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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Milwaukee did 100000 worth of
building in 1873.
In Philadelphia 1e,776 deaths in 1878,
or 3, 1853 less than in 1872.
Boston cleared last year 1854 vessels
for foreign ports, against 1910 in 1872.
Of last years vessels 1896 were under
foreign flags.
The largest Touring mill in the
United States is being built in Minneapo-
lis, MINI. 1t will cost 5000, 900, and con-
tain forty run of stones.
Chicago manufactures employ over
100000 men, have an invested capital of
$52 ,000,0 00 and turn out annually $685.
100000 worth of products.
Since the establishment of the Gov
eminent it has given away 74,052 800
acres of land to soldiers, making in all
half million farms of 100 acres to each.
In Maine 255 vessels, with an aggre-
gate of SO, $50 tons, have been built in the
year just closed. This is double the tom
mage of 1872 and about forty per cent.
more than the tonnage of 1861.
The Massachusetts, PLoug7tmaan says
the quantity of milk daily brought to
Boston by railroad is about 100000
quarts. Of course very large quantities
are brought direct from farms in the
vicinity of the city.
The wreckage tables for 1878 show
that 459 vessels belonging to, or trading
to, ports in the United States, were
wrecked in the twelve month, against AT
in 1872 This is an increase of ten per
cent, and the gross damage amounts to
from 81, 097, 900 to 81, $4,000.
The great cities of the United States
stand relatively in the following order
regarding exports and imports: Exports
New York, $313,000,000; New Orleans,
S1O4 ,OO0, 900; San Francisco, S39, OOO, 900;
Savannah, $32, 100000; Boston, S27 OOO,-
600; and Philadelphia, $34, 100000. I'm
ports-New York, $426,OO0,0OO; Boston,
SOS, zoo, 900; San Francisco, $50 OOO, 900;
Baltimore, $29,000,000; and Philadelphia,
$25,000,000.
"A calculation has been made, based
upon the weather reports of the last two
wears, that the average rate of progress of
a storm in January is $50 miles a day. and
its average direction five degrees north of
east; for February, 740 miles, and direc-
ton thirteen degrees north of east: March,
$40 miles, eleven degrees north of east
and for April, 615 miles, sixteen degrees
north of east.
San Francisco papers claim that the
population Of California has increased by
10000 during 1878, and the population of
| of San Francisco by 10000 The States
exports seaward, exclusive of specie (the
expectation of which has decreasedl have
increased 100000 over those of 1872,
and now aggregate about $50, 600, 600
The exports by rail, for the first eleven
months of the year, aggregated 81, 529, 037
pounds of merchandise, as against 65,-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22

A cable telegram of the 10th says Henry w.
Genet, the fugitive from New York, has been
seen in Belfast, Ireland. He was not arrested,
as the offense for which he was convicted does
not come under the extradition treaty.
Dispatches from Madrid on the 18th report
that Serrano will not convoke the Cortes for
twelve months. He will bend all his energies
to the suppression of the Instruction and the
tranquilization of the country, and not until
these tasks are accomplished will he summon
the National Legislature. decree had been
issued dissolvmg all political associations
charged with conspiring against the interests
of the country or the integrity of its terri
tory.
Returns received on the 18th from the cleo
tions for the German Reichstag were largely
in favor of the National Liberal party, espec-
tally in Bavaria, Wurtemburg and Baden.
In the French Assembly, on the 18th, after
a long and violent debate, vote of confidence
in the Government was adopted by majority
of SIS. The Ministers then withdrew their res
ignations.
According to Madrid telegram of the 18th
Cartagena had surrendered, and the place was
then occupied by the Government troops, I'M
der General Dominiquez. A Paris dispatch of
the same date says the iron-clad Numancia
had arrived at Mers ell Keber, Algeria, with
$500 Cartagenian refugees on board. In es-
Gaping from Cartagena she passed five Gov
eminent men-of-war at the mouth of the
harbor The refugees, ON their arrival sur
rendered themselves tothe French authorities
Among them were Generals Contreras and
Galvez and the other members of the insur-
gent junta. They declare that the city fell
through the treachery of the commanding
officer of the principal fort.
The returns received at Berlin on the 18th
from all parts of the German Empire show
definitely that 100 Ultramontanes and $50
Ministerial Liberals have been elected to the
Reichstag.
meeting was held in Madrid on the 18th,
of Deputies, constituting a majority of the
late Cortes, at which vote of confidence in
Senior CASTELAR, was adopted, and he was re-
quested to prepare a manifesto to the nation
AS Hawkins, counsel for the prosecution in
the Tichborne case, was leaving court on the
10th, he was mobbed by friends of the Itch
borne claimant. The police interfered to
save him from their violence, and four persons
were arrested.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22
DOMESTIC.

