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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-31

Sept. 1, to transfer the headquarters of
the Department to Atlanta, Ga. The
companies of infantry now in the Depart
ment OF the Gulf are to be transferred to
the Department of the South.
a GREENBAcK State Convention was
held at Grand Rapids, Mich, on the 24th,
and full State and Electoral ticket was
nominated. The State ticket is headed by
Chauncey Z. Carpenter for Governor.
Hon. G. A. FINKELNBERG has with
drawn his declination of the candidacy
for Governor Of Missouri on the Repub-
lican ticket, and formally accepted the
nomination.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-31
AHHokAD-

THE Lisbon banks were forced to close
their doors on the 18th. The Government
has extended the time for the payment OF
all commercial paper for two months.
TELEGRAMs of the Goth report Servian
victory at Tescia. The Turks were driven
over the frontier after a severe engage
ment. London dispatches state that an in
surrection against Turkish authority had
broken out in Crete.
LONDON dispatches of the 21st say the
Emperor of Morocco had notified the
Porte that he cannot send the customary
subsidy to the Turkish Sultan, because
his resources had been used up in the
suppression of late disturbances in his
own country.
BELGRADE kilograms of the 21st say the
Great Powers had again presented theil
propositions for peaceful settlement OF
the difficulties with Turkey, and that
Prince Milan had decided to favorably
consider them.
CAMILLE CLAUDE, Republican Deputy
of the French Assembly, was killed by
lightning on the Goth.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made officially at
Belgrade on the 22d that the Servians had
recaptured Gurgosovatz and reoccupied
Tresibaba.
THE officials implicated in the murder
of the foreign Consuls at Salonica were
publicly and formally degraded on the
22d.
Rosa BoNHEUR, the distinguished art
list, was thrown from her carriage and dan
gerously injured while riding in tht
| environs of Paris on the 23d
VIENNA dispatches of the 23d say the
Sublime Porte had signifed its READINGS:
to treat with Servia upon the basis of s
war indemnity and guarantees agains
breaches of the peace for the future The
war party in Servia had succeeded in over
coming Prince Milan's peace tendencies
and it was stated the war would heneefortl
be prosecuted with great viger.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 24tl
says the Secretary of the Treasury haC
NO1SIuiSo lIlC SOulIdCG 1OI Tie sale OF
$500, 900, 600 four and a half per cent
bonds to the combination uniting the three
parties who had been competing for the
loan. The combination embraces Lon
don, Philadelphia and New York parties
THE Connecticut Prohibitionists have
nominated Rev. Joseph CUMMINGS fo1
Governor, Geo. P. Rogers for Lieutenant
Governor, and Ruel P. Cowles for Secre.
tary of State. They have also chosen
Presidential Electors.
Hoa. JOSEPH R. UNDERWOOD, ex-Unit.
ed States Senator from Kentucky, died at
his residence in Bowling Green, Ky, on
the Esd, in his eighty-sixth year.
A GENERAL order from the War De.
partment, issued on the oath, directs Col
Kruger, upon assuming command of the
Department Of the oou.I., On or abori
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-31
Contents of q Lady'S Pocket.

They came walking down the center
passage of Main Building at Centen-
NAL to-day-two beautiful and fash
ionable young ladies, over whose heads
probably nineteen or twenty summers
had passed. They chatted pleasantly
as they passed along, and turned into
one Of the less frequented passages
and sat down on bench to rest, when
one remarked to the other: Minnie,
where is - stopping?" She said
she had forgotten, but would look, as
she had the address on slip of paper
in her pocket. When the search COM
menced for that slip of paper, as it
was somewhere in the big pocket at
tached to her dress, out came small
lace handkerchief, then a large linen
one, a broken bracelet, spool Of thread,
pocket-book, two false teeth Cher moth
er's probably, which she was taking to
the dentists to get ixed), piece of
white flannel, small box of face-powder,
two crooked hair-pins, which looked as
though they had done service as button
hooks, a thimble, one garter, paper of
pins, fan, broken comb, ivory end Of
parasol, knife, bottle of smelling salts,
two pieces of ribbon, three No. 5 soiled
gloves, different colors, paper of bon
bons, cigar-hOlder, two buttons, and at
last the slip of paper she had been
looking for. We didn't see anything
more taken out of that pocket, SO can't
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-31

