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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-30
A Put-Up Job in Lightning.

Mr.. Norman Thayer, of Oswego County,
n. Y, has had an experience with light
ming quite as cOmical and a good deal
more true than any of the great Ameri-
can humorists have related He built
big barn and thought he'd leave it to
the exclusive care of heaven Lightning
rods he despised, and lightning-rod men
he looked upon as blasphemous He
made up his mind to discountenance
them, and got a couple of cross dogs to
help him. The ightning-rod men came
one at time like buzzards and looked
at that fine barn from a distance. but
they stayed around, apparently sure of
their prey. One night there was a
thunderstorm and the good Mr. Thay
ers dog-house was knocked all to pieces
and generally split up into kindling
wood, and no fragment of the dogs was
ever found. 4 lightning expert called
upon Thayer the next day, examined the
relics of the dog-house and said it was
lightning. He talked science to Thayer,
and kept talking till he converted him
to the lightning-rod doctrine. He got
permission to put one of his doubled and
twisted lightning eXtractOrs on Thayer's
barn. Then the other lightning-rod men
in waiting came one and two at a time
and talked more science. They sue
ceeded in putting rods at both ends,
and all the corners and along the
comb of the roof, and the last one
put up a lightning-rod at large, to
play around the sky wherever tt
strongest attack was about to be made
He pronounced the barn thoroughly
handicapped and Thayers barn became
a ightning-rod card in all the country
around l.
never surrender to the artillery of the
air, or be blasted by the thunder mine.
One night, soon after, storm came as
II Tor the express purpose OF testing the
whole business. 1t wasn't much of a
storm either The agents could not have
asked anything neater, if they had had
the ordering of it, But it was enough.
The lightning rods all let go their holds
at once, and<tumbled among the ashes of
the barn, which was struck in some I'M
protected point, as any mailed warrior
might be who is too confident of the inn
penetrability of his armOr. Now, barn
and contents, hay and stock, and harness
and shivered lightning rods are lying in
one common ruin, and form striking
picture. Since Thayer has seen the real
lghtning'S work he grOanS under the
suspicion that those lightning experts
struck his dog-house with axes and his
dogs with some quick death in order to
set up job on him. 1t is horrible to
think human nature can descend to such
tricks to carry a point, but lightning
rod man may be capable of it, and prob
ably some green lightning annihilator
will come around when 1hayer builds
new barn. The old ores will avoid
Ihayer's barn when it ph@niXes.-St
Louis P0Der.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-30

have never paid any lady the slightest
attention, though you have met the most
| elegant girls, and now this saucy chit
! seems to absorb all your thoughts. 1t
| isn't right, and"
THAT actU dol" came in clear. even
tones from across the table; yet there
was a ring in them Aunt Rachel had
never heard before.
Il believe l am old enough to choose
my own way. / have chosen it, Aunt
Rachel, and you may as well know it now
as at any time. Juneau! how tenderly
he spoke the name-"June Marston will
be nv wife when the May roses bloom. +"
Poor Aunt Rachel! speeches. for
once. All the doctors anger vanished as
he saw her utter dismay; and the old
spirit of fear returned, and this is what
he said as he left the room:
You told me, aunt, that one sacaz7o1
didn't make summer. Well, perhaps it
hasn't; but sacall0ao has fastened the
promise of mine. In this case it was the
sao0tlolo Of PIN"
Then he went to his pets, the flowers.
and whispered to them his new delight.
1t came to our hero with all the daz-
cling splendor of revelation For
weeks there had been about him les
aUant-c0alreurs of the willy Cupid. They
had whispered sweetest hints of the low
that might come, and now our lover
thought no other heart had ever known
such supreme happiness.
Meantime, June quite forgot her pain.
as she lay with closed eyes reading the
look and tone she had met in the moment
of peril. Her cheek grew bright-so
bright with the leaping blood that Mrs
Marston was anxious lest fever was i'm
minent
June, dear! doesn't your head ache?
your face is flushed"
The brown eyes opened with a merry
laugh shining through them.
Don't be worried, mamma. The doc
tor said there was no danger now. He
will tell you all about it this afternoon
Mamma. Tn glad I slOal70aoed that pin .n'
Mrs. Marston shuddered.
"June! how dare you? 1t was horri-
BILE. If the doctor had not been here YOU
would have strangled."
Yes-but-mamma," and the eyes
danced again. the doctor was here {;
that's just it. never was so glad in all
my life-but it hurts me to talk"
For once true love ran smoothly
The doctor asked mamma" in his own
frank way. The assent was given, but a
conviction of duty required Mrs. Marston
to give him at length a catalogue of
June's peccadiloes and faults, to all of
which the doctor listened with polite
Impotence.
Fred nearly crushed his hand with a
wringing grasp of congratulation.
"Ah, Rex! old fellow; so you propose
to have June all the year round? Well,
she is darling. Anyhow, one proyerb
is disproved, in spite of its age. One
sloall0ao did make summer this time
That swallow" did make a lifelong
summer for DR.. Deane, who loves his
sweet wife more than ever while now an
other June" fits, with all her mothers
grace, among the flowers, or sends the
echo of her mothers laugh ringing and
floating through every nook of the old
homestead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-30
by SLAIN.

