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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11
Great Destruction to Life by a Boiler
Explosion.

THE boiler of the engine Centralia of
the Easton & Amboy Railroad, exploded
on the morning of the 1st at the Raritan
siding near South Somerville, N. J. The
following particulars are given in the New
York papers of the I'd:
The engineer, the foreman of the labor
gang and three other men were killed,
and thirty three laborers were scalded,
some of them fatally. The cause of the
explosion is said to have been the worn
out condition of the boiler and the lack of
water kept in it. The engine left Bound
brook about seven a. m with a cOnstruc-
ton train, consisting of a caboose and a
number of empty gravel-cars, for the
purpose of assisting in the repair of the
road. The engine was attached to the
rear of the train and directly in front of it
was the caboose and another containing
about forty eight laborers When the
train reached the siding, about two and a
half miles west of Boundbrook, it was
run upon side-track in order to allow
the eastern-bound passenger train to
pass. While standing here the boil :
er Of the engine, without any warn
ing, exploded, wrecking the locomo
tive, shivering the caboose to atoms
and pouring steam and boiling water into
the car in front of it. The laborers occu-
plying the caboose, unconscious of dan
| ger, were talking and laughing together,
| and when the shock came were scattered
like leaves before hurricane. Some of
them were blown through the roof and
| sides and by the force of the explosion
were lifted twenty or thirty feet into the
air. But eight men escaped uniniured
Many were severely wounded by flying
fragments of the cars and engine and two
or three were fatally scaldeu. Five were
killed almost outright. The boiler was
carried high in the air and landed about
| 100 feet from the scene of the disaster
Col. Palmer H. Thompson, foreman of
the labor-gang, was burned about the body
and injured internally. He died about
| four p. N. He was commander of a
Pennsylvania regiment of militia during
| the late war, and leaves wife and one
child. When the physician came to at
tend him he said: Attend to others first
| am not hurt as badly as they are" Be
fore dying he described how the force of
| the explosion had thrown him through
| the roof of the caboose and thirty feet
| high. While falling he thong hit of clutch
ing the telegraph-wires, which he saw
many feet below him, to break his fall,
but, thinking it would be useless, re-
Trained. He alighted on tie, which
broke in one of his ribs and burst in one
of his lungs, which produced fatal in
ternal hemorrhage.
Boundbrcok was the scene of intense
| excitement, as the explosion, though it
| occurred two and half miles from there,
was distinctly heard. Wood-choppers
working several miles distant heard the
| reyerberations and hurried to the scene.
Many stories were afoat as to the cause of
the accident, but, in the excitement that
prevailed, it was impossible to ascertain
where the blame rests.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11
escape.
NEW YORK.


LIVE STocK.-Beef Cattle--s10.O0013O Hogs
Live, $S.0O@8.12H. Sheep-Live. S4.5O06.OO.
ADsTUFFs.-Flour-Good to choice, IS 90M
$50; white wheat extra, $6.359s.OO. Wheat-No.
Chicago, S1.24@1.27; No. 2 Northwestern.
$1.26@1.27; No. Milwaukee spring, S1.31@
80. Rye-Western and State, S0@90c Bar
1ey-$1 1001.15 Corn-Mixed Western, 720
73Ac. Oats-Mixed Western, 47048Hc.
PRovIsIoNs.-Pork-Mess, $22.O0022 so. Lard
Prime Steam, 131aG15c. Cheese-6A013c.
WooL.-Domestc Fleece, 43065c.
CHICAGO.
LIVE SToCK.-Beeves-Choice S56O06. 100
good, S4.75@5.40; medium, S4.2544. rs; butch
ers' stock, s2.50@3.75; stock cattle, S2650
3.75. Hogs-Live, S7.409S.00. Sheep--Good to
choice, S425@4.50.
PRovIsIoNs.-Butter-- Cholce, 30933c. Eggs
Fresh, % g24c. Pork-Mess, s2O5OQ21. 90.
Lard-$13. 35G1337Ia.
BREADsTUFFs. -Flour-White Winter Extra,
S5.759S.00; spring extra, S5.0096O0. Wheat
Spring, No. p S1.11A@1.12. Corn-No 2. 50 q
@52%c, Oats-No. 2, $685. &c. Rye-No. 2,
68h @y69c. Barley-No. 2, 860S7c.
LUMBER.-First and Second Clear, S42 90
@45.00; Common Boards, $10.50012OO; Fencing,
S11.00012.00; "a" Shingles, S2.5002. 90; Lath,
$1.75@200.
EAST LIBERTY
dunn, S50O@550. Hogs-Yorlzers, 81. 3Og7. go
Philadelphias, S800@s.25. Sheep-Best, $3.50
$50; medium, 81 -75Q5.00.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11

