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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21
Bringing a Dead Man to Life.

Although the claws of Russian official
ism have been good deal clipped of late,
compared with the rampant abuses of the
last reign, the petty eXactions and annoy
ances with which every travellers diary
used to overflow in the days of Nicholas
are not.yet altogether things of the past
and in a time of war like the present,
when substitutes have to be purchased
and exemptions paid for, there is always
rich harvest for handlers of official
sealing-wax. One such instance which
occurred in Central Russia may serve as
fair specimen of the Muscovite
Tchinovrik's" m0dus Opera1ad5 A
well -to-do tradesman of Kalouga large
town to the southwest of Moscow, hav-
ing been drawn for the conscriptiOn, sue
ceeded, with some difficulty, in procur-
ing a substitute, whom he promptly
marched off to the local Commissioner
to have the agreement duly attested,
when the following scene took place:
Tradesman entering, with a low bow
Godsbe with Your Honor; I've ventured
tofcOme and see You.
Commissioner with official brusque-
ness)- Yes, | see you have. What do
you want? s-.s
Tradesman-If it please Your Honor,
,
and | want you to be so good as to attest
the agreement between us.
Commissioner docking keenly at the
substitute)-What is your name, brother
Substitute (timidly)-Yury Masloff,
Your Honor, from the Village of Bikovsk.
Commissioner opens a huge ledger,
turns over several leaves, and then looks
up with a sinister smile.
Tradesman alarmed at expression of
Commissioners countenance)-Well IA
ther, is it all right?
Commissioner-There only one objec-
ton to your substitute, and that is that
he's dead.
Substitute (starting)-How say you,
father? That l am dead?
COmmissioner-You'r not dead, but
Yury Masloff is-aye, and buried, too
here's the entry; consequently, you see
you cannot be he.
Substitute (thunderstruck at this sudden
transformation of himself into somebody
else)-But, father, tell me, for the love of
heaven, if Pm not Yury Masiof, who the
deuce am [?
Commissioner with cruel calmness)-
That's your affair, not mine. I'm not
bound to find out who you are; it's enough
If [ know who you are not.
I1ci6, Gutu, W dli SeeHluS was d GULL
plete dead lock; but the tradesman, who
knew by experience that there is but one
remedy for such slips of the official pen,
lost no time in applying if. Laying two
ten ,rouble bills (s15) on the table, he re-
marked with an air of deep respect,
g Your Honor has had a good deal of
trouble over this affair; allow me to offer
you some small compensation" The
Commissioners right hand turned over
the book of fate once more (his left mean
while absorbing the money with the dex-
terity of long practice), and he remark ed
with an air of sudden enlightenment,
g Ali 1 see I've made mistake; the
person entered here is not Yury Masloff,
but quite another man. Here are your
papers; good-uay." And he handed over
the necessary document, with which the
two applicants fastened away, glad, no
doubt, to escape so easily.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21

