Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-23


and that the council had no more right to
deal with the matter than it had to con-
duct the trial of Gen, Babcock. At q
business meeting of Dr. Storrs' church, On
the evening of the 18th, resolutions were
adopted by large majority, regulating
the action of the Advisory Council, re-
nouncing fellowship with churches which
adhere to the findings, and demanding
thorough stigation of the Beecher
scandal.
THE Poor House ait Norwich, Conn,
was burned ON the night Of the 18th, and
fourteen persons, most of them old people,
persisted in the flames Fives inmates
were injured by jumping from windows,
TWO of them fatally.
TME Bank of the State of New York,
New York City, suspended on the 14th.
The capital of the bank was $4,000, 900.
THE Democrats of the Third Connect
cut District have nominated David A.
Wells for Congress, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of the Hon. H lei.
Starkweather
THE Michigan Greenback; State Conven-
ttion has been called to meet at Jackson on
the Sd of May, to elect delegates to the
National Convention and nominate Presi-
dental electors.
PARIS dispatches of the 10Th say that
another inundation of the Seine had oc-
CURED. Several Of the more important
bridges over the Seine were threatened,
and travel over them had been prohibited.
The factories at Alfortville had been
flooded. At st. Maur, 300 houses were
filled with water to1the depth of several
feet. During the gale of the 18th, at
Cambray, eleven persons had been killed.
High water was also reported along the
Rhine, in Germany.
Rev. ROBERT MILAN, D. D., Bishop of
Calcutta, is dead.
THE Democratic members of Con gress,
in caucus on the night of the 18th, re-
solved to support the Payne bill, by
vote of 50 to 46. This bill provides for
the gradual resumption of specie pay
ments by making it the duty of the Sec
rotary of the Treasury to retain annually
in coin three per cent Of the legaltende
notes outstanding, to constitute a resump-
ton fund, and also requiring National
Banks to set aside coin equal to three
per cent Of their circulating notes. The
bill also provides for the repeal of so
much of the Resumption act of Jan Il,
1915, as designates the 1st of January,
1879, as the date Of resumption.
THE New York Greenback Mass-Con-
met at Syracuse on the 18th.
Richard Schell was elected permanent
President. The resolutions declare oppo
sltion to appropriation of the Nations
obligations, but assert that the act of
Congress Of March, 1869, promising to
pay the 5-20's in gold, is gross violation
Of the contract whereby said bonds were
issued, and that said lazy was passed by
fraud; that the effort now making by the
Secretary of the Treasury to pay fractional
currency in silver should be Immediately
prohibited, as silver is worth less than cur
rency; that legal-tenders are standard of
value, while gold constantly f1uctuates;
that theamount Of money required by the
people depends on their intelligence; that
legal-tenders should pay the bondholder
his interest and all other debts, private
and public, including duties on imports;
that the act pledging resumption in 1879
lisa failure, and its immediate repeal is
demanded; that Congress should enact
laws for the encouragement of labor, agri-
culture and all other industrial interests,
and for the development of the Nations
resources and wealth by the people to the
exclusion, of monopolies
THE returns received from the New
Hampshire election up to the morning of
the 10th, indicated the reelection of Gov.
Cheney Rep.) by "a majority of about
5000. The Council stands four RepubIi-
cans and one Democrat. The Repuhli-
cans have elected nine out of twelve Sen
ators, and will have majority of twenty
five ,or thirty in the House. The total
vote is nearly 81 900, being the largest by
over 1000 ever cast in the State
THE Wisconsin Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 18th, and the Iowa Legisla-
ture ON the 10th.
THE Virginia Democratic State Con-
vention has been called to meet at Rich
mond, on the oath of May.
THE Vatican University has been Or
dered closed by the Italian Minister of
Public Instruction, on the ground that it
is an illegal establishment
THE President, on the 18th, appointed
R. P. Derickson, of Chicago, to succeed
the late j. D. Webster as Collector of In
ternal Revenue for the First Illinois Dis
triCt.
THE wife of ex-senator Schurz died in
New York city on the 14th.
THE Democrats of Rhode Island met on
the 10Th, in State Convention, and nomi-
mated: For Governor, Gen. G. Lewis
Cooke; MISUNDERSTANDING, B. O. So
cum; Secretary of State, Jv-1 5 Price;
Attorney General, o. S. Lapham; Treas
urer, W. 2. Congdon.
THE Massachusetts State Senate has
passed the Woman Suffrage amendment