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military force The submission OF such c0er-
cion marks the degeneracy Of the political
party or people which endures it. A govern
ment worthy the name, political party ht to
WELD power, never before blanehed at such
threat.
But the edict has gone forth. No argument
or considerations which your friends could
present have sufhced 10 avert the disaster.
No effective means az resistance TO the con-
summation OF the wrong are lett. The strug-
gle cannot be prolonged.
Ny strict legal rights are OF course wholly
unaffected by the action OF the President. No
court the State has jurisdiction to pass up
on the title to my office. No lawful legisla-
ture can be convened except on my call. II
use OF these powers promised ultimate sue
cess to our cause 1 should not shrink from
any sacrifices which might confront me. 1t
is cause in which by right OF reason and con-
science, a man might we'll lay down his lite.
But to my mind my present responsibility
involves the consideration OF the effect OF
my action upon those whose representative
am.
have hitherto been willing to ask You Re-
publicans OF South Carolina TO risk all dam
gers and endure Ell Lardships until relief
should come from the government OF the
United States. Relief will never come.
cannot ask you to follow me further. In my
Judgment can no longer serve you by fur
ther resistance TO the impending calamity.
Win BfatlLuue 10 OOu lOr TIE measure oil
endurance with which he has hitherto in
spired me; with gratitude to you for your
boundless confidence in me with profound
admiration for your matchless fidelity to the
cause in which We have struggled now an
nounce TO you and TO the people OF the State
that l shall no longer actively assert my
right to the Office OF Governor of South Car
lima.
The motives and purposes OF the President
OF the United States in the policy which com
pels me TO pursue my present course are I'M
questionably honorable and patriotic. | de-
voutly pray that events may vindicate the
wisdom OF his action and that peace, justice,
freedom and prosperity may hereafter be the
portion OF every citizen OF South Carolina.
Signed. ID. Ii. CHAMBERLAIN,
Governor OF South Carolina.
The other Republican State officials unite in
a card declaring Chamberlain to be the legal
Governor, but endorsing his course in de-
clining to continue the contest without the
aid OF the general government
correspondence between Hampton and
Chamberlain is also published, wherein
Chamberlain consents to meet such official as
Hampton may designate, and turns over the
executive office.
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Pork Packing.

According TO returns received by the
Secretary Of the Pork Packers association, al
Chicago, the number OF hogs packed in the
West during the past winter season was s.
05l, $50 against 4, s74, l25 last season. The de-
crease in the average weight is reported at 2.6i
pounds, and the decrease in the average yield
oflard l.23 pounds. The amount of mess pork
produced was AZ ,OS5 barrels, and other kinds
OF pork IL, 1926 barrels. The number OF tierces
OF lard made, was 54I, 2lO against $40, lis last
season. The packing during the summer
season of 1874 is reported at 1921, S2s hogs, an
increase OF 1,053.3S9 as compared with TIE
previous summer. The increase in the aver
age weight was 900 pounds, and the increase
in the WELD OF Lard O4 pounds.
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hereafter be admitted to transact business in
this state, unless possessed OF paid up cap
ital OF two hundred Thousand dollars; pro-
vided, however, that the provisions OF this act
shall not apply TO any company that was duly
licensed 20 transact business in the state dur
ing the year 1876, and that has or shall have
complied with the requirements of Law rels-
tive to obtaining q license for the present
year; and provided that mutual companies
OF other states may be admitted TO transact
business in this state, in case the states where
such mutual companies are located admit the
mutual companies Of this state, by complying
In all respects with the conditions and obli-
cations imposed by the laws OF such states on
the mutual companies OF this state.
Section 2 This act shall take effect aud be
in force from and after lis passage and publ
cation.
Approved March :, 1877.
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Published March 90, 1877. !
CHAPTER IQ1

lS$-
AN ACT to regulate the bringing OF actIons
for penalties and appeals therein.
The people OF the State of Wisconsin, repre-
scented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section J. No summons, warrant or other
process shall hereafter be issued by any JUS
tice Of the peace or other officer In any action
brought to recover o penalty, forfeiture or
fine, under the provisions OF chapter l55, OF
the revised statutes, unless complaint shall
be made and filed by the district attorney or
the mayor or alderman OF any incorporated
city or village, or member OF the town board
of supervisors residing in the county where
such penalty is incurred, with such justice OF
the peace or other officer prior to the issuing
of such process. unless IN cases where tle
right of making such complaint is expressly
conferred by statute upon other p rsons; and
no appeal shall be taken ON behalf OF the state
in such actions, either to the circuit or coun-
ty or eircuit court, or from such circuit or
county court to the supreme court from any
Judgment rendered against the state In such
actions, except upon the authority OF the dis
trict attorney, and upon the giving oil such
bonds as are required OF private parties upon
similar appeals.
Section 2. This act shall take effect from
and after its passage and publication.
Approved March z, 1877.
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LAWS OF WISCONSIN.
oFFICIAL.
Published March %, 1871.
CHAPTER 249