hibits any vitality of the now rapidly col
lapsing blue glass mania, is the produc-
ton of a cheap variety of note paper, called
the g Pleasonton, )" because the pasteboard
box in which tits contained has blue glass
lid. The General can doubtless explain
the efficacy of blue glass in this connec-
ton. Blue glass, therefore, has had its
run, its inventor has earned his notoriety,
and also the thanks Of the glass dealers,
who have reaped fine pecuniary harvest.
Two new manias are at hand, to wit:
the celery-cure and dmetallo-therapy. "Cel-
cry is the greatest food in the world for
the nerves." says one of our contempora-
ries; and the information is travelling the
length and breadth of the land. 1t is fash
ionable nowadays to call every aIlment
that flesh is heir to a nervous disease; and
where our ancestors would have resorted
to such homelv remedies as hot drink
and simple cathartics, the present practice
demands chloral. and bromides, and qui-
nine, and strychnine, and phosphates, and
rare chemicals without number. OF course
celery is pleasantert to take than most drugs
and now that it is straightforward as anew
nervine, plenty of people will use it. As
it can do no, harm, and, indeed, may ac-
tually work good by checking the too
prevalent consumption of ''nervOuS spe-
cifics, the mania..is rather benefit than
otherwise, and should be encouraged.
Wild celery or smallage is known to pos
sess some narcotic effect, and is reputed
as unhealthy. As regards the medicinal
properties of cultivated celery, there are
no utilizations of them in the United
States Pharmacop9ia; but as celery
Opium ggaUeOEens) belongs to the same
family as the parsley Opium GetrOseLi-
nU,nl, it is probable that it would yield
apiin and apiol, as such substances are OBJ
tanned from the latter. Apiol acts as a
tonic, similar in its effects upon the sys-
tenn to quinia.
The other mania, metallo-therapy, to
which we have already briefly alluded is
perfectly harmless, and at present is con-
fined to France. Lee N0ndeS, of recent
date, reports another I" astonishing cure"
"a child four years old this time, almost
dead with meningitis. The metallic the
rapy inventor enyeloped the infant
there is no ChiIdren's Protective Society
in France-in plates of iron and copper
from head to foot. Half Of the body
was covered with one metal, half with the
other, in order " that both metals might
have an equal chance of doing good" In
eight hours, the child revived; in six
days, it was out of danger; in a month, it
was well. Manufacturers Of iron and
copper-plate may now consult with blue
glass makers as to how to advertise this
Scientific american.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE five days fight at the Duga Pass, in
Montenegro, was concluded, on the 10th, by
the utter defeat of the Turks, who lost 4, 900
men and large quantities of arms and ammu-
milton.
OK the 9th, the Russians attempted to
throw 5000 men over the Danube between
Giurgevo and Rutschuk, but were driven
back by the batteries, with considerable loss.
Il was believed to have been feigned at
tempt, whose object was to develop the To-
cation of the Turkish batteries.
In consequence of the discovery of a plot
against the life of the Gear, all Poles have
been banjshed from Bucharest.
ACCORDING to Therapis telegram of the
10th, naval battle had occurred at the Sull-
ma mouth of the Danube, between Turkish
iron-clads and the Russian torpedo fleet, IN
which the latter lost three vessels and the
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,rmer one. The Russians also lost severa

former one. The Russians also lost several
| prisoners.
On the 9th, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
Scotland, rendered to ex-President Grant a
public recognition of the high estimate
held of his character and the services which
he, as President, rendered to the cause OF
general peace, particularly in cementing the
friendly relations between the United States
and Great Britain"
a BUCHAREST dispatch of the 18th saws
there were $40 newpaper correspondents in
Roumania.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE telegram of the 18th
says the Turkish Minister at Athens had
been instructed to demand of Greece the rea-
son of her extraordinary war preparations.
The insurrectionary movement in Epirus,
Thessaly and Crete had assumed large pro-
portions.
THE bombardment of Rutschuk by the
Russians began on the evening of the 11th
The Turks returned the fire with interest
ACCORDING to a London dispatch of the
11th, the insurrection in the vicinity of
Sukoum- -Kaleh was spreading rapidly.
On the 18th, the Russians evacuated Olti,
a Black Sea port, and occupied Penak. Ac-
cording to Russian and Turkish accounts of
that date, the cannonading at Kars, up to
that time, had been indecisive and ineffect-
ual.
On the 18th, the Roumanian Government
addressed a note to the Powers, protesting
against the barbarous acts of the Turks, and
stating that, if the Powers did not intervene,
Roumania would be compelled to carry the
war into Turkey.
CoNsTANTINOPLE telegrams of the 18th
say great battle was in progress at Kars.
An official dispatch stated that the Duga
Pass had finally been forced, and that the
MOntenegrins were in full retreat A Rus
sian spy had been captured and shot in Ruts-
chuk.
On the 18th, the death of Ludwig ILL.,,
Grand Duke of Hesse, was announced.
THE Sultan issued an trade, on the 18TH
calling upon Turkish subjects, of every creed,
to prepare for immediate and active service
for the maintenance of the integrity of the
Ottoman Empire.
ACCORDING to an Erzeroum dispatch of
the 18th, more than 10000 Turkish soldiers
had died in the military hospitals in that
city since the Asiatic army was stationed
there.
CoNsTANTINoPLE kilograms of the 14th
say the fighting in front of Kars had resulted
in the discontinue and repulse of the Rus
SLAMS. The version of the latter, according
to st. Petersburg dispatch of the same
date, was to the effect that the sortie of the
Turks, made to dislodge the Russians, was
a disastrous defeat to the former.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21
THE EAS ST.

