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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-29

Sad Accident to orr townsman.
Sa.nua, Carroll. i've are panied to
learn that our towDsman Mr.. Carroll,
met with severe accident last
Thursday while engaged in haul
iHg lumber from the Gerard mill to
the Tiyet It seems that ia attempt
ing to cross the bridge over branch
OF the HemIdck, lie was caught be-
tween the load and the strincers which
span It's top, and dragged through TIC
narrow space severely bruising his per
son though fortunately breaking no
bones. The loads which the transfers
are accustomed to haul are large and
cumbersome some Of them containing
from four to five thousand feet, and
this one gave indications of upsetting
which distracted his attention. and he
was caught IN the manner indicated
before he could extricate himself or
gain control Of his team. Although
the aeci lent occurred some eight miles
from our city he was enabled to reach
home where his bruised body was
cared for by Dr., Whitney We hope
to see him about soon, fully recovered.
His was surely most remarkable es-
cape from instant death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-29
Oar Small Change.
He S come.

He's come.
-C61rt sets Feb: Ctr. Let 'er
set.
-Another wedding IS in order.
Next.
Valentines at the Wood County
Drug Store.
The weather has come off clear
and beautiful again.
The murcury indicated q . below
Zero last Sabbath morning.
-Parcpa Rosa, the sweet sonsster,
died in London a few days ago.
There never has been so propiti-
Gus winter for numbering operations,
as the present.
A thaw thaw The snow is
liquidating its Indebtedness 1t will
soon go into bankruptcy.
Lord of the ''ten mile" brought
SO bags of oats to market last Wednes-
day in one load nearly It's bushels.
-Pres't Twombly has been removed
from the Presidency Of the State Uni
versity, and Prof. Bascomb of Williams
College, Mass, appointed in his stead.
Paris ate 5000 horses last year.
--ErcAange.
Did you ever hear Of Parasite
having the nightmare?
Judge Cate has an excellent arti-
Gle on fruit raising in a recent number
of the Prairie FARMER published at
Madison.
Foxes have been enjoying a con-
siderable quantity of strychnine this
winter. Our drug stores are well
whipped Of the luxury!
The question arises Does it
naturally follow that Muscatine must
be so stuck up, and feel so stiff just be-
cause she is going to have starch fac
tory +?
The weather IS as changeable as a
chameleon. First it snew, then it
thew, then it blew ana then it friz.
and now it is waiting to hear from old
Probabilities.
They draw now only 6125 feet Of
dry lumber at load from CAROLS
mill. John Collier does it. The boys
have concluded not to draw very large
loads this winter.
We give another letter from Harry
Grace in this issue. It contains some
items Of Importance which, though not
fresh will be read with degree Of in
terest.
"A man came into town the other
morning on a load Of oats with his
nose looking like boiled egg and his
hair indicating a Patriarchal age, sing
ing:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-29
"Come gentle spring,
ETHEREAL midness come.


Less than a million babies have
been named Roger Tichborne in Eng
land since the famous trial was COM
menced. IF Roger makes each one a
present he win want more than that
one estate he is Swearing so about.
This is the happiest winter our
people ever saw. The days have been
chock full of laughter, and even the
nights have smiled as pleasantly as
maiden just in her teens,
There has been luIl in business
since the new year came in, but We
are glad to chronicle the fact that
trade is now reviving. There is al
ways lull after storm, and serene
quiet always follows season of dissi-
patton. The reaction has commenced.
Warmers advertisement for a
yellow dog illustrates the benefits
arising from adver' ising. Yellow
dogs are standing around Warmers, as
thick as holes in porus plaster, Of all
sizes, sexes and conditions. Nor
al, advertise.
Hon. Morrison B. Waite was con-
frmed Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court last week. Chawles Sumner
with his usual Jackastical sturidity
got behind the stovepipe and neither
yead nor neighed. But then Cha#ies
couldn't help it, he's such a great man.
When he dies won't there be dignity
in Heaven?
A Rev. Mr.. Yokem in little
town in Iowa has just gone away on q
visit for few months, and as he is the
only minister in the quiet burg, and
as the people are so law abiding and so
agreed that they have never cared for
a Justice Of the Peace, the old grand
mas are in a great strait lest some
young twain shall conclude to double
teams in his absence. The all-pervad-
ing question among the old women is
s'vho will yoke en- should such ca
lamity occur.
"A runaway occurred in our streets
last Sabbath. The stupid beast sue
ceeded in breaking the sleigh as well as
the Sabbath, tumbling small boy into
a snow bank. and the driver head over
heels into the highway, with no further
damage than pretty thorough muss-
ing of his Sunday clothes. He was
found repeating something that sound
ed very unlike the Beatitudes or the
Ten Commandments. The boy was
looking around for a ten cent breast
rfH
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-29

