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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12
The Magnolia Lottery.

Morris Mason, of Magnolia, Iowa,
alias Maynard s. Co., alias n. ii. Bancroft
d Co., Chicago, H., has been fined 800
and costs for using the United States
mails for illegal purposes. The Judge
before whom the case was heard took a
lenient view of the case, inasmuch as
Mason was nearly destitute, he having
been bounced upon by the police before
he had reaped he fruits of his enter
prise.
His way of operating was one of the
thinnest swindles that ever was perpe-
trated, viz: the sending of letter to per
sons telling them they had won $500 worth
in a lottery and asking for a percentage
in payment of commission before remit
ting the goods. Yet, in face of the trans
parency of the dodge, since his arrest the
Postoffice authorities have opened nearly
5000 letters and returned about $4,000 to
persons who have been simple enough to
be gulled. They deserve to lose their
money for their verdancy. Now they
have recovered it, through nothing but
sheer luck, let them celebrate the occa-
sion by giving half of it in charity as an
acknowledgment of their stupidity and
thankfulness.-W Western Rural.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12
Discovery of Giant Remains.

A Virginia paper of a recent date says:
1.-The following information is given US
by gentlemen of the highest character and
credit, who have seen with their own
eyes, touched and tested with their own
hands, the wonderful objects of which
they make report. The workmen en-
gagged in opening way for the projected
railroad between Weldon and Garrys-
burgh struck, on Monday, about mile
from the former place, in bank beside
the river, a catacomb of skeletons, sup
posed to be those of Indians of remote
age and lost and forgotten race. The
bones exhumed were of strange and re-
markable formation. The skulls were
nearly an inch in thickness; the teeth
were filed sharp, as are those of canni-
balls, the enamel perfectly preserved; the
bones were of wonderful length and
strength-the femur being as long as the
leg of an ordinary man, the stature of the
body being probably as great as eight
or nine feet Near their heads
were sharp stone arrows, some
mortars in which their corn was
brayed, and the bowls ofpipes, apparently
of soft soapstone The teeth of the skel-
etons are said to be as large as those of
horse. One of them was brought to the
city and presented to the officers of the
Pittsburgh Railroad.
'The bodies were found closely packed
together, tier on tier, as it seemed. There
was no discernible ingress or egress to
the mound. The mystery is who these
giants were, to what race they belonged
to what era, and how they came to be
buried there. To these inquiries no an
swer has yet been made, and meantime
the ruthless spade continues to cleave
skull and body asunder, throwing up in
mangled masses the bones Of this heroic
tribe. We hope some effort will be made
to preserve authentic and accurate &C
counts of these discoveries, and to throw
some light, if possible, on the lost tribe
whose bones are thus rudely disturbed
from their sleep in earth's bosom"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12
An Eagle Tries TO Carry Off Girl.

On Saturday girl named Elizabeth
Moore, daughter of Albert Moore, living
IN the northeast corner of Cleburne
County. was returning home from
neighbours house, whittier she had been
sent on an errand, when she felt some
thing heavy strike upon her shoulder and
the next instant she was borne to the
ground She says that her first impress
sion was that she had been seized by
panther or some other wild beast, but
soon felt the talons of what proved to be
an eagle clutching her sides and arms,
decorating the flesh in fearful manner;
and, with its beak pecking on her head,
she was dragged some distance on the
ground. Pretty soon, the eagle having
secured his prize, with claws and bill
firmly fixed, raised her from the ground
and sailed along at from three to four feet
above the earth for some distance. Oc-
casionally she was dropped on the ground,
but the eagle would as often raise her
again, making new and serious wounds
with his talons in her body and his beak
in her head, till at last he reached the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12
FACTS AND FIGURES.

