Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1858-05-12
NEWS SUMMARY;

R. X. Swift is about to RECON-
mence business in Chicago.
A British steamer has gone to the
Red Sea to make soundings for line
of Telegraph across it.
Massachusetts has 1900 miles Of
railroads, which cost $50, $40, 1O1.-
They would probably now sell for about
s3O,00O,O0O.
The Grand Rapids, Mich, E1agle
says that the late cold weather has ap-
parently killed all the peach blossoms
In that vicinity.
The Pennsylvania Legislature dur
ing it's late session passed 500 acts, sea-
e1,tee,a being general in their character,
and the rest local.
A paper is about to be started at
Springfield, ILL.,, to be called the Horse
There's Gozette 1t will not be for
but after the thieves.
Virginia appropriated $4,000 to
have the birth place of Washington
and the family vault enclosed. Gov.
Wise will superintend the ceremonies.
The horse and carriage of the May
or of Boston, was seized, a few days
since, by the police, for standing in the
Court Square longer than the law al
lows.
There are at the present time not
less than thousand petitions and bills
before the standing committees of both
houses of Congress which have not
been acted on.
MI. and Mrs. Elijah Newton, of
Ledyard, celebrated the 10th anniver-
sary of their wedding day on the 9th
of March last. They will be 80 years
old in May next.
DO you eat onions? A few grains
of roasted coffee eaten Immediately af-
terward, or tea-spoonful or two of vim
egar swallowed, removes at once the
odor from the breath.
-''Burleigh," the New York cor
respondent of the Boston Journal, pre-
diets that dissolution will soon take
place in the Bible, tract, and other
great national societies.
At a recent session of the Steuben,
Ind, Circuit Court, there were twenty
two cases for divorce on the docket,
all but one of which were dismissed
Served them right
The Board of Managers Of the AL
leghany, Pa, county Agricultural So
cietv, give it as their opinion that the
fruit crop in that region is destroyed by
the recent frosts.
james Dean, young working
man Of Chicago, q short time since was
so unfortunate as to receive a legacy
from an English relative. Last week,
he died from the effects of dissipation.
The trial of Walker for violation
of the neutrality laws has been post
poncd until the fourth Monday in May.
Some of his officers have been surrcn-
dered by the sureties and gone TO pris-
on.
The government is trying to make
an Artesian well on one Of the deserts
on the route to California One thous-
and and forty feet Of drpth have al
ready been reached, but no water as
yet.
1t is a singular fact that while one
ira Stout is being tried i'll X ,chester for
\ brutal murder, another Ira Stout is
bcin.s tried in St. Louis for attempting
to kill police officer. 1t is a singular
coincidence truly.
-Rozina's celebrated French ballet
troupe, 40 in number, recently went
from New Orleans to New York by the
way Of the Mississippi river, Illinois
Central, Michigan Central, &c. Their
fare was about $4,000.
May McCarty, who has filed
considerable Of space In Chicago his
tory, not much to her own credit, nor
that of the city, was married on Wednes-
day evening to a man named Van
Cleve. and has gone to reside i'll Iowa.
Those who are green enough to
suppose that Slavery is not q Divine
Institution, are invited to notice that
the Virginia Legislature. among other
sacred things to be exempted from ex
ecution, has bible, prayer book and
one negro.
Gen. Lane has received an offer
from Boston to deliver series Of lee
lures on Kansas through the Free State,
for $50 per night, for 6 months. The
design was to take him out of Kansas
during the Senatorial contest, but Jim
declined, declaring he had, just now,
more important business.