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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-23

Building Stone am prepared
to furnish builders with any quantity
from one to five hundred cords of ~
excellent building stone as can be fur
nished from any quarry in Wood Coun-
ty. Apply to
IF HENRY FISHERMAN.
For Sale.-A second hand, 40
horse power engine, Il inch bore, "a
inch stroke. This engine has been
completely overhauled and repaired AZ
the Grand Rapids boundary, and is
nearly as good as new. Parties wish
ne to purchase can apply to the
Grand Rapids Foundry for particulars,
terms of payment &c.
JOHN RABLIN.
Grand Rapids April 9th. tt
~
For Sale.--A 40 Horse Power En-
gins and fixtures one 40 iuch boiler,
% feet long; two IA inch fues. smoke
stack. five front CRATE bars, etc, The
above machinery has been in use only
about two months, and is in every re-
spect as good as new, and will be sold
very cheap. Also Line Shaft Planer.
Re-sawer, etc., at bargain. Inquire
at Grand Rapids Foundry and Machine
Shop. If
The people Want Proof. There
is no medicine prescribed by physicians,
or sold by Druggists, that carries such
evidence of its success and superior
virtue as BoscHE's GERMAN SYRUP
for severe Coughs, Colds settled on the
Breast, Consumption, or any disease OK
the Throat and Lungs A proof of that
fact is that any person afflicted. can
get Sample Bottle for 10 cents and
try its superior effect before buying
the regular size at rs cents. It has
lately been introduced in this country
from Germany. and its xnoderful cures
are astonishing everyone that use it.
Three doses will relieve any case, Try
it. Sold by your druggist I. J.
Wood.
Stop Your Cough. The wonder
full results and immense sale Of Hale's
Cough Cordial the past season, ought
to convince the most skeptieaf; still
we are going to continue the same lib
eral offer that we have made heretofore,
viz: Any person suffering with cold,
cough or sore throat, who will call at
Robinson & Schultz Drug Store. and
purchase a bottle Of Hale's Cough
Cordial, use one half of it, and if they
then conclude that 1t is doing them no
gooa, they can return the balance and
receive back their money. Who would
not test this medicine on such liberal
terms? No medicine ever sold In this
vicinity that produced sach wonderful
results. All we ask is that you VIII
try it.
nov415 6m.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-23
OUR AGENTS.

x When the time expires for which the Re
porter has been paid, an y will be marked oppo-
site the subscribers name, and may be regarded
AS an invitation to renew.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-23

Heavy Fraight.-Only eiyhty-nine
houand pounds Of merchandise receiv-
ed at the Valley depot on Monday of
this week, all for Grand Rapids and
Centralia. Who says that amt bust
ness.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-23
LOCAL MATTERS.
HI. Ks. PEEIELEO, Editor.

Grand Rapids, Thursday, March 2a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-23

Personals. Henry Swart, manag-
ing agent for the Wheeler & Wilson
Sewing Machine Co., made us pleaant
call last Monday. Mr.. Swart is ''busi-
ness" through and through. He has ap-
pointed Mr. D. E. Carey general agent
for Wood County, for the Wheeler and
Wilson machines Parties wishing to
buy or negotiate can see Mr.. Carey at
his residence.
Senator Scott returned home from
Madison last week. Mr.. Scott has done
good work the past winter and has
been recognized as one of the leading
men in the Senate, with which he now
sewers his connection to assume the
responsible duties of Congressman next
December.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-03-23
BUSINESS NOTICES.

