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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13
Moving Statement.

The editor of the Odell Weekly thus
pungently explains the situation:
Other towns Of the size of OdeIl sup
port their paper, and the printer to-
gether with the lawyer, doctor, merchant
and mechanic, can live. In the city of
Pontiac, about twice the size OF Odell,
the editors Of both the papers there wear
paper collars without turning them! yet
this is a luxury beyond what we aspire
to, and as the publisher OF paper in
Odell we do not expect it,
Our readers need not be surprised If at
any moment they should see a nag OF
truce hanging out of our office window,
but in case they do they don't want to
mistake it for a flag of distress; we are
not distressed particle. We are just as
independent as a three-year-Old boiled
Shanghai rooster. The bOarders can eat
'em or let i'm alone It's all the same to
us, because if we can't edit paper in
Odell and make living at it we can lay
off and saw wood and laugh at the next
man who tries it; and we would do it if
it extended our mouth another four
inches. One man wants a long-winded
article on politics in favor of
Grant dished up in the paper, and
the next one wants the Democratic
party resurrected; and then we
are asked to support the Order of the
Grange, to the overthrow of towns and
empires. We are asked to say that one
man is selling goods twice as cheap as
his neighbOr, then we have to 60 through
a back alley for a week in order to avoid
the other man, who was in reality giving
his goods away-that is, such as empty
soap-barreIs and herring boxes. We hear
a man making a speech and want to
pitch into him, but don't do it; he'd
leave US a wreck One man wants us to
blow up the city fathers, and another
wants us to work out his poll-tax, or loan
him three dollars, and if we want a bar
of soap it costs us ten cents Amt there
some spot where mortals weep no more? ?
where everybody advertises? If there is
we'll dig out. We are in very near the
same fix a Methodist minister was in
Kansas One morning he knelt in the
pulpit and prayed: 90 Lord, keep me
poor and humble" One of the deacons
In the church, who felt that Providence
was Overtaxed, replied: go Lord, do
Thou keep him humble and We'll keep
him poor"
We have carried blackberries four
miles and sold them; we have walked
tour miles to see circus; taught a cOun-
try school in York State one-half day;
served three weeks apprenticeship at
mixing mortar; carried pair of scissors
suspended with tape; made something
less than a wagOnload of Western Anti
Bilious Pills during a term at drug clerk
ing-sold patent rights-herded sheep
wore out several hand-saws-run sta
tiOnaTy steam engine-superintend a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13
A mmoth DispeDsary.

From the st. LOUiS RepU6LicQR.l
Among the notable physicians of this
count ~. DR.. R V. Pierce, of Buffalo, n. Y,
stands deServedlv high. He has obtained pro-
fessional eminence through strictly legitimate
means, and fully deserves the enyiable repu-
taton which he enjoys. A thorough and
careful preparation for his calling and extern
sive reading, during Il long and unusually
large practice, have made him extraordinarily
successful in his private practice, and gained
the commentator even OF his professional
brethren. By devotng his attention mainly
to certain specaltieS he has been rewarded in
4 very great degree, and III these lines Is rec
OTnlZed as Il leader. Not lew OF his prepa-
ratiOns compounded for these special cases
have been adopted and are used in their
private practice by physicians throughout
the country, and his pamphlets and larger
works upon these subjects have been well
coined rs valuable additions to medical litera-
ture, and placed among the regular textbooks
of many medical schools. Acknowledgment
of the services which he has performed for
medical science has been made by presenta-
tons Of degrees from two of the first medical
institutions of the land, and by the translation
of several of his works into German, Spanish
and other foreign languages. The increasing
demand for his specifics some time since ne
ccssitated the opening of regular dispensary
for their preparation, and from small begin
ming the business Of this establishment has
now grown to mammoth proportions. Thus,
during the three months ending March 81,
1874, the sum expended for postage alone, not
to speak of that paid on newspapers, amounted
to S2OSO.7O. Over a hundred persons are
employed i'll the various department and
corps of able and skilled physicians are re-
tanned as an advisory board in difficult cases.
Elsewhere in to-day's Republican a whole
page is devoted to a communication from
Dr. Pierce setting forth something of the
| history and details of this vast establishment,
which will be found not uninteresting read
| ing
If you would patronize Medicines scientif-
cally prepared by a skilled Physician and
Chemist-use DR.. Pierces Family Medicines.
| Golden Medical Discovery is nutritious, tonic,
Alternative or blood cleansing and an unequaled
cough remedy; Pleasant Purgative Pellets,
scarcely larger than mustard seed, constitute
an agreeable and reliable physic; Favorite
Prescription, an mequaled remedy for debili-
tated females; Extract of Smart-Weed, mag
zeal remedy for Pain, Bowel Complaints, and
an unequaled Liniment for both human and
horse fiesh while his DR.. Sage's Catarrh Rem
edy is known the world over as the greatest
specific for Catarrh and " Cold in Head " ever
given to the public.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13
POLITICAL.

