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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-09

down that embankment striking all
over at once in stone quarry, kao-
lin bed and brick yard, and we were
as sober as Mayor Lunt ever was which
is perfectly" Now if we dot again
we'll make you pay for t. There are
too many too anxious to have US put
into neat mahogany box for US to
risk our sweet life in the neighborhood
of such deodfaus. Fix 'er up.
The Peak Family.-Who has not
heard of the "Peak Family?" Well
do we remember when boy that
their illuminated posters were signal
for the juveniles to commence to gath
er old iron from the size of ten penny
nail to a cooking stove to realize
sufficient number OF coppers to gain
admission to see the BELL Ringers"
Time is a great master, and brings
many changes. Little Fanny" aud
master Eddy" as they were called.
who are still withs the troupe, have
grown to respectable man and WOMAN
hood. The old gentleman and lady
are now in their seventies; and of
course can lend but little twords the
entertainment. But their presence
helps to remind one of the pleasant
earley associations. This is the 34th
season they have been on the road,
and have added new attractions as the
age required. Their long experience
has enabled them to secure the service
of the best performers in the country.
They now number II performers and
an auxiliary Of fine Silver Cornet
Band. Prominent among the members
now attached to the troupe is Mr.. ALE.
WYMAN, the popular comedian:
FRANK HEWETT, solo flute and picolo
player The boy wonders ''Dot and
Spark and host of Others
They are considered to be the best
Bell Ringers. We bespeak full
house for them as usual.
The Peak Bell Ringers will give one
entertainment at Writer'S Hall next
Saturday evening. the 18th inst. OF
course the hall will be filled.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-09


Minutes Of Meeting of School
Board Of Education Of the City
of Grand Rapids, Sept. LIST, 1876.
Full Board present. The committee
appointed at last meeting submit the
names of Miss Fannie Baker, Miss
Mary Dougherty and Miss Alice Grace
as teachers for the various subordinate
departments of the city school for the
coming school year. On motion
The report was received and adopted
and the wages Of said teachers fixed at
the sum Of thirty-fve dollars per
month in school orders.
Motion made and carried that we
offer Prof l. n. Stewart the sum of
1925, per month as salary for the
coming school year.
Bill of Rablin Bros for lumber on
new school building amounting to the
sum Of $39911 and on motion was
allowed and the attorney instructed to
credit the amount on Rablin judgment.
Moved and carried that the President
of the Board and the attorneys Gard
ner & Hayden be instructed to arrange
the adjustment Of the balance of said
Judgment, their action therein to be
subject to the approval of this Board
Moved and Carried that Messrs. G..
R. Gardner and Ell. Hayden, attorneys,
be instructed to investigate the nabili-
ty of Geo. 4. Neeves and of Wood
County to pay to the treasurer of this
board the amount of school tax re-
naming unpaid out of the taxes Of
John Rablin for the year 1874, re-
ceived by said G. a. Neeves or by
said County and take such action 90
shall secure the payment thereof with
out further delay.
ResoJved, that the Clerk of this
Board be instructed to write to L. e.
G. H. Bull of Quincy, Ill. and ascer-
tain if possible whether they have in
their possession or custody any funds
of Wood County in which the district
has any interest.
Board adjourned for one week.
III. HAYDEN.
Clerk and Supt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-09

] lie TUlU dISO ISSUES UNCUI5I0E JIoK-
cts to the Chicago Exposition 0in. the
Bay, for $11,40 the round trip.
Tickets will be sold on the 9th and
10th, the 18th and 18th, 22d and 23d,
2Sth and 29th and October 5, 6, and
7, good for five or six days giving Wis
itors a chance to look over the Expo
sition and return in good season.
This is a rare opportunity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-09

to the circus. At 1915 we shot into
Winona.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-09-09

III CllS ClGy uHC pcipO HOOh' II hooo W
friends gave them cordial handshakings
Miss Lizzie's presence brings back
pleasant memories Of school days and
choir practice. They have gone to the
Point to visit friends.
VIM. Mccormick was in our streets
last Saturday having strayed away
from ''My Mcmillan. -
Honest O. FL. Lameraux was in
town the other day. Lam. didn't
come to see US. Anything wrong,
Lam?
Mitchell Sweeney our old protege
gave US call t'other day. We re-
member when Mitch made his first
pill and spread his first plaster. He's
cup" now.
Onr old townsman Mr.. Burdick
and daughter, Mrs, NJ. Sweeney, were
in the city Saturday, remaining over
the Sabbath. Mr.. B. looks robust.
National Republican., 1875-09-13
TO NORTHERN REPUBLICAN EDITORS.

