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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27
British Arctic Expedition.

THE British Arctic expedition was at
last accounts in readiness to sail on it's
ice bound voyage. The vessels had ar
rived at Liverpool, and presents of books
and other articles for the men were fast
pouring in. Despite repeated failures
and the wearying return of disappointed
men, the Government has determined to
make a fresh attempt to penetrate the
100000 of square miles of unknown
area which surround the pole. No pains
have been spared to place at the disposal
of Capt Mares, the commander of the
expedition, every appliance which past
experience may have suggested or pres
entneed demand. The failures of former
navigators have proved that nothing is to
be gained by entering the drlft-pack, and
that the success of the expedition de-
ponds upon their hugging the shore and
giving the floating ice as wide berth as
possible. Capt. Mares will proceed by
Baffin's Bay and Smiths Sound. Beyond
the inner circle of 907 everything is very
much matter of conjecture. At the point
NhS1C 11dll was UiOuSuG ~ 81 SGdOuSIlll
by floating masses of ice it is hoped that
the Alert may be able, through her SUI
perior engine power, to push her way
The existence of an open sea at the pole
is asserted by DR.. Kane and other ex-
plOrers. Kane discovered tidal sea as
far as the eye could reach. Capt Muir
ray said it's waves were dashing on the
beach with the swell of boundless
ocean. The tides ebbed and flowed in it,
and he was of the opinion that the tidal
wave from the Atlantic could no more pass
under the icy barrier than the vibrations
of musical string can pass fret upon
which the musician has placed his finger.
Whether this mysterious sec is isolated
or conjoined with the North Atlantic
Ocean is one of the problems which Capt
Mares will attempt to solve. 1t is antici-
pated that, whether the expedition reach
the pole or not, many valuable discov-
cries may be made in botany, geology,
geography, ethnology and kindred
sciences. The application of spectrum
analysis to the phenomenon of the
Aurora Borealis will probably lead to
some interesting discoveries. Chicago
Inter- Ocean,, Man 49,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27
The Wool Clip Of 1875.

IT seems to be generally admitted that
the wool clips of California, Oregon and
Texas this season will be larger than those
of last year, and that the average quality,
except perhaps of the California woods, is
also improved. These woods come into
market before those of the rest of the
country. The clip of Kentucky is said 70
be of very good quality. The very great
injury to sheep by dogs has done much to
decrease the clips in several of the South
ern States.
In the more Northern States shearing
will be somewhat later than usual on &C
count of the backward spring; hence the
clip will not go into market quite as early
as usual. Generally there seems to be a
very firm feeling as to prices, and it is not
improbable that those who sell early I'm
the season will realize as much as those
who hold longer. Notwithstanding the
very severe winter there has been com
paratively little disease among sheep and
they came through the winter in at least
usually good condition.
There have been very considerable i'm
portations of Australian and South Ameri-
can woods, which have prevented the small
stocks from becoming entirely exhausted
The trade is quiet in all departments
There is the most demand for delaine and
combing woods.
Farmers have often been advised against
the policy of crowding all or nearly all the
wool clip of the year on the market at
once. 1t is a little comical to read earnest
appeals in the New York Ec0n0na6st to
wool-buyers to avoid advancing the price
of wool by too much competition in buy
ing It holds that I" the wisest policy in
the purchase of woods is to buy as you go
and take the chances of rise or fall in
the price of the staple according to the de-
mand and prices obtained for manufact-
ured goods. By this means interest is
saved and the producer ceases to be rival
bidder against his own interest. By this
means he can use his money for the uses
for which the capital is intended
We do not see that any considerable adj
vance over last years prices is to be ex.
pected, and there certainly can be no good
reason for decline in prices Westsrs
Rural.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27

