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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23
The Credit.MObilier Investigation.

AS the result of the resolution TO open the
Credit Mobilier investigation committee
room, part of the testimony was placed at
the control of the press on the 9th. It
shows the following in regard to those
named on the examination OF Cakes Ames.
Mr.. Colfax took ten or twenty shares, and
paid for them, though the stock was never
transferred to him, nor had he received any
dividends. Mrs. Senator Henry Wilson was
induced to take twenty shares, but after
wards objected to the investment, and it
was taken off her hands. Senator Patterson
paid for twenty shares and received his diyi-
dends. Mr.. Bingham requested Cakes Ames
to make some investments for him where
they would pay, and the latter invested in
twenty-five shares of Credit Mcbilier. Mr..
Dawes had ten shares, and guaranty that
they should be worth ten per cent. he after
ward said he would rather not take the
stock, and the contract was rescinded. Mr..
Wilson had the same guaranty; Mr.. Garfield
was to receive ten shares, but he did not pay
for or receive them. Mr.. Kelley, of Penn
sylvania, got the amount of ten shares
Isl, OOOl as loan. Mr.. Scofeld bought ten
shares and afterward declined them, because
he did not like the liability clause in the
charter or contract OF the Credit Mobilier.
Mr.. Fowler, of Tennessee, never had any in
terest in the stock. Wilson and Allison, of
Iowa, each bought ten shares and paid for
them. Speaker Blaine was offered some of
the stock, but at once refused. Secretary
Boutwell, agreed to take ten shares, and
subsequently declined to consummate the
purchase. Senator Conkling had never re-
ceived share, and was never interested in
the Company.
Mr.. McComh testified that Mr.. Brooks is
the only member of Congress who is known
to have received any Of this stock without
a fair consideration; the witness gave in de-
tail, as proof of the charge, an alleged con-
versation which he heard between Messrs.
Brooks and Alley, relating to fifty shares of
the stock which was transferred to Brooks
or his son-inlaw, Nelson. John b. Alley
testified that he never had any conversation
with Brooks relative to shares, and never
gave or sold share of the stock of Credit
Mobilier to Brooks or to any member; and
that the statement of McComb is tabrica-
ton.
Viee-President Colfax made written
statementto the Credit Mobilier Committee,
on the 18th, to the effect that he had never re-
ceived, nor had rendered him, any dividends
in cash, stock or bonds ACQUIRING upon any
stock in either of said organizations, and
neither Mr.. Ames nor any other person con-
nected with either of said organizations ever
asked him to vote for or against any meas
ures affecting the interests of either, directly
or remotely, or to use any personal or Official
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23

