Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-08-07

garrison made vigorous and successful
defense. The Carlists were defeated with
heavy loss, and driven over the Galinda River.
1t was reported in Paris, on the LIST, that Don
Carlos had captured Estella, with the entire
garrison, which surrendered as prisoners of
war;
The bill granting eos, 900 per annum to the
Duke of Edinburgh, on the occasion of his
marriage, was passed in Committee Of the
House of Commons, on the LIST.
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the 1st at
115&.
Late destructive fires on Long Island have
burned over an area OF fifty square miles.
The German settlement, called Bohemianville,
was swept entirely away, and several young
children unable to escape persisted
Judge Vinton, of the Tippecanoe Circuit
Court, 1nd has rendered a decision, in which
he concluded that the railway act passed at the
special session of the State Legislature, re-
curing railroad companies to issue stock paid
for by corporations to taxpayers, etc, is I'M
constitutional, and is therefore null and void
He decides that the stock is the property of the
whole people, and is held in trust by the Coun-
ty Commissioners. An appeal has been taken
to the Supreme Court.
Johanna Welsh, aged nine years, of James
Vile, Wis, was building fire with kerosene a
few days ago, and was fatally burned. A
similar accident recently occurred at Auburn,
Ind, to twelve year old girl named Culver,
who laid the foundation for fire by pouring
coal oil on the ashes. Live Goals concealed in
the ashes communicated fire to the can, which
exploded with great violence, covering the
poor girl with sheet of flames. She was
burned nearly to crisp, and died in a few
minutes
A dispatch from Indianapolis, Indiana, on
the 27th, says the cholera had made its APP
pearance in that city. Three fatal cases oc-
CURED in one family; no other fatal cases
reported. There were twenty-one cholera
deaths in st. Louis during the week ending on
the Goth. The entire mortality for the week
was 253; decrease of 80 from the previous
week.
The Department of Agriculture has ordered
four hundred bushels Of wheat from France
and an equal quantity from Chill, embracing
all varieties of winter wheat, for free distribu-
ton in season for fall sowing Cargoes are
expected to arrive about the first of Septem-
Der.
The report of the Agricultural Bureau for
July represents an improvement in winter
wheat, but decline in the pros s>-ct of spring
wheat on account of unreasonable weather in
some localities, and insect enemies in Others
The corn average is increased in West Virginia
and Minnesota, and decreased in all other
States pycar,t Florida and Ark
The following reductions in freight charges
on first-class merchandise, (Which includes
dry goods, boots and shoes, clothing, etc.)
from the East to the West, have been re-
Gently made by the managers of the trunk
lines: From New York to Chicago, per cwt.,
IS cents; formerly 81. Cleveland, 40 cents
formerly 65 cents. Cincinnati, 20 cents;
formerly 90 cents. st. Louis, 81 cents;
formerly S1.2S Louisville, Sc cents; former
ly s1.23 Memphis, s1.35; formerly s1,62
The following are the rates from Lake Erie
ports westward; To Cleveland, Toledo, and
Detroit, 45c. To Chicago, Milwaukee, and
Green Bay, sic.
The Peruvian Government has commenced
suits against several dealers in guano in New
York City, who are said to prepare and sell as
Two additional deaths from cholera were
reported in indianapolis on the 2Sth. But
seven deaths in all had so far occurred, five of
which were the children Of one family.
Merriam, the only one of the Minneapolis
party whom the Manitoban Judge decided
bailable, was released on the 2Sth, two of the
wealthiest and most respected citizens Of
Manitoba becoming his sureties. Attorney
General Clarke refused to deliver up $4,000
| taken from two Of the Americans, although
| the Court had ordered him to do so.
| John q. Page, who began an action to re-
cover 81 900 paid into the Kansas Legislature
by A. VI. York, has dismissed the case. The
suit was to recover money now in the hands of
| the Kansas State Treasurer, on the ground set
| forth by Senator Pomeroy, in his defense,
that the money was given by Pomeroy to York
to be given to Page, to aid in the establish
ment of a bank at independence.
Crop reports from Arkansas on the 2Sth were
very encouraging. Reports from Mississippi
were conflicting in regard to cotton, but the
corn crop would not yield more than half a
| CROP owing to the drouth, while in the neigh
borhood of Oklahoma, Kosciusko and Brandon,
both cotton and corn would make poor yield.
In addition to the drouth the worms had APP
| peared in West Tennessee. Corn would only
| yield half crop, but the cotton prospect was
| fair.
Cholera was prevailing on the 2Sth, to con-
| siderable extent, on the plantations below
| Little Rock, Arkansas.
A Washington dispatch of the goth says
that semi-ofticial authority warrants the state
ment that the Military Commission had award
ed The full penalty of the law in the cases of
the Modoc prisoners, and that the sentence of
death by shooting will be carried into effect as
soon as it shall have been approved by the
President.
The British authorities have declined the
proposition of the United States to have an
exchange of postal cards by the addition of
| one cent postage, the same as we now have
with Canada, on the ground that Great Britain
| is opposed to any lower rate of postage than
| that now paid on letters.
A Des Moines Qowa) dispatch of the Goth