Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-02
The South.

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CURED.
| The South.
The Board of State Canvassers in Florida
have finished their count. They give the
official majority of Hart, Republican, at
1886. The Republicans elect both members
of Congress and Lieutenant Governor, and
claim majority in the House of six and in
the Senate Of ten
| The Mechanics Institute Legislative Board
of Managers at New Orleans, on the 14th,
submitted articles of impeachment against
Governor Warmoth. Among the accuse
| lions is one to the effect that he had offered
bride of $50 900 and the dispensation of
| patronage to Lieutenant Pinch
beck if he would organize the Senate to suit
the purposes of the accused.
General W. II. Smith, United States Army,
and Lieutenants Hays and King, of General
Emory's staff of infantry, went to the State
Arsenal held by Warmoth's State Militia, on
the 14th, stating that they had instructions
from Washington to take charge. The mi
lita at once surrendered the property and
vacated the premises. The officers retain
ed their side-arms, which were personal
property.
Arnold, one of the alleged originators
of the Arizona diamond frauds, writes to
the Louisville Courier that he did not salt
the mines, that he has not swindled his part
ners and the public, and that he has discov-
cred silver mines in Kentucky worth $780,
100000, and has bought all the lands around
them for Sc, 0OO, 600
| Tie Supreme Court of Tennessee has de-
cided that the law of the State prohibiting
the sale of "spirituous liquors" on Sunday,
! does not apply to beer or other fermented
liquors.
New Orleans telegram of the 10th states
that B. L. Lynch, Republican, had been in
stalled as Judge of the Fourth District
Court, Bonner, Fusionist, being forcibly
! elected. Bonner had a commission from
Governor Warmoth. Lynch holds com
mission from Acting Governor Pinchbeck,
upon the return of the Bovee Board.
| short time ago professor of chemistry
at Dover, Delaware, suddenly disappeared
but in his labo ratory there was found,
| amidst chaos Of broken retorts and cruel
bles, the corpse OF human being, mutia-
ted beyond recognition. A colored man in
the employ Of the chemist was also missing
| at the same time, and a critical examination
of the remains in the laboratory led to the
| belief that the corpse was that OF the negro.
! The professor afterward made his appear
| ance, and confessed that he had killed the
! negro, though alleging that the deed was
I committed in self-defense, and explained
| that he blew up the laboratory and fed to
| conceal his guilt. Subsequent developments
| go to show that the murder was deliberate
one, and that it was the design Of the pro-
! fessor to crea.a the impression that the re-
mains were those of himself, in order
to secure the payment of insurance policies
on his life. 1t seems he had had converse
men Of about his size and build, in which he
alluded to the similarity in their physical
structure, and sought to induce each of
them to go to his laboratory and test new
gas he was using.
A Columbia Is. CO. dispatch of the 18th
says the alleged bribery cases against John
J. Patterson, Senator-elect, had been heard
| and dismissed. One witness, named Miller,
admitted the falsity of his affidavit, and said
| it was made to compel Patterson to pay
$1,000.
The bill to remove the capital of West
| Virginia from Charestown to Wheeling
passed the House on the 18th, by vote OF
SO to 80
Edward A. Pollard, the editor and author
died at Lynchburg, Va. on the 10th, aged
| forty five.
The Kellogg Legislature, on the 18th
passed the bill Furnishing bribery in office
The Court of Impeachment adjourned to the
23d instant.
In his letter Of the 14th, to Attorney
General Williams, Attorney, General Ogden
of Louisiana, argues in favor of the Warmott
side of the quarrel, and says: "The action
of the Executive in recognizing the as
semblage at Mechanics Institute, in New
Orleans, as the Legislature of Louisiana
and P. B. s. Pinchbeck, as Governor, was
certainly premature. Pr chbech was never
Lieutenant Governor of the State, and his
term as a Senator expired under the Consti
tuition of the State on the fourth day of No
vember last. The assemblage at Mechanics
Institute was VIGOROUSLY returned anC
seated by Deputy United States Marshal
under the order of an inferior Fed
eral Court" Speaking of the State
election, Mr.. Ogden says it "was the mos
quiet and orderly ever held in the State; no
symptom of riotous disposition, not ever
a personal quarrel or encounter connected
with politics was reported by the police
authorities in any direction. The machner,
of the State Government was in perfect or
der after the election and entirely compe
tent to manage it's own affairs, and will
courts of justice ready to protect the rights
of every citizen. BY sudden action of al
inferior Federal court, which was absolutel,
eoram non JUDGE, the State Government il
completely overset, the State-House seized
and government enacted whose officers thu
people have never chosen"
The Alabama Senate organized perma
nently on the 18th, and elected Democratic
officers In the House the Republican
would not permit the journal to be read
They insisted on adjourning immediatel,
after the roll call, and carried their point.
Congressional.
In the Senate, on the 10th, bills wer,
introdueed-regulatingt the taking of private prop
erty for public uses; granting the right of way t
the Kansas & Colorado Railroad; to extend thu