THE Sioux Indian delegation visited
President Grant on the 10Th.
The argument in the Tilton-Beecher
suit began on the 10Th, Judge Porter
making the opening address in behalf of
the defense. He was severe in his de-
nunciations of Messrs. Tilton and Moul-
ton.
On the 10Th, at Chicago, several crimi-
nal prosecutions against persons impli-
Gated in the whisky frauds were tried be-
fore United States Commissioner Hoyne
Two gaugers were held to bail in the sum
of $4,000 each, and two rectifers were
each held in the sum of $4,000.
Mrs. LINCOLN, widow of President
Lincoln, has been adjudged insane by
jury in the Cook County Court at Chi
cage, and was, on the Goth, removed to
a private asylum at Batavia, Ill.
The funeral of ex-Vice- President John
G. Breckenridge occurred at Lexington,
KY, on the 10Th. An immense throng
participated in the ceremonies.
A TELEGRAM from Hendaye, Spain, of
the goth says the Carlists, after two days
heavy fighting, had occupied Usurbil
and Ario.
THE town of Osceola, Pa, was almost
destroyed by fire on the Goth, all the
public buildings except the Catholic and
Methodist Churches being burned, to-
gether with about goo dwellings. Twelve
hundred people are rendered homeless.
Loss in Osceola $2,000,0O0.
THE Illinois Humane Society at it's re-
cent annual meeting appointed COM
mittee to prepare an appeal for the or
ganization of societies for the prevention
of cruelty to animals, which has issued
an address to the humane men and
women of the Northwest, calling on
them for concert of action in this di-
rection. The committee state that the
Illinois Humane Society Whose head
quarters are at 275 East Madison street,
Chicago, Albert W. Landon, Secretary
will be glad to forward to applicants
such publications as may aid in the for
nation of State or local societies.
THE Wisconsin Republican State Con-
vention will meet at Madison on Wednes-
day, July 7, for the nomination of candi-
dates for State officers.
Hon. JESSE D. BRIGHT, ex-United
States Senator from Indiana, died at his
residence in Baltimore, Md, on the Goth,
aged sixtY-three years.
THE attempt to remove the archives
of West Virginia from Charleston, w.
Va, to Wheeling, the new capital of the
State, was thwarted on the goth by the
enforcement of the injunction issued by
Judge Smith. Gov Jacobs decided not
to remove the public property, holding
the court responsible for it's safe-keep-
ing, the State officers deciding in the
meantime to make their headquarters at
Wheeling.
THE centennial of the Mecklenburg
Declaration of independence was cele-
brated at Charlotte, N. c., on the GOTH
Many distinguished gentlemen were
present and delivered addresses.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27
The Grasshopper Plague in Missouri.

ST. LOUIS, May IT.
PROF. RILEY, the State Enton ologist,
says that the ravages in Western Mis-
souri, are indeed alarming. He explains
that the young hoppers will not be ready
to take the wing until the 10Th of June.
For whole month the farmers of Mis-
souri, will have to stand the scourge.
The only approximate relief that can be
gained is through the war of eXtermina-
ton, and farmers all over the State are
called on to fight them with rollers,
ditching, burning, drowning and con-
tinued blowing. The professor recon-
mends to the State authorities to offer re-
wards for the destruction of the grass
hoppers by the quantity. About the
route Of the sWarms after becoming full
winged there are the most contradictory
opinions. The most probable and popu-
lar belief is that they will move west
ward, northward, and, to some extent,
eastward from this State
A large firm of wholesa ale grocers to-
day received by express from the west
ern part of the State box, which, upon
being opened, was found to be complete
ly full OF grasshoppers. Accompanying
the package was letter from heavy
debtor, who said unless the hoppers were
received in liquidation of his account he
saw no way of ever paying his indebted
ness, as these were all there was left, or
in prospect, of the product of his section.
All the wholesale houses Of st. Louis are
receiving letters by the hundreds from
their Western Missouri creditors, declar-
ing their total inability to meet their
paper on account of the plague. The
formation of relief commission and
thorough organization for the work sure
ly in prospect are already being agitated
here
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27
How Mr.. Thorpe Had Neuralgia.

GUY THORPE, Of this city, is just recov-
ering from an attack of acute neuralgia.
Formerly he was quite pretty, but he is
so no longer. When the neuralgia
struck him and he was clappfng his
hands, now upon his right ear and now
upon his left, then dropping his ear to
nurse his jaws and rock to and fro, his
wife and half dozen lady acquaintance.
who knew all about neuralgia became
physicians to poor Guy and began pre-
scribing for him. They bathed his head
and face in chloroform, which proved
to be like fire to his flesh; and when he
still howled and made frantic grabs at
the pain wherever it made itself mani
fest-whether in jaw, eye, ear, nose or
temple they tackled that spot with
iodine and a small brush and painted it.
When they could find no new places to
paint they vanished his face over with
collodion; they had done all they could
think of that was good for neuralgia.
Presently the cheeks, and, in fact, the
whole face, of the patient began to swell
at a trightfuI rate. As the swelling in
his face increased his eyes gradually re-
coded until each looked like the window
in the back end of tenpin alley. The
skin now began to crack open in the
places where the iodine had been ap-
piled, so, in order to keep out the cold,
the ladies applied little tufts of cotton
| to each ear. Before this he bore strik-
ing resemblance to the "spotted boy''
exhibited here last summer, but when
| they had stuck him full of cotton the
most hardened Kanaka in the city
would at once have fallen upon his
knees and begun worshiping him, be-
lieving that he saw before him one OF
his Sandwich Island GODS Virginia
{NeU.) Enterprise. 1a-e
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27
California Gold.

