Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-18
THE NEWS.

ON the btn the London stock market
was greatly depressed in consequence of
the report that Austria had garrisoned the
frontier forts and was preparing to take a
hand in the Turkish troubles It was re-
ported on the It'll that 10000 Servian
militia had assembled on the frontier
and that that Government had sent an
agent to Paris and London to negotiate
a loan.
The Scraps, with the Prince Of Wales
on board, reached Bombay on the It'll
THE Republicans in Washington on the
evening OF the 9th fired 100 guns over the
victories gained by them at the elections
on the I'd. The President was serenaded,
and briefly responded.
THERE were issued by the Postofice
Department during the month Of October
21,138,000 postal cards, being 5000, 900
more than during any previous month.
JOHN A. RAYMOND has been appointed
Postmaster at Vicksburg, Miss, in place
of Henry r. Pease, suspended under the
Tenure-of-Office act.
THE claim of the State of Nebraska for
$53, 938, being Per cent. on the value of
the estimated quantity of Indian reserva-
tions in that State, has been disallowed by
the Treasury Department.
THE following-named gentlemen com
pose the committee appointed by the Con-
gregatiOnal Association of Ministers to
investigate the charges against Mr. Beech
er: Rev VIM. Taylor, New York; Rev.
DIR. William Ives Burlington, Brooklyn
Rev. Profs. Parsons and Martin, of the
New York Theological Seminary, and
Rev. Charles III. Everest, of BROOKLYN.
Plymouth Church has referred to com
mittee the charge made by Mrs. Moulton
ag&insr Mr.. Beecher.
The Congressman elected on the Cd are
First Massachusetts District, VIM. w.
Grape Rep); First Mississippi, Louis @.
G. Lamar Oem.), reelected; Second, G.
Wiley Welles Rep.) Third, H. d. Money
(Dem.); Fourth, O. R. Singleton dem. J;
Fifth, G. E. Hooker Dem.) Sixth, Rod
erick Seal Dem.); Thirty third New York,
Nelson l. Norton Rep).
THE election returns in Colorado show
that the Territorial Legislature will be
composed as follows: Council-Republi-
cans, 4; Democrats, 8. House-Republi-
cans, IS; Democrats, 10.
THE Prince of Wales received mag
nificent ovation at Bombay on the 9Th,
participated in alike by natives and Euro
peans. More Than 100000 people took
part in it.
A SINGAPORE telegram of the Sth saws
the Malays had organized for the purpose
OF attempting the eviction of the British.
A LONDON dispatch of the morning OF
the 9th says the great powers had decided
to demand of Turkey guarantees for the
fultillment of her promises Of reform.
DURING the last fiscal year the Postofice
Department issued 107 100000 postal
cards of the value of $1,076, 100. The esti-
mate for the next fiscal year is 154 ,937 900.
The number of ordinary postal stamps
ISSUED during the fiscal year was 682, 342,
40, valued at $16,271, 479. The value
OF newspaper postage and period
ical stamps was 1915 ,9O2. The num-
Der of official stamps issued was
18,495, 900, worth 1884, $40. The mum.
Der of stamps of all kinds issued was
973r275, OPS, valued at $25, 477.511. The
stamps sent by registered pouches to Post
masters numbered 359, 462, of which,
amount there were lost but ten packages,
valued at $3.50. There were mailed to
foreign countries 12,500,000 letters, of
which 106, 300 were returned undelivered.
Thenumber Of letters received from for
eign countries was 11j900,000, of which
219, 100 were returned undelivered.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the Sth says
that Secretary Bristow had refused in all
casesito compromise with the illicit dis
tillers and whisky dealers who had been
detected in their frauds upon the Govern
ment revenues, his reply invariably being
that the only possible compromise is
through the courts. Several more Chi
cago parties implicated in revenue frauds
gave bail on the Sth. The last of the in
dicted ,distillers of st. Louis-Jouette-
pleaded guilty on the Sth, making thirty
three pleas of guilty in that city
A FIvE-DoLLAR counterfeit National
Bank note on the First National Bank OF
Gaiena, ILL.,, has been discovered in the
Redemption Agency at Washington
There is no such bank in existence.
THE complete vote Of Massachusetts
at the recent election gives Rice (Rep.)
for Governor, S3,523; CASTOR Dem)
7S,246; Baker pro-, 1906; Adams
LIZA; Phillips. sol.
THE official canvass of Pennsylvania
gives Haruanft (Rep) for Governor ma
.jority of S14,510.
INTELLIGENCE was received at San
Francisco on the Sth of the total loss by
laundering at sea of the steamship Pacific
running between Portland, Ore, and San
Francisco. OF $50 persons on board only
one was kaown to have escaped. The
survivor-Henry L. Jelly-was picked uI
by the American ship Messenger after
bax-;pr foatad on tho Dilat hOuSe fifFv t1Ur