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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21
FACTS AND FIGURES.

Vermont will place 100000 young
salmon in her rivers.
Three million baskets is the proba-
BILE Delaware peach crop.
An elegant toilet in Paris costs from
700 to 1000 francs.
There are TAO inmates in the Albany
Penitentiary, ninety-one of whom are fe-
males.
One thousand two hundred and
ninety watches are made yearly in Swiss
canton.
1t would take a train of cars 800
miles long to load the 1878 wheat crop OF
Minnesota.
In 1878, 2,124O00 passengers crossed
on the ferry between San Francisco and
Oakland.
Five hundred millions of dollars and
100000 of men are the cost and force of
Europe's standing armies.
Failures in the United States in 1872,
1909; total liabilities, 1921, 056,000; 1878,
5,183; total liabilities, $228, 499, 900.
bodybuilding on the Connecticut
River is more active at the present time
than in any previous year since 81.
Last year four of the twenty cities
margining the great lakes shipped 1872
1862, 1876 bushels of grain and Montreal
more than 100000.
The average daily consumption OF
pig metal in Pittsburgh is about 200
tons. That city furnishes 68 per cent. OF
all the steel manufactured in the United
States.
There are now 9,101 Jesuits in the
world The largest number are in France,
2,3C3; the missionary service occupies
1888 more; 1927 are in Italy; 1850 in
Great Britain and her colonies, and the
rest distributed in various countries.
The tonnage on all the canals aggre
gated from 1S47 to 1878, inclusive, 1875,
761 800 TONS The tolls at Buffalo, $37,
534,575; tolls at Oswego, $10566, 301; tolls
at other places, $41, 266,501; grand total
tolls, $50, 387, 371 on all the canals for the
same period.
More than 1000 new periodicals have
been started in the United States within
three years. There are now in the whole
country 6,675 such publications. In 1866
there were only 4,051, and in 1870, 5,87l
Of the present periodicals CAT are dailies
5,175 weeklies, and ,G53 monthlies.
The yearly production of wine in the
United States is estimated at 100000
gallons. The several States, it is est
mated, yield as follows: California
100000 gallons; Ohio, $500, 900; New
York, 5000, 600; Missouri, 100000; Hi
nois, 100000; Pennsylvania, 100000;
Iowa, 100000: Kentucky, 100000; Kansas
100000; Indiana $50, 600; North Carolina
10000; Michigan, 10000; West Virginia.
$4,000; Virginia, 10000; Texas, 10000;
New Mexico, 10000; New Jersey, $4,000;
Wisconsin, $4,000; Maryland, %, 600
South Carolina, $4,000; Alabama, 10000;
Connecticut, 10000; Mississippi, 5000
Tennessee, $4,000; Georgia, 1000; Louis.
lana, 10000; Delaware, 5000; District OF
Columbia, 5000; Massachusetts, 5000;
Nebraska, 5000; Oregon, 5000; Wash,
ington Territory, 5000; other States and
Territories, 5000
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21
DOMESTIC.

The President of the United States Centen-
NAL Commission has published a card an
nouncing that, in order to remove any doubt
which may possibly have arisen as to the carry
ing out of the international exhibition, the
work essential for the due celebration of the
centennial anniversary in 1876 has been COM
menced, and will be proceeded with without
delay
Ridgeway Iowa, has been entirely destroyed
by fire, with the exception Of one brick build
ing. Between thirty and forty families are
rendered homeless. The fire originated by two
boys lighting cigars in an unoccupied house,
and will result in a total loss of nearly $780,,
900.
Heavy rains on the night of the 18th and
on the day following extinguished the greater
part of the forest fires then raging in Michi-
gan. Many hundreds of acres of valuable
timber had been consumed in the northern
and western portions of the State.
On the 18th additional crevasses were re-
ported along the east bank of the Mississippi,
and the country in portions of the State of
Mississippi was being rapidly submerged.
The village of Wrightsville, on the West
Wisconsin Railway, ten miles north of Black
River Falls, has been totally destroyed by fire.
The fire was communicated from adjacent
burning timber. Some fifteen or twenty
dwelling houses were destroyed, together with
a large amount of sawed lumber.
The Wisconsin Railroad Commissioners
have issued a schedule classifying the roads
and establishing passenger and freight rates.
A proposition of the Chicago & Northwestern
Railway Company to have t. suit about to be
commenced against them taken to the United
States Court instead of the State Court has
been refused by Gov. Taylor.
Both houses of the Arkansas Legislature
met on the morning of the 14th and adopted a
resolution requesting the President of the
United States to put that body in possession
of the legislative halls and give itrepossession
and control of the public property on the
State House square, and that he give such
orders for the disposition of the contending
forces as would protect the State from domes-
TIC violence and insure the Legislature against
moIestation In the evening the Assembly
met IN Joint convention and received amessage
from Baxter, inviting the Legislature to decide
who is Governor of Arkansas, and suggesting
the propriety of calling Constitutional Con
yention.
The National Agricultural! Congress began
its annual session at Atlanta, Ga, on the 18th
An address was delivered by President Jack
son. He feicitated the Congress on the gooc
results Of the organization during the past Two
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21
A Generous Parent.

