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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-03-21

GOLD is quoted at rs per cent
Some of the banks are paying out
small sums over their counters.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-03-21

THE general feeling of the Republi-
can press all over the north is that the
Louisiana Governor may pardon An
dsr.on. A pardon always implies
guilt As Anderson is not guilty we
would like to know what there is to
pardon? We hope Anderson will stay
in his confinement, accepting nothing
of tho men who deserve the jibbet
rather than executive positions. If
Justice were done and the President
possessed nerve to execute the
strong arm of the government would
be protecting its loyal subjects instead
of clothing its enomies with authority
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-03-21
Buy your Ticket - and
ship your Freight
by the
Houston ard Texas Central R'V.

The following Offices and Agert. bayebcsp
established by this Company. where iBforma-
ton Il ay be had concerning not only the IA. i
L. G. Railway, but Texas generally.
7. l.. MANCHESTER, East'n Pass. Agent,
All Broadway. \. y.
GenJ. B. ROBERTSON PISS. & Immigration
Agent. 1I3 North Third Street. St Louis. Mo.
A ALLIE. North west q Pass. Agt, 10l Clark
street Chicago. jill.
NICK HOLMES. Suth- east'a ACT, Ne.2ur-
nett House. Cincinnati, Chic.
j. r. COFFIN, Southern Pass Agt, Oh ats
nooFa. Tern.
information may also be had at the hgencief
of the NJ. K. Il I. Railway. in New YORK.
Chicago Cincinnati, Hannibal and ST. Louis
j. WALDO,
Geu'I BASS. e Freight Act, Houston .te1hs
A. IL. SWANSON,
Gen'l Supt Houston Texas.
Gran TIDINGS To THE AFFLICTED
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-03-21

SENATOR DAVIS, the political her
mophrodite, wants to go to Siam, as
minister. His wall is Just as Siam, !"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-03-21
State Of Texas.

1t gives to the Passenger view of the Ora n est
Scenery Finest Agricultural Di.trict and great
Grazing Grounds OF the West.
Its Passenger and Freight Train, are surpa.s-
ed by none in the state. Puiman's Palace
Drawing Room and Sleeping Cars leave Saint
Louis daily via the NJ. h. & I. Ky at 9 A. NJ;
ana ScdaJia at 6:Z3 p. NJ, running through to
Denison, Sherman, Dallas, Hearne, Austin and
House on without change. Connection il also
made at Sherman with the Texas and Pacific
J for the above nance points.
The connections OF this Road with the NJ. X F..
& L. at Denison for 1T. Louis, Hannibal, Chica-
go, Fort Scott, Kansas City and all points
North and East with the Texas Il Pacihe
Sherman for St. Louis Cairo, Nj EN- rhis. and all
points East and South East. and Houston
with the q. "A. Il 5. A. for San Antonio, he q IL
4 III. for Galveston. the Texas y. trieans X =,
for Beaumont, Orange, etc: the Morgan AND
Mallory Steamships for all points IN the Gulf
and Atlantic coasts, and the LiveIrOola Texss
Steamship Line to Liverpool, Hayre and other
EurOI can cities are perfect. while it's freedom
from du and heat on account Of the nature Of
the soil and the open prai rie country over which
it passes. with its cooling sea breeze, pleasant
scenery of broad prairies, beautiful groyep,
well cultivated fields of cotton, corn, snal J
grain, and fruits, render it especially desiIa Die
a nd advantageous to travellers and shipper, in
preference to others
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-03-21

A. G. BoTKIN will take the Mar,
shaIship of Montana.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-03-21
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Are You insured

The following Companies represent the back
bone of the Observation-Disclosures. Read!
Ttna of Hartford,
Cash, Assets So 900 coo. Gr
Home of New York
Total Assets 1927 AS. c3
Hartford of Hartford
Cash Assets 2 800 cOO.c
Phoenix of Hartford
Cash Assets $50 ,3Se 50
Northwestern Natl. NIL
Cash Assets S95 iS1 "a
st. Paul of NIinnes0ta
Cash Asset sos '46.52
st. Joseph of Missouri,
Cash Assets 500 $50 80
Total s1s 24a 65o.=e
j. d. WLTTER, Aa&,
Grand Rari:!s Il i
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-03-21
Proceedings Of the Co. Board.