THIS sweet child which hath climbed upon my
knee,
This authenticated, four-summered little maid
win her unconscious beauty troubleth me,
With her low prattle maketh me afraid.
An. darlingl when you cling and nestle so
1ou hurt me, though you do not see me cry,
or hear the WEAKNESS with which sigh
For the dear babe / killed so long ago.
tremble at the touch of your Caress;
lou stab me with your doye-eyed. innocent faith,
. cruel knives of whetted worldliness,
That laid mine own child-heartedness in death,
Beside whose grave pace for evermore,
Like DesOlatlon on a shlpWrecked shore!
There is no little child within me now,
10 sing back to the daisies. to leap up,
When June winds kiss me, when an apple-bOugh
Laughs into blossoms or buttercup
Filters the sunshine. a violet
Gladdens in the glad dew. Alas! alas!
The meaning of the primrose in the grass
have forgotten and, If my cheeks are wet,
1t Il not with the blitheness of the child,
But with the heavy sorrows OF sore years
y moaning life, with Life lrrecOnclled!
% baCkward-lOOking thought. pain! o tears
For III there is not any silver sound
OF rhythmic wonders springing from the
ground
That makes men mummies weighs out every
grain
of that which was miraculous before
And sneers the heart down with the scofing
brain.
The skeptic's peering, analytic ways,
That dry the tender juices of the breast.
And put the thunders of the Lord to test,
So that no marvel must be, and no praise.
Nor any God except necessity.
@ earthly days, that have served so tTue
arid husks! y bare and fruitless tree!
Take back your doubtful wisdom, and renew
Ny early foolish freshness of the Ounce.
Whose simple instincts guessed the heavens at
once.
Richard ReqEf, IN Harper'8 Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-30
Curious Incidents.

Correspondents Of the Boston Tran
script are relating instances Of curious
condolences. We quote: "a gentleman
dreamed about Commencement time of
a college mate whom he never knew well
or cared for especially, and had not seen
or heard of or thought of for decade
Next day he saw him in Boston. He had
lately returned from protracted absence
from the country A lady dreamed of
an old family servant who quit her house
wears ago, settled at a distance, and was
as much segregated from her and q
stranger to her thoughts as though in
habiting another sphere of existence.
She called on her within twenty-four
hours
About a dozen years ago I met one
day, on Washington street, as [ thought,
a citizen Of a distant town with whom
had long before slight acquaintance,
but whom | had not seen or thought of
for many years. As we passed each other
| saw it was not he. but two blocks
farther on | met the very man. Having
had one similar experience before, this
became the more strongly impressed
upon my mind. About two years after
was walking one evening on fremont
street, on the sidewalk lately removed,
and when near West street gate | was
on the point Of speaking to NJ. H., an
intimate business acquaintance, but the
gas-light at that moment showed it was
stranger whom | had met instead Oh
my friend The other incident came TO
my mind, and thought, Would 1t not
be curious circumstance II L should
meet Mr.. H. during my walk ana 10
my establishment, | did meet ana talk
with him on that very sidewalk before L
got to Park street corner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-30
A Bar of PIatina.