The Massachusetts Democracy are to hold
q State Convention at Worcester on the 9th
of September
The election in Kentucky on the Sd for
Clerk of the Court of Appeals and for various
local officers resulted generally in favor of the
Democrats. Jones OemocraD, for AppelIate
Clerk, beats Cochran Independent bv a large
majority.
The Mayor, Chief of Police and many other
officials of Salt Lake have been recently ar
rested by the United States Marshal for viola
ton of the Election law.
An election was held at Vicksburg, Miss,
on the 4th, and the whites elected their entire
ticket by $50 majority. There was no disturb
ance of any kind Both whites and blacks
polled their full registered strength. About
forty colored men voted the white ticket, and
four whites voted with the blacks.
The Hon. John a. Kasson has been renomi-
mated for Congress by the Republicans OF the
Seventh Iowa District.
The Executive Committee of the Wisconsin
State Grange has issued an address to the
Oranges of the State, warning them that an
attempt will be made in the next Legislature
to secure the repeal of the Railroad law, and
urging them to resist the effort.
Congressional nominations were made on
the 9th as follows: Republican-Colorado
Territory, H. P. H. Bromwen; Sixth Ohio
District, A. NJ. Pratt, of Williams County;
Sixth Indiana, Milton S. Robinson, of Madi-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13

JUST TAKEN His BITTERs.-We heard a
seedy-lOoking individual with an alarm
ingly red nose remark to a brother soaker
that he had lust had his bitters, but he
did not mind taking another nip" His
remark suggested a train Of reflection.
How was it, we asked ourselves, that the
word bitters" had grown to be a svnO-
nym for gin, whisky, rum and other alco-
hOlic stimulants, to which it was applied
indiscriminately Bitters, we reasoned,
suggested the idea of q healthful tonic.
not of poisonous stimulant; something
invigorating to the system, not an alcO-
holic irritant, full of fusel-on. producing
present ntoXication and ultimate insan-
ity, idiocy, or premature death. More
over our idea of bitters was totally tree
oncilable with gin cocktails rum
punches" and g brandy smashes," which,
we are informed, are sweetened with
sugar, and rendered doubly injurious
with essences colored by means of min
eral poison. This was bitter-sweet with
a vengeance. We mentioned this prob
lem to a friend. He solved it by ex-
claiming: why, don't you know that
most of these bitters advertised as rem
edies are only drains in disguise? Topers
know it if you do not. must make one
exception, however" he added, land
that's DIR. WALKERS CALIFORNIA VINE
GAR BITTERs; there isn't a particle of
alcohol or fermented liquor in it, and it
is the best vegetable tome and Alternative
in America"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13
Personal.