Nine thousand miners in the Pottsville (Pa.)
coal regions were on a strike on the 10th, and
all the large operators in that section had sus-
pended work. 1t was thought the entire an
thracite region would be drawn into the strike
duction of wages.
The Indiana State Fair is to be held at I
dianapolis, beginning September Z.
The total loss by the recent fire at Helena,
Montana, is estimated at SS50,000.
President Thomson, of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, has assured the engineers that that
road will raise their wages as soon as the f.
nancial crisis is over.
A Workingmen's demonstration was held in
New York City on the 18th, under the lead of
Communist agitators. Some disturbances oc-
CURED, and the police were obliged to use
their clubs to quell the rioters.
consagratioE at Natick, Mass, on the
morning of the 18th, destroyed nearly the
whole business portion of the town, infiicting
loss of over S50O,o0O Only three stores
were left standing.
The National Cheap Transportation Con-
yention met in Washington on the 18th. The
Committee on Credentials reported qualified
delegates from fifteen States and District of
Columbia. The Hon. Josiah Quincy pre-
sided and in his address he declared that the
industrial interests of all sections were so
closely connected that no one could suffer
without the other, which sentiment elected
great applause.
The police authorities have notified the
proprietors of all places of amusement in
New York that hereafter no sacred concerts
will lie allowed on Sunday nights.
At st. Joseph, Mo-, on the evening of the
14th, Mrs. James McGinnis had filled lamp
and lighted it, and was in the act of putting
it on the chimney-piece when the lamp ex-
ploded, filling the room with a sheet
of fire. a daughter, aged seventeen, who
was standing near, was enveloped in flames
and Mr.. McGinnis sprang to the rescue of his
family. He threw the mother and in
FAINT daughter through a window into The
street, and in attempting TO save his eldes
girl his clothing caught fire, and he and the
girl were literally roasted alive. a sol
aged seventeen years, threw bucket o.
water on his sister and extinguished the flames
but she and the father were so horribl,
burned that the flesh dropped from thei
bones, and they died soon after the accident
Mrs NJ. and her infant daughter would prob
ably die, and the boy was also seriousl.
burned
Several of theleaders in the attempt to ge
up street riot among the workingmen in New
York City the other day. have been held 70
trial.
deputy of the Iowa State Grange has re
GENTLY returned from visit to the destitute
farmers of Lyon, Osceola and O'Brien Coun
ties. He is reported to have found one thou
sand families in need of succor, and thinks tina
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22
The Hous ehoId Panacea and Family
Liniment

Is the best remedy in the world for the following
complaints. viz. Cramps in the Limbs and Stomach.
Pain in the Stomach, Bowels Side, rheumatism In
all its FORMS Bilious Collie, Neuralgia Cholera, Dysen
terry Colds, Flesh Wounds Burns, Sore Throat Spinal
Complaints SpIains and Bruises, Chils and Fever.
For Internal and External use.
Its operation is not only to relieve the patient but
entirely remove the of the complaint. 1t pene
trates and pervades the whole system, restoring
healthy action to all its pars, and quickening the
blood.
THE HOUSEHOLD PAEACKA is Purely Vegetable and
All-Healing.
Prepared by
CURTIS 81 BROWN,
No. 215 Fulton street, New York
For sale by all Druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22
Eccentricities of the Great Paris
Banker.

