Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-10-03

National bank circulation outstand-
ing-currency notes.. -. 3e7, 49, S3f
Gold notes.. ................... 49, 92G
! Internal revenue receipts to-day. 35 24l
| Custom receipts s.....-..-............. 531, OBJ
Receipts of national bank notes for
week ending to-day. compared with
| corresponding week last year-1S77. 1861, 000
lists ....-............. 4, 215 00O
1 Receipts to-day. ............. -. I,035, OOO
subscriptions to per cent. loan to-day 547, OOG
EXPERIMENTING ON SUGAR MAKING.
DR.. Collier, chemist of the depart
ment of agriculture, has for the past
two weeks been experimenting on a
large scale on the manufacture of crys-
tallzed sugar from cornstalks and sor-
ghum. The aggregate weight of corn
stalk used was II, ,237 pounds and the
weight of sorghum 1888 pounds.
Weight of juice from cornstalk
was 2.773 pounds, and from
sorghum, 1868 pounds. Specific gray
ity of corn stalk juice was 1854; that
of sorghum juice, 1888. The percent
age of juice in corn stalks as they were
taken from the field, 24.58; percentage
of sorghum, 1886; 2,571 pounds of corn
stalk juice'yielded 362 pounds of syrup;
1915 pounds Of sorghum yielded 660
pounds of syrup.
RECEPTION OF THE CHINESE EMBASSY.
A Washington special of the 2Sth
says: The Chinese minister was this A.
M. formally received by the president.
The ceremony was private, it having
been determined by the executive de-
partment that there should be no devi-
alton from the usage as to other foreign
ministers, and that it should not be
made a public spectacle. The Chinese
minister and others of the embassy
called at the department of state few
minutes before II and accompanied by
secretary Evarts, assistant secretary
Seward and chief clerk Brown. pro-
ceeded to the executive mansion, en-
tered the blue room in the following
order: Mr. EVarts with Chen San Fin
minister. Mr.. Seward with Yung Wing
assistant minister, Mr.. Bartlett, the
American secretary of legation with
Mr.. Yea the Chinese secretary, and the
two interpreters.
THE ENLISTED LABOR ASSOCIATION.
A new association is forming here,
says a Washington dispatch of the 9th
inst. known as "The Enlisted Labor
Association" 1t is proposed to urge
upon congress the passage of law by
which 100000 volunteers may be en-
listed In five years for military and ag-
rlcultural purposes on reservations of
the government. Twelve skilled me-
chanics or artisans are to be in each
company, and one regiment of each
corps is to be engaged exclusively. As
soon as 10000 men shall be enlisted
T hnU Ch oil no TO thn
and upon their arrival shall lay out
city and begin the erection of quarters
for permanent settlement, preparing
ground for agricultural purposes and
developing the mineI al resources ofthe
country. Such corps is to furnished
by the government with seeds, stock,
farming implements and tools. Volun-
teers are to receive the same pay as
regular soldiers and every person en-
listed shall, upon honorable discharge,
be entitled to a patent for 160 acres of
land as now provided by the homestead
act, OR to one lot within the limits Of the
city as he may elect every alternate lot
to be reserved to the United States.
CAN t ENTERTAIN THE PROPOSITION.
Gov. Hampton having requested that
the state authorities be allowed to col
lect the United States internal revenue
tax IN that state on account of the great
difficulties experienced by the revenue
officers In the performance of that duty,
Commissioner Raum, to whom the mat
ter was referred, replies that the propo-
sltlOn cannot be entertained
THE HOMESTEAD LAW.
Gen. James A. Garfield, in response
to telegram from some gentleman in
this city interested in the matter, sends
the following as his construction of the
homestead law, Persons entering a
homestead after they have ceased to be
soldiers get a patent after one years
residence. Persons actual soldiers at
the date of entry, or who have become
so afterwards, if they served five years
require no residence, the commission
ers' decision is right. I did not frame
tie law, but concur with James Law
renee who did -"
Signed J. A. GARFIELD
FIFTEEN HUNDRED FOR THE CONSCIENCE
FUND.
The secretary of the treasury, Sept.
9th received an anonymous communi-
cation from Boston, enclosing fifteen
hundred dollars, to be placed to the
credit Of the conscience fund"
POLAR EXPEDITION.
Information has been received by
Captain Howgate, at the signal office,
that Captain Tyson, of the schooner
Florence, of the Howgate Polar expedi-
ton, reached st. Johns, n. F., yester-
day. He has been absent four months
All well.
THE POSSE COMITATUS CLAUSE.
Among the embarrassments growing
out of the posse cOnlitdt1Ls clause in the
army appropriation bill, discussed in
the cabinet Sept. 9th, iii addition to
the Pacific railroad matter were the
cases which have recently occurred, one
IN Arkansas and the other in Texas In
Arkansas the U. S. marshall, appealed
to the commanding officer at Fort
ConchO for military escort to protect
him in the arrest of an alleged murder
er, who had taken refuge in the Indian
territory. The request was referred to
Gen. Ord, who declined to furnish the
troops, and in turn referred the request
to Washington for specific instructions.
The other case was the application Of
the United States marshal, of Texas, to
Col. Shafter, for troops to assist him in
the arrest of parties charged with or
ganizing an expedition to invade Mexi-
co. This request was also declined and
referred to Washington.
/ Cases We're also mentioned in which
the authorities mIght be unable to en-
force the neutrality laws. The subject
u,oO not Hnaify dicDoSad of b,lt If IL