Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-01-14

the earth than 1t has been before for tifEy
years,
The mills at Menomonee, Mich, have
manufactured 35, ,a95 900 feet of lumber the
past season.
There have been 225,032, 900 francs
spent by the French government since 1852
in beautifyine Paris.
He on. Samuel S. Rowden, United State:
Senator from Virginia, died at Washington
] on Saturday last, Of small pox
Elisha Kilborn, of Winsted, Connecticut,
Is years of age, and teethless these 30 years,
is now cutting new set of teeth.
Gov. Sprague has purchased thirty
three thousand dollar house in Washington
for Mrs. Gov. Sprague to live in.
The "Great Eastern" is advertised TO be
sold at auction at Liverpool on the I4th of
January next to satisfy mortgage.
Blockade running is active at Whining
ton, \. G. Twcnty-thrcc vessels arrived at
that port within one night recently.
Sir William Armstrong is making a 200
pound gun for the English Government, the
cost of which viii probably be $40, 900.
The La Crosse Jouraal, edited by Dr.
Blakeslee, and Pomeroy's paper, the Demo-
cTaf, are consolidated in the hands Of the
latter
Paris is to be lighted by balloons, whose
ears are to give forth AL electric light There
is to be one balloon for each 50, 00O people in
the city
The Soldiers relief Bazaar. of Boston will
pay over sl4G, 900 to the Sanitary Commission.
What magnificent illustration Of patriotic
l5eraity!
-Awitty doctor says that tight lacing is a
public benefit iuasn@ch as it kills of all the
foolish girls and leaves the wise ones to grow
up together.
The Richmond Ltquirer says that no
negro soldiers have been or will be taken
prisoners in this war. No quarter is to be
shown them.
1t is asserted that 500, 900 bales of cotton
held by planters in Texas, will, in consequence
OF Gen. Banks operations. soon be brought
into market.
Gen. Joe johnson, on the 2Sth inst, as
sumed command of the rebel Army Of Ten
ncssee, displacing Hardee, who temporarily
superseded Bragg.
-Trappcrs sell mink tracks in Minnesota.
fair track sells for a dollar The pur-
chaser of one caught weazcl instead Of a
mink the other day.
-Hccnap and King have been arrested and
brought before a magistrate for breaking the
peace and both were bound oyer to appear at
the Quarter Sessions.
In a recent speech at Omaha, Nebraska,
George Francis Train declared himself
''thc best played out man in the country.
Train is really getting sensible.
1t has transpired in official circles, that al
though at one time named for the place, Gc,l-
eral Rosccrans has not and will not now be
ordered to the command of the department
of the Missouri.
"A man has counted the different words
used by different authors. Aoliere used s, $3.50;
Cornielle 1000; Shakespeare $4,000; Noltaire
and Goethe 10000; Paradise Lost 5000, and
the Old Testament 4,6I2
Six hundred and six negnoes drew prizes
in the recent draft in Baltimore, being twen-
| ty per cent. Of the whole number Of able bod
led coloreA males in the city. That don't
look like "sparing the niger
There is child in Lyme, Connecticut,
who has lived several months under the incu-
bus of the name of Jefferson Davis Beaure-
gard Jesse D. Bright Bh!. It's parents ought
to be convicted Of jufanticide.
Since Quantrelrs raid, only three mo2ths
ago, about one hundred and fifty houses have
been erected in Lawrence, the best bridge in
The State has been built, and other improve
ments commenced, which we're not thought OF
| before.
The National Union League has in exist
enee above 4, 500 councils of that order in
the loyal States, with membership Of over
! $50, 600 in number. Wisconsin has over 200
councils and $4,000 members and Illinois
| lac, 900
A new church has beea built at San
Francisco for 7. Starr KipS at cost of 500,
600 There is a debt OF $4,000 uptn it, and
Mr.. King has told the congregation that he
Will not preach in the new church until the
! debt is paid-s
The brave Irish patriot who endured 50
MUCH in Libby Prison year or two ago, Gen
! Michael Corcoran, was killed recently by be
| ing thrown from horse at Fairfax, Va HI:
skull was fractured lie was ope Of the no
DE heroes Of this var.
1t is not ONLY remarkable but encGUrag gine
| that IL the recent organization Of the house:
of congress it WAS the first tiue since the al
m;nistralion of Jackson that the last eongres:
of any administration has been organized
favorably to the party in power.
Samuel F. Weston, La Crosse, tos nan!
wears past one of the most prominent luulber
men III Wisconsin, died at Weston's Rapids
in Clark county, On Menday evening, at L
O'Clock, after short and painful illness. hF
Weston was about 50 years of age.
Work on the Beioit and Madison rail
road is progressing as fast as the weather vii
permit. Timber is being drawn fer the bnigt
across the lake at Madison, and the grading
along Tic nne Is reaFIr .eHmniatnl IL WI