M. Bischofsheim, whose death was re-
Gently announced by telegraph, leaves
fortune estimated at between 100000
and $4,000, 900 of francs, and all made by
himself. He not only deprived himself,
but his family, of all but the bare neces-
saries of life. It was only few years
ago that he could afford to have wine up
on his table, and the ordinary delicacies
of life were sternly forbidden. M. Bisch-
offsheim has two sons and one daughter,
and the former are well known to every
fianeur upon the boulevards. They are
seen on every public occasion, but, al
though living in the midst of wealth,
they have lived in the midst of great
privation. The two men were only too
glad to flee from the paternal roof, but
the income allowed them was insufficient.
Naturally they were led into debt and
folly. After one scene the father allowed
the elder an apartment and Victoria
with one horse, but this concession was
made by protocol, and regular agree
ment was signed. This document emu
merated what the young man OF thirty
must not do, and the moment single
stipulation was violated supplies were
cut off Immediately. In this way two
young men, with good hearts and fair
amount of brains, have been rendered
unfit for any public duties, and they will
live out their DAYS in the enjoyment of
wealth of which they were deprived in
the days of youth. The Bischottsheims
are very much liked for their pollteness
and amlability, and every body IN Paris
ian society has sympathized most heartily
in their deprivations. Neither are mar
rled, and they have now something like
f1ve-and twenty millions each.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22
United States Finances.

The following table, made up by The
Neao York EUenjng Post from figures &C.
the report of the Secretary of
the Treasury, will be found interesting
and valuable for reference. The second
column of figures shows the amount OF
principal of the public debt
of the United States on the 1st of January
of each year mentioned, and the third the
gross expenditures of the Government for
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22
Cures all Kinds of Catarrh.

So successful has DR.. Pierce's Golden Medi-
cal Discovery proven, as constitutional
treatment for Catarrh, when coupled with the
use of Dr. sage's Catarrh Remedy, applied
locally by the use of DR.. Pierce's Nasal Douche
(the only method of reaching the upper and
back cavities of the head, that the proprietor
of these medicines has long offered standing
reward of $500 for a case of Catarrh which
he cannot cure. The two medicines, with in
strument, for 81, by druggists.
A SPECIMEN OUT OF THOUSANDS.
CORTLAND, ILL.,, April %, 1873.
DR.. PIERCE, Buffalo, n. T.:
DEAR SIR: It is with pleasure l make this
statement to you that after taking medicine
for twenty years for the Catarrh, l tried your
Catarrh Remedy and effected cure, so that it
has not troubled me for two years.
s. WHEELER
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22

Children Often Look Pale and Sick
From no other cause than having worms In the ston
ach.
BROWNS VERMIFUGE COMFITS
will destroy Worms without injury to the child being
perfectly WHITE and free from all coloring or other
injurious ingredients usually used in worm prepare
tions
CURTIS & BROWN, Proprietors,
No. 215 Fulton street, New York.
Sold By Druggists and Chemists, and Dealers IN
Medicines, a. TWENTY-FIVE CENTS Box.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22
STEALING OUR THUNDER

who copy DIR. Pierce's original style of adver-
Using, by offering various sized rewards for
cases of CataTrh and other diseases which they
cannot cure. Those who do not possess suf-
ficient intelligence to write an original adver-
tisemeut are not likely to have made great and
valuable discoveries In medicine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22

NEGLECTED COUGHS AND CoLDs.-Few are
aware of the importance of checking Cough
or Common Cold' in its first stage; that
which in the beginning would yield to
'Bro1Cn'S Bronchial Troches," if neglected,
often works upon the Lungs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22

WORTHY OF NoTE.-An exchange says there
is scarcely a day passes that we do not hear,
either from persons coming into our office or
in some other way, of the success of JohnSon'S
Anodg1ae Lirainlent in the cure of coughs and
colds, so prevalent about town Just now
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22

IF we can benefit our readers any by recon-
mending Parsons Purgatjge Pills to be the
best anti-bilious medicine in the country, we
are willing to do So We have had about as
good chance to know as any one.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22
Browns bronchial Troches for Coughs
and Colds.

