The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-03-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
From Washington.

ron the 9th the Malagassy Ambassadors
reached Washington, and were received as
che guests of the Government.
OK the 18th ex-senator David Davis was
the recipient of solid silver service from
the employees Of the United States Senate
The receipts and expenditures of the Post
office Department at Washington for the
third quarter Of the calendar year ended
September 30, 1882, were: Receipts, s10,-
545,932; expenditures, So 1SS, 800; surplus,
s356,96 During the same quarter in 1881
the receipts were 50, 400, 7O6; expenditures
$9,686, $40; excess of expenditures over re-
eeipts, S196, 104
The National Treasury held $685. ST., 920 in
coin on the 8th.
EX-SENATOR TABOR, on his wedding day,
it is stated, gave to his new father-in-law
100000 and $4,000 to his mother-in-law.
The Treasury Department at Washington
holds that the law removing the tax from
bank deposits is retroactive, and that the tax
accrued since the 1st Of January can not be
collected
DURING the progress of the Star-route trial
on the 18th Congressman Belford, Of Colorado,
was fined 500 and costs, because he insisted
on denying the truth of the testimony of
Rerdell, when the Court ordered him to be
silent. f
CIRCULAR has been, or will soon be-,
issued by the Post-ofiice Department, notify
i'm postmasters of the reduction Of letter
POSTAGE which takes effect October 1, and
warning them to reduce their stock of stamps
as rapidly as possible. The head of Washing
ton, now on the three-cent stamps, win be
used upon the new two-cent issues. The
color and design of the stamp has not yet
been determined upon.
THERE were 252 business failures in the
United States and Canada during the seven
days ended on the 8th, decrease of twenty
as compared with the failures of the pr, ced-
ing seven days.
A STATEMENT by a Washington paper that
an attempt had been recently made to assas-
.suate ex-Secretary Blaine, while he was
riding in a carriage at the Capital, was de-
clared by Mr.. Blaine on the 9th to be I'M
founded.
BEFORE Congress adjourned the House
amendment TO the suadry Civil bill, which
proposed to abolish the Presumption law, was
stricken out by the. Senate, on the ground
that it was new legislation, and the House
receded from its amendment in order to save
tho bill. The Presumption law is therefore
not rope led.
DURING the week ended on the 10th the
exchanges at twenty-six leading clearing
houses in the United States amounted to
Sl,O2S Sl5, S96, marked decrease over the
corresponding week in 1882, and indicating a
decided monet nv strinrency e
IT was stated by the Statistici IN of the Ar
ricultural Department at Washington on the
18th that no reports of injury to the growing
wheat crop had bcca received by him.
CHICAGO will be the name of the 4,300-ton
steel cruiser to be construc cd by the United
States Navy Department, and promise is
made that she will in no wise disgrace her
namesake.
The placing on the re ired list of Rear Ad-
miral j. W. A. Nicholson, who was in com
mand of the United States naval vessels
present at the bombardment of Alexandria.
Egypt, in July, 1882, is announced. Rear
Admiral Z. r. Calhoun will be retired in
April. t0 EEE
For the week ended March 10 the issue of
standard silver dollars was 269, 900, against
I44 400 for the correspon ling period last year.
OFFICIAL computation by the State De-
partment at Washington places the value of
the annual exports of the United States to
all other countries at $780, 2S7, 900, and the i'm
ports from all coun tries at $S2S, 991 900.
In the Treasury at Washington on the
18th the total amount of gold, silver and
United States notes was $35S, 1885,