Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-08-09
LETTER-CARRIERS' SALARIES.

Inc I6JI6r-cafrl6rS waited on IOSl-
master-General Key to-day, with refer
ence to the restoration of their salaries
to 81 900 year. The Postmaster-Gen-
eral said that he would exercise his good
offices with Congress, and suggested that
the carriers present their case in a spe-
citic form. The present salary is 1919
INTERNAL REVENUE.
The receipts from internal revenue
during the past month were $S,764, ,514
1t is estimated that the receipts were
reduced at least a million dollars in con-
sequence of the late strike. The customs
receipts during the month were S10,-
060. $50.
AN INDIAN VISIT.
In accordance with the request OF
Gen. Crook that a delegation of Sioux
Indians be permitted to visit this city
for the purpose of having an interview
with the officials Of the Interior Depart
ment, Commissioner Smith to-day,
after consultation with Secretary SchurZ.
telegraphed Gen. Crook giving the re-
quested permission.
THE PRINTING BUREAU.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
issued orders relating to the business of
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
one respecting appointments. and anOth-
er establishing grades with a view to a
perfect organization upon a business
basis under a system which shall apply
impartially to ALL
GEN. KEY S ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Postmaster Gen. Key publicly COM
mends the employees of the postal ser
vice who were in the midst of the rail
way troubles for the faithful manner in
which they performed their arduous
and oftentimes perllOus duties.
ROBERT NJ. DOUGLAS.
The charge against Robert NJ. Doug
las, United States marshall for the west
ern district ofNorth Carolina, have been
found upon investigation, to be without
foundation.
SHERMAN AND THE BIG HORN.
Gen. Sherman in letter to the secre-
tary of war, says with the new post at
fork of the Big and Little Horn and that
at the mouth of Tongue river occupied
by strong and enterprising garrisons,
the Sioux Indians can never regain that
country; and they will be forced to re-
main at their agencies or take refuge in
the British possessions. The country
west of the new post is a good country
and will rapidly fill up with emigrants,
who viii in the next ten years build up
a country as strong and as capable of
self-defense as Colorado. The weather
has been as intensely hot as in Texas.
l am impressed with the balmy air of
the country on the upper Yellowstone
PITTSBRUG'S S THANKS.
The secretary of war has received a
letter from the committee on public
safety at Pittsburg, thanking him for his
action during the recent troubles, and
requesting permanent garrison as
large as the condition of the army will
admit of, to be stationed at the Allie
ghany arsenal.
THE TURKISH MINISTER'S CIRCULAR.
The Turkish minister offoreign affairs
has sent a circular to Turkish represen-
tatiyes abroad, reciting the barbarous
acts committed by Russians, and says it
only necessary that the whole civilized
world should become acquainted with
these horrors to express its indignation
and brand them. The inhabitants of
TERMS, near Tirnova, having on the APP
proach Of the Russians taken refuge in
a mosque, were burned alive in the en-
closure; the Russians having met 800
carts with fugitive families destroyed
them with cannon shots, and then COM
pleted their work of determination by
massacreing all men and woman they
could find in every suburb or village oc-
cupied by Russian troops; dwellings
of Mussulmen were given to the flames.
The Bulgarians, excited by the example
Of the Russians, committed against the
peaceful and resigned Mussulman popu-
lation, acts of barbarity and outrages
still more atrocious and more horrible
than those perpetrated by the invaders.