say whether it was empty or not: but
we began to think it was like magi-
clans magic bag. After looking over
the above inventory, who will ever
dare again to abuse a small boy about
the contents of his pocket -Philadez-
phid Cor. Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-31

was nominated for Governor, and Sher-
man S. Rogers for Lieutenant Governor.
The New York Liberal Republican Con-
vention met at the same place and time,
and resolved to support the National Re
publican ticket, and Endorsed the nomi-
nation of E. D. Morgan for Governor.
The delegates from eighteen counties re-
fused to be bound by this action and
adopted resolutions expressing confidence
in Gov. Tilden's State Administration
and recommending the Liberals of the
country to support the st. Louis nomi-
nees.
The Republicans of the Nineteenth
Ohio District have renominated Hon. j.
A. Garfield for Congress-
THE remains of Mr. Kerr reached Louis
vile, Ky, on the night of the 23d, and
were escorted to New Albany by depu-
tation of citizens.
THE Governor of Wisconsin, on the 23d,
issued a requisition, on the application Of
the Chief of-Police of Milwaukee, for the
arrest of w. F. Storey, of the Chicago
Times, for criminal libel.
THE Democratic State Convention of
Kansas met at Topeka On the 23d. John
Martin was nominated for Governor.
The candidates on the Greenback ticket
for Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Au-
ditOr and Superintendent of schools were
nominated for the same offices on the
Democratic ticket
A PASSENGER train on the New Orleans
& Jackson Railroad broke through a
bridge eight miles south of Jackson,
Miss, on the night of the 22d. Four per
sons were killed, sixteen injured, and all
the passengers lost their baggage.
A RAILROAD disaster occurred near Bal
Philadelphia, Wilmington & Baltimore
Railway, a passenger train running into
standing freight train. The passen-
ger train was badly wrecked, and three
passengers were injured.
A GREENBACK Mass Convention was
held in Chicago on the 23d. Addresses
were delivered by Gen. Cary, candidate
for President, Sydney Myers and
others, and letter from Peter Cooper,
candidate for President, was read. Reso-
lutions were adopted endorsing the action
of the Independent National Convention
providing for the appointment of com
mittee of twenty-five to address let
tiers to Messrs. Tilden and Hayes,
asking of each whether, if elected
to the Presidency, and if Congress should
pass bill to remonetize silver coin at its
former standard, he will, by his official
action, prevent such bill from becoming a
law; also if Congress should pass bill
providing for a Government paper cur
rency and the retirement of all other paper
money, the Government currency to be a
full legal-tender and interchangeable for
Government registered bonds at such rate
of gold interest as will make the currency
of equal value with coin, he, as President,
would sign such bill, or would feel at lib
erty, as President, to veto the same.
LATE advices from Cape Coast Castle
say the King of Dahomey had placed the
Europeans at Whydat in confinement and
| threatened their massacre.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-08-31

IT is stated that the Turkish army
now equipped and in the field numbers
3OO,O 900.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-01
Grant as "A Reformer.

The Republican party, being unable to
successfully deny the prevalence of cor
ruption in the Departments of civil service
late years solsced the consciences of scru-
pulocs members of the party and pre-
vented disintegration, by proposing reform
inside the organization rather than sepa-
rating from and destroying it. The theory
is plausible on the assumed principe that
necessary there will be found a disposition
to reform; or, in other words, reform can
only take place by the dishonest official
becoming an honest man. This can not
be accomplished by platform propositions.
Inside reform is a snare. Outside con-
stralnt is always necessary. No nation
ever developed high type OF civilization
within itself, much less can the essentially
corrupt whiten and clean itself. There
must be some superior power that will
reach out and control, either absolutely
or by force OF public opinion, for any
general Improvement. If the subordinate
does not respect or fear the superior, there
will be little pains taken to conform to the
wishes Of that superior. One might sup
pose that in our government, II the
heads of the departments were honest and
cared for the responsibility of public
trust, thst real reformation might take
place in the whole civil service, and I'M
doubted honesty be found where now pro-
tected vice prevails But even this gives
no security for better official morality
for unless these officials shall have full
control, they can not displace The dis
honest or curb the svaricious. There Is
necessity for purity in the supreme head
and support from that source, If the
spirit of honesty shall prevail with subor-
dinates. This is clearly manifested In the
4 developments OF the recent whisky fraud
trials at st. Louis. There subordinate:
reach out over their immediate supervisors
and by the favor of the higher power re
NAMED TO steal and defy the efforts ofSec
rotary Bristow to purge the department o
its corruptions.
This brings rs directly to tie point o
difficulty In the way of reforming the Re
publican party. There can not be re
form now but by new man. Tn
best construction that can be pu
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-01
Governor Hendricks's Address.