GRAND RAPIDS, WIS.
Feb. 10Th. 1873.
County Board in session at $50 o'clock A. NJ
Minutes of the previous meeting read and ap-
proved.
Supr Hiles Chairman of Finance Committee
passed in their report of the investigation of
the reports of County Treasurer Mosher and
County Clerk Wood, which were read at length !:
and said reports, on motion, were accepted and
adopted as follows:
Account of County Treasurer for year ending
November Is. 1877
COLLECTIONS AND CHARGES
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-03-21

Ard effers the Best Routbs. on Quick Time.
with more Comforts better Accommodations and
Greater security than any other Line. Passing
through the Richest AID Most Beautiful por
lions OF tn great Empire
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-03-21

in his hands belonging to the County Land
fund at date of his last report
REDEMPTION FUND.
We find that the amount OF Redemption
fund in the hands OF the County Clerk on
Redemptions made by said clerk at the
date of his last report was 1,664.14
To which should be added the sum OF 664.5
appropriated to such fund from
interest received on sale of County Lands
together with the sum of 9.25
on hand from old Redemption fund of 1876
Making total of 1857 SO
Less the sum of 252. "a
Leaving on hand the sum OF 2,1O5.2l
belonging 10 Redemption Fund.
We also lind that the County clerk
ha. received and has on hand the sum Of 1880
received on sale of County Homestcads
CONTINGENT FUND.
We find lso that there was balance,
belonging TO the Contingent fund in
the hands of such clerk on the LIST day
of November 1876 amounting to 38.42
That the amount received for said
Fund from the Tirst day Of November
1876 to the LIST day of November 1877
from contingent fees T54.35
Making total of 1877
That he paid out of said Fund as per
schedule attached 10 his last report the
sum of $50 .0S
Leaving a balance Of 1865
On November lst 1917, belonging TO
contiu gent fund.
We therefore report that the said clerk
had on hand, at the date of his last
port the amount as above and summed
up follows:
Tax Certificates on hand z1,s57.7s
Unpaid balance Co. Land Fund 4s9 90
Redeemed certificate 2,l05.21
Contingent $3.50
Homestead " 1880
2s13.S5
Total 44771 80
GRAND RAPIDS WIS February 10th, 1873.
Geo. Hies Chairman
Geo. A. Neeyes
E A. Bentley
John Edwards
Remarks. From November list 1877, to
Feb 18th. 1878, Dr.
The Co. Clerk has sold Co. Lands 2.o5e.1:
Interest thereon 199.4S
ASSOC
And has paid the Co. Treasurer Or.
On Sale of County Lands 2,30o.eo
On redemption S72Go
31720S
Bill Of E. B. Rooster for Com. work making
new Co Land Book s226-50 allowed in mil Bill
of III. Huntington work for Co. Judge $500 al
lowed in full. On motion Sup'v Nerves, Dist.
Atty. Gaynor and Co, Clefs Wood appointed as
The Red Cloud chief., 1878-07-18
OUR CLUB LIS.

"" will send our paper (pricc $500.
with either Of tho publication name,i
below at the price annexed.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
French Business Women.

The editor of the Baltimore An,ericG,
writes from Paris: In examining the
French department a great many Of
the depositors appear before the jury
accompanied by their wives, who take
an active part in describing the mode
of manufacture of the goods, and ex.
patiate most volubly on their superiority
and the for which they are intended.
In many cases it is evident that the wife
is the master-mind of the establishment,
and knows more about the business
than the husband. 1t is well known
fact that there are few really prosperous
business men in Paris who do not owe a
great deal of their success to their wives.
Indeed, there are very few establishments
in Paris, wholesale or retail, in which
women do not occupy most of the inn
pOrtant positions of trust and response
bility. In many of the largest and
most successful establishments the wife
is the principal business manager
American merchants who come here
annually TO buy goods state that they
transact most of their business with the
wives of the merchants, who are gen.
orally on duty in the wholesale houses
during business hours. Whenpurchas-
ing goods nearly all important questions
are answered by the female clerks or
saleswomen, the male clerks being
mostly engaged in the handling of
goods, leaving all the brainwork for the
women. In many eases the wife is
called upon to make agreements or
answer questions when the husband is
present, indicating that she was the
brains of the establishment. There can
be no doubt that the average French
woman is superior TO the average
Frenchman in business tact and enter
prise, as she is also superior to him in
physical development and address.
When passing the small stores at night
the wife is seen at the desk, pen in hand,
keeping books, and thousands Of the
smaller stores Of Paris are kept by
women. They undoubtedly have great
business capacity, energy, and enter
prise, and take more than their full
share in supplying the means for the
maintenance Of the household. A
remarked in our hearing the
other day that he believed there are a.
many women in Paris who support their
as there are husbands who
support their wives.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
Canada's New Governor.

