Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-02

being alone.
Our Dew. in our absence has BEEN
extravagant. Two new chairs now
grace our sanctum. and we shall not
be surprised to find cooking stove
and bath tub when we return again.
A fellows exchequer suffers when the
dev. has the management of it.
The bill drawn up by Judge Pa,k
fixing the terms of the Wood County
Circuit Court the 4th Tuesday in
May. and the Sd Tuesday in December
has passed the legislature The change
we believe, will be acceptable to all our
people.
The boys have been testing the
speed of their fast horses. on the ice
the past wsek. We should think
some of them could go mile in six
or seven minutes with a little wisp o
hay tied on the end Of the pole that
gets there first, but them maybe we
don't know.
When Henry Ward Beocber in
the intensity of his anguish called for
anybody or anything even from hell to
bring proof of his alleged sins, Bro.
Moulton stepped right up like little
devil, but he couldn't show even
deuce card. He knew where he be-
longed, however, when he was called
for.
That Dutchman has no rights that
a granger is bound to respect He
promised us egg and he has given US.
an sarpint-full twelve inches of sno,
instead of s'1o' hummer times. We
now get the drift of his twaddle.
Krewsighfe i'm Krewsighfe i'm
He don't amount to so much as dead
Potter law A dew!
-Genl Kellogg, of Wausau, for
merly pension agent for this district,
will probably address our people very
soon, upon the temperance question.
We ask the Debating Society to invite
the General down He knows how
tbs himself for he is one who has turn
ed from the shrine of Bachus and is
marching 'tother way and is taking a
crowd with him, too.-By all means
invite the General down
We ask our readers to give
or Wa h ngton correspondent an
attentive perusaI. His letters are full
of interest and contain solid facts,
which, while they rest heavy upon the
old-line democratic stomach, are easily
digested by good sound patriotic
stomachs ; in short, they are meat to
the honest hungry patriot who desires
to see the demagogism of the rebel
element in congress exposed
They came down tornist the Pinte.
They stopped into a wayside hotel to
a0orne their feet.
They didn't take the horses in COS the
horses feet wcrn't cold,
The horses couldn'5 see it, and ,ocrn't
dry,
So the team ''skun out"
There was a quartette of EN-,
And the horses didn't stops kunnin out
till they skun into the fence at
Mike Ebrel's.
And then the quartette footed it 'ome,
but it was SO slippery they didn' t
make bee line, and when they
found the 'orse8 they were glad with
great joy,
And thought they had just a good
thing cos Mrs. Grundy 'swont know
it you know" but it leaked oud
This may be sung to the melody
Johnny fill up the bowl"
This is poetry.
Fred Burt, he VINO boxes the let
ters and deals new hand more times
nor once every day at the perpendicu-
lar checker board house yclept Post
Orrifce, knows his biz. The other day
we gotta circular in our money box at.
the checkerboard house directed to
''Keeper Of the Poor House, Wood
County" Fred knew where that let
ter belonged. He dumped it into the
right box. Yves the chap Vot keeps
the poor 'ouse, and wes got seven lit
tie paupers that look up to the pau
perez and the pauperor Of that poor
'ouse, and the little titman can just
say pau-pau like little female angel
But that circular wanted to sell US
spaups'' some sprin.- wire mattresses