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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11

"You Will see."
You know him, them
"Come and see the proceeding for
yourself"
Very solemnly they approached the
gentleman Sir" said the artist, q am
an inspector of the Board of Health. II
| ask for coffee they will give me without
doubt very good cup, for they know me.
You, sir, whom they do not know, are
served like the rest of the world. Will
you permit me to taste your coffee?'
Certainly" said the gentleman. This
is really good. The Government has great
care over the people. The police cannot
be too watchful over the public health. "
The artist drank the coffee, and having
finished it said politely: "They do
things properly at this cafe; this is excel
lent Coffee He bowed, and left the gen
tleman to pay for the coffee he had not
had, but profoundly grateful for the care
of the Government
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11
A Clever Ruse.

A PARIS paper says: A gentleman was
seated before the Cafe Richie, when a
young artist passed with a companion.
: [ will bet you," said the artist to his
friend, " / will drink that gentleman's
coffee, and he will thank me for doing it,
. You are crazy"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11

The Massachusetts State census shows
that there are many thousand more women
than men in that State. What few men
are there, though, are believed by Massa-
chusetts people to be the cream Of the
world.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11
A Clever Debater.

SPEAKING of the old-time political de-
bates OF Virginia gentlemen, George Cary
| Eggleston relates in the November At
lant5c this anecdote:
| A story is told of one of the fercest of
these social political debaters-a story too
well vouched tor among his friends to be
| doubted-Which will serve perhaps to
| show how unnecessary the presence of an
| antagonist was to the successful conduct
| OF dispute. 1t was sat a dining day.
| to speak in the native idiom. and il so
happened that all the guests were Wings.
except Mr. E, who was the stanchest
of Jeffersonian Democrats. The discus
| sion began, of course, the moment the
ladies left the table, and it speedily waxed
hot. Mr. E, getting the ear of the
| company in the outset, laid on right and
| left with his customary vigor, rasping the
Wings on their sorest points, arguing, as
sorting, denouncing, demonstrating-to
his own entire satisfaction-for perhaps
half an hour; silencing every attempt at
interruption by saying:
" Now wait, please, till / get through;
I'm one against seven, and you must
let me make my points. Then you can
reply"
He finished at last, leaving every Wing
nerve quivering, every Wing face burning
with suppressed indignation, and eyery
Wing breast full, almost to bursting. with
a speech in reply. The strongest debater
of them all managed to begin first. but
just as he pronounced the opening words
Dir. E. interrupted him.
Pardon me-" he said. II know all
your little arguments, so Iii 90 and taIk
with the ladies for half an hour while Won,
run them over; when you get throuob
send for me, and I'll come and saoeep mon,
clear ont Of the arena"
And with that the exasperating man
bowed himself out Of the dining-room
IHE registering officers in New York re-
Gently refused to register two citizens of
New York city employed by the Govern
ment at Washington on the ground that
they had lost their residence The would
be voters applied to Judge Lawrence for
noa1edanaus, which on the day preceding
the election was granted, the Judge hold,
ing that being in Government emplov tho
applicants did not lose their residence
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The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-04-03

The Punishment oflepers is rigorous
" carried out in the Sandwich Islands.
There was a recent official search for
persons affected with the incurable
1naiady many having been sec reted by
their relations. Hundreds were found
and put into a vessel for transport
alton to the leper village, to be kept
there until they die. Their families
gathered on the beach and expressed
their grief in. loud lamentations. A
talented half breed, called Bill Rags
dale, has long held a high place in the
regard OF Sandwich Islanders. He is
an orator OF great natural power, a
leader in the district of Hilo. and a
man of VIGOROUSLY bad morals. He
discovered that he was ieprous.
although the indications were so slight
that he had escaped official notice,
aud at once gave himself up to thu,
authorities. A procession of natives,
singing and Carrying flowers, escorted
him to the vessel which was to take
him and the others to their living
graves. He made a speech to the
assembly, urging submission to the
measures for eradicating leprosy BY
Punishment, and expressing his hatred
Of missionaries.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-04-03
John Mitchell led a hard Life. Z

John Mitchell led u hard life. He
was purely emotional man of bril-
liant gifts, unstudied, and perfectly
honest in all he did. Being a senti-
mentaiist, little given to sober, alb
stract thinking, he took the color and
cue of his surroundings, all the while
believing himself to. be an original
aud independent man. Thus, moved
by conscientious impulses, he wan
dered from point to point uncertain
ever, but always ontspokenly cpl
grammatic; fearless and strong
writer, who gave a grace to every
thing he touched, aud also a vigorous
though IN unequal life. Yet he died
4 hero at last, ut home, the las. Of the
'4o men, honored throughout Ireland,
twice elected to Parliament after near
~ thirty years an absentee, the pivot
around which the Irish Republicans
were ready and about to rally: for
nothing short Of complete Irish inde-
pendence should or ever will satisfy
any true Irishman. The Irish hate
the English. and ought to. Home
rule is merely Il currency. 1t is moth
ing. What is wanted is absolute free
dom.-Coarier-JoafWal.
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IlonalosonOllle Gblef.
Three Dollars Year.
Louisiana and Pinchback.