the possible exception of the Sixth Dis
trict. The State was peaceful.
A BERLIN telegram of the 4th says Prus-
STA had requested Austria to prevent Bish-
OPP Forester from exercising any episcopal
functions touching the Prussian portion
of his diocese while residing in Austria.
The French Assembly reassembled on
the 4th.
SECRETARY robson is a candidate be-
fore the New Jersey Legislature for
United States Senator
A MILWAUKEE dispatch of the 18th
says it will require the official canvass
to determine the result of the election in
Wisconsin. Ludington (Rep.) for Gov
ernor would probably have about 1,OOO
majority; balance of Republican State
ticket probably defeated Legislature in
doubt
A ST. PAUL telegram of the 4th says
Pillsbury (Rep.) for Governor of Mime
sofa had about $4,000 majority. Pfaender
(Rep.) for Treasurer ran behind his ticket,
but was probably elected. Legislature
Republican.
THE Kansas City (Mo.) Times of the 4th
says there was larger number of Opposi-
ton candidates elected to the Kansas
State Legislature this year than last.
DAVID ROBINSON, living in Howard
County, Ind, on the night of the Sd shot
two Of his children with revolver and
then cut their Threats from ear to ear His
wife and one son escaped by running.
His dead body was found the next morn
ing fourteen miles south of Kokomo. II
was supposed he jumped o. fell from a
freight train on which he was making his
escape.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11
| From the Chicago Times.

lNioAh thS SnlIdSO 1lAhcS-l
1.-THE name of DR.. r. V. Pierce, Of Buffalo,
\. Y, has become as familiar to the people
all over the country as household words
His wonderful remedies, his pamphlets and
books and his large medical experience have
brought him into prominence and given
him solid reputation. The Times, in the
present issue, presents n whole-page COM
munication from DR.. Pierce, and our readers,
may gain from it some idea of the vast pro-
portions of his business and the merits of
his medicines. He has at Buffalo mann
moth establishment, appropriately named
Ihe worlds Uspensary,' where patients
are treated and the remedies compounded
Here nearly hundred persons are employed
IN the several departments and a corps of
able and skilled physicians stand ready to
alleviate the sutferings of humanity by the
most approved methods. These physicians
are In frequent consultation with DR.. Pierce,
and their combined experiences brought to
bear on the successful treatment of obsti-
nate cases. The doctor is a man of large
medical experience, and his extensive
knowledge of materia medica has been ac-
knowledged by presentations of degrees
from two Of the first Medical Colleges i'll the
land.n
If you would patronize medicines scien-
titically prepared by 4 skilled physician and
chemist use DR.. Picrce's Family Medicines
Golden Medical Discovery is nutritious,
tonic, Alternative and 'blood-cleansing, and an
unequaled Cough Remedy; Pleasant Purga-
tive Pellets, scarcely larger than mustard
seeds, constitute an agreeable and reliable
physic; Favorite Prescription, a remedy for
debilitated females; Extract of Smart-Weed,
magical remedy for Pain, Bowel Com
plants and an unequaled Liniment for both
human and horse flesh; while his DIR. Sage's
Catarrh Remedy is known the world over
the greatest specific for Catarrh and "Cold
in the Head" ever given to the public. They
are sold by Druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11
Some of the Consequences of Enfia-
ton.

