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


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The Board Of Trustees of the
Northern Insane Al ylum have appoin-
ted, DR.. w. A. Goflon, of Oshkosh,
First Assistant Superintendent, and
Mr.. and Mrs. But er, Of Utica, N. Y,
Steward and Steve fdcss.
We clip the following from an ar
ticle on Job Printing Presses in Whit
news Commercial Path Finder, giving
the history of the manufacture of the
celebrated Gordon Press
The present capacity Of the estab-
lishment is two complete presses per
day. The Superintendent OF the
works. Mr.. J. u. Wittcr, has had
many years experience in building these
presses. and has their mechanical con-
struction most thoroughly systematic
ed
Now we'd like to know how many
branches of industry y. d." proposes
to run. With banking and logging
and insurance, and making printing
presses. his time must be pretty well
occupied.
The eenras of Brazil has just been
completed. The population Of the
Empire is 10, 000,0D0, including nearly
., 900, 900 slaves and 25O.0OO aborig-
mes.
In view of forthcoming immersion
ceremonies, at Menoninee, the Hero'd
saws that it ssdoseu'tl want any better
evidence Of mans christianity than
to see him baptized in Green Bay at
this season Of the car and not hear
him swear.
Pittsburgh is having a food. The
bow in the cloud don't seem to have
applied to the Iron City. It's so
blamed cloudy there all the time that
they have no ocular proof Of it's exist
ence but then they have Cod WORD
| for it which is enough.
| The Danbury News says: Looking
over an old ledger we see long array
of names of subsc~ berswho are indebt-
cd to us. Som them have moved
away and are lost to our sight, all
though to memory dear. Others are
carving the contribution boxes in our
most respectable churches, and Others
again have died, and are now angels in
| heaven, but they owe us just the same.
! George 4. Clark, the senior pro-
prictor of the Clark Thread Works, Of
| Newark, New jersey, died very sud
denly on Thursday, of heart disease.
| He left an estate valued ut from g.,
5000 to 5000, 900.
How true-our life hangs by a
Mrca I've wouldn't trihe with a
groce wt'cc', but George has GER
tainly wound up his bobbin.
We get no positive information
from the Tomall Road, bnt imagine
that the work Of construction Is going
on rapidly. We expect TO see the cars
in Ccntralia by the first Of May. By
the way We would :ay to its leading
spirits, don't be 50 ftarfulIy afraid to
let the Reporter know what is being
done. Your road has bittcrcr enemies
than the Editor Of the Reporter, even
if he don't choose to kiss the toe of
the Grand Iogul Of the enterprise.
Let us hear what is bein, done.
The Menasha Press Of the Goth
| inst, gives Il full account Of pcrilous
tramp experienced by Johnsons engi-
neer party, from Penoha range to Ste
vens Point. Some Of the boys went
seventy-two hours without food, and
were two days in making ten miles,
the thermometer being far below zero
They left Penoka Dee. ODD, and under
went terrible hardships while travelling
through the immense forest lying be-
tween the points mentioned, being
without snow shoes and the snow three
feet deep, each man carrying from 35
to So pounds of luggage. The dis
lance from the Range to Stevens
Point is about 120 miles by trail and is
uninhabited by any human beings but
Indians. We arc glad to know that
none Of the party persisted.
1t is amusing to read the OCCASION
al criticisms, (perhaps it were juster
to call them off hand notices. Of the
concerts from time to time given in the
larger cities, and published in the
daEies for the edi6cation of music low
ing people. who can't attend, The