Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-02-08

HON. ASA >. hENDALB Is inc 1IOulDI-
ton candidate for Governor of New
Hampshire.
SENATOR ELECT KIRKwooD, of Iowa,
has resigned the office of Governor of the
State, and is succeeded in that Office by
Lieut.. Gov. Newbold.
THE Belgian Government has recently
issued decree, prohibiting the importa-
tion of cattle from England, Germany,
Russia, Austria and Turkey.
THE Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Standard emphaticGllY denies the re-
cent statement that Prince Gortschakoff
had retired from the Russian Cabinet
A PARDON has been granted to Gen.
Mcdonald, of the ST. Louis Whisky Ring,
on the ground that his health was so shat
tered that he would soon die, if kept in
confinement.
TIE Kansas Legislature has elected
Col. Preston B. Plumb, Of Emporia,
United States Senator, to succeed Senator
Harvey, whose term expires on the 4th of
March next.
In their verdict, the Coroner's jury in
the case of the Brooklyn Theater calam-
ity say that of the 218 victims only two
were burned to death, the remainder be-
ing sufocated.
On account of the withdrawal of five
of the Justices to form the Judicial branch
of the Tripartite Electoral Commission,
the United States Supreme Court has ad-
journed to the 29th Of February.
Countess HOWE was so stricken with
grief at the death of her husband-Earl
Howe-that she, few days ago, threw
herself out of window of her residence
in Berkely Square, London, and was ia
tally injured.
SCARLET FEVER and diphtheria have
been prevailing to an alarming extent in
Chicago for several weeks, and the NOR
tality among children has been very
great. Meetings of physicians have been
recently held to devise means to put
stop to the scourge.
THE following is summary of the
public debt statement for January: Coin
bonds outstanding, $1,691, ,797 800; total
debt. So, ,220, ,570,518; cash in Treasury,
$t29, rs, ,946; debt less cash in the Treas
ury, So, ,O90, ,851 ,572; decrease during JAN
uary, 50, ,069, ,669.
THE French Government has recently
issued a decree prohibiting the trans
portation of horned cattle, sheep or goats
from Germany, England, Austria, the
Danuban Principalities or Turkey. The
prevalence of the rinderpest is given as a
reason for the prohibition.
SLADE, the American "Spiritualist, +"
who was sentenced by London Court to
three months confinement at hard labor
upon a charge of vagrancy, has been re
leased. his sentence having been set aside
by the Court to which he appealed in con-
sequence of legal technicality.
THE West Virginia Legislature has re-
elected H. G. Davis to the United States
Senate and also chosen F. Hereford for
the short term to fill the vacancy caused
by the death Of Allen I. Caperton. The
Georgia Legislature has elected Benja-
min III. Hill to succeed Mr.. Norwood in
the Senate.
HERR BARTH, the German explorer,
sessions in Africa, recently committed
suicide at Loanda, while deliriOus from
fever The death is also reported of Herr
Moher, another German explorer, en-
gagged in searching for the sources of the
Congo River.
THE Congressional portion Of the Elec
toral Commission consists of the follow
ing members: SenatOrs-Edmunds, Nor
ton and Frelinghuysen, Republicans, and
Thurman and Bayard, Democrats. Rep
Payne, Hunton and Abbott,
Democrats, and Garfield and Hoar, Re
publicans. Associate Justice Davis, of
the Supreme Court, on the Goth, peremp-
torily declined to serve on the Commits
sion, on the ground of his recent election
TO the Senate.
OF the Senators who voted for the Elec-
toral Compromise bill passed by Congress,
twenty-six were Democrats and twenty
one Republicans. OF those voting in the
negative, sixteen were Republicans and
one Eaton, Of Conn., Democrat, and
eleven Senators were either absent or alb
stained from voting. In the House, 154
Democrats and thirty-seven Republicans
voted for, and sixty nine Republicans and
seventeen Democrats against, the bill.
A COLUMBUS (Ohio) dispatch of the
26th says: "In referring . the passage
of the bill for counting the Electoral vote,
Gov. Hayes said to a friend several days
ago, but who makes it public this morn
ing: / want it distinctly understood that
/ do not desire to influence the action of
Congress one way or the other in the mat,
ter Of the Electoral bill, or any other mat
ter relating to the Presidential election.
The whole thing is in the hands of Con-
gress, and shall be content with its
action" Messrs. Tilden and Hendricks
are represented to have expressed them
selves satisfied with the proposed arbitra-
ton.
THE population OF Nevada is 81, ,125.