AN ACT relating TO the establishment and
aid in the maintenance OF tree high schools.
and amendatory OF chapter 500, OF the laws
otI675.
The people Of the State OF Wisconsin. renre.
scented in senate and assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section /. Chapter 323, OF the Laws Of 1873
is hereby amended by adding thereto a sec.
ton numbered IL, that shall read as follows:
Section Ia. Every Tree high school heretofore
organized and established in this state. upon
complying with the provisions OF said act SO
applicable, making through the secretary or
other proper officer OF the hoard or officers
having the management and control OF the
affairs OF such high schools, q report in
writing to the superintendent OF public in
struction on or before the tenth day of Oc-
tober in any year OF such facts relating TO
such high school as said superintendent
shall require, which shall include the num-
Der OF weeks such high school has been
maintained during the previous year, the
whole amount, expended Ior its support dur
ing such year, the amount paid for instruct
ION therein, the number Of pupils attending
same, and also the average attendance shall
thereupon be entitled to share in aud to have
all the benefits and advantages conferred
by this chapter upon high schools establish
ed under this act and ii such high school
not established under this act
has been maintained for at
least thirteen weeks in such year it shall be
entitled to receive from the state one hall the
amount actually expended for instruction in
said school, not however exceeding five hun
dred dollars, in any one year, to any such
high school or schools; provided, however,
that in case such high school district con-
tains a larger population than three thousand
to be determined by the last national or state
census, it shall be entitled to receive al the
rate OF one hundred dollars for each addition
al three thousand OF such population; and,
provided further, that no such high school
district shall be entitled to such aid, unless
the appropriation or expenditure for such
high school, has been exclusive OF the
amounts required to be expended tor COM
mon school purposes; and the superintend-
emf OF public instruction shall carefully ex-
anime such reports, and he and the secretary
OF state shall take such action in behalf of and
concerning the same, and such high school or
schools, as Is required OF them respectively
by the provisions OF section thirteen, of this
chapter, concerning high schools created or
organized under the authority OF this act and
all cities which embrace two or more school
districts or parts OF districts
organized and governed as districts
are in towns shall be entitled to all the
privileges conferred upon towns and upon
the districts therein by section 2 OF said chap
ter 800 OF the general laws OF 1875.
Section 2. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.
Approved March s, 1877.
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Published March %, 1877. /
CHAPTER 26S.


AN ACT to regulate the practice in certain
cases.
The people OF the State Of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section /. In any and all eases now pending
in any courts OF this state, or which shall
hereafter be brought therein, in which party
has appeared before the time for answering
has expired and judgment has been or shall
be entered before the time Tor answering has
expired, without giving the tull five days no
tice OF application Tor judgment, an applica-
ton may be made at any time within one year
after the doeketing OF said judgment, to 6le
and serve an answer.
Section .. Upon such application being
made, the court in which such Judgment is
entered or shall be entered, shall allow the
moving party to file and serve verified an
swer, and upon the filing and service OF such
verified answer, the said cause shall stand for
trial the same as if the answer had been served
in the first instance, and if on trial OF the
issue made by the answer, the defendant shall
establish defense TO the whole OF the plain
tiff g claim, il shall he the duty Of the court
10 annul, vacate and set aside the judgment,
or il the defendant shall establish defense
to only a part OF the claims OF The plaintiff,
then the said Judgment shall remain in force
as 10 50 much and to such parts thereof as the
defendant fails TO establish defense.
Section 3. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after Its passage and publi-
cation.
Approved March 8, 1877.
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Published March 81, 1877.


AN ACT to regulate ices in settlement Of par
ticular estates in the county court for Mil
waukee county, IN probate.
The people OF the State OF Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section 1. In thesettlement OF the estates of
deceased persons in the county courts of this
state. In which there shall be no contest, and
the value of such estate, as shown by the In
ventory and appraisement made and filed in
such matter. shall not exceed the sum OF one
thousand dollars, the judge of said court or
his clerk, il the party or parties so request,
tlement and distribution OF said estate, free OF
charge.
Section 2. This act shall take effect from
and after its passage and publication.
Approved March g, 1877.
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Only Rrstsrles.

