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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
The Southern FlO0ds-An Appeal for
Aid.
To the People of the United States:

To the People of the United States:
The undersigned citizens of the Delta
of the Mississippi, now so disastrously
deluged with the flood-waters, would re
spectfully beg to make the following
statements and renewed appeal for your
helping hand in this uneQualed calamity.
We know full well your charities, your
liberalities in this and in former calami-
ties to our own city, and other cities
afflicted by pestilence and by fire, and we
would render you on behalf of a grateful
people their blessings and their thanks.
But we are compelled by the sad facts
to represent to you the vast magnitude of
the present affection, passing by many
fold any disaster that has befallen the
people Of this continent. And we regret
TO have to state that its extent is not vet
asCertained, but known to be expanding.
While the river has receded somewhat
along the whole flooded front this
has been at the expense Of the flooded
area. The relief apparent to strangers
is only delusiOn. The Delta floods
increase as the river falls by pouring
more water on the land and their dura-
ton must continue for some two months
to come. Most of the lands will be unfit
tor crops too late for cultivation this
year. What then is to be done with and
for the 100000 people driven out by the
waters, and with no supplies of any kind
whatever?
We would append a statement of the
populations of various counties and par
ishes and specify all the localities but
for the length it would give this state
menr and appeal. Suffice it, that the
total amounts to 40, 900 people to be sub.
sisted and transported, sheltered, housed
and supplied with utensils for household
uses and implements for farming and
planting for the next four months, and
many much longer.
The enumerations in the New Orleans
papers up to the Goth, and derived from
our knowledge, gave an estimate of the
people flooded:
LOUISIANA IL, 600 SQUARE MILES UNDER WATER.
Sugar producers in the parishes below Red
Cotton producers on Washita and Black
Rivers. .....:.....:. ............. 1900
Cotton producers in nine parishes with $1,000
people above Red River, half under wafer. 1880
MISSISSIPPI so SQUARE MILES.
On Big Black 5,O00 Bayou Pierre 1000
and HomocIitto 1000. ............... -. 900
Coahome County (Hushpuchana and Sun
fower) ...,-..:...... ..................... $500
Bolivar County Civilians Bayou and Bayou
Faah, and along Mississippi RIVER. 5000
Washington and Isaquena Counties (>teers
Bayou, Suuf0wer Yazoo, and Mississippi
Rivers ........................... 10000
ARKANSAS 1000 SQUARE MILES.
Desha County ION Mississippi, Arkansas and
Bartholonew) .......... ............... 1900
Bayou Macon - 5000
Arkan-as OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. COCO
Phillips ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 10000
Crttenden. Observation-Disclosures. 3,0J0
Mississippi. Observation-Disclosures. 2,40O
MISSOURI 5000 SQUARE MILES.
-Four front counties ..................... 5000
roto1 1a1 snn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
The Great Devastation at tie South.

A special correspondent of the Chicago
Times writes to that paper as follows-un-
der date of Memphis, May 5:
There is now not the slightest doubt as
to the great restitution among the inhab-
itants of the flooded country along the St.
Francis, White, Arkansas and Mississippi
Rivers, as well as along the Ouachita,
1azoo, Tallahatchie, Yallabusha, Sun
flower and Red Rivers. 1t was hoped that
the water had reached its greatest height,
and that with few days of fair weather
decline in the vast lake of the Mississippi
would set IN, but these hopes have been
dlspelled. am told that Clarendon, Au-
gusta, Desarc aud Jacksonport, as well as
the other smaller towns on White River,
have been completely inundated by the
last Hood, and that it came upon the ciIi-
zens so suddenly and UNEXPECTEDLY that
many had no time to get their stock to a
place of safety and lost that, as we'll as
everything else that would float Barns,
FENCES and Outhouses were carried away
by the angry flood, and in one instance
an entire dwelling was taken from its
foundation and lodged against a tree
nifty yards Or more from where 1t started.
Strange to say, none OF Its Oc-
cupants were injured. Three or four
small places above here, including Ash
port, Osceola and Fulton, have at last
succumbed TO the water, and IN all the
streets now nothing can be seen but skifs
and canoes. On one plantation below
Fulton there are half dozen negro dwell
lngs located in low place, and in each
OF these is one or more families cooped
up in the second story, the water being
nearly to the ceiling OF the first and there
they remain, with scanty supply of food
and no possible chance to get more un-
less the water subsidies, as the current is
too strong for a skiff or raft to reach
them. Their case is no worse, though,
than hundreds of others below here, who
have been driven in some cases to the
tops of their houses, where they remained
for da! without food or shelter and ex-
nnsed to the cold and rainy weather.
X ug' es from below continue to arrive
here daily by boat, and all give the most
pitIabIe accounts of their suferings. One,
a lady, came up yesterday from point
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
DOMESTIC.

