Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-01-27

the Franklin collection OF manuscripts to the
State Department for $4,000.
II is the general belief in Washington
that an apportionment BIZ will be passed dur
ing the present session OF Congress. The num-
beI Of Represent st,yes wilt he liked at from 295
to Sq3.
GENERAL.
GES. WALKER, Superintendent of the
Census, has sent to Congress statement show
ing the population Of the United States as fol-
lows, by States:
alabama 262, 724 Mississippi 1871 STA
srlan4es....... SD2,5G4 Missouri .....2, ,s34
California ....... s6t,aS6 Nebraska. 452,i53
Colorado ....... lI4,Gis Nevada 1900. C2,2D5
Connecticut ..... G52, $50 New Hampshire 346,sa4
Delaware s...... l466l4New Jersey i,lsJ,3S3
Florida. 6l,53l New York.. 81 $40
Georgia ,5sa U4s North Carolina. I4e8,0iT
Illinois,. ,Vao, 400 Ohio. ifs, 30
Indiana. SIS, 3d20regon .-..... 174,767
iowa ,G59 .6A Pennsylvania A. 1855
Kansas. 995 g56 Rhode Island j.. 2i6,5a8
Kentucky. ,64S 7eS South Carolina. bg5,62
Louisiatla.. $40 los Tennessee. ,463
1iaine .......... CHS 945l Texas 572.574
Maryland. %, 6S2i Vermont 81, 2s6
Massachusetts,. ,7s3 ,0I2 Virginia. 52nsJ8
Michigan $50 ISL West Virginia.. G16,i43
Ainuesota. $50 S96i iscoIsn 49,. 4S
This makes total OF 40, 1863 5s5 for the
States. The Territories aggregate COS, 653, and
the District Of Coumbii III 63S, which msk es
grand aggregate OF popul ton Of 50, I52. $50.
| A New YORK paper, speaking of the
/ telegraph consolidation, says ]. Gould owns
majority Of the stock Of the present Westera
! Union, and viii control a majority of the Joint
/ Etock. Gen. Thomas J. Eekert wiz be First
! Vice President and General Manager OF the
| consolidated companies The amount of cap
1 l.al stock has been liked ~ $50 coo 0d0 II is
| ulld fsto1d that the Western Union vii receive
| 1880 shares. the American Union "a $50.
| and tho Atlantic and Pa tic 1880. i.
I fne National Wunan's Suffrage Convention
i III Washington adopted resolutions set ing
/ forth tllet suffrage or self-goyernment is
1 national, lnaiienalle right, and not privilege
/ thst any Government caa confer OF Justly
J wthhoidi that We are nation, and not
confedefacy of states. that we are ali e,fi-
| zens, fist Of The United staies and second
/ oi the States wherein we reside hence tile
right Of self-g 1vernmeut should be guaranteed
! by the national constitution 10 ali citizens that
| with the ballot N their hands, they raay pro.
| test theInstl Ives everywhere under cur flag:
that il il the duty OF Congress TO submit 10 the
| several States Constitutional amendment Civ
| lug women cltzens the right Of suffrage, and to
| pass the bill providing for a committee to con-
| slider the rights of women.
| A REPREsI& TATIvs of the Bolivian
Government is understood 10 he ON the way to
the United States 10 negotiate treaty of com
meIce and raise loan of SIS. O00.o00 at pny
! sacrifice. Railway men at Montreal are dis
cusstag plan to put tunnel under the Falls
of Niagara.
ARTICLES have been fled at Albany
for the construction OF limo Of telegraph from
New York to Cape Breton, cable to Great
Britain, France and Spain, and another cable
from Tho Pacidc coast 10 China Japan and
Austr lin fplst CP he
s50. 000, COO, and the incorporates are jaw
Gould, Thomas I. Ecsert, David H. Bates. and
Frederick L. Ames.
