Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1861-03-02
Pen and Scissors.
A solitary secession candidate has
been elected in Tennessee.

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dentists for plugging teeth. ;
-Heenan, the Benecia Boy, has gone
into business In New Orleans.
Twelve slavers were captured last
year, and 5000 negroes rescued.
The number of A merican clergy
men is not far from thirty thousand.
Snow fell in some parts of Alaba-
ma recently to the depth of five inches.
The bill repeating the township
school library law of this State is now
in effect.
jacob Rogers, Ex-Treasurer Of
Juneau Co., has been arrested for en-
bezzlement
The Independent says not single |
valentine was mailed in Elkhorn. Sen
sible people there.
The New York Legislature has
passed a bill appropriating $4,000 for
the relet OF Kansas.
Letters from England say that
there are no hopes Of the recovery Of
Florence Nightingale.
-Thurlow Weed was appointed a
commissioner to Washington from
New York, but declined to act.
General Tom Thumb is exhibiting
at different towns in Pennsylvania
Last week he was at Harrisburg.
Jenny Lind Goldschmidt, on the
{ 9th inst. while in England, presented
) DR.. Goldschmidt with another son.
Ia Boston, since females have com
menced the practice Of medicine, the
health Of young men has been very
delicate.
The time for the sale of lands for
delinquent taxes has been extended
from April to May, by act Of the Leg
isluture.
e One Of the tunnels on the Balti-
: more and Ohio Railroad is lined
, throughout with cast iron ana lighted
with gas.
-~The Mississippi State Convention
ordered fifty per cent on the State tax
for this year, to be levied and collected
Immediately.
l. THE Waushara Co. people are talk
i ing about dividing the County, to at
tAch half to Green Lake Co., and hal
+ t. Adams Co.
J. New Workers conduct their public
] worship with more pomp, circumstance
J. and extravaganza than any other PEG
: pie in the world.
:. Mrs. Julia Howard, a resident 0
l. GLASGOW, Scotland, gave birth recently
: to pair of twins, in the seventy nintI
year Of her age.
"A piece Of land was recently solo
in London at the rate Of 81, 900, 900 pc
acre, sufficient to cover it with silve
, exual to half dollar.
r. Charles Lever, the novelist, i
g. coming to Amcrica--the continent i
-, getting rather to hot for him. He think
~ the Atlantic should divide him and hi
baiiffs.
There are about one hundred Bap
s. fist ministers in Ohio without a paste
d rial charge, while the churches desti
~ tute of parsons somewhat exceed tha
,e number.
-The Lake House, at Bay field, il
TX this State, was burned down fey
OF weeks since This hotel was one of th
best on Lake Superior, and cost abou
i. $4,000.
2 1t is stated that Friedrich P. Stan
j. ton, Marcus j. PARROT, and Ex-Gover
]: nor Walker, have gone to Kansas, t,
al make canvass of the new State, TO
.. I. S. senatorship.
Y, An honest charwoman, Will
&c cleaning the Capitol at Washington o
{, Tuesday found pocket book contain
20 ing $4,000, which was promptly re
,e turned to the owEer.
I'd The crisis will be the making c
- the manufactur ers of arms Colts al
Il mory at Hartford, turns out 800 pistol
" per day, and 500 revolving rifles pc
III month, yet cannot keep up with the dc
le mand.