Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-05-01
General Intelligence.

General Intelligence.
Where is the La Crosse Leader :?
Have you cut us off Bro. Finch?
| --Dobb's says the reason all the Nor
wegian girls have white hair, is that
they are born on moonlight nights.
About one hundred thousand dol
lars worth of the cargo of the Atlantic
has been recovered.
-Beecher has nearly finished the
second volume of his "Life of Christ, !"
and it will be out in two or three
months.
Never in the history of Green Bay
has this season of the year shown such
activity in real estate transactions and
building operations.
Late dispatches give an account
of hight with the Modocs. Our
81 lie loses nineteen men. The loss
of the Modocs is not ascertained.
The average Massachusetts, girl
don't want any better facilities for
sliding down hill than a Goldfish with a
string through the gills.
The New York Assembly commit
tee on canals reported in favor of pro-
posing an amendment to the constitution
making navigation of canals free.
On Saturday unknown persons en-
tered the First National Bank Of Tole-
do, and VOLS hardware store, and
stole $500 in currency and valuable
box Of papers.
The winter wheat throughout
Washington county looks exceedingly
we'll, and the farmers are feeling glo-
rious over the prospects of an abund-
ant harvest.
j. P. Page, Pomeroy's banker,
has brought suit against York and the
| state officers of Kansas for the posses
sion of the $1,000 which York failed
to prove to be bride.
Bonner has expended over $500,
900 in advertising. He has paid So,
900 for a single advertisement, and
$4,000 for a weeks advertising. He
is now worth more than S1,0O0,O0O.
4 clear case OF cause and effect.
The Pennsylvania legislature has
appropriated S1,OOO,0OO to the CEN
tenial exhibition, which is to be held
in Philadelphia in 1876. This is a
magnificent donation, and augers the
success Of the enterprise beyond a
question.
A Western newspaper gives a
thrilling account of steamers perilous
voyage, describing particularly her dan
gerous passage over the Falls, with on
ly zone inch of water between her keel
and the rocks. and half an inch of at
mosphere between her chimneys and
the BRIDGE
The estimated receipts from inter.
nal revenue for the fiscal year ending
june 26 were S11O,0OO,OOO Already
the receipts amount to SS5, 2o6, 296
and the receipts for April, May, ant
June are expected to be great enough
to more than produce the total estimat
ed for the year.
In England 3OO,OOO,OOO pound.
of paper are made every year by 80, OO(
laborers in $50 paper mills; 40,
persons make this over into books,
newspapers and the like matters; 15
900 bookbinders bind these for preser
walton. Literary composition of every
sort requires 100000 gross of pens each
week.
! That famous leader of Democracy
and Liberalism, Hon. c. A. Eldredge
is the only Wisconsin member Of the
House who voted for the back-pay
grab. Mitchell hasn't been in the
REFORM party quite so long, so he
compromised by lodging the votes for
taking back-pay out of the Treasury
while every Republican member of the
House voted against it.
The n. Y Herald out does itself.
Its issue of April 9th is quintreple,
sheet. is printed on fre Hoe Rotary
eight and ten cylinder presses, and
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