Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-01-07
News Items,

- lne lauIeS OF CINCINNATI nave presented
Gen. RosEcRANs with magnificent tea SER
vice. .r.
= The Irish girls of Columbus, Ohio, have
contributed slos5 for TaAa,sdsg.ana ts.aa
- Sergt. PL-SKETT of the Twenty-frst
Massachusetts,, was recently married to Miss
NELLIE LoRINER, of Worcester Sergt. PLUS-
KETT is the gallant soldier who lost both arms
at Fredericksburg while bearing the flag Of
his regiment in 'front.' after six men had been
successfully and Immediately shot down I'M
der its folds.
= The Richmond papers state that there
are 800 cases of small po1 among the Union
prisoners at Danville.
: 1t is stated in dispatches to the Rich
mond papers that Gen. LoSGsTREET has re-
Gently gained some advantages in East Ten
hessee, but is unable to follow them up in
consequence of the large proportion of his
men being bare footed. The rebel army in
East Tennessee has gone into winter quarters
1t is said the rebels have sent an ennis
sary to notify the French Government of the
recognition of the Mexican Empire by JEFF.
DAVIS bogus Confederacy, and to solicit
recognition of the latter in turn by France.
This is an attempt to trade on small capital
&C. EDWARDS LESTER, arrested as spy at
Harpers Ferry last summer, and held in dur
ance there ever since, has been acquitted BY
the Court Martial, no evidence having been
brought against him.
- The Army of the Potomac has finally
settled down, mud bound, into winter quar-
tiers. Cedar Mountain the key to the posi-
ton there is held by our forces. The people
all over that section are in a state of starva-
ton, and daily thronging our camps to pro-
cure provisions, which our commissares are
ordered to sell to them at government prices.
In this way many are relieved, while also
nests of guerrillas are enabled to obtain sup
plies and protract their thieving and murder
ing system.
- Col. STRAIGHT and his Adjutant, Lieut.
REED, recently escaped from Libby prison,
but were re-captured Immediately, their de-
irons and thrown into the dungeon of the
prison.
Great excitement has prevailed at Ca
lais, Me-, in consequence of apprehensions of
raid by the rebel agents and sympathizing
"roughs" at st. Johns.
jenny LIND, it is said, has lost her voice
This is related to have made itself painfully
apparent on the occasion of her singing in
the "Elijah" of Mendelssoln, lately in En-
gland.
The Detroit Free Press furnishes an alb
stract statement of disasters on the lakes,
which have occurred during the navigation of
1868. The number of disasters which took
place the past season numbers somewhat
about $50, an increase over last year of so,
and of the season previous Is. By far the
greater part of them have taken place on the
St. Clair flats, as has been the case in former
years.
The following post offices in this State
have recently been discontinued Erfurth,
Jefferson county; Pine Bluff, Dane county
Postmasters have been appointed as follows
JOHN THAYER, Hammond, st. Croix county
JOHN SICKLEs, Otsego, Columbia county; Ed
ND D. BOSWELL, Wheatland, Kenosha Co.
W. SHERWOOD, Cobb, Qate Simmer,) Iowa
c.unty.
We dont't wish to alarm people, but one
of those everlasting searchers for spots upon
the sun has discovered that the face of that
luminary is as thickly covered with spots as
though it were marked with small pox, suf-
fcient to impair its business capacity for
lighting and warming about one per cent.
A Boston beggar woman, who has here
tofore been contented to received five cent
bit, astonished the editor of the Ereninq Ga
zette, the other day, by returning it with some
disdain, exclaiming: "Why, yer honor, don't
We know everything is riz." AS she was evil
IDENTIFY on her strike he yielded.
"A young lady in Richmond writing to
her friends in Baltimore, says that the gave
ties of society in that city consist chiefly
of what are called " starvation parties" at
which people meet in each others houses,
and have music and dancing, but nothing to
eat or drink