Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1861-08-10
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The Diarrhpa with Variations.

Journal, probably exhausts the subject
of the sudden illness of Gen. Price, at
Boonville.
AT the latest dates from Missouri
Gen. Price had disappeared. The Sc
cessionists were without money and
without Price.
Gen. Lyon didn't get his grippe up
on Gen. Price at Boonville, but the
diarrhea did.
Gen. Price undertook to quiet Mis-
souri's intestine commotions, but only
increased his own.
Gen. Price may pass as a respect
able man, but we have heard of his
STOPPING to low business.
Gen. Price was lately pretty pop
ular, but at Boonville he got into bad
| odor.
General Price expected to accom-
plish great things in the war, but .he
was thoroughly "cleaned OUT during
| the first battle.
The Atlanta Confederacy says
that the Harper's Ferry evacuation was
an adroit military manevre. We Won
der if General Prices wasn't an adroit-
er one.
Gen. Price showed himself bad
General at Boonville. He made an
improper exposure of his most import
ant battery.
Different sorts of powders operate
upon the human system with different
degree of power. Gen. Price says
that the most potent is gunpowder-
he found the bare smell Of it enough.
Some have called Gen. Price
lazy man, but there's really good deal
Of work in him.
Gen. Lyon is man Of stern dis
cipline, but Gen. Price is remarkable
only for his laxity.
Many thought that there was
nothing in Gen. Price, but at Boonville
he manifested very considerable out
come.
Among the great fertilizers of the
soil are lime, mari, guano, and General
Price.
1t is thought that Gen. Price will
soon be caught. The U. S. troops
arc Oh the scent of him.
Gen. Price at Boonville had a
number of passages-at arms.
Gen. Prices headquarters at
Boonville cut comparatively an insig-
ni6cant figure.
"A Missouri paper thinks that Gen.
Price is bound down the Mississippi
He certainly seems not to be ''bound
up"
1t is said that Gen. Price fell off
in weight just one half during the bat
tie of Boonville.
The affair at Boonville shows the
Importance Of Gen. Prices resorting
to a stringent policy.
Gen. Price erected at Boonville a
very appropriate monument to his own
fame ;he ought to have been buried
under it.
When Gen. Price approached the
edge Of the battle, his chivalry burst
in full flower; he left the flower behind
him as memorial.
Gen. Prices friends conclude that
fighting didn't agree with him.
Gen. Prices system of warfare is
really worse than skunk's.
Gen. Price has been good while
in service. At Boonville he was relicv-
ed.
Gen. Price appreciates true glory.
When he approached the field Of bat
tie and fame, he said bravely to him
self, "here let me lay.''
Gen. Price made display of con-
siderable speed at Boonville, but a
good deal more bottom.
Let those who may visit the field
of Gen. Prices glory be careful whore
they tread.
Very little execution was done up
on the Federal troops at Boonviile,
though Gen. Price tried the expert
ment of brisk fire in the rear.
"A telegraphic despatch says re-
ward of FIVE cents is offered for Pryor
and Wigfall. Whoever catches Gen.
Price will get reward of more than
five cents.
Every hero lays his offering upon
the shrine Of the god of war. Gener-
!, al Price reverentially performed that
duty at Boonville.
Gen. Price can never be forgot
ten. His name will be,
, A thing of beauty and a smell forever.
: Gen. Price is no doubt remarkable
for his industry, but even he must have
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