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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-04-11
The Princeton ROAD.

Mr.. Bentley, the attorney for the
Princeton Road called or oar people
last week for the purpose of submit
ting proposition from the company
looking for all in the construction OF
the road through Wood County.
The proposition which Mr.. Bentley
~ the agent of the company, asks for
100000, one hundred If which
amount shall be contingent on the
bui'ding of the Portage City roal, Or
in other words, the company will take
the chances of the Portage City road
being built, and should Mr.. Campbell
succeed IN fulfilling the terms of the
contract entered into between the
company be represents aud Wood
County, the Princeton road will con
slider the contract void and build to
the ,cestera border cf the county for
the remaining $4,000
The proposition is very fair except.
ing as regards the sum asked for, and
is worthy the attention of our people.
The Princeton road is the road Of all
roads to develop the timber and farm
ing lands of our county. \ meeting
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-04-11
ORDER

l.. P. POWERS, Clerk.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25
How the Mails are Made Up.

From the Shclbyyille Commercial.
Some Of our young friends, and per-
haps others not very young, would like
to know how mailing is done, especially
on the railroads, We are indebted to
Capt. j. J. Mankin. on the N. " G..
Railroad, for information in regard to
it,
He is a "Routc Agent" assisted by
two others, one Of them leaving Nash
vile each morning and returning next
day from Chattanooga. The email
car" a portion of the baggage" car,
is a small room neatly arranged with
boxes labelled for each office on the
road, and one for the roads connecting
with Nashville and Chattanooga.
Agents open every bag unless at i'm
portant offices like ours. Bags are
made up for Nashville, and they are
not opened except at Nashville. Mail
for intermediate points is opened and
distributed at each office, Between
stations, however short the time, the
agents duty is to open and distribute
the mail received and make up the bag
for next office. At offices where there
is nothing else to stop for. the agent
throws off while the local agent throws
on the mail for that day.
Mail on the Winchester u Alabama
road, as an instance of how it works, is
opened at Wartrace and put in the Fay
ettevillc box. This mail is made up,
handed out at Decherd, and then open,
ed on that road to be left at a station,
or if it goes into the country below,
it IS given ont at Fayetteville, and there
made again, hence, mail via rail to Fay
ettcviIlc, goes through three sets OF
hands.
The system, troublesome as it is,
seems hardly susceptible Of improve,
mcnt.
The mail business is really wonderful.
The government paid $4,000, last
year for carrying the Mails over the
Nashville " Chattanooga road, and
$4,000 over the Nashville " North
western road. This year more is asked.
1t is designed to run three cars, made
for the purpose, so feet in length, from
New York to Chicago, in a hours, a
distance Of 962 miles. They will only
stop for coal and water. The ears are
now being built.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25
Midsummer MaladieS.

The hot solar rays that ripen the har-
vests generate many distressing diseases.
If the liver be ut all p%redisposed to irregu-
l~arities, this is the season in which bilious
attacks may be anticipated. A weak
stomach, too, is weakest in the summer
months, and the loss of vitality through
the pores by excessive perspiration Is so
great, that a wholesome tonic, combining
also the properties of a diifusive stimulant
and gentle exhilerent, is in many cases
neccssar, to health, and under no circum-
stances should be dispensed with by the
sickly and dcbilitateG. OF all the prepar.
tiOns intended thus to refresh, sustaOn,
and fortifiy the human frame, there is none
that will compare with Hostetterer's Cele-
brated Stomoch Bitters. They have been
weighed in the balance of experience and
not found wanting; have been recon-
mended from the first asa great medicinal
specific, not rs u beverage, and in spite of
interested opposition from innumerable
quarters. stand, after a twenty years trial,
at the head of all proprietary medicines
intended for the prevention n cure OF
all ordinary complaints OF the stomach,
the liver. the bowels, and the nerves. In
the unhealthy districts bordering the great
rivers of California, Hostetter's StomOch
Bitters may tie classed as the standard one
for every species of intermittent fever.
The people who inhabit those districts,
place the most implicit confidence in the
Preparations confidence that is increased
every year by by the results of its opera
ton.
AS bitters, so called, of the most pcrni-
cious character, are %springing up like
fungi on every side, the public is hereby
forewarnead gainst the dram-shop frauds.
Ask for IIostetter's Bitters, see that the
label, etc =, are correct, and remember that
the genuine article IS never sold in bulk,
but in bottles only.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25
The Next Legislature.