A very complete investigation proves
that the alleged outrage on the Chicago, Rock
Island and Pacific railroad upon Mrs. Geo,
Watson, so widely telegraphed, was afgmeni
Of The lady's disordered imagination. Its now
known that she was seized at Davenport
with Mysteries or some other nervous disor-
der, for which no one else was responsible
and was bent upon hurting herself or her TEL
low-passengers, and that only by the watch
tulness of conductors Glaspel and Davis she
was prevented from throwing herself rom,
ear lie
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1000 Indians Surrender

About one Thousand northern hostile
Sioux made surrender OF arms. ponies, etc,
TO General Crook at Spotted Tail Agency on
the 18th. Their entry was very dramatic,
Encirling Spotted Tails camp and discharg.
ing their guns in the air called forth the
whole force Of that chief to greet them, after
which their head chief delivered speech be-
fore General Crook, indicating his desire for
pace ~ laying his rife at the Generals feet
Among the chiefs surrendering are One Who
Observation-Disclosures and Roman Nose, whose
village was destroyed at Slim Buttes last sum-
mer by Cart Mills
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Eneouraging Grasshopper Nsws.

A Fort Scott, Kansas, telegram of
the 10th, says: 1t is now ascertained beyond
a doubt that the grasshoppers' eggs in this
section are unproductive. Careful expert
ments have been made, and in addition, the
weather OF the past few days has been warm
enough to have Matched them out by the
million had the eggs been good; but not one
OF the pests can be found. The farmers are
generally jubilant, and a big crop OF every
thing is looked tor in Southeastern Kansas.
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The following is the law relative to
appointments in the Treasury Department:
Th&son and after January LIST, 1876, appoint
ments in this department shall be so arranged
as to lie equally distributed between the seve-
raj States OF the United States and the Terri
tories, according to their population. The
above law Secretary Sherman will rigidly en-
force, and under it there can at present be no
appointments from New York, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia,
Arizona and the District Of Columbia. The
Secretary will also insist that only one mem
By OF a family shall be employed.
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Missing Persons.

During January, February and March
sixty-four persons were reported missing in
New York and forty -one in Brooklyn, making
the total in the two cities Of one hundred and
five; of this number thirty-fonr were found
through the agency OF officers and detectives,
thirty returned to their homes and gave ex-
plantations OF their absence; one, A. Oakley
Hall, has reappeared in England eleven were
found dead, having committed suicide or been
murdered, and thirty are still missing.
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How War Will he Declared.

A dispatch to the London Daily
News from St Petersburg says war viii not
be declared in mediately,a AS some preliminary
steps must be taken. Russia viii probably
address note 70 the powers explaining the
situation. She VIII next recall her Embassy
from Constantinople, and her Consuls Ia the
Ottoman Empire. The Car viii then 60 to
Kischene6, at which place the declaration OF
war may be dated.
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Not Dead a second Tine.

DR.. K. ii. Green, of Hoosic, n. Y,
was thought to be dead, and his body was
placed in vault about two weeks ago. As
he had narrowly escaped burial while in a
trance several weeks since, his vile was re-
quested 20 visit his body until no doubt of
death existed. It is now stated that last Sat-
urday signs OF life were noticed, and the body
was removed from the vault. The attending
physicians pronounce it a case of suspended
animation
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-04-19

for the current fiscal year viii be about $780,
50s, 600. The number required during the
next contract term will probably resch one
billion at least, but the contractor must fur
nish ali that may be required, without refer
snce 10 this estimate
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Burned at Sea.

The steamship Leo, from Savannah,
Ga, for Nassau on the 18th, was destroyed by
fire at 8 p. m. on the 18th, in heavy south
east gale, so miles southeast OF Tybee 80 miles
from shore. There were only three passen-
gers on board. They were lost together with
eighteen OF the crew. Thirteen of the crew
made RAFT and were rescued from it by a
passing vessel.
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A aInhn Of the Jockeys.

In the race at San Francisco on the
I4th, Occident won the purse of $4,000. Be-
fore the race the Goldsmith Maid was the
iavorite at 100 TO 65. Occident drew the pole.
The first heat was wor by occident in 2:25.
Occident was then the tavorite at 100 to 65.
Occident won the second heat in 2:27H. In
the third heat Occident broke on the home
stretch and the Maid won in 2:27K. The
fourth heat and race was won by Occident-
time 300
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Published March 81, 1871

IIQDuSneu MATCH <lt 1911
CHAPTER Oil.
AN ACT relating to lees of sheTifs and ref
erees.
The people Of the State OF Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section /. The fees of any sheriff, referee OF
other cficer for selling real estate under any
decree or order OF court, shall be as follows:
For making the sale and all the necessary pa.
pers and notices, including deed, when the
amount bid does not exceed one thousand
dollars, ten dollars when the amount bid
exceeds one thousand dollars, fifteen dollars,
besides the cost OF publishing any advertise
ment of sale.
Section .. All acts and parts OF acts moon
sistent with this act are hereby repealed.
Section g. ILis act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage and publ
cation.
Approved March z, 1877.
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Latest Markets.
nILwAuKEg.