The trades unions of New York have de-
cided to resist any attempt to make ten hours
instead of eight days work.
The shop men of the Allegheny Valley Rail-
road, in Pittsburgh, Pa, to the number of
400 struck work on the I'd to obtain four
months back pay due them.
Ernst Mintzing, alias Love, the murderer
of the Hamnet family near Pittsburgh, Pa,
who was arrested in Allegheny City on the
nigh of the LIST, has made a full confession
OF the terrible crime, and says he murdered
the family with AK, the object being to OBJ
tain possession of Hamnet's money, he sup
posing that considerable sum was in the
house. He says he only got about fifteen
dollars.
a report fayoring Council Bluffs as the legal
terminus of the Union Pacific Railroad has
been agreed upon by the House Committee on
Pacific Railroads.
The following is synopsis of the leading
information furnished by the National Crop
Reporter Indianapolis of the I'd:
The unusual bsckwardness of the season has
delayed very much all kinds of spring work, and
at the date of the last full reports prepared April
Is there had been practically no seeding at all in
the State of Minnesota. and but little blowing in
Wisconsin. At the date mentioned about 40 per
wheat, and but little more Than one-fourth of the
oats. The average area sown in wheat in the
States of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Wis
consln was 81 per cent of the esti-
mated probable total, o. per cent Of
the oats and of potatoes 80 per cent The
prospects of the fruit crop to date are Of the
most encouraging character. The condition
of the roads al the date of reports was: South of
the forthwith parallel uniformly bad owing to the
prevalence Of wet weather. North of tina line the
ground was generally frozen and the roads in fine
condition. Prices OF leading articles the first half
of April in the States of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa
Kansas. Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio and Wisconsin
show slight advance in corn, oats and hay and a
decline on swine snd potatoes, wheat remaining
unchanged
The General Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church in the South convened in
Louisville, Ky, on the I'd. An address was
sent to the church in Great Britain.
On the 4th party of men under Capt. Will
Jams, of Baxter's forces, arrested Judges
Scarf and Bennett, of the Arkansas Supreme
Court, and brought them to Little Rock
where they were kept in close confinement. Il
was said they were detained to prevent them
holding a session of the court until after ths
5th. Another fight was momentarily expect
ed in the vicinity of Pine Bluff.
The New Orleans RELIEF Committee report
ed officially to the Governor on the 4th tina
up to that date they had been distributing
10000 rations day to the suffering in tn
Overfowed portions of the State, and that il
their Judgment $4,000 rations would be re
auired daily for the next sixty days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

Dox,r T.xpER WITH C0LD.-Perhaps in
the whole category of diseases to which hu-
manity is susceptible, the cough is most neg
s generally regarded as temporary affection
Unpleasant and nothing more; but to those
who have paid dearly for experience, 1t is the
diseases Consumption A cough will lead to
consumption-if not checked-so sure as the
rivulet leads to the river, yet it is an easy enc
nv to thwart, if met by the proper remedy.
4Hen's Lung Balsana is the great cough rem
edy of the age, and it has earned its reputation
by merit alone Sold by all good druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