The Paris mint has just completed the
manufacture of d bar of iridiated platina
OF the enormous weight Of 500 pounds
and worth 100000 francs, the exhibition
of which recently took place at the Con-
servatOire DIES Arts ct Mettiers of Paris,
In the presence of delegates from foreign
countries and members of the Academy
of Sciences invited by Gen NORM, Di-
rector of the establishment. That mass
Of metal, quite exceptional for its size
and hOmOgeneousness, is to be used in
making the standard meters and kilO-
grams required by various governments
for the adoption of the metrical system
or the comparison of their weights and
measures. Each set will cost $500
francs and forty-fve have been ordered
by different powers. The fusion of the
metal was effected by the aid of seven
blow-pipes of oxyhydrogen gas inserted
into the cover of an enormous crucible
forty cubic meters of that fluid were suf-
ficient to keep up the combustion of the
seven jets of ordinary gas during the
two hours the combustion lasted. The
light of the incandescent metal was so
intense that the melting pot could only
be looked into with the aid of a colored
glass. Many centuries may pass before
the occasion should arise for such a
work as that executed, as the produc-
ton of pIatina is very limited and does
not exceed from a ton to ton and a
half annually
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-30
Our Young Folks.
YE BILLY GOAT.
BY GEORGE COOPER

BY GEORGE COOPER.
1t was ye little Billy goat
That played upon We street;
He gamboled to We grocery,
His dinner for to eat.
In luscious heaps, outside We store,
{ vegetables lay
turnlps and We marrowfats,
Likewise We cabbage gay.
= 4e grocerman he feeds me well,
How good he is TO met
ms Billy goat said TO himself,
His tail then twinkled he.
he stripped We cabbage, leaf by leaf,
lie blithest goat in town:
FOR oTange-peel he cared not then.
Nor Tor We paper brown.
1t was We angry grocer-nan
Who ran out to We door.
Whereat We little Billy coat
He left and ate no more.
Then did We irate grocerman
Throw turnipS two or three
After this little Billy goat,
All 1or his knayery.
Doundlng turRipS missed their mark,
20 back this goat did run
Anu al i distance, nodded thanks
And munched them one by one.
While softly to himself said he:
This Is We kindest man.
He throws me vegetables plump.
To feed me all he can.
. And let him strike me, if he may,
My JOY he shall not kill:
For l will gather all he sends.
Returning good for i'll
It was We grocerman who sighed
And turned him from We door
To serve We customers who thronged
The grOcerman his store.
". Y. IndeDendent
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-30

the frontier of the loftiness of the Indian
character, to be surel But when we take
into consideration the fact that, that self.
same night, a band of Sioux entered the
camp and stole the whole of those ponies
over again, besides twelve or fifteen full
grown horses, which the Government had
feelingly supplied in compensation for the
loss of ponies by the Sioux, what a rep
resentation if was of the unbelievable
cunning of the sons of Japhet! My
Soul was a spy sent to find out where
the neac horses were corraled. -Renlinis-
cenceS Of q Western Editor
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-30
A Substitute for Ice.

It is probable that many good house
wives do not know that butter may be
kept firm and nice-looking by mere ly IN
yerting over it a fiower-pot covered with
damp cloths. In the same way water
pitcher enveloped in wet cloths will keep
its contents cool and grateful to the
parched throat this hot wather.
On large scale the same plan may De
used in the fields-as we have before said,
but it will bear saying again. The con
tents of a barrel enveioped in cloths
which are kept constantly wet will be so
pleasant as almost to induce the laboreT
in the field to drink more than is good
for him.
The reason why water kept in this way
is cool is, that the evaporation OF the out
side dampness carries off the heat from
the inside-just as perspiration carries OF
the heat from the human frame, and
renders a live man capable Of withstand
ing heat which will cook beefsteak:-
Western Rural
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-30

The loss by the Weehawken oil phiz
is now estimated at $4,000, 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-07-30

The Scarlet Letter-let her b.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-17
DISEASES OF THE BLOOD.

