Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-08-11
NEWS SUMMARY.

" iva" wig 'i'iS fo2 po"puo'
Winter wheat has yielded well in
Kansas, but spring wheat has proved a
failure.
The first appearance Of the "sea
serpent this season, has been at New
buryport, Mass.
Tom Corwin is stamping Ohio for
the Republican cause. lie will prob
ably be nominated for Congress.
The Emperor of France has pro-
posed that the debts of NJ de Lamar
tine should be paid by the nation.
Tho fare between Boston and New
York, via Norwich, Stonington and
Fall River, is reduced from So to SO.
Hon. John Slidell of Louisiana, has
been sojourning at Chicago. His pres
ence bodies no good to the Douglasites.
An explosion of fireworks took
place in building in London, where
such works were extensively prepared
Nearly twelve hundred thousand
copies Of Webster's Spelling Book
were sold by one firm in Boston last
year.
Mrs. Cunningham denies the ru-
NOR of her marriage to J. j. Eckel.-
She says he has not visited her since
the trial.
There are nineteen flour mills at
st. Louis, which turn out daily about
5000 barrels of flour making l,80O,-
900 per year.
English, the author of the English
Compromise, has been re-nominated for
Congress by his constituents of the ID
district, Indiana.
DR. Hayes is receiving encourage
mcnt for his proposed Arctic expedi-
ton, and it is said that it will certainly
be undertaken.
The Clonmcl UrelanD Chronicle
states that the blight has made its APP
pearance among the potatoes in several
; places in that locality.
The largest snow peak, remaining
on any of the White Mountains peaks,
is upon Mount Madison, the most north
ern summit in the range.
The New York Herald says
The new type setting and distributing
machine is Il great invention, but will
never come into general use.
-IIodges' Journal Of Finance, for
July -, 1853, reports spurious IS on
,hc Bank of Milwaukee. Vignette, sail.
or holding flag, shipping DC.
The plague has re-appeared in Tur.
key, and by the latest advices was ru-
mored at Constantinoplc. OF course
it creates great CONSERVATION.
Emma Evans, of New York, aged
Il, died from fright Monday-a servant
in the family having sprang out Of a
side room after dark. She died almost
instantly.
A farmer of Chattooga county,
Georgia, warns the public against feed
ing cattle with green Chinese sugar
cane. 1t will kill COW, he says, in
thirty minutes.
The residence Of Gen. Harrison,
at West Bend, Ohio, the original Log
Cabin, was recently destroyed by fire,
which it is supposed was set by one of
the servant girs.
The Publisher Of the Z" Way Of L:fe
the new revival paper at New York
which recently broke down, has been
arrested for obtaining printing paper
on false pretense.
The Minnesota Assembly have
passed n law fixing the rate of interest
at fifteen per cent. per annum on mon
cy 1t is thought the Senate viM stick
for eighteen per cent
A little boy of New York, who
had been missing some days was found
dead in a chest, into which it is sup
posed he had crawlcd, the lid closing
down with SPRING lock.
Some $4,000 worth of sugars
from Cuba, were recently seized at
New York and Boston, by the Custom
House authorities, for under valuation
by those who shipped it at Cuba
-Rcv. I. S. Kalloch, VINO has been
trying the practice Of the law in Kan
sas, has accepted the passionate OF the
fremont Temple Baptist Church, Bos-
ton, to which he was called by vote
Of rs out of S3 cast.
The ladies of Bourbon County,
Kansas, have presented Captain Mont
gomery with a splendid suit Of clothes
in testimony of their appreciation OF
his defence OF them against the border
ruffians of Missouri.
THE increase of female writer's of
the first rank is one of the most marked
features of the times. No less than
four Of the learned papers in late
number Of one Of the venerable Guar
terlies were written by females.
The death of Gen. Quitman is at
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