COUGH, COLD OR SORE THROAT
Requires immediate attention, and should be Check
ed. IT allowed TO continue, IRRITATION OF THE
LUNGS, A PERMANENT THROAT AFFECTION, OR AN
INCURABLE LUNG DISEASE is often the result.
BROWNS BRONCHIAL TROCHES,
Having direct influence on the parts give immedi-
ate relief. For BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, CATARRH,
CoNsUMPTTvE AND THROAT DISEASES, TRocHEs are
used l0ith dl,cGyS good success.
SINGERS AND PUBLIC SPEAKERS
VIII find TRoCHEs useful in clearing the voice when
taken before Singing Speaking. and relieving the
throat after unusual exerton of the vocal organs.
Obtain only BROWNS BRONCHIAL TRocHEs," and
do not take any of the worthless limitations that may
be offered. Sold EUe7,yaChere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22
PERSONAL.

five hundred of them must depend on charity
for support till spring.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22
Thirty Years Experience OF an Odd
Nurse,

Mrs. WINsLows SOOTHING SYRUP is the prescrip-
son of one of the besEFemsle Physicians and Nurses
in the United States and has been used for thirty
years with neverfailing safety and by mill
ions of mothers and children from the feeble infant
of one week old the adult. 1t correcs scidity of
the stomach relieves wind collie regulates the bow
els and gives resi- health and comfort to mother and
child. We believe it to be the Best and Surest Rene
dy in the World in all cases of DYSENTERY and
DIARRHGA IN CHILDREN, whether 1t arises from
Teething or from any other cause. Full directions
for using will accompany each bottle. None Genuine
unless the fac-simile of CURTIS & PERKINS is on
the outside wrapper.
SOLD By ALL MEDICINE DEALERS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22

AN ''undenominational soup house, is
advertised as recently opened in one OF
our cities. So far, so good, and it is
hoped the soup viii have no flavor of sect
in it. But the regulations of the house
should be such as to forbid the lazy to
enjoy it or it will not be a good thing. If
a man will not work when he can find
work to do, we have divine authority
for saying he ought not to have soup.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22

DoN'T TAAfPER WITH A CoLD.-Perhans II,
the whole category of diseases to which bn-
mainly Is susceptible, the cough is most moo,
lected in its early stage. a simple cou0b p
generally regarded as a temporary affection
unpleasant and nothing more; but to those
VINO nave paid dearly for experience, it is the
signal for attack for the most fearful of all
diseases-ConsumptiOn A cough will lead to
consumptlon-if not checked-so sure as the
rlVulet leads to the river, vet it is an EASY enc
my to thwart, if met by the proper remedy.
AUera'S Lung BGlSana is the great cough rem
edy of the age, and it has earned its reputation
by merit alone. Sold by all good druggists.
To THE SUFFERING.-An old retired
physician, who is candid enough to tell
the truth about progress, has declared
that the recent discovery by Dr.. WALKER,
of California, of Lis herb remedy. Vim.
EGAR BITTERs, is one Of the most import
ant in medicine. He has tested them
thoroughly, in his own family, among his
friends, and upon himself. and he is
driven to the conclusion that they DOS
sess rare and uneXcelled curative proper
ties. He says of them: "They contain
no dangerous drag. They never reduce
the patient-never render one liable to
take cold-never interfere with the every
day business of life-never make their
continuous use a condition of cure and
are adapted to even the most delicate
organization. They act as kindly on the
tender infant, the delicate female, or in
firm old age, as on the vigorous and
athletic system; exercising healthful
effects upon every blood vessel-on the
brain, nerves, and lymphatics-on the
Blood, Bile, Gastric Juice, etc, enriching
impoverished fluids, and imparting vigor
to mind and body" a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22