Another PhySician.-We take
pleasure in calling the attention of the
community to the fact that another
physician has settled among Us. DR..
Johnstone, recently from the east, and
graduate Of one Of the first medical
colleges.
The DR.. IS pleasant gentleman and
bears with him the Highest recon
mendations, as physician; surgeon and
gentleman. We bespeak for him a
good share Of business in our growing
city and county. lie has located his
office in one Of the rooms in Worthing-
tons bnilding where be may be found
ready to attend all calls in the line Of
his profession.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-29
WIS. Valley e. 81.

AniliEc Dyes. Twelve eolors AMI
line Dyes for sale at the Wood County
Drug Store If.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-29

't"'t' 9oii "a u" Nhi dHouiuc tie
duties Of Clerk.
Capture OF a man charged with
burgiary.--A man charged with
burglary was arrested last Thurs
day by both Our Marshal and Sheriff.
The crime was committed at piainfeld,
and the party bur.,larizel is reported
to be q cousin Of the rascal perpetrat-
ing tbs act. We are not Informed as
to the name Of either party. The
facts 50 near as we can learn them are
these. The burglar effected al en-
trance to the house Of his cousin by
raising the sash Of side window with
an ak, prying it up AMI crawling in
where he helped himself to sunIry ar
ticle consisting Of wearing apparel,
rings, sc. &c
He then came to Grand Rapids, the
report Of his theft rapidly following
him. He was arrested first unoficialY
by one Of our citizens who, after in
dnlging in game of pitch witt him In
order to detain him till the officers
shcull arrive. informed him that he
was his prisoner, the fellow Preparing
to dig out, probably snsPectins tie
officers were Oh his track lie readily
accepted the condition he sd suddenly
found himself in and was very shortly
re arrested by Marshal McRath, and
subsequently re-re-arrested by Sheriff
Lavigne, so by this time he found
himself pretty thoroughly arrested
We understand that Marshal McRaith
conveyed the rascal to Plainfed on
Friday whore he viii probably board
FOR time prior to his graduating at
The county jail or Waupun.
4 Glorious Suppor.-We, that
means the Tribune and the Rcpdrfer
and Ingraham and The wives Of the
aforesaid trio, children not included
: went on invitation Of His Bigness,
to the residence of r. II. Grace last
Monday evening to partake of the hos
pita6ty Of the host and hostess of the
establishment. We did plrtake. we
enjoyed rare visit and. had Just such
time as We always have at ''Grace's''.
But when it came to the toCthsomes
We can't express our gratitude. Such
Il feast set before an editor ought to
constitute a capital offtdce. An editor
is not responsible if he dies from over
eating bur the man who kills him with
such Kindness cu.:ht to be responsible,
and we shall ask Senator Scott to fix
the business the present winter for
Jacks sake. In the language of
Thomas Jefferson, Il trembIed for
Jack when [ thought that Gods lust
Thomas has il little different. but
the sentiment is nearly tie same. Mr..
Ingraham and re ate very little, part
" from necessity. The DR.. thinks
Jack will recover if he has no relapse
His wife keeps the pantry door looked,
AM BY dint Of active exertion with
the rolling pin in nell owing his belly
ne may rec0ver.--at any rate we sha'p't
order headstone for him vet. Now
Bro. Grace. don Try 10 kin us editors
with Kindness. for we kill easy. A
cuff and a kick we fat npon, but such
kininess takes the tuck right ont Of
rs; and yonr wife helps you. too, she's
an accessory and Just as guilty. When
ye goin to ask Us down aginl
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-29

An Old Meat Market Mans Let
ter To His Son, Containing Some
Wholesome Advice, Supposed 10
Have Been Written To Our Excel
lent Meatest. John DaIy.-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-01-29
Building Rock tram Stoniugtol

