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

1t is an unusual thing to start
feet of lumber for the Mississippi on
the present low stage of water; in fact
we don't know if such a thing was
ever before attempted but The Weed
Lumber Manufacturing Company of
Barnum started a large feet last week.
Their mill Is so favorab ly located = to
permit Of their so doing with everys.
I prospect of getting out with no mate
rial hinderance. We wish the daring
ana enterpr;sing company success
abundant success.
Tho Republican Congressional Ad-
+ dress, which may be called The First
/ Epist}e Of Timothy, has followed suit
aud gone below the horizon. Nothing
can be seen of it but its tail, which
stretches a vast distance through space
of such thinness that you could throw
I the fimsiest old hat through it without
noticing any obstruction.-Greea Bay
-4dr0catc.
! That tail aforesaid will switch around
and walIop, swallow up aud utterly de-
morslizo that 'Reform-New-Depart-
ure-Democtatic Globe" that IS drifting
through space without any well defined
orbit, about next November. 1t would
! be we'll enough for Gov. TAYLOR TO write
: another essay.
The Wisconsin Central, Wau sau,
says:
Mr.. T. 0. Wyatt, Superintendent
of the Valley Road, is IN town and
gives onr citizens every encourage
ment concerning the early extension of
the road. Mr.. Wyatt IS now waiting
to hear from parties who will do the
grading, bridging and tyeing. From all
we could learn from MIR. WYATT we be-
lieve il is the purpose to at once re-
sumo work on the road, with view of
reaching this point at an early day
as possible.
The game laws of Wisconsin hm-
it the killing Of game as follows:
Woodcock, from the 4th Of July to
the 18th Of November
Grouse, Prairie Hen or Chicken,
from the 10th of August to the 18th
Of November
| Partridge or Ruled Grouse or Quail.
from the 10th of September to the lst
OF January.
Wood, MalIard or Teal Duck, from
the 1st of September to the 1st of
February.
Any person killing or having in his
or her possession any birds above mem
toned, at any other times than those
stated, is liable to penalty Of $40 for
each bird
--Tilton (not Theodorey of the
Green Bay 4dcocaie, who has been
doing Winona over the G. B. g. NJ.
road, Says:
Going west other places are rapidly
improving, but We 10 not run near
enough to the business centres to SEQ
the extent of progress. Grand Rap
ids is steadily going ahead, not the
least of its progress being in the burn
ing down Of its old structures aud thet
replacement by better. At Dexter
vile are many new buildings, the most
important being the stayc mills. Mer-
rIlan also shows progress, having aris-
en- from nothing, and We stop mo-
ment and grasp the hand Of our friend
Putnam, OF the Blair House and gaze
with uautterablc admiration upon the
elegant red whiskers Of John For
tune.
We met Mr. A. G. St Amour, for
merly Of Green Bay, then Of Grand
Rapid, and who has lately been III
business here, but has sold out and re-
turned to Grand Rapids.
In discussing TIE Triton scandal,
the Chicago Posi- and HaiL says, "On
the one hand stands man who for
forty wears has stood before the Amer
lean people as a type of. a true Chris
tain, liberal, afable eloquent and with
out reproach. Beside him, involved
with him a woman not known outside
her circle Of friends, but regarded by
| them as true, quiet, pious and pure.
On the other side is the miscreant Til
ton, the advocate Of free love and the
rhapsodist Of Woodruff, and finally
the accuser Of his own wife and the
destroyer Of his own home. A man
who, now that he IS stripped Of dis
guises, is 50 mean aud so base that
even the papers that lualiyn Beecher
are forced through Difference to public
sentiment, to BERN their TRADES By
seorning TiIton -
The Waupaca Republican tells
world of truth in the brief lines we
append The wreckers who lie in
waiting along the rocky coast where
frail barks and huge ships are ever in
danger whore has been erected light
house upon some one of It's ragged
peaks, look with suspicion upon its
no the mariner) welcome light, and