infuence.in their favor. He had, however,
five years ago, upon the representations of
Mr.. Ames, contracted to buy twenty shares
of stock, on which he made partial
payment of $780, He never received any
dividends, cash or scrip, from this stock !.
back on Ames' hands in order to escape the
litigation which had arisen between the
members OF the company. The net result OF
his speculation has been loss to him of
$500.
dispatch was received from Mr.. Allison
on the 7th, disclaiming any shareholding on
his part of the Credit -Mobilier or Union Pa
cific stocks. Shares had been sent him, but
he promptly returned them.
John B. Alley was further crOss-examined
before the Investigating Committee on the
Sth. He had no personal knowledge as to
who was the original owner OF the one hun
dred shares standing in the name OF Nelson,
son law of James Brooks; he presumed
Nelson paid for them. He did not know
that any shares were sold after January l,
1868; he did not know that the success or
failure of the road would depend on friend
ly or unfriendly legislation. When asked
whether $4,000 had not been put in his
hands to Influence Congress to annul Secre-
tary Boutwell's ruling concerning the inter
est on Pacific Railway bonds, Alley as
serted that he had never had dollar for
such use, direct or indirect. He believed
that Ames had no intention of cOrruptine
Congress by his distribution OF stock, and
thought that if there had been the fullest
investigation from the first, much public
| Misrepresentation would have Deen avoided
Mr.. McComb made statement, on the
9th, before the Committee, reaffirming his
testimony about the conversation he over
heard between Messrs. Brooks and Alley, and
giving the dates and amounts of the check
and draft Brooks drew in payment of the
one hundred shares he purchased. McComt
says that on the day Brooks gave the check
he received or had given to his son-in-law
two hundred shares of the Union Pacific
Railroad stock, and &, 200 worth of it's first
mortgage bonds; later he got SO, 600 more OF
each, making, in addition to the Credit
Mobilier stock, $25, 900 in Union Pacific Rail
road securities, for $4,000 paid. These
transactions, McComb says, took place about
three months after Mr.. Brooks was made a
Government Director of the Union Pacific
Railway. The Committee adjourned to the
18th.
letter is published from T. B. Kings
land, Mr.. Brooks business manager ia New
York, saying that Mr.. Brooks check book
shows no check for $4,000 to Durant, OF
S., 2333 33-alleged by Fl. c. Crane, in a letter
to McComb, to have been received by him
(Crane)-and that he (Kingsland) never, act
ing for Brooks with Crane, paid for any one
hundred or fifty shares of Credit Mobilier
for Charles Fl. Nelson, and he is certain
that Brooks could not have made any such
large operations in money without his check
book or bank account showing it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23
FACTS AND FIGURES.

The State debt of Maine is $751;
900.
Vermont has but four persons en-
gagged in manufacturing liquor.
The Parisians support thirty-seven
hundred and eighty five candy stores.
-Four hundred and sixteen buildings
were erected in Cincinnati during Inc
year 1879.
The number of fires in ST. Louis last
wear, was 234. Loss, 5000, 377; insur-
ance, So, 442, O45. Loss to the insurance
companies, $944,23
Between two and three millions OF
capital are invested in the seed business
in this country, and the annual trade
turns over not less than five million dol
lars.
During the first nine month of last
year England made away with 10, lO9, O41
gallons of spirits-1, 1853, 449 gallons more
than she drank during the corresponding
time in 1871.
"A writer of repute has calculated
that, upon an average, every 500 miles of
railway adds 1870, 100000 yearly to the
national wealth, which is enough to pay
the interest of the national debt. If we
call the addition, however, but one half
Oh IulS cStlladtC, VI POV,OOO,OOO
per annum, the result would be satisfac-
tory enough to all reasonable people.
The official figures of our national
census for 1870, place New York as the
first State in point of population-4,3S2
759, being an increase of 502,0 24 in the
ten years. The second State is Penn
sylvania, whose population in 1881, 951 +,
being an increase Of 615, 1876 in the ten
years. The third State is Ohio, whose
population is 1865, 200, being an increase
of 1926, 749 in ten years. Illinois is the
fourth State, with a population of 2, 539, )
SOL, being an increase of 1877, $40 in ten
years Next to Illinois comes Missouri,
then Indiana, and then Massachusetts,.
"A summary of leading events and
business in Chicago during the past year
shows the following figures: Building
permits issued, 1914; fire alarms, 564;
total losses, $685., 410; insurance loss,
$27O ITO; tonnage Of lake and river YES
sells, Sc, 762, an increase of 2,041 tons over
last year; number of vessels in port, 37S.
Receipts of produce, etc. Flour, 1,511, :
637. brls; wheat, IL, 666, 792 bu; corn, 49,
800, 1874 bu; oats 12,s99062 blu; rye, 852,
971 bu; barley, 4,698, 610 bu. Shipments:
Flour, 1,350,S54 brls; wheat, IL, 1913, 1875
bu; corn. 46, 9S3, 097 bu; oats, ~, 2O5, 102
bu; rye, IT'S, 279 bu; barley, 1866, 259 blu.
Hogs packed, ,500,000 beef packed and
slaughtered, 1856 coo; sheep slaughtered,
10000. Deaths, 10000; marriage IL
censes, S,270. Deaths of horses by cpl
ZOOtic. 500.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23
CONGRESSIONAL.