Building Stone i am prepared
to furnish builders with any quantity
from one to five hundred cords of ~
excellent building stone as can be fur
nished from any quarry in Wood Coun-
ty. Apply to
, 1876-06-10

ing them home in her shawl to the ruin of
the child whom she also loves IN common
with the rest of the house, and whom she
would do her utmost to save9
1t seems, then, as if it were not at all
too much to say that it is no act of Provi-
dence by which we are smitten when such
disease invades us, but only our own
neglect and that of Others. II would be
a simple aud easy thing to keep a dish OF
carboIic acid e~xhaling in the house i'll
order to kill, or to make the effort to kill,
and, at all events weaken, any of the
poisonous germs that might effect on
entrance on the air to dissolve q little
chloride Of lime to burn u pinch of coffee
every now and then, or some sugar or
vinegar: iii is djsagreeable, it is safe and
no one can positively assert what prevention
it might not prove to far worse trouble
than a slightly offensive odor ever is,
We are told that it was given to man to
i" reduce the earth" When, in some dis
tant era, that shall be elfectually done, it
is to be hoped that the germs of many
Of these terrors will have no breeding
place left there. But till then it is our
duty to assist in the great work and we
venture to believe that if every house
where such contagious and Misunderstanding
disease is found were to be quarantined
by the yellow flag as small pox is, and if
it were fumigated with sulphur smoke,
purified with atomized carbolic acid and
other disintectants during the reign and on
the disappearance of the trouble, the
rayages of the malignant monster, desc
lating households as it goes, would be large
Iy checked if the monster itself were not
thus finally destroyed from the face Of the
earth
, 1876-06-10
SOME PREVENTION OF DISEASE.
(From HarPer's Bazar)

There are some seasons in which the
forces that, to our ken, work only evil seem
to DO holding high carnival. We read at
one time of great natural ca'amities, like
floods and freczings aud fires at another
Of great unnatural ones, like murders and
wars and famines and again of those moro
terrible yet, the calamitjcS of specific and
presidential aud often iucurable diseases.
We class them al! under the head of acts of
Providence, forgetful that almost every
one Of them Is within our W con.
troll. Take, for instance, the latter class
that OF diseases. We may hear, perhaps,
that one place is infected with smallpox
that diphtherla IS seen to be moving 1T a
rapid rate In car direction from somewhere
else that the scarlet fever is rampant like
a terrible iend at another place, and so on
through q lengthy catalogue Of the many
diseases which flesh is heir to-. The only
one of these things that we make
any positive preparation for is the
smallpox we secure ourselves from
it, as far as may be, before it comes,
by vaccination, and society puts US
in quarantine if It should reach us, and de-
mands fumigation and disinfection when it
has left US. For the others, they always
seem less tangible and possible ; they are
far off, and they may not affect US; we
never dream Of any preparation to hinder
their fell ~Visits, and society laughs at the
idea of extra precaution to prevent the d.
sease from spreading, or of much attempt
at publication after it has passed on and
left US for fresh prey. So much is this
the case that we have aver known patients
in diphtheria to be incensed at not receiy-
ing the kisses customary in health have
seen fine ladies making calls in a house
where two or three children were down
with scarlet fever, quite careless as TO
whether their next call was to be made in
one where the children had not yet receiv-
ed the dark guest and have met with the
servants ofa house as yet safe chatting
costly In the kitchen with the servants of
the house where the nursery was a hospital
, 1876-06-10

established up to the shores of the lake. In a
sense, therefore, Egypt has conquered Central
Africa, and she has undoubtedly established
through communication from Cairo to the
Equator, SO that travellers can pass with safety
from station to STATION, But whether a diver.
genoe to the east or west in this new Egyptian
territory would be safe, or even possible, is a
matter of grave doubt. II is a satisfaction
that Colonel Gordon has effected so much with
50 NAL a force. But ifho had had, say, half
the army that has been to Abyssinia, the re-
suits would have been much more satisfactory.
The war in Abyssinia seems to be over, though
a somewhat ominous silence is maintained on
the subject. The troops, however, are return
ing in large numbers, and the huge transport
the Nahroussa has already returned to her
moorings in Alexandria Harbour. A strong
garrison is left at Massowah, and it is also
stated that a force is left at the intrenched
camp at Gourra.
, 1876-06-10
VACCINATION, A STEP IN THE
RIGHT DIRECTION.

