Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-05-26
NEWS SUMMARY.

1t is said that Forrest the actor, is
about to marry Laura Keene.
The Banks of Virginia resumed
specie payments on the 18th of May
inst.
Henry Ward Beecher intends
spending few weeks in Kansas dur
ing the coming summer.
1t is stated that one gentleman in
Boston has on deposit in three of the
banks of that city the large sum Of ST.
$4,000.
The Herald of Freedom Kansas
says the Lecompton Constitution as
submitted by the English bill will be
rejected by twelve or fifteen thousand
majority.
-Selious-looking rascals are going
about New York, begging money to
pay the expenses of the revival meet
ings, and the impo stors have been quite
successful.
The Chicago Democrat says that
laborers in that city, are not likely to
get more than seventy-fve cents day
the coming season, and that hundreds
are there now out of employment.
Mayor Herman of New York said
recently he had no doubt that the city
of New York had been swindled out of
e;oht millions of dollars within the past
few years, by officials and others.
a murderer having escaped from
the Sheriff in Missouri, western eX-
change suegets that detective be sent
TO Washington to apprehend HIM be-
fore Buchanan appoints him to office.
The Cleveland Leader says cher
ries, apples and grapes still promise an
abundant crop in that section. The
peach prospects are not as good, though
the frosts have spared partial sup
ply.
Lame and Robinson of Kansas, had
a wordy difficulty at the recent nomln-
ating convention in that territory
The beginning probably of rival fac
tons in the free State party OF the ter
ritorv.
Judge Wilson of the Chicago
Court, has Just decided a case involving
the title to so acres, some s5OO,ooe
worth, of land in that city. Walker
rs Bennett & Stow. The decision
was in favor Of the plaintiff.
Two boys were recently drowned
ut Waukcgan in q swamp, bordering
on Dead river. They were in search
of COWS. and sunk into n slough with
out being aware how deep and treach-
erous it was. They we've aged II and
II wears.
George Renick, Esq, now living
IN CIillicothe, Ohio, fed and drove, In
l85t-5. the first lot of cattle that ever
crossed the mountains to an Eastern
market. Now Ohio sends across the
Allcghanies yearly average of 10000
head.
Smith, of Virginia, is pressing up
on the attention of Congress the organ
ration of a new territory to be called
Nevada, composed of the country lying
,lono the eastern slope of the Sierra
Nevada and extending 100 miles into
The Great Basin.
"A mad dog rushed into the house
of a Mr.. Ellis, in Cambridgeport,M Mass,
a few DAYS since, when Mrs. +. threw
a thick heavy rug over him, and clasp
mo him with her arms threw him out
of the window, and the gardener who
was near by dispatched him with a
spade.
Among the passengers by the Noses
TnpJI0r for California last week, was
the celebrated negro minstrel, George
Christy, of New York. He goes to San
Francisco on a three years engagement.
Rumor saws he was offered $4,000 4
wear, or third ofthe profits, and chose
the latter
Henry Ward Beecher says that
@sthe Bible Society is sending its BIZ
1les all over the World-to Greenland
and the Morea to Arabia and Egypt ;
but it darcs not send them to our own
people. The colporteur who should
leave Bible in slaves cabin, ecould
90 to Hsacen from the lo,cest limb OF
the first trec."
The name 'Ontonagon, which it
Us proposed to dub the territory to be
formed out of the upper peninsular OF
Michigan, is the Indian word for "a
wooden bowl" and was attached to the
river now bearing that title i'll honor OF
the achievement of q trader in saving
the wooden bowl of an Indian squaw,
from being carried down to the lake.