1t galvanizes into spasmodic life ali that
is reckless, imprudent and foolish in hui
man nature by infusing the gambling Gle
ment Of pure chance into every business
transaction. This it does by the use of a
medium of exchange as unstable in value
as the mercurial column is unstable in
height. 1t creates for it's advocates and
dupes a mental strabismus: they look
where there is nothing, and they think
they see something. 1t gives them one
day of the rosiest illusions and a week Of
the direst disenchantment- 1t makes them
spend that which they have not-mortgag-
ing the future for an hour of spendthrift en-
ioyment In the dreams and reveries ofmen
it substitutes the unreal for the real; in
the looseness of morals which it engen-
ders it makes the supreme good of men to
consist in the rapid accumulation and
lavish display Of wealth. 1t is the creator
in its victims of an absolute insanity, so
that they regard the very calamities in
herent in its nature as blessings to be
again sought for and enjoyed. 1t leads
the nation, as it does the individual, into
the straight road to bankruptcy and dis
honor. These results of an irredeemable
inflated currency have been demonstrated
to be true by the experience of every peo-
pie who have tried it, and by none more so
than by our own.-Republac Magazine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11
"T'HE NINETY AND NINE"

1.-THE following is one of Mr.. Sankey's favorite
hymns, which he sings with thrilling effect at the
Moody and Sankey revival meetings 1t was writ
ten for Mr.. Sankey by lady in England but the
music is Sankey's own:l kS &
There were ninety and nine that safely lay
In the shelter IF the fold,
But one was out on the hills away,
Far off from the gates Of gold;
Away on the mountains wild and bare,
away from the tender Shepherds care.
LORD Thou hast here Thy ninety and nine,
Are they not enough for Thee?
But the Shepherd made answers One of Mine
has wandered away from Me; .1..E
And although the road be rough and steep
go TO the desert to find Ny sheep.
But none OF the ransomed ever knew
How deep were the waters crossed,
Nor how dark was the night that the Lord
passed through
Ere He found His sheep that was lost.
Out in the desert He heard its cry,
Sick and helpless and ready to die.
Lord, whence are those blood-drops all the
way
That mark out the mountains trackP
They were shed for one who had gone astray
Ere the Shepherd could bring him back.
Lord, whence are Thy hands so rent and
torn
They were pierced tonight by many thorn.
And all through the mountains, thunder
riven,
And up from the rocky steep,
There rose a cry to the gate of Heaven:
Rejoice, have found My sheep"
And the angels re-echo around the throne:
"Reioice, for the Lord brings back His own"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11
THERE is singular natural cnriositv

THERE is a singular natural curiosity
about one and half miles from Thomp-
son, Pa, on the Jefferson branch of the
Erie Railway. 1t is deep, narrow crew
ice between the rocks, about sixteen inches
wide A stone thrown into it can be
heard for several seconds strike from side
to side, the sound becoming fainter and
fainter until it dies away. Owing to the
unevenness of the gap it has been found
impossible to measure its depth. On a
cold, frosty morning the warm cir arising
from this pit and coming in contact with
the cold air without makes it appear like
smoking chimney.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11

-. In answer to the remarkable argu-
ment that money as the standard of values
should itself intrinsically be of no value
the New York Eoe,atng Post says: If the
thing to be measured be an extension the
thing by which it is measured must have
extension or length; if it be weight the
measure must have weight: if il be vol
ume the measure must have capacity; if
If it be heat the measure must be unit
Of heat; if it be time the measure must be
a unit of time; and SO if 1t be wealth or
something wrought by labor the measure
must be wealth. = But did any,
one ever propose Or hear of an ideal meas
ure of length or an ideal measure Of
weight or capacity? Did anyone ever
propose to stamp upon piece of paper
"This is foot: United States" or
"This is bushel: United States" or
"This is pound; United States"? No;
and why? Why not issue measures of
weight length and capacity from the
printing as well as measures Of
wealth? An ideal ounce or an ideal inch
or an ideal pint is just as valid and tangi-
bic a quantity as an ideal dollar. Neither
of them measures anything and they all
alike express nothing"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11
THE NEWS.