GLOVER, SANDFoRD 81 Sons hat shop at
Bridgeport, Conn, was burned on the night
of the 7th, ald number of men, engaged in
efforts to save the property, were crushed by
the falling walls, eleven being killed and
their bodies mangled almost beyond recog-
milton.
CONGRESSMAN CLARKsoN N. POTTER, of
New York, was thrown from his carriage, in
that city, on the 9th, and severely injured
Two FAST trains which left Chicago on the
10th, yiG the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chi
cago and the Lake Shore IL Michigan South
ern Railroads, arrived at New York City on
the evening of the 11th, on schedule time,
having made the trip in twenty-five hours
The average rate of speed on the Lake Shore
Road was thirty-eight and a half miles per
hour
ELEVEN HUNDRED employees in seven col
licries of the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Com
panies, in Pennsylvania, struck against re-
duction ot wages, on the 18th.
a RECEPTION was given by the Manhattan
Club, of New York, on the evening of the
18th, to ex-Govs. Tilden and Hendricks.
The meeting was presided over by A. J.
Vandarpool, who briefly introduced the
guests, both of whom responded in short
speeches.
ANEW YORK telegram of the 18th says Atty
Gen. Fairchild had turned over the Tweed
statement TO John d. Townsend, counsel for
Mr.. Tweed, and it rested with that gentle
man to say what disposition should be made
Of it. Tweed was likely to remain prison
er in the Ludlow-Street Jail till the iudg-
ment procured against him in favor Of the
people of the State, for S6,000,0O0, is
satisfied. Mr.. Tweed, in letter to
Mr.. Townsend, under date of the 18th,
says he wished him to take the necessary
steps to enable him (Tweed) to at once con-
fess judgment in all the cases brought
against him by either city, county or State
Mr.. Tweed was said to be very depressed in
spirits, and he denounced what he termed the
injustice of the compromise with Sweeney,
and declared that the four criminal indict-
ments found against the latter would have
led to his conviction had he not fed instead
of remaining, as Tweed did, to meet the
issue.
EX-Gov. HENDRICKS and wife sailed from
New York in the steamer Scythia, on the 18th,
for Europe.
THE covered bridge over the Connecticut
River, between Northampton and Hadley,
was blown over by a hurricane, on the after
noon of the 14th, and woman named Mrs.
Sullivan was instantly killed, and two men
were seriously injured.
IN the suit against Samuel j. Tilden, to
recover the S150,000 alleged to be due the
Government as unpaid income taxes from
1861 to 1871, complaint was filed in the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21
United States District Court, at New York,

United States District Court, at New York,
on the 18th.
GOLD closed in New York, on June 14th, at
lO575. The following were the closing quo
tatlons for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring
Wheat, s1-65@1.66; No. Milwaukee,
sL75. Oats, Western and State, 41@65c.
Corn, Western Mixed, 6Oc. Pork, Mess,
s13SO@139O. Lard, $500. Flour, good
to choice, s6.65@6.75; White Wheat Ex-
ira, s5.SO@7OO. Cattle, s11. .75@13.Oo for good
to extra. Sheep, s4.OO@6OO. Hogs, $40
@5.70.
AT East Liberty, Pa, on June 14th, Cattle
brought: Best, s6.50@6.75; Medium, s5.25
$3.50; Common, s5.5O@6 90. Hogs sold
Workers, s4.S0@49O; Philadelphias, s4 90
$500. Sheep brought $4.25@5.5O-accord-
ing to quality.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21
Prevalent Manias.

The blue glass mania has had its day.
The bar-rooms are removing their signs
of g cocktails in blue glass; and the ce-
rulean goblets wherein those seductive and
presumably sun-strengthened beverages
were dispensed, may be purchased for
small sums from the cheap china vendors
on our sidewalks. We notice diminution
in the sheets of blue glass hung in the win
dows of private dwellings, signs some
one calls them, to inform the public of
the gullibility of its inmates;' . and in
fact the only evidence at hand which ex-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21

ACCORDING to a writer in Blackaoood' s
Magazine, the French regular army num-
bers 455, 900 men, most of whom have al
ready seen four years service, while the
reserve of the active army amounts to
about 920, 900 men. Then there is d ter
ritoriai army, which is set down at 500,-
600 men, rather more than half of whom
are old soldiers of the active army The
total force is placed at 1,S00, 900, of which
750 900 are really educated soldiers, and
about 800, 900 have had six months drill
ing
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21
The Double-Note Swindle.

