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

Ripe strawberries are now among
the luxuries at New Orleans.
Over i 100000 pounds of copper
is ready for shipment at Ontonagon.
-Tom Marshall has once more left
his cups and is delivering eloquent
temperance lectures:
Col. Benton in his will calls Mrs.
Fremont, s'Jessie Ann Fremont" So
her name is Jessie after all.
The Emperor of the French has
subscribed 10000 francs to the sum
now being raised for Lamartine.
There are 7G companies of troops
comprising about 5000 men, composing
the government forces now in Utah.
A little after 6 o'clock on Saturday
morning last, sensible shock of an
earthquake was felt in Ashtabula, Ohio
The story about the attempted as
sassination of the ''last Bourbon" Rev.
Eleazer Williams at Washington, is
hoax.
-Pennsylvania has resolved to sell
her canals and abolish the canal board,
canal debt, and canal taxes. Sensible
Pennsylvania.
The People of Peoria recently
arose in mob law, sacked number of
houses of ill-fame and destroyed. furni-
ture to the amount of FIVE thousand dol
lars.
AT a recent meeting in st. Louis,
a committee was appointed to consider
and report upon the proposition for
erecting monument to Col. Benton In
that city.
A bill to admit Oregon has already
been reported, and will come up next
an order. At the close of the present
session Of Congress, the Union will en-
brace thirty-four States.
The woman who undertook to
scour the woods, has abandoned the
Job, owing to the high price of soap
The last that we heard of her, she was
slimming the seas.
--Rev. DR.. Taylor of Ouacbita, La,
recently shot refractory negro slave
who drew n knife and attacked the
overseer, and defed his master, while
they were attempting to punish him for
some disdemeanor.
On recent occasion, Cumming,
Sturgeon and Cough, all famous ora
tors, addressed immense audiences at
Brighton, Great Britain. The Brigh-
ton Herald says Cough took the lead in
point of oratory.
There is an old lady in Cambridge,
saws the Chronicle, who in 1920 depos-
tied $40 In the Provident Institution
for savings in that city. In 81 years
this sum, with some small additions,
amounted to 1913 60.
A recent statement of the Metho-
dist Book Concern in New York and
Cincinnati shows their resources to be
about 100000. The profits during
the past year were $66,299, making a
deduction of 33 per cent. for bad debts.
The Lawrence Kansas) Repm6H-
cdaa says: Money is extremely scarce
in the Territory. Business men are
paving rulnOuS rates OF interest lOf SNORT
loans for short time business is dull,
and the times harder than ever before
known in Kansas.
Ten thousand persons went to the
city of Terre Haute, Indiana, on the I'd
inst, to see negro named Todd swing
upon the gallows. The execution was
private, and, therefore, the crowd were
cut out of their anticipated entertain
snent.
The horses which were presented
bv the merchants of Boston to General
Pierce previous to his inauguration as
President of the United States, were
sold ut auction in New Y ork on Fri
day. They brought S545; the mer.
chants paid $500 for them.
In Oregon men get from $40 tc
$3.50 per month in numbering estab
lishments, and from $40 to $50 on farms
Carpenters get from 81 to So per day
Flour from $12 to SIG per Dbl. Bee
from So to Sl5 per 100 lbs. Pork SIC
per 100. Potatoes Sl.25 per bush.