Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-02-27

ence to a crown, five shillings change.
The Cincinnati Commercial denies
that Walt Whitman is paralyzed, Or
that he is suffering on account OF work
done in hospitals during the war.
Well we don't insist on it but if he
isn't paralyzed, Why don't he yawp!-
Columbus Statesman.
ns;y~ Work on the New York post
offi:e has been suspended for lack OF
funds at least $4,000. 900 being neces-
sary to complete it after S4,ooo'ooo
has been expended. In other words,
it hasn't got the stamps.
TYLER & Arndt last week received
from St. Paul, Mimi, two car loads OF
wheat over the West Wisconsin and
Green Bay Il Lake Pepin Railways, to
be ground at their mill.-Aduocate
Green Bay.
Somebody had cow Killed by the
cars near the C. & n. W. K. r. depot
few days ago. Cows are bad manag-
ers for themselves, on railroad track
when the cars come.
What is COW catcher for, we'd like
to know? That cow was philosopher.
These inventions must be utilized. and
that COW realized the fact.
New WHEAT M,RKET.-The Hud-
son, st. Croix Co Times says
The completion Of the Green Bay and
Leke Pepin Railway, to Mcmillan on
the West Wisconsin. has opened up an
other outlet for our products, and no
doubt, large quantity Of St. Croix
County wheat will find market with
the m1llers and wheat buyers of that
section.
G. B. & /. p. RY-The new cars
which have been recently added to the
facilities of the road are elegant pieces
of rolling stock. What with the new
postal car and the beautiful passenger
coaches, the road sends out as hand
some train as travels on any road in
Wisconsin. The Pt. Howard Herald
IS our authority for saying that four
new locomotives will be put on the road
next Observation-Disclosures Green Bay.
A FLooDINc- DAM-The Eau
Claire Free Press describes tie dam of
the Eagle Rapids Flooding Dam Com
pany the dam is LILO fees long, and
/ 50 feet wide at the top. Over a,00o.
900 feet of lumber have been used in
its construction besides thousands Of
cords Of stone. The lumber slide vii |
he the same as the one at the falls.
The apron is 20 feet in width and 45
in length, with SIX timber fingers at
tached, making the total length of the
apron 80 sct. The passage for logs is
2l6 feet in width The expenditures
Of the corporation are aboutS1, eco per
day.
b r. Lend iStae-On Monday
and Tuesday David Mason, Daniel Carr
/ Peter Houston and j. NJ Sherman,
! Commissioners ofthe Wisconsin Farm
! Nortga Land Compay, were at New
Lisbon, selling the. lands donated to
that Company by the state for the ppsr-
i pose of aiding those who were swindlets
into giving mortgages ON their fssrae
to aid in buiRd,lx, railroads, Large
quantities of lapls were sold and very
good prices realized 4uuusion Star.
n FIT woman hailing from Indiana,
attempted to descend the stairs in one
Of the Detroit hotels, but missed her
footing aud rolled to the landing, max
! ing din which startled every one ira
the Office 'sGracious alive but I
hope You are notmuch hurt - exclaim-
ed the terrified clerk. [ hurt she
replied, smiling bIandiy, mot bit of
it. but you had better go up and take
care OF that palrsof stairs.
speaking of the Tweed jury, the
New York Tribune says: Later in
formation regarding the jury not only
strengthens our suspicious of their In
tellisence, but makes us wonders how
it was possible to gather such a crew
from all parts of the city into a
single jury-box. With few exceptions,
they seem to have been scraped from
the slumsf. Three of them are liquor
dealers one Of them was denizen of
the fifth floor of a tenement house,
who regretted that the conclusion of
the case robbed him of his two dollars
day, and one certainly had been in
state 's-prison, and probably two we've
| convicts. The records of the United
States Courts show the incarceration of
one in prison, and the accusation against
another for cleansing defaced stamps is
on file. Is the result longer to be
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