There are $5O,0O0,00O invested in
| journalism in New York.
Troy wool dealers have on their
hands about 100000 pounds of wool.
| Lewiston, Me-, has 1854 of its inhab-
itants engaged in the different factories
The Oconto Company shipped in
| 1878 from their mills 35,000,000 feet of
| lumber.
The river Amazon is said to be 1900
| feet wide at distance of 2, 800 miles from
its mouth.
The New York San SAYS there are
100000 of Spiritualists in the United
States. If this statement is correct,
nearly 25 per cent. of the entire popula-
ton of the country are Spiritualists.
The total production of wool in this
country last year was TIA, zoe, 900 pounds,
against $50, 100000 for 1872, and TAG, 60O,-
600 for 1871. The trade in foreign wool
showed decrease, the impOrtations be-
ing AZ, 776,SS5 pounds, against 9S,3O6,56
for 1872.
Official statistics show that in The
year 1878 Atlantic County, n. j., had
manufactured within its borders S,13S7S
cigars, paying thereon for Government
stamps, S39, 1910. 1t is calculated that,
if placed in a continuous line, end to end,
these cigars would measure 513 miles.
The State of Pennsylvania spent dur
ing the year 1870 for liquors of all kinds
1852, 663, 945; and for schools and teach
ing, So, 1853, 729. She had engaged in the
liquor business rs, 800 persons, 1870
school-teachers, and $4,000 criminals
four-ffths of whom were made so by
strong drink.
The Rhode Island Registration Re-
port for 1872 has just been issued, and
shows the births were 6,143; the marriages
numbered 1857, and the deaths 4,247. Of
all the deaths in the State, from known
causes, in thirteen years, 1876 per cent,
or almost eighteen in each 100, were from
consumption.
There are nearly fifty women prae-
ticing medicine in New York and Brook
lyn, most of them hOmeopathically and
many having incomes of between $4,000
and $4,000, while several reach $4,000,
and one or two over $4,000. There are
three medical colleges there, and fourth
is now building.
Rev DR.. Stratton, of the Methodist
Church, has been talking temperance sta
tistics on the largest scale. Clergymen
cost $12,000,000 yearly; criminals,
$4,000; lawyers, s8O,0OO,O00 intoxicating
drinks, 100000, 600. The city of New
York invests $50 100000 in manufactures,
100000, 900 in seventy-one banks, and
$200,O00,00 in the liquor business.
Iowa raised more wheat in 1878 than
any other State in the Union. She did
the same thing in 1912. The figures are
100000 bushels in 1073,and 100000
bushels in 1872 Next comes Illinois
with 100000 bushels in 1878, and then
Wisconsin and Minnesota each with
26000,000 bushels In the item of corn
in 1873, Iowa is second, Illinois leading
lowing with 100000, 900; next comes what
used to be the great corn-growing State of
the Union, Ohio, with $4,000, 600 bushels.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12
FOOiishness OF Envy.

THE man across the way has a horse
and carriage We have none. Three sad
der words we never saw. The man across
the way drives gayly forth every pleasant
afternoon with his wife beside him. And
we envy him and can't help it. There
are others of the neighbors who envy
him, and could we reach each others
hearts we would find that our thoughts
were following the lucky horseman in
his various turns about town, in his can
tering here and trotting there, and in the
shine of his carriage and the proud bear
ing of his horse. But if it is a sadness
to see him drive away, yet there is a
pleasure in seeing him come back. For
it is dark when he returns, the sunshine
is gone, and in its stead is darkness with
frost in it. He smiled complacently when
he handed his wife into the carriage, but
he doesn't smile when he hands her out.
Perhaps the operation requires so much
care and attention that it would not be
right to smile. We know his nose is red
because we can see it as he drives by the
lamp. We know that his feet are frigid
and that his legs are asleep by the way
he gets down to the ground. We are be-
ginning to see how wrong it is to envy our
fellOw-man. He locks at her as she runs
into the house and into the arms of the
genial base-burner, and gloomily wonders
why heaven so favors her above him. He
stumbles painfully along to the stables
with the horse, which he now thoroughly
despises, ambling behind him. His hands
are so numb he can hardly undo the
fastenings of the door; his legs have
awakened, and appear to be reproaching
him; his eyes are full of water, and his
soul overlooking with discomfort. No
harness was ever before so difficult to re-
move as is this. He feels the wrath bub-
bling up to The highest water-mark, and
he could scream out-he is so mad. We
are seeing now how wicked it is to envy
our fellow-man. He hears footsteps on
the sidewalk, and sees the flash of warm
light shoot out into the cold air as the
various neighbors, having returned from
their work, and having no horse, disap-
pear hastily within and take with them
the bright, cheerful light. He gets the
horse in the door, and starts to look up
the lantern. He bumps various parts
of his anatomy against articles it is too
dark to learn the nature of. He would
cry out in his pain and misery were he
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12