The New Orleans address of Governor
Hendricks, which We to-day present to our
readers. is certainly very remarkable and
characteristic document, which will COM
msnd the attention of the country. 1t Is
such a document as few men in the
country could have produced. To the
average politician, indeed, it may seem
that Governor Hendricks has deliberately
thrown away splendid opportunity of
furshering his own interests and those of
the Democracy, for in the midst of every
temptation to indulge in the delights of
a political harsngue, and with the
saddest evidences of the evils of
Republican misgovernment all around
him, he has chosen to give utterance to a
speech which, for calm, unselfsh, patriotic
wisdom, can not be surpassed, and which
no mere selfish politician could produce.
The ground covered by this compare
lively short address is so extensive that
we desire our readers TO examine 1t for
themselves before we proceed to comment
upon it in detail. But we can not refrain
from calling attention to the mastery
selt-control and the judicial calmness OF
mind which is exhibited to us in this doc
ument. Both Of these qualities are strik-
jngly evident, even in the structure OF his
speech. There are in 1t bursts of gen.
uine eloquence as in the passage which
describes the grand unity of the Missis-
sippi valley, but he keeps himself
thoroughly in hand, and will not yield
even to the impulse of his inspiration.
No one again can fail to be impressed with
his lucid treatment of the financial and
commercial portion of his subject; yet,
though apparently peculiarly at home in
II, he does not let it carry him beyond the
reasonable limits of the occasion. The
same judicial equipoise appears in his
handling of every topic which he touches.
A western man, representing the West
and western interests, his trumpet gives
no uncertain sound, and yet he sees the
certainty of western progress and prosper.
ity, not in a selfish western sectionslism
but in the general welfare OF every section
OF the whole country. In the South, and
among q people who have been in arms
sgaii st the Union, he says plainly that the
Union must be everywhere respected, tina
the evils of disunion may be healed. In q
state where federal bayonets have invaded
the legislature, and where federal inter
ference with local affairs has fol
yeas sustained system of un
par 4lleled villsiny and corrsption
he avoids the opportunity o: jus
denuncistion, and points out the way u
happiness and undisturped self-govern
ment. At time when financial doctrin
aires are proposing impossible expedient
for making the stream of money ruI
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-01

public Generalization. The Gszette sses
shis, and does not seem disposed to shield
The administration of Mr.. Grant.
Would that the press all over tbs eoun-
try would speak out as plainly. Tbs facts
are plain ard unquestionable, and If there
was only virtue enough lett in the Repub-
licsn party to reform, surely there would
be son1e eff rt made to place better men
in places of trust by that perry. But
alas! partisan zeal, or the losves and fishes
are stronger than their v;rsae, and here in
Indisna-in the vtry era when these ras-
cslities are proven in open court, the
administration of Mr.. Grant is Endorsed.
This is disgTacsf1l In the extreme, a
wretched subservieDee to party interest
irres psctive OF tAe public weal. The only
hope of public reform is In the displacs-
men; entirely OF the Republican party.
That party ought to die, die speedily, and
with few exceptions, its record written
in the annals OF crime.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-01