Building Rock from StoiiiHgt0n
ou4yrr. I will furnish from and af-
t.r this late. common building rock at
the Stoninston CURRY at 81 per cord,
until further notice Parties wishing
to build will find it to their advantage
to buy of me rather than take the
chances Of finding them lying around
loose.-Dimension rock for sale IN such
quantities as may be needed.
A. d. WoRDEN
Grand Rapids, Jan'y 9th, 1874.
Moderator At the recent Con-
yeu.ioo Of the Presbyterian and Con-
gre ,3t;onal Churches hel II in this vii
iage. we we're pleased to learn that
Mr. Phiileo, Of the Wood County Re-
porter, was chosen No lerator, a posi-
tion for which Brother Philleo is emf
nentiy qualified, as none understand
better than he the discharge of the
several dqt;es Of the position. At
the next G ,nventidn Of these Church
c., the organization and opening ser
rhon will devolve on the Moderator
We would ike to hear brother PhilIeo
preach
Thank you, Bro. Carney. Now
please PIT in an appearance at Friend
ship in June next, and hear US preach.
The Commission House Of G.
\. Beck 4, To-. Chicago. We are
advised that this sterling house is do
ing a tremendous business; aud that
since it has made itself known through
the columns Of the Reporter it has re-
ceiyed large consignments from north
ern AMI central Wisconsin. It is q
pleasure to recommend the house, fer
its standing is all that corsignors can
wish, and the strict business habits Of
its members just such as warrant sue
cess to the firm and complete satisfac-
ton to all with whom it has to do in
way of business. Mark produce G.
n. Beck & Co.. is South Water
Street, Chicago
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General News Summary.
Washington News.

President Grant discussed the Arkansas
case with the Cabinet on the 18th, hut stated
that he would not interfere except to keep
the peace until he was further advised Of the
facts.
4 Washington telegram Of the 18th says
Senator Dorsey denies having received GER
tain dispatches purporting to come to him
from H. VI. Cooper, Secretary of the Arkansas
Republican Central Committee, relating to
affairs in that State. He disclams the re-
sponsibility for their statements.
The Arkansas question was before the Cabi-
net in Washington on the Goth, and the orin-
ion prevailed that nothing had occurred to
alter former decision not to interfere in the
present controversy in that State. as the Gov
crnmcnt had no such information in its pos
session AS would justify such interference.
Representatives Wiltshire and Lowe, of
Arkansas, had an interview with Attv.-Gcn.
Williams in Washington on the 2lst and no.
titled him Of their intention to file anA,r~r,
mcnt with him in answer to that of Smith.
the claimant for the Governorship of Arkan-
Sas.
\ brilliant party was given at the White
House few evenings ago in honor of Mrs.
Fred. Grant. who made her debut in Washing
ton society. About 800 invited guests were
present and the bride met with a hearty
reception.
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Pension Report.
WASHINGTON, Nov, l6.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.
Gen. J. H. Baker, Commissioner of
Pensions, under date of Oct. Is, 1874, has
submitted his annual report to the
Secretary of the Interior. During the
year 5,75s applications for army invalid
annual rate of $39, 332. so; the pensions
of 8,O63 pensioners of this class were in
creased at an aggregate annual rate of
$416, 257.5O; the losses to this roll from
death and other causes were CLOS,
whose pensions with the amount of re-
duction of the rates of other invalid pen
sions aggregated $377, 45255 annually.
On the Both of June, 1874, there were
102, 457 army invalid pensioners on the
roll. The aggregate annual pay of this
class was SIC, O58, 377.54. The increase in
the number of this class was 1858, and
the aggregate increase of pensions was
$431, 1915. During the year 3,O51 new
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Miscellaneous.