Madrid dispatches of the 4th announce the
occupation of Bflboa by Serrano on the Sd.
On the evening of that day Madrid was brill
iantly Illuminated in honor of the deliverance
of that city The main body Of the Carlists
were retreating in the direction of Guipuzcoa,
but detached commands were surrendering
in hopes of amnesty. An attempt was made
by an insane priest, on the 4th, to assassinate
Senior ri Margall.
A serious riot occurred in the French settle
ment at Shanghai on the 4th. A mob of
Chinese made an attack upon the residents of
that quarter, and sacked and burned several
of their buildings. The police fired on the
rioters, killing several. The Chinese assigned
as the reason for the attack that the French
were constructing road which interfered with
their cemetery.
The Car of Russia was in Berlin on the 4th,
en- route for England.
According to London dispatch of the 9th
the American Oriental Typographical Corps
had reached Jerusalem after making a sue
cessful exploration in the vicinity of Mount
Sinai.
A Madrid dispatch of the 9th says the Car
list Gen. Clio had arrested four Brigadier-
Generals on the charge of treason. The Re
publican army was marching on Durango. A
body of Carlists had been defeated in Valencia
and forty of their number killed.
Capt.-Gen. Concha, of Cuba, issued a decree
on the 9th ordering the formation of eight
battalions of colOred militia.
A Madrid dispatch of the 18th says that Cas-
telar had rendered his congratulations to Ser
rano on his success in the north of Spain. In
reply Serrano said the CarIist movement was
only shaken, not yanquished. Don Carlos had
issued a proclamation to his followers ex-
pressing confidence that his cause would
eventually triumph.
A Madrid dispatch of the Sth says the Car
lists under Don Alfonso had been again badly
defeated by the national troops. The Car
list loss was said to have been heavy. In Bill
boa the houses of several prominent adher-
ents of Don Carlos had been burned by the
Infatuated populace.
News reached New York on the Syh giving
the details Of terrible confagration which
occurred in the Philippine Islands on the 2Sth
of January. Two children who were left to
themselves set house on fire. and the flames
extended so rapidly that in the course of four
hours nearly 1000 houses were burned. Null
titudes of cattle persisted and fifteen persons,
including six children, were burned to death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
PERSONAL.

The present number OF about 400 en-
ployes in the Treasury Department at Wash
ington is to be reduced about 500 by the 1st
of July next, and notice has been issued to
the effect that all of such employees who will
now send in their designations shall receive
leave of absence and pay from the date there
Of until July 1.
The United States Supreme Court has re-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

Gently rendered decision confirming the act
of the National Government in confscating
the property of Slidell, one of the Confederate
leaders, under an act of Congress.
The Commissioners appointed by the Secre-
tary of the Interior to investigate the cha. ges
preferred against DR.. J. J. Saville, the agent
for the Sioux at the Red Cloud Agency. and
E. A. Howard, the agent at tie Milestone
Agency, have made their report. declaring the
charges to be frivolous AMI groundIess.
Washington dispatches of the Sth state that
President Grant hid received a cable telegram
from the Hon, G. B. Washburne, declining the
nomination for Secretary of the Treasury.
Gov, Beveridge, of Illinois, has issued a
Proclamation appointing the 30th inst. as the
day for decorating the soldiers graves. He
recommends that the occasion be observed by
general cessation of business, and that on
the Sabbath following appropriate ser
vices be held in all the churches in memory of
the loved ones and in sympathy with those
who still mourn, etc.
The following is list of the officers elected
by the Michigan Woman's Suffrage Associa-
| ton for the current year: President, Jonas
e. MCGOWAN, Coldwater; First Vice-President,
| the Rev. DR.. Fisk, Grand Rapids; Second
| Vice-President, Mrs. John J. Bagley, Detroit;
| Third Vice-President, Miss Eliza Leggett,
Wayne County, and seventeen others; Re
cording Secretary, Mrs. n. Geddes, Adrian;
Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer,
| George Stickney.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

HANNAFoRD s. THOMPSON, Publishers,
Chicago, Ill, announce 4th edition OF
Periam's " GroundSmell, or History Of the
Farmers Increment" This sale was made
in less than three months. The demand
is extraordinary. Agents make money
rapidly with it, spite of hard times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

FRENCH CAKE-Three eggs, one and a
half cups of sugar, one teaspoonfql OF
baking powder, two tablespoonfuIs OF
cold water; bake in two pie-pans, split,
while hot and spread between the follow
ing custard: One-third pint sweet milk,
one tablespoonful of corn starch disso we'd
in bit of the milk, one egg well beaten;
when it comes to a boil add halt cup OF
sugar, one-fourth cup of butter. Lemon
to suit the taste
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
Thirty Years Experience of an Ole
Nurse.