upon the character of President Grant
Is that he lacks much of being
conscientiousIy honest It is not general
believed that. he was directly connected
with the Wholesale frauds perpetrated by
the whisky rings at ST. Louis and else
where in this country, but it is believed
that he did not care that corruption WIS
going on. 1t is believed that there was
some ultimate design, not yet made public,
why the president should have appointed
and sustained a man like Mcdonald in a
responsible pr sition, aud no solution con-
sistent with high sense of honesty on the
part of the president can explain it.
This Is merely an instance, and the
conclusions from it show very clearly why
the country may net EXPECT reform in a
party whose head is corrupt. II there is
any we'll defined characteristic OF President
Grants moral make up, it is that he lacks
distinct sense of right and wror e.
In this the president is stupid, stupid to
the point of immo rality. 1t is believed by
many that ne has no conscientious mo-
tives; that he acts from expediency,
and personal teste or favor in
all matters that pertain to the honesty or
dishonesty of his eff cisl suhordinates.
Hence the impossibility of there being
any civil service reform under the present
administration. The president. not real
izing the enormi'y of public p!underiDg,
takes no special pains to discover abuses il
they exist or correct them when exposed.
His regard for his friends is stronger than
his consideration of public interests.
What hope, then, for reform with such q
man? The ST. Louis trials got the start
of him, otherwise we do not believe there
ever would have been a conviction.
From some reason the Chicago
cases seem to have suddenly
collapsed. At Cincinnati, where
Grant has many personal friends, there
has not been a single conviction. While
the country has been systematically plum.
dered for years, and government swindling
prevails everywhere, less than two scores
Of rascsls have been punished. To speak
plainly. Grant, as a reformer. is a failure
He made a mistake in selecting Bristow
He did not want him, and the acquittsl Of
Bsbcock will cause his displacement from
the cabinet. The president has no taste fol
such investigations. His mind moves
slowly, and he cares not to engage in
law suits and prosecutions. He
would rather let men steal on than bother
himself about the matter. He does net
believe Bsbcock was guilty, and If he had
been convicted he would most certainly
have psrdoned him. Can such a man re,
form the party? II can not be expected
The country has been getting worse and
worse under his rule, and it is a matter fol
general rejoicing that but few hope to SEE
him longer than his present term in the
White House. 1t is matter for genera
rejoicing that but few approve his admin
istration. TIE Indiana State Convention
is doubtless the last public expression o
confidence that will be voted to him, ant
that did not amount to much. Republi
cans who wish their party reformed mus
look elsewhere than to Mr.. Grant.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-01

was Is, 243, aud the Democratic majority on
VIII be preceive1 that the coDgrt ssionsf
candidates on the Democratic ticket did
not poll as mary v,Ntss by 4 426 as did the
Democratic candidate, for secretary of
STATE. This was occssi,sled by the falling
of in the first, third and twelfth districts
on account of local troubles. In these
districts, which are largely Democratic,
the candidates of the Democracy did not
succeed in uniting the vote OF the party
upon them and consequently they
fell behind the state ticket.
In the closely contested District, the
Democrat esndids tes ran ahead of Nef.
and in this district Mr.. Lauders was
elected, although the Republican csndi-
date for secretary of state had msIonty VI
1852. In making the Democratic no8ins-
tons this year great care should bs taken
to choose those who can best unite the
party, for with ticket upon which she
party is united we can again send ID con-
gross majority of Democrats, notw tn
Standing the infamous apportion msnt
law under which the elections are TO be
held. Besides, strong congressional nomi-
nations will help the state ticket, and
greatly aid in carrying Indiana for the
Democratic candidate for the presidency.
This is matter of so much in p Jrtance that
nothing honorable should be left undone
to accomplish it, and no personal feelings
or personal pride should, for a moment.
be allowed to stand in the way of its &C
cOmDlishmert
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-01
j. C. NIl..ian.