height Of ten feet, and attemDted IN
allght on the limb of red oak tree ON
the roadside, when his hlod gave wav
and the girl fell to the earth ser;ono;y
stunned and hurt. She was unconscio1,S
for time, then clambered over the fence
near by into her fathers orchard and no
gan making the best of her wav tn tba
house, near which she was met nv her
mother, who had been attracted by her
screams and was fastening to her relief
The most remarkable part of the matter
Is that the girl did not see the eagle of
all. A shawl which had been securssv
fastened about her head, so as to project
over her face, hid her rude antagonist
from her view. The track along which
she was dragged, however, was plainly
visible in the road. The girl Elizabeth is
fourteen years of age, and weighs between
eighty and ninety pounds Her father is
a very reliable and worthy man. Heis a
son-in-law of Mr.. Hatfield, in the same
section of country, and lives about five
miles from Tecumseh Iron Works. The
girl was not seriously hurt and is doing
well. The eagle has been twice seen
since by the hunters, who are making
every effort to kill or capture him.-JdcE-
sOn0itAe (AlG.) Republican
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12
PERSONAL.

A letter recently received in Washington
from New Orleans says Judge Durell had for
warded his resignation to a trusted friend, to
be rendered in the event of the Judiciary Com
mittee of the House reporting articles of i'm
parchment.
Chief-Justice Waite was indicted into office
at Washington on the 4th.
President Grant has appointed the following
named gentlemen to be Government Directors
of the Union Pacific Railroad: James f. Will
son, Iowa; j. II. Willard, Nebraska; John c.
). Harrison, Indiana; John A. Tibbets, Con-
nectlcut, and Francis B. Brewer, New York
all Tor one year from March II, 1874.
The Maryland State Grange met in secret
session at Baltimore on the 4th. Of the fifty
two Oranges in the State forty-seven were
represented.
In New York on the 4th the criminal suit
Tor hoei OF Luther c. Challis against Victoria
Z. woodruff, her sister, Tennessee Clafiin,
ana her husband, Blood, was brought to trial
IN the Court of Sessions. The defendants
were without bail, their bondsmen having
| surrendered them into the hands of the Sheriff,
and falling to obtain new sureties they were
taken to the Tombs on the 5th. An ennlica-
ton for reduction of bail was refused nv the
Court.
Miss Ada NJ. Noyes, the actress, died in
New YORK on the 9TH of hydrophobia. She
was bitten by pet poodle about two weeks
before
Deputy o. d. Hinckley, of Wisconsin, is en-
gagged in organizing Farmers Oranges in Maine.
Several are already organized, and if is antici-
pated that a State Grange will be in operation
| in April.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12
The Bridal Tour.

YOUNG SPRIGGLEs and his Amarantha
Jane had just been married and were
gong upon their bridal tour They
didn't know whether upon their return
they would board with the "old folks"
or take rooms i'll private hotel Being
only clerk, Spriggles' means were linn
lted and he could not expect much at first
in the way of living.
. vi course" he said to old Dodge. a
wealthy member of the firm who had
kindly granted him three weeks leave
of absence, 1--WE must be in STYLE. YOU
know, sir. | s'pcse you took a rusher
when you were married. l mean YOU took
an extensive one and showed your wife
the sights"
YES" said Dodge, with nod. ''I'n
tell you about it. | made long prepare
lions for my bridal tour, and the girl that
was to be my wife helped me- We had it
all fixed and everything laid out before
hand. l worked hard for it; and she
worked too. 1t was to be the grand event
of our lives, and we wanted that it should
be success. We felt that as the new life
opened so should it continue. | was
earning $500 year. That was good nav
for a salesman five and thirty years ago
better than three times that amount now
as things go. We were married in the
morning at the house of my wife's father.
Then we rode two miles to the substantial
cottage | had secured as a home. MY
money had made the first payment on it,
and Mary's money had furnished three
rooms in it.
"And we atesour first meal thereafter
in our own house; and | thence went to
my work, and my wife set about her
work. 1t was new life and we were de
termined to succeed if possible And in
that effort was our joy. And in the sue
cess that followed was unalloyed happi-
ness. In less than three years my house
was paid for and my home was my own
Come storm, or come sunshine, we had
roof to cover us-a roof from which the
hand Of man could not turn US.
" l doubt, young man, if ever bridal
tour was happier or more profitable than
was mine; and | know that the exercise
of housekeeping upon her own account
was invigorating and healthful. But
then, we married for real earnest living
and loving. We believed we should find
life's purest joys in the discharge of lite's
sacred duties.
a DECLARE" pursued the old man, with
gllstening moisture in his eye. u
should like those first blessed days of my
own home-life TO live over again. But it
may not be. And" he added, with a
regretful shake of the head, q fear the
young men of the present generation will
not live them for my viewing"
Spriggins walked away scratching his
head. He wasn't sure that he had really
caught the drift of the old mans remarks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12

