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FOR RENT.

THE UNDERSIGNED OFFS a gocI I'I.-r,shls az
l. FURNISHED HOUSE Tor rent on On - llsr
terms. IN connection with the house is zry o. tis
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THE radical convention ruined the
the building at Cincinnati in which it
was held. At least it has been de-
clared so, and it IS to be demolished.
, 1876-09-02
AyGc S USsg-l,.rtlc .rlns,

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and cjlrc of al
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tiir stomach, lIv-
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contain no Hcr-
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PHILANDER GRISDALF.

Il am fifty years old, and have
Tesld, d In this place since one year ago
last fall. | was asleep in the bedroom
and just woke up and heard a scuffle
IN the front room; my wife called me
and SAID there was a man in the house
and he hal hold of Lmma. | came
out, took him by the arm and told
him to let 90. spoke 70 him a half
, 1876-09-02
ARREiRs OF PAY. ROUNTY. &c.

JOB PRINTING, NEAT, QUICK AND CHEAP
al the SILTEsMAS Office
, 1876-09-02

Reform necessary in the scale Of public expense,
national, State and municipal our federal taxation
has swollen from S6O0OO,C00 gold, IN 1860 To SIjG-
O0t,Ga0 currency lS7O or IN one decade fiom less
th.:' = per head TO JiaH SIS per head. Since
the pelee tie people pad to the tax gathers
mOle than :hree times the amount OF the national
debt, AID more than twice the Of federal outlaws
Above all, We demand frugalty every department
of tie government
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-06
THE MARKETS.
NEW WORK


LIVE STocK.-Beef Cattle 9.5e@12. so. Hogs
Live, S7.371a@7.75. Sheep-Live, S475@70O.
BREADsTUFFs.-Flour-Go TO choice $3.50
500; white wheat extra, s60597.oO. Wheat-No
2 Chicago, 81 .18@1.21; No. Milwaukee spring
81 .23Q1 %. Rye-Western and State, SS@95c
Barley-S1 GO0110. Corn-Mixed Western, 1917
G75c. Oats-Mixed Western, 46g46c.
Observation-Disclosures, s20.75021. co.. Lard
Prime Steam, 124@12%c. Cheese-6@12Ac
WooL.-Domestic Fleece, 3e@62c.
LIVE SToCK.-Beeves-Choi $5.25@5. rs;
good, S4.5005. 90; medium, S4.GOa425; butch
ers' stock, S2.5093.75; stock cattle, s2.750
3.75. Hogs-Live, s6.6007.1o. Sheep--Good to
choice, S450@5 %.
PRovIsIoNs.-Butter-C Choice, 25032c. Eggs
Fresh, "a G25c. Pork-Mess, S16.9GQ19.OO.
Lard-S12. 10@12.12H
BREADsTUFFs.-Flour-Wh White Winter Extra.
S5.0OGs7.50; spring extra, s4.00@5.25. Wheat
Spring, No. 9, 942l @95c. Corn--No ?, 484@
1870. Oats-No. 2, 29A@3Oc. Rye-No. ?, 64H
@6Sc. Barley-No. ?, sou oslo.
LUMBER.-First and Second Clear, $1,000
@42C0; Common Boards, S110O@12.00; Fencing,
S12O0013.0O; "a" Shingles, S2.75@3.OO; Lath,
S1.75@2.O0.
EAST LIBERTY
LIVE SToCK-BeeVes-Best S600@6 25; me-
dunn, $4.75@5.25. Hogs-Yorkers, S6.50@67O;
Philadelphia S6.90@700. Sheep-Best, SIS ESQ
$50; medium, S475@500.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-06