TIE treasurer of toe United States rzstie
flying visit to this city on the eve of the
Republican convention. There were
many saTDises as to the character of The
message he brought from Washington. Il
was certain that be came ia the interest
OF Mor,o8, and it was charged that he wac,
seeking the craftsmanship OF the central
COMMITTEES. We are now enabled TO state
that he was the bearer of that
ponderous document which is now
the Republican platform. But he
wss charged with another very
important undertaking. The Journal
had made financial platform for it.
self and without consulting Morton. 1t
was arrogant and exacting in demanding
that all who trained in the Republican
party should sep uponit. For months past
its columns have daily contained srgu-
ments in favor OF an unconditional re-
day, it claimed that it had made converts
of leading Republican papers in the West.
The organ was becoming a power in the
land, and Morton looked upon its course
with CONSERVATION and alarm, for
its platform was iniuring his pros
poets for the nomination. IL was
a delicate matter to manipulate aud
curb the organ grinder, who had dared to
set the instrument without consulting
Morton as to the tune it should play.
The treasurer was charged with this deli
cate and responsible mission. He
arrived Sunday morning with tie platform
and submitted it 10 the proprietors-of the
Journal, and Tuesday morning the paper
contained a long editorial foreshsdowing
its contents. The person who wr05e the
editorial evidently had the plstformoef
him, as he advocates the provisions that
1t should cor tain in the order in which
they were reported. to the convention.
In this article in Tuesdays paper the
Journal for the first time advocated. only
psrtical repeal OF the resumption, set,
and in the exact language of the twelfth
resolution. Its conversion was as sudden
as that of st. Paul. Many wondered what
had induced the journal to change its
course, and abandon IFS cherished plat
form. The mystery was solved wien the
convention met. WI. new 0dO D6o0 n
structed to tickle the proprietor of the
Journal with the presidency OF the COZ
vention, and in return for this homo,
the Journal was to step gracefully down
from its position on the currency que-
ton. Brother-in law Holloway was
charged with the important duty of seeing
that the bargain was ratified by the GEN.
ventlon. 1t was due to General Browne
that he should have the presidency of the
convention, and his name wss proposedir
some of the district meetings, but soni
friend OF Morton was on hand to Oppose
ii. When a delegate in the seventh con
gressional district moved that the membe
of the committee on organization
be instructed to vote for Gen
eral Browne for president of the con
vention, Brother -in- law Holloway jumpe
up and said the general would not hav
it. The chairman of the meetiDgto told bh
brother-in- law to keep cool and the
would see about that. But the plans wei
we'll laid and Morton's emisssry capture
the Journal, and Judge Martindale "
made presideBEof the convention and 8
Journals platform was in ruins.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-01

The Journal says the delegates to
the late Republican State Convention all
came here Sat their own expense" The
mentioning of this fact leaves the infer
ence that such things are unusual. Since
the smashing of the whisky ring the Re-
publican politicians are unable to furnish
funds to pay the expenses OF delegates to
their state convention, hence, according to
the Journal, the delegates came here on
Tuesday, "st their own expense"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-01
Ras Tuesday.

The day preceding Ash Wednesd,
which opens,the lenten season., has be
celebrated with the widest ninth in ns1
lands eve, since the days Of TelesphorI
bishop of Rome IN the second century.
England it was called Shno7e Taesds
from the custom among the peopls OF c.
tossing their SINS to the p-iesis, and so
Psncak Tuesday, because, having hnish
their religious obligations, they dinedn
the toothsome pancake with lsts of n
and noise. Among the latin nations le
day was called Msrdi Gras, tat Tuesy,
coming. Immediately before the fey
days of fasting, and .he festi-
ties OF the occasion were, i'd
for that matter are still, sted
the carnival, on farewell to Resh, from be
attn words caro- and yale. Usually he
celebration extended over several fsi
but ON Tuesdsy especially
"Ths mirth and fun grew fast and TURKS
In the middle ages, though the caETs
was celebrated throughout christenom
the pomp and splendor of the festitie
at Venice, the great and wealthy repbli
of the time, were particularly fsDus
Afterwards the Roman carnival succsde'
to its place in the popular estimfi ion
and one of Goethe's hsst kow1
pieces OF descriE tive writing 4 a
account of the celebration. rs he winsse
it in 1TSs. 1t Is very much the ssm tc
day, and consists principally OF nerr
pranks played on the people in the steel
by makers, gorgeous displays o, fioTel
aud bright colorsd cloths, spectsuls
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-03-01

The Journal, in speaking of Col. r. w
Thompson of Terre Hsuts, says "his very
name has been rsllying cry for the Re-
publican party for twenty years past"
Twenty years ago Col. Thompson stumped
Indiana in opposition to the Republican
ticket, and did much to give the state to
Mr. Buchanan. The Journals recollection