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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

The best results obtained is when a
middle course is practical. Let the ami
mails be kept in the yard until the ground
is we'll settled and the grasses have made
fair start; then allow the stock to go to
pasture at first but short time during the
day, but not long enough to fill them
selves. This should be continued for sew
eral days, or until they have become
gradually accustomed to the change of
food, when they may be turned TO pasture
for the whole time; but hay should be
fed in small quantities at least once day
so long as the cows have desire for it
Pastures should not be overstocked,
since overstocking not only decreases
greatly the average yield of milk from the
whole herd, but it seriously damages the
productiveness and permanencv Of past
ures, causing the grass to be eradicated
and leaving the space thus left to be occu-
pied by weeds which, from not being
cropped, accumulate, and spread with
wonderful rapidity. The most productive
pastures are those which are thickly set
with variety of grasses. forming thick,
smooth sward, with no intervening spaces
for the Judgment Of weeds or otherwise,
and if proper attention be given to such
lands, the best results will be obtained
not only in the amount Of food yielded,
but also that of milk from the herds graz
ing upon them. -RuraJ Nep Yorker.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25
Explosion Of an Internal Machine In
London.

ABOUT nine O'Clock yesterday morning
one OF the vans of the Parcels Delivery
Company was taken to the door of Mr.
William Larkin, of 6 Northampton
Square, Clerkenwell, chrOnometer max
er ant watch dial engraver. A box adj
dressed to him was delivered to the ser
want. The latter. having given a receipt,
handed it to Miss Larkin, who shook it
in order to ascertain what 1t contained
Hearing nothing rattle, she conveyed it
into the workshop, and handed it to her
father. Mr. Larkin is in the habit of re-
celving boxes containing dials for en-
craving, and at once proceeded to open
the box by prying up the lid with chisel.
A slight click inside was followed by a
terrific explosion, blowing out the win
dows, wrecking the shop and its contents,
and hurting Mr.. Larkin against the wall.
The box was blown into atoms, small
pieces only of the wood and the internal
mechanism being found.
The volume of fame which accompa-
MED the explosion set fire to the clothing
OF Mr.. Larkin, who was fearfullv burnt
OYER the arms, hands and face. The
flames having been extinguished, he was
put to bed and placed under the care of
doctor. The servant, Emily Chickleberg,
who took in the box, gave it as her opin-
ion that it was about eight inches long by
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

tried 1t happened, unfortunately for
Elizabeth, that people in her neighbor-
hood had been very quiet and law-abiding
about the time of her committal. There
was, IN fact, no winter assize. Nobody
could or would furnish bail for her; and
the result was that this young girl lay in
Gloucester jail, with no crime proved upon
her, for seven weary months. When at
last Justice made its tardy appearance,
Elizabeth was confronted with it, tried by
it, and passed over to the mercies of a
jury of her peers. All evidence against
her vanished like the baseless fabric of
dream, and the jury declared her limo
cent without leaving their seats. If law
is not defective which thus keeps an in
nocent young girl in jail for seven
months, which feeds her on felons' fare
which casts the miIdew and dis
grace of the prison over her whole life,
which brands upon her memory the rec
objection of long, dark, weary period of
horrible suspense and misery, and which
has no further reparatiOn to make for an
injury SO deep and sopermanent than that
of politely bowling her out of court, with
the assurance that story told seven
months ago is at last believed, then the
occupation Of reformers is gone indeed.
1t would be no wonder if Elizabeth Tracey
should turn out bad girl; and, if so,
English justice will clearly be responsible
for crime in comparison with which
the burning of a woodshed is a trivial of
Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

To ALL, particularly invalids, spring is
trying season Indications OF sickness should
at once be attended to- Fatal diseases may be
caused by allowing the bowels to become consti-
pated and the system to remain in disordered
condition until the disorder has time to develop
itself. An ounce of prevention is worth a pourd
of cure, is an old and truthful saying. Therefore
we advise all who troubled with the complaints
now very prevaent-headache, indigestion, disor-
dered liver, want of appetite nausea, or feverish
skin-to take, without delay, Schencks Mandrake
Pills. We know of no remedy so harmless and
decisive in its action. 1t at once strikes at the
root of the disease and produces healthy tone to
the system. People never need suffer from any
disease arising from 6:eordered condition of the
liver if they would take this excellent medicine
when they feel the first indications of the mala6y
Families leaving home for the summer months
should take three or fourPoxes of these pills with
them. They have an allaost instantaneous effect.
They will relieve the patient of headache in one or
two hours, and will rapidly cleanse the liver of
surrounding bile, and will effectually prevent
bilious attack. They are sold by all druggists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25
Keeping Useless Horses.

