Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1860-12-22
Pen and Scissors.

The Champion Belt hes been given up.
There are three daily papers pub
lished at Pixies Peak.
Typhoid fever is committing sad
havoc in western New York.
Hon. Phillip T. Thomas has been
appointed and confirmed Secretary of
the Treasury.
An old woman ran away last week
from her fourth husband, at New Or
leans, with q lad of II.
The Wausau Central, says the
wells in that region are all drying up,
and no one is able to account for it.
II Lindeman, one Of the Republi-
can electors, has been appointed mes
senger to carry the vote to Washing
| ton.
The population ofthe United States
and Territories is 100000. The
ratio of representation will, therefore,
be about 1872 ,O0O
Holland has made arrangements
for the emancipation Of al the slaves
in the Dutch colonies, on the principle
of English emancipation.
"A heavy snow storm occurred at
Richmond, Va, on Saturday. Snow
fell TO such depth IS to interfere with
! the running Of the trains.
/! 1t is expected that the bill for The
admission Of Kansas into the Union as
q State vii pass both Houses Of Con-
Gs;c@@Hss this week, and become law.
| -Thero is bill before the Georgia
Legislature fning any Georgian $4,000
who shall sell bale Of cotton to any
one north Of tIason and Dixor's line.
1t is said that leading secessionists
st Charleston favor monarchical form
Of government. This is creating an
excitement among the rural Democ-
racy.
"A train boy, named Hadson, was
arrested in Chicago, Dee. 4th, for ROB-
bing the mails. Nearly $1,000 iii
notes and drafts was found On his
person.
The effort to raise an army in
South Carolina is likely to fail for want
Of priyates. There is hardly man
wiling to accept a position lower than
Colonel.
The St. Louis Democrat of the ,eth
inst. relates horrible case ofMhippin5,
tarring and featheling practiced in Mis-
sissippi upon a gentleman from Juneau
county, Wisconsin.
| President Buchanan has issued
proclamation, recommending the 4th
day Of January as a day Of fasting and
prayer, to be observed by tie people
Of the United States.
The Court Ct Queens Bench, in
session at Toronto, las decided in fay
or Of giving up Anderson, the fugitive
slave, to the L. S. authorities. The
case he's been appealed.
It has been suggested that in re-
spect to secession, the President holds
the same position as the great Stebbins
did on the Maine law. ole was in ia
yor Of the law, but 0gi1e the execution
gf Il"
, Jack Min, says the Portage City
Record, has invented d bedstcad at
t&ched by strings and levers to an
alarm clock, which will at any desired
t hour light a lamp and pitch the occu-
pant upon the floor if he don't get up
quick.
, "A rumor prevails at Washington
J that Que Of the members CT the Cabi-
net recently sold, privately, one hun
drcd and fifty thousand muskets at
$3.50 each, on European account,
whereas their value at auction is said
to be at least So.
A little daughter Of Mr. Robert
Maddox, living near 1T. Carmel, Ind,
was sent into the cellar to draw some
cider, aud while in the act the faucet
came out, which so frightened her that
she ran to an upper room, and fell and
: expired almost Immediately.
TIE NAME OF TIE new CoEFEDE-
RAcT.-South Carolina papers are dis