One day last winter an indulgent and
fond parent took his little daughter on
hand-sled out on the ice for a happy
romp.. After proceeding a short distance
from shore the treacherous foundation
they were on gave way, precipitating
father and child into the water. A hero
saw the mishap and flew to the rescue,
and at the risk of his own life saved the
imperiled ones. In performing his hui
name act the gallant soul had to jump into
the water, and the result was his watch
got wet and stopped running. The man
he snatched from death said he was not a
jeweler, but he thought he could put the
time-piece in order He repaired the
manned watch but as that particular
work was little out Of his line he said
he would only charge the owner $1.25
for the job! The amount was paid, and
another name was added to the list of
those who believe that a grateful instead
of an honest man is the noblest work Of
God! The most disagreeable thing about
this story is, "Tis true; tits pity, and
pity it's, tits true n'-Houg7tton (LGke ST.
peri0r) Mining Gazette.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21
HAPS AND MISHAPS.

"A five-months-old infant girl sprang
out of the arms of an elder sister, in Mil
wakee, a few days ago, and fell down the
stairway. When picked up the child was
dead.
AT Shawnee, Ohio, lately, dentist
administered TO Miss Sullivan eighty
grains of bromide of chloral, causing
almost immediate death. The dentist
fed and has not been arrested.
A boy named Christian Geese, aged
sixteen, was arrested in Baltimore the
other day for assaulting another boy. His
disgrace so preyed on his mind that he
committed suicide the next day by taking
arsenic.
"A few days ago, Jack Kane, of Bur
Ilngton, Vt, while intoxicated, pointed in
jest loaded shotgun at Catherine Bell,
when the piece was discharged. Three
shots entered the girls head and neck,
lnt1lctlng wounds that will prove fatal.
The opponents of corsets will find a
new argument in an incident at Dover,
N. H., the other day. A woman was
knocked down on the sidewalk by a
snoW-sllde, and a piece OF steel from her
corset was driven into her stomach, in
hlctlng painful wound.
in the Indian Territory, the other day,
party OF four men en- route for Texas,
while IN camp, got drunk and quarreled
about the ownership of horses and a
wagon used jointly by them. One of
the party was killed outright, two were
fatally wounded, and the other badly
hurt.
The Norwich Comm Bulletin, in its
account of a railroad ACCIDENT near Nor
wich, gives this CHASTITY incident: "A cot
fin containing the body of an old man
was on the baggage car being transported
to place in the north of the State. The
shock threw the coffin on end in stand
ing position, at the same time dislocating
the lock so that the lid opened and dis
! closed the stony features of the dead
staring out from its prison walls"
For eleven months has James Nc
Chung, of Staunton, Vt, been dumb, with
out any applicable cause. A few Sun
days ago, however, he entered the sitting
room of his house and saluted his family
with cheerful "good morning." at tie
same time nearly fainting. He has con-
versed as well as ever since that. He says
that just as he spoke Sunday he expert
enced a convulsive movement of the mus
Giles Of the throat and a sense of cOncus-
sion in the head.
From Baltimore comes an account OF
a shocking case of brutality committed
on negro boy named James Henry
Woodley, aged fifteen years, in Howard
County, by two negro men. On the Goth
of April, according to Woodley's state
ment, the two men, without provocation,
SCARED and branded his body and limbs
in the most cruel manner with a red'hot
iron, and afterward poured spirits of tur-
pentine over his naked body and lower
limbs and set him on fire. In this con-
dition he escaped from his prosecutors
and succeeded in extinguishing the flames,
in what manner he is scarcely able to tell
His back and legs were roasted to a crust
and his recovery is doubtful. 1t is report
ed that the parties perpetrating the out
rage have been arrested.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21

