The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-11-21
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

known as the Clearing House, at a meeting in
that city last week, decided upon the following
plan of action after Jan. 1, 1879: 1, Decline
receiving gold coins as special deposits, but &C
cept and treat them only as lawful money ];
2, Abolish special exchanges of gold checks
at the Clearing House; 3, Pay and re
ceive balances between banks at the
Clearing House either in gold or United States
legal tenders; 4, Receive silver dollars upon
deposit only under special contract to withdraw
the same in kind; 5, Prohibit payments of bal
ances at the Clearing House in silver certificates
or in silver dollars excepting as subsidiary coin
in small sums, say under $40; g. Discontinue
gold special accounts by notice to dealers on
the LIST of January next to terminate them.
Edison is suffering from ill-health,
and has temporarily given up his experiments
with the electric light ut4a
Atlantic City, N. j., was visited by a
$50, 900 fire last week.
The Theater Comique and fifty other
buildings, including hotels, clearinghouse,
saloons, etc., were destroyed by fire at Brad
ford Pa, last week. Loss, $3.50, 900; insurance,
$4,000. 4..
South. >]il fDt
A dispatch from Jacksonville, Fla,
says Judge Witherspoon, Of the Canvassing
Board of Madison County, has been arrested by
q Deputy United States Marshal on charge of
receiving and destroying one of the precinct re-
turns, which gave Bisbee 81 majority. He
was held in $4,000 bail. Samuel Smith (col-
oreD, an inspector in the same county, charged
with not doing his duty, was committed to jail.
The same dispatch states that Deputy
United States Marshal had also arrested the en-
tire Canvassing Board of Alachua county for
violation of the United States election laws, in
throwing out the three precincts on TECHNICAL
ties, by which Hull, Democrat, is elected to
Congress over Bisbee, Republican.
A Charleston IS. CO. dispatch
says: "Three managers of the election
at one of the polls were arrested
to-day under warrants from the United States
Commissioner for obstructing the Deputy Mar
shall at the recent election and refusing to pub
icly count the ballots. They gave bail. Other
arrests are expected. Eighteen citizens of
Orangeburg have been arrested for obstructing
United States officers in the discharge of their
duties at the election. They gave bail"
The total number of deaths from yell
low fever in the South is reported at Is, 921. Of
these 200 occurred at Memphis and vicinity,
and 3,977 at New Orleans ........
Several shops in the Virginia peni-
tertiary, at Richmond, have been destroyed by
fire. Loss, 5000.
A fire at Tyler, Texas, destroyed five
large stores and the United States Court-rooms
together with all their contents. Loss about
5000; insurance about half that amount
Mount Sterling, Ky, was the scene Of
bloody mob the other day. Thirty shots were
fired, two men instantly killed and three
wounded.
West.
At GAINESVILLE, Ohio, few mornings
ago, a policeman attempted to halt a party Of
men in q wagon, whose movements excited his
suspicious. They fled to the woods, but were
pursued by the officer several miles, when, to
escape arrest, they abandoned the wagon,
which was found, upon investigation, to con-
tain the bodies of four well-known citizens who
had been buried recently. .....
The st. Louis Times and Journal
have been consolidated.