Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-10-20
News Paragraphs.

News Paragraphs.
The contract for dead horses in the Federal
army has just been let for $4,000.
The Count de Paris was married to Isabella
Of Spain, at Kingston, on 30th ult
New Jersey expects to raise more peaches
this year than ever before.
Louis Napoleon wants his cousin, Cardin al
Bonaparte, to be Pope when Plus IL dies.
California sends $4,000 in gold to the
Christian Commission.
The International Hotel at Niagara Falls
has been sold for $4,000.
The daily attendance upon the Philadelphia
Sanitary Fair averages about 10000.
The senior class of Illinois College having
enlisted as hundred-day men, the commence
ment exercises are necessarily omitted.
The graduating class at West Point, this
year, entered with ninety-six members, and
graduates with +wentv-seven, the result of
rigid wedding ut"
The Rard Neac Yorker advises the women
to wet the broom often when sweeping car
pet, so as to keep down the dust. Don't YOU
do 1t. Two or three such sweepincs will
fade carpet more than year of sunshine
The Albany Argts announces that Cover
nor Seymour "desires, above all things to
seek, at the close of his arduous administra-
ton, the repose of private lifen 'No obiec-
ton being raised, the motion is carried"
Among the Royal collections at Windsor
a map has been discovered, which has on it
the earliest known instance of the word
America. 1t is a mappemonde, or map of
the world, by Leonardo da Vinci.
A +bo DocJ COW, NJ, rL,,o ,,,oo.
amendments to the tax bill which will add
tax of 81 on whiskey and 10 per cent. on
incomes.
The Memorial Diplomatiqae says the proba-
BILE result of negotiations will be that Hol-
stein and southern Schleswig will be de-
tached from Denmark and united to Ger
many, and northern Schleswig Incorporated
perpetualiy with Denmark.
One of the most extraordinary sensations
is ballet-dancer (male) with one leg only,
who is nightly bringing the house down"
at the Josefstadter Theatre, in Vienna. The
phenomenon's name is Donate, and Italy is
his native place.
The Commercials special says the Circuit
Court has given final decision to the effect
that bankers are not obliged to pay out spe
Gle when specie has been deposited, even Tor
deposits made prior to the law of June 18th,
1852.
A discovery has been made in the art of
lce-maklng by Londoner, which has been
put into patent, and will soon figure as
| company. The inventor will out-sell nature,
his artificial ice being so cheap that it will be
less costly to make than to lay in store in
winter. -
The Heratd'S correspondent says Sherman's
losses have amounted to 10000 wounded,
all of whom have been taken to Nashville and
Louisville. The numerical strength of the
army has not been reduced, but has increased
from the time it left Chattanooga, and it is
believed he is many thousand stronger now
than at Resaca.
The daughter of wealthy Fifth Avenue
man in New York, 20 years old and pretty,
| eloped with young man of rather weak in
| tellect and only seventeen, last week. She
| insisted on having the matter done up by
elopement, and the swain consented. But he
is in trouble now, as he cannot support him
self, much less his wife, whose angry pate,
| fansilias don't give her cent.
| A special to the Tribune says: 1t appears
that it was Gen. Wadsworth's intention, at
| the close of the war, to pay over sum of
money equal in amount to that he received
| from the Government to some permanent in
stitutlon founded for the relief of disabled
soldiers. "This," he said, els the least in
vidious way in which I can refund pay for
| fighting for my country in her hour of dark
ness"
The 130th Ohio, one hundred day troops,
having in its ranks lawyers, clergymen and
others of the best men in the State, ON Sat-
urday voted unanimously to 60 to the front.
| They then marched to the White House and
| had an interview with the President, who
addressed them, and thanking them for their
prompt response said, "Wherever you go I
know you will do your best"
| The Posts Baltimore correspondent says
the Blairs have been beaten in getting up the
| electoral ticket. The electoral convention
| had one majority anti-Blair and admitted the
| anti-Blair contested delegation, thus securing
| an ant-Blar Lincoln electoral ticket. Mean
| time the Fremont men are moving, and will
| put tFeir electoral ticket in the field at the
| proper time. The free constitutional con-
vention has got through the whole forty-two
| articles Of the bill of rights, having the par
amount allegiance and abolition of slavery
articles yet to act on. These will occupy
two weeks of debate.
About Gen. Schurz.
| Some time since copperhead paper in this
| State-the Milwaukee Neacs if our memory is
not at fault-originated an item to the effect
that Maj. Gen. CARL ScHURz was in command
of convalescent camp at Nashville, and that
| his predecessor was a Captain. This item