Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-02-11
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entered the Schleswig army as a volunteer
and private.
One hundred thousand acres of homestead
lands were taken up in Nebraska during the
month Of December.
Government officers are to be required by
law to write legibly. Salutary movement;
bad writing is a crime
The Hartford Post, formerly Democratic,
dominates Abraham Lincoln for President,
and William A. Buckingham for Governor.
The knitting mills at Seneca Falls, n. Y,
now turn out ten thousand pairs of army hose
a day.
Some pathologists claim that diptheria has
been occasioned by the Introduction and use
of kerosene oil.
In Nevada, artesian wells are bored hori-
zontaily into mountain Sides; instead of per-
pendicularly into the ground. Several valu-
able ''veins" have been struck.
The New Orleans Bee says that serious APP
prehensions are felt lest the recent cold
weather may kill the orange trees throughout
the State.
Bisop Simpson, of the Methodist Church,
has started at Nashville, Tennessee, the mis-
sion work recently authorized by the Mission
AIRY Society of that church.
A Des Moines, Iowa, dispatch says the Re-
publican State Convention, to be held on the
22d of February, will be unanimous for the
denomination of President Lincoln.
The distance to Virginia City, in the mining
region of Idaho Territory, is 900 miles from
Atchison, Kansas, which is $50 miles from st.
Paul, Minnesota.
There were only seven votes in tie California
C1,f,,, IL,
the reelection of President Lincoln. The
Democratic force is thirteen.
Since July last, between one hundred and
thirty and one hundred and forty heavy guns
have been landed on Morris Island, Charleston
harbor. One of the guns weighed 27,555
pounds.
The Michigan legislature proposes to appro-
pirate IS, 500 towards laying out and beauti-
flying that part of the Gettysburg Cemetery
allotted to that State.
There is a family at Midway, Mass, con-
sisting of eleven members, into which death
has never entered. The father is 90 years
old, the mother 80, one child IS, another 43,
and their united ages are CSC years.
The Democracy of Ohio are in bad way.
Their organ-the Ohio States1nan-has given
out and passed into the hands of the Peter
Funks. Its recent conductor has left it in
disgust, and it is now being run by an "asso-
citation"
An old German died last month at Indian
apolis, first informing his minor son that
sum of money had been buried by him in
smokehouse. A search led to the discovery
OF 81 400 in gold and silver coin, which had
been buried four years.
The antiquarian society of France has elect
ed NJ. Renan, the much criticised author of
the Life of Christ, as its President for 1864
He obtained sixteen votes out of twenty-sev-
en-, while eleven blank bulletins protested
against the choice made.
The blockade runner is not very popular
with the Southern press. The Richmond
EI0n15saer says that he swears faith to both
sides and keeps faith with neither-''sings
Yankee Doodle through one nostril. and Ny
Maryland through the other"
The University of Michigan, at Ann Ar
Dor, Mich, catalogues 500 students, distribut-
ed as follows: Department of science, itera-
ture and the arts, sos; department of medi-
cine and surgery, $50; department of law, 2lS.
William J. Gordon, a leading merchant OF
Cleveland, has placed in the hands of three
trustees, the sum of $4,000, for the benefit OF
the widows and children of officers and sol
diers who, from the city of Cleveland, during
the present war, have lost their lives in the
service of their country.
A Louisville man put some 81, 500 in green
backs in the chimney of his sittingroom,
thinking it would be safe from robbers there.
His wife, in a fit of wifely tenderness and
feminine thoughtlessness, kindled a fire so as
to give her lord and master CHEEKY welcome,
and the greenbacks were burned up.
British soldiers have a trick of crossing
over from Canada, enlisting in Union regi-
ments, and then retiring again to the thither
side of the st. Lawrence with pockets full of
greenbacks. One of the Provincial papers
talks of the "pluck" and enterprise of
such fellows
The convention of the friends of freedom
residing in the slave States, originally called
for the Sth of January, it is now definitely
announced, will be held at Louisville, KY, on
the 22d of February, the time having been
changed in order to permit a more cordial
understanding between those who concur in
the necessity of adopting freedom policy.
At Gettysburg %, 900 muskets were taken.
Of these, "a, 900 were found to be loaded,
10000 containing two loads, and 5000 from
half dozen balls were driven i'll on a single
charge of powder In some cases the for
mer possessors had reversed the usual order,
placing the ball at the bottom of the barrel
and the powder on top.
GEN. ANDERSON, of Fort Sumter fame, is in
New York, and his health is very poor. He
has in his possession the old flag, which he
keeps by permission of the Government. 1t
will be ready for use again when wanted.
This flag was not flying on the day of the sur
render, and it was nothing but a small
streamer which was hauled down to the reb-
els. Gen. Anderson has this also in his pos
session.
An officer on board the iron clad Nantuck-
ct, at Port Royal January Is for repairs,
writes as follows: eve are now high and
dry on the beach, cleaning the ships bottom
which presents to the novice curious sight
The oysters, barnacles and grass form solid
coating of one inch in thickness. The oysters
are full three inches in length and make a
nice stew. | have eaten one from them"
The workmen on the Pacific railroad, east
ern division, on New Years day got up an
agreement, which has been unanimously sign
ed, pledging that for every profane word ut
tered during the year 1864 they would pay
one dollar for the benefit of the Soldiers Aid
Fund.
Legally, an ed tor in Austria must be man
. in good health. The editor of Czechian
paper having lately proved, by professional
evidence, that an organic disease would pre-,
vent his going to prison, and atoning for the
sins Of his insolent pen, the court decided
| that he should not be recognized any longer
as a responsible gero,at.
A Frankfort (Ky.) correspondent of the
Cincinnati Gazette says that the subject of ed
ucation is receiving marked attention from
the Legislature of that State. As proving
that teachers as we'll as pupils need to be
looked after, the writer mentions the fact