Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-12-23
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

itD"'0u w hSl1So HUH d tramp plpt.
TwEEDs ruling passion was conspicu-
| Gus TO the last-he ''silently stole away"
N. Z. Graphic.
NAVIGATION is closed on Lake Chicago.
-AHgustG (Ga.) Chronicle and Sentinel
When did it open, pray?
WooD is selling at thirty dollars cord
at Cornucopia, New. Everything out
there seems to be about as high as the
| mountains.
The greatest feat in telegraphy ever &C
| complishsd was in sending the Presidents
message from Washington to New York
IN just thirty one minutes.
MATT LYNCH, lucky miner, spent the
summer in working his placer-claim on
the Moreno, Colorado, and has just
cleaned up $18, 800 over and above all ex-
penses.
THE boys in Hillsboro, Ore, have a
| tribunal of their own and inf1ict punish
ment on their culprit fellows for vagrancy
one of whom they have frequently
logged.
ANOTHER boy has been fooling with
pistols, His name is Columbus High
tower, of Walton, Ky, and he shot his
grandmother, an old lady of seventy-six,
| killing her almost instantly.
The people of Middle Park, Col, are
killing their winter meat out Of herd of
500 elk which have congregated in the
valley of the Muddy. 1t is like going
| into big herd of cattle to butcher beef,
says the Denver Ne,os.
The Stewart (Col.) reducing works pro-
duced silver bricks during the year, up
to Nov. %, of total coin value of S271,
661.72, and those of Judd 6 Crosby
turned out $2O5, OO1 80 in bullion, making
altogether $476,663.22.
! THE Mexicans on the Texas border are
adding insult to injury. They steal the
Americans beeves and after disposing of
the meat at Monterey they ship the hides
back and offer them for sale to the person
from whom they were stolen.-Detro5t
Free Press.
THE fishing business at Swampscott,
Mass, upon which a large number of
men rely for support, was lately suspended
on account of a strike among the bait
catchers" at Cape Cod, who demand one
dollar more per barrel, which the Swamp
scott fishermen refuse to give.
The silver-mine excitement is running
high in Mason County, Tex. Two shafts
have been sunk in one place to the depth
OF seventy five feet, where the yield is $19
| per ton OF ore. The ore is sulphide and
| chloride. Over 100, 900 acres of land have
been located in the county within the
| present month.
Col. d. r. DAyOL, OF Fall River,
Mass, the other night was to have been
married, but a tramp, after partaking of
a meal given by the servant, stepped into
the Colonies chamber and put on his
wedding garments, new overcoat and
an extra dress-coat and decamped, leaving
his old rags ON the floor.
THE Legislature of West Virginia has
adopted the design for State flag report
ed blythe Committee On Military Affairs
The design is nine feet long, three feet
wide, four diagonal bars two red and two
buff), with white ground in the upper
part of the right-hand corner, with the
State arms and motto in gilt
| DAVID DUDLEY FIELD, Tweed's lawyer,
| points moral with his escape. He says
| 1t will teach courts not to impose too
much bail upon prisoners. He says that
| if Tweed's bail had been fixed at $500, 900
instead of So, 100000 he would have OBJ
tanned bail and his sureties would have
been interested enough to have been his
keepers.
THE superiority of plug over fne-cut
chewing tobacco was illustrated in the
case OF Mr.. Tryon, of Mapping, Conn,
the other night. He seized a masked
burglar who was operating in his work
shop and was stabbed and knocked sense
less by an accomplice, but the knife fortu-
nately struck a plug of tobacco, which
prevented its intiicting a mortal wound.
| WILLIAM EDDY and his two sisters,
who have been partners in spiritualism"
in Chittenden, Vt, have left for Colorado.
The Rutland (Vt.) Herald, abiding to
their departure, says: 1.-The family quar-
rel which we recorded while ago, and
the recent exposures, and, more than all,
the dread of more complete exposure,
decided them to try their fortunes amid
| fresh scenes.''
THERE'S a woman on the shores of
Lake George who has her ideas defined
| If not accurate. She and her husband
keep hotel. Lately she has applied to
have him shut up as insane. The proof
she offered was % that he was irritable
and would swear when angry, and ~
that he had high opinion of himself
| and seemed to think his presence necessa-
ry to the concernn'
THE Jacksonville (Fla) Press says:
Lying on the wharf of the Lollie Boy
are several fine logs of magnolia. They
are intended, we learn, for a New York
house, who design to test them for the
purpose of engraving. When thoroughly
dried they are said to be very slightly, if
at ALL inferior to lockwood. If this be so
Florida can furnish an inexhaustible sup
ply of the MATERIAL