THIS is subject which deserves more
attention than it generally receives.
Thousands of hoi ses are kept at large
expense without doing enough work to
earn their board. In many cases these
superfiuous horses could be made use
ful by employing more help, but where
this is impracticable they should be dis
posed of at once. J. V. w. writes as fol-
lows, in the Country Gentleman, on this
topic:
The habit of keeping lot of useless
horses, almost too good to give away and
hardly worth keeping, in many families
is hereditary, handed down from father
70 son, and has become a chronic COM
plant. What shall be done to remedy
this evil? The answer is-avoid accu-
mutation. Very few men start in bust
ness with too many horses, but they in
crease in different ways. Farmer A thinks
it would be profitable to raise few colts
to sell, which is all we'll enough. Neigh
Dor B has sold one for a good price,
and A KNOWS his colt is fully as good aone,
the same price, or more. Time rolls on,
horses are on the increase, finally a team
is supposed to be ready for sale. This
time neighbor G has sold team for a
fancy price. A feels now that he has too
many horses, and would like to sell his
team, and would do so if he could get
the price G sold at. He knows his team
is just as good, perhaps not quite so well
matched, or in as prime condition, or as
well broken; yet in his own mind he is
satisfied that his team is really worth the
most money He does not realize that to
get fame. price it is more important to
have a good customer than a good team.
Yet Farmer A is not discouraged, but
price for them.
In few years he will have from six to
nine horses on the farm, and no more
work than three or four at most could do,
if we'll fed and cared for. These extra
horses are an expense of at least from S75
to 800 yearly, taking into account feed,
shooting and interest on the money for
which they might be sold. How much
better to devote this sum to improvements,
charity, travel, or good books The
amount Of labor that good team can do
when we'll fed and cared for by person
who makes it his business to follow them.
is wonderful. Experience teaches me
that they are fully equal to two teams fed
and cared for in the average way among
farmers; and certainly the expense is
much less. This is what is to be looked
after in all business, for just in proportion
as expenses are curtailed or increased will
the profits be more or less.
Keeping an extra team year after year,
simply to do acouple of weeks extra work
in the spring, and as much more in the
fall, is worse than useless. My remedy to
avoid this increase of horse stock is to
sell. Whenever [ can get a buyer for
horse, [ do not hold on to get my neigh
boris prices. AS I said before, more de-
ponds on the customer than on the horse,
as far as getting fancy price is concerned.
1t is better to suffer inconvenience ten
days in the year on account of not having
teams enough, than to be harassed all the
rest OF the year with too. many.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

five broad, something like an ordinary
cigar box. Inspector Freestone and
Sergeant Wade went in and made mi
mute examination of the premises. The
box was found to have been of deal, with
an inner lining of tin, portions of which
were found. all over the ROOM. Some of
the pieces of tin had been driven into the
walls. The smell of the various pieces of
wood led to the belief that the agent en-
ployed was gunpowder. The police also
picked up pieces of spiral springs and
nipples, indicating that there had been an
arran gement by which the mere opening
Of the box should cause an explosion
london Times
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

"FoR twenty years | have been very much
troubled with Salt Rheum on my arm, for
which | have tried various washes and
salves, besides the treatment of my regular
physician. These have only driven it from
my arm and caused it to appear elsewhere.
After using less than one cake of your For
est Tar Soap, my arm is entirely oceU and l
discover no symptoms of the trouble else
where" That is the testimony of Mrs. B.
s. Hunt, of Portland Me. Get cake of
your druggist, or by sending IS cents to The
Forest Tar CO. Portland Me.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

DISTRESS after eating, which is one of the
most unpleasant results of indigestion, will
no longer be experienced if a tablespoonful
of Simmons Liver Regulator is taken after
each meal This will prevent the distress
referred to; and by persevering in the use of
this remedy for a few weeks a permanent
cure will be effected, and pain will no longer
Re the penalty of eating.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

THE ENORMOUS WASTAGE of grain so inevitable
1ch other styles of Threshers, be SAVED by this
improved Machine, sufficient eUery JOB TO than
pay all expenses of threshing.
FLAX, TIMOTHY, MILLET, HUNGARIAN and
like seeds are threshed separated cleaned and saved
as easily and perfectly Wheat Oats, Rye Barley.
AN EXTRA PRICE is usually paid for grain and
seeds cleaned by this machine for extra cleanliness
IN THE WET GRAIN of 1875 these were substan-
tally the ONLY MACHINES that could run with profit
economy, doing fast thorough and perfect work
icheR others utterly failed.
. ALL GRAIN, TIME and MONEY wasting complica-
Pekers," etc, @aTey dispensed aCdh less than
onehaf the usual Gears. Belts, Boxes and Journals;
easier managed more durable light running no cost
ly repairs; DUST M" ltterings" to clean up net
troubled by adverse winds, rain storms.
FARMERS and GRAIN RAISERS who are .,ostsd
in the large saving made by il will not employ infe
rior and wasefui machines but will tlgist on this
improved Thresher doing their work.
FOUR SIZES made for 6, g. 10 and IL Horse
Powers. Also q speciality of SEPARAToRs designed
ana made EXPRESSLY FOR STEAM POWER
TWO STYLES OF HORSE POWERS, viz: our i'm
proved Triple Gear and our "Spur Speed" (WoCd-
bury styiel both Mounted on four wheels.
If INTERESTED in Threshing or Grain Raising
apply to our nearest Dealer or write for Iustr
ted Circular sent free giving full particulars OF Sizes
Styles, Prices, Terms, etc.
Nichols, Shepard 6 Co.,
BATTLE CREEK. MICH.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

