Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-05-19
II EWS SUMMARY.

hAA-hNNii III liic I. -. senate.
Miss Helen Cunningham, of Bur
deu hotoriety, was married last week,
to a young New York dentist.
-Snow fell for two hours at Norfnls
on Tuesday, and on the same dav thew
were shipping green peas to Baltimore.
-F'orney, Of the Philadelphia Press
calls the day on which the Enolisb
Compromise passed dark and fatal
Friday.
Norman kittson, democrat, has
been elected Mayor of St. Paul, BY a
vote of 1888 to 1916 for Moses Sier-
burne, peoples candidate.
1t is said at Washington. that Mr.
Sickles of New York will be sent to
Spain II any way Of getting rid of Mr..
Dodge can be found
Last year at this time, Galena DO
tatoes, brought i'll St. Louis 50 per bush
lei. They are now selling at % cents
so says the Galena Cosricr.
--Apprehensions are felt in Southern
States that the unusual freshets of the
season will breed yellow fever. and 9th
er diseases i'll violence this summer.
The Chicago Tribune saws bust
ness is certainly reviving, but with rath-
er deliberate and grim tread. Easy
times, it thinks, will not return this
year.
In Franklin county, Maine, dis
tant about sixty miles from Portland,
the snow lay foot deep last week, and
farmers came to the courthouse in their
slcighs
The Pittsburgh Gazette of the Goth
ult., says, tie. frat crop as killed an that
reg5o'1-peaches, pears, plums and cher
rles entirely, and apples, gooscberries
and grapes in part.
The Bank Of Central New York.
Utica, has resumed business. Its bills
are redeemed at the Metropolitan Bank.
n. Y, on the same terms as the other
State currency.
-Lamartine's debts are said to be
! 100000. A man who has such a
sublime genius for getting into debt,
ought to be Incorporated into an insti-
tuition Of some kind.
Governor Wise, of Virginia, OBJ
poses the last dodge Of the Lecompton
ties. Governor Packer, of Pennsylva-
MA, regards it as even more atrocious
than the Senate bill.
The Bedford, Wa.) Democrat SAYS
that Judge Douglas, in fact, may now
be considered politically dead, so far
as his connection with the Democratic
party is concerned"
1t is stated in the n. Y. Times
that Mr.. Vanderbilt receives $50, 900 4
month for withdrawing his opposition
to the steamboat line between New
I ork and San Francisco.
Vice President Breckenridge is cx-
pected at Paririe du CHEN in July
He has some property there, and it is
expected that he will improve it by
putting MP some buildings
"A Chicago News Boy found at the
5. NJ. depot, a pocket book containing
money and other valuable contents, for
which he wants to find the owner. He
is an honor to the profession.
The Des Jardin's Bridge disaster
has already cost the Great Western
Railway over one hundred and sixty
two thousand dollars, and there are
still three or four unsettled cases.
"A correspondent writes that while
travelling at the South, he attended a
negro meeting, where the sable preach
er offered an earnest prayer for ode
white element in our population"
Canal boats are now towed from
Troy to Albany for so cents. Last
year the price was SO. Boats are now
lowed from Albany to New York for
s.. Last year the prices were SIS and
$40.
Judge Shaw, Of Mass, has decid-
ed that the keeping of Intoxicating IL
quors contrary to law, is a nuisance, and
that individuals have right to abate
it. a case has just been decided at
Rockport, Mass, under that ruling.
-Archdeacon Jehries, missionary
in the East Indies, states that for one
really converted Christian as the fruit
Of the missionary labor, the drinking
practice Of the English have made full
" one thousand. drunkards in India. =
Appropriations before Congress to I
constitute ourselves a protectorate over
Mexico, is under discussion The Ma
tional LatelIigc3acer gravely queries
whether we have manifested such sound
wisdom in governing ourselves as war-.
rants us in seeking to govern other
people.
The Prince Of Wales is travelling
in Ireland incog. He is weakly in con
stitution, somewhat puny in appearance
and deficient in hight Prince Alfred
is taller, more robust, and much more
liked. The brothers have the reputa-
ton of fighting with each other until it
was found necessary to separate them
altogether.
A TRAVELLERS IDEA OF WIScoSsIS.