Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-14
PERSONAL AND LITERARY, !

1t is said that Wade Hampton is to
marry the widow of the late Gov. PICK
ems, CT. South Carolina. rcI En- o5 baags,
Mexico has a Woman's Rights paper,
edited by a fair creature euphoniously
named Sonora Rafaelo Arevala. ST5iIunnt
The remains of Mrs. Madison, sis
ter of Patrick Henry, lie in an almost un-
marked grave, near Bowling Green, KY.
-Ex-Gov. G.. G. Washburn, of Wiscon-
sin, who is miller, is said to have made
$3.50, 900 by the recent rise in the price OF
flour. 'o-
Richard Grant White puts in a good
blow for bad spelling. He says it isn't
half so important how you spell word as
it is what word you spell. - M'gEC
Mr. Newell (Orpheus G. Kerr has
gone abroad for change of air and rest, in
hopes of killing or curing himself-"per-
manently," as fhe Celtic hath it. -
George Francis Train has abandoned =
hana-shaking on the ground that he can
not afford TO part with his magnetism,
electricity and longevity in any such
Wasteful way. st.f44 y Gid
Lucy Hooper says that a Frenchman
will dress better when he intends to sui
eide than on any other day of his life.
He likes to make things pleasant for Coro-
ners and reporters.
Ann Eliza, who recently advertised
herself as nineteenth wife, of Brigham
Young, proposes hereafter to conform to
the decision of the Court and advertise
herself as 4" late menial servant of a
prophet"
The authorship of the Kentucky reso-
lutions of '98, which has been attribute ed
by nearly all histories to Thomas Jeffer-
son, is disputed by the Breckinridges of
Kentucky in the name of their ancestor,
John Breckenridge. ,..,.-L 5,,, .-.s. ...r.
Edmund Quincy was urged to go into
business when a young man, and a very
desirable connection was made for him 4
but he refused, saying he thought there !.
ought to be one gentleman in the family,
and he proposed to be the gentleman.sdi 10
Until the week before his death, the
late DR.. Taylor Lewis dictated TO his
daughter In the course Of this work he
once stopped and remarked: ,"Ruskin has
written much about the beauties of nature,
but he has never seen anything so beauti-
full as my dear old wife and devoted
daughter tending night and day to all my p,
wants.
General Grant is the first ex- President
to go to foreign parts since the days of T
,rr
Washington, Madison, Jackson, Harrison,
Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Lincoln and John7i
son, never crossed the ocean, Those who.
visited foreign lands were John Adams,
Jefferson, Monroe, Quincy Adamsd Nan
Buren, Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan. =
Somebody who saw Edward S. Stokes
lately in a theater writes as follows to1thel
Chicago Inter- Ocean g His nearly 4 five
years of prison life have seemingly told
but very little upon him. There lis 1thati
same defiant expression which shot tout,c
so to speak, from his features when he
stood in the crowded court room b5Eeb
looked round upon the audience with a
cool unconcern, and wherever he ,encUun-
tered eyes staring at him he returned the
stare with good interest Pc
The world will be glad to know what
is now alleged by personal friend in
New Orleans, that Paul Morphy is not9
insane or mentally injured in anyway
that he is to-day The best player in the
world, giving knight to the strongest
players, and seldom losing a game = but
that lionizing is distasteful to him and his
family, and that "when he returned from
his European triumphs he. entered into am
engs cement with his mother never again
to play for money or other stake; never
to play a public game or a game in pub
lie place, and never again to encourage or
countenance any publication of any sort
whatever in connection with his name.8
He is successfully practicing law.T-7N- T.
Grdphlc.