Der wounded and taken prisoners. The
revolutionists were said to be marching on
Hermossillo.
SEVERAL additional whisky distilleries
and rectifying establishments in Chicago
were seized by Government officers on the
29th
A NEW YORK dispatch of the Doth an
nounces the death, at the house of his
grand daughter, near Richmond, Staten
Island, of Father Boehm, the Oldest
preacher of the Methodist Church in this
country, and probably the Oldest clergy
man in the world He was over 100years
old
THE residence Of Mrs. Rachel Gordon,
ten miles west of Rising Sun, Ind, was
burned on Christmas night, and Mrs. G..
and her three children, aged eight, ten
and twelve years, persisted in the flames.
1t is supposed that they were robbed,
murdered and the house set on fire to con-
ceal the crime.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-06
s. Relief in Prayer"

THE promises of relief by prayer are
exceeding great and precious; and they
are very many, such as the following:
"Call upon me in the day Of trouble; [
will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify
Me-" "Call unto Me, and will answer
thee; and show thee great and mighty
things, which thou knowest not" " Ask,
and it shall be given you; seek, and ye
shall find knock, and it shall be opened
unto you" These are but specimens Of
the promises to prayer that we find in the
holy Scriptures.
And the witnesses to their faithfulness
are many. Multitudes have sought relief
IN prayer, and have found it. So was it
with Jacob when he was about to meet
his enraged brother Esau. He resorted
to the Lord, and called upon him, saying:
"Deliyer me, pray thee, from the hand
of my brother, from the hand of Esau;
for fear him, less he will come and
smite me, and the mother and the chill
dren." The Lord heard and answered.
The heart of Esau was kindly turned to-
ward Jacob. On the next day, as they
came near to each other, Esau ran to
meet Jacob, and embraced him, and fell
on his neck and kissed him.
So it was with Jonah. How seemingly
hopeless was his condition. But even in
the fsh's belly he sought relief IN prayer,
and found it The Lord heard him from
His holy temple, and he spoke unto the
fish and it vomited Jonah upon the dry
land.
And so was it in the case of Peter in
prison. To human view, he, too, seemed
hopeless case. He was strongly and Wig
ilantly guarded within the walls of a
prison. But prayer was made without
ceasing by the church unto God for him.
Nor in vain:
Wrestling prayer can wonders do.
Bring relief in deepest straits
Prayer force passage through
Iron bars and brazen gates.
1t did so in this instance Anangel was
sent by whom Peter was released from his
chains, led forth. through the opened,
massy doors, and delivered out of the
hand of Herod, and from all the expecta-
ton Of the people of the Jews.
The time would fail to speak Of Abra-
ham, and Moses, and Samuel, and Elijah,
and David and Daniel and multitude of
others, both of ancient and modern times,
all of whom could bear witness and say:
" | called upon the Lord in distress; the
Lord answered me, and set me IN large
place.
Such experiences should afford encour-
agement to the people of God in all their
difficulties and troubles. Because He hath
so often inclined His ear unto them in their
necessities. therefore should they be re-
solved to call upon Him as long as they
live. God is faithful and changes not.
And therefore should His people be en-
couraged to trust in Him, and to say:
In every joy that crowns my days,
IN every pain bear,s
My heart shall lind delight IN praise
Or seek relief in prayer
-" II S." in ". Y. Observer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-06
GOING OUT AND COMING IN.