Miss Charleton, of Chicago, has been elected
First Assistant Clerk of the Illinois House of
Representatives.
George NJ. How has been chosen President
of the Chicago Board of Trade
a State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry
was recently held at Harrisburg, Pa, and dep
uties were appointed to establish subordinate
Oranges.
Isaac NJ. Mason is the newly-eIected Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade of st. Louis.
Hon. William Allen, Governor-elect of Ohio,
and the other State officers-eIect, were inau-
gurated at Columbus on the 18th. There was
a large concourse of people in attendance
According to Washington special of the
morning of the 18th, at the caucus of Repub-
Iican Senators the day before, evidence was
produced showing that Mr.. Cushing, during
the war; was in communication with jeff Da-
Wis, while at the same time he was holding
confidential relations with the Federal Gov
eminent. 1t was therefore determined to re-
quest the President to withdraw his nominal
ton to be Chief-Justice.
In compliance with the request of the Sena-
torial Republican caucus, and of Mr. Cushing
himself, the President on the 14th withdrew
the nomination of the former to the Chief
Justiceship.
Two of the ladies elected to the Boston
School Board, Misses May and Peabody, have
been allowed to take their seats, although the
legality of their election is still pending.
The National Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton commenced its session at Washington on
the 18th, Susan B. Anthony presiding.
The Patent-Rights Convention met at Wash
ington on the 18th, and elected j. NJ. Thatcher,
of that city, President.
Mr.. Matthews, step-father of ex-Vice-Pres-
idept Colfax, died at Buchanan, Mich, on the
18th.
Ex-3tate Senator Graham, of New York,
has been sentenced to the penitentiary for ten
years for having, as President of the Waikiki
National Bank, appropriated the funds Of
that institution to his own private use, and
having proved defaulter for large amount.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22
The NEWS.

The Spanish COrtGS Not to be COnTOkGd
for Twelve Months.
Cartagena Surrendered to the
Government Troops.
Withdrawal of the Nomination Of
Caleb Cushing for Chief-Justice.
Repeal of the Increased Salary
Law.
Political State Nominations i'm
New Hampshire.
Thurman Reelected to the U. S. Senate
by the Ohio Legislature.
An Extensive Strike in the PennsyI-
Vania Coal Regions.
Terrible Results of Kerosene Explosion at
st. Joseph, Mo.
Other Interesting News Items.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22
FOREIGN.

Other Interesting News Items.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-22
Children Often

SOLD By ALL MEDICINE DEALERS.
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1874-05-21
A Famous Apple Tree.

There is an apple tree standing
in lot adjoining the house OF
Rev. ]. W. Canter, at Hunters
vile, Pocahontas county, West
Virginia, which has become bistor,
ical, marking the spot where Gen.
eral R. E. Lee pitched his first
tent during the late war. Early
in the summer of 1861, General
Lee was ordered to the command
of the forces in West Virginia -
Leaving Richmond, he came to
Warm Springs the first day, and
on the day following reached
HuntersvilIe, where, for the first
time in The war, be bivouacked or
the tented field, selecting the afore-
mentioned apple tree, which stands
on hill overlooking the town, as
the place where his tent should
be pitched. 1t is singular coin
dence that Gen. Lee should have
commenced his military career un-
der an apple tree among the
mountains of West Virginia, and
have closed that brilliant career
by capitulating to Grant under an
apple tree at AppomattoX. And
what is more singular, as an incl
dent connected with the war, John
Brown, who commenced this war,
was chung on Sour apple tree,
and it is said that the forbidden
fruit which mother Eve partook
of was taken from an apple tree ;
and now, to cap the climax, agents
for the sale of apple tlees are be-
coming as numerous as lightning
rod men and sewing machine a.
gents
Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1874-05-21
4 Curious Suit.

The case of a New York insu
rance company VS. the Pennsy Iva
MIA Railroad, for damages alleged
IL be caused to DIR. Rutherfnrd's s
barn, at MIddietown, from sparks
from locomotive ON the Pennsyl-
vauia Central Railroad. having
been decided adversely to the
Railroad Company, viii be ap-
pealed 70 the Supreme Court =
The barn was insured In a New
York fire insurance company
The company paid DIR. Rutherford
the insurance, but demanded the
amount paid the Doctor from the
railroad company as damages -
The latter refused to pay and the
Insurance company brought suit
agal, st the railroad company in
New York aud attached their
property to the amount due them
Th' railroad company claimed. first.
they did not set fire to the barn !;
that their engines were of the most
approved pattern; and, second, if
they did cause the fire, it was be-
cause straw and other dry, inham-
mable stuff was scattered negli-
gently around the barn, and this
should defeat any recovery on
the ground of egligpnce on
the part Of the owner of the
barn and, finally, that no suit
could be brought in the name of
the insurance company foc a.
part Of the loss, but the action
must be brough' in the name OF
the owner Of the barn for the en-.
tire loss.