Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-10-14

9Th the taxes RENTED by Turkey since
the beginning of the instruction had
amounted 10 over $50 ,000,0 600.
THE National Banks have been called
upon for a report showing their condition
at the close of business on the 1st of DC.
| tOber.
THE United States Treasurer at New
York has been directed to sell $4,000, 600
IN gold the present month.
THE American Board of Commission
ers for Foreign Missions of the Congre-
gatfonal Church met in Chicago on
the 9Th
A SPECIAL dispatch from Bagneres de
Luchon Of the 9th says the inhabitants of
Arran Valley had inaugurated general
rising against the Carlists on account of
the exactions of the soldiery.
TRUE bills were found by the Grand
Jury of the District of Columbia on the
the 9th against Benjamin B. Halleck,
William II. Gilman and 7. w. Brown for
being concerned in the $4,000 robbery
of the United States Treasury.
THE New York Supreme Court has af-
firmed the decision of the lower court
which denied the motion to vacate the
order of arrest III the S6000,000 suit
against William NJ Tweed and ordering
100000 bail.
THE Labor Reformers of Massachusetts
met at Worcester on the 9th and nomi-
mated Wendell Phillips for Governor
VIM. M. Bartlett, LieutenantGovernor;
Israel W. Andrews, Secretary of State; S.
B. Coffin, State Treasurer; John F. Fitz-
gerald, State Auditor, and II. B. McLaugh-
lin, Attorney General. The platform ia
vOrs a reduction in the hours of labor and
a system of factory inspection; condemns
the course of the Fall River manufactur-
ers; favors greenback currency and the re-
tirement of National Bank currency.
A PROHIBITION meeting was held in
Boston on the 9th and John j. Baker was
nominated as candidate for Governor
No other nominations were made.
AT the late election in Connecticut
amendments to the Constitution were
adopted changing the time of the State
election from the spring to the fall of the
year and making the Governors term of
office two years.
A GREAT many horses in Cincinnati,
Chicago, st. Louis and other Western
localities were suffering from symptoms
of the epizootic on the 18th, and the dis
ease seemed to be spreading.
SERIOUS trouble occurred at Friar's
Point, Miss, on the 9th and 9th. 1t APP
pears that at a Conservative convention
on the night of the I'd Senator AlcOrn Sc
verely criticised the official conduct of
Brown (coloreD, Sheriff of the county,
and the next day Brown used severe lam
guage in reply, whereupon Alcorn threat
ened to shoot him. On the 9Th the
women and children were sent from
Friar's Point, and the place was attacked
by force of 500 negroes, who were re-
pulsed by white forces under Gen. Chal-
mers. In the skirmish eight negroes and
one white man were wounded.
D. 0. MILLS was elected President Of
the Bank of California under the new OF
ganization on the 9th.
A HEAVY sugar-refning firm In elias
gov, Scotland, failed for a large amount
on the 18th. 1t was stated that several 9th
er establishments were involved.
THE British Admiralty on the 18th sus-
pended the circular of July 81, directing
the surrender Of fugitive slaves found on
British vessels.
THE Garden House," belonging to
Henry Alters Hankey, located near West
minister, England, valued with its contents
at over Sc, 100000, was destroyed by fire
on the night of the It'll.
THE Ecclesiastical Court has deposed
the Bishop of Berlin.
ACCORDING 10 ConstantinOple dis
patch of the 18th, the Sublime Porte had
decreed that during five years from Jan.
/, 1876, the interest on and the redemp-
ton of the public debt will be paid one
half in cash and the other half in per
cent. bonds.
THE United States Supreme Court de
cided on the 4th in the appealed st. Louis
Minor case that the recent amendments
to the Constitution confer no right of suf-
frage upon anyone, and that the Constitu-
tons and laws of those States which
confine that right to men alone are not
thereby void.
THE Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America was in session in Cincinnati
on the 9th and It'll. Rev. Patrick Byrne
was chosen President and James W.
O'Brien Secretary for the ensuing year.
ACCORDING to a Columbus (Ohio) dis
patch of the It'll the hog disease was play
| ing sad havoc in that section. Six thou
sand hogs had already died in Franklin
! County so far this N onth.
PRESIDENT GRANT and party returned
to Denver on the It'll from Southern Col
| orado.
FRIAR's POINT dispatches of the 18th
state that Gen Chalmers was driving the
colored forces under Pease (colored) and
was determined to capture HIM if possible.
Senator Alcorn on the 18th telegraphed to
Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont that there was nc