WATCH from the window the waning light
OF the last December day
AND think Of the hours. dark and bright,
OF the year that is passing away
Ny hearth-fire burns with a crimson glow,
And its rose-red embers shine
1lli aphantom fire ont there in the snow
Borrows its Goals from mine A
lhe snow that lies with so soft grace
On my little garden bare,
Making it seem an enchanted place
49,. INA pictured beauty Pare -----------~.
Is folded close DER the sheeted plains
y Where the next years bread is sown,
And white on the rugged mountain chains
Its drlfted wreaths are thrown.
Yet yesterday were the blossoms here 5
Yesterday were the bees;
And the robins, Caroling far and near,
Andthe regal pomp OF the trees; r
Day after day, on stair Of light, s~s#
I've followed the swift year through
And glimmer of stars on the darkest night
Has shown that the stars were true. --
The south wind sang with its mystic lore, -
In the days of the dewy spring,
To my trembling heart: f" Distrust no more;
To the Strength that is changeless cling"
Summer and Autumn brought their sheayes
With the voice Of a lifted psalm, ...E
For blessing comes when the soul believes,
And the peace of divinest calm
And now, as the sands in the glass run low,
And the lights are growing dim,
1 raise TO the Lord who has loved me so ~
The notes of thankful hymn;
lie has never forgotten 10 hold my hand.
Nor left me alone to bear
The weight of cross; and ever stand
ERsphered in His constant care.
o beautiful year. sweet year Of grace!
We shall see thy face no more;
Thou wilt pass away to the silent place
Of the years that have gone before;
But whether thy days were dark or bright
Or thy words were understood,
One lesson i learn from thy page tonight
The lesson that God is good.
And my welcome goes 10 the new born year,
The year that l do not know,
AS it comes with its greeting, soft and clear,
Over the silent snow;
1t will have its bitter and have its sweet,
Its work, its task its toll;
Its inns of resting for weary feet.
And alasI its sin and soil. -rs
But white as the snow its book to-day; Is
The Angel of Record stands. -s
With the look of one who looks far aways
Grasping it firm in his hands;
And Whittier than snow his pen may write
OF mortals such as we,
II we live and walk in the holy light .
OF the truth that makes men free z#.
Farewell to the Pastl To the Future, haili
To the golden Present, Joy!
While heart and hand, wherever they fail,
Fail not in the rich employ
Of the kindly deed and the steadfast word,
And the hope that upward climbs
To rest in the breast Of the faithful Lord,
With whom are all our times
--NGrgGret e. Sangster, III Christian at Work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-06
Important Land Decisions.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 81

WASHINGTON, Dec. 81
CORPS Land Oaone3' for December re-
ports decisions of the Secretary of the In
terror, establishing the following princi-
pies:
Homesteads-The possession Of an ex-
ecutor or administrator is, under the
Homestead law, the possession of the
heirs or deVisee, subject to the right Of
administration vested in the officer, and
the time allowed by the court for the set
Element Of the estate must be counted for
the heir or devisee in making final proof
The provisions of Section 1891 of the
Revised Statutes are substantially COM
piled with by continual cultivation for the
period of five years by the heirs or devi-
see, personal residence not being required
in their case. At hearing to determine
the abandonment in the case Of the de-
ceased homestead claimant, a certified
copy of the will and other matters con-
nected Herewith may be introduced
Pye-emption-A mortgage unsatisfied
at the date Of proof and entry defeats a
pre- emption claim; also decisions Of the
Commissioner of the General Land Office
to the effect that soldiers now in the reg
ular army may, under Section 1898 of the
Revised Statutes, perform the preliminary
acts relating to homestead entries therein
mentioned.
Timber Culture-The planting of seeds
or cuttings is not a compliance with the
Tim Culture act, but the General Land
Office does not inquire how the required
trees are produced. If seeds or cuttings
produce healthy growing trees the law
is complied with. A timber culture set
tier may relinquish portion Of the land
embraced in his entry and hold the re-
mainder.
Salt Springs-The existence of salt
spring on tract of land withdraws it
from the operation of the Homestead
and Presumption laws, eide Sections
1858 and $3.50, Revised Statutes. A hear
ing for the purpose of proving the agri-
cultural character Of such lands is not al
lowed
Mineral Lands and Railroad Grants
The question, Can lands containing
valuable deposits of mica, inuring, If ag-
ricultural, to the Union Pacific Railroad,
be patented under the Mining laws ?" was
answered: First-Lands containing val
liable deposits of mica may be patent d
under the Mining law of May 10, 1872.
Second-All minerals, except coal and
iron, are excepted from the grants to rail
roads
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-06

