Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-20

10th, of apoplexy, aged about fifty years.
THE Iowa Legislature was organized
on the 18th by the election of the Repub-
lican caucus nominees in both houses.
BERLIN kilograms of the 10Th state that
| ecclesiastical proceedings had been COM
menced against DR.. Meichers, Archbish-
OPP of Cologne. The Prince Imperial had
finally decided not to visit the Philadel-
phia Exposition, the condition of the En-
peror's health rendering the absence of
the heir to the Empire unadvisable.
THE Marquis of Ripon, the English
nobleman lately converted to Catholicism,
has presented the Pope with $4,000 in
gold
ACCORDING to COnstantinOple dis
patch of the 18th the Sublime Porte had
just received telegram from the Turkish
commander stating that tranquility had
been restored everywhere in Herzegovina
except in the district between Trebinie,
| Bilek and Gatschke, on the Montenegrin
border.
Mrs. VICTORIA Woodruff appeared be-
fore the House Committee on Claims, in
Washington, on the 18th, to ask the Gov
eminent to reimburse her for losses sus-
tanned by the suppression Of Wo0dhult d
CJqf5n's Weekly.
The New Hampshire Democratic State
Convention met at Concord on the 18th
and nominated Daniel Marcy for Gov
ernor and Thomas Dinsmore for Railroad
! Commissioner. Resolutions were adopted
| declaring it the exclusive right and duty
| of the State to educate its children; that
every citizen has the right to worship God
according to the dictates of his own con-
science, and no political disabilities
should be incurred by reason of religious
| belief; that all attempts to raise sectarian
issues in politics ought to be deprecated
that a third Presidential term is dangerous
to the liberties Of the citizen and the pros
perity of the nation.
A LARGE meeting of workingmen was
held in New York city on the evening of
the 10th, at which Peter Cooper presided.
An address to the WOrkingmen OF the
United States was adopted, suggesting
as remedy for financial evils a cur
rency which will best facilitate the eX-
change of the productions of labor; that
this currency be supported by the credit of
the whole country; that the present ma
tiOnal debt be put, as far as possible, in
the hands of the American people, and
the enterprise and labor of the nation be
set to work again, and that the national
debt be converted into bonds payable in
currency and bearing lower rate of in
terest.
TWELVE Senators of the Louisiana
Legislature took part in the election of j q.
B. Eustis as u nited States Senator on the
18th Sixty-three Representatives and
| twelve Senators voted for him. The Sen
ate, by vote of thirteen to twelve, had
previously voted against an election and
adopted a resolution that there was no va
cancy.
THE Wisconsin Legislature organized
on the 18th by the election Of Republican
officers in both houses. S. S. Fifeld was
chosen Speaker of the House by a vote OF
fifty-three to forty-fve, the Independent
members casting their votes in his favor.
ON the 18th President MacMahon is
sued proclamation advising the French
people in the coming Senatorial election
to vote for those candidates who would
support the Government as at present con-
stituted. The resignation of NJ. Leon Say
had been withdrawn.
A VIENNA telegram of the 18th says
Russia was making gigantic preparations
for military operations. A third track
had been constructed between Moscow
and Polish Lithuania.
THE ships Harvest Queen snd Cape
Comorin collided off Tuskar, few days
ago, and all on board the vessels are re-
ported to have persisted.
A NEW YORK dispatch of the 18th says
that Egypt's contributions to the Centen-
NAL Exposition had arrived. Nearly all
of them are the property Of the Khedive
THE State debt of Pennsylvania, after
deducting the assets of the sinking fund
amounts to $13, 766, 564
IHE next Iowa Sldte T dlE Will pe ue1u
at Cedar Rapids, beginning on the second
Monday in September.
THE Republican National Committee
on the 18th decided that the next National
Convention should be held at Cincinnati
commencing on June IA.
Gov. KIRKwooD, of Iowa, was inaug
urated on the 18th.
JOSEPH LAPAGE has been tried at Con
cord, n. H., for the murder at Pembroke
of Josie Langmaid, and on the 18th was
found guilty and sentenced to be hanged
on the 10Th of January, 1877.
CnNGRESSI0NALP PROCEEDINGS.