Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-02-13
General Intelligence.

President Grant is going on a
southern tour shortly.
The Tomah Journal makes It's APP
pearance in folio form. 1t looks
well.
The Misses Greeley have with
drawn from the contested will case.
The Credit Mobilier testimony is
ordered printed.
The old Board of Audit of the
city of New York were swindlers to the
amount of 100000 dollars.
The city of Lehree in India has
just had shaking up by an earth
quake. Over FIVE hundred persons
were killed.
The Wisconsin Pilot says 100, 900,
900 feet of logs will be banked the
present winter on the Wisconsin river
and it's tributaries.
Fond du Lac county let's the Office
Of County Poor Physician to the lowest
bidder, and mighty poor physician
they generally get.
The Whitewater Register says that
several warrants were issued last week
against certain saloon-keepers for viola
ton of the Graham Liquor Law.
Two hundred boys under ten years
of age have been discovered at work in
coal mines near Bath, England, con-
trary to law.
A dwelling house building, belong
ing to r. E. Parcher of Wausau, was
destroyed by fire last week. Loss
$500. The workmen lost their tools.
loss, so says the Pilot.
A Mansion Justice of the Peace
carefully and conseientiously disposes
of the cases before him, and then whips
the lawyers if they have been disre-
spectful during the trial.
From the Union we learn that
Elroy is already prospecting for an
artesian we'll 1t is expected that wa
ter will flow at depth of from 800 to
400 feet.
The religious editor of the Racine
Journal says he has ''yet to find man
north of Milwaukee who would not
rather be door keeper in the House
of the Assembly than in the House Of
the Lord. 1t pays better.
One of Madison's bellies went skat-
ing the other day, fell down, Of course,
and run hair pin into her head, which
so alarmed her male escort he seized
sponge and knocked his own brains
out.
An enlightened jury at Scranton,
pa, which stood six to six in bur
glary case, made the verdict matter
of luck and matched pennies for it,
which resulted in finding the prisoner
guilty, for which he went to state pri-
son Il years.
| Hog Packing in Chicago.-The
number of hogs received in Chicago
last week was 15S, 146, and the num-
Der slaughtered for the season to date
is 1,OS5,0SS, against 1 ,O17, 800, for the
corresponding period in 1872, and
7o5, 565 III 1871.
The baggage car of train on the
Grand Trunk Railway, going eastward
from Toronto, Friday morning, caught
fire near Grafton, and the English mail
matter en- route to Canadian steamer
was all destroyed. The Canadian mail
was saved.
A careless nurse in Holyoke, Mass,
administered dose of aqua ammonia
to young child in mistake for castor
oil, and the babe died in few hours,
its throat and lungs having been burn
ed to crisp by the liquid.
Boston proposes to use portion
Of the burnt district as tho site of a
grand central depot. It will extend
from Summer to Franklin streets, fill
ing the space between Devonshire and
Federal. and is to be entered by the
Boston and Providence, Old Colony,
Boston and Albany railroads. The
project is not yet fully consummated.
The Milwaukee Sentinel publishes
the Report of the Supt. of Schools of
the city, showing that the city contains
p 1853 children over four and under
twenty years Of age. The number of