81, 600, and the whole amount still due and
unpaid was $4,000.
The Attorney-General has decided that the
Secretary of the Treasury may withdraw from
railway company compensation for transpor-
tatiou services when such company has re-
ceived from the United States, to aid in the
construction of its road, bonds upon which it
has not paid interest, though services We're
rendered upon another of its roads to which
no Government aid was given.
a call has been issued for an Independent
State Convention to meet at Salem, Oregon,
April 10.
James B. Groome was inaugurated Governor
of Maryland on the 4th.
The Indian Appropriation bill, reported in
Congress on the 4th, appropriates s4,931, 10,
against s., 81, 419 last year.
The New Orleans Republican of the 5th says
the Louisiana Legislature did not seem to con-
slider itself safe in New Orleans with the DEM
onstrated hostility that surrounded them.
They proposed to withdraw to Baton Rouge.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12

vice, the public health, and general well
fare of the people, also, 10 inquire and lake test
mony as TO the practical results of license and re-
stricve legislation for the prevention of intemper
ance in the several States, and the effect pro-
duced by such legislation upon the consumption
of distilled or sDirituous liquors or fermented or
malt liquors also. to ascertain whether the evil
of drunkenness has been increased or decreased
thereby: whether the use Of opium as q slim
uant and substitute for alcoholic drink has become
more general in consequence of such legislation
and whether the public morals have been improved
thereby 1t shall also be the duty of said Commits
sion to gather information and take testimony as
to whether the evil Of drunkenness exists to the
same extent or more in other civilized countries
and whether those foreign nations that are con-
sidersd most temperate in the use of stimulauts
are SO through prohibitory laws; also, TO what
degree prohibitory legislation has affected the con-
sumption and manufacture of malt and spirituous
liquors in this country" The sum of S1GUO0 is ap-
propriated TO carry out the provisions of the bill
the Commissioners to serve without salary other
than incidental expenses. Executive session and
adjournment to the 9th.
In the House, on the 9th, bill was
passed authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to
contract for bronze statue of the late Admiral
Farragut Several reports of private character
were considered "A resolution of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, resembling the resolution of
censure against Senator Sumner. was presented.
:...Adjourned, the session of the 18th TO be for
debate ONLY
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12
Triumph of American Pianos.

George Steek & Co., of New York, Re-
ceive the Gold Medal at the Vienna
Exposition.
The Imperial Commission at Vienna
have decided the question of merit in
piano-forte manufacture by awarding the
only Gold Medal within their gift to
Messrs. George Steck g Co., of ". Y. This
is magnificent testimonial to the won
derful beauties of tone and workmanship
in the Steck instruments, and will unques-
tionable add to their already well-estab-
lished prestige-N. Y. Tribune.
The official letter is as follows:
VIENNA, Dec. 10, 1873.
"GEo. STICK, Esq.-SR: 1 have the pleas
ure of informing you that | this day received
from the Baron Schwarz-Senborn a G old Medal
awarded to you for the Pianos exhibited by
you at the Vienna Exposition.
"THoMAs MCELRATH, U. s. Com's'ner."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12
DOMESTIC.

A Cheyenne dispatch of the 2Sth ult. says
Mr.. j. H. Bester, the Indian beef contractor,
had arrived from Fort Laramie, and reported
that affairs at the Indian agencies were in a
critical condition. He says that great
many of the late outrages were COM
mitted by the good p" Indians at
the agencies, and they were not to be depended
on. He had stopped supplying cattle, as he
dared not drive them to the agencies. The
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12
POLITICAL

1t was stated at the Treasury Department
in Washington on the'2Sth ult. that the whole
amount so far refunded for duties collected
on fruits decided to be in the free list was
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12

Indians had killed many of the cattle, and he
was anxious for the troops to get there
A Washington dispatch of the Sd says the
receipts of the Government from all sources
for the quarter ending December 81 were $780,
So, 596. The expenditures for the same
period were s62, SO, 337.
The public debt statement March is as
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12
Organization of Farmers Oranges in
the State of Maine.
FOREIGN.