The number of editors of No ,thern Re.
publican newspapers, whom it were base
flattery to call idiots, is constantly increas-
ing. They have nearly all departed from
their idiocy long enough to denounce the
Mississippi trouble as deplorable affair,
and to srraign the white rowdies at the
Clinton meeting as the aggressors; but only
a very small number of them have taken
the trouble to inform their readers that the
responsibility for it rests upon such
Southern Democratic leaders as L. @. G.
Lamar, of Mississippi, and Jack Brown
Gordon, of Georgia. If they would take
the trouble to read any one of the numer-
GUS speeches made by either Of these 'fn-
telGgent gentlemen" they will find in it
not single word of commendation of the
General Government or of hope to the ex-
rebel party for the future. On the con-
trary, all Of their speeches are filled with
incendiary appeals and characterizations of
the present condition of affairs. The
blacks are described by them as ignorant,
incapable of improving their condition, and
as the voting tools Of white Radical
leaders, who, they say, have no object in
life except to plumber the Southern peo-
pie" and to conspire for their political op-
preston. Lamar teaches that negro suf-
frage hangs like a mistletoe upon the body
polite, and that the right of suffrage in the
hands of the blacks is a dangerous privi-
lege." Gordon demands that the carpet
baggers-non-native citizens of the South
who vote the Republican ticket-must be
driven out of the land. These are the les
sons taught by the leaders of the Southern
Democracy, and their less intelligent fol-
lowers who learn them are melted by them
to the commission of the horrible crimes
which are denounced by Northern Repub-
licans as deplorable.
A little industry and more brains injected
into the Republican press of the North
would have the effect to enlighten the
Northern people regarding the true condi-
ton of affairs in the Southern States. At
present widespread belief prevails that
National Republican., 1875-09-13

the rowdy element, and the "young. men
who cannot be restrained" are responsible
for the outrages upon the blacks. The
truth is that Lamar, Gordon, Norwood,
Beck and every Democratic speaker who
denounces equal suffrage as an imposition
upon the white race, or who declares that
native of Massachusetts, New York, Wis
consin or any other Northern State who
does not vote the Democratic ticket, shall
be driven out of the South, is responsible.
1t may be argued that they really believe
negro or equal suffrage to be curse or
blunder. Ifso, it is their duty as public
leaders to teach the people to submit to it
as the law of the land until it can be RENE
died; but they do not believe this. Not
one of the persons mentioned will deny, so
long as the Hon. Fred. Douglass, former
slave, lives within stones throw of the
capital, that the negro is incapable of i'm
provement. They have one and all served
in Congress with black representatives.
Rainey, Ransier, Rapier, Revels, Cain and
others-and know that they do not tell the
truth when they declare that the blacks do
not make intellectual progress when the
opportunity is afforded to them to do so.
Why, then, do they not advise that
the blacks shall be educated, that
the whites shall be tolerant Of their
present weak and ignorant condition, and
that every effort shall be made to make
them worthy of the exercise Of the rights
of citizenship If they were as loyalty
submissive to the war amendments to the
Constitution as these idiot editors have been
made to believe they are, they would do
something of this kind instead Of melting
race prejudices and murderous animosities
against the people who were made citizens
by the adoption of those amendments.
But no Lamar and the balance all teach,
preach and swear that the Government of
the Union is an agency Of oppression, a
thing to be hated, and that its laws are di-
rected to the sole purpose Of e1alting an
ignorant race upon the necks Of high
toned, intelligent chivalry. For example,
at a meeting held at Poutoloe, early in the
present campaign, in Mississippi, Lamar is
reported by Colonel Flournoy, undoubted
authority, as having said:
"That the South was more oppressed than
any civilized people of our age ever have
been; that the Government of the United
States had used the ignorant negro as an in
strument to oppress the white people of the
South, and that 1t had found ready tools in
men of Northern birth settled among us to
play upon the passions and excite the preju-
dices OF semi -barbarians, degraded and brutal
lied by long years of servitude."
National Republican., 1875-09-13

Gin Alabama last year one Perrin, who held
at the same time the offices of deputy United
States marshal, United States supervisor OF
elections and distributor Of Government bacon,
was also a candidate for the Legislature.
Fearing that the election would go against him
he went out into the woods one evening and
shot hole through his own hat, and there
upon rushed to headquarters and ordered
squad of Federal troops to scour the county IN
search of Ku-Klux, who, he asserted, had shot
at him. He gave to the troops blank warrants
to arrest such Democrats as should seem to
them suspicious characters; and in his sworn
testimony on this matter he remarked that in
fact number of planters left the county for
fear of arrest"
The New York Herald repeats this lie,
this infamous falsehood, for the purpose OF
saying that the insurrection in Mississippi
may not exist except as the result Of the
Vaccinations of Gov. Ames. The Herald
ought to know that the man Perrin referred
to in the foregoing paragraph stands self
confessed as liar and perjurer of the
basest sort. If it can find no better wit
ness on whose perjured testimony to base a
comparison regarding the course of Gov.
Ames, it would be wise if it held its peace.
As a matter Of justice to its readers it
should now give them the benefit of the
contradiction of PerriR's falsehood.
National Republican., 1875-09-13