LAST night Mr.. Middlerib, happy and
beaming, went home with both arms full
of Christmas bundles and his hands were
so full he couldn't open the front-door
but stood kicking ii with his knees. Pres
entity he heard his wife skipping along
the hall to meet him, and Mr.. Middlerib
thought he would surprise her with a
little touch of loverlike gallantry. The
moment the door was openei he over
whelmed her with an avalanche of bun
dies, threw his arms around her, and, de-
spite her shrieks and struggles, kissed his
neighbours wife, who had just run in on a
little informal call and was on her way
out when Mr. Middleri5 met her. And
Mrs Middlerib stood about halfway
down the hall, petrifed with amazement,
both hands lifted and her eyes and mouth
equally wide open Mr.. Middlerib feels
grateful indeed that he does not have to
work to-day, because he thinks it will re-
quire just fourteen hours straight talkin e
to convince Mrs. M. that he didn't know
all the time who it was. Burlington HGpk-
Eye.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-06
A Night On the Plains.

A FEW days ago party of five or six
left Winnipeg for their respective abodes
in an outlying settlement to the northwest
of the city. They had three pairs of oxen,
hitched to as many sleighs, in which were
deposited about score of sheep Thus,
with oxen, sheep, ETC., they wendell their
weary way across the snow-clad plain.
When night cast her mantle Of gloom DER
the landscape they were travelling they
knew not whittier, having lost the road
With reckonings dead, .,. D.,
And spirits low,
See how they tread
The untrodden snow
At length they struck a new beaten track.
and with renewed energy pushed forward,
momentarily expecting TO espy some haven
of rest which still evaded their anxious
gaze. Some began to feel weary, but the
night was bitterly cold, and riding was
not to be thought Of The track, which at
first was but poorly beaten, was getting
much better. AS they proceeded, one of
the party, who had dropped to the rear,
on looking behind, saw, as he supposed,
another party coming up, for which he
waited; but what was his amaZement
when he discovered that it was his own
brigade, which he could have sworn was
in advance of him! An investigation
took place, which revealed the melancholy
fact that for two mortal hours they had
been wasting their already over taxed en-
ergies in revolving round a circle of their
own making. What to do, or whittier to
go, no one knew. Instinctively they left
the enchanted spot, and fortunately
stumbled upon a small dry bluff which
afforded bare allowance of fuel for the
night Some of them say they could not
have held out an hour longer; and when
we are told that almost the last lucifer,
held by benumbed fingers, was broken or
dropped in the snow before they got
fire, it can be easily imagined how mar
row was their escape But where were
they all this time? Some thought they
were in Grassmere, some said Wood
lands, while others knew they were IN
Victoria; and not until the aurora OF the
morn with purple streaks bedecked the
eastern sky did they learn that they were
little south of Big Stoney Mountain; but
that eminence not being properly on end
yet, they had failed to see it.-Han5toba
Free Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-06
International Sunday-Schcol Lessons
FIRST QUARTER OF 1876.

FIRST QUARTER OF 1876.
Jan. David Amounted King. Z Sam. xvi. 1-13.
Jan. 10 David and Goliath -. i Sam xvii 1851
Jan. % David in the Palace. =. ! Sam xviii. 1-16
Jan. S0David and Jonathan. =. ] Sam. Xxx 50 %
Feb. 6Dayid Sparing SAUL. Il Sam. xiv. 1-16.
Feb. u Saul and his Sons Slain 4 Sam XXI. 1-16.
Feb. 20 David Established King Sam. V. 1925.
Feb. % The Ark Bro 'ght to Zion 2 Sam. iv. 1-15.
Mar. 5God,s Govt with David Sam vii. 1929
Mar. u Absaloms Rebellion 2 Sam. XIV. LII
Mar. 10 bsalom's Death. y Sam. xviii. 24-33.
Mar. IS Review. ...................
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-06

IT is believed that Vesuy1us means to
make 1t hot again for the surrounding
country, and amidst your woes be thank
full that you don't own any garden land
at the loot of the growing mountain
Detroit Free Press
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-06

4 FooTMAN learned from his master
that malapropos meant out of place. J"
Meeting brother footman who had been
discharged, he exclaimed: "Ah! my dear
fellow, am sorry foryou; you are malap
ropos!'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-06
A Dreadful DeIusiOn.