The next Legislature will be one of
the most important ever convened in
this State. Questions Of vital impor.
lance to the future Of our people will
be disposed of, and measures of grave
interest acted upon. 1t behoovos our
people to be on the alert and send
none but honest, faithful and reliable
men to the Legislature. Rings and
cliqucs will be wide awake, and let the
people be on the look out. Let them
send no man to the Legislature who
could be manipulated, hood winked,
influenced or bought by railroad rings,
bond holders rings or any other cor
rupt and %unprincipled clique. Our
people cannot be too cautious on the
subject in which they are so deeply in
terested and in which the good of the
public and the honor of the State is
involved. Let them support no man
who is not above the shadow of sus-
picion of being controlled by such in
luences.-- Columbia Herald.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25
The Race for Congress in this
District

Under this head the Lincoln County
News dedicates some thoughts to the
Democratic Committee which accord
with what we have heretofore said
about the ridiculous attempt to get up
u convention. The News says ''Con.
ventions are obnoxious enough at best.
But when called without an urgent
necessity, the people greatly abhor
them. In this case there is no ncces-
sity for a%.convcntion. The party can
not be divided between two opposing
candidates of its own in this District.
50 as to render the election of a Radi.
cal at all possible. In the absence of
some such necessity, neither General
Bright's nor Gen. Palmer's friends
could be reconci!ed to the defeat OF
their fayorite before a Convention. d. .
"The ballot. box is
the best court Of appeals in such cases,
and the friends of the defeated candi-
date can best abide the decision of the
people and harmony is preserved. In
the name of harmony in the great
Democratic party, we demand at the
hands Of the Committee that there be
NO convention"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25

On the way from Cleveland Ohio,
after the Convention, in the front car
there were one or two gentlemen
slightly exhilerated from q too free use
of alcoholic stimulants. A supporter
of Grant, in conversation with a friend,
remarked, loud enough to be heard by
all. "That shows who support Greeley {;
merely a crowd Of drunken Democrats"
A friend of ours, who has served 70 ur
years in the army, thus resented the
insult: "Sir, are you a total abstinence
man :" eyes, sir, l am" was the reply.
"Then why do you support for Presi-
dent that notorious drunkard under
whom | served four years? He was
drunk half his time. Why don't you
support that total abstinence colleague
of yours, Horace Greeley2 7" The ma,
ligner of drunken Democrats subsidized.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25
The Printers Estate.

The printers dollars-where are
they +? A dollar here and q dollar there,
scattered over the numerous small
towns, all over the country, miles
apart; how shall they be gathered to-
gethcr? The paper maker, the journey
mar compositor, the building owner,
the grocer, the tailor, and all assistants
to him in carrying on his business, have
their demands, hardly ever so small as
a single dollar. But the mites from
here and there must be diligently gath
cred and patiently horded, orthe where.
with to discharge the liabilities will
never he sufficiently bulky. We i'm
agine the printer will have to get up an
address to his widely scattered dollars
something like the following:
Dollars, halves, quarters, dimes and
all manner of fractions into which you
are divided, collect yourselves and
come home! You are wanted. Comb
nations Of all sorts of men that help
to make the printer a proprietor, gath
erin such force and demand with such
good reasons your appearance at this
counter, that nothing short of you will
appease them. Collect yourselves, fol-
valuable as you are in the aggregate,
singIy you Will never pay the cost OF
collecting, Come here in single file,
that the printer may form you in bat
TALON and send you forth again to bat
tie for him and vindicate his feeble
credit.
Reader. arc you III you haven't
couple of the printers dollars sticking
about your clothes? Ifyou have order
them home Immediately -E;rchange.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25
VICTIMS OF FASHION.
How Young Men Barter their
Manhood in New York.
The New York correspondent of the
Troy Times thus alludes to the chances
of young men in the metropolis:

Troy Times thus alludes to the chances
of young men in the metropolis:
Il II v
The victims Of fashions may be less
pitiable in a general view than those OF
poverty, yet they come to the same
end, though by different roads. Our
best young men are surely ruined by
becoming fashionable as by any other
kind OF temptation. AS soon IS as
young man is a popular member Of the
polite circles and becomes the pet OF
the ladies, his career as a business man
may he considered finished. When he
studies appearances and style with as
siduous devotion, and becomes as as
pirant for fashionable circles, and is
honorcd by constant cards ofinvitation
when he is known as q ladies' man
and a neat partner at the German or
the Lancers. and comes down to his
place of business with q fashionable
headache of the fifth a~venue--then bis
employers will generally look out for
some one to fill his place. Fashion
able young men never make efficient
| clerks, and never succeed in establish
ing q name in business circles. Our
p~atronizing ladies' of first-class stations
are very fond of having iine'looklng
young gentlemen in their gay solrees,
even if they be wanting in moneyed
attractions, for the ricl, young men OF
the city are so effeminate as to be al
most contemplate. But this patron,
age, as | have said, is destructive, and
l never knew a young business mar
who survived it. 1t is almost as hard
as the system Of life in the army, al
though in a different way. 1t was said,
however, Of the troops Of Hanniba
that they suffered nor from the east
at Capua than rom the armies of Rome
and this experience is equally true II
the present day. Hence, when a bust
ness man becomes the pet Of fashion
his fate is sure. | once knew q young
man from the country to whom was
opened Just such a door for enjoyment
He calmly measured the consequences
and then had nerve to turn his bacl
upon it. He ever abandoned rich ant
fashionable relatives, and devoted him
self to business. Such was the pric'
which he paid for success There is nj
denying the fact that If men expect t.
succeed in business they must sacrifice
many Of the socallcd pleasures OF cit.
society. AS | said, l have ncve
known q fashionable young mar t.
amount to anything in the practical at
fairs of life-still less in those grea
spheres in which men win wealth an
distinction.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25

Remarking upon the enthusiasm
which is exhibited in all parts of the
country for Greeley, the New York
Telegram says: "The truth is, the
name of Greeley, NJ matter how it may
be derided. has taken a hold on the
popular heart such as has never before
been witnessed. Grants popularity is
not to he compared with Greeley's.
The old farmer has an individuality
of character and Il number of such
charming points, eccentricities, if you
please, that he stands to-day the best
beloved man in the nation. The more
he is ca%ricatured the more the people
cling to him."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25

THE S~ToKEs-FIsK The jury
have failed to agree IN the case OF
Stokes, and yet a more cold-hlooded
murder was never committed. The
New York Express says: The counsel
for the defence argue that there was
neither murder, manslaughtcr in the
third degree. nor anything wrong in
the conduct of Stokes. 1t was Fisk
who wanted to kill Stokes. 1t was
Fisk who had wronged Stokes. 1t
was Fisk who vas q very bad man. 1t
was Stokes who was injured. 1t was
Stokes who was excited, perhaps a lit
tie insane, and so, of course in self.de-
fence, he fired and killed his man !!
Oh no. 1t was not tho pistol and bull
let of Stokes that killed Fisk, but the
Doctor did it! Yes, the doctors did
it; $50 say you, gentlemen OF the
Jury - Yes, 'as neal that as possible; )
at any rate, we don't agree that Stokes
killed Fisk! What q farce, what n con-
tempt tor m sense, what a lame
conclusion! Hereafter murder is no
crime, but u little trial. a disagreement
at first, and finally IN acquittal. Now
for the next man.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25
HORACE GREELEY

The Union City Courier says: "The
support of Greeley, with us, is not n
choice of evils, but to accomplish a
great good. His election will have n
beneficial effect upon the material in
terests of the South, and will give the
lie to the charge OF i'll temper OF our
people and that it is unsafe for q North
ern man to live here. When the world
understands that it is false then we may
look for immigration and capital to
flow in"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25

