Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-10-24
Our Small Change.

Org. T. Witter, Office entrance,
hall door Post Office Building.
A good house to let. Enquire of
REPORTER.
Who will cipher Tilden now?
The Catholic festival melted S110.
Hank. Beckwith slid into town
from California the other day.
Bring your orders for election
tickets to the REPORTER office.
F. J. Wood has returned frou
Chicago whittier he has been for hol-
day stock.
=. L. O. Schultz returned from Chi
cago last Tuesday He has fine
stock Of holiday goods coming.
The Tempt. of Honor is keeping
right on dragging men out of tie gut
ter upon to solid ground.
The Union Temple Meeting Shirh
was to have been held at Stevens Point
on the 18th is postponed one week.
The Green Bay & Minnesota +
| r. Co. has purchased three hundred
tons of steel rails which will BIO laid
this fall.
The G. B & NJ. r. r. will take
you to La Crosse for $3.50. Peck
don't ride, cause he don't got no 1000
mile ticket and 10 cents, either.
The extensive lumber mill of J
Edwards & Co. will put in $13, 900 Of
new machinery of the most approved
models. When it is ready to zip, VIC
shall write it up.
e. @. Nye delivered rousing
speech for honest money on the -Four
Mile" last Saturday evening. He hac
a big audience, and put the financial
question in 80 plain light that hi:
audience didn't 90 cent on fat mon
ey after he got through. Nyc has
ability of no mean order. and as :
speaker has few equals i'll this section
of the state.
The river is up booming. All
the logs will probably get into the
booms, and with fair weather for four
weeks pile" Of boards will be the
product. At Wausau over 10, 600, 00C
feet are already doomed, and more
coming We learn that Boron drive.
are coming Of finely, The face of ye
Zimmerman IS wider from east to ives,
than It was.
The lightning played queer freak.
Dong ehe iiua .. the s.. Paul road
,on.c ~ wcazs ago. 1t entered every
telegraph eiice along the line and but
for the presence Of the operators
would have consumed all of them
The Camp Douglas Office was burned
As it was only few months ago, by
the same cause. 4 curious coinci.
dence Of the fire was, that a gentle
man lost a valuable gun in the first,
and an, ther in the last fire, equally
valuable
On Saturday. the 18th inst, a
man by the mime of L. G. Lincoln
was run over by the freight train on
the W. G. r r., between Marshfcld
and Auburndale. Deceased was last
s;en by the section men about q
miles east of Marshfcld, he was then
making his way towards Auburndale,
but was under the influence of liquor
it is supposed that he lay down on the
track and fell asleep when the freight
going north ran over him, his BODY
was horribly mutilated An inquest
was held before Lewis Reynolds, J.
p, in absence of a coronor and YER
dict returned according with the
above.
1T IS favorite statement of Der
sons opposed to the national banks that
the government pays them six Der
cent. interest on the bonds deposite
i'll the I. S. Treasury as security for
their circulation. Such is not the case.
The Secretary of the Treasury is grad
ually calling in the six per cent. bonds
aud replacing them with securities
bearing lower rate of interest. The
bonds now held for the national banks
consists of $1,000, 600 six per cents i;
S2,000, 100000 of five per cents !:
SD, OOO,00 4 ID peocents and SIG
UoG, 600 of four per cents. As fast as
the four per cent. bonds are sold 4
corresponding amount of six per cents.
are callee in and cancelled, thereby
saving the government 2 per cent. in
terest, No nation in the world has
consolidated its indebtedness, at low
er rate "i interest than 4 per cent. ex-
cept Eng land. where the rate is 3 per
cent. on the bnlk of its natisnal debt
If the credit of the government re-
main unimpalred it will not be long be-
fore the six per cent. bonds will all be
funded IN the lower rate bonds, ard
those of national banks fare the same
as the rest --Du1an Co. Mans