years, and urged the necessity of cooperation
and union, and the obliteration of sec
tonal antipathies and the cultivation of good
fellowship and brotherly love.
The Agricultural Congress, in its session at
Atlanta on the 18th, unanimously adopted the
following resolution
While recognizing the value of railroads and the
necessity for their further extension, we deem the
cost Of transportation by rail of crude products
of fields, forests and mines so disprCpOrtion-
ate to the cost of water carriage as to rem
der 1t the duty Of the United States TO
improve the rivers in the interior and con-
meet them with the ocean by artificial water
ways, giving the Mississippi Valley continuous
water transit to the board and TO enter at once
upon Ihe work of constructing artificial waterways
adequate to the present and prospective demands
OF inland transportation, and continue it by annual
installments of aid until unrestricted channels of
trade are opened not only through the Mississippi
Valley but connecting the Mississippi River with
the Atlantic Ocean Uid the lakes, the Ohio Kan
awha and James Rivers, and Atlantic 81 Great
Western routes.
That the Agricultural Congress believes it is
within the people to reform the corporate trans
poratiOn system by the same agencies which Gre
ated them, viz: State legislation, controlled by
public opinion; and that we oppose any legisla-
ton under the plea OF regulating commerce be-
tween the States which interferes with the au-
thority heretofore exercised by the State over
railroads entirely within or passing out of its
borders.
Reports were adopted, recommending that
the Government appropriate one-half of the
net proceeds of the sale of public lands to ag
ricultural colleges organized under the act of
1862, and that the Government reduce
the tax on tobacco to a uniform rate
of twelve cents per pound, and that
articles used in the manufacture of tobacco
come duty free. Gen. Jackson was re-
elected President and C. W. Greene Secretary:
j. s. Grinnell was elected Vice-President. c.
W. Greene, Secretary, resigned, and George
E. Morrow, editor of the Wisconsin Farmer,
was elected in his place. The next meeting OF
the Congress will be held at Cincinnati on the
second Wednesday in September, 1875. AID
iourned sine die
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21
The Invalid-A Pen Picture.

See her pallid countenance, but short time
ago the picture of rudy health, the envy of
the school and the pride of the household.
She was always welcomed by her schooImates.
for her 1.-the form and pleasing disposition
carried cheerfulness into their ranks Dill
gent, punctual and exemplary, obedient and
graceful at home, she won the hearts of all.
But alas +! we are soTrowed. Those ROSY
cheeks and rudy lips are blanched by Con-
sumption. The voice once so enchanting in
laugh and song is feeble, husky and sup
planted by hollow cough. Let us approach
her couch gently and take her hand. Do not
shudder because of the feeble and passionless
grasp. The hand once so hearty and plump,
is emaciated and shows bony outlines, while
the cords and tortuous veins are plainly
mapped upon the surface. The pulse that
bounded with repletion, carrying vigor to,
the whole system, and imparting life, beauty,
vivacity, health and strength, is delicate to
the touch. The feeble heart cannot propel
the thin, scanty blood with force. Must
we lose her while yet in her teens?
Companions and friends gather around with
words of cheer and consolation, and
depart with mOistened eyes and silent
steps. Must we lose her? MOI there is relief!
We can stay this destroyer of our happiness
and not suffer the loss of so bright a gem.
Some hlng more is required now than dietary
ana hyglenlc observance, for nature calls for
aid and she shall have it. Take this pleasant
medicine 1t Is invigorating. How it allays-
the irritable cough, improves the appetite and
digestion, and sends healthy Jingle through
the frame. The blood is enriched, nervous
force increased, and the heart bounds with a
new impulse. See her face brighten by
degrees; the color is returning, her voice is
getting clearer, and pleasant words are,
spoken. The strength falters yet, but is
gaining. Let us take her out in the warm
sunshine. In a short time she will be able to
go without our aid, cheerful girl. This de-
lightful medicine must be God-blessed. 1t is
restoring health to our loved one. She is
emerging from her sickness sweeter and
nobler than before, and DR.. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery must have the credit. It
has raised her.
S. r. EGLAR, druggist, of West Union,
Ohio, says that DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery has effected wonderful cure Of
Consumption in his neighborhood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21

