The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-06-02
MISCELLANEOUS GLEAN1NGs.
Statistics from the Census Bureau

Statistics from the Census Bureau
show that Chicago is the third city in the
United States in point of manufactures, its
product being nearly sequal to that of st.
Louis, Cincinnati and Pittsburgh combined.
A breeze of excitement was created in
the Presbyterian General Assembly at Spring
field, Ill, touching the answer TO be sent to the
friendly and concillatory greeting from the
Southern Church. DR.. Dickinson presented
minority report of the Committee on Cores
pondence Che was the only signer), declaring
the Assembly shonld not stpltify itself by re-
tracing the Union principles adopted by the
Northern Church at the outbreak of and after
the Southern rebellion but the feeling pre-
vailed among majority of the members that
the olive branch of peace sent from the South
should be accepted, and greeting fraternal
and peaceful in tenor was dispatched to the
Southern Assembly
In the General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church at Springfield, ILL, on the 9th
ult., q telegram was read from the Moderator
of the Southern Assembly stating that if the
concurrent resolutions were not modified the
Atlanta gathering was prepared to send dele
gates forthwith. A reply was sent that the
Northern body was nearly ready to adjourn,
and suggesting that each appoint delegates for
next year. A dispatch from Atlanta expressed
unanimous approval of the plan proposed, and
announced that delegates and alternates had
already been appointed to bear Christian salu-
tatons to the next General Assembly, where
upon Rev. Samuel Niccols, d. D., Hon. Thomas
D. Hastings and Judge S. NJ. Moore were So
lected to attend the assembly at Lexington,
KY, next year.
Senator WINDOWS investigating CON-
mittee on the Bonded-Spirits bill began it's
work by hearing Maj. Thomas, of Louisville
He stated that the stock of whisky on hand is
sufficient for the next four years; that the re-
lief sought by the House bill will save distillers
from bankruptcy that he has 10000 barrels in
bond which he will be happy to sell at cost, and
that more than half the liquor in warehouse
has been hypothecated.
Charles II. Reed went to Boston last
week and applied to Judge Gray, of the SUI
preme Court, for writ of habeas corpus for
Guiteau The Judge answered that he must
wait to present the case to his associates.
A strike compared to which the labor
demonstrations which have occurred within
the last two months are but child's play is
| threatened in the iron and steel manufacturing
trades and there is only too much reason to
believe that the conflict cannot be avoided
For several weeks there has been an uneasy
feeling in the iron and steel trade, and fears Of
difficulty have been entertained. The Pitts
burgh workmen have been agitating the wages
| question: but, after frequent conferences with
their employers, have not yet succeeded in set
Ting it. Conferences at Chicago and st. Louis be-
| tweenrepresentatives of the iron trade and of the
amalgamated workers in iron and steel resulted
| in failure to agree upon the advance OF
| wages asked by the workmen, and it looks al
j this writing, as if stupendous strike were in.
evitable.
Advices from Sonora represent that
the hostile Apaches, pursued by Mexican
troops, are now fleeing in the direction Of Ari'
zona.
An immense number OF icebergs, some
of them sixty feet in height are outside the
harbor of Halifax. and drifting shoreward.
The steamship Partisan landed at
Montreal 1000 young English farmers, who
brought drafts amounting to $750,0OO.
/ As adduced from the exhibit of Clear
ing House exchanges for the past week, the
mercantile condition of the country is not very
flattering. he depression, which was hereto
fore local in some sections, has made itself felt
in almost all parts of the country, and the out
look is deemed very unfavorable,