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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-09-10
European Events for the Next Twenty
Years FOret0ld by Monk.

A German paper publishes the follow
ing:
The prophecies of the Monk Tranquil
Wolfgang, died at Munich, 1873:
1874. Strengthening the Spanish Re
public. Dissatisfaction in France. Gen
eral ornaments in Italy. 4 new Chief
of Government in France. Death OF
Plus N.
1875. War between Italy and France.
The Italian armies besiege Paris. Defeat
of the French army. Italian occupation
OF AIgiers. National plebiscitum in Cor
sica, Nice and Savoy. foundations in
Austria.
1875. Paris surrenders in March. Rat.
itcation of peace in Corsica, Nice and
Savoy, and Corsica incorporated with
Italy. Revolution in Spain and fall Of
the Government. Thepestilence in Rus
STA. Prince Fritz German Emperor.
Revolution in England.
1877. Communism and famine in
France and Spain. European Congress
in Rome. The new Pope reconciled
rope. France divided into four States.
foundations and hurricanes in Italy.
Great cold in Germany.
"1S16. 4 new European Congress in
Berlin. Death of Queen Victoria New
Government in Spain. The Christians
in Turkey are free. Dissatisfaction in
Portugal, Poland and Hungary Cholera
in France. Discovery of remedy for
cholera in Bavaria
1879. Great storms in England. Uni
versal peace. General diSarmaments.
Great discoveries at sea. The Pope re-
forms the church and suspends the order
Of the Jesuits.
1880 to 1890. Peace. The Pope
blesseS all nations
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-09-10
Musical Sarcasm.

We arrived late in the evening at
Techen, hungry and tired to death, and
ordered supper in our own room; but
oh, misery! the sound of a piano sud
denly breaks upon US. Just imagine,
only thin door between me and Weber's
Z" Invitation a la Ealse," strummed by an
Impractical hand, and drawled out ito
quote Mendelssohn) as ca slow presto"
| rang the bell, and frightened the abb
gail with: Who is playing there?"
Oh, only a young man who, being en-
crossed all day long in business, usually
plays for couple of hours of an even
ing" GA delightful prospect this, y
thought l. | tried to eat, but that was
impossible; so, without saying aword to
my astonished family, / seized my hat,
rushed out, and knocked at my neighbor's
door. The 8 come in" brought me face
to face with the innocent delinquent.
Assuming an heir of feigned politeness
l began the conversation: Your play
ing has allured me, a perfect stranger,
and venture to call. [ play a little,
too, and happen to have studied that
particular piece; would you listen to my
reading of it," | went straight to the
piano-the young man, quite abashed,
made way for me-and without waiting
for his answer l dashed through the
piece in the widest style and at tear
ing pace, introducing double octaves
wherever [ could get them in; this had
its effect. Alas" he said, with sigh,
l shall never play it like that" why
not" replied /; if you work hard? But
good evening to you" My object was
attained; my nightly tormentor became
mute. whether forever | can't Say-at all
events l could eat and sleep in peace.
My wife and children, with their ears
close to the wall, listened and enjoyed
the joke immensely.-Nc sche!e's Recent
Music and Musicians.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-09-10
FHUNNYGRAMS.