Among the hundreds Of tricks practiced
by the swindlers who travel about the
country selling implements and goods of
various kinds, the double note is perhaps
the most successful. For instance, a
peddler offers farmer mum Der of i'm
plements, or quantity of goods to sell on
commission, and the latter signs what
purports to be q simple receipt for the
goods, but which is so worded that it can
be cut into two parts, one-half being a
genuine note Of hand payable at a certain
time, without any proviso whatever.
These notes are generally sold to some
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21

An excellent sponge cake is thus
made: Take six eggs, two cupfuls sugar,
two cupfuls -four, one teaspoonful cream
tartar in the flour, a half teaspOonful soda
dissolved in a little warm water and added
the last thing; beat the yelks and the sugar
together; add the whites, well beaten, then
the flour, and lastly the soda.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21

Miss Sullivant, OF Boston, another of
the many American bellies whom Duke
Alexis declared to be the representative of
the finest type of American beauty, has
lately married good enough sort of
Bostonite, but man WHO is homelier than
a hay rack
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21

THE census returns OF Sweden and Nor
way for the close of 1875 have just been
published. The former has population
of 4, ,3S3 ,291, and the latter of 1877, ,2S7,
making the total population $500, ,52S.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-06-21

Gen. Beauregard is described as d man
below the middle height, with snow-white
hair and mustache, and face scanned with
innumerable wrinkles and yellow as a
kites claw.
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Frederick Gaupp VS.. Marcelin Msgusl.

E1IFTH DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PAh Z,
II ish of Orleans. No. si7O-By virtue OF writ OF
seizure and sale to me directed by the hon9raole
the Fifth District Court for the parish OF orleans,
in the above entitled cause, | will proceed 70
sell at public auction. at the Merchants and
Auctloneers' Exchange Royal street. between
Canal and CuStamhouse straetS. in the second
District of this city, OF MONDAY, August 81, 1877,
at "a o'clock M. the following described proper
ty, to wit
A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND. situat d in
the Second District OF this city, in the square
bounded by Rampa t. Basin, st. Louis and
Toulouse streets, measuring tn rty two feet,
more or less. front on said RamparL street. by
sixty-two feet. more or less, in deuth Together
with all the buildings and improvements there
on and all the rights. ways, servi udes, .privi-
| lsges and advantages thereuuto belonging or
| in anywis appertaining: also. with the Bath
| ing establishment bath fix ures and jns' ALA
! lions bath tubs. etc. Being the same property
| which the defendant her in acquired by pur.
chase from plaintiff herein, as per act passed
/ b fore E. G Gottschalk, late notary public in
| this city. dated fifteenth of April 1862
| Seized in the above suit.
] Terms-Cash on the SPOT,
! THOMAS Fl. Il ANDY,
| Civil Sheriff of the Parish of Orleans.
| jy26 au2 162T
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Civil Sheriff of the Parish Of Orleans.
C.tizens bank of Louisiana vs.. ALDER



