Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-06-26
PERSONAL.

A Boston letter to the Springfield fMass.)
Republican of the 10th, says that Vice President
Wilson was lying dangerously i'll in the former
city. He was improving, but by no means out
of danger His incessant labors in the past
election, followed by the strain and anxiety of
last winter, and accompanied by good deal of
work on his anti-slayery history, are regarded
as the immediate occasion of his illness.
Senator Pomeroys trial for bribery and cor
ruption, which was to have begun at Topeka
on the 10th, has been postponed until next fall
President Grant has appointed, under the
CivilService rules, the Board of Examiners for
the Treasury Department, as follows: Stephen
J. w. Tabor, Fourth Auditor; William II.
Armstrong Internal Revenue Bureau; and
Charles Lyon, Secretary's office.
The New York Daily Graphic has it from
the very highest authority that Plymouth
Church will take no steps toward investigating
the charges against Mr.. Beecher, nor toward
calling Mr.. Bowen to account for anything he
may have said concerning his pastor And,
furthermore we have the best authority for
saving that neither MIR. Bcecher, Mr. Bowen,
nor Mr. Tilton will take any further notice of
the disagreeabe scandal that has been set
afoat, and with which their names are more or
less directly associated.
The annual meeting of the Michigan Press
Association commenced at Detroit on the 10th.
The officers elected for the ensuing year are:
President, r. L. Warren, Saginaw Enterprise;
Vice Presidents, J. Cross, Adrian JeurnoI. J. H.
Stone, Kalamazoo Telegraph, E. B. Pond, Ann
Arbor 4rq,s; Secretary, w. S. George, Ian
1l,;.I
Flint Globe A resolution was adopted relat-
ing to the late postal law amendment, protest
ing against such hasty legislation on the part
of the American Congress as an onerous and
unjust tax on knowledge, alike detrimental to
the cause Of free and enlightened Govern
ment, and the progressive spirit of the nine
teenth century"
The Wisconsin Editorial Association met in
annual convention at La Crosse on the 18th.
About 225 members were in attendance Sam
uel Ryan, of the Appleton Crescent, was chosen
President.
President Grant has ordered the pardon of
Rev. John Ezell, Baptist minister, who was
tried and sentenced eighteen months ago, in
South Carolina, to the Albany Penitentiary as
all alleged ku-Klux leader.
The twenty ninth annual session of the
National Division Sons of Temperance com
menced in New York City on the 18th, almost
every State being represented. The delegates
included several colored men. The annual
reports show flourishing condition of the
Order.
Hon. Sidney Breese has been elected Chief
Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, rice
Judge Lawrence, term expired.
The Michigan State Editorial Association,
at its recent session, adopted resolutions
recommending that all newspapers discourage
unknown advertising agencies, and refuse to
vance; that newspapers adhere rigidly to their
prices as well with advertising agencies as
other parties; that the commission Of twenty
five per cent. allowed to agencies is larger than
the nature of the business will justify, and
that the Association advises that not over
twenty per cent. be allowed after July /, 1878.
resolution was also adopted urging, that
on all legal advertising statute rates be adhered
to.
The President arrived in Washington from
Long Branch on the morning of the 10th.
: Late advices indicate that the health of
Vice President Wilson was rapidly improving,
and he would no doubt be soon entirely recov-
cred
Mr.. Albert Keep has been elected President