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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-07

KUHN'S EUROPEAN HOTEL-The best
and most centrally located loo per day house
in Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-07

THE GREAT FAMILY MEDIcINE.-Dr. VII
hoft's Anti-PeriOdic or Fever and Ague Ton
lc! No case of incurable Chills has yet pre-
scented itself where this scientific and safe
medicine has been employed. No case has
been found so obstinate as te resist its prompt
and mastery action. No man has been so re-
duced by malarial influences but with its use
mas come up perfectly reconstructed. No
pills or purgative required with this medicine.
HEELoch, FINLAY q Co., Proprietors, New
Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL ORUccIsTS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-07
The NEWS.

THE NEWS.
Renewal Of the Fighting Before
Bilboa--Carlist ReverSes.
Further Concerning the Presidents
Financial Views.
The Vote in the Senate on the
Veto Message.
Public Debt Statement
for April
The Arkansas Troubles---A Battle
With Fatal Results.
Call for an Autobiography State Con-
VentIOn in Iowa.
Disastrous Effects of the Flood at
the South.
Appointment Of R R. Commissioners in Wisconsin
The New Law To Be Resisted.
Proclamation by Gov. Taylor that He
VIII Enforce the Law.
An Appeal for Aid from the State
Grange of Louisiana.
Other Interesting News Items.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-07

| THE NORTHWESTERN HoRSE-NAIL Co.'s
" Finished" Nail is the best in the world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-07

HANNAFoRD s. THOMPSON, Publishers,
Chicago, ILL.,, announce 4th edition of
Periam's " Gr0undsaoeIl, or History Of the
TURNER'S Mo0enaent." This sale was made
in less than three months. The demand
is extraordinary. Agents make money
rapidly with it, spite Of hard times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-07

DON'T TAMPER WITH A CoUGH.-Perhaps in
the whole category OF diseases to which hui
mainly is susceptible, the cough is most neg
Iected in its early stage. A simple cough
generally regarded as a temporary af1liction is
unpleasant and nothing more; but to those
who have paid dearly for experience, it is the
signal for attack for the most fearful Of all
diseases Consumption. A cough will lead to
consumption-if not checked--so sure as the
rivulet leads to the river yet it is an easy enc
my to thwart, if met by the proper remedy
Aliens lang BalSana is the great cough rem
edy of the age, and has earned its reputation
by merit alone. Sold by all good druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-07

GINGERBREAD.-H to make it of
sugar: Rub pound of butter into a
pound and quarter of flour; add to it
three-quarters of pound of sugar, half
a cup of cold water, and two tablespoon
fuls of ginger Mold it thoroughly; roll
out very thin and bake quickly on flat
tins. If one desires, two eggs can be
added but it is very good without eggs,
and will keep a long time and yet benice.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-07

NEVADA furnishes a puzzle for the
scientists a short distance from Gold
Hill there is to be seen most wonderful
phenomenon. The ground. either from
IN earthquake or some other cause has
recently been split open for at least a
quarter OF mile. The crevice varies in
width from one to twenty inches, and in
places appears to be bottomless. This
crack was not suddenly opened. Its ap-
pearance was first noticed about Christ
mas, and 1t has been widening ever since.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-07

"A few evenings ago Belle Palmer
Wheeler, OF East Meadow. L. l., met with
an awful death. She had just been mar
ried, and shortly after the conclusion of
the marriage ceremony was placed in a
light carriage by her husband, who was
preparing to follow her, when some per-
son fired off a gun in close proximity to
the horses heads as parting salute to the
young couple. The animals took fright,
broke from their fastenings and ran down
the street. In attempting to round a
short curve the carriage was overthrown
throwing the young lady to the ground.
As she had become entangled in the lines
she could not extricate herself, and was
dragged over the rough and stony road
for half mile. When friends reached
her they found her head almost torn from
her body, every limb broken in number
of places, and her whole body bruised and
lacerated in manner impossible to de-
scribe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-07

Ex-Secretary Boutwell, testified before the
WAYS and Means Committee in the Sanborn
investigation on the LIST. He said he was sure
the Sanborn business was never q matter of
conversation between himself and Secretary
Richardson, and he never had any personal re-
lations with Sanborn, only hearing of him at
the Chief of Special Agents Bureau when in
quiring into the qualifications of several special
agents. The fact that Sanbon had con-
tract was not brought to his knowledge,
officially or personally, nor had he
officially or personally knowledge of the
contracts made with anybody else under the
law. Mr.. Boutwell,, in his testimony, sustains
Messrs. Richardson and Sawyer in the asser-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-07
Children Often Look Pale and Sick

SOLD BY ALL MEDICINE DEALERS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-07
FOREIGN.