-"Are there any fools in this town.
asked a stranger Of a newsboy. Il don't
know" replied the boy; why ? are you
lonesome?"
= There, John, that's twice you've
come home and forgotten that lard. y
La, mother, it was so greasy that it
slipped my mind"
When they told an afectionate wife
that her husband had been sliced I'D BY 2
reaper, she impatiently replied: "WeIl.
take the pieces to the barn. can't leave
this gooseberry sauce just now.n
One of the professors asked a student
to give him an example Of mixed meta.
ph0r. The boy confidently spoke out
When nv tongue shall forget her Gun
ming, and my right eye cleave to the roof
Of my mouth
=" Look ere now, Salusha." yelled a
Clay County (4Iissouri) woman to the
oldest girl. don't bend over that well
so fur You'll fall in there some of these
days, and then we'll have TO carry water, =
Says q Detroit editor: Chicago NAV
talk about the homely Womenof Detroit
but there is one redeeming power: When
one of them gets mired they don't have
foot scantIing under her foot to prv."
A correspondent points out an error
in d recent issue, wherein gate was
spelled wrong We would like to know
if we are expected to read proof very
carefully when a comet with tail upward
is coming straight at US at the rate of
$4,000 miles a minute. "-Ber&SIIre ClIuss.
Courier.
AT meeting in London torecelve p
report from the missionaries sent to dis
cover the tribes of Israel, Lord H-was
asked to take the chair. i take, he re-
piled, a great interest in your research
es, gentlemen. The fact is, l have Dor
rowed money from all the Jews now
known, and if you can find a new set /
shall feel very much obliged"
A strong-minded woman in Detroit
made the following gentle reply to a pol
itician who had called at her house to
get her husband to go to the polls and
vote: NO, sir; he can't go He's
washing now and he's going to iron to-
morrow; and if he wasn't doing ANYTHING
he couldn't 60. / run this ere house, /
do; and if any one votes it'll be this
same woman"
"A Providence urchin applied at the
Central Station the other day for a ticket
to the poor children's excursion of the
Christian Association. He was asked if
he was a Christian and promptly said he
was. Are you an honest boy:" Yes,
sir" The phrenologist of the force
lifted the lads hat to examine his bump
of conscientiousness when out fell a
ticket for the excursion.
-"Weel, aunty, what are your thochts
about marrying" said young lass of
seventeen one day to a decent spinster
who had reached the shady side Of life
without committing matrimony. Deed,
lassie," frankly replied the relative, q
had but three thochts about it in my
days and the last is like to be the Largest.
First, when l was young like yourself, l
thocht, Whau tak?' then as time be-
gan to wear by I began to think, Z" Whall
get?' an after got my leg broken wi
that whumel DOT o Saunders McDrouth-
er's cart my thocht syne was, "Whall
tax me?' an I doot I'll haze to think the
same thocht till l gang to my grave, I'M
less something happens mair by or
dinar"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-09-10
Our Young Folks.
ONE md ONE.

Two little girls are better than one,
Two little boys can double the fun,
Two little birds can build fine nest,
Two little arms can love mother best.
Two little ponies mast go TO q span:
Two little pockets has my little man,
Two little eyes TO open and close.
Two little ears and one little nose.
Two little elbows, dimpled and sweet,
Two little shoes, on two little feet.
Two little lips and one little chin,
Two little cheeks with q rose shut in:
Two little shoulders. chubby and strong.
Two little legs running all day long.
Two little prayers does my darling say.
Twice does he kneel by my side each day
Two little folded hands, soft and brown.
IWo little eyelids cast meekly down
And two little angels guard him in bed,
one az the foot. and one at the head
Harry NGpaS Dodge, ia st. Nicholas
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-09-10

accompanying them get them into a real
good humor beforehand, then leave them
in the hands of the operator. Never
threaten a child if it won't sit, for he
then imbibes the idea that it must be
dreadful undertaking; nor coax it with
sweetmeats. Avoid startling plaids or
gaudy colors, but do not put dark dresses
on them. Let the operator choose their
nOSitiOn. NfSteln RlLraZ
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-09-10

A DowN-EAsT gentleman showed con-
siderable alarm the other evening when
he discovered that his wife had loaned
the family Bible. When he returned
from the house where the Bible was he
brought with him $1,000, which he had
placed in it for safe keeping. - Z
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-09-10
FIinging Shadows.