THE Two RACEs.--Whatcver the re-
suit of the election, we shall be glad to
see the colored vote divided at the
South, for as it has been, SO it will
he in the future, a constant menace be-
tween those of the same section.
Through the civil war. the slaves, as a
rule, stood by their masters, and many
of them took part in the war with them
against the Union. When the war
ended the kindest relations existed be-
tween the two, and these good
relations would have continued
but for the rush. and reign Of the thievs
and carpet, baggers from the North.
East and West. The nomination of
MI. Greeley will divide the negro vote,
just as the white vote is divided in other
States. The effect will be more liber-
ality, less clanishness and passion, and
a better future for the South, and par
ticularly for the negroes there, who for
four years have been most wretchedly
used and misled.-[N. Y. Express.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25
From the Hartford Comm Times


The following is an extract from a
private letter to u gentlemen in this
State. Though it was never intended
for publication, the gentleman to whom
it was addressed has deemed it of suf-
iicient interest and Importance to just,
fy its publication:
New York, June II, 1872.
| have no possible claim
to Democratic support, and never made
any. The Democrats will, of course ,
be governed by n consideration Of their
own interests. 1t is nowise proper or
probable that they should be influenced
in making their decision by any con
sideration personal to myself, aud il
they could be | do not desire it. Hence
| have said nothing to any Democrat
unless he first addressed me. And
ever then ! have gone no farther than
to say that if | should be elected
would treat all those who supported
me alike, not asking whether they had
been in The past Republicans or Dem
ocrats. Yours
Horace GREELEY.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25

We are afraid that many of our
farmers have neglected 10 save their
wheat and thereby lost more than if
they had allowed weeds and grass to
take their corn for a little while. The
Chattanooga Herald Of the 18th says
the wet Gather has very much injured
the wheat crop. ut is estimated that
fully one half of the crop yet remains
in the field, and reports from the Dun
try say that the grain is sprouting, and
in many cases has grown to some
length. This is of course lost. If the
rain continues there will be an advance
ia the price before many days"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25

The Union and American announces
that "fruits are healthy food at this
season of the year." The Union and
American means "wholesome," but a
paper whose editor,in-chief occupies
so many eminent positions must. be al.
lowed to indulge in some vagaries,--
Lebanon Herald.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25

General Pillow, of Tennessee, who
has recently declared for Grant, has a
large claim for mules pending in the
War Department, which said mules
were confiscated while lie was q Gen.
in the Confederate army. Comment
on the purity of his motives is useless.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25

Rev. Mr.. Berkeley, Episcopalian min.
lister of st. Louis, who was charged
with improper conduct towards ladies',
after a full and fair trial, has been ex.
honerated Of all blame, and his friends
are more numerous than ever.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25

The Chattanooga Herald wonders
how the Democratic party can swallow
a Republican for President. 'Twould
be q greater wonder to US if the party
could swallow Grant.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25

Under the head "Prcsidcntial,' the
Mobile Register that fought with all
its acknowledged ability for the nomi
nation Of a "straighL Democratic tick
ct" at Baltimore, now ONE out AS
follows:
"The Democratic party in convcn-
ton assembled have nominated Gree
ley and Brown as their candidates for
President and Vice President in op
position to Grant and Wilson. They
have also adopted the exposition OF
principles contained in what is known
as .hc Cincinnati platform. The Regis
ter accepts and will support the nomi-
nation, because it secs no other way II
which Southern votes can bc recorded
against the Radical administration, and
because us between Grant and almost
any nominee Of the Democratic party,
it cannot hesitate to choose. In other
words, no administration Of the FEEDER
al Government that is conceivable,
Il be more dangerous IMAM lhat OF
Gen. Grant.
The Register does not accept the
endorsement Of the Cincinnati platform,
for the reason, that while it is full Of
sound political doctrines, oil of them
taken from the lifelong and traditional
creed ofthe Democracy, there are other
principles enunciatod that we cannot
conscientiously subscribe TO, even at
the bidding Of u Democratic Conven
ton" n
Meanwhile we 20 for Greeley and
Brown, because we cannot afford in
the slightest degree to be responsible
for the reelection Of Grant and vii
SON"
That is the right sort of talk, and
tallies with the feelings Of the Home
Journal to q st"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25

Horace Greeley, if elected, will not
be a party, directly or indirectly, to re
storing to power the old Democratic
party. Neither will he be a party to
restoring the power Of Grant, or Radi
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25