Frank II. Walworth, confined in the State
Prison at Auburn, n. z, for killing his father,
has been taken to the Insane Asylum for
criminals. His physical condition is so feeble
that the walk from the prison to the asylum,
although not more than eighty rods, exhausted
him to a great extent.
Staaden and Anderson, alleged Chicago
| incendiaries, have been held for trial in the
Criminal Court of the city.
The notorious Lord Gordon Gordon COM
mitted suicide at Fort Garry, Manitoba, on
the LIST. He was under arrest at the time on
the charge of obtaining goods under false
pretenses and for bringing stolen goods into
Canada.
In letter to the Beecher Investigating
Committee on the Sd Mr.. TiltOn states that
he will hold no further communication with
them, for the reasons that the committee is
composed of Mr.. Beecher's friends, appointed
by himself and expected to act in his behalf,
assisted by attorneys employed exclusively
for his yindication; he expects no justice,
either from the tribunal, since it cannot COM
pei witnesses to testify, or from its reporters,
since they do not give impartialreports; and he
further thinks that the committee has come
at last to be as little satisfactory to the pub
lie as to himself, and that its verdict could
not possibly be based on the full facts, since
the committee havenO power to compel wit
nesses nor to verify their testimony by oath,
nor to sift it by cross examination. He then
concludes: "FOr these reasons, which ought
to have moved me earlier, 1 have at
last instructed my counsel to proceed
at once at his discretion to carry
my case from your jurisdiction to a court of
law; and in view of this instruction from me
he has in turn instructed me to hold no fur
Their communication with the committee ex-
cept this present letter of courtesy, in which
I have the honor to bid you farewell, in doing
which allow me to add that the respect which
1 am unable to entertain for your committee
as a tribunal 1 cannot help expressing for you
| each and all as individuals"
| Mr. Gaynor, the complainant in the suit
| against Mr.. Tilton, charging him with libel
ing Mr.. Beecher, withdrew the complaint on
the 5th stating that the promotion of truth
and justice was the only motive which actu.
ated him in bringing the suit, but since the
case was to be taken to higher court he
would retire from the prosecution. The case
was then dismissed. Frank Moulton appeared
| before the Beecher Investigating Committee
on the evening of the same day, and was ex-
amined about an hour. 1t was stated that
in compliance with the request of both Mr.
| Beecher and Mr.. Tilton, he would appear be
| fore the committee on the evening of the Sth
and produce all the letters and documents in
his possession bearing on the case
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13
How Tea-Chest Innings Are Made.

EVERY ONE is familiar with the ap-
pearance of tea-chests, but not many peo-
pie have any idea how their leaden lining
is made, and therefore this account of
the process, taken from Mr.. Lockhart's
Twenty Years Experience in China"
is given:
1.-The plumber has a furnace on the
floor, with an iron pot on the fire with
melted lead, and small iron or brass
ladle. He also has two flooring tiles
rather more than a foot square, which
are covered with paper, pasted smooth
and firm over one surface. One OF these
tiles is placed on the floor, but raised
about three or four inches, with the
papered surface upward. The other
tile is laid upon this with its papered sur
face down. The man gets on the tiles
and, sitting on his heels, takes ladleful
of lead putting the toes Of one foot to
the ground, he dexterously lifts with his
left hand the front edge of the upper tile
and pOurs the lead with sweep between
them. Then raising his foot from the
ground the upper tile yields freely to his
weight, and the melted lead is pressed
between the papered surfaces, the sur
plus escaping at the edges. He immedi-
ately raises the tile, removes the sheet of
lead and proceeds to make another. His
fellow-workmen examine the sheets as
they are thrown off; if, as happens at
times, they are irregular, they are re-
turned to the melting-pot. If they find
them in good order, they rapidly cut them
square by the aid of rule and solder the
small sheets together to serve as large
ones Paper is then pasted down on
them, and they are ready to be used as
lining for the chests Sometimes the
thin leaden chest is covered with paper af-
ter being made up; at other times the sepa-
rate sheets are covered, and any imper-
fectiols attended to afterward. The
paper being inside, the lead chest does
not affect the tea, which it would do
were the lead and the tea placed in con-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13

Sunday-school and chopped cordwood,
and even lay awake all night with a
squalling baby, but the present dilemma
publishing paper in Odell-is the
highest fix we ever got into. Sometimes
we think We'll grin and bear it; then we
commence grinning, and the doctors ask
Us if we are bilious; that shows the eX-
tent of their medical education. Then II
we get excited people say we are nervous,
etc, etc, etc. But we are inclined to
take different view of this matter, and
when we close this enterprise we'll an
nounce it with as much calmness as we
would the approach of a town meeting,
and with as few regrets.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13
Not Quite So Fast. Mr., ,Jones!-A no

