Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1865-07-06
General News.

! ,"AANA "oAO ~ WAL. luelr SOlU.
Ell wedding of peace is to be celebrated
IN the Crystal Palace at Paris. e &
From Bengal paper we learn that
1t cost the young Maharaiah of P11tial-
lab half million pounds sterling to Get
married.
-Mollie Baker of Cincinnati. went
out Tor fast drive on Monday: GOT her
horse, aspirited animal, excited, backed
hum over precipice, and was tukeu home
with broken neck.
Allie Of the Richmond Examiner
since the beginning of the war, has been
sold to II Boston library society for five
hundred dollars, as literary curiosity.
-Guizot, the French author. was re-
Gently severely con fused by running in
the dark against piece of furniture in
his house. ~
The wife of Senator Sprague of
Rhode Island-formerly Miss Kate
Chase-has presented him with healthy
little son.
The First National Bank of La
Crosse. Wisconsin, capital $50, COO. and
the Union National Bank, capital $780,
600, have been authorized 10y the Sec
Rotary of the Treasury.
There have been large floods in
Western Missouri. washing away the
Grand River bridge of the Hannibal
and st. Joseph Railroad, at Utica, Mis-
souri,.
Light travels slow in some parts of
Pennsylvania. A large and handsome
| house in Norristown IN that Stute sru11tts
empty, because it has the reputation Of
being haunted!
David Werner, keeper of a board
| ing honse In New York, has been arr est
ed for kicking and throwing Josephine
| Cohn, an emiglant woman, down stairs,
breaking her neck, and killing her in
stantly.
| The water in the Hudson river is
extremely low. The Albany Express
says passenger and tow boats are con-
stantly grounding between that city and
| Van Wie's Point
Mr.. Sherman Of New York, the
manager of the fund collecting for Mrs
Lincoln, announces that about S1O,O 900
has already been subscribed, and says
| 800 600 has been secured.
William Wilkins, who has been
Senator in Congress, Minister to Russia,
Secretary of War, and United States
District Judge for Western Pennsylva-
nia,. died on Friday, aged eighty-four
years.
George Francis Clay, said to have
Of ,
participant in his most famous battles,
was accidentally drowned at Philadel
phia on Monday. He was II years old.
-''Mrs. Wales" in her Interesting
affairs" does things up without much
preliminary fuss It will be remember
ed that "Oive Branch, No. l, p" came in
Il hurry, before baby clothes could be
got ready, the second princelet has come
in a somewhat similar manner, the hap
Ply mother having attended Il concert
| the previous evening. If maternity is
honorable, "honofs are easy" with her.
The Emperor of Russia, on the
memorial of the General Director Of the
Post, has authorized the employment Of
women in telegraph Offices. This is the
extension of an authorization given last
year to tie Grand Duchy Of Finland,
and the experiment is to extend over a
period of three years.
ststlfeus, IN 1
bile, has issued an order that in alb
courts and judicial proceedings in the
district the testimony of freed or color
ed people will be received and admitted
according to same rules of evidence
that Apply to white persons.
The Washington Star says that
President Johnson granted the applica-
ton of the colered people for permits
sion to celebrate the Fourth of July on
the White House grounds, and they are
making arrangements to do SO. This
! fact will spoil some enthusiastic Ell ogi-
ums from the Democratic press.
Eight thousand applications for
pensions from disabled soldiers and the
families of deceased men, are now en-
file at the Pension Bureau, and are at
tended to in order of application, as
rapidly as possible, by Secretary Harlan,
who has crowded an extra clerical force
in the business of oyerlauling and ex=
aiming them.
The New York Tribune says: A par
ty who has patiently read the 46 pages
of Alexander Stephens labored plea for
pardon, assures us that he insists upon
the righteousness and necessity Of Sla-
very as persistently as in any of his
former letters or speeches. He shows
little or no contrition, and seems to con-
slider the rebellion as dice legitimately
thrown, and, having lost, the Southern
people are entitled to gracefully retire
| and submit.
Caleb Lyon, of Lyonsdale, Govern
| or of Idaho, is in trouble The resi-
dents of that Territory have driven him
away, because In pursuance of an act of
the Territorial Legislature, he under
took to remove the capital of the pros
pective golden State from Lewiston to
Boyce's City. The unfortunate Cover
nor is at Washington.
A ferocious elephant has been COM
hitting frightfnl ravages in a north
western province of Hindostan. He
was taken for a marriage procession, but
became wild and pulled down a num-
Der of huts and trees. The next day he
become wilder still. and one of the m a.
boots III attempting to chain his legs
was seized by the trunk and trampled
under foot, the elephant keeping the
corpse of the man under his feet for two
| successive days, actually grinding if TO