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

Cash in Treasury
Coin. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. So, So, 31t
currency. .....:...... ............. 4,790, 1854
Special deposits held for the re-
demption of certificates of de-
post, as provided by law. 6O,660, OOC
Total in Treasury. ............ s133. 2s3, 66S
Debt less cash in Treasury ~ a. 1872 400 81
Decrease during September .. 3342 565
Decrease since June 80. ........... 6.222, 499
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway
Companies, interest payable III
lawful money, principal outstand-
Interest accrued and not yet paid. 900, BE-
Interest paid by the United States. 2S, 2O2, S07
Interest repaid by the transportation
Of mails, etc. .............. 1886, 5a4
States. ........................ 81, ,as3
A RANGooN special of the I'd SAYS China
and Burmah had formed an alliance, Of
fensive and defensive, to oppose the de-
mands of Great Britain.
BELGRADE dispatches of the Sd say the
insurgents had been defeated in an en-
gagcment in the northern part of Bosnia.
The Turks had burned the town of Misch-
kovac
ACCORDING TO q San Sebastian telegram
Of the Sd the Carlists had on the preced-
ing day thrown $50 hot SHOT into thatcity.
A railroad train between Saragossa and
Barcelona had been stopped by outlaws
and all the passengers robbed. Among
them were seventeen officers and seamen
of the United States war steamer Frank
I'm.
A 150-CARAT diamond has recently
been found in the South African diamond
fields
THE negotiations with the Sioux Indians
for the Black Hills country have entirely
failed, and the commissioners have aban-
doned the field. A Cheyenne dispatch of
the I'd says the bands of Indians who had
assembled at tie Red Cloud Agency were
sullen and ugly.
THE Bank of California resumed opera
tons on the Cd. The deposits exceeded
the Withdrawals by $750000 The an
nouncement was made that 81, $780, 900 had
been subscribed to meet the Indebtedness
and liabilities of the bank and continue
It's business.
THE Third Avenue Savings Bank of
New York city suspended few days ago,
owing depositors $1,34O, OOO The failure
is said to be a bad one.
ACCORDING to a recent ruling Of the
Postot1ice Department, anything what
ever, except the address, printed or writ
ten upon the side of postal card intended
for the address renders such card unmail-
able unless prepaid at the letter rate
three cents. If by inadvertence it reaches
its destination without such prepayment
it is chargeable with double the letter
rates.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
called in for redemption $50 bonds of the
issue of June 80, 1864, to the amount of
s., 300, 900, and of registered bonds to the
same amount. Interest on said bonds will
cease Jan. 1, 1876
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the Sd says it
was generally conceded that the new mint
would be located at Chicago.
THE President and family reached Salt
Lake, Utah, on the afternoon Of the Sd.
They were called upon by Brigham
Young
saws the Carllsts had offered to abandon
the bombardment of the town if the citi-
zens would pay them 100000.
On the night of the Sd the steamer L.
J. Bager, running on the Baltic between
Lubbock and Copenhagen, was burned.
Thirty-tive persons persisted.
On the afternoon of Sunday, the Sd, a
mob Of Orangemen and Young Britons''
attacked Catholic procession on the
streets of Toronto, Canada. When the
police attempted to disperse the assail-
ants the rioters turned upon them and
firing ensued, several persons being
wounded The police then guarded the
procession through the streets and were
fired upon at the crossings. Several
other persons We're wounded, some OF
them fatally.
THE receipts from internal revenue for
the fiscal year up TO the I'd were $29, 2S9,
.0S7, and from customs $44 1875, ia.
At Boston, in the United States Circuit
Court, on the 18th, George Miller and
William Smith, convicted of murder on
board the schooner Jefferson Borden
were sentenced to be hanged.
VICE-PREsIDENT WILSON has been ad
vised by physicians to abandon his inten
ton to lecture this season.
A HORRIBLE murder was committed a
Suncook, n. H., on the 4th. The mutt
lated and outraged body of Josie Long
maid was found in piece Of wood hall
mile from the road over which she
started in the morning to go to school
The head was missing, having been en-
tireIy severed from the body.
AT the town elections in Connection
on The 4th the larger places general,
voted for liquor license and the smalle
towns were about equally divided on tn
question.
"AMERIcAN GIRL" dropped dead Will
trotting a race at Elmira, n. Y, on tn
Cd. She was valued at $50, 600.
MEMORIAL SERVICES in honor OF the lat
President johnson were held at Nash
Vile. Tenn, on the 3D. An immens
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