THE Philadelphia Telegraph is so accus-
toned to misrepresent the condition of af-
fairs in the Southern States that it fire.
quently jumps at ludicrous conclusions.
For example, the following allusion to
North Carolina affairs, which we extract
from its columns:
"The Constitutional Convention of North
Carolina has finally perfected its organization,
and the body is entirely within the control of
the Democracy. So that the reaction in North
Carolina, about which we have all heard SO
much lately, amounts to nothing, and the work
of the carpet baggers stands fair chance of
being undone in that State. The carpet-bag-
gers, according to previous announcement,
when they found themselves completely de-
feated, made an effort to secure an adjourn
ment sine die, but failed utterly. So North
Carolina will be again reconstructed, and not
on carpet-baggers' principles. The only peo-
pie to blame for this Republican defeat are the
carpet-baggers, and if in the new constitution
the rights of the colored people are in any de-
gree infringed, the responsibility must be laid
upon those huckstering politicians whe trail in
the mire everything worthy of the name of
Republicanism for the sake of promoting their
own selfish and sordid aims"
There are as many mistakes and distor-
tions of facts in this paragraph as there are
lines. 1t is only necessary to explain, how
ever, that with a very few exceptions the
Republican delegates to the convention are
natives and not "carpet-baggers, " and that
as body they are far above the average
intelligence of representative politicians in
any section of the Union. The Democrats
succeeded in obtaining control of the Or
ganization by influencing DR.. Ransom, an
Independent Republican, who, if we mis-
take not, once voted for ''civil rights in
the State Senate, to cote for himself to be
President. The character of these influences
may be imagined when it is understood
that he is already talked Of as an 'fnde-
pendent" candidate for Congress in his
district. One word more, however, about
the carpet -baggers." If there is thing
of that kind-the disreputable kind alluded
to by the 7tZegrGph-in the whole State of
North Carolina we are not aware oft, and
if the Telegraph can mention one by name
it will probably enlighten even the Demo
Gratis of the State, who, with few excep-
tions, long ago admitted that their Repub-
can opponents had succeeded in purging
their ranks of the shiftless, dishonorable
office seeking leeches who, for time after
the close of the war, disgraced them.
National Republican., 1875-09-13

THE New York World frantically de-
nounces the initiation plank in the Pennsyl-
vania Democratic platform as the work Of
men who, "like the swine in Scripture, I"
are running down hill as fast Gas they can
CATER the good Democrats of Ohio, to roll
"into the Republican puddle at the bottom
"thereof." 1t goes on further to say that
its first impulse was "to think that our
times are cursed above all earlier days,
"and that there never have been in the
"world such utter madmen as those with
"wbom we have to deal" This plain
talk savors OF party treason, but is charac-
teristic of the source from which it comes,
as is also the untruthful insinuation that
the Republican party is responsible. for in
flation or contraction. The truth IS that
the issue of paper money by the Govern
ment was forced upon the Republican
party as war measure by the acts of the
World and its Democratic friends. Now
that the var is over it is proposed b return
to specie payment, as the necessity for
paper money is fast disappearing. The
World cannot truthfully dispute this ex-
PLANTATION, nor will it attempt to. Its time
is too much occupied with the self-imposed
duty of scolding its waYward followers and
vainly trying to "hark" them back from
the trail of reputation they are so intent
upon following, to allow it to pay attention
to anything else or correct the misstate-
ments it makes regarding its political oppo-
nents.
National Republican., 1875-09-13

THE Democrats Of Alabama carried the
late constitutional convention in that State
by preventing, by means Of intimidation,
and by cheating, fifty Thousand Republican
voters from exercising the right Of suffrage.
Alabama is Republican State when a free
election is held; but Ike Georgia, it is
passing into the control of the Democracy.
The same game is being played in Missis-
sippi. Thus, one by one the Southern
States are being violently wrenched from
their natural and legitimate allegiance to
the Republican party. History will demon
strate the fact that this result is due to gross
mismanagement somewhere, and will
probably place the responsibility of it upon
the shoulders of those who are now in
clined to hesitate in the performance of
their duty to protect the defenseless citizens
of the Southern States from the criminal
violence of aggressive Southern Democrats.
National Republican., 1875-09-13

din GEORGIA, certainly, there is no fear of
the negro as a voter, for the Democratic ad-
ministration of the State has as thoroughly
disfranchised the larger portion of the colore
voters as though they were again reduced to
slavery"
This is the cool and deliberate announce
ment of the Hartford Courant, a journal
that does not pretend to be sensational, and
assumes to avoid any public exhibition of
the ensanguined undergarment The fact
embraced in it, however, is pregnant with
a prophecy that what has been done in
Georgia, a State in which the colored vote
should be about equal to the white, may
yet be accomplished in all of the Southern
States. Is there any remedy for this7 Or,
is it possible that the freedom and enfran-
chisement of the blacks, the equality of
citizenship, for which the loyal men of the
country spent untold blood and treasure,
are soon to be ranked among the things OF
the past? VIII the Courant answer?
National Republican., 1875-09-13
diate and favorable consideration.