FURNITURE is sold by Holton & Hildreth,
house in the West Goods are trst-class
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

A FEW doses of HOfmann's Hop Pills when
YOU feel Aguish are a sure preventive
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

PRUssING's White Wine Vinegar Works. es-
tablis he'd in 1S4S. are the largest in the world
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

WHEN WRITING To ADVERTISERS
w please say you saw che Advertise
0ent i'm tn is paper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

Who, ever heard of school of fish
breaking into a field and eating up t1e
crop! And yet California newspaper
says that large quantities of wheat in that
State have been destroyed by fish during
the past winter, owing to the submersion
of the fields by high water, and the fish
feeding on the tender grain roots.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

ANK J6I-E L.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

G:10 to SEQ Week and Expenses or 500
q EU forfeited. All the and standard Novelties
ShTo1nos: etc Valuable Samples free with Circulars
r. L. FLkICHER. Ill Chambers Street, New York.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1876-05-25

TEA e The choicest in the world-Importers
lL1Ss prices-Largest Company in Americas
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The New York herald., 1876-10-23

perhaps, more to be said on both sides. IL
the accusation shall encourage the republi-
cans to nominate better candidate some
good will have been done. Although we
shall feel bound, in that case, to support
Mr.. Calvin's opponent, we will not passively
see any injustice done to his character. He
may be IN upright, worthy man, and yet not
be the fittest person in the city for Surro-
gate. We need not revile him even if we
should feel constrained to support another.
Shortly before Mr.. Calvin's nomination we
took pains to inquire of lawyers, whose
standing and opportunities make them COM
petent judges, respecting Mr.. Calvin's
merits as Surrogate. We found only in
dorsements and no dissent He is now
before his appointment to his pres
ent Office. II it be true that he
was corrupt or stupid in that capacity a
faultless discharge of his duties as Surrogate
cannot obliterate the record, and he should
not be elected. So far as the facts have yet
been developed it does not appear that Mr..
Calvin violated his duty in the Starin case,
although there can be no question that the
claim was great swindle. The Board Of
Excise employed lawyer to prosecute
liquor dealers without making any stipula-
tion as to his compensation. He continued
to act in that capacity for a long course of
years, bringing many thousand suits by the
direction of the Board Of Excise. When. at
last, he presents his bill it is for an ex-
orbitant amount, which he cannot get aud
tied or paid. He assigns his claim to
Starin, who sues the city Mr. Calvin was
appointed referee and decided against the
city, in favor of the claimant. This looks
bad on its face but referee must decide
according to law. AS point of law Mr..
Calvin held that when no bargain
is made with a lawyer at the time
of retaining him he can collect his
fees on the scale allowed by the statutes.
If that be sound law Mr. Calvin was obliged
to make the award he did in the Starin case.
Whether his view of the law was correct or
not is question still pending, for an ap-
peal vas taken from his decision and the
case has not yet been finally adjudicated. If
his decision should be affirmed his Judgment
as lawyer would be vindicated; but if it
should be reversed, it would merely show
that he and the authorities he cited to sus-
tain his decision were mistaken on point of
law. It's reversal would no more prove Mr..
Calvin corrupt than it would prove that the
four or five judges whom he cited as author
tiles and from whom he took his law were
also corrupt. We shall attempt to shield
him from any real injustice, but if better
candidate is nominated against him we shall
advise citizens to give party to the winds in
voting for SO important a judicial officer
as the Surrogate
The New York herald., 1876-10-23
Automatic Civilization.

