Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-21


TIE United States revenue cutter
Thomas Corwin has returned from her
Arctic Cruise, on 10Th inst. She. brings
no intelligence in addition to that already
received. At ST. Lawrence island, out Of
700 inhabitants 500 were found dead of
starvation. Traders have introduced
liquor among them, causing them to neg
lect laying up the usual supply of provis-
ions. The officers of the Corwin express
the opinion that the Jeanette wintered
on the Siberian shore, and is now there
west of North Cape. The COrwin could
hot get far enough west to verify this be-
lief, on account of ice.
THE supreme court of the United States
convened at Washington on the 1lth inst,
for the October term of 1880 All the ius-
tices were present except Hunt. Clifford
and Field. Among the cases disposed Of
were those of the Louisiana and Kentucky
lottery companies assigned for the first
day of the term. The Kentucky case.
Comerford VS.. Thompson, was dismissed
upon the motion of Solicitor General
Phillips, on behalf of appellants; and the
Louisiana case, Dauphin VS.. Key, was. on
motion OF the attorney general, indefinite
ly postponed. These suits were abandon
ed for reasons already stated, viz: that. ac-
cording to previous ruling, an application
for mandamus cannot be sustained against
an ex-otilcio officer of the government SER
vice. 4 mandamus must issue against an
individual, and an ax-ofiicio has no power
to obey writ, even should it be granted.
Nothing is more amusing than the per-
sistent efforts of the St. Louis people to
initiate the census report of their provin-
cial town. Forced down to an honest
count. they refuse to be satisfied, When
they point to the small per cent. Of in
crease noted in their last census report as
compared with the report of 1870, they
have been calmly informed that the re-
port of 1870 was a fraudulent one. This
charge has been made freely by Gen.
Walker. He has simply reported this as
fact discovered, without any special re-
gard for the sensitive feelings of the resi-
dents ef the inflated city of st. Louis.
Gen. Walker has also said that if the stat
ute of limitation did not prevent the per-
petrators of the fraud would have been
prosecuted. This statement of General
Walker has called forth nothing but ri
baldry from the St. Louis peo-
pie. General Walker has been
called all sorts of names, as if that should
change the character of the facts. Gen,
Walker has been challenged TO produce
his proofs of frauds charged. He has been
asked to lay his hands upon the men who
perpetrated these frauds, and, if he could
not, to confess that his original charges
were false. The delegation from St.
Louis that came here to demand another
count was at first very solemn and digni-
fed. 1t came here as the representatives
of an injured and outraged people, de
manding Justice After it had visited the
| census Office its members became very
mild Confronted with frauds of 1870,
| they became very conciliatory. They
could not dispute the overwhelming proofs
shown them, and they changed the base of
their operations, They now asked for a
recount, but only upon the ground that
the people of St. Louis were so much
stirred up on the subject that nothing else
would satisfy them.