Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-01-11
EpITOME OF THE WEEK.
CONDENSED TELEGRAPHIc NEWS.

GUHDENSED TELE6RkPHic NEWS.
On the Goth, Judge t. J. Mackey
reached Columbus, Ohio, bearing letter
from Gen. Hampton, of South Carolina
in which that gentleman declared thai
profound peace prevailed throughout the
State, deprecated any resort to violence
and declared his intention of relying upon
the legal tribunals of the State and coun
try for his complete vindication. A simi
lar letter has been sent to Mr.. Tilden.
AN Associated Press dispatch of the
2Sth states that the Congressional House
Committee had concluded its labors il
South Carolina. The subcommittee had
reported that the Hayes Electors received
an average majority of 600, and Hampton
and his State officers ranging from l, 10C
downward.
IT was reported on the 1st that the
Turkish Government had directed the
additional issue of 100000 Turkish
pounds in paper currency. The announce.
ment of this issue caused great excite.
ment throughout Turkey, and many OF
their doors.
LUCIUs p. ROBINSON was on the 1st in.
augurated Governor of New York, as
successor to Gov. Tilden.
DISPATCHES from Constantinople on
the I'd, state that little hope was enter,
tanned there that the Conference would be
able to avert the trouble between Russia
and Turkey. The representatives Of Rus
sia and England had notified the Porte
that, if the proposals made by the pleni-
potentiaries of the Great Powers were re-
iected, they should Immediately remove
their legations from Constantinople. Mil
itary preparations continued unabated.
THE Florida Supreme Court decided,
On the Cd, that the paper filed by the
Board of CanvasserS, on the 9th ult.,
was not such a canvass as the mandamus
contemplated or the Court could accept,
and issued a peremptory order for the i'm
mediate canvass of the vote for Governor,
omitting all votes cast for any other Off
GER Such canvass was accordingly made,
and the Court adjourned to give counsel
for relator an opportunity to examine it.
THE Roumanian Government issued or
ders, on the Sd, replacing the army on a
war footing. This step was taken in con-
sequence of the reported refusal of Tur-
key to agree to the proposals of the Con-
ference.
IT was reported in New York, on the
Sd, that the insurgent steamer Montezuma
had captured the Spanish steamer Nuevo
Cubano, plying between the islands OF
Pines and Batabano, south OF Cuba. She
is said to have had large number of po-
litical prisoners on board.
THE Inter- Ocean, of the Sd, says there
was no doubt in the minds of the postal
officials in Chicago, that the entire mail
gfG the Michigan Southern Road, due IN
that city on the morning of the Both ult.,
was burned in the railway disaster at Ash
tabula. What the actual loss in letter
pouches wasis not yet known. 1t was be-
lieved there was no New York mail on
the train, but that the contents of the pos
tai car were from New England, the
country contiguous to the line of road
and the cities located on the road. The
mail was a large one.
A TnLAHAssEE (Fla.) special of the
Sd SAYS Gov. Drew had been peacefully
inaugurated, the oath of Office being ad,
ministered by Chief Justice Randall. The
| inaugural address was short and concllla,
tory. The Legislature was organized IN
both branches, and is Democratic.
THE Turkish Government, on the 4th
made its formal defnitive reply to the
proposals submitted by the Great Powers
1t gave as its reason for declining to ac-
cede to their propositions that they vlo
lated the integrity and independence OF
the Empire. The proposition to cede ter
ritory to Montenegro and Servia was cate
gorically refused.
BOMBAY telegrams, received in London
on the 4th, state that the Spanish Minister
had broken off all relations with the Chi
nese Government, and ordered the Spanish
fleet to China. The trouble had arisen
| out of the discussion in relation to un
settled claims and the Cuban coOlie ques
ton.
In the organization of the Illinois ano
Indiana Legislatures, on the 4th, the
Democrats and Independents united ano
elected the officers of both Senates, anc
the Republicans secured the two Houses