Every day the world gets itself more and
more thoroughly organized. Toward per-
fection in that respect the course of inven-
ton takes its way. This tendency of the
time is well shown in the application of the
Some professionals recently, to use the Ian
guage peculiar to their art, ''cracked q
crib" and by tho very operation of their
iimmies and wrenches called the police, for
as they opened a door they gave signal at a
neighboring station as effectively as guest
mt hotel calls waiter in fact, more effec-
lively. Then the police came and captured
the marauders in unconscious ignorance of
the fact that they had informed on them
selves. This contrivance, which may yet
render detectives superfuous, starve out the
receivers of stolen goods and lead to calami-
ties in the lock trade is but one fea-
ture in the modern physical organization
Of cities. Another ingenious apparatus
carries its little thermometer into the
watches and waits patiently oil night every
night in the year, and if fire occurs the
thermometer rises, rings bell, calls the
firemen, and the property is saved In fact,
a city becomes living creature and the men
and women in it only atoms of great ag.
gregated organism. As when human stom-
ach becomes painfully empty mans legs
carry him to the nearest restaurant, SO the
telegraphic threads drawn under the streets
and through the houses and over the
steeples, like an intricate nervous system,
connect part with part and associate every
irritAtion Nth an imnnlae snffiniant tn over.
The New York herald., 1876-10-23
Neat. but Not Gaudy.

At Aiken, in South Carolina, on Friday.
there was democratic parade and meeting.
At the close of the meeting the United
States Marshal arrested Colonel Butler, who
had headed the parade, and several others.
This is neat way Of making arrests. 1t
does not show, however, that the federal
marshal had the fear Of unlawful combina-
tions" before him. He seems to have acted
entirely without fear that any one would re-
sist his mandates. What offence the ar-
rested persons are charged with the tele-
graph does not inform US but as 1t was o
federal officer who took them prisoners they
must be charged with some crime against
the United States. We remark that here IN
the North police officer does not usually
select political meeting rs the place to
make arrests of persons who evidently are not
flying from justice. Such a course would
be thought indecent, and if the persons ar
rested were prominent citizens, not avoid
ing the law officers and easily taken in
more quiet manner, to seize them In p
political meeting would create here good
deal of indignation as being needlessly ir-
ritating and offensive.
Such acts as this in the South remind MS
of the remark of vehement but honest re-
publican, on his return from visit to New
Orleans after the dispersion of the Louisiana
Legislature. Ho had gone South with some
beliefs, which were changed by seeing how
matters really stood there. "The first thing
we of the North ought to remember when we
think of the Southern whites, said he, '1s
that they also are human beings" Suppose
policeman or sheriffs officer had arrested
Blaine as he stepped down from the plat
form at Cooper Institute the other even
ing? What howl of indignation we
should have heard, and what complaints
of the indecency and the desire needlessly
to irritate an audience involved in such an
act The indignation and complaints would
have been just, too. But why should fed
eral marshals make themselves needlessly
offensive in South Carolina just now? There
is already excitement enough there. Ali
good citizens no matter with what authority
they are clothed, ought to take pains to allay
excitement. What is needed there is to
calm and not to exasperate mems tempers.
We are glad to hear SO far of no resistance
to the process of law by the whites and
we trust they will submit quietly and cheer
fully to whatever is done, and stand ready
at all times to protect their political oppo-
nents.
The New York herald., 1876-10-23
The price Of The HERALD to-day and hence
forth soW be three cents.
Tho DfscfDliu ed Cadets.

The public will not be very likely to SYM
pathize with the authorities of the Naval
Academy in the action they have taken
against the cadets who refused to betray
their classmates guilty of the crime Of
"hazing" The morality of the proceeding
is, to say the least, very doubtful, for by it
the innocent are punished for the guilty. 1t
is not claimed or pretended that the pun
ished cadets had any direct connection with
the Objectionable conduct of their comrades.
They are punished because they refuse to
play the role of tell-tale, which all right
minded boys despise. The result is far from
conducive to the good discipline of the
Academy for the sympathy of the students,
and, we hope, the majority of the professors,
is with the youngsters who have sacrificed
themselves rather than betray their Glass
mates. If the authorities at Annapolis
want to put down hazing they should take
such precautions as would enable them to do
SO without tampering with the sense of honor
and manliness which forbids the students to
play tho part of spy or informer on their
comrades. The directors of the Academy
should rather seek to encourage than to up
root this manly feeling. 1t ought to be easy
enough to find out the really guilty parties
by the direct evidence of the parties hazed
without drawing into the question class
mates whose knowledge of the acts of their
comrades, according to all lstudent morality,
is confidential and privileged. Even though
this may be n fiction when examined
through the strict and unsympathetic eyes
Of tho law, it is nevertheless a wholesome
fiction for boyhood These students will
become selfish soon enough, and should be
encouraged to retain the disinterestedness Of
youth as long as possible. We hope the
authorities having vindicated discipline by
dismissing the stubborn cadets, will hasten
to recommend their restoration to their
classes They are evidently plucky md
loyal boys, and we cannot afford to throw
away good material for slight faults that are
accompanied by redeeming qualities.