A METHOD employed in Germany TO
keep rosebuds fresh consists in first cover
ing the end of the recently-cut stem with
wax, and then placing each one in a closed
paper cap or cone, so that the leaves do
not touch the paper The cap is then
coated with glue to exclude air, dust and
moisture, and when dry it is stood up in
a cool place. When wanted for use the
bud is taken out of the cap and placed in
water, after cutting off the end, when the
rose will bloom in few hours.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21

A BosToN dry goods dealer was insured
for $4,000, and, after recent fire, for
which the insurance companies paid him
s755, gave an illustration of what the
Commercial Bulletin calls the romance
of trade" by putting out on a placard:
" $3.50, 900 worth of dry goods, damaged
by smoke and water, will be offered at
great bargains tomorrow"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21

PAIN, DEFoRMITT AND DEATH are pre-
ventsd nv the humane efforts of the National
surgical institute. indianapolis, Indiana, the
LARGEST institution of the kind founded this side
Of the Atlantic for the cure of Paralysis, Dis
eased joints, all deformities of the human ma:
body, piles. Fistula Catarrh and Chronic Dis
eases. Send your address to the institute
and receive their large journal giving fuh IN
formation and particulars.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21
Thirty Years Experience of an OLD
NurSN.

Mrs. WINsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP is the prescrip.
ton of one Ofthe best Female Physicians and Nurses
in the United States, and has been used for thirty
years with neverfaling safety and by mill
ions of mothers and children from the feeble infant
of week old to the adult 1t corrects acdity OF
the stomach, relieves wind collie, regulates the bow
els and gives rest hcoth and comfort to mother and
child We believe it to be the Best and Surest Rene,
dy in the Yorld in all cases of DYSENTERY and
DIARRHGEA IN CHILDREN, whether r arises from
Teethlng or from any other cause. Full directions
for usnr will accompany each bottle. None Genuine
unless the fac-simile of CURTIS g. PERKINS is on
the outside wrapper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21
OLD BY ALL MEDICINE DEALERS.
Children Often Look Pale and Sick

Children Often Look Pale and Sick
From no other cause than having worms in the ston1-
ach.
BROWNS VERMIFUGE COMFlrS
will destroy Worms without injury to the child, being
perfectly WHITE, and free from J. ,loring other
injurious ingredients usually used in worm prepara-
tions.
CURTIS & BROWN, Proprietors,
No. 215 Fulton street, New York.
Sold By Druggists and Chemists, and Dealers IL
Aedscipes at TWENTY-FIVE CENTS Box.
gE- ASTHMA can be cured. See Hursts advertise
m ent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21

AT Maiden, Mass, a few days ago, a
two-and-a-half story house was moved by
the wind twenty-five feet, and dashed
against another house. The first house
was completely destroyed and the other
badly damaged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21

DON'T TAMPER WITH A C0LD.-Perhaps in
The whole category of diseases to which hu-
mainly is susceptible, the cough is most neg
lected in its early stage. a simple cough is
generally regarded as a temporary affection
unpleasant and nothing more; but to those
who have paid dearly for experience, it is the
signal for attack for the most fearful OF all
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
my TO thwart, if met by the proper remedy.
Aliens 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, 1874-05-21

CHAPPED HANDS are very common with
those who have their hands much in water.
A few drops of Johnson'S AnOdyne Linineat
rubbed over the hands two or three times
day will keep them soft and white. Fisher
men, sailors and others will do well to remem-
this
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21

TIE Times says DIR. WaIpole has lost his
beautiful chestnut mare She died suddenly
in harness, it Is supposed from bots or pm
worms. II the Doctor mad used oHe'g@",s
ro,o1r1, Cor5;tion Po.0ders, he would, no
doubt. have had his mare to-day-they are
death on worms.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21
WuLHorr,s Tonic "A SAFE, SURE AND

