The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-01-13
CURRENT AFFAIRS.

In New York city, for the current
year, the whole amount of the tax reach
es the monstroue sum of $50, 1904, 1876. "a.
Huge as is the burden of taxation repre-
sented by these figures, it is still re-
duction of a million and a quarter upon
the levy for 1875.
THE withdrawal of Yale from the col
lege boating association, followed by
that OF Harvard, and their agreement to
resume the old individual contests, have
made something of stir in college
circles. The course of the two leading
members is good deal criticised, they
are called snobbish and cowardly, and
Dartmouth and Princeton and some OF
the other colleges vote to go along to-
gether without them.
Nor long agothe Prince of Montenegro
wrote to the Russian Government, that
in maintaining neutrality, against the
wishes of the people, he was endanger-
ing his throne and life. He asked per-
mission, therefore, to pitch into the
Turks. but the Gar advised him to keep
quiet and wait for the good time coming.
The Prince, thereupon, like good little
fellow, promised not to attempt to eat
any Turkey until Papa Alexander gives
him permission to ''dive in.
Stokes, who killed Jim Fisk, has
applied to the Governor of New York
for immediate release from prison, on
the ground that he has served out his
sentence. He claims that all the time he
was in jail in New York, awaiting the de-
cision Of the appellate courts on his
efforts to obtain new trial, must be de-
Quoted from his penitentiary term and
if the Governor refuses to see it in that
light, his lawyers will go to the courts
again with an application for manda-
mus.
TwEED's whereabouts are still uncer-
tain. There have been reports OF him
In Canada and In Havana, but neither
is confirmed !; there is growingly less
reason to believe that he is in or about
New York; and new strength is given
to the idea that he got off in special
private vessel to South America. Mean
time, the great lawyer who led In the
exposure of his crimes, Charles O'Con-
or, continues to defy all medical opin-
ion, and get we'll. He is certainly eating
meat and sleeping, with the promise OF
restoration to activity again.
WE clip this item from the Chicago
Tribune. "New corn is quoted in
Liverpool at 81 shillings per quarter.
That kind of corn can be bought in this
market at IL shillings per quarter, Eng
ish money. The cost here is therefore
to the cost of transporting it from this
city to an English market as IL to 10.
If we take the odd shilling at the profit
of handling on shore, after the payment
of what are called land charges, we have
two bushels in Liverpool worth five
bushels here, the cost of transportation
being $50 per cent of the cost here"
BETWEEN the devastation of the rebels
and the relentless policy of Valmaseda,
the sugar planters in Central Cuba have
had hard time. A prominent real
estate owner who had come to some
arrangement with the insurgents, by
which they spared his plantation, was
shot by order of Valmaseda for COM
municating with the enemy. There are
said to be 10000 troops in the Villas,
yet nothing vigorous is done for the
suppression of the guerrillas, and the
plantations are not efficiently garrisoned.
Rubi, the Royal Commissioner who sent
home Valmaseda, is active in reforming
abuses at Havana, and we shall witness
a more steady and determined effort to
quench the rebellion this winter.
KING AnPHoNso of Spain celebrated
his recent birthday by various acts of
clemency. Among them, he gave TO-,
900 reals -fYe-cent pieces-to the fami-
lies of those who died in the Madrid
Hospital on that day, and sent to each
convict in the Madrid prisons rug, a
pair of sandals, and the sum of sixpence
for cigars or tobacco. He also issued a
royal decree declaring q remission of
certain parts of the sentences of prison
ers, and free pardon to certain classes
of political prisoners. The decree, how
ever, does not apply to foreigners, .assas-
sins, ravishers, robbers, incendiaries,
bribers, or fraudulent stockholders.
The classification of bribers and stock
iobbers will occasion some surprise in
this country, where these classes not
only conduct their operations with i'm
punity, but are held In considerable
esteem.
FOREIGN advices represent that the
grain trade of Russia is In state of col
lapse, and that a severe monetary crisis
now exists at Odessa and other Black
Sea ports. One cause for this depressed
condition Ct affairs is stated to be the
immense falling off in the expectation of
breadstuffs from Russia. 1t also appears
that during the last eight years, while
this decrease in the Russian export trade
has been going on, the shipments of
breadstuffs from the United States to
English ports have been gradually in
creasing. until the figures, which were
largely in favor of Russia in 1867, had in
1873 become reversed, SO that in the
latter year Great Britain imported more
than twice as much grain and -four from
this country as was received from Russian
ports. A London paper, commenting
on this fact, names as the causes thereof
the superior means of transit possessed