81 will be hang'd, il some eternal villain,
Some busy and %insinuating rogue,
Some cogging cozcning slave, to get some
Office,
Hath not dcyis'd this SANDER"
1t matters nothow exalted a position
a man may occupy he is not beyond
the envy Of little minds, and need no.
hope to escape calumny. just now
the prominent position oflloracc Gree
ley before the country makes him the
object OF censure and SANDER. His
past life full Of noble cXcrtion and
many noble deeds, all goes for moth
ing. The Grant Republicans laudcd
him to their utmost when he laborcd
for the election Of their military chief
tain They said he was capable and
honest. But now they parade his ut
teranccs in favor Of Grant as the invcn-
tons Of n iicnd incarnate. Not only
do they do this, but they dishonesty
travel beyond the record by %inventing
calumnics which Greeley never uttered
or conceived. One of these is thus
paradcd in the Radical papers.
When the rcbell;ous Traitors are
overwhelmed in the Field, and scattered
like leaves before an angry wind, it
must not be to return to Peaceful and
Contented Homes. They must find
poverty at their tiresides, and the pri.
walton in the anxious eyes of mothers
and the rags Of children.-H Horace Gree
len, Tribune, Nov. 26, 1860.
The above pretended quotation is 4
forgery, made out Of whole cloth. 1t
WAS invented to illustrate one Of Nast's
nasty caricatures Of Greeley, in that
peculiar journal orCiyilization," IIar-
per's Weekly. The N. Y. Tribune Of
the 10th instant, says:
1--WE deem it only necessary to say
that not e word of this pretended OK
tract is found in the Tribune Of that
date Nov. %, 1860, and no such
words we're evcr written by Mr.. Gree
ley. We leave the public to Judge the
moral quality ofthc act committed by
the Messrs. Harpcrs."
Yet after this distinct denial was
teleeraphed throughout the country,
Radical papers repeat the Islander
rs a truth.
20 shame. whore is thy blush 2"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25

Ex-Governor Vance is already on
the stump for Greeley and Brown in
North Carolina. He says the old
North State will give them 10000 ma
iority.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25

The Presidents son, Fred. Grant,
was snubbed the other day by the En-
peror OF Russia. This grows out of
Grants course toward the Grand Duke
while on q visit to Washington.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25
FACULTY
Terms per Session Of Firc Months:

Terms per Session Of Fire Months:
Latin, Greek, Surveying, Natural Philosophy,
Astronomy, Geology, Ancient and Modern Histo-
ry, Higher Mathematics, and, in fact, all the
branches taught in High Schools and Colleges will
be taught here.
photography, Reading, Writing, and
Mental Arithmetic, $1,000.
Practical Arithmetic, (thrOugh funda-
mental rules,) Primary Geography, and
Primary English Grammer. $i2 30.
Practical Arithmetic, English Grammer.
Geography and History, sis 90.
Higher branches i'm Mathematics and
Ancient Languages, $1,000.
Music, (Piano,) S25O 90. Use of instru-
incidental Fec, for fuel, &C., lin ad-
vance,) Sl00.
N0rE.-Each Student will be charged
for the highest class entered.
Decherd is q healthy and thriving vii.
lage, ~ miles from Winchester, at the
junction ofthe nj. IL G. and N. Il G.. Rail-
roads. The morals of the place are unex.
ceptionable.
Students Will be charged from time of
entrance to the close of the session, except
in eases of sickness. which must equaltwo
weeks.
Board. including fuel and lights. in pri-
vate families, from $40 to $l2 PEI month,
Arrangements will be made by which
young men can form clubs and board
themselves much cheaper.
The church building has been bought by
the Trustees, and the entire building viii
be used for school purposes. and will ac-
commodate l5O pupils.
TRUSTEES.
W.. w. MARTIN, President.
Z. b. AusTELL, Secretary.
H. f.. OAKLEY, ESQ., JOSEPH CARTER.
G. L. BLAIR. J.. X. BESNrrr'
REV. JAMES WAGNER.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-07-25

JeG. Davis don't care a cent who's
elected President. but prefers Greeley.