Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-01
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

IHE new railroad in China between
Shanghai and Woosung has been imped-
ed by Chinese mobs.
THE American ship George Green has
been lost off the coast of England, and all
on board perished.
IT is reported from Berlin that the Ger
. man Government has decided to abolish
all honorary Consulships IN the United
States. EE
THE New jersey Legislature has elect
ed John r. Macpherson to the United
States Senate, by one majority, over F. T.
Frelinghuysen, the present Senator.
The Secretary of the United States
Treasury has recently issued the thirty
eighth call for the redemption of $50
bonds of 1865 May and November. The
amount called in was $10,000,000.
THE rinderpest having broken out in
Germany, France and Belgium, the Brit
ish authorities have issued stringent regu-
lations concerning the importation of cat
tie, sheep and goats from those countries.
THE judiciary Committee of the Ma
tiOnal House of Representatives have
unanimously resolved that articles of
impeachment ought not to be preferred
against George M. Robson, Secretary of
the Navy.
JUDGE DAVID DAVIS, of the United
States Supreme Court, has been elected
by the Illinois Legislature to succeed Gen.
John A. Logan in the United States Sen
ate. The vote on the final ballot stood:
Davis, 101; Lawrence, "a; Haines, 3;
Logan, 1; Parish, L.
THE business failures in the United
States in 1876 numbered 9,092, against
7,740 in 1875. The total liabilities of
these failures were, in 1876, $3.50, III, 1856,
and in 1915, $201 900, 1853 These figures
are from the annual circular of r. G..
Dun & Co.. Mercantile Agency.
AN extensive landslide recently oc-
Cured on the line of the Vienna & Trieste
Railroad, near Steinbruck, Austria About
200, 900 cubic meters of earth and rock
were dislodged, and the railway was COW
cred to depth of fifty feet for 200 yards.
Two houses, containing inmates, were
overwhelmed.
TIE Nebraska Legislature has chosen
Alvin Saunders United States Senator, to
succeed Senator Hitchcock, whose term
will expire on the 18th of March. James
G. Bailey has been elected by the Tennes-
see Legislature to fill the vacancy caused
by the death of Andrew Johnson, and
George f. Hoar succeeds Mr. Boutwell, in
the United States Senate from Massachu-
sets.
RECENT reports from Cuba assert that
the Spaniards and Cubans had reached an
agreement which is likely to bring peace
to that distracted country. The details
are not given, but some system of self
government had been devised, at the head
of which the Captain General would re-
main for the period of five years, and
after that the Cubans would be allowed to
elect their own Governor.
THE New York Tribune of recent
date contains the following relative to the
Bennett May duel: Letters from one
of the seconds in the duel have been ex-
hibited to us, which make the following
facts clear: % That May, as the chal-
lenged party, having the right to a choice
of weapons, chose cavalry sabers; (2)
That Benefits friends objected, on the
ground that this gave May an advantage;
(3) That Mays friends yielded their
choice, and assented to dueling pistols
(D That the distance was twelve PAGES
(5) That no witnesses were present,
even the surgeons remaining at dis
tance, the only persons on, or in sight
of, the duelng ground being the two
principals and their two seconds; (6) That
the word was given thus: Ready, fire,
one, two, three, STOP the parties not to
move their pistols from the perpendicular
until the word fire. was pronounced, and
not to fire after the word stop was pro
nounced, and the seconds having the right
to shoot down either man who disobeyed
this requirement; CO That Bennett and
May fired almost simultaneously at the
word one;' (S) Thatneither was touched
90 That Benefits friends then professed
themselves satisfied; and Q0) that the par
ties straightway separated, the whole affair
scarcely having occupied ten minutes
These, we have reason to believe, are, sc
far as they go, the exact facts"
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