They talk about the reckless cxtrava-
gancc OF the American people. and yet IL
Bangor man worked all day to clean a
thrcc-ccnt stamp SO that he could use it
again.
10 make a sorrowing woman happy,
tell her there is in auction sale of house
hold goods going on in the next block
She will have her bonnet on before the
tears are fairly dry.
Girls, as YOU value your lives, don't
get up and get breakfast in the morning.
A young lady attempted it one day last
week and was burned to death Show
this to your mothers.
When il Detroit youth goes to spark
girl h" finds the old lady in one corner
Of the room, the old man in another, and
deg Hn,"r tic mclodcon, and lie is re-
| CURED 10 peak up ike an orator.
! Il good many persons who couldn't
b" hiich for love or money to saw four
sticks Of wood twice in two will sit down
! and write all day On tie lamcntablc
Wholrs sale destruction of american for
c+'S.
| -" y home without children is like
heaven without angels" says Il Ken
'N~ky paper. We just want him to get
ont OF bed four times Il night for a month
to keep tie ba!'y's legs covered ur.-Ue-
! f'"H Free Pttx%
Street dresses-wa!king suits
shoGld not touch the ground by two
| inches all round. This new fashion does
away with the a!Ecctation of catching up
the skirts on the left side to cross mag
mary mud ruddIcs.
-" Evvr>' thing goes wron-,' said
Kansas farmer, "ipiH- his eyes. THE
Gra>>h"ppcr> cum, the hired man broke
| his leg, wife died, The barn burned, and
| I've rid jor tl!rs G days and cant find a
woman Who wants to marry"
When you use postal-card always
write the address the first thing. Tons
of ro@.:t!-car''S without any address are
destroy cd in the Erat.-Lcttcr Oiticc, be-
cause people write their messages first,
! AID then iCr:r't 10 address thc card.
1t is Il fact we'll established hy statis-
ties that about lnl or 100 boys are born
to every 100 girls. yet at maturity the
! girls almost inyali'ly CrtNumhcr the
boys. y larger n'in!''c: OF boys die than
girls. This is doubtless owing to tie
| tart that Bows are more cNuo~cu To in
| element weather, contagious diseases and
accidents.
The use of carrier pigeons for press
! purposes is on the increase, and the
breed is rapidly improving. by careful
"sClcction,' and allowing only the "sur-
viVal Of the tittest,' powers have been
developed which I; few years ago would
have been thought Impossible. They
can be speedily trained To fly over 500
miles, and it is no uncommon thing for
dispatches to be taken to London from
! Paris, Lisbon, or Brussels.
Az Indiana woman dreamed that she
saw her husband kissing the hired girl
and she got 50 mad over it that she dis
charged the girl before breakfast next
| morning
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Foreign Intellioence.

\ London telegram Of the 18th says the
English Government had decided to organ
lie another Polar expedition
y Berlin dispatch of the 18th announces the
defeat of the Government upon 4 proposed
bank bill by Il vote of l21 to 15> The Presi-
dent Of the Rcich>taS rendered his rcsigna-
ton.
Thirty-two Of the Turks charged with the
recent murders of Montencg grin Christians, ac-
cordn- to a Vienna dispatch of the 18th, had
been convicted and sentenced to twenty wears
imprisonment
y London telegram of the mornn" Of the
Goth says that on the preceding day boat
belonging TO the American ship Aurora had
been run down III the Clyde and seventeen
men drowned
Avigorou> cannonadc, according to a Hen
daye dispatch Of the 10Th, had driven the Car
lists from the vicinity of Irun once more.
Late advices from the Cape Coast, received
in London on the 10TH report that King Coffee
Of the ->>hantec>, had been d"throncd and his
nephew installed King in his stead.
An explosion occurred in Il chemical fac
trrv near Paris on the 10Th, which DESTROYED
the building and the railway station near it,
and killed three and seriously injured fifteen
OF the workmcn.
Constantinorle dispatch of the 10Th saws
information had been received that an Ewvp-
tian force had captured Darfour and killed the
Sultan.
An explosion occurred in the Warrcnvalc
lEngland) coal mines in Yorkshire on the
ooth, which resulted in the killing of twenty
four men. The remains Of ten had been re-
covered on the morning of the 2lst.
In the German Rcich>tag on the ,lst mo-
ton made by one of the Jltramontanc men,
hers directing the release of several Demo-
cratic Deputies was defeated.
y Rio Janciro dispatch of the olst an.
nouncr> the surrender of the gunhoat Pana-
ma. OF the Argentine rcvolutoni>t tlotilla,
The mails from BucnoS Ayres to Europe had
been stepped.
London telegram Of the 2l>t says Morocco
had agreed to cedc a port to GERMANY
The Spanish @unboat ProSperidaS, with 200
men on board, is missing and supposed to be
lost.
y Dublin dispatch of the 22d says the Pope
had written 10 Cardinal Cullen, thanking him
and the Irish Bishops for their condemnation
of the address delivered by Tyndal at Bel
fast, and declaring that nothing is to be so
much decricd rs those spiritual pirates
wlo>c trade is 10 despoil the souls of men,"
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An African Dandy.