THE twenty-four hours ending sun
day, Jan 20, was one of unusually widespread
meteorological violence, as shown by the tsle-
graphic reports from the various sections OF the
country. In NV YORK heavy gale, accom-.
panied 10y SECT which frlze as Il felt. set in
and ktstod az entire dav doing an imnlens,,
amount OF damage All the telegraph, teIe1,
phone and lii, alarm wires we're tarown down
by the accdmulat.0ns of ice, and the CIV
was completely cut eff from tsleprafhic
gs8 were received and carried by mes
sengers to Jersey CITY and othrr surrounding
points. Business was almost suspended, espe-
ciatytn grain and stocks, owing 10 the inability
10 get market adyic s. Mounted tiremen p,-
tcousu the stree t. 10 give alarms of fire. Five
thousand tr es Ia Central Park were ruined
aud much damage WIS done to coruises Chin
neYs, etc, an 1 number of person. were ser-
ously injured by being hit by falling pieces of
Ice. Throughout largo porii)n Of New En-
gland there was heavy storm of alternating
ram and now, amounting in ths aggregate 10
about twenty-five Inches in depth, and travel
was largely h'oched. Ii Was accompanied bv
ga,o OF forty miles an hour. In the region
OF WHICH Chicago forms the center snow fell
% the depth o. about line inches. Snow
slides ae OuHtef and Bonanza, Idaho, swept OF
seyent en- persons, all but four of whom were
rescued. There We're from twelve to twenty
1 4 hes OF snow at Helena, Montana, and con
siderable Losses of stock are reported The
storm was quite general throughout Ne
braski,, and serious effects upon cat.
tie IN the grazing regions are feared.
At Watertown, In Northern New York, thesnow
VAS from two to four feet deep Snog fell
ste IDLY III New Orleans for eight hours melt
ing rapidly away. There were snow drifts thirty
feet high in the vicinity of Kingston, Ont.
President Leland Stanford, of the Central Pa
cliie ri road, in answering certain indyliyles
put forth by committee of the New York
Board of TT de- op ms BY asserting that tariff,
sprung from robbery aud raplne and that il
was now intended that tits shouId be a pater-
nal Government. r. denies that mil
roads are public highways or common
carriers, AMI says that ii the roads CON
trlhu.e iarse SIMS to contEol elections it is be-
cause sef-,ie ,ense forces them to it, Legisla i've
control h. dec ares, Gu d be less just than the
rates OF the companies themselves, and the
management should reInain with tine owners
un ~ purchase is made by tue State lie
tanks that the proposal that the Government
regulate commerce between the States would
ouly erect business between Individuals living
in different States.
POLITICAL.
Hon. HENRY L. DAWES has been eho-
NJ bss -
United States Senate, from Massachusetts,
....In his message to the Legislature
Of Rhode Island, Gov. Iittlefield recon-
mends woman suffrage on the school question.
leading member of tie House. Who ha4 made
pilgrimage to Mentor, was asked by the
Presidopt-eleot what the Grant people thought
sud what they desired from him. After con.
| siderable conversation on this topic. Gen
/ G. rtald remarked that his Cabinet would he
| found TO be one thoroughly in harmony with
aiI branches Of the party, and that no section
OF 1t viii have any special cause for dissatisfac-
! ton.
GRN. SEwEnL received the Republican
caucus nomination for the New Jersey Senator
ship on the twelfth ballot In the Wisconsin
| Republican caucus phietusSawyerr received fftv-
| eight votes on the Rnal ballot and L. W. Eeye3
| twenty-hye. When SAwyer's nomination had
been made unanimous, the caucus adopted
l IesOtttleu recommending h9Yes to Gar
| field for the Postmaster Generalship.
| Tho following United States Senators were
| elected on Wednesday, the 18th inst: Thomas
/ G. Platt, of New York Eugene Hale, of Maine
! Benjamin II. Harrison, of Indiana Joseph
| 4. Hawley, of Connecticut Henry L. Dawes,
Of Massachusetts Francis NJ. Cocaiel.
81 Missouri, and Henry r. Baldwin ana
Omar y. Conger, Of Michigan.
Senator Allison has returned to Washington
from Mentor. Ha says Gon. Garfield listened
respectfully and attentiyely to his representa-
tloils in behalf of Mr. Wilson, of iowa. bui
lid not commit himself by single syllable
It is believed by many that Gen. Green Il.
Raum, Of Illinois, the present Commissions,
y Internal Revenue, will he rendered the
Treasury Department, or that at least Cen
Garfield will give one place in his Cahinet 10
Illinois.
A RECENT Washington dispatch saws
"A gentleman prominently connected with
New England industries, who is here in the
int rest OF the tariff, expresses the oninion
that the Eaton bill will be passed bv the House
at this session, and that tken the tariff ones
ton vii he taken out of politics. The Ration
LID, which has passed the Senate, il now upon
the Speakers table IN the House awaiting ac-
tion.H
Hon, CHARLES II. VAN WICK was