Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-01
GEN ERAL NOTES.

COUNT DE LEssEPS arrived in Chi
cago from San Francisco, March Goth
and was given a grand banquet It the
Grand Pacific Hotel.
THE supreme court of Massachusetts
granted an order on the goth ult., for the
arrest of Dion Boucicault in a divorce
suit brought by his wife, Agnes Robert
son.
OFFICIAL announcement was made
March Goth, that the Illinois Central
railroad, has reduced its fare from four
to three cents per mile, over all its bra n
ches in Illinois.
THE republicans of Kentucky, says
Louisville dispatch Of March 25th, have
held conventions in fifty-five counties
In thirty of those counties the delegates
were instructed for Gen. Grant, three for
Sherman and one for Blaine. Where no
instructions have been given the dele
gates are said to be generally for Grant.
NEWS was received March Goth, that
Howlsh Wampo, chief of the Cayres | n
dians, died March 10Th on the Umatilla
reservati on. The funeral was attended
by over one thousand persons, including
many citizens of Umatilla county. He
preserved the lives of all the white set
Tiers in this valley in early days, and his
death is mourneG by all who knew him
4 MEETING was held in Chicago
| March 25th, of the directors and stock.
holders of the various roads over which
the Grand Trunk railway enters that
city. The proposed consolidation OF
these lines was ratified. The new con-
solidated road will be called the Chi.
cago & Grand Trunk railway It ex.
tends from Port Huron to Chicago.
A MONTREAL dispatch of March Goth,
says the French Canadians are leaving
that city at the rate of 60 to 70 day,
their destination being Michigan or
| Canada, while few a are destined for
California. A large number of mechan-
les, chiefly carpenters, are being en-
gagged to 60 to Colorado and other places
to prepare lumber ETC., for new rail
ways.
AFTER a somewhat stormy session of
two days, the Texas republican conven
tion adjourned March Goth. The reso-
iution instructing the delegates to Chi
cago for Grant, was bitterly opposed. II
was finally agreed to instruct the dele.
gales to vote as a unit. This was &C,
Cepted by the Grant men as equivalent
10 instructions and adopted. Davis was
elected one of the delegates at large.
THE Cincinnati Commercial of March
9th, says that within ten days fully
twenty converts to Mormonism have
passed through Catlettsburg, Ky, en-.
route to Utah. They came from Law
renee county, where, for a year past,
Mormon missionaries have been labor.
ing. Among the converts was a young
SaI -bC
had left her husband behind.
Cable
AFTER a somewhat stormy session OF
two days, the Texas republican conven
ton adjourned March 25th. The resolution
instructing the delegates to Chicago fol
Grant, was bitterly opposed. 1t was
finally agreed TO instruct the delegates
to vote as a unit. This was accepted by
the Grant men as equivalent to instruc-
tions and adopted. Davis was elected
one Of the delegates at large.
A HEAVY immigration is expected al
this port within the next few days, says a
New York dispatch of March 10th. The
Weser, from Bremen, due tomorrow, has
500; the Main and Mosel will probably
have 1900 more; the Frisia has between
700 and 500, and the Westphalia 600
Throughout the coming summer the
German immigration bids fair to exceed
| that ofany season since fhe panic. The
aggregate arrivals for March thus fal
are 1920 against some 5000 for the cor
responding period last year. The fam
inc in Silesia and Hungary has stimulat
ed the movement. and, as the same cause
must also stimulate the exodus from Ire
land, the anticipation of steamship com
panies of an unusually prosperous season
is likely to be fully realized.
THE Tammany and regular democratic
state committees, of New York, met
March 26th separately in New York city
The Tammany committee passed resolu
tions calling three delegates from every
assembly district to attend convention
and giving the executive committee oil
the state committee authority to name the
time and place of holding the conven
ton. VOID was received from different
assembly districts, stating that the or
ganiZation was complete and satisfac.
tory. 1t seemed to be the general feeling
of the politicians present, that they were
in favor of the nominee of the conven
ton, but utterly opposed to Tilden. The
country members, however, advised thai
the proceedings be deliberate and safe
The regular committee did not choose q
time and place for holding their conven
ton a form of call was adopted for
sending delegates TO the state convention
bat the time and place left vacant. The
call sets forth that the object Of the state
convention is to choose delegates to rep
resent the state in the national conven.
tion at Cincinnati. A subcommittee oil
five was appointed to fill blanks in the
adopted call, and resolution was passed
providing that the convention should be
called between the Goth of April and the
1st of May, and that twenty days should
elapse between the issue of The call anc
the convention.
An Old Lady'S Gratitude.