MRS. WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP is the prescrip
ton of ofthe best Female Physicians and Nurses
in the United States, and has been used for thirty
years with never-failing safety and success by m
ions of mothers and children from the feeble infant
of week old to the adult. 1t corrects acidity of
the stomach relieves wind collie, regulates the bow
els, and gives rest, 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 it arises from
Teethng or from any other cause Full directions
for us'ur will accompany each bottle None Genuine
unless the fac-simile of CURTIS d PERKINS is on
the outside wrapper.
SoTD BY ALI, MEDTrTyE DFATRps
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

We do not believe this contains an ex-
aggeration. Many of these items, and es-
pecially from Arkansas and Missouri, are
probably far too small
Such vast population will consume in
provisions alone, without single luxury
or medicine, $4,000 worth per day.
Their clothing, shelter and medical at
tendance-for most of them are homeless
will add nearly half as much and their
transport alton to shelter and to places
where they can 60 to work and attempt to
make corn, together with supplies of
utensils and i'm plements, will add another
$4,000. Thus we reach an aggregate of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

Children Often Look Pale and Sick
From other cause than having worms in the stom-
ach.
BROWNS VERMIFUGE COMF1rS
will destroy Worms without injury to the child being
perfectly WHITE and free from ,Icring or other
injurious ingredients usually used in worm prepara-
tions.
CURTIS & BROWN, Propretors,
No. 215 Fulton street, New York.
Sold By Druggists and Chemists. and Dealers 10
Medicines, at TWENTY-FIVE CENTS Box.
"NOTHING BETTER,'' said DR.. John Ware, OF
Boston, than Cutler Bros celebrated VEGETABLE
PULMONARY BALSAM, for Colds and Consumption
gg-AsTHMA can be cured. See Hurst's advertise
ment.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

The n 4 w Be
Retreat of the CarliStS from
Before BilbOa.
Serrano, with His Forces, Occupies
That Stronghold,
The Carlists Meet with Fur
Their ReVerses.
Report of the Committee on
the sanbOrn Investigation.
Hon. E. B. Washbums Declines the Office Of
Secretary Of the Treasury,
AppeaI for the Relief of Sufferers by the
Southern Floods.
Meeting of the Illinois Farmers Adj
YisOry Committee.
Call for the Iowa Republican
State Convention.
Meeting of the Michigan Woman's
Suffrage Association.
Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

WE should not hesitate to recommend to
any friend of ours Parsons Rrgatige Pills;
they are scientifically prepared, and are adapt
ed to all the purposes of a good purgative
medicine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

KUHN'S EUROPEAN HOTEL-The BEST
S1.00 per day house in the United States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
Symptoms of Catarrh.

