Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-01-28
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tives, has telegraphed to the President
asking him to restore the stGtu gao exist
ing at the time Gen. de Trobriand elected
certain members.
Charles A. Stevens has been elected to
Congress from the Tenth Massachusetts
District, as the successor of the late
Alvah Croker
Lewis Jarvis and Ebert Jackson were
hanged at North Hampstead, n. Y, on
the 10Th, for the murder of Samuel Jones
in June, 1878. Jackson confessed the
killing. The hanging OF Jarvis was
bunglingly performed, ard the Sheriff's
assistants seized the rope, hauled him
up by hand and held him there until he
strangled to death
On the 18th, at Norwich, Conn, a
national salute was fired in honor of the
President because of his action on the
Louisiana question At the annual meet
ing of the Union League Club of New
York, held on the 14th, his course was
also approved. An Indignation meeting
was held in Albany on the evening of
the 18th to express disapproval of the
Presidents course in the same affair, and
similar meeting in Baltimore On the
night of the 18th At the latter meeting
Reverdy Johnson was the chief speaker.
The Virginia Legislature has adopted
resolutions protesting against the recent
conduct of Federal troops in Louisiana
as a gross usurpation of power.
The first and second Kings Of Siam
father and son-haVe quarreled.
The packages carried in the mails, it
has been ascertained, form less than 2
per cent. of the weight of the whole
Matchmaker, and less than one-half Of
per cent of the number of pieces.
The astronomers at Greenwich Observ-
atory have published the result of their
first computations from the data obtained
through observations of the recent transit
of Venus. Remarking upon these re-
suits an American astronomer, in the
New York World of the 18th, states the
suns distance from the earth to be
Oc,6TS1 tslO l1I1CS--O, O~C,NBt ILLUS 1GSS
than the distance as computed by Encke
from observations of the last transit.
He says at this rate of progress the
earth will fall into the sun in about
| 40 years But as the earth's motion
will be greatly accelerated through the
increased influence of the suns attrac-
ton as the two bodies approach each
other, the catastrophe may, and in fact
must, inevitably occur much sooner, I'm
less the SUMS force should be proportion
ately decreased or its volume reduced.
Meetings to protest against the late al
legged interference of the military in the
organization of the Louisiana Legisla-
ture, have lately been held in ST. Louis,
Boston, Cincinnati and elsewhere.
The report of the Congressional Sub
Committee was received with satisfaction
by the Democrats Of New Orleans. The
Republicans of that city say it abounds
in misstatements
The Republican members of the Ohio
Legislature have caused protest to be
entered on the journal of the House
against the recent passage of the Louisi-
ana resolutions by that body.
A little daughter of ]. 3. Morgan, of
Urbana, Ohio, was recently outraged by
man named G. w. Ullery, who was sub
sequently captured and locked up in the
county jail. Early on the morning of the
18th party of forty masked persons
went to the Jail, captured and bound
him, gave him few minutes to pray,
and hung him to tree in front of the
Courthouse.
The Spanish squadron has arrived at
Zaranz to enforce the demand Of Ger
many for indemnity for the outrage upon
the brig Gustav.
Whitelaw Reid, the editor of the New
York Tribune, was arrested at Washing
ton on the 18th for libel, at the suit of
ex-Gov Shepherd, for having charged
him with having caused the bankruptcy
of She District of Columbia by his fraud
ulent practices, etc.
AAS. AACAilAAdLl VI DuCJ us, OulO, W DIS
recently burned to death by the explo-
sion Of can of kerosene oil with which
she was kindling iIe.
On the 18th, at Vicksburg, Maj.
Head, with a squad of troops, acting
under orders from Gen. Emory, entered
tue Office of Sheriff Flanagan and forci-
bly, elected him from it's possession.
Flanagan appealed to the court to pro
tect him, but was refused. The military
then placed w H. McGhee, whom the
Chancellor appointed as Sheriff pro tenn
III possession of the office.
Every Carlist found in the vicinity OF
railroads with arms in his hands will be
shot, according to late order of Span
ish General
The London bankers who have been
placing the Carlist loan refuse to make
further advances.
In dispatch to the Secretary of War,
of the 18th, Gen. Sheridan epitomizes
the report of Maj. Merrill, commanding
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