Other Interesting News Items.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-01

New Mexico, represented by swarm
of politicians, is knocking at the doors of
Congress for admission as a State of the
American Republic. There are arguments
for and against her admission. New Mex
leo has vast resources Her cattle, min
erals, timber aud agricultural capabilities
are boundless; her position is one Of i'm.
portance, and it would, moreover, be a
mercy TO her revolution. ridden people to be
taken charge Of bya responsible govern.
ment and made to behave themselves.
They need protection from the half dozen
ambitious bandits who all want to be Prcsi.
dent, and keep the people continually en-
broiled in political wars which only serve
to exhaust the country. The objections to
admission are that ii would add To our ma.
tion vast swarm Of ignorant, bigoted
people, who would be endowed with the
right to vote, aud therefore become the prey
Of swarm of political carpet,baggcrs who
would 60 down there and make the new
State a sink Of political corruption and job.
berry. Congress will do well to look a,
both sides of the question before saying yei
or no.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-01

We designed ere this to have called at
tention to a bill which passed the lower
branch Of Congress two or three weeks ago.
and now awaits the action of the Senate,
Of vital importance TO the surviving SOL
diers Of 1912, Of whom there are many in
Vermont, especially 10 the more northerly
counties. The same thing has been at
tempted repeatedly before, both by Senators
Foot and Edmunds, but has hitherto failed.
As the law now stands the soldiers of
1912 are not entitled to pensions for a
service of less than sixty days. The bill
just passed does not require any specific
length Of service, only that they actually
Serued.
At the time Of the invasion Of New York
by the British, and the battle of Platts-
burgh, nearly all the Vermonters within a
reasonable distance volunteered for their
country's defense Some reached the scene
Of the battle, and some did not. Many OF
them were not formed into military organ.
izations but went on their oicn hook
Some years ago very liberal bounty land
bill was passed, whereby all these soldiers
obtained land warrants.
Recently, when this subject was up in the
House, Judge Poland moved an amend
ment, providing that where any person had
received a land warrant for service in the
war of 1912, such allowance of warrant
should be sufficient evidence of service and
discharge upon which to gain pension
And this amendment was adopted. 1t will
prove to be the saving of nearly all the old
patriots Of 1872, as they all got land war
rants, bat few of them probably coulC
show any such regular enrolment, muster
and discharge, as would entitle them to
pension.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-01

Sometime ago member Of the House
from Ohio discovered that system of mole.
ties was In vogue in the Post Office De-
partment, somewhat similar to that prac.
ticed by the Treasury Department. 1t ap-
pears that, for some time past special
agents Of the Post Office Department, in
addition to their other duties, have been
acting as spies and detectives on Postmas-
tiers and mail contractors. For every de-.
linquency reported, these men received a
moiety consisting Of percentage on the
amount involved This was, of course, in
addition to their regular salaries. The
matter was referred to the House Commit
tee on Post Offices and Post Roads, and Fri
day it was discussed at some length. A
resolution was adopted calling upon the
Postmaster General for copy of the law,
if any such exists, under which these par.
ties acted, the amount paid them and the
names Of those agents with whom informa.
tion was lodged. So far as members have
been able to ascertain, the whole moiety
business in the Post Office Department has
been conducted without authority of law,
The matter is to be fully investga and
appropriate legislation will follow
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-01
Financial Discredit Abroad.

One Of the most unfortunate results Of
our late panic is the failure of several Of
our Western and Southern railroads, built
in part or wholly with foreign capital, to
meet the accrued interest on their bonds.
So disastrous is the effect Of this in the foreign
money market that General Scheuck, our
minister at London, expresses the opinion
that " il will take us some time to inspire con.
fdence abroad 10 any new enterprises" 1t
is not to be disguised that the reputation
for financial responsibility, not to say fair
dealing Of the American people abroad is
just now at quite low ebb. American
sharpers have been entirely too successful
in their operations with condding European
capitalists The recent failure Of several
Western and Southern railroads to meet
their coupons has caused much indignation
and not a little distress 10 Germany and
Holland. Committees have been formed in
various cities, and unless arrangements are
made satisfactory to the German irst-mort-
gage bondholders, the Kansas Pacific, Rock
ford, Midland, St. Paul & Pacific, and other
roads, will soon be sold. The result of this
cannot be otherwise than to seriously i'm
pair American securities in European mar
kets, aud the people Of this country will
End it necessary to rely upon their own re-
sources, for many years to come, to a much
greater extent than in the past, for the
means with which to prosecute their enter.
prises. This result is exceedingly unfortu-
nate in view Of the fact that there arc nu-
merous enterprises ola like character, though
Of unquestioned merit, which must fail OF
completion for lack Of capital; while there
is an abundance Of foreign capital awaiting
investment, at low rates of interest, the only
condition being that the safety Of the in.
yestment must be unqucstioned And so a
few wildcat schemes will avail to practi
cally shut US out of market that might
and should have been made of ncalculabc
benefit.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-01
Forty.Third Congress.