In the Senate, on the 9th, several res
outions of inquiry were agreed to, and one was
offered and ordered printed, directing the Com
mittee on Privileges and Elections to examine and
report at the next session of Congress- on the best
and most practicable mode of eleCting the Pres
ident and President of the United States and
of providing tribunal TO adjust and decide all
contested questions connected Herewith. Bills
were Misunderstanding to the several States
within which they respectively lie the beds of sur
veyed lakes and other bodies of water; to set
apart portion of the Island of MaCkinac a
national park. The Indian Appropriation bill
was taken up, and the question raised as to the ex-
istence of the Teton Sioux tribe of Indians, when
it was asserted that there such tribe for
W HON appropriation had been made though there
might be some question as to whether that was
tleir proper name; the appropriation of 100000
for said Indians was agreed to-. EXECUTIVE SEES
sion and adjournment.
Inthe House on the 9th, large number
of bills were introduced and referred to the appro-
pirate Committees among.them---for a canal con-
Meeting the waters of Lake Michigan and the Ili-
nois Mississippi and Rock Rivers; to give the Of
ficers of the Missouri militia three months pay;
to pension the widows and orphans of the SOL
diers murdered in Missouri in 1864; making Sioux
City Iowa portEf delivery; to provide for the
convertibiity of United States notes into coin
after the first Of May 1874 :. Resolutions were
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23
PHUNNYGRAMS.