Who would suppose that wild Afri-
can, whose only dress is piece of skin,
would trouble himself about fashionss
To lie sure, he feels no interest in the
style of coats or hats, but he is Just as
much absorbed in the great business of
adjoining himself as though he followed
the fashions of Paris. Curious styles he
has, too, as a German traveller has lately
told us.
To begin with, the hair is the object of
his greatest care. Its training begins in
the cradle-or would if he had a cradle
when it is tortured into some extraor.
binary form, and kept there by means of
gum-arabic and ashes till after long
years it will retain the shape itself.
Sometimes it is like cocks comb and
sometimes like fan. One poor babys
hair will be trained so that in time it
will stand up in rolls over the head like
the ridges on melon, while another is
taught to stand out like the rays of the
sun, as usually represented in pictures.
With some Africans part of it hangs
down in long, regular braids of twists,
and the rest is laid up in monstrous puffs
on each side of the head. But the droll.
est one of all is made to look like the
glory around the head of a saint-in pic
lures. The hair is taken in single locks,
stretched out to its greatest length, and
fastened at the ends to hoop. The
hoop is held in place by strong wires, and
its edge O-namented with small shells.
The effect is very comical.
In most Of these wonderful arrange
ments the hair is parted in the middle q
wonder if our young gentlemen imported
that style from Africa), and is kept in
place by plenty of gum and ashes, or
clay.
All this elaborate hair-dressing is on
the heads of the men. The women of
the country wear their hair in the SIM
plest manner, perhaps for the reason that
the wife does the cooking, cultivates the
land, adorns the body Of her husband
with paint, and dresses his hair, which
must be enough to keep her time we'll
occupied.
His hair once dressed, this African
dandy turns his mind to the further
decoration of his body. First he rubs
his shining skin with a mixture of grease
and ashes, or powdered wood of a red
color, puts on his one scanty garment,
made of the skin of some animal, or of
bark, occasionally trimmed with the long,
black tail of monkey or other animal,
and then he is ready for his orna-
ments.
Across his forehead, just under the
edge of his hair, like fringe, he hangs
a string of teeth. They may be teeth of
dogs, or other animals, or, if he is a great
warrior, of his human victims.
Next he adorns his breast with an or
nament made of ivory, cut to resemble
lions teeth and spread out in star-shape.
Around his neck he hangs several neck
laces made of strips of skin cut from the
hippopotamus, and finishes up with paint
in various styles-dots, or stripes, or zig
Tags, squares like a checker-board, or
marbled all over.-Oliue Ihorne, in st.
Nicholas for December.
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interest and bought Mrs. Morgan a nice

interest and bought Mrs. Morgan a nice
carpet.
-'rhe New York Tlmes thought it
would be good thing to have an orig
maj story from the pen of Wilkie Collins
accordingly they made Il contract with
NM, ana he forwarded his story in man
uscfipt; The Times people were about to
forward the compensation, when the edit
or discovered that the identical story
appeared last month in An lie Year
R"uad, under a different title. The Times
now announces that it will "rcpublish"
the story from the English magazine.
which means that Mr. Collins willnot re-
ceive cent.
Miss Harriet De Witt Mitchell, the
eldest daughter of the late Gen Ormsby
Mckni ght Mitchell, earlier known as
Professor of Mathematics at West Point.
Director of Tn: Cincinnati Observatory,
and author of popular works on a>,rono-
my, died, yesterday, at the residence of
her sister, Mrs. VIM. Hoax, in this citv.
Miss Mitchell was known to a wide circle
throughout this country and Europe as u
lady OIL uncXccptional!y modest merit,
the poSSessor of richly stored mind,
gentle manners and ii hclit which SYM
path'zcu with all, and Won for herself
eio'i'o w wv liitltuS VI tlHIttcc she be-
came known.-N. \. Ucrn!d,
The best modern example of the
complete disappearance of a book is per-
hai's afforded by "Thc Shadows of the
Clouds, volume of short stories, James
Anthony Froude's first work, published
| i'll 1917. 1t is not only out Of print, but
out of every public library in London,
| Including the British Museum. How it
was spirited away from that would be an
| interesting question for detectives. 1t
has been advertised for in London, with
no response. Every public lihR and
every antique bookstore in Now York
! and Boston have been searched in vain.
One dealer in rare books in New York
has two dozen standing orders for it, but
has never been able to fill single one
1t is said that Mr.. Froudc spent nearly all
he poss essed in calling in tic FIRST edition.
ana SUpprcssing the book. What could
have been his motive it would be inter
o. n,r IN
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After the fire had passed by he re-
traced his steps and gathered in one
place all that was earthly of his treas
urcd ones. 1t was a sight when that
poor father gathered the blackened and
charred remains of his late household in
the stiffness of night upon that lone and
desolate prairie which we hone the
world will never be called upon to wit
ness again. Next day the homes of sew.
eral distant farmers were reached ond
they returned with Herndon and assisted
him in the burial.-St. Joseph I1foS Her.
aid, Nov, II. f'' \A'1'' AAo'