Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-05-24
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-O'Leary made $40, 900 in his last walk
Gen. Beauregard, who lives in New
Orleans, has become very poor.
1t is said that man in Boston who
was converted under the preaching of Mr.
Moody has made restitution of $13, 900
which he stole several years ago.
M. Mangin, the celebrated French
billiard player, recently made run of
four hundred and five points in the three
ball game, of which all but twenty-one
were cushion shots.
in the recent great walking match at
London, from constantly walking in one
direction around the hall OLeary the
pedestrian had the muscles of one leg con-
tracted, and the shoulder on the same side
dropped about three inches. This was the
result of walking five hundred and twenty
miles, with twenty-siX abrupt turns to
each mile, always in the same direction.
Nevada may furnish one of the heroes
of the Eastern war. He has been acting
as waiter in restaurant at Eureka, where
his education and intelligence were known,
but not his rank Now it appears that he
is Count Alexander Huhn, who killed his
antagonist in duel and fed flom Russia
after being disowned by his family Very
recently he was informed of his pardon
and restoration to his rank of Colonel in
the Chasseurs of the Grenadiers. He has
received letter from the Russian Consul
at San Francisco, who has orders to pro-
vide the Count with the necessary funds
and transportation for his homeward jour
ney, and he will take the field.
-''The great American novel is in the
far future. 1t cannot be written until the
railroads are all laid. When the house is
built then you can furnish it. Dickens
found character ready for his hand. He
did not create it. In America there are
no fixed characters. The people are con-
stantly changing. To-day you see a grand
man in the field, his hair blown back by the
wind and his breast barred to the sun. To-
morrow he has sold his farm, his family
fortunes are in a covered wagon, and he
is climbing the Rocky Mountains. The
next year you find him Congressman
or filibuster. He will not sit still long
enough to be photographed. There are,
therefore, no American novels of charac-
ter. Only the Indians never change
They have fixed cussedness. '''-JC0quin
Miller.
Mr.. Henry Sawyer, the United States
Con, ul at Surinam, South America, whose
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position since the days of President
Pierce. During the Rebellion he. did all
in his power to assist the Union cause.
His first act was to tender to the Govern
ment his yearly salary The offer was de-
clined with grateful acknowled gments.
When Semmes was in command of the
Confederate privateer Sumter he put in at
Surinam for coal and supplies. Mr. Saw
yer Immediately exerted himself to place
all the Instructions possible in the way of
Semmes' purpose, and purchased ali the
coal in the city, so that Semmes could not
get a lump. A planter offered to furnish
Semmes with quantity of coal which he
had on his seashore estate, whereupon
Mr. Sawyer hired all the scows, punts and
boats in the harbor, SO that the Confederate
Captain was obliged to use his own boats
to coal with. This detained the Sumter
for upward of week. In the meantime
Mr.. Sawyer had dispatched a message to
United States steamer at Cayenne, which
could have captured Semmes but for the
cowardice or treachery of the Command
er, who was cashiered for his conduct -
N. 7. Eoening Post.