Not Quite So Fast, MIR. JOnes!-A horse.
doctor in Philadelphia caught changing the cele-
Drated Mexican Mustang Liniment into other bottles
and using it as his recipe. Honesty is always the
best policy. These medicine men like to follow up
such fellows. 1t cured the lame horse all the same;
but it damaged the Doctors reputation, and benefited
the proprietor in proportion. We have heard of so
many Rheumatic persons and lame horses being cured
by the Mustang Eminent that advise every house
keeper liveryman and planter to invest in Scot
S10O bottle against accident Beware of counterfets
1t is wrapped in steel engraving, signed &C. W.
Westbrook Chemist"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13

The Ladies' Sorosfs Club, Of New York, re-
Gently changed their discussions from Woman's suf
6age to Hair Preparations and Pilnpe Banishers
They declared that where nature had not endowed
them with beauty, it their rght-yea their duty
% seek it where they could So they all voted that
Magnolia Balm overcame Sallowness, Rough Skin and
Ringmarks, and gave to the complexion a most dis
hn0Ue (SOrosian) and marbleke appearance danger
sus to men, no doubt; and that Lyons Kathairon
made the hair grow thick soft and awful pretty, and
moreover prevented it from turning gray. If the pro-
pretors of articles did send the sisters in
voice, they not smart
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13

WHHoFT's FEVER AND AGUE ToNIC.-This
medicine is used by construction companies
for the benefit of their employees. when engaged
in malarial districts. The highest testimonials
have been given by contractors and by the
Presidents of some of the leading railroads in
the South and West. When men are congre-
gated in large numbers in the ueigi!borhood of
swamps and rivers, Wilhoft's Tonic viii prove
a valuable addition to the stocI, of medicines
and will amply reward the company in the
saving of time, labor and money. We recon-
mend it to all. WHEELOCK, FINLAY u Co.,
PrOprietors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13

THE National Life Insurance Company of
dav of july. 50, 366. SSS in good and available
assets, while its total liabilities at the same
date were 81, 123, 1863. The loans secured by
first mortgages amount to considerably more
than the total liabilities. The low rates, the
large capital, the definite contracts and the
liberal policies of the National render it es-
pecially worthy the confidence and the patron
age of the public II is a National company,
chartered by Congress The business is done
at the principal branch office, Chicago, III.
John V Farwen, President. Applications for
insurance can be made through any of the
agents. Applications for agencies should be
made to the Chicago office.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13

landing-place after drifting long time
with the current. There were nearly
100 people on board, but what proper
ton Of this number were actually lost is
not known at this time, as many reported
missing have been seen by some on
shore since the disaster
The boat and cargo, consisting of cat
tie, sheep and hogs, are a total loss;
The passenger register and all the
| books were lost.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13

LITTLE CoRPORAL.-The number for
August is well filed with excellent original
stories, sketches and poems, some Of which are
appropriately illustrated. The editorial columns,
''Prudy's Pocket and the Work and Play de-
partment contain the usual variety of good
things We notice the publisher offers this at
tractive magazine on trial for six months from
July to the end of the present yeag) for 80 cents.
or, including the chrome Writing TO Papa for
rs cents. The regular subscription price is $3.50
year. Published by JOHN E. Miller Chicago
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13
Henpecked Husbands.

EVERY government is more or less a
gynocracy, Notwithstanding the with
holding of feminine suffrage. Every man,
If he rise to genuine manhood, is some
time or other under the rule of women;
the some time or other frequently lnclud-
ing the better part Of his life. Ii he
must be so subjected-and he usually re-
fuses not to bet is well his subjecter
should be his wife, since her interest IS
his, and she can hardly lead him so Tar
astray that he may not WOO her back by
sweetness and sincerity. Why should
henpecked be applied to marriage alone,
as though there were stigma III any
large concession to her who is its undls-
puted queen? RomancerS and poets
paint in golden hues the enslavement Oh
lovers, and the world reads them with
eager approval The bard is not yet
born that has sung the glories OF hen
pecked husbands, who merit more al
miration and sympathy than they get
if for no other reason, for their radiant
rarity lllustrious characters, innumer-
able heroes, have been chrOnlcled as mem
pecked; and yet their henpeckedness has
not hurt their fame nor intertered Win
their idealization Tyrant lieges always
stain life they may otherwise have en-
nobled, dash with contempt such Venera-
ton as they may have evoked.
Of the henpecked, there IS always
hope; for the tyrant, there is danger Oh
despair. One usually has the elements
of goodness and generosity; the otner Is
likely to be fixed in sordidness ana IN ID
sensibility. Henpeckedness IS, AFTER an,
more an echo than voice; ngIne4'
than a reality; suspicion than trut nun
If wives could but tell their story, Woulu
not many of their husbands peg u DC
named among the henpecked for very
shame?-Julsius Henri Bro,clse, IN Apple
nl'e I01LlnnL
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13
TIE NEW s.
England, France and Germany on
the Spanish Question.

