Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-10-30


The United States Grand Jury, at Spring
field, Illinois, on the 22d, returned bills against
ex- Collector John T. Harper for embezzling
| S4,6l9. A prisoner confined in the Springfield
| Jail has offered to reveal and secure the con-
viction of the murderer of the late Hon. Sharon
| Tyndale, once Secretary of State, provided he
can be assured of pardon for the otfense for
! which he is now confined.
! A New York dispatch of the ed announces
| that the New York Central and other bond
| forgers had been arrested. Their names were
| Frank Gleason, George Wilkes, Andrew Rob
erts, and George C. Olmstead.
| According to dispatches from Texas Of the
22d, the yellow fever is raging terribly at Cal
| vert, Bryson, Marshall and Columbus, in that
State. The latter place had become almost
depopulated. At Memphis the mortality con-
| tinued, and there seemed to be little hope of
an early abatement of the scourge. The vic
| Tins numbered twenty seven on the 22d.
On the 3d. Goldsmith Maid trotted against
| time over the Dexter Park track, at Chicago,
for purse of 5000. She took the purse in
2:17k. This was the best time ever made in
| that city.
| The National Board of Trade was in session
| in Chicago on the 2lst, 22d and 23d. GA the
| latter day the Convention discussed, in all its
bearings, the question of transportation. An
able and exhaustive address was made by w.
| NJ. Grosvenor, of st. Louis.
According to Washington telegram of the
23d, statement of the operations of the let
| ter-carrier system had been prepared for the
| fiscal year ending June 80, 1878, which showed
hat no bod bap laJ I =
| Of mail matter, and that the aggregate cost of
| the service, including all incidentals had been
81, 422, 495, or $40 mills per piece, the lowest
average being in Chicago, where the cost was
| Al mills.
| At the opening of the Supreme Court on the
23d, Attorney General Williams presented the
resolutions of the bar in respect to the memo
| ry of the late Chief-Justice Chase. Associate
Justice Clifford responded in an eloquent re-
| view OF the public career of the deceased.
| The October report of the statistician of the
| Agricultural Department had been published
| on the Esd. In regard to the corn crop, that
| officer had estimated the average at Is per
| cent. below the normal crop, or go, OOO, 600
| bushels less than the crop of last year
dispatch from Memphis of the Esd says
| there has been no sensible abatement in the
prevalence of the yellow-fever, though the
mortality had slightly decreased There had
| been ,05O deaths from the pestilence since the
appearance Of the scourge.
| According to Washington dispatch of the
| oath, Secretary Richardson had decided to be-
| gin paying out silver for greenbacks Or frac-
| tional currency, dollar for dollar. Payment
would begin on the 27th both at the Depart
ment and at the Sub-Treasury in New York
| The amount ready to put aloat was between
| $500 600 and $500, 600. The Director Of the
| Mint in New York arranging matters
Up to the 24th the receipts of internal rev.
enue had fallen about 100000 on account
| of the panic. The legal-tender reserve had
| been drawn upon to the extent of about
| 4,OO0,O 900.
| kilograms from Memphis, of the oath, in
regard to the yellow fever, were more en-
couraging. The mortuary record up to six
| O'Clock in the evening stood, yellow fever, %;
other diseases, 4. The Odd Fellows had lost
| tWenty-cight members, five members wives
| and eleven children since the epidemic began.
| and they had on hand, to care for. twenty
| widows and thirty-fye orphans. There were
| three yellow fever deaths at Shreveport, La,
on the oath, four at Montgomery, Ala, ten at
cambridge, Ga, and two at Little Rock, Ark.
4 Philadelphia dispatch of the oath says a
third petition in bankruptcy had been filed
| against Jay Cooke Il Co. The detailed state
ment OF the firms assets and liabilities, at
! tachcd TO the agreement about which so much
! has been said, and which has been kept out of
| sight so far, contains several items showing
that the firm owed the President So 40S; j. G.
| Blaine, $4,000; Gen. Babcock, $500; Gen
| Dent, $500, and Senator Edmunds a small
| amount.
| A New York dispatch of the oath says that
| siXty-eight indictments had been found against
| A. L. Roberts and j. Gleason, for forging New
| York Central and Buffalo II Erie Railroad
bonds. A meeting had been held in that city,
| of the House of Bishops, and Rev. John S.
spaulding, Rector of st, Paul's, Erie, Pa, had
been elected Missionary Bishop of Colorado,
Wyoming and New Mexico.