WE have no more right to fling an IN
necessary shadow over the spirit of those
with whom we have to do than we have
to fling stone and injure them. Yet
this flinging shadows is very common
sin, and one to which women are particu-
larlv addicted Oh, what a blessing is a
merry, cheerful woman in a household!
One whose spirits are not affected bywet
days, or little disappointment, or whose
milk of human kindness does not sour IN
the sunshine of prosperity. Such a Wom-
an in the darkest hours brightens the
house like a little piece Of sunshiny
weather. The magnetism of her smile,
the electrical brightness Of her looks and
movements affect every one. Inc
children 90 to school with sense OF
something great to be achieved; her nus
band goes into the world in a COnqueTOr 5
spirit. No matter how people worry and
annoy him at day, far off her presence
shines, and he whispers to himself, " At
home | shall find rest" So day by day
she literally renews his strength ana
energy, and if you know man with a
beaming face, kind heart and pros
porous business, in nine cases out OF ten
YOU will ind he has a wife OF this KIND.
For nothing is more certain than that the
man who is married must ask his Wlfe
for permission to be happy and wealthy.
Blessed is he who hath cheerful VIE;
the world may be valley OF strife" TO
him, but his home is a land OF Beulah, a
haven Of rest and quiet; and his life IS
made up of cheerful yesterdays and con-
fident tO-mOTrOws.-G0Ldeg Age.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-09-10

WHEN the train from the West rolled
up to the Perry street depot yesterday,
one of the wheel-sounders discovered a
bulky object among the bars and timbers
of the forward truck of the posta. ,,a1
At first he could not tell what it was, but
he pOked it with a stick, when it bent
sideways and in a moment human form
came creeping from behind the wheels.
He was so completely covered with dust
that it was impossible to tell whether he
was black or white; but after he had
wiped his face he proved to be a colored
man. He got into the place where he
was found at Brooklyn, $50 miles west
of this city, and all that distance he sat
on an iron strap not two inches wide,
with his back against the upright at the
center of the truck, his body leaning for
ward so that his head almost touched
his legs, which were bent nearly double,
and his hands resting on bar in front
of him. There he rode, subject to a con-
tinuous Jolt, enveloped in endless whirls
Of dust, with the pelting of little pebbles
which constantly fly upward when a
tram is in motion. When asked how he
stood such a ride as that, he replied: 8
declar', Mis'r, it is tough, but I'd held
thar clar to Chicago eff We hadn't fetched
me out" Then 1t was ascertained that
on Thursday night he rode in that way
from Council Bluffs to Brooklyn, but was
discovered at the latter place and made
to giveup his free ride. But he watched
his chance on Friday night and resumed
his journey.-DaUenport (Ioloa) Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-09-10

The Boston Globe says the cockrOaches
will soon hold convention and pass
resolutions complimentary to the first
man who recommended boraX as a means
of exterminating them.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-01-03
Chesapeake City Items.

A public Temperance meeting was held
in the Good Templars' Hall on Tuesday
evening last. The meeting was addressed
by Rev. Mr.. Sheppard of Bethel church.
The friends and members of the Presby-
terrain church held a Sociable i'll their
church on New Years evening.
A hot Supper was held at the Bethel
N. E. Church on the same evening, for the
benefit of the church.
The ceiling of the III. L. Church here
has been painted white instead Of the blue
which it formerly was. This will make
the church easier lighted.
Two of our young men engaged in what
they called prize fight last Tuesday.
We hope they may make new resolutions
with the New Year that they may not SO
disgrace young manhood.
DR.. Karsner had an accident occur to
his horse while in the stable, several days
since. The horse was eaten at the footlock
and around about the hoof. 1t is supposed
to be done by rats. The horse is entirely
disabled for road service.
The trade through the canal is very
small at this time. Very few wooden YES
sells are seen passing through, though we
have had no ice. The tug boats are near
ly all layed up for the winter, and Chesa-
peake is beginning to have its wintry ap-
pearance.
Flour 50 per barrel; potatoes 4o(G75c.
per bushel: butter SOC. per fb; eggs 25c.
per ib; lard 1O@12c. per IL; turkeys 16c.
per fb; ducks 12c. per Id; geese 12c. per
ib.; chickens 11@12c. per H.; oysters 75c.
per bushel
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-01-03
Rising Sun Items.