A LETTER received in this city yester'
day from San Francisco from very dis
tinguished gentleman occupying high posi-
ton is very severe on the defamers OF
Ralston, the dead banker. The following
sentence, though on high key, is sample
of the whole .etter, and refers 10 the editors
of the Call and Bulletin:
"Homer's portrait of Thersites and Aga
memnou's denunciation of that worthy; Ma
caulay's indictment of Barrere and castigation
of Byron's calumniators, and Thackeray's de-
scription Of that elegant gentleman George
w., do not contain as much scorn and con-
tempt and Indignation as snimates the people
of this city against the friends of the Bulletin.
Ewes curse of Cain (act 8, scene l, Byron, }
more ftly expresses the horror with which
Fitch and Pickering are universally regarded
than anything can express"
National Republican., 1875-09-13

]. P. Root, of Kansas, a former associate of
John Brown. OF course, this kind Of ad-
vice will be denounced as incendiary, but
we are credibly informed that at least two
Of the Cabinet officers now in the city are
ofthe opinion that race Of people who
are incapable Of fighting for liberty are not
deserving oft. This opinion will also be
characterized as incendiarY; but we give
it for what it is worth, to show the people
of the South how thoroughly public feeling
has been aroused in the North in opposition
to the rowdies and their leaders, like La
mar, who are jointly responsible for these
repeated outrages upon inofensive colored
citizens.
National Republican., 1875-09-13

ABOUT a week ago Messrs. Morrell &
Co., very reputable firm of contractors,
submitted a proposition to the District
Commissioners. offering, if the consent of
the property holders. could be obtained, to
pave Pennsylvania avenue with such pave
ment as could be agreed upon, and await
Congressional action and appropriation for
the payment of the same. The firm
is amply abe to carry out their
proposition, and in the present feeling of
the property holders and business men, it is
safe to say they will readily agree to any
legitimate proposal to haye the great thor
oughfare properly put in order. Let the
Commissioners give the matter their imme-
diate and favorable consideration.
National Republican., 1875-09-13

VICE PRESIDENT WILSON, "our Henry,
is bound to conciliate somebody. Having
failed to conciliste the rebels of the South,
because they refused to stop "killing mig
gers long enough to allow him to prove
to the Northern people how repentantly
loyal he thought they had become, he is
now engaged in attempting to conciliate
the Liberals in Massachusetts,. We hope
he will succeed but 1t must be after the
manner of the success of a sImilar attempt
in New York. The Republicans Of that
State adopted straight-out Republican
platform, recognized the Administration as
the faithful exponent of Republican princi-
ples. and invited the Liberals to return
to their allegiance to the party. The
invitation has been accepted, and General
Merritt, leader among the Liberals, is
candidate upon platform which virtually
repudiates his past record, and gives the lie
to any charge that he or others may have
made that the Administration has failed to
do its full duty either to the country or to
the party. This is the right kind of con-
ciliation.
National Republican., 1875-09-13

THAD. STEVENS, Judge Bingham, Judge
Shellabarger, General Garfield, Judge Will
liams, Charles Sumner, George S. Bout
well and, in short, all of the Republican
members of either House of Congress who
voted for the reconstruction acts and the
enfranchising amendments to the Constitu-
ton, were of the opinion then that the
General Government would necessarily be
called upon to protect the co!ored people of
the South in the exercise of their rights of
citizenship. They knew that the ex-slave-
holding whites OF that section would resort
to every method, no matter how criminal,
to deprive their former slaves of the right
to vote. Now it is proposed that the blacks
shall take care Of themselves, without any
aid from the General Government.
National Republican., 1875-09-13

WHILE the Government is hesitatirg
about responding to Governor Ames' re-
quest for troops, the registration officers in
Kinds, Warren and Yazoo counties, in
Mississippi, are prevented from transacting
their duties. The result will be that nearly
thirty thousand voters, the overwhelming
majority of whom are Republicans, will
not have the opportunity to register, and
will, consequently, be practically disfran-
nbicad
National Republican., 1875-09-13

WHY don't Gov. Ames sustain himself in
Mississippi by using his militia2 This
question is often asked and accepted as q
solution of the Mississippi difficulties The
answer is that Gov. Ames long ago dis
armed his militia at the request Of the OPP
position, who insisted that its existence
was q constant menace and excited the
white rowdies to deeds of violence.