"A more-bid craving-That of the
auctiOneer.
Change after change departs; who
has not met change?
-Query-When a man "fres" with
warmth, what sort of shot does he use?
Dies are engraved now; in Caesars
time the die was cast.
Why are teeth like verbs? Because
they are regular, irregular, and defect
i've
1T is now fashionable in Ohio to
stamp dOughnuts with the monogram OF
the family.
Why are plum-stones like mile stones
Because one never meets with them in
pairs.
The best way to determine chicken S
age is to count his teeth. Every back
double tooth indicates year.
Why is balletdancer a most inhu-
man creature? Because her greatest de-
light is to execute her grand pas
They have place for the sale of iced
drinks at Newark, which they humorous
call ''liquor-ice factory
John Smith says nobody ever paid
him much attention until he broke out
of jail, and then he was much sought
after.
The man who attempted to whistle
bar Of soap has injured his voice by
trying to sing a stave off a molasses
cask.
What is the difference between a
plan of battle field and a roasted pip.
pin One is war map, the other warm
apple.
20 hn cty hot
the public should find their coal m0rt
when the owners have all agreed to coal
esce?
When a voyager makes his way to
the top OF the Pyramids he is enjoying
the benefits of foreign climb.
1t is strange that when man does
not desire to give up a building whose
lease has run out, he releases it if he
can.
Why is Herne Bay like a burglars
swag? Because it isn't his'n. Don't
you see? It's Herne; consequently not
His'n)
THE crisis has come" cried a boy
as he rushed into the house painting with
excitement from seeing the circus enter
town, "and l want a quarter"
Our literary critic says there couldn't
be more appropriate title for recent
novel than "a Capital Investment" be.
cause, like the best advertised railway
bonds, it has crude interest.
-"What is the use of trying to be
honest:" asked young man the other
day of friend. ''Oh. you ought to try
it once and see," was the reply. And the
young man wanted to put head on his
plain-spken friend.
Inflated rubber bustles are announc-
ed They are said to impart great buoy
ancy to the movements. In case of ship
wreck they would undoubtedly be ad-
vantageous, although girl t1oated by one
of them might be taken for buoy, and
so passed by unnot1ced.
Josh Billings says: ''Mackrel in
habit the sea, generally; but those which
inhabit the grocery alwuz taste to
me as though they had been fatted On
salt. They want deal of freshening be-
fore they're eatin', and also arterward.
If kin have plenty OF mackrel fur break
fast, l can generally make the other two
meals on water"
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THE LITTLE CORPORAL.-TheJ Jan
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JOHN E. MILLER, Chicago, and receive the
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THE CHILDREN Hour. THE ia.
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little folks, and also contains several very
pictures. The publishers say this little III
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attractive reading as ever, and that no eff
be spared in the work of keeping in
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world.''' S1.25 year ; five copies, SIS: It
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A boy or girl is wanted in every neighborto,
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Beef Cheese. Have beef shin well
broken: put it to cook in boiling water;
cook till the meat drops from the bone,
leaving the water boiling; chop the meat
fine, and skim the pot thoroughly. If the
water is boiled down to two quarts or
little more it will do; mix the meat and
water from the pot together; season as
you like with salt, pepper and sage; pour
it into deep earthen dishes to cool; next
day it will cut nicely, and will, think,
be liked by all who try it. l cook pigs
feet the same way, and think it the best
way to cook them.-HousehoId.
Boiling Rice-Carolina Method
First pick clean from rough grains and
foreign substances; then wash it quickly
in cold water, and hurry it to the pot be-
fore the grain is at all softened. AS to
the quantity of water to be used in boil
ing, there are two modes; one is to put
in twice as much water as rice, and allow
it to be absorbed by the grain; the other
is to put in three or four times as much
water, but to pour almost all of it off as
soon as the grain changes from its pearly
white color and gives proof of having
softened. In both modes, when this stage
of boiling has been attained, the pot is to
be withdrawn from the hot fire and set
where it will be kept at low steamlng
heat until the water is all gone. The last
process is called soaking" Properly
conducted the rice comes from the pot
perfectly done, of clear white, with
each grain firm and distinct, and swelled
to its original size. Salt, of course, is.to
be added. Rice prepared in this way
should not be stirred much in boiling or
it will become gluey; large open fork
passed through it once or twice will be
sufficient.
TO Roast Pig.-It should not be
more than month old. 1t is better lit
tie less, and it should be killed On the
morning of the day it IS to be cooked.
Sprinkle fine salt over it an hour before
it is put down to the fire. Cut off the
feet at the first joint. Make stuff1ng
enough to fill it very full, of bread
crumbs moistened with little milk, a
small piece of butter, sweet majoram,
sage, pepper and salt. When placed on
the spit, confine the legs IN such man
ner as to give it good shape. Rub it
all over with butter or sweet oil, to keep
it from bliste-ing. Flour it at first, lit
tie. AS soon as it begins to brown,
dredge on very thick covering of flour.
Turn the spit every three or four min
utes. If the flour falls off, instantly re-
new it. When it has all become of a
dark brown color, scrape it in plate and
set it aside. Put piece of butter in the
gravy in the rooster, and basic the pig
very often, till it is done, which is when
the eyes fall out. The feet and liver
should be boiled an hour or two, and the
gravy from the rooster should be poured
into the water in which they were boiled.
The liver should be cut or mashed fine,
and the feet cut open and returned to the
sauce pan, the brains taken out and add
ed, and the gravy should be ttckened
with the brown flour reserved in the
plate. A pig of month old will roast in
two hours and half.
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ARTHUR's ILLUSTRATED HONE Y

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and interest, and Z promise Of the good ba
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illustrated. 'Pipsey Potts begins a new se
her admirable papers. Her ''Windows"
been a great feature in the Home. Every
scriber to the magazine for 1873 will receive
of THE Christian Graces,'' one of the lO7
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23

IT took several years of costly litiga-
ton to obtain from the Supreme Court of
Vermont decision to this effect: That
a Mrs. Drew, who cut some grass on the
public highway in order that her chill
dren might have a path by which they
could get to and from school without get
ting their clothes wet, committed no
crime; but that, as Mrs. Drew fed nine
pounds of this grass to her husband
horse, she committed t1espass, for
which she was responsible to the State Of
Vermont
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23