The third lecture for the benefit of the
"Ladies Mite Society,"" was delivered by
Rev. Mr.. Hughes, OF peculiar People"
on Tuesday night last. The panic tells
heavily on lecture audiences. the turn out
being much smaller than in former courses.
The next lecture being on Courtship and
Marriage" will no doubt bring out a good
crowd including several old bachelors not
in the habit of attending.
Mr.. Joel Evans and Mrs. Annie E. Rey-
nolds, quietly left our town on the 18th of
December, and deliberately committed
matrimony, without saying nothing to no
body. The boys only got wind of it on
Tuesday night, 30th, when they were COM
pllmented with huge serenade. May their
married life run as smooth and quiet as
their wedding trip.
The recent cold snap has created quite
an excitement among owners of ice houses.
Mr.. Riale, our enterprising butcher. was
the first man to make a start and found
the ice some four inches thick and in good
condition. All parties are now doing the
best to get it in before thaw.
The holidays passed off us quietly as a
Quaker monthly meeting. On Christmas
most of the stores were closed and very
few people were to be seen about the streets.
Not boy "blowed " himself up, as is
usual on such occasions; not fire cracker
to enliven the solemnity that overshadowed
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-01-03
For The Cecil Wing.
Have We ANY Law In Elkt,n.

Mr.. EDIrOR:-May | beg IL space i'll your
columns? wish to ask through the me-
dunn of your paper, whether we have any
town authorities, and what are their
duties? | wish also to make plain state
ment, which is this:
On Christmas eve night, from eleven
O'Clock till eight o'clock in the morning,
the section of the town around the Court
House, Howard House, and all that imme
diate bei,shborhooG, WAS a perfect pande-
moniunl. ellis, shouts, and impiecaL!Uns,
accompanied IA constant cannonading; large
guns were fired under, and almost into, the
windows of the houses i'll quick success
sion, whilst countless numbers of "shoot-
ing crackers" of heavy calibre, made
sharp and loud reports without intermis-
S ion: the flashes from all this artillery
| lighted up the chambers of the residents
of this most-imposed-upon locality. The
sick and feeble were the greatest sufferers;
mothers of young children were distracted,
and the children themselves terrified. Are
, the lovers of peace and quiet, the law
abiding people of Elkton, to have this
thing repeated without publicly protesting
against it, and against the neglect of duty
in those whose duty it is to suppress or
prevent these disturbances
1t is no excuse that this terrific noise,
and SCATTERING of window glass and nerves,
occurred on Christmas eve: that anniver-
sary should, and ought to be ushered in
with joyous merriment, but this should
never be allowed to degenerate into I'M
bounded individual license so unrestrained,
| as to be an annoyance, pest; nay, even
more, an outrage of such a nature as to
require all the patience and forbearance of
much enduring and long suffering neigh
borhood. Nor is this solitary instance of
such lawless conduct. If we hare any
town authorities, it is their part to be
about in their official capacity, at such
times as the public peace is threatened, or
| likely to be; on occasions of noisy disturb
ances in certain sections, and to ensure the
comfort of citizens as we'll by night, as by
| day. l have heard from strangers, that
persons passing through our town on bust
ness, or stopping over nlSnC at the oesI
hotel, have been startled and kept awake,
by the noisy and profane rawlings of a
drunken man. wandering about the streets
the whole night, without any effort what
ever made to arrest him, or place him in
even temporary durance.
1 believe no town in the United States,
outside of the mining districts, is so disor-
DERBY at night as this; none where there is
less effort to suppress the disorderly spirit
and element. The participators and actors
in such pleasant recreations, may think
that the quiet, peaceable, tax-paying citi-
zens are dcfenceless, but even if they CALI
down upon themselves, only the power of
the pen and the press, they will find it
mighty engine, and agitation accomplishes
a great work in the end. 1t will also cause
these inquiries-have We any town author
tiles? have they any power to act in such
matters if SO, why do they not! X.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-01-03
Fourth District Items.
Disease Ansong Horses-SAow-f5r Hunt.

