Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-27
ROWESTYG.

BY a circular just issued, National Banks
are prohibited in making returns of semi
annual statements to the United States Treas
ury from deducting from their average de
posts for duty the 5 per centum of their cir
culation held as reserve and for redemption
of bank notes.
An accident occurred on the Trenton On.
j. Railroad, near Eddingham Station, on the
18th. An excursion train collided with a coal
train on q siding, the switch being misplaced.
Five persons were killed and fourteen Sc
riously hurt.
A card from Dorman B. Eaton states that
the CivilService Commission have not aban-
doned their labors in consequence of the re-
cent act Of Congress in reference to an appro-
priation for their expenses, but the Commits
sion is stin hard at work Mr.. Eaton speaks
in the most confident spirit of the progress
which the reform is making, of the firm sup
port it receives from the President and his
Cabinet, and of the hold that it is obtaining
upon the convictions of the people"
A very brilliant meteor, described to be as
large as the full moon and almost as bright
rs the sun, exploded near Cairo, H., about
one o'clock on the morning of the 18th. The
explosion shook the earth and houses in
the city and made the windows rattle For
nearly a half-minute the streets were light
enough to read.
A Charleston Is. c. dispatch of the 10th
saws that Georgetown, in that State, was the
scene of a dangerous contest between negro
factions led by Bowley and Jones, negro
members of the Legislature, each of whom
seeks to control tine county, in which the
negroes have a large majority. Meetings
held by one faction had been broken up by
the other, and there was general feeling OF
insecurity On the 18th the town was filled
with armed negroes, and the excitement was
intense and liable to break out in deeds Of
violence at any moment
A Washington dispatch of the nth says
that up to that date the amount of circulation
withdrawn by National Banks by the deposit
of legal tenders was greater than the amoun
issued since the passage of the new law b1
about 81, 100000, thus working contraction
of the currency to that extent. majority o
the banks thus withdrawing their circulation
are located in the South and West.
One Charles Levy, Prussian Jew, twenty
two years old, has given himself up to the
be one of the murderers of the New
York banker, Nathan, in 1870 Il
his confession he says he had a part
ner who instigated the crime, but tina
he Uevy) killed the victim with a stonema
sons tool, sharp at one end and round ant
heavy at the other, while his aceomplice com
mitted the robbery, securing between 500
and $1,000 in money and large amount 0
bonds, the greater part of the latter havin.
since been destroyed. But little credence i
given to this confession, although Levy i
said to be in his right mind. He says h
knows the consequences Of his crime, but
prepared for the worst.
Twelve thousand dollars have recently bee
drawn from the Iowa State Grange treasur
for the benefit of the grasshopper sufferers.
An Augusta (Ga) dispatch of the 18th r
ports that fight was anticipated betwet
whites and blacks at Ridge Springs, S.
and that both races were arming for the fra
There was an uneasy feeling that war
races was about to begin in South CAROLYN
and in that event the white people of Georgi
on the Savannah River, would go to the re
cue of the white people of South CAROLYN