Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1861-06-08
Pen and Scissors.


The Legislature of Iowa has pass.
a bill to appropriate 81, 900, 900 for mil.
itary purposes.
Virginia is reaping the harvest she
has planted. We guess she won't put
in another crop.
Arkansas has appropriated ST..
900, O00-in bonds, of course--to the
cause of treason.
The city of Berlin is overrun by
millions ofrats. The police has been
called on to interfere.
A large Secession sword factory
in Richmond has been burnt by par.
ties opposing Secession.
An army Of sixty thousand men is
to be concentrated, in Southern Hi
nois under Gen. Mcclellan.
Gen. Seoto, like Marlborough, has
never lost battle. The fear of the re.
bells is that he never will.
"A Post Office has been established
at Fort Pickens, and letters will be ia
ken by Government vessels.
Ten thousand Kentucky women
have petitioned the Legislature of tn at
State to stand by the Union.
The cost Of keeping an army of
1000 men in the field for one year
is estimated at slo6,67s,ooO.
In the Wheeling District, the I'm.
ion candidate has $4,000 majority,
and in the Parkersburg District 90.
900.
In one Maine Volunteer Company
there are thiry-one over six feet in their
stockings. They are called the ''thir.
tyone infants.'
1t is stated that a man in Virgin
ia has given Jeff. Davis a 100000
check. Gen. Scott may give him q
bigger "check" than that.
In Alabama the wheat crop, about
ready to cut, has been struck with the
rust, and there is great scarcity now,
with worse prospect ahead.
The postage stamp of the Confed
crates is trifle larger in size than that
OF the Government, and has in the cen
ter a likeness of Washington.
Recent adyices from CaIiforni;
say, crops are everywhere promising
and the farmers snap their fingers with
glee over the great expectations.
Col. Mansfield inspected the arms
in the navy yard at Washington, and
instead Of the three thousand stand ex
pected, found nearly sixty thousand.
The war demand for cloth to be
used in uniforming government troops
is SO great that the Lowell mills are al
running night and day, Sundays inclu
ded.
The Big Tribune says that the
batteries recently presented to the
Government by ''loyal Americans in
Europe" did not cost the donors less
than $2so,ooo
The Chicago Tribune, strong
Republican paper, strongly recon-
mends the appointment Of a Douglas
Democrat to fill the vacancy created
by the death of Senator Douglas.
The Richmond Wing is convin.
eed Of the general unsoundness Of
Western Virginia on the Southern
Confederacy question, and advocates
letting her go off into State by her.
self.
The Government has information
that powder and caps are in great de.
mand among the rebels, and that for
want of powder they can gain but little
by the immense number of guns they
have stolen.
The people buried the Stars and
Stripes in the public square at Mem
phis the other day by the side of the
statue OF Andrew Jackson, which will
lovingly keep watch over it, till the
resurrection day-for the flag shall be
raised in Tennessee.
A NOBLE WoMAN.-We learn that
in Nashville, Tenn. while secession
banners wave from every other build
mo both nuhlic and nriyate one hero.