Dull, heavy headache, obstruction 0f raso,
passages, discharge falling into throat. some
times profuse, watery, acrid, Tick and fena-
eious, mucous, purulent, muco-purulent.
bloody, putrid, offensive, etc. In Others =
dryness, dry, watery, weak or infiamed ewes
ringing in ears, deafness, hawking and cough
ing to clear the throat, alterations, scabs from
ulcers, voice altered, nasal twang. Offensive
breath, impaired smell and taste, dizziness,
mental depression, tickling cough, etc. Only
few of the above symptoms are likely to be
present in any case at one time. No disease
is more common or less understood by physi-
clans. The proprietor of DR.. Sage's Oatarrh
Remedy will pay $500 reward for an incurable
case.
READ WHAT IT Will DO.
BRooKyLLE, Pa, April p, 1872.
Dr.. R. Y. PIERCE: FUH
SIR-Having first applied to number of
home physicians and failed to get relief, 1 re-
solved 10 try your Remedy. Four bottles
have completely cured me of one Of the worst
cases Of Catarrh of which have any knowl-
edge, having suffered for months with an
acute pain In the head, and breathed only with
the greatest difficulty. l deem it due you as
well as suffering humanity that this Tecogni-
ton be made of what we deem an invaluable
medicine. CHAs. Q. ANDERSON.
GLAD TIDINGs FOR THE SLAVES OF
KING ALCoHoL.-How many a manly
form is palsled; how many a noble mind
is destroyed; how many priceless soul
lost through the curse of strong drink !
To the despairing victims Of the Satanic
tyrant, Alcohol, whose shattered nerves,
and trembling limbs, and racking head
aches seem to find no relief except in the
renewed use of the fatal poison which
brings them every day nearer to their
miserable end, we announce glad tidings
Of great jOyl DR.. WALKERS VINEGAR
BITTERS contain not single drop of AL
cOhOl in any form, but are a sovereign
remedy for the ills of drunkenness. They
restore tone and strength to the system,
and entirely eradicate the perniciOuS ap-
petite for liquor. Try a few bottles of
VINEGAR BTTTERs and you will never
crave strong spirits again, but find your
health repaired, your mind restored, and
be once more q man in the best sense.
Health is cheap when VINEGAR BITTERs
are 81 a bottle. 40
THE GREAT FAMILY MEDICINE.-Dr. Will
hofss Anti-Periodic or Fever and Ague Ton
lie! No case of incurable Chills has yet pre-
scented itself where this scientific and safe
medicine has been employed. No case has
been found so obstinate as to resist its prompt
and mastery action. No man has been so re-
duced by malarial influences but with its use
has come up perfectly reconstructed. No
pills or purgative required with this medicine.
WHEELoCK, FINLAY q Co., Proprietors, New
Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
THE most stupendous enterprise ON the
L
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

DECIDEDLY the best remedy that has ever
been discovered for rheumatism, swollen or
stiff Joints, flesh wounds, sprains, bruises, cuts
and burns is Joltrasora's Anodyrae Lininae,at We
use it and always recommend it to our friends.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

THE NORTHWESTERN HoRsE-NAE Co..
"Finished :" Nail is the best in the world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

Reeds Temple Of Music, Chicago.
Good secondhand pianos, 1925 to $500.
New Rosewood pianos, 800 to $780,
New Square Grand pianos, $3.50 to S475.
Warranted to please or money refunded.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14

THE most stupendous enterprise on the
continent for the relief of human woe is the
National Surgical Institute of Indianapolis,
Ind. 1t has capital stock of $4,000 with
over fifty surgeons, assistants and instrument
makers, who are constantly employed in Civ
ing relief to thousands of sufferers annually.
They treat as specialties Crooked Feet, Legs,
Spines and all other Human Deformities; also
Paralysis, Chronic Diseases, Piles, Fistula and
Catarrh. Send for circular.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
Children Often Look Pale and Sick

SOLD BY ALL MEDICINE DEALERS.
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FOREIGN.

Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-14
THE MARKETS.

g-AsrHmA can be cured. See Hurst's advertise
ment
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81. sosz
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1874-01-30

The investigation business has been occupy
ing the attention Of the Board Of Supervisors
OF Berrien county The investigation grew
out OF certain little specuations by the County
Officers The following resolutions passed by
the Board will give 4 tolerable clear idea OF
what the matter 70
WHEREAS, In the financial report for the years
ISL and 1872, no entry, jury, OF stenogra-
piers Fees were reported. Therefore,
ECSOiced That a committee OF three be APP
pointed TO ascertain the amount OF such fees,
If any which are due and remain unpaid. and
report at their earliest convenience.
ResClce@. That the Judge OF Probate be, and
he Is hereby requested TO report TO this Board
the amount OF fees received by him. as Jddge
OF Probate. for the year ending Dec. 81, 1873.
Said report to he made al the time OF the next
meeting. and the Clerk is hereby directed 10
furnish the Judge OF Probate a copy OF this
resolution without delay
ReSo,re5 That the County treasurer be, and
is hereby requested 70 report TO this Board.
whether he is receiving or has received interest
on any money belonging to Beruen county,
and IL 40. how much
ReSOired, That the Clerk OF this Board be
ana hereby is requested to report to tins Board
at Its neX6 meeting the amount OF money ex-
pended tor blanks, for each OF the county Off
GERS. since January 1st, 1870 10 January LIST,
1874. and also for stationery. same to be made
separate amounts.