Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-06

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| ippine Islands on the Both of Novem-
ber Two hundred and fifty lives were
lost, many cattle persisted and crops were
ruined.
A LONDON dispatch of the 28th says
serious disturbances had occurred at
Bannsfoot, County Armagh, Ireland, in
consequence of the marriage of Protest
ant girl to a Roman Catholic. Several
Protestants had attacked the house where
the marriage occurred, and during the
fight which followed q number were killed
and several badly wounded.
A PARIS special Of the .28th says the
| Orleans Princes had decided not to take
seats in the Senate or Chamber of Depu-
| ties.
THEODORE NJ VALE, Assistant Super
intendent Of the Railway Mail Service,
will succeed Superintendent Bangs in
February next.
On the evening of the 28th Rev Henry
| Ward Beecher was served with sum-
mons and complaint in a suit for ma
licious prosecution, y Instituted by Francis
D. Moulton. Moulton claims $4,000
damages.
! FIFTEEN States have taken a census Of
population in 1875, thetotal increase since
1870 being a little over 100000 A like
average progress throughout the United
States would show an aggregate increase
in five years Of upward Of 5000, 900, or
| total DOnulatiOn of Id 600 600.
A NEW YORK telegram of the 28th
states that Judge Donohue had forfeited
the recOgnizances on seven indictments
against the fugitive Tweed.
AMONG the suspensions announced on
the 26th were those Of Jas. A. Smith and
G. n. & j. A. Smith, wooden manufactur-
ers, operating five mills in Massachusetts.
Liabilities variously reported at from
100000 to 5000, 900; assets unknown.
| A NUMEROUsLY-ATTEN public meet
ing was held in Charleston, s. c., on the
evening of the 28th, to sustain the action
of Gov. Chamberlain in refusing com
missions as Judges to Whipper and Moses.
Resolutions were adopted denouncing the
Legislature for electing them, protesting
against their elevation to the bench and
declaring an unalterable purpose never to
| allow them to occupy the position.
THE Alabama Legislature met on the
28th. The Governors MESSAGES devoted
entirely to State affairs.
E. L. PATERSON, Republican member
Of the Louisiana Legislature from Match
itoches, was shot and instantly killed on
the Goth by CosgroVe, editor Of the I'm
dGcdt0r
A VIENNA dispatch of the 29th says:
''The Secretary Of State of the United
States has transmitted to every European
Government a circular asking for an ex-
preston of opinion regarding American
intervention in Cuba" The dispatch
further says that all the Governments had
replied satisfactorily, England being
willing to indorse intervention at once,
and other nations declaring willingness
to support intervention, but hesitating to
take the initiative.
A MADRID telegram of the Goth says ar
rangements had been perfected for the re-
turn of ex-Queen Isabella to Spain. The
Alphonsists had concentrated So, 900 men
in Navarro and Alava.
Two HUNDRED American residents at
tended meeting in Berlin on the even
ing of the goth to protest against the dec
| laration Of the German press that the
| Thomas Mosel explosion affair was the
1irant f.,1It of American Qualification, 4
large number of Germans present cordial
ly concurred in the resolutions.
In the French Assembly on the Goth the
Press bill introduced by the Government
was adopted by nearly unanimous vote
The proposal to raise the state of siege
throughout the country was rejected-339
to 377.
THE British Admiralty has recently
issued another circular in regard to
| fugitive slaves. 1t declares that fugitive
slaves asking admission to British man
of-war, when in the territorial waters of 6
| foreign State, must be received only when
their lives are endangered, and once re-
ceived must not be surrendered at the de-
mand of any power.
A LABOR CONVENTION met at Tyrone,
Pa, on the Goth and appointed National
| Committee Of thirty to issue a call
for convention Of representatives of Ia
Dor and industry from all parts of the
country, to be held in Pittsburgh next
| April
THE work of consolidating the revenue
collection districts throughout the country
has been completed, and The number is
reduced from 209 to 1863
THE Secretary Of the Treasury has di-
rected the retirement of S644, $50 legal
tender notes on account of National Bank
circulation issued during December. This
leaves the outstanding legal-tenders $751;,
1S2, ?22. The amount of additional Ma
tional Bank notes issued since Nov. is
81, 701 $50, and the total amount issued
since the passage of the act is S12, 715 ,975.
The amount of legal-tender notes depos-
tied by National Banks for the purpose of
retiring the circulation, since Nov. 1, is