Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-03-31
NEWS SUMMARY,

-Thirty-two seats in the Canadian
parliament are contested.
Gov. Charles Robinson, the Tope-
ka Kansas Governor, is at Washing
ton.
A birth occurred on board the
Southern Michigan cars, on Friday
last!
Senator Sumner is now in Wash
ington, ready to cast his vote against
Lecompton.
1t is said that Mr.. Paulsen, the
renowned chess-player, has the largest
head of any man living.
Mr.. Cornelius Wendell has taken
the place of Hon. w. A. Harris as pub
Usher of the Washington Union.
The amount Of fines and licenses
collected during ''Long Johns" admin
istration in Chicago, was $l17,376.22.
Lady Suffolk, the famous trotting
mare, was sold at auction in Peters
burg, Va, a few days ago, to John
Rivan, Esq, for the sum of s4os.
The Chicago Press has an adver
tisement of five pages of eight columns
each Of lands delinquent for city taxes.
What commentary upon that town.
A Washington letter writer says
that the bar of one Of the fashionable
hotels of that city has taken $4,000
for drinks, in the past fourteen months.
The editor of the Berlin C0urant
mentions as proof of religious interest
in that place, that he sat through three
sermons last Sabbath without getting
asleep.
Richard Hildreth, the historian
and one of the editors of the New York
Tribune, has recently been elected an
honorary member of Tennessee Hlstor-
ical Society.
The Dubuque Tribune has been
discontinued, and its patronage merged
with that Of the Times, which is now
the only Republican daily published IN
that place.
The Washington Union, speaks OF
Senator Douglas and Robt. }. w alker
as conspicuous instances Of mind
without soul, intellect without emotion,
brains without heart
Only seven lawyers are known to
be elected to the new House of Repre-
sentatives in New Hampshire. This IS
remarkable occurrence in Legislative
body numbering 3l6 members.
Charles S. TAYLOR, who was arrest
cd in ST. Louis, charged with setting
fire to the Pacific Hotel, which caused
the recent terrible calamity there, has
been examined and finally discharged.
The orthodox people Of Boston
have concluded to offer frequent pri-
vate and public supplications for the
conversion of Rev. Theodore Parker,
until that desirable event shall take
place.
The Vicksburg SOuthrO1 says that
the statement of the New Orleans Del
ta in regard to the importation OF AfFl-
cans into Mississippi and Louisville are
not mere empty declarations. The
ISouthr0n has good reason for bcleTlng
the statements true
The Supreme Court of California
has decided that Archy, a slave brought
into that State, and kept slave for a
wear, shall be taken back as a slave, to
Mississippi. Thus is the Constitution
of Free State overridden. Slavery
is without law and against law.
A lad named O'Bricn who peddles
ice on the Elyria (Ohio) cars, found
$500 III bank notes in a car, and re-
turned the money the next day to the
loser, II. E. Muzzey of Elyria, who re-
warded him with suit of clothes and
a deed of l6O acres of land.
The N. York Journal Of Com
,,erce states that contracts have boon
made in that city for the construction
of small steamer on English account,
to carry cattle between Ireland and
Liverpool The reason given Is, that
We build better steamers here than Ill
England.
The Liverpool Albion gives an ac-
count Of fugitive slave arrived at that
port slowed away in the hold of the
ship Metropolitan, from New Orleans.
He is called Tom Wilson, is As years
old and says he belonged to Mr. Henry
Fustman, cotton presscr, by whom he
was owned seven years.
--Mohammed Pasha, the Turkish
Admiral, arrived at Washington on
Tuesday night, and not being aware
that that is the head quarters of the
Lecompton robbers, was not over care
full as to the safety of his personal
property. He had not been at Wizards
3 Hotel over twenty minutes before his
room was broken open. his trunks ran
sacked, and their contents strewn
about, and his carpet bag cut fairly in
two. Two thousand dollars in gold
and crown set with gems, worth as
much more, were undiscovered by the
thieves.