Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-01-21
Pen and Scissors.

: brigham Young has just taken a .. new
: wife. She is No. 81.
"A woman in Berlin has for the seventh
time given birth to twins
The receipts of the Sanitary Fair at Gin
cinnati exceeded s2OO,OOO
The President has appointed Hon. j. D
Doty, of this state, Governor of Utah.
The death of William Makepeace Thack
cray is announced 10 late foreign dates.
--Governor Bradford of Maryland, recon
mends the speedy abolition Of slavery in thai
State.
The New York Times says Morrissey ha:
won $4,000 on the fight between Heenan
and King
A secret expedition has left New Or
leans, Mobile is conjectured as its ultimate
destination.
Among the novelties of trade is the re-
ceipt Of tobacco in the New Orleans market
from Connecticut,
Bills are to be reported at the present
Congress to bring Utah, Nebraska and Col
orado into the Union as States
Woman is the river, which is lost if it
miss the sea. Man is the sea, which if it
reach the river, is the sea still.
-Colonels Howe and Bragg have been rec
commended by the entire Wisconsin delega-
tion in Congress Tor promotion.
Lutte A. Taylor has been appointed Q. S.
Assessor for the eth Congressional district
IN the place Of James B. Gray, deceased
The New Haven papers are to increa Sc
their advertising rates for the present year
thirty three ard third per cent.
Since rebels refuse further exchange of
our prisoners, Gen. Butler proposes to 90 to
Richmond and take them if Halleck will let
him.
| There is place in New Brunswick called
| "Skedaddlers Ridge" 1t is where some fifty
towards have gone to avoid wearing uni
forms.
A resolution has recently passed the
| North Carolina Senate, increasing the pay of
members to Sl2 per day-equal to less than
81 in gold
A Naples letter says that nearly $4,000
bales of cotton have been grown this year in
Southern Italy, including Sicily. 1t is the
Siam variety.
According to the army register thermom-
etor at Fort Sne1ling, Minnesota, the tempe
rature there on New Years day, was fifty de-
grees below zero.
Speaker Colfax has issued an order for
bidding the sale of liquor in the house wing
of the capitol. The members are bad enough
without the help of whiskey
| A year ago gold was quoted at 81, 10 in
New York and so in Richmond Now it
sells at Sl.5l in the former and at $40 in the
later The statement bears its own comment.
The copperhead and rebel journals are
equally bitter in their denunciation of Pres
idcnt Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnestv-a
sure sign that the document is what it should
be.
| The Stetssns, of Astor House, New York,
lately sent in bill to the New York Alder
men of $50 ,OOe for dinners furnished to re-
turned soldiers and s6,75O for Russian din
ner.
Mobile papers say the Legislature of Ala
bama voted that the beautiful carpets that
cover the floors of the Capitol be cut up and
given to the soldiers of the army for blan-
kets.
abandoned his editorial duties for an absence
of four or five months down the Mississippi, to
New Orleans, Cuba, and so around to New
York.
A correspondent says that raw cotton
and castor oil have restored frost t-bitten limbs
when amputation was thought necessary to
preserve life He adds that the cure is infal-
lible.
The Richmond Wing is credited with
having recently Slavery has stabbed
itself to death 1t has sinned against the
must die"
Of the whole number of men held to
service under the first draft, about one-seventh
served in person, two-sevenths served by SUBJ
stitute, and four-sevenths paid the commuta-
tion money.
1T has been ascertained that the War
Department has no authority under existing
laws to enroll slaves for military service, and
an act to remedy this defect will probably be
introduced and passed.
William H. Graham, proprietor Of Ora
hams Magazine, of Philadelphia, which subse-
ouentlv passed into the hands of his brother,
George r. Graham, died in New York last
week, of intemperance and exposure.
Vermont has the honor of leading her
sister states in furnishing her full quota on
the last call and has plenty of volunteers to
spare. Dent our copperhead friends wish
the Green Mountain State were really 'lefs
out in the cold"
A prominent lady at Memphis lost her
!, husband 27 months ago. and the other day
gave birth to three boys. Col. Pat Rich
ardson says: That is right, three times miat
makes just 27! Bully for you, Pat; you,
mathematics is sound.
The farmers in southern Illinois have beer
busily engaged for some weeks past in cotton
t picking On high grounds the crop is little