TUESDAY, March "a.
In the Senate, the new finance committee
bill was taken up, and Mr.. Sherman of the
committee addressed the Senate In regard to it,
after which it was discussed through the re-
mainder Of the session.
10 the House, the Georgia contested election
case was decided in favor of the contestant
Sloan, who was sworn in. The interstate
commerce bill was taken up, and Mr.. Willard
of this State, made on argument against it,
WEDNESDAY, March 25.
In the Senate, the bill for the redemption and
reissue of United States notes and for free
banking, was discussed through the greater
part of the session, but no action was taken.
In the House of Representatives the inter.
State commerce bill was further discussed dur
ing most of the session. The bill supplemental
to the mining act was discussed at some length
and the amendments adopted.
THURSDAY, March 90.
In the Senate, when the financial bill came
up, an agreement was made to begin voting at
four o clock. Speeches were made by Messrs
upon, a vote was taken on Mr.. Schurz's amend.
ment, fixing the amount of legal tender circu-
lation at 1856, 0O0, 900, and it was rejected
eighteen to forty. Two other votes were taken,
indicating that the Senate was in favor of in
hation Without disposing of the question,
the Senate adjourned.
| In the House, the McCrary transportation
bill was passed by one hundred and twenty.one
to one hundred and sixteen. The currency bill
of the Banking and Currency Committee was
then taken up, and several speeches were made
upon it. The Committee on Ways and Means
continued its investigation Of the Sanborn con.
trac, business. VIM. A. Simmons appeared
and testified in support of Sanborn. The Dis.
trict lnvestigating Committee also heard further
testimony.
FRIDAY, March 81.
The time In the Senate was consumed in a
discussion over the free banking bill. The
Senate adjourned until Monday.
Ia the House Judge Poland offered an amend.
ment making it the duty of the Secretary of
the Treasury to cancel as fast as practicable
United States notes until their amount is re.
duced to three hundred and eighty eight mil
lions, and then allow unlimited circulation TO ma
tional banks, Considerable discussion ensued
SATURDAY, March %.
No business of importance was transacted.
MosDAY, March 30.
Another tedious debate on the currency bill
during which the Senate adjourned.
In the House, Mr.. Merriam, of New York,
introduced bill to provide for free banking
and limit tho issue Of United States notes 10
S4oo,ooo'ooo' which excited lively discussion.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-01
Notes and Comments.

The last vote cast by Sumner in the
Senate was in favor Of bill providing for
the appointing of a commission to investigate
the liquor traffic
The grongers' transportation bill, bet
ter known as McCrary's, passed the lower
branch of Congress, Thursday afternoon,
by vote of one hundred and twenty-one
to one hundred aud sixteen.
The report of tho Congressional com
mittee to investigate The affairs Of the First
National Bank of Washington shows the
cause of the failure to have been the gross
misuse Of the funds intrusted to the bank.
From an official report just published
by the State Of California, it appears that
since the discovery Of gold in that State, in
1913, up to the beginning Of the present
year. the total product of the prccious metal
has been 81 $50, 100000.
The efforts of the Canadian govern.
ment to promote immigration have been at.
tended with some success. During the
year 1873 there arrived in British America
tweniy-three thousand six hundred and for
ty.si1 emigrants from the British Islands
alone.
M. Theirs thinks that the three parties
in France who are striving for a monarchy
will succeed in destroying each other, and
that the people are in favor of a Republic
facts which justify the belief that mon
archical government cannot be established
il France.
Those who think our army expendi
lures extravagant, may derive some conso
ation from the fact that while Germany ha
been discussing the propriety of reducing
her army from 40l $50 to 1000 strong
Congress has decided to reduce the army o
this country from 10000 to $1,000 men
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-01
Mr.. John D. sanborn has flattened OF

Mr.. John D. Sanborn has fattened out
a good deal in his defense. Nearly all the
week has been devoted by the committee
to hearing witnesses in his behalf; but their
evidence has done nothing but harm to poor
Sanborn. And to cap all, when the time
came for him to put in an appearance and
tell what he knows about Sanborn contracts
and things that are dark and tricks that arc
not vain as he has played them upon the
government, the great contractor declined
to show himself However, be sent in a
little missiye that he wanted read. but Mr..
Foster Of the committee very properly re.
fused to hear it, and it il was decided that
this John d. Sanborn should be summoned
before the committee since he had refused
to come willingly, after having asked the
privilege to appear in justification of hi.
acts. Poor Sanbornl The handwriting IL
seen on the wall, His days of spying and
pilfering are about ended, and it will be Q
wonder If he escapes justice.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-01