After the fourth horse on Charles A.
Murphy's farm, died last week with throat
disease, others that were similarly afflicted
were saved by swabbing the throat.
Snow fell on Saturday night last to the
depth of two inches.
One of the two foxes let out at Fair Hill,
on Christmas day, was overtaken and killed
by the dogs in few hours. The other
fox was holed on farm near Cowantown.
The huntsmcn prepared to dis out reynard
when the owner of the farm ordered them
off. They dug on, however, and he went
away. Soon lady made her appearance
on the ground and ordered some Is or 20
men off the premises, declaring that the
fox was hers, and it should be killed, two
more turkeys having had their Threats cut
the night before. The diggers persisted
in their work and she finding persuasion
and threats alike unavailing, sprang square
ly into the pit, though waist deep, and
with clinched hands declared whoever took
that fox out of that hole would have to
take it out over her dead body! An alter
cation hereupon ensued in which some
big and heaDy words were uttered with EN-
phasis. The heroine remaining in the hole,
jeff. offered her $40, to let them have the
fox, and George offered S. more, cash, but
no. AS each one looked upon her, in her
situation, with sympathy, as the reader can
imagine, she gave each one in turn his
history, and told HIM where he had better
go, and what he had better do,-advised
George to 60 home to his old mother, cut
her some wood, keep away from the "Dew
drop" sc. George said his mother had
plenty of wood, and every comfort, and a
roast turkey for dinner, and tried hard to
persuade her to come outof the hole, and go
and eat dinner with his mother, but no.
When she told Joe he had better be look
ing for wife as lie would soon be getting
up in years, and was barely passable now,
he said he would not like to invest in one
like her; thought he would stand an old
bach. a little longer, yet he most respect
fully solicited her to come out. BY the
time that Bob, Mad, Harry, SAM, Dan.
and Ben, and as many more had thus
been limned, not excepting the Do-drop-in,
Dew Drop lnn) the sun was nearly set,
the hunters finding victory beyond their
grasp, thew up the sponge, and left the
lady and the fox both in the hole. Soon
after she and some of her boys dug out the
fox and took it home and put it in the
cellar. That night her cellar door was
bored through, the bolt removed, foot
prints left on the floor, barrels left uncov-
cred, and evidence left of frutless search,
for reynard had been removed to an upper
story of the house, the last thing our
heroine did before retiring
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-01-03
Port Deposit Items.
Christmas-!Steam6oats Stopped-7he Ricer
Sabbath School Erhibition-Shou-Im
pr0uements at Ro,cldndsoille.

Christmas passed off rather quietly
Early in the morning the town was en-
livened by music from the Union Cornet
Band, (colored). They appeared to enjoy
their Christmas in lively manner. The
boys played an accompaniment upon the
fire-crackers. Others celebrated the advent
of Christmas by indulging heartily in egg
nog, or its equivalent, and before night
they were not steady, sober citizens
There was service in the NJ. +. Church, at
6 a. NJ.
The steamboat, Junilta, plying from
here to Baltimore, made its last tip fol
the season, on Monday, Dec. 27th. The
Lancaster was withdrawn some weeks
since.
During Tuesday the river was filled al
day with mush-ice, and on the night fol,
lowing it closed. The closing of the river
last year was on Nov. goth, 1872, and the
great ice gorge commenced on Jan. 10Th,
1873.
The Exhibition of the NJ. E. Sabbath
School, on Christmas night, was decided
success. The children engaged in the ex
hibition did their parts admirably, and al
went away we'll pleased. The receipts for
the exhibition amounted to upwards Of
SO.
Buckley, Mooris 6 Co. g Minstrel Troupe
visited our town OH last Friday and favored
US with choice music during the day, ano
on Friday and Saturday nights the Hail in
the Odd Fellows Building was densely fill
ed, prepared to enjoy hearty laugh al
the inimitable performances. 1t is not say
ing too much to style this troupe, TIL,
Troupe of America. They always provoke
merriment, and any who wish to drive
away the blues. should hear them. Let
them come again and we will have fewer
invalids among us.
The improvements at Rowlandsville, 10y
the Mccullough Iron Co., are quite extern
sive, and will add much to the business
and Importance of the place. This com
pany has nearly finished large addition
to their warehouse, and are building q
branch railroad from the B & p Central to
their mills, thereby enabling them to con
vcy their coal and iron to and from the
mills direct, without using any teams, and
thus save much labor and expenses.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1874-01-03

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