THE gold of California was noticed by
early Spanish explorers, and was again
discovered on the Colorado River just q
century since, in 1775, but attracted no
attention till its rediscovery early in
104S, when the existence Of very rich
gold alluvions was made known. A
rapid immigration to the region at once
followed, and it was reported in August
of that year that the daily production of
gold was from 10000 to $4,000.
1t was not until 1851 that the gold
bearing veins were discovered, and the
larger part of the gold of California has
been got from the placers, as the allu-
vions are called. 1t is from the partial
exhaustion of these that the production
has of late years considerably dIm1n-
ished. In 1913 it was estimated at SlO,-
900, 900, and reached it's maximum of &c.,
600, 900 in 1853. In 1870 it had fallen to
$25,000,000, and reached $4,000, 900 In
1878, but rose again in 1874 to $50, $780,
900. The total yield, since the opening
of the mines in 104S, amounts to more
than 81 ,000,000,000. The working of the
gold bearing veins and of the deeper al
luvions or placers has of late been sys
tematiZed and greatly improved, and
from the abundance and richness of
these, and the persistence of the veins in
depth, this region may be expected to
produce great amounts of gold for gen
erations to comet. SteTTg Hunt, an
Harper's Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27
Preservation Of Raw Meat.

DR.. Alexander Herzen has lately exc
ence new and remarkable process for the
preservation of raw meat which he has dis
covered. In the autumn of 1878 DR.. Her
zen, after having retained in his house for
many weeks certain cases of raw meat,
preserved according to his system, put
them to further proof by keeping them
In lighthouses, heated to tropical heat, for
two months more, without the meat being
changed In the smallest degree from the
state when first killed Determining TO
put them to a still stronger test of a Jour
ney across the Equator, part of the same
meat was sent to Buenos Ayres, where il
was tested and eaten by commission APP
pointed there, who pronounced it excel
lent. OF the same meat q part was re-
turned to Europe, where it was distributed,
still secured in tin cases, inclosed in
wooden barrels, to many persons, who
could find no fault either with the taste of
the meat or its nutritive and digestive
qualities. The last of these tins of NEST
was eaten in Milan in the month of Febru-
airy last, eleven months and half after the
slaughter Of the OK. Among the examples
of tests presented by Dr. Herzen was that
OF glass vase of meat, the open top COW
cred with layer of melted fat only;
the preserving liquid had partly evap-
GRATED, leaving the upper surface of
the meat covered with mold This
was removed, when the meat beneath
was found to be perfectly good
and having the smell of meat killed
within few hours Of the chemical,
physiological and astrological properties
still retained in the meat after long pres
ervation DR.. Herzen convinced the scien-
tiflc men present, as also of the unexcep-
tionable perfection in which the meat may
be preserved. A small nucleus of about
twenty-five gentlemen have hitherto
formed the society, joining with DR..
Herzen in the expenditure necessary for
carrying out the tests of his invention.
These having proved eminently successful
means now will be taken to give publicity
to the scheme. The increasing dearnesS
Of meat in Italy, caused during the last
four years by the expectation of cattle TO
France, has made serious increase in
the expense Of providing the army I'D
navy. Great consideration is being given
to the practicability of adopting the inven-
ton as means of reducing considerably
the balance both of war and naval expendi-
ture, but more particularly of the latter
DIR. Herzen relies principally on the i'm
portation of cattle from La Plata, and est
mates that he will be able to deliver the
meat prepared at La Plata in the European
markets at a price third less than thaa
now demanded
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27

ting OF leading names is the great turn
ing point of success in canvassing. The
influence of example is of incalculable
advantage to the canvasser. If any of
these leading people are unable to buy or
assist as helper, then ask for their
names to head your list for the sake of
their influence; the condition being that
they are at liberty to take the book or
not when you bring it. The object is to
get their names to head the list, and
having thus got well started the thing
will go like an epidemic
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27

"IsH der some ledder here for mes" in
CURED German at the general delivery
window of the Postoffice Saturday Ne
none here" was the reply. Well,
dot is queer" he continued, getting his
head into the window; "my neighbor gets
sometimes dree ledders in one day, und /
get none. bays more daxss as he does
und / hat never got one ledder yet How
comes does dings ?'-Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK

CoTToN.-Middling upland 160161sc.
LIVE SToCK.-Beef S10.00013.00 Hogs
Live, S7.7507.675z. Sheep-Live (unshorn),
S5.5096.871a.
BREADsTUFFs.- -Flour-Good to choice, $1,000
$50: white wheat extra, $5.9006.85. Wheat-No 2
Chicago, S1.1901.21; No Northwestern, S1.19
@1.21; No. 2 Milwaukee spring, S1.201a@1. 211s.
Rye-Western and State, $1.OO@1O2. Barley
S1.4O01.45. Corn-Mixed Western, 861l@87Ac
Oats-Western Mixed, 7515@78c.
PRovIsIoNs.-Pork-New Mess, S21 .9O@22 CO.
Lard-Prime Steam, 15A@15Ac. Cheese-9@
14c.
WooL.-Domestic fleece, 48Q63c.
CHICAGO.
LIVE SToCK.-Beeves-Choic S6ON0615; good,
s575@5.90; medium, S54O@5.65; butchers
stock, $4OO05.25; stock cattle, s3.25@4.75
Hogs-Live, good to choice, s7.50@S.25. Sheep
Good to choice (unshorn) S5.75@6.25.
PRovIsIoNs.-Butter-C 2S032c. Eggs
Fresh, 15D15hc. Cheese--New York Factory
16h@17c; Western Factory, 16@16hc. Pork
Mess, $21. 20@21.2 5, Lard-S15. 2o@15.25.
BRKADsTUFFs.- Flour-White Winter Extra
S6.OG@7.5o; spring extra, S47505.5O. Wheat
Spring, No. 2, S1.02h@1.032s. Corn-1io 2, 71h
ORC. Oats-No. 2, 631a@64c. Rye-No. 2, S1O6
@1.O6h. Barley-No.2 2, S1.330135.
kUMBER.-First Clear, s4S.OO0500O; Second
115O; Fencing, S12.OO@130O; "A' Shingles
S3.0003.25; Lath, S2.0092.25.
WooL.-Tub-washed, 4505Sc.; fleece, washed
40052c.: fleece, unwashed, 27037c.
CINCINNATI.
BREADsTUFFs.- -Flour-S5.7505.S5. Wheat
Red, S1.3O91.55. Corn-77@79c. Rye-s1 %
01.25 Oats-6s073c. Barley-No. 2, ST. .350l 40.
PRovIsIoNs.-Pork-S21 .9O022. 90. Lard-15A
915hc.
LIVE STooK.-Beeves-Falr to choice, $500
6.1215. Hogs-Live, S6.250S.25.
BREADsrUFFs.- Fall, s5.5005.60
Wheat-No. 2 Red Fall, s1.431a@1.44 Corn-No.
2, 72@74c. Oats-No. 2, 641a@6524c. Rye-No.
., S1.04@1.O5. Barley-No. 2, s1.2291. %.
Observation-Disclosures, SCI. 65021.75. Lard
-142zG15c.
MILWAUKEE,.
BREADsTUFFs.- Flour-Spring Xxx, S4.750500.
Wheat-Spring, No. 1, S1.051a@106; No. 2, s.. OK
@1.03. Corn-No. ?, 71@71hc. Oats-No. ,,
621a@63c. Rye-No. l, S1.o701.0S. Barley-No.
?, S1.S0G1.32
Observation-Disclosures = Extra, 81 91z@1 80.
Corn-77@771ac. oats-No. 1, 671a@6S1ac.
TOLEDO.
BREADsTUFFs.- Wheat-Amber Mich. s129
91. e91z No. Red 81 .2991 .2914. Coru-High
Mixed, 77977Ac. Oats-No. ?, 671l06Sc.
CLEVELAND.
BREADsTUFFs.- / Red, S1.32h0,
t33; No. Red, S1.27h01.2S. Corn
High Mixed, 771a G7Sc. Oats-No. 1, 66H@67c.
BUFFALO.
LIVE STOCK. = Beeves : S57507.G0 Hogs
Live, s7.5O@S.25. Sheep-Live (shorn), SAC
@5.25.
EAST LIBERTY.
LIVE STocK-Beeves-Best S6.75@7 20; me-
| dunn, S6.O00625. Hogs = Workers, $1,000
| 100; Philadelphia, sS5O@s.75. sheep-Best
(shorn), S5.2505.40: medium (shorn), S4.50@5.0 co.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27

THE New York authorities are prose
cutting ignorant apothecaries who pre-
scribe remedies for diseases of which they
have no knowledge. Recently child
twenty-three months old was dosed to
death by one of these drug-dispensers,
who was held in 81 900 bail for appear
ance before the Grand Jury.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27