A FARMER in Eagle County, Neb., late
ly cut cottonwood tree, twelve foot
log from which made 10S feet Of lumber.
Eight years ago he planted the seed from
which that tree sprang.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23

HERE is, probably, no way in which we
can benefit our readers more than by recon-
ihehalng TO them for general use Johnso,,'s
A1todyaee Liatinent. It is adapted to almost
all the purposes of Family Medicine: and
as a specific for coughs, colds, whooping
cough, soreness of the chest, lame stomach,
rheumatism, splitting Of blood, and all lung
ol1iiculties, it has no equal that ever we saw
Or heard Of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23

jury rendering verdict of guilty of murder
in the first degree. The announcement of
the verdict created great sensation in the
court room. The prisoner turned ashy pale,
and his sister wept aloud. It is
stated that the jury, On retiring, stood
ten for murder in the first degree, and two
for manslaughter in the third degree.
Edward s. Stokes, convicted of murder in
the first degree in the killing of James Fisk,
Jr., has been sentenced to be hanged on Fri
day, February rs. When asked the custom
airy question what he had to say before SEN
tence was passed, Stokes replied that the
evidence on which he had been convicted
was manufactured and perjured.
The Erie Railway Company have com
menced suit against Commodore Wander
bilt for So, 500, 900, that being the amount Sc
cured by him in his settlement with Drew,
Eldridge, Gould and Fisk, after the great
Erie "corner" of 1867.
Ex-Governor Koerner on the 7th rendered
his resignation as member of the Illinois
Warehouse Commission.
Mrs. Woodruff and Col. Blood were again
arrested in New York, on the evening of the
9th, and locked in Ludlow-street Jail, on a
new indictment for circulating obscene lit
erature through the mails.
The compositors of the New York Tribune
suggest that each printing office in the
country give at least one pound Of old type,
and that each compositor give the proceeds
of 200 ems (about an hours work. set up
on February 8, the sixty second anniversary
of Mr. Greeley's birthday, for statue OF
Horace Greeley, to be raised over his grave
at Greenwood
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23

"a SLIGHT CoLD," CoUGHs.-Few are
aware of the Importance OF checking a
cough or SLIGHT COLD" which would WELD
to mild remedy; if neglected, often at.
tacks the lungs. "Broacn's Bronchial Tloches',
give sure and almost immediate relief.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23

To LET COLD HAVE ITS OWN WAY to as
laying the foundation of Consumption. l0
the most stubborn Cough or Cold you have
to use, judiciously. DR.. Jay mes ExpectoraI
ASK your grocer for Prussirg's Celebrated
Vinegar. Warranted pure Preserves PCA=
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23

THAT was a good, though rather a
severe pun, which was made by student
in one Of our theological seminaries land
he was not one Of the brightest of his
class, either when he asked, "Why is
Professor - the greatest revivalist of
the age ?" and, on all "giving it up"
said, because at the close of every ser
mon there is Great Awakening
NEXT to subjugating a fractions wife
in a free country, perhaps the most diff
cult job in the world is to tune piano
next door to boiler mandatory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23

CRIsTADoRo's EXCELSIOR HA,.
nosI sure and complete prenar,iD }Tg
a shar, IN me world, its effects pa@rf ara s
during. '---'' Id ofal. It's Qgssi
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23
PERSONAL.

The second trial of Stokes, for the murder
of James Fisk, terminated on the 4th, the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-01-23

CoNsUMPTIoN.-For the cure of this dis
tressing disease there has been no medicine
yet discovered that can show mere evidence
of real merit than ALIENS LUNG BALsAM
This unequaled expectorant, for curing Con-
sumption and al diseases leading to it, such
as affections of the Throat, Lungs, and all
diseases of the Pulmonary Organs, is intro
duced to the suffering public, after its merits
for the positive cure of such diseases have
been thoroughly tested by the medical fac
ulty. The Balsam is, consequently, recon-
mended by physicians who have become &C
nuainted with its great success