think I can say nothing more convinc-
ingly in support of the efficacy Of yacci-
nation in reducing the severity Of small
pox, than is contained in the last annual
report of this the Bradford Fever hospi-
tai, says its medical officer, Dr. Rjx.
There it will be seen that the proportion
Of deaths in the vaccinated is 7,54 per
cent, as against 1915 or nearly so per
cent. in the unvaccinated. | am of opinion
that were vaccination universally and
thoroughly performed, smallpox would
cease to exist, and death, at all events,
would be unknown from this disease.
What seems to be ignored by some por-
ton Of the public is the fact that, although
many unvaccinated cases recover, they are
subject to a long and dangerous illness
from q Ioathsome disease, often leaving
them permanently disfgurcd, whilst the
vacoinated suffer little or nothing, are
rarely in danger, and atterward show no
traces Of the disease. A movement in
favour of more thorough vaccination would
be one in the right direction.
, 1876-06-10
OLD ANDNEW AFRICAN GEOGRAPHY.
(From tie European MaiE.)

In perusing the geographical discoveries re-
corded by Lieutenant Cameron, C. b. and
other African travellers, not tho least feature
of interest is to note how strictly parallel, till
within the last half-dozen years, have been the
discoveries and theories of modern travellers 10
that region to those of geographers of 200 and
800 years ago. 1t is a fact that Central Afri-
can geography was far better understood be-
tween the dates of the Reformation and the
accession Of the House of Hanover than it was
twenty years ago. 1t seems strange that geo.
graphy once acquired should have been so
ignored in later years but there is an expla-
nation. In the sixteenth century the Portu.
guese settlement at ST. Paul dc Loando drove q
most thriving trade with the interior, and even
across the continent to Zanzibar. The ruins Of
the old settlement of Jumbo, on the Zlmbesi,
were observed by Livingstone when he explored
that river. Now, there seems always to have
been a legend, reaching Europeans from ma
tive sources, that the mysterious Nile flowed
from twin lakes near the equator, or south of
it. The theories of Herodotus and Ptolemy
as to the fountains of the Nile were doubtless
based upon no very accurate survey but this
legend Of the twin lakes, which found credence
400 years ago, and which was reproduced in
school aliases at the beginning Of this century,
can of course be traced to report of the exls-
GIG VI W nov - 'NHN az 49,
Victoria Nyanzas. When Portuguese power
decayed and European trade fell off in Africa,
the geographical records of Mercator and Jansen
began to lack confirmation in later generations,
and fell into disoredit. There being a Sahara
in northern Afiica, and a Kafir desert in South
Africa, popular imagination joined these into one
large waste, occupying the whole centre ofthe
continent and at the close of the last century all
the inland lakes were ignored, and a desert map
ped in their place. The fret lake to appear
under modern discovery was the only one never
guessed at by the former geographers, via Lake
Nyassa, which was 70 years ago often called
"Lake zembe,'' Stage by stage, Burton, Spoke,
Grant, Livingstone, Young, Stanley, Baker, and
Cameron have re-discovered, with additio nal
accuracy, the other lakes and rivers of which our
geographers of 800 years ago were cognizant.
The same theories as regards the connection
oftho Nile with these more southern lakes were
at first reproduced, aud later on reluctantly
abandoned. The history of geography. as of
nations, ia promo to repeat itself.
, 1876-06-10
S C R A P s..

A correspondent writes to the Produce
Markets Review as follows :-"As to the
best mode of feeding cattle with molasses,
my practice is to procure a large tub or
copper, to hold, say 65 gallons, into
which l put six gallons Tor 48 pints) OF
Molasses, then add ten times the quanti-
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Continued from. tsrst paae.

