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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-17


bordig. (Ts-chu.)
Mr.. P.-Good morning.
Business Notices. Sleeves & Son
are opening up new goods continually.
Their business is rapidly increasing as
the public find out the quality Of their
goods.
Mr.. Rablin has mammoth stock
which is being added to by new invoices
almost daily His stock comprises
everything proportionate to the wants
Of the community
st Amour has hung his banner on
his outer wall which signifies a siege.
The willing enemy charges with green
backs, which prccludes the necessity of
Santa $ charging in return. St Amour
knows how to dress up the outer man
to T.
The Demaras Bros are feeding
the hungry at their tasty restaurant.
Get your dinner at Dolph's.
ID. j. Cole keeps handing down
canned fruit, and all manner of good
things for the stamps To trade with
| d. }. once, is to continue, for good
goods and fair dealing are compound
ratchwords with j. D.
-Worden at the ssred front is sell
ing pile of goods and delivers social
lectures gratis Worden is making
wholesaling speciality. Rivermen
will make a note of it.
The City Drug Store is doing a
| large business in the medicine and fan
cy goods line.
Mrs. Huntington is receiving
spring styles daily and if ribbons and
hats full of beauty can draw good
house Mrs. II. will have a continual
rush.
Tim DAILY is supplying the people
with fruits and canned goods at low
figures.
Warner will soon have his Hard
ware, Stove and Tin shop in running
order on the burnt district then look
out for large invoices, and a museum
of goods.
Lord & Stowell will resume the
Harness business next week in all its
branches.
20. c. Neeves has an elegant as
sortment Of ladies goods and all the
spring styles. Call at his tasty store.
-Lemuel the Kroner is doing a
Aourishing business, and makes record
of all he does with his usual correct
ness.
--Herringtion makes faces for the
public as is his wont. Photographs
a speciality.
IN. Z. Emmons has established
himself at Mr. Days where he will
attend to work until he gets into bis
new building.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-17
Boom SYent Away. About six

R0Oin Swept Away. ---About SIX
hundred feet of boom-three p}y-was
swept away from the Rabiin ,nill piers
at Hurleyville last Friday night, while
the men were attempting to swing it in
to position. Search was made for it
along the river bank up to late hour
of the night, but it could not be found.
On Saturday morning it was discovered
only few rods away from where it had
become lodged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-17

The Express Business
have before spoken Of the increase of
the express business in our city. The
business has steadily increased until it
requires double team to convey to
and from the depot the packages in
trusted to it. Mr.. Neeves by assidu-
Gus attention has made himself deserv-
edly popular as the Co.'S agent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-04-17

b. is this ioc Freight 3 The
II train arriving from tue east on
Rth INST, rio. G. B. 4 L. p. r.
8rooght i'll Eve carloads of mixed
andjse for Grand Rapids and
ala, upon which the freight
F. amounted to three hundred
IN. Business is looking up.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-22
Making a Present.

A profitable mode of making presents was practiced not long ago on the occa- sion of a golden wedding. Ten gentle men, acting on the suggestion of one of their number, decided to present $500 gold cup to venerable friend by way of signalling their interest in the fiftieth anniversary of his wedding day. Con- tributions of $50 from each of the gen tlemen were promptly collected, and the person who proposed the thing was deputized to buy the cup and make the presentation, which he did to the satis- faction of all concerned and with quite flourish of trumpets. The recipient was grateful, the donors were happy, and the affair reflected any amount of lustre upon all who had to do it. But unfortunately for the person who pro- posed and purchased and presented the gift, the cup subsequently required some little thing .to be done to it, and was sent by its owner to New York for that purpose. It happened that the cup was sent to the very store where it was purchased, and, it's interesting story having gone along with it, the discovery was made that it was only Q silver gilt article and had been pur- chased as such for $130. The buyer had contributed nothing, but had pock- eted $320 out of the contributions of his friends.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-22
Indian FOrays Tn Texas on the Increase.

The Washington Republican has q letter dated Fort Black, Texas, saying that the Indian forays seem to increase to an alarming extent. Scarcely Q day elapses that the bleeding and sealped body of some poor isolated frontiers man is not found scorching under the summer sun. Stock and horses have been taken away from the midst of po- pulous and seemingly secure settle ments, and driven to the wigwams of the savage or the haciendas of the Mexi- can allies. The troops which were re- gently stationed here-over 1000 strong are now scattered in detachments throughout the country, so that the gar rison here may be considered as without cavalry. Several infantry companies yet remain for garrison duty. The cavalry are kept constantly in motion. They have secured every portion of the country from the Rio Grande to the Rio Honda, and have closely guarded every creek and crossing. Yet, notwithstanding this vigilance on the part of the troops, the savages and their allies continue to increase extended devastation of our territory than they have dared to attempt for many years previous. The same letter says that the people of the Mexican bor- der States not only permit the savages to cross and recross the boundary line without hindrance, but aid them in every manner possible. The National Gov vernment is not altogether so culpable in these matters as are the State admin istrations. Every effort of the former to bring about an amicable settlement of the frontier difficulties is sure to be thwarted.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-22
COntagiOus Diseases.

