Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1864-01-28


REUNION IN HEAyEN.-How short is the ear
ly history of family! A few short years,
and those who are now embraced in family
circle, will be scattered. The children, now
the objects offender solicitude, will have grown
up and gone forth to their respective stations
in the world A few years more, and chill
dren and parents will have passed from this
earthly stage. Their name will be no longer
heard in their dwelling. Their domestic loves
and anxieties, happiness and sorrows, will be
lost and forgotten history Every heart in
which it was written will be Wondering in the
dust. And is this all? Is this the whole sat
isfaction which is provided for some of the
strongest feelings of our hearts? How can
such transitory beings, with whom our con-
nection is so brief, engage all the love we can
feel? Why should not our feelings towards
them be as feeble and unsatisfyng as they?
But, blessed be to God this is not all. OF
this he has given US perfect assurance in the
Gospel Of His Son. Though to the eve of un-
enlightened nature the ties of domestic love
seem scattered into DUST the spiritual eve of
faith perceives that they have been loosened
on earth only to be resumed under far happier
circumstances In the region of everlasting
love and bliss. Though the history of fam-
ly may seem to be forgotten when the last
member of it it laid in the grave, the memo
ry of it still lives in immortal souls; and when
the circle is wholly dissolved on earth, it is
again completed in Heaven.
LIES VICIssITHDEs.-It is appalling to
think how near to the happiest and most pros
porous scene of life stands the saddest des-
pair All homes are haunted with awful DOS
sibilities, for whose realization no array of
threatening agents is required-no lightning,
or tempest, or battle; a peaceful household
lamp, gust of perfumed evening air, a false
step in moment of gayety, draught taken
by mistake, match overlooked or misIaid a
moments oversight in handling deadly weap.
on-and the whole scene of life is irretrieya-
blv changed Mrs. H. B. Store.
Decentralization of the GAINESVILLE
Gazette, writes from Madison that younp
married man who left his wife in Delavan. Wal.
worth county, and enlisted in the Government
service at an early day, has been reported
dead for long time, and his friends have
mourned for him as of that number whose
graves ridge the accursed soil of the Soutb
But he was neither dead nor sleeping, only
a prisoner and was recently exchanged and
ordered to report at this place, which he did
one day this week.
Falling in with friend here from his old
nome, ne was naturally eager In his inquiries
about relatives and acquantances and es
pecially as to the welfare of her whom he had
so ardently loved through all the disappoint.
ments and hardships of soldiers life. I'm
agine his surprise and bitter disappointment
when informed that his wife, believing him
dead, had married another! Here we drop
the curtain, leaving it to the imagination of,
the reader TO conceive of that tableau which
Will soon take place, when the brave and
honored soldier confronts the faithless wife
and the unfortunate man who calls himselfber
husband.