WmHoFT's Tonic "A SAFE, SURE AND
SCIENTIFIC CURE The unprecedented sale Oh
this world-renowned medicine proves lncon-
testibIy that no remedy has superseded the
use of this reliable Tonic. No spleen has
been found so hard as not to yield to its soft,
ening influence, and no liver so hyPerrophed
as not to give up its longretained bilious Sc
cretions, and no Chill or Fever has yet refused
to fall into line. WHEELoCK, tLNLAf q Oo-'
Proprietors, New Orleans.
For SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21

KUHN'S EUROPEAN HOTEL-The best
conducted, most convenient, and cheapest
hotel in Chicago. Try it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21

VINEGAR BrTTERs. great merit of
VINEGAR BITTERs has made them the
leading medicine of the day, and respect
able druggists everywhere write: "TBey
are the best and most popular preparation
IN the market" They have stood the test
of public opinion and won confidence.
They sell rapidly because they cure. If
you are sick you want reliable medicine
VINEGAR BITTERs commend themselves
to the ailing and afflicted, as they are de-
fcient in one thing alone, viz: the Stinau-
l0ltahat unduly excites the brain and
creates a morbid thirst for spirits! There
is no phase of Indigestion, Biliousness,
Nervous Disease or Physical Debility in
which they will not effect a cure. Inva-
lids who are wasting away from a want
of proper action in the liver, stomach
and bowels will find them a cOnstitae-
t5OnaI specific, and a fountain of vitality
and vigor as refreshing and exhilarating
as cool, gushing spring of water to the
parched and fainting traveller in the desert.
Al
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21

james Davis, an insane man, MUIR
dered his father recently in Stetson, Me-,
by cutting his head off with an ak He
was arrested, and when asked why he
did it replied: " Washington ordered me
to do it," He was lately released from a
lunatic asylum, having been pronounced
curpd
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21

THE NORTHWESTERN HORsE-NAIL Co.'s
Finished " Nail is the best in the world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21
PERSONAL.

| Secretary Richardson was at his office in
| Washington on the 9th, and it was believed
! that he had not placed his resignation in the
hands of the President and did not contem-
plate doing so for the present.
A Joint resolution has passed both houses
of the Pennsylvania Legislature asking the
President to reopen the Fitz John Porter case
The court of inquiry in the case of Gen. o.
o. Howard have made up their verdict, and are
reported as standing four to three-the ma
jority voting that the evidence taken relieved
Gen. Howard from responsibility.
Mr.. Mellish, Member of Congress from New
York, has become insane through his study on
the question of finance.
The Chicago Tribune of the 18th publishes
a list of 923 Western newspapers, giving their
views on the Presidents veto of the Currency
bill, and Classics them as follows: Sustaining
the veto-Republican, 295; Democratic, 12S;
Independent, 81. Opposing the veto-Repub-
Iican, 234; Democratic, 112; Independent, 62.
The eighth annual meeting of the National
Encampment of the Grand Army of the Re-
public was held in Harrisburg, Pa, on the
18th. The following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: Commander-in-C Chief, Chas.
Devens, Jr., Massachusetts,; Senior Vice
Commander-in-Chicf, Edward Jardine, New
York; Junior Vice-Commander- in Chief,
Grey Gould, Illinois. Chicago was selected
as the next place of meeting, in May, 1875.
Application has been made in the New York
Supreme Court for an order winding up the
SANTANA Bay Company and appointing a re-
ceiver.
A reunion of the Second, Fifth, and Sixth
Army Corps was held in Harrisburg, Pa, on
the 18th The gathering was largely attend
ed, many distinguished soldiers and civilians
being present. The Fifth Army Corps adopt
ed memorial to the President asking that
the case of Gen. Fitz John Porter be re-
opened.
At a late meeting of the posts of the Grand
Army of the Republic of the Department of
New York it was agreed that there should be
no distinction made on Decoration day be-
tween the graves of the Confederate and Union
dead.
The Ohio Constitutional Convention adj
journed sine die on the 18th. All the members
present had signed the new Constitution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-05-21
CONGRESSIONAL.

Senate not in session on the 9th. In
the House, resolution of inquiry relative to the