The English papers reported lecture on liabilities to disease, recently de- livered by Dr. Alfred Hudson, in which that distinguished physician stated the following as some of the conclusions to which he had arrived :> That liability to zymotic disease may be considered inherent in our constitutions law of our nature; that this varies in degree in different individuals, at different times and under different circumstan- ces that these circumstances are part ly external, or intrinsic conditions 1; that both are partly preventable, md partly -preventable fifth, that ceteris pari6us liability is least in those in whom healthy blood, healthy tissues, and healthy exertion coexist, constitu- ting perfect nutrition; and that it is greatest in those whose blood contains the greatest amount of the products of waste of the tissues, and of matters in a state of decomposition, introduced into the circulation from without. Dr. Hudson also asserts that fatigue is one of the most frequent causes that pre- dispose to disease-this being shown particularly in the case of soldiers who suffer so much after long marches. often exposed to the worst influences of the weather.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-22
American Working People.

The Scient!fc American foots up the whole number of working people in the United States at 12, ,505, 1923. The num- Der of inhabitants in the country is 3S,- 55S, ,371, so that the active workers con stitute very nearly one-third of the population, the ratio having consider ably increased since the census of 1860, at which time it barely exceeded one- quarter. 10,669, ,436 are males, and 1886, 497 females. Between the ages of ten and fifteen years the males out number the females in ratio of nearly three to one between sixteen and fifty nine years the ratio increases to nearly six to one; while at the ages above sixty years there are more than twelve times as many men at work as there are women. These figures apply to the men and women in actual outside em- ployment. It will be noticed as the women grow older, their numbers in proportion to the men decrease. Tbis is accounted for by their marrying, abandoning their employments, and settling down to the household.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-22
Fish and Tea as Food.

The London Zynaes sharply contro- verts the assertion made by Dr. Edward Smith to the British Association, that fish is rather relish than food, and contains little more nutriment than wa ter. As opposed to this statement, the investigations of M. Payen are cited, who proves that the flesh of fish on the average does not contain more water than fresh beef, and has as much solid substance as the latter. For instance, the flesh of salmon contains 75.70 per cent. of water and 24 296 per cent. solid substances, while beef (muscle) con tains 75.89 per cent. water and 24. 12 per cent. solid substances. The flesh of herring contains still less water than that of salmon, and even flat fish are as rich in nitrogenous substances as the best wheaton flour, weight for weight. Another statement made by Dr. Smith, that the amount of nutriment in an ounce of tea is infnitesimal, is met with the assertion that, while tea is no nutriment," in the ordinary sense, the individual who takes tea after his meals feels, without being able to define it. that tea has favorable effect upon cer- tain highly important functions in his body, that digestion is accelerated and facilitated, and his brain-work benefited thereby. Though not nutriment, tea is alleged to possess really higher value, in medical properties of 8 peculiar kind.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-22
A Wicked Weapon.

: A man was hanged the other day at San Francisco, for murder with a weapon of peculiarly dangerous and for long time mysterious nature. This is sand club, formed by filling an eel skin with sand. When this instrument was first brought into use the authori- ties were greatly puzzled by deaths, ap- parently from violence, yet no marks could be found on the outside of the body. A burglar was finally captured with Q sand club in his possession made out Of an eel skin stuffed with sand. Being closely questioned, he explained it's use. When the victim is struck, for instance, on the head he drops insensi- ble and soon dies from congestion of the brain. Often the skull suffers no injury from the stroke, and if the per son struck recovers sensibility he grad ually relapses into condition of id joey Sometimes man struck in the body will be knocked down by the force of the blow and feel no immediate results from it. In few weeks, how ever, the flesh will begin to mortify under the line of the blow and rot down to the bone. Heller, the celebrated pianist, is supposed to have met his death in Mexico from Q stroke of this diabolical weapon.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-22
The Atlantic Balloon.

The balloon in which Professor Wise and others hope to cross the Atlantic and which is expected to get out some time during the month of September, is no baby affair. It weighs 6,000 pounds; netting, 700 pounds; car, 250 pounds; boat, 700 pounds; instruments and drag-rope, 1000 pounds ; total, s,S50 pounds. Four hundred thousand cubic feet of gas, having carrying capacity n total carrying force of 14,000 pounds. Deduct S,650 from this, and you have balance of more than 5000 for passen- gers and ballast. All our provisions will be so much ballast, says the prof lessor, in answer to correspondent. All the water on board the balloon will be ballast. Directly we come in sight of land, we can dispose of the boat as ballast. It will be of no further use.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-22
Romance In AShtabula.

