Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-18

year, were: Receipts, 81, IA, SIS; adding bal
| ances, S2,013, 667. Disbursements, 81, 79S, OBS
| leaving a balance September 80, 1873, of
| S215, ga. The total State tax for the year was
s671, SIP. There is still $4,000 of war bonds
outstanding. The total debt Of the State is
| 81, 252, O57.
| 4 national convention Of colored citizens as
sembled in Washington on the 9th. Between
! 200 and 800 delegates were present.
Vice-President Wilson gave notice in the
Senate on the 9th that he would be absent for
several weeks, his health not permitting him
| to continue his duties as presiding officer.
Senator Carpenter was selected by the Repub-
lican caucus as President pro tenn. The Demo-
cratic caucus resolved to support Senator
! Thurman.
At the late city election in Manchester, N
H., the Democrats elected their Mayor by OIL
plurality.
Four women were elected on the School
| Committee at the recent Boston city election.
Mr.. Samuel Z. Cobb was chosen Mayor Of the
| city, receiving the largest vote ever cast for
one candidate for that Office.
| The United States Supreme Court has re-
Gently made very important decision, on the
| question as to the right of a State to control
the charges of railroads. The case was that
| Of Fuller Us. the Chicago 81 Northwestern rail-
road, and the Court held that it was compe-
| tent for the State of Iowa to regulate railroad
| freights, because such a law is within the
power of the State to protect its citizens from
| imposition. The road was charged with i'm
posing double rates for furniture from Chlca-
| 60 to Marshalltown, Iowa.
The National Colored Convention organized
in Washington on the 10th, by the election of
| Ex-Governor Pinchback as President. The
Louisiana delegation called on the President,
who, in response to an address thanking him
for the care and attention which he had given
to the colored people of Louisiana, said that
he would always endeavor to secure to the col
ored man all the rights which should accom-
pany his enfranchisement.
A Galveston (Texas) telegram of the 10th
says the news so far received from the recent
State election show an increased Democratic
majority.
The Illinois State Grange adjourned on the
18th. Resolutions were adopted-advising
their brethren not to deal with the combina-
ton of plow-makers, embracing some twenty
firms, which, a short time ago, decided to sell
Changers at nothing less than retail prices;
expressing the belief that the educa-
tional influence of the Grange is its
most valuable feature by intoxicating in the
minds of members the rights and duties of
citizenship; condemning the "salary grab;"
requesting the Legislature not to NEEDLE with
the present Temperance law of the State;
affirming the RIGHT of CONGRESS- TO reouIate in
ter-State commerce, and calling ON Congress to
exercise that right; declaring that the General
Government should open all the natural water
channels at its own expense, but that railroads
should be built with private capital under re-
strictive charters; condemning the present
Civil-Service of the country as dangerous to
the integrity and perpetuity of republican in
situations, ETC.