THE French iron-clad Magenta, the flag
ship of the Vice-Admiral commanding at
Toulon, caught fire on the Both ult. and
exploded. No lives were lost.
THE London Times of the morning of
the 1st says that 300 seamen had been
drowned in the North Sea during the gales
of the preceding three weeks.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has di-
rected the sale of 100000 in gold coin on
each Thursday during the month of No
vember
THE Carleton Wooden Mills, Philadel-
pbia, were destroyed by fire on the morn
ing of the 1st. Loss from 100000 to
100000.
JUDGE DILLON, at Des Moines, has late
~ decided that there is no penalty under
the law for sending vulgar matter on
postal-cards through the mails; but that it
is the duty of thu Postmaster into whose
hands such cards come to destroy them.
JAMES Otis, Mayor of San Francisco,
died on the 30th ult
Gently been made on railroad lines be-
tween the West and East, the rate from
Chicago to New York being twenty-five
dollars for frst-class tickets.
THE constitutional amendment author
izing the taxation of dogs was defeated
at the late Ohio election
At an election held in Missouri on the
Both ult. the new Constitution was adopted.
THE official canvass of the votes cast at
the Nebraska election shows that the new
Constitution is carried by nearly %, 600
majority. The clause leaving to the peo-
pie the power of locating the State capital
has $500 majority, and that giving the
people the power of expressing their
preference for United States Senator 49,
800 majority The Democrats elected two
District Judges and one District Attorney
All the rest of the officers-elect are Re-
publicans.
ADyICEs from St. Petersburg, received
on the 1st, state that the Government had
been engaged in crusade against So
cialist agitators. Arrests had been made
in Moscow, Odessa, Blazau and St.
Petersburg. In one village near Moscow
thirty workingmen had been arrested, and
one of them, resisting the police force,
had been killed
LYcURGUs, the Syrian Archbishop of
the Greek Church, died recently.
A RAGUsA telegram of the 1st says a
force of 1900 Turks had been lately de-
feated with heavy loss while attacking a
strong insurgent position near Zubi.
The Secretary of the Treasury has called
in for redemption $4,000, 900 coupon and
$4,000, 900 registered $50 bonds of the
issue of 1864.
THE following is the November state
ment of the condition of the public debt
Six per cent. bonds STANDARDIZATION. $1G43, 1872 $50
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11

BosToNIANs complain that their Cochit-
uate tastes awfully. The Water Board
think it is nothing but the faint of de-
caying vegetable matter, but a prominent
scientist says the trouble is that the water
now drawn from tie lake is what has
been at the bottom unmoved during
the summer and has grown almost pu-
trid.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11
The Biggest Bet of the Missouri State
Fair.

Five thousand dollars against two thou
sand dollar wager was offered BY the Propri-
etors of the Jill Well Anger that it would
bore hole of the same size faster and easier
than any other well anger on exhibition, ald
we learn that this is a standing offer for one
year. Who will accept it? See their adver-
tisement in another column.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11

IF ladies of the period are as just as
they are beautiful they will contribute
something toward monument for King
Canute. He was the person who origi-
nally ordered the tide back.-.St Louis Re
q1hblic1n ...
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11

IMPORIANT IMPROF ENENT IN IKEATING
RUPTURE.-The Elastic Truss Company have
produced great revolution in the treatment
of hernia. Their new truss is worn easy night
and day; adapts itself to every motion of
the body; never displaced By hardest exnr-
else; retaining rupture comfortably, till soon
permanently cured. Sold at the office of the
company, No. 6S3 Broadway, New York city.
Trusses sent by mail. Send for circular
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11

SCHENCK's PULMoNIC SYRUP, for the
Cure of Consumption, Coughs and Colds The
great virtue of this medicine is that it ripens the
matter and throws it out of the system, puriies
the blood, and thus effects q cure.
SCHENCK's SEA WEED Tonic, for the Cure of
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, etc. The Tonic produces
healthy action of the stomach. creating an appe-
tite, forming chye, and curing the most obstinate
cases of indigestion.
ScHENCK's MANDRAKE Pills, for the Cure of
Liver Complaint, etc. These pills are Alternative
and produce healthy action on the liver without
the least danger. they are free from caomel and
yet more eticacious in restoring healthy action
of the liver.
ton, as the Pulmonic Syrup ripens the matter and
purifies the blood The Mandrake Pills act upon
the liver. create healthy bile and remove all dis
eases of the liver. often cause of Consumption.
The Sea Weed Tonic gives tone and strength to
the stomach makes good digestion, and enables
the organs to form good blood; and thus creates
healthy circulation of healthy blood. The com
bined action of these medicines, az thus ex-
planned. will cure every case of Consumption, if
taken in time, and the of the medicines perge-
vered in.
Dr. Schenck is professionally at his principal
Office corner SIXTH and ARCH STs., Philadelphia
every Monday where all letters for advice must be
addressed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11