Il ish of Orleans, No. s5o3-By virtue Of u
writ Of seizure and 81 O., to me directed by
the honorable the Firth District Gov, Tor tue
viii proceed 10 sell at public auction at the
Merchants and Auctioneers Exchange hoyal
I'm the second District OF this city. on SATUH-
DAY. September 10 1877, ut 10 O'clock H.. the
following Described pt2perty, 70 wit, ,,,
ings anu improvements thereon. 81 uated III he
Third District Of This city. IN the square bound
eh by Lcvce, Victory, .Marigny and Ma deville
strnets designated by the numbers one and two
on n plan drawn by 9. Arthur de Armas. sur
veyor, dated November. 1865, deposited in the
office Of A. Boudousuuie, late notary public in
This city.
/. Lot number one measuring twenty feet
seven inches front on Leveae street by = depth of
ninety feet. between parallel linns American
measure together with thirty -two shares of
mortgage stock thereto attached.
z. Lot number two measuring twenty -one
Of ninety feet, between parallel lines, Am rican
measure, together with ihirty-two shares of
mortgage stock thereto attached; together with
the use oil two alleys one OF Will 81, lying in tbs
rear Of said lots. having te feet width and the
other. opening. on Leves street; having ten fe-t
nine inches q IS width, running alongside number
said lots and others described on said plan
drawn by G. Arthur de Ar,nas, surveyor datcl
November, 1865. deposited in the office of ehid
Boudousulie. late notary public in New Or
leans.
Seized In the above suit.
Terms and con1itiGns-The purchaser tn
pay In cash a sufficient amount to satisfy plni y
tiff's claim, say seven hundred and seventeen
dollars, with ten per cent interest on six hun
dred and fifty -four dollars from Hrs July, 1915
and eight per cent interest on thirty dollars
and fifty cents from first July, 1876. aud eight
psr e9f ss INV s o na AMI anp s y
of copies of acts, and all costs Of suit. Thc
purchaser to furnish two stock notes for the
sum Of two hundred and ferty-six dollars each.
falling due on the first Of July, 1878. and renew
able according to the charter OF the Citizens
Bank of Louisiana; and the balance of the price
all the obligations and responsibilities OF u
stockholder of tho Citizens Bank of Louisiana
and the stock notes SO furnished to be identi-
fled with the acts of mortgage and the sheritT g
decd Of sale in this case.
THOMAS H. HANDY,
Civil Sheriff of the Parish of Orleans.
aI1h "a sec IL
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John WendIfng Il Co. VS.. Michael welsh.
StXTH DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
- parish of Orleans. No. oi4o-By virtue OF
honorable the Sixth District Court for the par
ish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause,
will proceed to sell at public auction, at the Mer,
street between Canal and Custom house streets.
in the Necond District of this city, on MON
DAY, August ~, 1877. at II o'clock M. the fol-
A CERTAIN LOr OF GROUND. together
with all the improvements. rights, ways. priv
egcs and appurtenances thcreun'o bel .nging
or la anywise appertaining, Situated in the
Second District f til s city. designated by the
number twenty-four in the square bounded by
Customlouse, Bicnvile Broad and ID .ihondo
streets. Said lot measures thirty feet fr mt on
Uohonde street by one hundred an eighteen
feet ten inches four and one-haf lines In dc 9TH,
between parallel lines, American mea~ ure, &C.
cording to plan drawn by Pile Il Depouilly,
engineers. dated the twenty seventh day Of No
vember, 1865, deposited IN the office Of r. j ker.
notary public. in this city Tor reference Being
the same properly acquired by the defendant
herein by purchase from Frederick kunH and
Geo Faehue O. per at pass1 H. hef9f t oh ans
| the twelfth day 4 June. 1876
Seized 10 the alb 'ye, suit
Terms-1 In cash for a sufficient amount tc
nav pnintiffs clain-say, the sum Of two hun.
! drsd and twenty-five dollars, with Interest
| thereon at eight per cent. Ter anhum, from thf
fifteenth day 1s,S ye per ee nn adit co
suit and taxes due on the property sold q Ih'
purchaser has to assume Ito the extent Of thu
amount Of his bid the payment OF three prom
issory notes secured by mortgage on said prop
erty: each for the like sum OF two hundred an
| twenty five dollars, Drawn by defendahd 10 ~
own order, and by him indorsed. dated on tn
twaifth day 81 June. 1876 and payable, respec
lively mt two three and four years uIITt utto' iii
bearing interest at the rate Of eight per cen
per annum, from date until final payment
). And the balance of the price OF adjudication
if any. cash on the spot.
| THOMAS H. HANDY,
Civil Sheriff OF the Parish OF orleans
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Civil Sheriff of the Parish of Orleans
au15 "a sec II
Merchants Mutua, Insurance Company Of


New Orleans vs.. Mrs. Mary A. Foucher.
LHIFTH DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PAR
- ish of Orleans, No. 7o75--By virtue of writ
orable the Fifth District Court for the parish
of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will
proceed to sell at public auction, at the Mer-
chants and Auctioneers' Exchange, Royal street
between canal aud Customhouse streets. IN the
Second District of this city, on SATURDAY,
September Is. 1877, at IL o'clock m the following
described property, to wit
A LOT OF GROUND. with the buildings and
improvements thereon, situated In the square
bounded by Broad Hospital. Dorgenois and
Barracks streets. in the Second District Of this
city, and d vsignated by the letter on sketch
thereof. and Of other lots, made by Louis Fl
Pile, surveyor. under date of the ninth of Jan
uary. 1879, aud annexed to an act passed on the
lier notary public in this city. Said lot y
measures in American measure. twenty three
feet six inches two lines fro't on Broad street
by one hundred feet in depth. between parallel
lines. Whicn said lot B forms part OF the prop
erty acquired by tho defendant herein by pur-
chase from Aluhonse Raboin or Rabouin, Jr.,
as per act passed before Emile Bianvenu notary
pubic In this city, on the seventeenth Of Decem-
Der. 1872 And said lot Is the paraphorna prop
ettv Of the defendant herein. as evidenced by
afore cited act of purchase and by judgment
rendered by the Fifth District court Of the par
ish o. Orleans, on the twentieth of February.
1879. and signed on the twenty -sixth day Of same
month aud year.
SOizPd in the above suit.
Terms-Cash on the snot.
THOMAS H. HANDY,
Civil Sheriff of the Parish of Orleans.
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