Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-15
General Intelligence.

The Supreme Court refuses Stokes
new trial. If the Court of Appeals
now fails the respectable murderer"
he must hang.
Seth Green, the pisciculturist, is
looking after the waters of Georgia, i'll
order that their shadders may never be
less.
Brazil abolishes slavery letting the
accused system die out with the death
Of the present slaves All new born
are freemen. The world moves.
Screen thousand young salmon
have been ''planted' in the Menom-
inee, about seven miles up from its
mouth, and five thousand more are to
be pu, in soon. /
Hon Chas. Sumner has just been
divorced The divorce was granted on
the ground Of descrton, his wife hav-
ing been absent at Europe for five years,
evidently with the intention Of being
divorced from the great jurist.
-Sheboygan has been visited By
devastating fre. The Depot, Freight
House, and Round House of the She
boygan & Fond du Lac r. r. were
consumed. Loss about so, 1000, with
triAing insurance.
The U. S. Commissioners at the
Vienna Exposition are in nuss, and
all the world are witness to the humll-
iation of the Great Republic. The
Sentinel says If they had taken pas
sage home on some such uu!uchy steamer
as the AtlaNic they t,could haze been
drouned
"A terrible bridge disaster isrcport-
ed at Dixon, ILL., The whole structure
fell during baptisnaal ceremony, car
rying with it nearly two hundred peo-
pie into the sweeping current. The
bridge spanned the Rock river, we be-
lieve. It was Of the Trucsdal! trustle
patent; some seventy were drowned.
The New Hampshire youth who
sent his dollar for wonderful discov-
cry for enticing fish to bite, received
by return mail Autograph represent
ins an ancient fisherman asleep on a
log, with the simple word Patience
in large letters upon his hat. Under
meath, fifty thousand sold''
We learn that the Chicago Times
has an accession to its editorial corps
She will give her attention to the mar
ket reports making the milk and fine
linen quotations speciality. She
weighs only about seven pounds, but
will come up to the times like a little
lady, BY their fruits ye shall know
them she's little Pip-in.
1t is stated that Hon. Philetus
Sawyer, member Of Congress from the
sixth district Of tbs state, expended
his back pay in Uuited States bonds,
and then destroyed the same This is
a very proper disposition to make of
the money, as it reduces the public
debt by so much, And thus inures to
the benefit Of the whole people.
E The Green Bay Goze:te Of
Saturday says /: "Senator and Mrs.
Howe returned home last evening.
Since the adjournment of Congress
they have been maxim. an extended
Southern tour. The Senator shows
signs Of hard word during the winter,
but Is in excellent spirits, and expresses
himself glad to return ana rest quietly
among his friends and neislbors the
balance. Of the season
The Georgia Dental Convention
met in Columbus last Tuesday. The
attendance was large, and they sang as
an opening ode that sublime hymn be-
ginning:
Oil Jonathan Gibbs he broke his tewth,
He broke his tewth, he broke his tewtb.
Old Jonathan Gibbs he broke his tewth,
Aeating plum pudding.