The season for coughs and colds is rapidly
approaching, and everyone should be pre-
pared to check the first symptoms,
cough contracted between now and Christ
mas frequently lasts all winter. There is no
better remedy than Jo7tnso7's Anodyne Liti-
naent. For all diseases Of the throat and,
lungs it should be used internally and ex-
ternally
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11

PERsoNAL.-Jud. s. Bhd.-"I certify that
have used DR. SIMMONS LIVER REGSr-
LATOR in my family with complete satisfac-
tom
Rev. IT, r. Fielder" My wife and self have
used the REGULATION for years. and I GER
tify to its great virtues
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11
- All Run DOwn.ss

This is an expression that we hear from
doctors when they are in doubt about
the nature of the disease of their patients.
The country seems to be filled with such
cases, and they are trying first one remedy
and then another, hoping in vain to find
relief. They generally have the following
symptoms: A general depression of spirits,
with evil forebodings, whirling sensation
in the head when rising up suddenly, foul
breath, with bad taste in the mouth,
especially in the morning, pain in the sides
and back, urine scanty and high colored,
frequently voided with difficulty, frequent
headaches, distressed feeling at the pit of
the stomach, food affording no nourishment..
The patient feels tired all the while, and
sleep affords but little rest. After time a.
dry, hacking cough sets in, followed after a
time with expectoration, hands and feet cold
and clamrly at times, general wasting Of
the body. In such cases we need remedy
that will act upon the liver, Kidneys, stomach
and blood at the same time, and when we
use such remedy it affords relief. The
best article for this purpose is the SHAKER
EXTRACT OF RooTs, sold by A. J. White, 319
Pearl street, N. Y. Agents wanted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11

LUNG FEVER, common cold, catarrhal fever
and nasal discharge of brownish color in
horses may be checked at once by liberaG
use of .Sherida,as Cavalry Condition Porders.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11

WHEN you go to Chicago stop at the
" Barnes House" corner of Randolph and
Canal streets. The fare is excellent and ey-
erything in the house is new. Only l.5O To
So 90 per day for transient
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11

IN putting away winter fruit it must be
as cool as possible without freezing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1875-11-11

OvER-FED fowls won't lay eggs.
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THE Boston Baseball Club retain the
championship, having won forty eight and
lost seven games during the past year.
A DISPATCH from New York on the 1st
announced that Mr.. Moody had appointed
Friday, the 18th inst, day of fasting and
prayer. The nation were invited to join
On the LIST the boiler OF locomotive
attached to gravel train on the Lehlgh
Valley Railway exploded, killing three
men and injuring about twenty others,
many fatally. All the cars were thrown
from the track.
A SPECIAL from Virginia City, New, of
the 1st says building was going on rap,
idly and the burnt district was dotted with
shanties. Work was plenty and wages
high.
A RUN on the National Gold Bank and
Trust Company of San Francisco was
maintained on the 30th ult The bank
continued to meet all demands during the
day, but did not open for business on the
morning of the 1st. The officers claimed
that the bank could pay everything in
full, and would resume as soon as posi-
BILE.
CHARLES PATTERSON recently shot and
killed K. w. Porter, herder on the
North Platte, thirty miles north of Sidney
Neb., where Patterson was taken under
arrest. The Jail was subsequently broken
into by mob of masked men and Patter.
son strung up to a telegraph pole. The
SHERIFF. cut Patterson down in time to save
his life. At four o'clock the next morn.
ing he was again taken out and hung till
dead.
SIR JOHN GARDNER WILKINSON, the
eminent English archaologist, is dead.
THEship Catherine Griffith was wrecked
on the Sicily Islands on the I'd. Eigh
persons were lost.
A scow capsized at st. Familie, Can
ada, on the 31st during a severe snow
storm. Seventeen persons were drowned
IT is reported that Atty.-Gen. Pierre
pont is of the opinion that Brigham
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Sent to the Asylum.

The wife of Alvin Chapman of Ludlow
has shown such unmistakable indications
of insanity of maltreatipg her father
and mother to the extent of knocking them
down with anything she could get hold of,
threatening to burn the buildings of her
neighbors and much more of the same
sort-that the authorities had her case
under advisement on Friday, the result
being that she was considered fit subject
for the insane asylum, and was according
ly sent to that institution on that day. Her
husband took the precaution, as a sanitary
measure, to leave sometime since. What
will become of the fire or more dogs they
kept, is not so readily answered.