A PREACHER ninety-two years old has
delivered sermon an hour and forty min
utes long. This is, of course, very COM
mendable feat, butt suggests the question:
"How long were his sermons forty-fve
years ago7"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27

LOUISVILLE is rejoicing over the for
nation of a company which is to estab-
fish a cotton factory in that city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-05-27

IT is said that during the thirteen years
that Oliver Charlick was President of the
Long Island Railroad he never drew any
part of his salary. although it had. been
fixed by the Board of Directors at $4,000
year. This makes $4,000, which his
estate will, of course, call upon the COM
pany to pay up.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-04-23
GEN. SPINNER AND THE REBEL.

GEN. SPINNER AND THE r 3BEL.
Treasurer Spinner is kind heart
ed man, but blunt and profane. A
gentleman (who was evidently post
ed enclosed Confederate bond in a
letter to the treasurer, with the re-
quest that the Enclosure be redeem
ed, and its equivalent in current
funds be returned to the subscriber.
The General got stormy and sent the
following answer with his signature
attached
"SIR-Your damned bond is res
specially returned, and with the in
formation that such trash is not re,
deemed here. You had better take
it to hell, the place of the Confeder
acv's inception"
No doubt the veteran hat,ered
! himself that this unceremonions re-
/ buke would cool the ardor of the
/ Confederate, but in few days he
was rather nonplussed by the receipt
of a spirited reply. Here is a copy;
"DEAR SIR-Yonr favor Of = has
been duly receiN ed, and hasten to
acknowledge your courtesy in the
premises, should have mentioned
in my previous letter, inclosing Con-
federate bond, that the certificate of
Indebtedness had been presented at
the depository now designated by
you, and that payment was positive
" declined. 1t now, however, af
lords me pleasure to advise you that
on being rendered second time to
Belzeebub's financial secretary, pay
ment was promptly made. Need |
add that your inimitable autograph.
did the business : Allow me to re-
turn thanks for your Internal agen~
cy, and accept, dear General, the
assurance of the devils most distin
guished consideration"
| lie WAS rather pleased with the
Esloiuder.
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-04-23

NORTHERN MEN IN THE S0UTH.--
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune writes from Savannah, IN.
der date of the 2nd Of April, as fol-
lows.
81 am a Northern man. have been
here seven years, part Of the time in
government employ, and am known
asa Republican. Yet | can't see
that | am treated one whit dif'erent>
" from those who we're born here.
| am most cordially met by all classes
wherever 90, and my relations
with the people of the city are very
pleasant, socially, politically, and in
a business way. My partner and
myself are known as Northern bust
ness men, and if we lose a dollars
worth of trade by the fact it is some
thing unknown TO us.
This is written because false re-
ports are continually being circula-
ted North, and desire that the good
people of the South where | have
made my home shall have full jus,
tice done at least at my hands,
They are fairly entitled, in my opin-
ion, to far more praise than blame.
You can make any use of this you
please, only I don't care to have my
name paradcd out, as am only a
plain business man."
The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1875-04-23
A cENTURYS CHANGES.

The nineteenth century has wits
messed many and great discoveries.
In 1909, Fulton took out the first
patent for the invention Of the
steamboat.
The first steamboat which made
regular trips across the Atlantic
ocean, were the Sirius and the Great
Western in 1889.
The first public application to
practical use Of gas for practical IL
Illumination was made 10 1902
Ia 1913 the streets of London
we're for the first time lighted with
gas.
In 1879 there was built in Walt,
ham, Mass, a mill, believed to have
been the first 10 the world which
combined all the requirements of
making finished cloth from raw cots
ton.
In 1890 there were only twentys
five postoffices ia the whole country,
and up to 1887 the rates of postage
were twenty-five cents for ever four
hundred miles.
In 1907 wooden clocks commence
ed to be made by machinery. This
ushered in the era of cheap clocks.
About the year 1888 the first rail-
road of any considerable length in
the United States was constructed.
In 1910 the first experiments in
photography we're made by Deguer-
re. About l649 the first express
business WAS established.
The anthracite coal business may
he said to have begun l.. 1920,
10 1896 the first patent for the in
vention of matches granted.
In 1880 the fret telegram was
sent.
Steel pens were introduced for
use in 1903.
The first successful trial of reap>
err took place in 1898.
1912 Elias Howe obtained tpat-
ent for his sewing machine.
The first successful method of
making vulcanized India>rubber was
patented in 1889.