.
library" concluded Gayl. himself.
entering the apartment at the heels
of the surprised servant. who sup
posed him waiting in the library,
Maud sprang up and cast her
self into his open arms with o glad
cry. f1'i .is,
"Oh, Gayll its nil right, and you
have done nobly," she whispered.
Proudly Gayl led her forward,
with his arm still around her.
Judge Copeland be said, u
have come again, as ! promised
you. / said then / was determined
to have her. Was l mistakenly
mo, Gaylord; po,r replied, the
Judge, with feeling. 81 thought
there was good stuff in you when
/ first saw you. Now | know you
are worthy of her." 7, s.-s % aso''
81 have now to commend the
wisdom OF your actions, and to
thank you for it," said Gayl, pres
sing the hand Of his prospective
father-in-law. 81 feel that it has
made a man Of me by putting me
in the way 10 be Of some use in the
world"
And Maud whispered slyly: -
"Gayl, you have commanded your
self and circumstances, and now
papa thinks you are capable of
commanding ms-and l think so,
too"
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Newspapers.

/ am sure that every person will
be willing, as / am, to acknowledge,
in, the most ample terms, the infor-
nation, the instructions and amuse-
ments derived from the public
press.-Lord Lindhurst.
The newspapers is the chronicle Of
civilization, the common reservoir
into which every stream pours its
living waters, and at which every
man may come and drink; it is
the newspaper which gives to liber-
ty practical life, its perpetual vigil
lance, its unrelaxing activity. The
newspapers j, daily and sleepless
Waterman, that reports to you every
danger which menaces the institu-
ton of our country, and its inter-
ests at home and abroad. The
newspaper informs legislation Of
the public opinion, and it informs
people of the acts Of legislation ;
thus keeping up atconstant SYM
patty, that good understanding be-
tween people and legislators, which
conduoes to the maintenance Of or
der, and prevents the stern neces-
sity of resolution.-Sir Z. L. Bull
wer.
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Of the show business. A man who
has been unlucky for a long time
is regarded with Idistrust, no one
win engage him for fear he viii
bring disaster, and he is called a
Jonah, the idea being that he win
sink any ship that takes him aboard.
Showmen, generally, are as super
stitious as gamblers. -s~>
Agen.lemen, says Thackery, is
a rarer thing than some Of US think
for. Which of us can point out in
his circle-men whose aims are
generous; whose truth is CONSTANT
and elevated; who can look the
world honestly in the face, with an
equal, manly sympathy for the
great and smalli We Ill know q
hundred whose coats are we'll made,
and score who have excellent man
|ners, but Of gentleman how many Z
Let us take q scrap of paper and
each make his list.
"You see," said Uncle Job, "my
wife's acurous woman. She scrap
ed and saved, and almost starved
all of US to get the parlor furnished
nice, and now she won't let ono Of
us 60 into it, and haint even had
the window blinds open for a
month. She is curious woman
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OHANCERY SALE.-In pursuance and by
" virtue Of decree of the Circuit Of the
county Of Alpena in Chancery, made on the l4th
day of June. A. d. 1876, in a certain cause there
in pending wherein O'prian J. Atkinson Is Com
plsinsnt, aud John c. Chisholm. Annie Chisholm,
aud Jons,han y. Tuttle are Defendants:
Notice is hereby given, that will sell al public
auction 10 the highest bidder, at the front hall
door of Potters brick block in the city Of Alpena
county " Alpsna, Michigan, shat being the place
of holding the Circuit Court for the county OF Al
psnal. on Thursday, the lst day Of February, A:
y. 1876, at two o'clock in the afternoon OF said
day all that certain piece OF parcel OF land stuat-
ed in the city of Alpena, county of Alpena, Mich
igan, described as follows. 10 wit; The following
described part Of lot seven ~, block four ~, ae-
cording 20 the recorded plat Of the village, now
city Of Alpena, commencing at the northwest
corner Of said block, thence S. feet east along
Third street, thence at right angles the entire
width OF said lot GO feet thence at right angles to
Chisholm street. thence at right angles to the
place Of beginning.
Circuit Court Commissioner for the county Of
Alpena.
EILIoTT g. STEVENSON,
Solicitor for Complainant.
Dated December Is, 1876. BOWLS
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DHANCECY sALE.-ln pursuance and ~
1 J virtue OF a decroe OF the Circuit Court OF me
county Of Alpena in Chancery, made on the gIth
dav on MAY, A. u. 1875 in q certain cause therein
pending, whorein joseph kaestte - ooinp'siuAn'
and Chris.opher Butreli Is deientant.
Notice is hereby given, that viii sell a. puoli1c,
auction. 10 the highest bidder, AZ the front haii
door of Tottcrs brick block, in the city OF Alpena
county Of Alpena, Michigan, that being the place
Of holding the circuit Court for the eouny OF Al
pena.l on Thursday. the LIST day OF February, a:
ID. ISL, at two O'Clock in the afternoon 81 Faid
day ali that certain piece or parcel OF land situat-
ed in the city Of Alpena, county OF Alpena, Mich
loan. described rs follows, 90 wit: lots nine W,
ron TO- eleven llll aud twelve ~, IN block 3.
according 10 Bosley's addition TO the city OF Al
JOHN II. STEVENS,
Circuit Court Commissioner for Alpena County
j. ID. TURsBULL,
Solicitor for Complainant
Dated Alpena, Dec. 4, 1876. 279wI-2
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Wouldn't.