Senator West of Louisiana, has
shown himself more of a politician
than he mad credit for. After Senator
Morton closed the debate Oh Monday
in favor Of the admission of Pinchback,
Mr.. West rose, and after regretting
the division in the Republican party,
said that he could not submit the
claims of his colleague to Il vote. He
accordingly moved that the subject
be laid on the table till the second
Monday in December next. This took
the Democrats by surprise, snd Mr..
Thurman protested. Mr.. Logan also
objected to this disposition Of the
question, but a vote was taken, and
the question was postponed by q vote
Of 80 yeas against 30 nays. Mr.. Chris
tiancy voted nay with the Democrats,
and 80 did Mr.. Booth. General Logan
did not vote. The result of this poll
teal stroke is to keep the control Of
that senatorial seat in the hands of
the Republicans. Had decisive vote
OH Pincloack been taken, he would
undoubtedly have been rejected, and
o vacancy created. With the propo-
sitiOD for compromise settlement of
political affairs in Louisiana accepted,
3 Democrat would just as likely as
not be elected to the vacant place.
Now there is no really empty seat,
though there is not an occupied one
Pinchback de jure is the holder, though
dc fscto he does not realize its possess
sion. Whatever may occur in Louis
lana politics for the next eight months,
the Senate will bc ready in December,
with new light, or from dire necessity,
to proceed as it may deem best for
the interest Of that State, and, we
may modestly suggest, for the success
of the Republican party. 1t is said
that if the whole scope of Senator
Vests motion had been taken in at
the moment Of making it, when vote
was had, it would have been circum-
vented. Il was unexpected, and the
opposition was not quick enough to
designate q contrary line Of action.
So West gets credit for good tactics
as a politician, and Louisiana gets,
possibly, comparative quite for two
thirds of a year.-Boston Common
acealth.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-04-03
Ben Wade.

Political slate makers still persist
penciling the name Of Ben Wade as Re-
publican candidate for Governor of
Ohio next fall. Wade as persistently'
declares he will have none of it. No
later than yesterday he told me that
he wouldn't be Governor of any State
in the Union, not if the people were to
make him present of an entire com
monwealth, to have and hold and be-
queath to his lineal posterity. We
all know, however, il an Ohio Repub-
lican convention should paint his name
at the head Of 4 ticket, and if silurian
Bill Allen should paw and rear in the
van Of the Democracy and dare the
ancient Benjamin to peel for the fray,
just what would happen. There would
be deadly locking Of horns, aud the
two venerable buffalo bullsof Western
politics would sway and bend and
below in mortal combat till election
day. The one which would then go
under would not he named Wade.
This gnarled and rugged Radical is
just now propounding quiet conan
drum to his near friends. He was in
duced to recommend shallow headed
youngster from Maryland as Il cadet
at Annapolis, aud through Wade's i'll
auence the snip was appointed.
Shortly after he was admitted to the
Academy, the dolt refused to fence
with the colored cadet, when SD order
ed by the official instructors. He said
he was too good to cross foils with Il
!"nigger;" his reason, probably, was
fear lest the darkey should prove more
skillful than himself. Persisting in
his ldiotic refusal he was finally cx-
PEELED, and now Ben Wade's standing
charade is "Who is the most pow
erful; | got boy into the Naval
Academy, and niger got him out ?"
Chicago Times.
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Matt Morris, alias Pitts burg Matt.
the last OF the quartette engaged in
the express robbery at Memphis on
the LIST OF February, arrived at that
city on Friday of last week and is
naw in jail. AS the four men have
already been indicted, they will have
a speedy Trial aud pay the penalty of
their crime upon the scafold. John
ston was at first bold and defiant, but
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q mailman.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1875-04-03

A dispatch from Moorhead City,
North Carolina, dated March 9th.
says: Lawyer Bryan, to have been
executed yesterday for the murder of
Michael Langley, was respited until
the first of September next, OCCASION
ed by the resignation of the sheriff
and all other county officers who
were responsible for the execution of
the sentence. The reason given is
that the negro belonged in Stow
county, not in this county, whittier
the case had been removed and tried.
The execution is postponed till Sep
tember 2, when new officers will have
been elected.
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