The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-04-13
CURRENT AFFAIRS.

IT is said President Grant contem-
plates making Chicago his home after
the expiration of his official term.
Col. NJ. E. THORNTON, an Atlanta
(Ga.) journalist and politician, has won
$500 bet by eating quail day for
thirty successive days. He experienced
nausea with the eleventh bird, and there
after only accomplished his task with
great difficulty.
The House of Representatives has
passed the bill restoring the soldiers Of
the war OF 1872 who were stricken from
the pension lists on account of the re-
bellion, and somewhat enlarging the
provisions of the original act granting
pensions for service in 1872.
GEN. TOLEDO, the second officer In
command of the Government troops at
Matamoras, Mexico, and who surren-
dered his troops to the yevolutionists,
thus giving the latter easy possession of
the city, has been appointed to COM
mand under Diaz, the revolutionary
leader, as a reward for his treachery.
THAT "big bonanza" in the Nevada
mountains, which was struck last year,
was the richest treasure in history, prob
ably. The Consolidated Virginia, which
is the stock name for the mine, has just
divided it's thirteenth monthly dividend
of S., 080,00O gold! In twenty three
months the mine has taken out $50, 000,-
900 of treasure, and divided ST., $50, 900
of profits.
Ir might naturally be supposed that
| the mill owners and others who were
drowned out of business by the bursting
| of the Worcester reservoir had damages
enough but it seems not. At all events,
it is reported that they will sue the city
of Worcester for damages, and the pre-
vailing opinion seems to be that they
will recover. It will be heavy bill for
a small city like Worcester to pay.
The Judiciary Committee of the Mas
sachusetts House has reported q bill pro-
hibiting railroads from giving free pass
es to members of the Legislature, judges
of any court or county commissioner
under penalty of not less than $500 nor
more than 81, 900, violators to be prose
cuted by complaint or Indictment, and
as all the members of that Assembly
have free passes there is some curiosity
as to what their action will be.
Mr.. MORTON, of Indiana, has intro
duced in the United States Senate bill
to amend the Enforcement act of May
81, 1870, so as to bring it within the de-
cision of the Supreme court. The bill
provides that all persons and officers
charged with the duty of furnishing to
citizens an opportunity to perform any
act which State or Territory may pre-
scribe as a prerequisite for voting, shall
give all citizens equal opportunities
without distinction of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude, and,
failing to- do this, they shall forfeit for
each offense to the person aggrieved
$500, together with the costs and such
counsel fees as the court may deem just.
Such offenders are also to be punished,
on conviction, by fine of not less than
$500, and by imprisonment from one
month to one year, or by both, IN the
discretion of the cOutt. The second
section prescribes the same penalties for
any person who by force, bribery, in
timidation, or other unlawful means,
shall hinder, delay, prevent, or combine
to hinder, etc., any citizen from doing
the act required to qualify him to vote,
The third section prescribes fine of moi
less than $500 and imprisonment o.
from one month to a year, or both, fol
obstructing on account of race, color
etc., the exercise of the right of suffrage
by any person entitled to it under the
fifteenth amendment by means Of
bribery or threats of depriving any such
person of employment, or of ejectine
him from houses or lands, or by threats
of violence to himself or family.