Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-08-06

Evidently the potato bug is wear
ing out. There hasn't been near so
many to the bushel this year as form
erly.
A later patch on the bill wears a
wOe-bug-gone appearance. The tops
are all top-sy-turvy, stalking about
without leaf.
The girls in an Illinois Female
Seminary have quit playing ieap-frog
and gone to splitting at a mark for a
change.
The Beecher-TiIton's candle is
Illuminating one of the darkest recess
es Of our modern social refined ciyiliza-
ton. Jet it be snutfed out, but not
before the illumination is complete.
-Ar'n't We glad we don't live in
Brooklyn. Firtuous Wisconsin is our
abiding place. To be sure we have
our little railroad squabbles, but
whittier souled' people don't live than
ours.
Says the Lacrosse Sun: The
friends of Beecher are claiming that
Tilton is mad, he having a brother in
the insane asylum. Most men would
be mad, under the circumstances
whether they had brother in the in
sane asylum or not.
The Faribault { MINI. } Democrat
says: Having read all that has ap-
peared concerning the Beecher-Tilton
scandal; we are convinced that Tilton
don't know what be is talking about
and that Beecher is afraid he does. ;"
Chippewa Herald \. "
Thompson writes letter to The New
York Tribune that Senator Carpenter
cannot be reelected. We shall now
wait patiently for the dispatches an
the Senator withdrawal as
a candidate"
The biggest sturgeon on record,
weighing 155 pounds, and measuring
6 II feet in length, was caught last
Sunday in one Of the Madison lakes,
being first shot with a rife and then
harpooned. 1t will be stuffed and
placed in the State Historical Society
cabinet.
-Trot out your candidates for Cir
tnit Judge. Cate has writted letter
saying that he is candidate tor Con
gress, and Is willing to run on the
platform that elected VIM. L. Taylor
Of course if he runs, he will resign the
Office of Judge, whether he is elected
or not. Then he will be handsomely
defeated. \ new Judge will be elect
ed, and still the world will move
IYaupaca Republican.
The Beecher-Tilton stencil IS
spreading. 1t begins to smell in Mil
waukee. One t. D. Holton knows
something about it, and has been in
terviewed. How far it will 90, we
don't know. We are ready to tell all
We know about it if the interested part
les will send up an interviewer.
We publish a letter from the town
of Lincoln in this issue recounting the
heIlish freaks of drunken Indian.
Suppose the fend had murdered the
school mistress, Miss Hanafn, who
would have been accountable, the liq-
uor interests? O, no it would have
been the indian, he was not obliged to
get drunk, you know.
1t is seldom so many scientific and
scholarly men unpremeditatedly meet
as are at present met in Grand Rapids.
We believe there are six Professors of
Geological Science now in our city,
intent in looking up the deposits Of
our soil, and taking geological notes
a Democrat who fights under his
own flag and stands by his principles,
commands the respect due frankness
and courage; while the lodging, tricky
apologist, who holds his nose while
making excuses and promises for the
Democracy, incurs contempt from all
sides.
We've young nephew who IS
learning to tame a trumboon, we
judge only from the "toot," ''toot, "
''t-o-o-t, but then we may be mis-
taken, this is the green apple and escu-
lent vegetable season.
They have brass band at Tomah
whose snare drummer is not al expert,
but as he has the ague promptly the
plays at such times as the
attack comes on, and then how that
snare drum jingles. It is very good
music for Tomah, and Stevens Point
might enjoy it. but cur folks couldn't.
Prof: Irving Of the State Uni
versity, Prof Eaton of Beloit College
and Mr.. Sweet graduate of the Uni
versity at Madison have been in our