Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-02-10

TELEGRAMs from Madrid, Bayonne and
Santander, of the I'd, report continued ma
tional successes.
THE following failures at the East were
reported on the 1st: The Seamless Cloth
ing Company; liabilities about $500, 900
capital 100000 The Easterbrook
Steel-Pen Company; capital s125, 900.
Judson Bros, pork packers, New Haven,
Conn; liabilities estimated at $500, 600
assets $150,00O.
THE list of churches called to the Adj
visory Council to be held in Plymouth
Church on the 18th inst, comprises
III churches of New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island
Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Il
linois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, Kansas and the District of Column
bia, besides several prominent ministers
without charge.
A FURIOUS gale occurred at the East
and South, along the Atlantic coast, on
the morning of the I'd Considerable
snow fell, and a great deal Of damage was
done by the wind. The shipping along
the coast suffered considerably. Many
buildings were blown down, large num-
Der unroofed, and steeples and chimneys
were demolished. The damage at Balti-
more is estimated at $40, 900, and at AL
bany $4,000. Much damage was done
to the Centennial buildings in Philadel-
phia.
A WRIT Of hnbe0S corpus IN the case of
Edward S. Stokes, the murderer of James
Fisk, was issued on the 1st, being made
returnable on the 9Th at White Plains,
n. Y.
THE Connecticut Republican State Con-
Vention will meet on the 29th inst. The
Democratic Convention of that State is to
meet on the 23d.
The Michigan Republican State Con
ventior to elect delegates to the National
Convention will be held at Grand Rapids,
on the 10th of May.
A RAGUsA dispatch of the Sd says Ali
Pasha had offered to cede to the Prince of
Montenegro certain districts in Herze-
govina and Albania, and a port on the
Adriatic, if the Montenegrins would with
draw aid from the insurgents, and mill
tary operations would be suspended. A
Vienna telegram of the same date says
that, on the day previous, fight occurred
on the Croatian and Bosnian frontier, in
which the insurgents were defeated and
forced to flee into Austrian territory.
THE funeral of M. Deak, the Hungarian
statesman, took place at Pesth on the Sd.
1t was a most imposing affair.
CARDINAL LEDocHowsKI was released
from imprisonment on the Sd.
On the evening of the Sd, at meeting
of the Republican Congressional Commit
tee, Simon Cameron was chosen Chair
man, and Judge Edmonds Secretary An
Executive Committee was appointed, con-
sisting of Messrs. Cameron, Logan, Plat
of New York, Rusk of Wisconsin, S. w.
Dorsey, J. r. West, Hubbell of Mich
gan, Cragin of New Hampshire, and Sin
nickson of New Jersey.
THE United States Supreme Court has
decided that the Winslow patents for put
ting up and canning green corn are null
and void.
A New YORK telegram of the Sd says
that all the leading coal companies had
agreed to suspend mining operations from
Feb. to March II.
GEN. W. T. SHERMAN has lately writ
ten letter to Representative Dalzell, of
Ohio, in which he says: " | never have
been, am not LOW, and never will be a
candidate for the high office Of Presi-
dent before any convention or the people -
He expresses his preference for Gov.
Hayes for that office.
THE Kansas Legislature has passed an
act giving bounty of five dollars per
bushel for grasshopper eggs and fifty
cents per bushel for young grasshoppers.
NINE of the parties recently tried and
convicted at Indianapolis for completely
in whisky frauds were placed in the State
Prison at Jacksonville, Ind, on the eve
ming of the 3D.