The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1880-06-04

ton was in favor of Seymour and Hem
bricks, but no instructions were given.
The State Convention of the Greenback- Labor
party of West Virginia was held at Charleston
May n, all the counties in the State but eight
being represented. The following State
ticket was nominated Governor, Col N. B.
French Auditor, G. W. Hayes treasurer. s.
w. Sturm; Superintendent of Free Schools,
W. J. King Attorney General, Cyrus Hall
Judge of the Supreme Court, J. A. Thompson.
Delegates to the National Greenback Conven-
ton and State electors were appointed. The
Congressional district delegations nominated
candidates for Congress as follows First dis
trict, James Bassett; Second, d. D. F. Farms
worth Third, Henry S. Walker.
FOLLOWING is the text of the Super
visors' Tenure bill, as it passed the United
States Senate: Be 1t enacted ETC., That the
term of Office of the Chief Supervisors of Elec-
ton provided for in Sec 2O25 of the Revised
Statutes shall be two years. Such term shall
begin on the LIST day of May in each even-num-
bered year. The terms of those now III Office
shall expire Oh the 1st day Of May, 1880. and
their SUCCESSORS shall be appointed from
among the qualified electors Of the prop
er judicial district by the President Of the
United States by and with the advice and con-
sent of the Senate The President may appoint
who may hold and exercise their office until the
next session of the Senate and it shall be the
duty of the President to send in such nomina-
tons within thirty DAYS aftor the next ensuing
session of the Senate provided that no person
now holding, or who has held, the Office of
Chief Supervisor of Elections shall be reap
pointed.
The Greenbackers of Wisconsin met
in State Convention at WATERFOWL May 81, APP
pointed Presidential electors, and selected del
egates to the National Convention with instruc-
tons to support E. p Allis, of Milwaukee, for
President. The Minnesota Greenbackers met
on the same day at Minneapolis and performed
a similar work. The delegates chosen are said
to be favorable to Scion Chase, of Maine. 49,.
The Mississippi Democratic Convention elected
non-instructed delegation to Cincinnati. Nine
members favor Bayard, four Hancock, and the
preferences of the three others are unknown.
=. Kansas Democrats, who profess to know,
say that Tilden has not single supporter
among the delegates selected at Topeka. Sey-
mour, they say, will probably get the solid vote
of tho delegation.
The Nevada Democratic Convention,
by vote Of So to SO, declared Tilden the pre-
ference of the party for President
THE Maine Greenbackers nominated
Henry M. Plaisted for Governor, and the Demo-
cratic State Convention, in session at the same
time, indorsed the nomination without adopting
any platform. The Greenbackers Endorsed
Scion Chase for President, but did not choose
Presidential electors.
FOREIGN.
LEON SAY, now French Minister to
England, has been elected President of the
French Senate, vice Martel, resigned . . 1t is
said that Gen. Todleben will be appointed
Commsnder-in-Chief Of the Russian army in
case of q war between Russia and China.
A REBELLION has broken out in British
Burmah which threatens to be formidable.
One town has been destroyed and an English
Governor killed. . A requisition numerously
signed by the Radical and Liberal members
of the British Parliament has been pre-
sented to Mr. Gladstone, requesting him
to recall Sir Bartle Frere from the
Governorship of South Africa. =. The
trial of Nihilists at st. Petersburg resulted
in the conviction Of eleven. Two were sent
| enced to death, and the others to various terms
of imprisonment OF exile. There were five
women among the number. "A party of 1900
Bulgarians recently destroyed twelve Turkish
villages in the Balkan range.
The international rifle match be-
| tween Ireland and America, at Dublin is fixed
for tho 29th Of June.
THE supplemental European confer
ence on Eastern affairs will be held in Berlin on
June IS. :. F.. In recent encounter between a
regiment of Gillian horse and Peruvian in
fantry the latter were badly worsted, their
force cut to pieces, and many of them made
prisoners. The Russian Government has de-
cided to impose protective tariff on agricult-
ural Implements now admitted free of duty,
and to increase the tariff Oh those on which q
duty is already paid.
A GABLE dispatch says that six-foot
granite wall, built to maintain inplace porous
white stone through which, at one point, the
st Gothard tunnel runs, is giving way. 1t is
bought the tunnel will have to be reconstructed
around the white stone-a two-years' job :. "A
powder-mlll explosion in Belgium has caused u
large loss Of life. Harvest prospects in Ire
land are reported to be excellent. A much
larger area than usual has been planted with
potatoes -. DANES Robinson blanche, the IA
NOUS English playwright is dead.
The ex-Empress Eugene arrived on
the 28th of May ct Itoyozi, Zululand near the
spot whore the Prince Imperial was killed