"The Blood is the Life" When this source Is
corrupted, the painful and sorrow-producing eff
fects are visible in many shapes. The multifa-
rous forms in which it manifests itself, would
form subjects upon which might write vol
umes But as all the varied forms OF disease
which depend upon bad blood are cured. or best
treated by such medicines as take up from this
fluid and excrete from the system the nox1ous
elements, ii is not o. practical Importance that
should describe each. FOR IN
stance, medical authors describe about
fifty varieties of skin disease, Dut as
they all require for their cure very SINH
know just what mans TO apply TO a certain form
of skin disease, so you know how best to cure 1t,
Then again l might go on and describe various
kinds of scrofula sores, fever sores, white swell
lings, enlarged glands. and ulcers OF varying
appearance; might describe how y1rulent poison
may show itself in various forms OF eruptions,
ulcers, sore throat, bony tumors, etc.: but as all
these various appearing manifestations OF bad
blood are cured by uniform means, deem
such a course unnecessary. Thoroughly cleanse
| the blood, which is the great fountain OF life,
and good digestion. q fair skin, buoyant spirits,
vital strength. For this purpose DR.. Pierce
lets are pre-eminently the articles needed They
1 are warranted to cure letter, salt Rheum, Scald
Head, st. Anthony's Fire, Rose Rash or Erysip-
| elias, Ring-worms, Ptmples, Blotches, spots
Eruptions, Pustules, BOils, Carbuncles, Sore
Eyes, Rough Skin, Scurf, Scrofulous sores and
sweIlings, Fever Sores, White Swellings, Tu
mors, Old Sores or Swellings Affections OF thu
Skin, Throat and Bones, and Ulcers OF the Liver
Stomach, Kidneys and Lungs.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-17
CHICAGO ACADEMY OF MEDICINE
For the Suppression of Quaekery

The trustees of the Academy having re-elec-
ted DIR. l.. w. Curtus president, and medical d.
rector and Drs. Warner, Smith, and Davis, con.
smiling physicians, beg to inform the public that
henceforth the office hours will be from 10 A. M.
to p. Nj. AL chronic diseases, as Asthma,
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Consumption, Dyspepsia,
cate nature, SpermetorrhGa or Seminal weak
ness nervous debility, diseases OF the eye and
ear and ali diseases of women and children are
reated with the best success according TO the
latest medical experience. No case taken under
treatment unless a perfect cure can be guaran,
teed The poor are treated gratis, Tuesdays and
FRIDAYS, from six TO sven p. M. Patients resid-
ing in the country can be treated by correspon,
dence If they give an accurate description OF
their respective cases, and medicines sent them
BY express. Letters OF inquiry should contain
two postage stamps, and be addressed Dr. l.. w
CIJR'TIJJS. Chicago Academy of Medicine. o.
south Desplaines St., near Madison ST., chicago
III COpy right Sncured.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-17
oTATE OF INDIANA, MARION COUNTY

Theodore p Haughey vs.. William M. Jones,
Caroline +. Jones, Charles p. Wilder, Elvise
Wilder Richard Il. Seckel, Kate Seckel.
In the Superior Court of Marion county, In the
state of Indiana. No. 5,4Ss Foreclosure, March
term, 1874. -,
Be it known, that on the 10Th day OF February,
1874, the above named plaintiff by his attorneys,
filed in the office of the Clerk Of the superior
Court of Marion county, In the state of Indiana,
his complaint against the above named defend,
ants for foreclosure of mortgage, and on SAID
7th day of March, 1874, the said plaintiff hled In
said Clerks Office the affidavit OF a competent
T. Seckei and Kate Seckel, are not residents OF
the state of Indiana. -
Now therefore, by order Of said Court, said
defendants last above named are hereby notl'
fed of the filing and tendency Of said com
plant against them, and that unless they ap-
near and answer or demur thereto, at the call
ing of said cause on the second day OF the term
of said court, to be begun and held at the Court
House in the city of indianapolis, on the mrs.
Monday in a pril, 1874, said complaint, and the
matters and things therein contained and al
legged. will be heard and determined In thell
absence. WILLIAM j. WAlILACr- SIeiA
Harrison & Hines, Attorneys for plaintiff.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-17

