Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-09

the Senate. The attorney for the Cover
nor presented to the Senate, sitting as
Court of Impeachment, an order to
the effect that the House proceedings were
contrary to law, and the action taken was
in violation Of the Wheeler Compromise,
and that the acts of the Governor were
fully known to every member of the SEN
ate not to be criminal or unlawful, etc.
An order of acquittal was adopted by the
Court, by vote of twenty-five to nine.
A VIENNA special of the Goth ult. says
the Herzegovinians had rejected the re-
forms recently offered by Turkey.
THE Redpath sugar refinery at Mon
treal, Canada, has suspended. Over 300
hands are thrown out of employment.
THE Connecticut Republican State
Convention was held at Hartford on the
goth ult., and the following State ticket
was placed in nomination: For Gov
ernor, Henry G.. Robinson; Lieu
tenant Governor, Frederick j. Kingsland I;
Secretary of State, Francis A Walker
Treasurer, Jeremiah Onley; Comptroller,
Eli Curtis. The platform declares that
the Republican party is pledged to make
greenbacks as good as gold to the holders,
and approves of the Resumption act as a
new expression of such pledge and de-
termination. 1t expresses the belief that
it is q" the unwritten law of the land which
declares it unwise for the Chief Magis-
trate to hold his Office beyond two terms,
and we accept the declaration of President
Grant, in harmony with this law, as but
another claim to our admiration and graf
itude.''
A MINNEAPoLIs (Minn.) dispatch of the
Goth ult. says advices just received from
the Black Hills, dated Feb. 10, report the
discovery of hillside diggings which pay
from seven to eighteen cents to the pan
None of the creeks in the hills had been
prOspected TO the bedrock owing to the
deep water. Several promising quaItz
leads had also been discovered.
THE United States Supreme Court has
lately decided that the eastern terminus
of the Union Pacific Railroad is on the
Iowa shore, at Council Bluffs, and that the
Omaha bridge is part of the road, and
must be operated in connection with the
whole line.
THE wholesale grocery house Of Allen,
Keith & Co., of Chicago, has suspended
The liabilities are stated at $175,0 900. 1t
was believed the firm would be enabled to
continue business, or that, in any event,
all debts would be paid at the rate Of 100
cents on the dollar.
MARDI GRAs festivities occurred in sew
eral Southern cities on the Goth ult The
celebration at Memphis, Tenn, was of
very elaborate character, and in the after
noon the streets of the city were so
crowded that it was almost impossible for
the police to clear them for the street pa
geant.
PROF. TYNDALL, the distinguished sci
enlist, was married to Miss Louisa Claude
Hamilton, at Westminster Abbey, on the
Goth ult
the 1st, with papers for the eXtradition Of
Winslow, the forger.
ACCORDING to Berlin kilograms of the
1st, the Emperor William had refused the
petition Of Count Won Arnim for safe
conduct to visit his son, who is i'll at Ber-
lin. The Foreign office had preferred an
accusation Of treason against him. The
floods in the eastern provinces were in
drowned near Posen.
AN official Carlist statement was pub
lished in Paris. on the LIST, in which the
declaration was made that Don Carlos
had not relinquished his claim to the
throne Of Spain. He had surrendered
neither to France nor the AIphonsists, but
voluntarily laid down his arms, after
heroic struggle, thus reserying for himself
the future.
A VIENNA dispatch of the 1st states
that tifty-tive Hungarian villages near the
border were entirely submerged, the
water over some of them being nineteen
feet deep.
THE following is the public debt state
ment March l.
Six per cent. bonds ...... 1884, 999. $50
five per cent. bonds. 69'SS4, 400
Total coin bonds. ............... s1,6s2 s4,4oO
Lawful money debt. 14,ooO,OOO
Aatured debt Observation-Disclosures. 1882, ESQ
Lega-tender notes. ............... 371O11. S44
Certificates of deposit ............. 3s.O45,NOO
fractional currency. -............. 45 40, 1}2
com Cert1ncateS..... ...........-... 32,915,OUU