Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-07
Hubbard


couldn't wait for the 4th of July, so
showed a package of gunpowder into
the stove last Thursday. The House
hold goods just had cotillion, espec-
tally the stove ware The Spider
spun around and balanced to the boz
Ter !; the Kettles looked for boil and
did throw up their legs and alamand
left with the griddles, and the steamer
steamed up'' towards the baking
pan and even the sadirons looked sad.
and couldn't smooth things. Forum
ately no body was hurted.
A flying visit to the vicinity of
Marshfeld, Wood Co. few days ago,
/ was the occasion of a change in our
opinion of the country thereabout.
Instead of finding it an extremely
poor country as we had supposed, we
found it an extremely good country.
Level as floor, almost, and yet sufi-
GENTLY inclined to allow the water to
run off. A rich loan soil, with clay
sub-soil, timber as fine as could be de-
sired, consisting of scattering pine,
white oak, black oak, white ash,
black ash, elm, Eastwood red birch.
maple, butternut, etc. The water is
extra good. with no standing pools or
ponds to breed miasma and fevers.
Titles are badly mixed, but you can
get any kind desired, from a squatters
claim, through all shades of private
and public conveyance. The country
is now extremely new and without
road, but this will soon be cured, and
here will be one of the best grass
countries out of doors. One can
start from Wautoma and see the coun-
try and return in three days, and at
an expense of less than ten dollars.
Waushora County Argus.
The following is about as sensi-
BILE a copartnership paper as we have
seen recently. We hope Bro. Wat
rous will be SO good as to give it a
place in the appeal:
Rmseller's Proposals to has Father.
My father, Beelzebub, I have open
ed apartments and fitted them up with
all the enticements of first class sa-
loon, [ have card tables, decanters
of rum, gin, brandy. and wine, kegs
Of beer, and all the mixtures calcula-
ted to destroy men. Now, father
Beelzebub, we want united action.
| therefore propose a co-partnership.
All [ want of men is their money
all else you can have. Bring me in
lustrious, sober, and respectable men,
and [ will return them to you drum
kards, paupers, and beggars. Recol-
lect all | want is their money. You
can have the soul and body. Bring
me the youth and [ will ruin his pros
poets for society [ will blast the fond
hopes of his father and mother
Bring me, if possible, the moral and
respectable, and all others who will
come through their influence, and will
get their money, you can have the rest.
Bring me the father and mother, and
will make them disgrace to their chill
dren and curse to the community.
Bring me the young man, and [ will
ruin his character, destroy his health,
shorten his life, and blot out the high
est and purest hopes of his life
Now, father, you know all [ want is
their money. And you know that the
Bible says that these shall go away
into everlasting punishment prepared
for the devil and his angels. There
fore, you know that you will get them
all. Let US, then, work together.
Bring me the mechanic and farmer,
and will take their money and send
them back in poverty, vice, and dis
grace to their once happy home, for
you to use them to advance your own
interests. Above all, bring me all the
ministers you can possibly prevail
upon to come in, and all the professed
followers of Christ, and [ will blight
and wither every devotional feeling of
their hearts. l will corrupt and de-
file the purity of the church. and
make it a Kissing and by-word for the
world that you will acknowledge my
power for evil
To whom Beelzebub, overcome with
sense of gratitude, thus answered {:
Most Reverend Rumseller-res
spected servant of sin and death: /
agree to all that You have said But
yet am not happy. Perhaps shall
be when you have answered me one
questions, viz. this: If | send you
all, as you have requested, and you
get all their money, and you rob poor
women and children of husband and
father, their daily food and their raj
ment, by selling the husband and
father intoxicating liquors, who will
get you?
The Rumseller was equal to the
occasion, and answered politely /:
[ have considered that, and my
plan is this-After [ get all the mon
ey [ want, | will dissolve partnership
with you, sell out my whisky, empty
my beer kegs, clear up my house, be-
hind me. Then some popular church
will receive me, and [ shall die happy
IT LOOKS as though the Nation
might be called upon to interfere in
Sonth Carolina in order tn secnre even