Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-12-18
GENERAL NOTES.

GEN. GRANT was received and enter
tanned by the citizens of Cincinnati on
| the 18th inst.
AMOS Tuck, ex-member of congress
from New Hampshire, died at Exeter,
| Dec 11th.
THE board of state canvassers COM
pleted its work on the New York cleo
tion returns Dec. 18th, and declared
elected all the republican candidates ex-
cept state engineer, Horatio Seymour,
Jr., democratic candidate, having a
majority vote tor that position.
INthe case of Hayden charged with
the murder Of his sister, at Wor-
ces:er, C01n,, the jury returned verdict
Of not guilty on the 18th inst. The case
| had been on trial for nearly forty days
and had attracted national attention.
In verdict was received with loud
| cheers.
Col. DOUGLAS, United States marshal
of North Carolina, who is in Washing
ton. says a dispatch of Dec, nth, on Of
ficial business, mentions as one Of the
evil effects of non-appropriation by con-
gress for marshals' fees, the fact that
there is an extensive revival of illicit
| distilling in the mountain districts,
moonshiners being less fearful Of being
raided, knowing, as they do, that United
States marshals cannot afford to organize
any very extensive movements against
| them.
SAYS Fredericksburg, Va, dispatch
of Dec. 18th: Leading democratic citi-
zens of Richmond county, Va, headed
by Charles Pitts, their recently elected
member of the Legislature, petitioned
Judge Jones to include within the jury
| list such of the colored citizens of the
county as the court shall think we'll quail
| fled TO serve as jurors. They say the
step is both proper and important, as
| they believe this class OF fellow-citizens
are entitled to representation, which
right is the bulwark of all civil liberty.
Judge Jones granted the order.
A WATERLOO, Iowa, special of the 18th
inst. says the people of this place are be-
coming interested in the project of build
ing railroad from Des Moines to
| Waterloo, and from there to McGregor,
or some other point where an intersec-
ton with the Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul railroad can be obtained. There
are at Waterloo two railroads running
through the city, and also a branch of
the Illinois Central railroad starting from
here, and yet the shortest distance by
rail 10 Des Moines from Waterloo is 1856
miles, while the direct distance is but
100 miles. Of late local organization
in Des Moines has been actively engaged
in the scheme of a short line to Milwau-
kee. The most direct route, in fact
almost an air line, is via. Waterloo.
With this state of facts the citizens of
Waterloo have held a meeting, and a
committee has been appointed to perfect
sn organization for the purpose of OBJ
tanning the road through the city. They
will endeavor to interest the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul in the project.
THE invasion of the Indian territory
| by sQuatters, says st. Louis special of
the 11th inst, promises to be repeated in
few week, and the invading band seems
| likely this time to be a larger one than hat
recently expelled from the territory by
U. s troops. &C. Carpenter, prominent
in the first invasion of the territory, and
somewhat noted as promoter of immi-
grafton schemes, is in st. Louis making
arrangements for the new excursion.
He says about the first of February near
ly 1000 men will start for the territory
in different parties, and from different
points, the largest party, and
the one with Which Carpenter Will be
connected, starting from Kansas City. A
large number of those who 60 will be
Missourians, who will travel in wagons.
Others, including an Indian party, will
go as far as possible by rail. The immi-
grants propose to establish themselves
on a tract sixty by one hundred miles in
area, and ceded by the Indians to the
government in 1865. The immigrants
claim that this land, not being part of
! the reservation, is government land,
and open to settlers, They do not ap-
prehend trouble from the Indians, fear
| ing only opposition by the United
States government The object
of the departure for the Territory
in winter, it is said, is to give the
squatters time to put in crops in the
spring. Carpenters statements as to the
number who will take part in the expedi-
ton are deemed somewhat exaggerated,