Baron Bramwell called . breach
of promise case he recently tried
IinLondon positively melancholy"
A"giri" of 40 sued Q 'young man"
of So; had been "very civil to
each other" from a remote period,
and somewhere at the beginning Of
the last decade the latter suggested
marriage. The lady declined, NOM
inally on the ground Of ill-health,
but really because her admirer
then earned only eighteen shillings
"a week. In 1868 the gentleman
renewed the offer, and thus mat
tiers went on until 1875. Mean
while, however, the bachelors sal
airy had increased to 2S shillings a
week, and a widow In possession of
a house and furniture presented
herself to him. The house and
furniture proved too much for his
constancy and he profered his old
love 600 to forego her time-honor-
ed claims. That lady, however,
@had too much spirit to accept the
offer" and the result was that the
services Of one Of Her Majesty's
most distinguished judges, two.
Queens counsel, two other barris-
tiers, and twelve business men were
invoked to determine the exact
amount of compensation to which
q woman Of 40 is entitled for the de-
fault of man ten years her SEN,
ior, the whole case, as the Judge
remarked, standing in ludicrous
contrast to the dignity of the tri-
bunal before which the action was
tried. The jury awarded the plain
tiff GAO damages.
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MORTGAGE SALE.-Default having been
vi made in the conditions OF certain mort
gage, dated August 18th. 1874, executed by Mich
ael C. Healy and Mary J. Hcaly, his WIFE Of AL
pona, Alpena county, Michigan, to John Mon
Afghan. OF Detroit. Wayne county, Michigan, and
recorded in the office OF of the Register of Deeds
for Alpena county, in Libcr G, on pages 37t and
375, on the 18th day Of August, 1874, upon which
mortgage there is claimed to b. due at the date
hereof for principal interest and for the Attorney
fee in said mortgage provided for. the sum of one
hundred and fifty nine dollars and ninety cents
slj9 90l, and no suit, either at law or in equity,
having been instituted to recover the debt now
due upon aud secured by said mortgage, or any
part thereof; Therefore.
Notice Is hereby given that by virtue OF the
power Of sale in said MORTGAGE contained, and the
statutes in that bclalf enacted, the premises in
said MORTGAGE described rs lot number four (4l,
in block thirty 80, IA The city of Apoua. Alpenn
county, state of Michigan. will be sold AZ public
auction 70 the highest bidder at the front door Of
Potters' brick block on second street. in the city
of Alpena, that being the place tor holding the
Circuit Court in and for said county, on the 2Gth
day of january 1877, at two o'clock IN the after.
noon of said day, TO pay the amount due aud TO
become due on said mortgage, and the cost and
expenses Of foreclosure.
JOHN MONAGHAN,
Mortgagce.
vIcron c. BURNHA1, Attorney for Moitgagee.
Dated, Apcna, October 2Sth, 1875. 2i5m3.