Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-13


Decrease since June 30, 1875. S.S56, 531
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railway
Companies, interest payable in
lawful money, principal outstand
ing .......................... s64,623, SIP
Interest accrued and not yet paid 1885, 705
Interest paid by the United States. q, 202, 1907
Interest repaid by the transportation
of mails, etc. ............... 6,66S, 1927
Balance of interest paid by United
States ...!...-......... o1.533, $50
THE remaining libel suits Of Henry G..
Bowen against the Brooklyn Eagle have
been withdrawn, the Eagle agreeing to
pay, without appeal, the 81 900 awarded
Mr.. Bowen in the first suit
The New York Legislature organized
on the 4th by electing Senator Robertson
President of the Senate and Assemblyman
Hustled Speaker of the House.
A WOODEN box containing shot has been
lately found in warehouse in New York,
which was brought over in the steamer
Celtic in October by Thomas, the dyna-
mite tiend, and which he endeavored to
have insured at Liverpool as containing
$50, 900 in gold coin.
The Minnesota Legislature organized
on the 4th, both houses electing Republi-
can officers-Chas. w. Johnson being re-
elected Secretary of the Senate and w. r.
Kenyon Speaker of the House.
AN explosion occurred in a coal mine
in Staffordshire on the 4th, which caused
the death of five persons.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the 9Th
says Server Pasha, who was sent to Herze-
govipa at the outbreak of the instruction,
had been recalled.
THE Brazilian telegraph cable between
Lisbon and Madeira is broken.
A VIENNA dispatch of the 9Th says
Count Andrassay's project for reform in
the insurrectionary districts of Turkey
had been assented to by France and Italy.
SPAIN has created a commission to take
charge of Spanish products at the Phila-
delphia Exhibition.
THE New Hampshire Republican State
Convention met at Concord on the 9TH and
nominated Person G. Cheney, of Man
chester, for Governor, and William A.
Pierce, of Portsmouth, for Railroad Com
missioner. The resolutions adopted favor
specie payments; revenue tariff with
incidental protection; unalterable opposi-
ton to the third term; full, fair
and free exercise of every right
of citizenship for freedmen; a just
and forbearing policy toward the
| South; approve of the present National
Administration favor the proposed
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States in relation to school mon
eys and condemn the action of the Demo
cratic majority in the National House of
Representatives in its dealings with
MANNED Union soldiers formerly in the
employ of that body.
HAMILTON, RICHARDSON g WHITNEY,
dry-goods jobbers of Boston, failed on the
9Th with liabilities placed at $3.50, 000
Two failures were reported in New York
city, one of them being Hunting & Earle,
manufacturing jewellers.
THE Wisconsin State Grange, in session
at Milwaukee on the 5th, elected the fol-
lowing officers: Master, J. III. Osborne
Overseer, =. III. Benton; Lecturer, Mrs
III. E. Chamberlain; Steward, Q. w.
Foster
THE Ohio State Agricultural Convention
met at Columbus on the 9Th. Among the
resolutions adopted was one urging Con-
gress to grant reasonable subsidy to the
Centennial Exhibition.
A VIENNA dispatch of the 9th says the
Herzegovinian insurgents had lately suf-
| fered disastrous defeat in the vicinity of
Nicisie and Duga, 600 being killed and
many wounded.
THE Paris Presse of the 9th contains an
account of a terrible landslide which &C.
CURED in Isle Reunion on the 18th of De-
cember. Sixty-two persons were killed
and many injured.
A STATUE of Grattan was unveiled in
front of the old Parliament House, in
Dublin, on the 9Th.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 9Th says the
Prussian War Office have machine SIM
liar to that used by Thomassen. 1t was
offered them by man from New York,
in 1870, for the destruction of the French
fleet
RI. Hon. SOUTHERN BUCKNALL ESTE
COURT, Secretary Of the Home Depart
ment in 1860, died, on his estate near
London, on the 9th.
JOSEPH BoRK, the defaulting City Treas
urer of Buffalo, returned to that city on
the 9th and surrendered himself to the
authorities. He was HELD to bail in bonds
of $4,000.
WILLIAM MURRAY and Frederick Meyer
were hanged at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
9th, for the murder, in November, 1874
of German farmer named Gottshardt
Wahl.
In his late message to the Mississippi
Legislature Gov. Ames calls attention tc
the late State election, recites alleged
cases of violence growing out of the po
litical canvass, and says such violence
had the effect to intimidate many voters
He attributes this alleged intimidation
and trouble to the race question and the
efforts of the whites to rcassert their ole