Various Other Interesting News Items
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-12

In Worcester, the Damascus Lodge,
knights of Pythias, have voted to author
ize the order in St. Louis to bring suit
against the hospital authorities of that
CITY for the recovery of the body of Chas.
F. Gates, of Worcester, who died in the
st. Louis Hospital recently, and whose
body is supposed to have been appropri-
ated by the surgeons for their own use.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-08-08
THE. EDITORIAL ALEmB1O

BIZ CHAs. HALLoCK.
In thermal climes, where man has nought
to do
But fan himself and nope the long day
through,
Where slaves assiduous mix the cooling
ice,
And minister with zeal to each caprice;
Where houris, languid, WOO with lustrous
eyes,
And Wallets brush away persistent flies;
Where weekly papers vex not nor harass
The ransGcked brains of editor or ass
istant editor
'Tis sweet TO think on sublunary things,
And bless the gift that such good fortune
brings.
With all the earth in sweet attune,
Een life itself would seem almost boom
But to the man whom arduous cares op-
press,
Preparing copy for exacting press,
Who day by day with perspiration reeks,
Through weary round of burning summer
weeks
Like alchemist, who from his realm of
heat,
With fiery test and subtle art replete,
Forth from the deep alemb;c of the mind
Distills his wits to edily mankind
To him, with brain and debts unpaid,
Thermometer full ninety in the shade
Existence seems almost a torrid zone,
And Tophet well may claim him as its
own.
Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1874-08-08

died in McGTeggor, loWa, July ESln, lo9o3 U! He'
sister-Mrs Emeline C. Cooper-Kingsville, o.
In in a hallowed spot, IN the far off west,
Where flowers bloom and sun beams rest,
In a lonely grave, in the Hazel Dell.
Sleepeth our darling Blue-eyed Nell
Her face, like the rose, was beautiful, fair,
Framed in by a wreath OF light brown
hair.
But alas, in her grave in the Hazel DELL
Moulders our Iarling. Blue eyed Nell.
Her heart was as light as the clear noun
tain air,
Unfettered by trouble, or sorrow, or care,
But now pulsrless and cold, in the lone
Hazel Dell,
Lies the brave, loving heart of our own
Blue-eyed Nell.
They laid her to rest in that lone, distant
grave,
Within hearing and sight of the broad
rivers wave,
And there she lies sleeping in the green
Hazel Dell,
Our darling, our lost one, our own Blue
eyed Nell.
Oh. come. to us, darling! in brautiful
dreams,
Twill cheer us like wind-barps, or musi-
cal streams,
Oh, come linger not in thy green Hazel
Dell,
We have waited long for thee, our own
Blue-eyed Nell.
Let us hear thy dear voice once more in
our sleep,
II will rouse US like trumpet, or storm
king the deep.
Oh, leave, then, tonight. the green Hazel
Dell,
And comfort our sad hearts, our own
Blue eyed Nell.
Didst thou know how thy dear mothers
heart bled
When the sad message came that her Mel
lie was dead?
Did thy fathers keen anguish pierce the
green Hazel Dell,
For the loss of his darling, his own B lue-
eyed Nell?
Oh come to us Nellie, and tell us if there
Where thou dwellest thou hastseen our
dear mother and ClareH
No response from the grave in the green,
Hazel Dell,
For we know she's IN Heaven-our own
Blue-eyed Nell.
Yet we'll evermore cherish, in The far dis
tant West,
The spot where they laid thy dear body
TO rest
Well ever hold sacred the green Hazel
Dell.
For the sake of our loved one, our own
Blue-eyed Nell.
Peace, peace to thy ashes. thou dear,
lonely child,
Many sweet thoughts of thee hath our
sad hearts beguiled;
Rest in peace, then, dear sister, in the
green Hazel Dell,
Until God calls thee forth, our own Blue
eyed Nell.