1t seems that we haven't yet got
through with investigating committees. In
Congress, Thursday, a resolution was
adopted authorizing the Contingent Com
mittee to inquire into the charges against
the clerks of the United States courts in
Alabama and Hin is. This promises to be
something of job, and by the time it is
through with doubtless there will be an ad-
ditional supply of clerks from other courts
for the same purpose, There's nothing like
keeping committee busy. BY that means
the country manages to get something out
of it in the way Of service.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-01

-Dog-klllng sheep and goats are the latest
novelty in the pastoral way. John Jones, of
Magnolia, Ark, is as rich as Job was before
his difficulties. lie has five hundred Cashmere
goats, nine hundred Merinos, three hundred
Cotswolds, and two hundred Southdowns, all
doing well. Mr.. Jones writes to the 81 Louis
Republican that bis sheep A." nstinctiyely hate
dogs, nor do his goats love them any better.
=" My flock, says this patriarch, have bitten,
hooked, and otherwise killed more than
thousand head Of dogs, and nova sheep killing
dog will not come within a mile of them and
their long, sharp horns" Patience with
these much worried creatures has ceased, we
suppose, to be q virtue.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-01
March %, 1874.

HEAVY FlREs.-The greater part of the vii
lage of Port Henry, N. Y, was destroyed by
fire, Friday. There being no fire apparatus
in the town, nor any water available, the eff
forts of the citizens to prevent the spread of
the deyouring element we're useless. The loss
is yariously estimated at from sixty to eighty
thousand dollars, upon which is about $50, 900
insurance. Several persons were more or less
injured in their eflrts to stay the progress of
the flames.
oliver Ditson's music store on Washing
ton street, Boston, was burned out on Saturday
evening. Loss, $4,000 Insured In all the
companies doing business in Boston, with two
or three exceptions, amounting in the aggre-
gate to Sl62 900.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-01

A large meeting was held in Cooper
Institute in New York, on Tuesday night
of last week, to consider the subject of the
national finances, over which William Cullen
Bryant presided. Addresses were made by
the chairman, the Hon. Edward Atkinson
of Boston, George Opdyke and others, and
letters were read from Charles Francis
Adams and other distinguished persons who
were absent. The sense Of the meeting was
strongly opposed to further increase of the
currency, and resolutions to that effect we're
passed. But a majority of the members of
Congress pay greater heed TO the clamors
of spectators than to the solicitations Of
the solid business men of tho country.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-01

The Scientific american answers the
question as to what constitutes "horse
power" as follows; The power Of prime
movers is measured by horse power. Watt
found that the strongest LONDON draft horses
were capable of doing equivalent to raising
thirty.three thousand pounds one foot high
per minute, and he took this as the unit oil
power for the steam engine. The horse is
not usually capable Of doing SO great a
quantity of work. Rankine gave twenty.
six thousand foot pounds as the figure for
mean of several experiments, and it is
probable that twenty-five thousand foot
pounds is fair minutes average work for
good animal. 1t would require five OF
six men to do the work Of strong horse
Watts estimate has become, by general
consent among engineers, the standard OIL
Of power measurement for all purposes.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-01

One of the best and funniest of the
many waggish propositions which are ad.
vanced from time to time in Congress, by
Samuel S. Cox, is that suggested 10 the
House last week, when the currency bill
was under discussion, to the effect that an
amendment be added making every dollar
Of greenbacks now in circulation a legal
tender for three dollars, and that every two
dollar, five dollar and ten dollar greenback
be a legal tender for three times the present
value. He remarked that that would save
the expense of printing.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-01

Recent reports from the famine dis
tricts Of Bengal are much more favorable.
Ia some districts, once considered the worst,
there is now no extreme distress. Food is
freely Offering in the open market at cheaper
rates than the government tariff. The diff.
fculties Of transportation have been over
come, and money Is abundant. 1t seems,
therefore, that the government. have very
full control Of the difficulty.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1874-04-01

The Tribune says developments in the
Sauborn affair are so disgraceful that Con.
gressmen are talking Of impeaching Secre-
tary Richardson, his assistant lawyer, and
Treasury Solicitor Bandeld. Among the
papers overlooked" by Secretary Richard
son, is one from II. Clement to him, dated
Boston, January 18th, 1874, informing him
that Sanborn owed him money in the Goss-
Ter case, which was not paid as agreed.