FLoUR-Spring extras s7.0O.
GRAIy-Wheat, No. l, sl.62H No. 2,
sl.67H seller May sl.52x; seller June
s1.5Sx; No. sl3sH. Corn No. 2, new,
43o. Oats, No. 2, 3793Sc; seller Nav 3sc.
Rye, No. |. SOC bid. Barley, No. 2, winter
receipts 75c.
PRovIsloSs-Ness pork, SIS 5O9l5.eO seller
May.
DRESSED HoGs-s60 90.
CHICAGO.
FLoUR-Good demand at full prices: extra
western IS 1897 .25; Minnesota extras 81 00G
S 75; Minnesota patent process IS. 00Ql0. 90 |;
winter extras S7.5OQ900
GRAIS-Wheat, No. Q Chicago sl.44S cash
and seller April; sales at 81 454i AZ seller
May Sl.46k seller June; No. 3. sl37; re-
jected 81 1891 90. Corn, 45Kc cash and seller
April; 4Sss9s9ae seller May rejected as c.
Oats, 81 &C cash; 3Sc seller May; 50 &C June:
rejected 81 &c. Rye, SOC. Barley, 64c.
PRoyIsoSs-Pork, SI5.75 cash sI6T7ka
Is 81 seller May $40 05 cash s10.07 y @i0. 10
seller May; sales at sl022 K@l0.35 seller
sune
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Rann Asks for Timn.

Major Reno, recently tried by court
martial, at st. Paul, on charge ofinsulting the
wife OF brother officer, and sentenced to be
dismissed from the service, has forwarded to
the War Department a request for delay in
the presentation OF the case to the President,
claiming he has additional evidence that will
tend to mitigate the sentence. The request
has been granted
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Presidential Church-GoIng.
-rpm rhe congrerAtlonalIst.


The President and Mrs. Hayes walk
ing to and from the nearest church has
caused quite sensation in Washing
Ton. Gen. Grant always rode with two
servants in livery. At the close of
the service, he, followed by Mrs. Grant
walked up the aisle, across in front of
the pulpit, bowling to the minister.
who returned it, and then, passed out
at the side door,-all the audience
standing the while.
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Washington Monument.

The Board of Engineers appointed to
investigate the suficiency of the foundation
OF Washington Monument, have completed
their report. There is good authority Tor stat
ng that the report will condemn the founda-
ton as insufficient TO warrant the completion
OF the N onument on the present site.
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The Post Office Department has sent
cut new advertisement inviting proposals
until noon OF May 10th for furnishing postal
ca7ds during the period Of four years, GEM
nencing the first OF next July. The number
Of eArds issued during the last fiscal year was
10, SIS Geo, ard i i expected that tie Issues
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He Must Hang.

Edgar NJ. Young, the young man who
shot and killed Mabel Hall, ballet girl at the
Theatre Comique in st. Louis about a year ago
and who was convicted of murder in the first
degree, has been sentenced to be hung on
Friday, June LIST.
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Published March %, 1877. !
CHAPTER 233.

AN ACT relating to the capital OF IRE and IN
land navigation insurance companies Iot
other states and Of foreign governments de-
string TO transact business in this state.
The people of the State OF Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section /. No fire or inland navigation in
suranre company organized or incorporated
under the laws OF any other state OF the United
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For ten cents We will send a scientific book
OF one hundred and sixty choice selections
from the poetical works Of byron, Moore.
and Burns also fifty selected popuiar songs
and other writings. The poetry OF these an-
thors is true TO nature, and the finest ever
written. Desmond & Co, sl5 Race street.
Philadelphia, Pa
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IPnhlished March %. 1871.
IN A nrrILO ccr

OHAT LII <u0s
AN ACT 10 amend section A, of chapter loo,
Of the revised statutes, entitled, "Oi Of
lenses against property, and the act amend
atory thereof
The people OF the State OF Wisconsin, repre-
scented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
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Invited to Step Down and Out.

Wade Hampton has invited all the
Chamberlain officials TO retire from Office and
submit their claims TO the Supreme Court
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Extract From a Letter of James G. Blaine.
Il am sure Governor Chamberlain
knows he has my profoundest sympathy
IN the heroic, though unsuccessful struggle
he has made in South Carolina. for civil lib
ertY and constitutional government. | am
equally snre Governor Packard feels that my
heart and judgment are both with him in the
contest he is still waging against great odds
for the GOyernOrship, that he holds 10y title
as valid as that which lawfully and Justly
seated Rutherford b. Hayes in the Presiden-
tial chair. trust, also, that both the Gov
ernors know that the Boston press no longer
represents the stalwart Republican feeling
OF New England ON the pending issues
than the same press did when it demanded
the enforcement of the fugitive slave law, in
1851 !"