STATE OF INDIANA, MARION COUNTY, IS:
In the Superior Court of Marion county. In the
State of Indiana. No. 5,ZS2. Attachment TO sub
ject land to sale. Richard Lawrence and Henry
Iawrence, VS.. Abram L. Buckles and Mary l..
Buckles, Term. 1874.
BE IL known thaton the I'D day OF January,
1874 the above named plaintiffs, by their attor-
news, Med in the office of the Clerk of the SUI
perior Court of Marion County, in the state oil
indiana, their complaint against the above
named defendants, for attachment and To SUD-
iect real estate in the name of wife to payment
of husbands debts, and on said I'D day OF jan
uary, 1874 the said plaintiff filed In said Clerk
Office the affidavit of a competent person show,
| ing that said defendants, Abram l.. Buckles and
Mary l.. Buckles, are not residents of the State
| of Indiana.
| Now therefore, by order of said court, said
defendants last above named are hereby noti.
fed OF the filing and tendency OF said complaint
against them, and that unless they appear an6
answer or demur thereto, at the calling OF saic
cause on the second day of the Term OF sale
Court, TO be begun and and held at the Cour
| House in the city OF indianapolis, on the mrs
Monday In March, 1874, said complaint, and The
1 matters ana things therein contained ana al
leged will be heard and determined in thei
| absence. WILLIAM j. WALLACr, CieiA'
/ JOE. A. WALLACE, Deputy.
| LOUIS JORDAN, Attorney for Plaintfn.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-17
THE APACHES.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 12-The Hualpais
Apaches declare their willingness to return
to their old grounds and to obey all the
orders of General Crock, but they say that
they will die before they will 90 the Colo
RADIO River reservation. If the troops want
to fight them, they must expect a big battle.
Gen. Crook is at San Carlos. On the 10th of
March the Apaches stole stock from Senior
Sanchez Panciso Romero, near Tucson. The
men pursued them and fight ensued in
which Sanchez was killed by the Indians.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1874-03-17
90 CRES
VALUABLE MARION COUNTY LANDS.
F r S ALE.

BY virtue of decree or order OF sale of the Su-
per1or Court Of Marion county, Indiana, render
60 al It's March Term, A. ID. 1874, in action
for partition, wherein Hardin Bruce and others,
were and are plaintiffs, and John w. Bruce was
and II defendant, the undersigned Oomrnis-
stoner, appointed by said decree, will sell at
public auction unless sooner sold at private
salel the real estate hereinafter described on
door of the Court House OF Marion comfy. in
the city OF indianapolis, between the hours Of
10 O'Clock A. NJ and o'clock r; N of said day.
more or less situated in Washington township,
Marion coun y, Indiana, and about nine miles
rom the city OF indianapolis. adjoining the town
Of Allisonville, and one mile and a half from
Castleton station, on the Peru q Indianapolis
railroad. The entire farm Ii under fence, and
2O acres thereof, more or less, in good state OF
cultivation the residue is heavily umbered and
good snail frame house WITH cellar, and a good
spring near the house. There is also an apple
orchard on the premises.
The lands 10 be sold are described as the east
half Of section twenty co., in township seven
teen Q7). range four a. east, con tanning al $500
acres, more or less. Also all thai part of the
southeast quarter OF section seventeen 40, in
the same TO Enship and range, which lies south
and west OF White River, being the southwest
corner OF said quarter-section, and containing
~ 4-l00 acres, more or less. Also the south half
of the north west quarter OF section number
range, containing 80 acres more or less. imme-
diate possession Will be given.
TERMS OF SALE.
One-third of the purchase money in cash, one
third in enc year, and one-thIrd in two years
from the day of sale. The purchaser or pur-
chasers will be required to give their notes, pay
able in bank, for The deferred payments, pay
able without relief from valuation or appraise-
ment laws and with interest at six per cent.
from the dry OF sale till maturity and with ten
per cent. after maturity till paid, and with reas-
enable attorneys fees If suit should be institute
ed 10 enforce payment OF such notes, or any, or
either of them. The purchaser purchasers
will receive a certificate of purchase conditioned
| for the conveyance of The premises purchased
within ten days from and after The time when
said court shall order deed to be made after
| the purchase money shall have been fully paid.
| The purchaser will be required 10 pay the tax
| e. for 1874 and all thereafter.
| VIM HENDERSON, Commissioner