Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-02-25
THE NEWS.


ism Cabinet to raise, by CONSUMPTION, TO-
600 men for the army. OF these, $4,000
are to be sent to Cuba.
1t is now said that the Empress of
China did not comnait suicide, as pre-
yiously reported.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office has declined to allow the Union
Pacific Railroad Company to exchange
agricultural for mineral lands.
The President has ordered an enumera-
ton of the grasshopper sufferers, with
view of carrying out the provisions of
the act of Feb. 10, 1875, for their relief.
The Executive Committee of the
National Grange has been increased by
the election of d. S. Chase, of New
Hampshire, and J. T. Jones, of Arkan-
sas 1t now consists of five members. A
report of the committee on the address
of Master Adams, indOrsing his recon-
mendation that subordinate Oranges be
fostered by the National Grange and
that manufactures in the South be en-
couraged, was adopted by the National
Grange on the 18th.
A Little Rock (Ark.) Grand Jury re-
ported on the 18th that they were not
able, after diligent questioning, to find
single instance in which any man had
been deprived of his right to vote or any
other right, but, on the contrary, unusual
quiet prevailed.
Mr.. Hooper, Member of Congress from
the Fourth Massachusetts District, died
at Washington on the 18th, of pneu-
monia.
The Massachusetts Supreme Court
have overruled the exceptions in the
case Of Jesse FL. Pomeroy, the boy-mur-
derer, and ordered judgment on the YER
dict.
A new freight tariff has been adopted
by the Eastern Railway companies, and
the following is the tariff agreed
upon from Chicago: To Philadelphia
and BaltimOre-First-class $1.35; Sec
ond, $780, third, rs cents; fourth, 80
cents; grain, 80 cents; flour, 70 cents; bulk
meats, 40 cents. New York-First-class,
$40; second, $110; third, S5 cents;
fourth, 40 cents; grain, 40 cents; flour,
80 cents; bulk meats, As cents. The
Western lines have adopted the follow
ing tariff on freight east of Chicago, con-
signed to points west of the Mississippi
River: From ST. Louis, Louisiana, Han
nibal, Quincy, Burlington and Davenport
to Kansas City, Omaha, Council Bluffs
and other points on the Missouri River
First-class, 70 cents; second, 49, third
SO; fourth, %; special, "a; class A, $50;
class B, $45.
The National Grange has adopted res
olutions in favor of the Centennial Ex-
position and the Texas Pacific Railroad;
the improvement of the mouth of the
Mississippi and the repeal of all laws
taxing tobacco.
The Legislature of West Virginia have
resolved to remove the capital of the
State to Wheeling.
A Ministerial crisis prevails in France
in consequence of the opposition of the
Assembly to some of the pet constitu-
tional measures desired by the Govern
ment, and President MacMahon finds
COIA1S bli1iSUAbJ LII d1y OhC VI
the prominent statesmen to undertake
the formation of new Cabinet until
these questions be fully determined.
A Singapore telegram Of a recent date
reports that a serious revolt had broken
out among the Chinese prisoners coz
fined there, which was not quelied until
sixty-seven persons had been shot.
Great Britain has recognized King
Alphonso.
The Archbishop of Dublin, in a recent
pastoral letter, condemns the mission Of
the Chicago revivalists, Moody and San
key, in England, who, he says, promise
salvation by foolish sensationalism, with
out requiring repentance"
The recent general order of the Secre-
tary of War in relation to furnishing aid
to the grasshopper sufferers is to be car
ried out with the utmost dispatch.
The Pacific Mail Directors have ap-
stituting suits against the parties who
received subsidy money
A bin has lately passed the Kansas
Legislature to loan sos, 600 for six years
to destitute counties, without interest.
L. Dunlap, the agricultural and
horticultural writer, died at Champaign,
H., recently, aged sixty years,
The British steamer George Balters re-
Gently foundered at sea and all on board
were lost.
John Mitchell has been returned to
the British Parliament from Tipperary,
Ireland, and DR.. Kenealy, the counsel for
the Tichborne claimant, from Stoke-on-
Trent.
At the Connecticut State Democratic
Convention, held at Hartford on the 10Th,
the present State officers were unani-
mously renominated. The resolutions
favor hard money and oppose Federal
Executive interference in the States of