The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-18

/ census just beginning Will show q population In
the United States Of something like 80, 000,000
of people, or something less than sixth ofjhe
populationo of Europe according to the latest
enumerations. Should the estimation prove
correct, the population of the United States
will be second to that of only one European ma
ton, Russia, which numbers u, 100000 souls.
The population of other leading European ma
tons is given as follows Germany AZ, 1877 900 ;
France, 36,900000; Great Britain and Ire
land, without dependencies, $4,000, 900; Aus
tria, 37,000,000, and Italy, 27,76000O. -.
A dispatch has been received from Commander
Gorringe, U. S. n, announcing that he has
sailed from Alexandria with the Egyptian
obelisk in tow, and that everything is in per-
feet order. Chicago leads all competitors in
the race for the baseball championship.
POLITICAL.
The Illinois Democratic Convention
met at Springfield, June 10, and nominated
Lyman Trumbull for Governor Lewis B. Par
sons, of Clay, for Lieutenant Governor John
FL Oberly, of Alexander for Secretary of State ;
Louis c. Starkel, of st. Clair, for Auditor i;
Thomas Butterworth of Winnebago for Treas
urer, and Laurence Harmon, of Peoria, for At
torney General. Nearly all the candidates
were selected by reclamation. A resolution in
structing the delegates to Cincinnati to vote for
Seymour was received with great applause, but,
after debate, it was referred to the Committee
on Resolutions where it was suppressed. The
delegates are said to be divided between Sey-
mour and David Davis. They were instructed
to vote as unit at Cincinnati.
The National Greenback-Lab party
met in National Convention at Chicago on
Wednesday. June 8. Congressman De La
| Matyr, of Indiana, was made temporary pre-
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of Michigan, was elected permanent
Chairman, with Vice President from
each State. The convention was in ses-
sion during the 9th and 10th, and throughout
the entire night of the 10th, adjourning at
o'clock on the morning of the 18th. Congress-
man J. B. Weaver, of Iowa, was nominated for
President on the first ballot, which resulted as
follows: Whole number of votes cast TIC
necessary to achoice, 359; Weaver, 400; Wright,
"a; Butler, 99 Chase, 101 Allis, -. Gen B.
j.. Chambers, of Texas, was nominated for
Vice President on the first ballot.
WASHINGTON telegram "Col. Tom
Ochiltree, of Texas, has returned from the
West. He accompanied Gen. Grant from Chi
cago to Milwaukee, and says the ex-President
was in excellent spirits. There was nothing in
his appearance or in his demeanor to indicate
he had experienced the slightest disappoint-
ment in not being nominated. The General
had not even alluded to the subject except to
say that he would always hold in grateful re-
membrance the men who stood by him through
the thirty-six ballots, and those were the kind
of friends he wanted and were alone worth
having"
WASHINGTON.
The Secretary Of the Treasury has
forwarded to the Senate statement of the ex-
penses incurred by the United States in the War
of the Rebellion; also, the specified amount
paid on the principal of the public debt thereby
| incurred. The statement of the expenses grow
ing out of the war from July 1, 1861 to June
30, 1879, inclusive of the amounts in gross ex-
penditures, were Sc, 1876, 1872, $685. ordinary ex-
penditures, 5000, 549, 1852; specific expendi-
lures of the war, Sc, 1877, 243 1856. The statement
was made in response to Senate resolution.
EXPORTS of petroleum and petroleum
products for the ten months ending April 80,
1880, are s32, 1924, 439; for the same period in
1879, 1884, 224.500.
AT Cabinet meeting, few days ago,
the statement of the Captain of the schooner
Merritt lately fired upon by Spanish war YES
sci, was presented by Secretary Evarts. Upon
its presentation it was decided that an explana-
ton be demanded from Spain. which demand
the Secretary of State, it is announced, will
proceed to make.
FOREIGN.
TOUCHING the famine in Ireland, the
Lord Mayor of Dublin has telegraphed the
Mayor of every city in the United States and
Canada as follows ~ regret to say that
funds are still needed for the relief of distress
in Ireland. In many places the pinch is now
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much felt by farmers who dread the work
house, but can get nothing else until their
crops come in. While deeply grateful for the
generous contributions already received,
cannot help asking further assist
ance for the Mansion House Fund
Committee during this trying period.
The remains of two celebrated Portuguese
Vasco de CANA, who discovered the Cape of
Good Hope route to India, and Camoens, the
poet who celebrated many of the discover
ers achievements recently removed from
the vault in which they have rested so long, to
monastery, and the occasion was made one of
great public ceremonial throughout Portugal.
A DISPATCH from Dublin states that
Lord Oranmore's estate in Mayo was set on fire,
presumably by an incendiary, and several acres
of his plantation destroyed. There is much
feeling among the local peasantry against Lord
OIduIIOIo LUZ LIS poISlSUeuG OppOSlClOu III Hdf-
lament to the claims of the Irish tenantry, and
suspicion has fallen upon some of bis tenants.
AN organized effort will be made in
England and Scotland to secure the disestab-
lishment of the Episcopal church in both coun-
tries. :. Paul de Cassagnac, the celebrated
French fre-eater, has resigned his seat as MEM
Der of the French Chamber of Deputies.
The movement of European Mormon
proselytes toward this country is said to be
greater than ever before. Gustave Courbet
who instgated the pulling down of the Column
Vendome during the Communist outbreak in
1871, was fined 100000 francs, besides being
imprisoned for his part in the transaction. His
sister, who is his sole heir, has petitioned for a
reduction of the fine. 1t is said that the
French Government will proclaim an amnesty
to all political offenders on the 14th of July, the
anniversary OF the storming of the Bastile.
STATISTICS show that England's trade
with India is decreasing, while that of America
and China is increasing. The President of the
Calcutta Chamber of Commerce takes very
gloomy view of the future of the empires ex-
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