A beautiful, brown haired daughter of Sweden was the heroineof romance having its termination in Ashtabula re- gently, which throws the ''novel writers" completely into the shade. Twenty years ago, when little fifteen year old damsel, she was woed and fairly won by Christian Hanquest, a bright lad twenty years of age, in far-off Sweden. The parents of the girl were of higher rank than the relatives of poor Christian, and as soon as they learned of the prefer ence manifested by the young people for each other, they ruthless1y :" tore their young hearts asunder," and prob- ably "packed the girl off to boarding school" if there was such cruel insti- tuition in Sweden. Christian bore his hard fate at home as long as he was able, when, finding all efforts to see his betrother fruitless, he yentured upon the ocean as common sailor. After Q lapse of several years, Hanquest return ed to find his friends and relatives scat tered or dead and himself total stran- ger. He was unable to find even the slightest trace of his sweetheart. Han quest had amassed quite little fortune in his wanderings, but the unsuccessful efforts to find his beloved, for whom he had labored so long, caused him to care but little as to the manner in which it was spent, and finally threw him once more upon his own resources, without money or friends, in the early part of year 1872. He was in an English sea- port when he became rid of his last "red," and shipped upon an American vessel and worked his passage to New York. While there, hearing stories of the fabulous wages which were paid sailors upon, the inland lakes, he went to Canada and engaged himself on q schooner. Here, however, he found that his golden dreams were naught, and reaching Cleveland July 1, he started on foot for Buffalo, where several of his friends from the old country were living. Hanquest spent the night of the 3d in stant at Ashtabula ; and in conversation with some of his countrymen who were employed on the railroad, he inciden- tally related fragments of his past his tory, among them m account of his early love. While he was speaking, a Swedish lady, aged about thirty-tive years, who resides in Jamestown, N. r., and was spending few days in Ashta- bula, exclaimed, in the language of her fatherland, Christian, do you not know e?" and fell weeping on his shoulder. The wanderer had found his mate but we draw a curtain over tho scene, as too hallowed for the prying eyes of reporter to penetrate. The re- united couple started on the morning of the 4th for Jamestown, where they will soon be joined in the holy bonds of wedlock. The fair ones parents are said to be highly respectable people, and they will probably not now main tain any opposition to what is evident ly the manifest destiny of their daugh- ter, who for so long period has remain ed single. Hanquest will doubtless settle down into sober and industrious citizen. .L--- .-- : -
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-22
MO-. 6.
The Battle of the BulIfrOgs.

Many of the citizens of Vermont will remember to have seen on one-dollar bills of the Windham County State Bank q vignette representing bullfrogs fighting. This was engraved to com memorate the Battle of the Bullfrogs.
 The facts were as follows: "Many years ago, when the town of Windham was newly settled, there came very dry season. There are two large ponds in Windham, separated by an intervening strip of land of considerable extent.
 Each of these ponds was inhabited by a large community of the reptiles above named. The smaller pond dried up and it's inhabitants started in a body for the lower and larger pond. They were met in the intervening space by the com munity from the larger pond, and a fierce and long continued battle ensued between the rival communities. Such was the hideous believing of the frogs during their fierce encounter that it alarmed the inhabitants. who at first supposed it to be the whoop of the hos tile savages. But curiosity getting the better of their fears, they cautiously proceeded to the spot whence the hide ous sound issued, and there beheld the strange spectacle of two immense armies of bullfrogs, covering many acres of ground, engaged in fierce and deadly battle. This battle continued more than twenty-four hours, and when it was over the ground was literally cov- cred with the slain, and it became neces- sary, to avoid the noxious effluvia, to gather and bury them.-BoSton Iran-
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-22
A Grand Exhibition of National In-
 duStry.

The American Institute of the City of New York will hold its 42d Exhibition this fall, opening on the 10th day of September next, and continuing until late in November. f-F ,.. .'
 The Exhibition promises to be moro interesting than any which ever pre- ceded it, inasmuch as special effort IS being made to have the leading indus trial operations carried on upon the premises. +'
 The American Institute is the oldest of all societies now in existence of its kind, and is not in any sense Q private corporation, it's earnings being devoted by it's charter to the encouragement of home industries.
 For circulars, giving classification of articles, rules for exhibitors and full particulars, address, General Superin- tendent, American Institute, New York Titu
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-22
VOL. III,
6, Q
 The Surprise.

When the bright September moon Ger the hilltop rises, shall give some one know
 The sweetest of surprises. He asked mo, just the other night, To be his little wife; told him that already
 Loved some one more than life. Then ah ! how very grieved he seemed, And took my hand in parting With such look, I'm sure my eyes Betrayed the tear-drops starting. But when he asked for one more walk Beneath the moons soft ray, Ipromised would tell him then
 Who stole my heart away. And so when the September moon Is OCT the hilltop shining, Beneath the trees I'll walk with him, My arm in his entwining. l.. And oh! how glad his smile will be When my secret tell, And own there's none so dear as he; None whom love so we'll
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-22
HOnOrs to a Shah.