THE Lawrence Kan Tribune says the
most horrible transaction Of man bereft
of reason occurred in Marion Township,
in that county. About a year ago Mrs.
Coub, wife of Jacob Coub, died. Since
her death the husbands grief has known
| no bounds. He has frequently shown ev-
licences of insanity, and his mania seems
to be in the belief that no person ever
dies, and that his wife, though buried,
was not dead. aa
One night lately he procured a screw
driver by bursting open neighbor's tool
chest with a Ratchet With the screw
driver he rushed to the graveyard where
his wife was buried, clawed open the
grave and took the body out. He then
went and asked neighbor for cart, in
which he said he wanted TO bring Han
nah to his house, and show her that she
was not dead" Hannah was the name of
his wife. The cart was refused, and the
neighbOr started to the graveyard soon
after the crazy man had left him, but soon
met the latter with the coffin and the
corpse on the cart He had opened the
coffin, put hay in around the body, and
thrown his vest upon the face. He said
he was going to John Studebaker's "a
half brother Of the deceased wife, TO
show the family that Hannah was not
dead"
He resisted, when several men who had
gathered took the body from him and re-,
inferred it, he insisting that his wife was
not dead.
He is now in Jail at Lawrence for safe
keeping.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-06

THE New York Herald says that so per
cent. of the Christmas slippers did not
fit. twas ever thus in boyhood's hour.
Slippers never fitted them-perhaps be-
cause they were tried OF improperly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-01-06

OLD SCRoOGE is dead His name this
time was George Stebbins, and he lived
in Springfield, Mass He died in fit on
Christmas Day. Although worth several
thousand dollars, he has been extremely
misery and penurious, living on bacon
and crackers and other cheap diet. His,
house, which few persons besides himself
have been permitted to enter, was found
to be dirty, bare and dreary, containing
only a few rickety chairs, some broken
crockery, an old piano and little corn.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-12-14
1 BIoAMrsr coNyICTED.
a Marriage thar sRlmon- Regarded ns
sham, hut the Law Regarded as binding


a Marriage thai sRimon- Regarded ns
Samuel {. Salmons married Charlotte
Peck, In the Johnson Street Methodist Church,
In ls69I and during several subsequent years
they lived smica5ly together. Then he deserted
her. and in 1876 courted Caroline K. Watts, In
Flatlands. T.. l. She did not know that he had
wife, and assented TO his proposal of marriage.
They came to New York, and he took her to a
house In East Broadway that he told her WAS a
clergi mans residence. There somebody. who
said that he was the Rev Dr. George willouRh-
by, perl Oruled a marriage ceremony, and signed
that name to q certificate. eamOns lived with
her alb out 70 r, until she received letter from
the first wife informing her If his crime. lie ac-
kDowledged the TRUTH but said that he was not
legally liable to punishment, because the cete-
mony that she had REGARDED ss marriage was a
sham. the supposed clergyman being a friend OF
bis. She refused TO forgive him. and had him
arrested.
In the General Sessions Yesterday Salmons
was convicted OF bigamy. The Two wives test-
Ned against him, and seemed TO be pleasantly
united IN hating their common husband. They
sat side bN side and cheated together. The
hrst wife Is shop girl res pectable IN Dress and
appearance, and bearing the usual manner Of
her GLASS. The second lie Is a healthy looking
country girl, lacking 10 what women call
"stye." Salmons deals in books and periodi-
Gals ON railroad cars and Il little fOppish Ia
dress and demeanor. On the witness stand ne
said that no such ceremony as Caroline de-
scriDed had been performed, and that he had
filed out the marriage certificate himself
Judge GlldegsleeVo instructed the JiTy that a
marriage n the meaning OF the l'w did not r.
uuire any ceremony. hut that a single agrlo-
ment, or the living toe ther Is man and " &C.,
was ~ lent. The iuft occuuied three hours
In dccidins % conviction. salncls awai's SEN