Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-03-18
THE NEWS.

cessation of relations between the Vail
can and Bavaria The German Gov
eminent has issued decree prohibiting
the importation of American potatoes
and the expectation Of horses.
The Eads Jetty bill, as passed by Con
gress, fixes upon the Southwestern Pass
for the channel and appropriates $780,
600 to carry out the improvement.
Andrew Johnson met with quite an
ovation on making his appearance in the
United States Senate on the 9th.
The Pennsylvania Republican State
Convention is to be held at Lancaster on
the 26th of May. The Democracy will
hold their State Convention on the 9Th of
September, in Erie.
The next annual meeting of the Ma
tional Butter and Egg Convention will
be held at Davenport, Iowa, the first
Wednesday in March, 1876.
The manager of the Public Library
Hall in Louisville, KY, on the night of
the 9Th, refused admission to a colored
man who applied for ticket to the first
circle, among the white people. The
same person was subsequently admitted
to Macauley's Theater, where he took
front seat. At Wilmington, N. c., re-
Gently, the case Of colored man who
had been refused drink at saloon was
brought before the United States Com
missioner, and dismissed on the ground
that the Civil-Rights bill does not apply
to drinking saloons.
On q recent evening four colored men
demanded admission to the Memphis
Theater, and were given seats in the
dress circle, the manager having, it is
said, abandoned the idea of c0ntesting
their right to do so in the courts.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
have reduced the passenger fare from
Chicago to Baltimore and Washington
to eight dollars
The Arkansas Legislature adjourned
on the 9Th.
Late Havana dispatches report several
engagements with the insurgents. The
Spanish troops on Mora River, near
Guantanamo, had been recently attacked
by insurgents clad in Spanish uniform.
The official dispatch from Spanish
sources says both sides lost heavily
Lieut.-Gen. Sir James Hope Grant,
aged sixty-seven years, and Arthur Helps,
aged fifty-seyen, died in London on the
7th
The famine in Asia Minor is said to
have decimated some districts to the ex-
tent Of two-tifths of their population.
The Attorney-Genera says President
Grant told members of the Cabinet, be-
fore the Equalization Bounty bill passed,
that he was opposed to its provisions,
and would veto it IN case of it's passage,
as he regarded the measure as involving
an extravaganza and unnecessary expendi-
ture of money.
Persons arriving in New York city on
the 9th for the purpose of serving papers
on Congressman-elect Schumacher, relat-
ing to the Pacific Mail subsidy, found
that he had just sailed for Europe.
Hon. James Buffinton, member of Con-
gress from the First Massachusetts, Dis
trict, died on the morning of the 9Th. lie
was fifty-eight years old.
Gen. Sheridan left New Orleans on the
9Th.
Eight inches of snow fell at Cairo, ILL.,,
on the 7th, and fifteen inches at Memphis,
Tenn.
The Indiana Legislature adjourned
sine de on the 9Th, and the Governor on
the same day issued proclamation for
special session to begin on the 9th. The
Kansas and Wisconsin Legislatures also
adjourned SINE die on the 9th.
The convention between Spain and the
United States for the settlement of the
Vrginius affair has been signed
An engagement took place lately be-
tween the Carlists and AlphSnsists near
Figueras, which lasted six hours and re-
suited in the substantial defeat of the
latter, whose loss was said to be over 800
killed. At last accounts the Carlists
were bombarding Oria. 1t was reported
that AlphoEso desired to abdicate in ia
vor of the Duke de Montpensier. The
Carlists had entered the province of San
lander in strong force, and the Govern
ment had dispatched large number of
troops from Bilbao to oppose them.
The bodies of over forty persons who
died in ST. Johns Newfoundland, during
the past winter have been inferred in the
snow, which lay in such immense guam
titles in the cemeteries as to prevent the
opening of the graves.
The articles of adjustment, signed by
forty-four members of the New Orleans
Conservative caucus, were received by
Mr.. Wheeler on the Sth. He
notified Gov. Kellogg to forward
by express to the city of New York the
papers in the Office of the Secretary of
State which were used in the contested
election cases before the Returning
Board.
Hon. VIM. S. King, of Minnesota, ar
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