England, France and Germany OF
the Spanish Question.
Reports of Serious Differences Be-
tween Those Powers Denied.
Public Debt Statement
for July.
Dismissal of the Libel Suit Against
Theodore Tilton.
Re Announces His Intention Of Taking the
Beecher Case into Court Of Law.
Steamboat Disaster on the Ohio River
Several Lives Lost.
The Grasshopper Raid-Great DestruC-
ton to Growing Crops.
state Elections and State and Con-
gressionaI Nominations.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13
FOREIGN.

A London dispatch of the lists that the
damage caused by the storm in Morayia far
exceeded the earlier estimates. Eleven vii
lagos and two towns had been devastated.
A Madrid dispatch Of the Sd says the Re
publicans had captured the post of Olot, with
100 CarIist prisoners. The Spanish Govern
ment had ordered the dispatch OF $4,000 adj
ditional troops to Cuba.
A London dispatch of the 4th says reports
OF diplomatic rupture between Germany and
France and of armed intervention by Euro
pean powers in Spanish affairs are false. The
foundation for these reports was that the
German Government had sent note to the
Versailles Government protesting against the
Pyrenees being made a Carlist arsenal, and
declaring that unless France maintained
neutrality in Spanish affairs Germany would
ask the other powers to interfere. In conse-
quence Of this note the French troops on the
frontier had been ordered to prevent uni
formed Carlists from crossing the boundary.
A Berlin dispatch of the 4th says that
Prince Bismarck's son had recently fought
a duel with NJ. Sarskawan at Dusseldorf,
which had resulted in the death of the lat
ter
On the 18th the French EAssembly, after
passing the budget, adjourned. The Depu-
ties of the Left met and resolved to agitate
in favor of a general election on the ground
that the present Government was anti-repub-
hean and did not represent the country.
A London dispatch of the 9th announces
that terrible gale had been experienced of
the coast of Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Hun.
dreds of fishing-boats were overdue, and il
was feared many of them had been lost. Mr.
Hazelton, the English merchant who had been
captured by Spanish brigands, had been ran
somed by the payment of $4,000 piasters.
Bayonne advices of the 9th are to the effect
that the Carlists had recently received large
amount Of guns and ammunition. Spain had
sent circular note to foreign powers in which
it is said that the Carlists, under the preteXt
of defending religion, had been guilty of in
cendiarism, assassination and pillage.
According to the Nese Frej Pyesse, of Wen
ma, of the 18th the French Minister of Foreign
Affairs had complained to the British Govern
ment that Germany was seeking an occasion
to quarrel with France.
The British Parliament was prorogued on
the eth by a message from the Queen which
was read by royal commission.
A Madrid dispatch of the It'll says the Re-
publican forces had relieved Ternel and the
Carlists who were besieging the place had
fled. The judicial investigation in the matter
of the assassination of Marshal Prim had re
suited in the indictment of fifty more persons
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13

year would give substantial comfort to almost
every person. To have the money saved by
buying SILVER TIPPED boots and shoes
would buy each parent every year new pair
of shoes
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-13

The Grand Revolution IN MEDICAL TREAT
MENT, which commenced in 1860, is still in prog
ress Nothing can stop it, for 1t is founded the
principle, universally acknowledged, that physi-
cal vigor is the most formidable antagonist of all hu-
man ailments, and experience has shown that PLAN
TATIoN BIrTERs is a peerless invigOrant, well
the best possible safeguard against epidemic diseases
~ ASTHMA can be cured. See Hurst's advertise