The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1876-02-03

shape, as it Will compel them to mortgage the
buildings.
1t is said the House Postofice Committee
will recommend, as measure of economy, the
abolition of the fast mail trains.
The House Appropriations Committee have
voted to reduce the Presidents salary to $25,
600 year after March 4, 1877.
The Grand Jury for the District Of Columbia
have returned indictments against ex-senator
and Assistant Treasurer Frederick A. Sawyer,
William T. Haines Frank w. Brooks Phineas
D. Roddy and William III. Barstow for con-
spiracy to defraud the Government of the
United States of the following sums of money
$24, Bis and $50, 2O7, F. W. Brooks and Phineas
D. Roddy presenting false claim, Frederick
A. Sawyer aiding as Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury in passing Government claim and
receiving therefor 81, 900; William III. Barstow,
Government officer, receiving 81, 900 and o
watch and chain. William T. Haines, also a
Government officer, received 1000.
Hon. Henry Ell. Starkweather Representative
in Congress from Connecticut, died in Wash
ington last week. aged so.
T. M. Vail, of Iowa, succeeds Col. George S.
Service.
Mr. Morrison, Chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee has introduced Tariff bill
in the House. It reduces the duty on all staple
articles-woolen, iron, and the articles of neces-
sitous consumption-from 20 to 25 per cent.
1t restores the duty on tea and coffee to the old
rates-6 cents per pound for tea and 10 cents
for coffee.
The South.
A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., reports that
arge parties of men are passing through there
every day bound for the Black Hills.
General.
"Came to their deaths by mob-names un-
known" is the laconic verdict of the Coroner's
jury in the case of three murderers
Estep and Hines-who were missed the other
subsequently found dangling from the limb Of
u tree.
An agent of the Borden City (Mass.) Mills
has just returned from business trip to
England. He reports finding better market
there than in this country, and $4,000 pieces
per week will, therefore, be exported by his
mills. Thirty thousand pieces have already
been shipped.
Political.
The Virginia Republican Association, at
Washington, have declared in favor of Blaine
as the Republican candidate for President.
A National Convention Of Prohibtionists
have been called to meet at Cleveland May II,
Of oil
David A. Jerome, of Michigan, has been APP.
pointed a member of the Board of Indian Com
missioners.
The Kansas Legislature has passed resolu-
tons thanking Representatives in Congress for
defeating the bill granting amnesty to jeff.
Davis.
An Associated Press telegram from Washing
ton says: g The attention of the President was
called to-day to the statements that he had de-
clared to Senator Conkling.. that he would
not be candidate for denomination, and that
he would favor Senator Conkling for the nomi-
nation. The President remarked that he had
had no conference with Senator Copkling, nor
with any one else on this subject. Neither had
he written any letter in regard to the matter.
He further said that he had no doubt of the
election of the Republican nominee.
Ben. Butler, it is said, will come out as can
didate for Congress this fall.
The Democrats of Columbus, Ohio, are about
to establish daily organ.
| Gen. Ben. Harrison, grandson of the late
President Harrison, is being strongly pushed
| for the Republican nomination for Governor of
Indiana.
| Andrew Shuman editor of the Chicago Jour
nal is mentioned as likely to receive the Re
publican nomination for Lieute nant- Governor
of Illinois.
| Southern Republicans of prominence, now
in Washington, say that there is a movement
on foot in the South to send delegations to the
National Convention in favor Of Bristow for
President and Jewell for Vice President.
| Montgomery Blair is out with an open letter
on the suffrage question: in which he pro-
nounces the ballot failure, and declares that
open voting is alone secure against fraud.
! Speaker Kerr, in letter to J. III. Real, of
Philadelphia, says it is not his desire that his
name shall be used in any connection with the
| Democratic National ticket, and expresses
decided preference for Gov. Hendricks as a
| candidate for President.
| 1t is believed that the Mississippi Legislature
will impeach and remove from Office Lieut..
Gov. Davis and Superintendent of Education
CORDOBA, both colored It is said the impeach-
ment of Gov. Ames is not probable, as convic-
! ton is regarded as uncertain.
John S. Burdett, Treasurer of West Vir-
ginia, has been impeached by the Legislature,
tried, found guilty, and removed from office.
The impeachment trial of E. A. Bennett, State
Auditor is now in progress.
| The Kentucky Legislature has, by vote Of
% to &C. instructed the Senators and requested
the Representatives in Congress from that
State to vote for the Texas Pacific Railroad