A newspaper in London is very say age about the honors paid to the Shah, and declares that only a monkey in the Geological Gardens has exhibited a vestige of manliness and independence. When the Shah attempted to poke this animal with stick, the indignant crea- ture seized 1t, and grinned defantly at the majesty of Persia. "And this" philosophizes our newspaper, " shows how superior monkeys are to Mayors. Had the Shah kicked one of the latter, all the Mayors in the kingdom would have envied him the distinction, and regretted that their person had not been honored by similar infliction."
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-22

A physician, on presenting his bill to the executor of an estate of q deceased patient, asked, Do you wish to have my bill sworn ?" "No," replied the executor, |" the death of the deceased is sufficient evidence that you attended him professionally.
Connecticut western news., 1873-08-22
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The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-03-15
AnnR ESS

Delivered before the County
Survivors Association on the
22d of February 1873 at the
Presbyterian Church mt
Orangcburg s. G.,
The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-03-15


South, not being responsible for tie one,
cannot be charged, with the responsible
ty, for the other, with all its terrible
results. Bat, | shall take the bold
ground that such was not the object Of
the war, either in the one case or the
other. Slavery ..was not, as is the oom
mon opinion, the cause of the war, but
the popular pretext for it
Can we believe that that war would
not have been wagel against the South,
even thou h her ordinances of Secession,
themselves. had torn the shackles Of
slavery, from every slave, within her
bnrders, forever? No--never.
From, the very Formations of the
Constitution, by which the original thir :
teen, Sovereign aud Independent
States, wore bound under tbs. Compac,
of Federal Union. There have been
those in our land who have Babored TO
drag the old sh p, from herImoorngs.
to dismamt'c her deck TO knock away
her bulwarks to silence .hcr bctteries
and then leave her adrif,, upon the
waters, OF an untried sea, with nc haven
in sight, except the hostils ports OF i
centralized despotism.
Ththcr, she has drifted--thi ,hcr sac
is drifting still-and nothing, but the
grandcst outburst of patriotic fire, on
the part ofthc whole American people
such an outburst indeed, as shall
sweep every pirate from the decks, can
prevent her eternal wreck upon those
fatal shores Great minds, and skilful
hands aud mi @hty energies, have bent
their power. to work out her salvation.
nd though checked ut times, in her
course, the waters about her, are still
ton dark and rough and deep, for her
anchors to bc cast.
The Statesmen Of the South, have
ever bent their enci gies, to prevent the
mutilation Of that covenant, upon which
alone could our Great Bepublc, rest
secure in its glory. they have ever
held to the doctrine of Ssste Sovereignty
as the only safeguard, for%hc liberties
Of the States, aud it's only by argument.
which are higher and grcRcr, those OF
The swor !, th.t this conviction Of lie,
time eau be swept away We must frs,
be male to feel that our liberties, are
Sill secure, Letore we can ever be con.
''"'t' '""t int "Mnlon w'S wr'nr.
"Ml'''' "hH hi"SH"mt miy crnm1 lie
t. 'hc power "i the sword, but
Sc"'''r means aiohc, can sweep away
CONVICTION.
True Sta; csmen saw with appr.Len
sion. the cloud that rose, upon tn {
political horizon, when centralizin 9
doctrines were proclaimed, IN the very
convention, oy which the constitution
'''e'' was framed. Aud to di>pel that
cloud wh'!e yet only specS IN the sky
tn" doctrine "t State sovereignty was
e"ira''ed IN the constitution BY u ami
mus ''' ~ 81" ''' S"e'''-n o'''eS.
"N i'a,''t" ~ '''e "or'u
'''' :" "l>'' ''"'''e WI" ''e CONSTITUTION
'''" ''''e , 'e'''"S It's SOW r0'S"'y' 'ree-
''''' a"u independence ""a every power,
'"' ''''.''o"' "o' ''' expressly n''esA'ed
:" no o"''cu o'~'e' |" C'h 5rcs' assem-
'''u'
Such was the New England, such the
IonnSylvaala. su"h tho Virginia. such
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a GGoD SpELLER.--A Michigan
schoolma'ter says ~ Aill spell eny
man, womun or child in the hull State
Tor d'ckshunary, or kash priez of ono
hundred dollars aside, tie money to be
awarded by kOmmittc of clergymen or
skool directors. There has been a daru.
ed sight blown about my spelIin; now I
want them to put me mp or sp she. up.
won't be put down by pasasl Of igns.
ramnuscs because 1 differ with. ncar
Welsisrsstyle ofspellipg.p