Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-09-15
News Paragraphs.

Baton Rouge
The weather is excessively hot, at Mem
phis, and numerous fatal cases of sun-stroke:
have occurred, including six soldiers.
The Neac Ironsides which has been under
repairs for some time past at the Philadel
phia Navy Yard, has left that port for active
duty.
According to an official statement, the
amount of fractional currency in circulation
Is s24, 100000, an increase of nearly SO,
100000 within the last month.
At the request of the War Department the
l39th Illinois, 100 day men, have consented
to extend their services fifteen days beyond
the regular term Of their enlistment
Commodore Charles Stewart, "Old Iron.
Sides" has just completed his eighty-sixth
year, and he is yet as active and cheerful as
a man of fifty.
Great as you may be, the cradle was your
world once, and over it the only horizon YOU
beheld, bent the heaven of your mothers
eyes, as you rocked in that little bark of love.
A supply of Persian cotton has arrived at
St. Petersburg. Cotton is now raised in Per.
STA in large quantities. Russia, which annu-
ally manufactures sSOOO0 900 worth of cot,
ton goods, will probably profit by this.
| The Union men along the river below New
Madrid nave organized and armed themselves
under Granville Hays, and already have had
several fights with guerrillas, killing a con-
| siderable number of them.
| There is prospect that the New York
daily papers will advance again in few DAYS
to six cents, instead Of four; also that some
OF the New York weeklies will suspend till
this cruel war is over"
Women are said to have stronger attach
ments than men. 1t is not So A man is of
ten attached to an old hat "but did you
ever know Of a woman having an attachment
tor an old bonnet?" Echo answers, 'Neverw
| Richmond papers say that in the battle
near Atlanta our troops were at first repuls-
ed, but finally drove the enemy back with
heavy loss, including Generals Anderson,
| Patten and Hardee.
In Dachau, Germany, the unterrock (che-
| mise) Of the women will often be handed
down and worn for three generations, which
is fact that might proftably be pondered
| by the daughters of America.
| The Union citizens of Tennessee, hold a
convention at Nashville, to-day, to consider
| the propriety and means Of reorganizing
| civil government in that State, and to take
| part in the Presidential election.
1t is stated to be rule of law in the far
Western territories that "a town is a place
where whisky is sold" BY means of this
rule the courts distinguish real towns from
those which exist only on paper plans of land
spectators.
List at Rome, writes to a paper at Pesth,
saying that he has no idea of entering a con-
vent and cannot imagine how that story got
afoat. He adds that he would like to end
his days in Pesth, did not Rome detain him
with its magical power.
The folks in St. Louis are having a lively
dance of terror just now. Seven anacondas,
lately imported from the East, escaped from
the tank in which they had been kept, and
after three days search had, at last ac-
counts, not been recaptured.
Benz G. Harris, who goes for Mcclellan
and secession, calls Mcclellan "tyrant -
And so the Quaker Democracy has to choose
between two "tyrants Lincoln and Nc
Clellan. Alas for the Quaker Democracy
The Richmond Examiner, in reviewing the
prospect for peace at the hands of the North,
says: cone material Yankee success now,
and that peace party at the North which our
soldiers have created, and now sustain, would
sink overwhelmed, abashed and silenced, un-
der a renewed and universal shrek for war"
Pierre Soule, who was lately at Havana,
has probably left the Confederacy for good
and all. Years ago he bought him chateau
in the Pyrenees of Spain, and thither be is
doubtless now going, to escape the toll and
turmoil Of American politics and America.
The New York Unonists hold tIeir State
Convention at Syracuse this week. The New
York Tribune says but one name is publicly
suggested for Governor, that of Reuben E.
Fenton, who for the last ten years has repre-
scented the Chatauqua and Cattaraugus dist
riot in Congress.
Gen. Heron has returned from an expedi-
ton to Redwood, seven miles from Baton
Rouge on the Clinton road, where he had
fight with the enemy, inficting loss of $50
men, besides destroying a large amount of
stores. Our loss was thirty, killed aud
wounded.
Theodore, the dark-skinned Emperor Of
Abyssinia, lately proposed by letter to
Queen Victoria Not getting an answer as
soon as he expected, he seized Mr.. Cameron,
the British Consul, and put him in chains I'M
til he should hear from his suit. A polite
refusal has been sent to Theodore by the
widowed Victoria.
The Chicago Convention sneers at our
GO four years failure to restore the Union by
the experiment of war;" So with far greater
show of truth might Benedict Arnold, in
1884, have sneered at our "six years failure
to secure our independence by the expert
ment Of war;" 1t is the last year which de-
termines whether war is success or a fail
ure.
The Boston Journal denies the statements.
for which there was very excellent authority
that Col. Charles P. Stone had resigned his
commission in the army, and that his wife is
of rich secesh family in Louisiana. The
Journal says he has gone to the front to re-
port to General Warren, and that his wife'g
family were loyal Louisianians, whom, for
their loyalty, were despoiled of their proper
ty by the rebels. a
Last year the copperheads of Iowa thought
it would be extra smart to run an officer in
the Union army for Governor; so, to oppose
Col. Stone, the Union candidate, they put up
General futile; but the people took him
down by $4,000 majority for Stone, who
polled the entire army vote. The people are
not half so green as cunning politicians are
apt to imagine.
Mr.. Gladstone, the statesman, has again
eyinced his devotion to ancient literature by
publishing translation of the first book of
the Had, attempted in style at once more
literal and more poetical than the former ver-
sions He has adopted the metre used by
Frere in his translations from Aristophanes,
and of late made popular by Tennyson's
"Loxley Hall"
A Matamoras paper declares that the
French and Algerine troops were lately de-
feated in four pitched battles in Mexico. The
date of the conflicts is not given. They oc-
in nf
The Mexicans were led by Gen. Alvarez,