dianapolis, will be his successor.
Loren Blodgett, who had charge of the Gus
toms Division of the Treasury Department has
resigned.
General.
The price of gold has shown steady advance
for several weeks, and is now higher than it has
been for years. The market appears to be
in the hands of New York clique that is de-
tern1ined to force the premium Oh specie up to
the highest figure it will stand.
You can now enjoy the luxury of ride in a
Pullman palace car from Chicago to Washing
the insignificant sum Of SO in greenbacks.
Young man, go East.
1t is stated from Washington that the main
object Of the Senatorial Mexican excursion
party is to see if the graves of American SOL
diers killed in the Mexican war are properly
cared fer.
A band of Mexican outlaws recently made a
dash across the Rio Grande near Corpus Christi,
Texas, robbed several stores and houses, and
took a large nuraber of American prisoners,
among them Judge Gilpin, formerly member of
the Legislature, and two women. They COM
PEELED the captives to walk in front of them till
they were exhausted and then mounted them
on bareback horses, and hurried them off.
They robbed and burned the Postofice at
Nueces, and robbed and took prisoner one mail
rider. There is considerable indignation at
| Washington over the affair, and it is given out
that immediate steps will be taken for dealing
summary with these Mexican raiders. Those
best conversant with affairs apprehend that a
general border war will ensue, in which event
the invasion of Mexico by our armed citizens,
in pursuit of robbers, is not among the improba-
bilites
Political.
The Republican State Convention of Rhode
Island has nominated Henry Lippett for Gov
! ernor and Henry T. Sisson for Lieutenant
Governor.
The TiItan-Beecher Trial.
FIFTY-FIFTH DAY.-Bessie Turner was still
undergoing cross-examination. She is regard
ed as splendid witness by the defendants
side, and Tilton's counsel accuse her of ''evad-
ing questions" with remarkable skill. Numer-
GUS controversies between counsel occurred.
the legal gentlemen being unusually combative