The Marquis of Lorne, who has just
been made Governor General of Canada,
is the eldest son and heir of the Duke of
Argyll, and was married in 1871 to
Princess Louise, the fourth daughter of
Queen Victoria, that being the first
instance of the marriage of subject to
the daughter of a reigning sovereign.
The Marquis has been in public life for
10 years past, for, in 1868, when he was
only %, he was returned to Parliament
as member from Argyllshire. When his
father, in 1868, went into Office under
the Gladstone Administration as Secre-
tary of State for India, the son acted as
his private secretary. Lord Walter
Campbell, who madea somewhat pro-
tracted stay ia New York several years
ago and was well known in society, is
a younger brother of the Marquis of
Lorne. the Duke of Argyll, whose
titles descend TO his eldest son, is the
most powerful of the Scottish noblemen.
He is hereditary Master of the Queens
Household in Scotland, Chancellor of
the University Of st. Andrews, Trus-
tee Of the British Museum and hereditary
Sheriff and Lord-Lieutenant Of Argyll
shire. His political service has been
long and active, and he has also writ
ten an elaborate book entitled I" The
Reign Of Law" His son is also an
author, and published several years ago
a volume of poems.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
The HOney.Bee.

The honey-bee is heemblem of order
and industry. The queen is the mother
of the whole hive, and her eggs become
males, females and workers, or neuters,
which last make the combs and cells,
and collect the honey. The queen pro-
duces some thousands of workers, and
then males, which the workers kill at
the end of summer. The workers at
tend the queen with anxious respect. II
she die, they raise new one by various
arts from a working worm. Two queens
can not live in the same hive, and one is
destroyed. The females or workers
have sting, but the males or drones
none. In proportionate size the queen
bee is eight and one-half, the male seven
and the workers six. A queen will lay
200 eggs daily for fifty or sixty days,
and the eggs are Matched in three days.
The workers are five days in the worm
state, and in twenty days they become
bees. The males are six or seven
days in the worm state, and twenty
four days in becoming perfect bees. A
queen is five days in the worm state, and
in sixteen days is perfect. When eggs
are converted into queens the old queen
destroys them, or if there are two young
queens they fight until one has killed the
other. One author asserts that a single
queen has produced 100000 bees in
season. Every thing depends on the
workers; they collect the honey, make
wax and build the combs; they supply
the worms with food and protect the
entrance Of the hive, separate business
being performed by classes. There are
about 1900 cells in a comb of foot
square. Their first purpose is as nurser-
les for the young, and they are then
cleaned and filed with honey. Five
thousand bees weigh pound. Twenty
or thirty pounds of honey are generally
got from a hive; sometimes eighty or
100 pounds, and even more. A swarm
of bees contains from 10000 to 2O,OOOin
a natural state and from $4,000 TO 49,
600 in a hive. All the experiments on
bees prove that love for their queen and
her progeny is the sole stimulus to their
industry. Their joy, grief
and other passions are distinguished in
the tone Of their humming, which TO
them are articulate sounds.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
School and Church.

-Four successive speakers at the
Pan-Anglican Conference the other day
were their lordships of York, Eng
land; of Bombay, India; of Saskatche.
wan, North America, and of Bloemfon-
tein, South Africa.
The Bishop of Manchester says that
some of the English clergy are SO poor
that they do not taste meat more than
once or twice week, and are glad to
get the cast-off clothing of their parish
toner's. -r A
Mrs. Patterson, wife of the Rev.
DR.: Patterson, of the Highland Univer-
sailst Church in Boston, will not go to
Europe with her husband this summer,
out will supply his pulpit while he is
ABSENT. She is said to be a fine off
hand preacher. -r.
DIR. Payne, now President of Ohio
Wesleyan University, formerly pegged
saoeS for his living in Providence, X. l.
fhe is one ofthe most popular ministers
IN the Methodist Church, and has been
pastor OF several of the most fashiona-
Die churches.
The best of our American colleges
year no comparison in the strength of
Iaelr faculties with the German univer-
sues, The University of Leipsic, for
le present year, has corps of 1913 pro-
..tessors, 10 tutors, and So assistants.
his university has $500 students.
In Great Britain there is an ordain-
q minister for every 673 of the inhabit-
ants; In this country about 700 is the
lumber that falls to each preacher.
Ohlna would require more than 400, 900
OfdalDed missionaries to stock it in the
ame proportion. DR.. Duff estimated
nat to fully supply India would require
le entire ministry of Scotland, and
--ny pious laymen beside.
Chicago claims population of half
ss,tnliilon, and her Bishop Cheney, in
-s'ussing church failures to reach the
masses, declared thst only $4,000 were
.oilaal worshipers IN Chicago sanctua-
Il The Bishop recommended large
~ cheap places OF worship, that poor
y'hes would not sod and that would
> ,eAye 50 strong contrast between the
-'GAy and the Sunday homes Of the
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
band had hard luck no

-Gilmore's band had hard luck as
soon as they struck the Continent, and
finally disbanded, after their advance
agent had decamped with $500 and left
them to enter Germany unannounced
Germany is delighted with the pi-
ano playing of Miss Anna Book, a young
American girl of German descent, who
has been taught by List, and has as
tonished critical audiences in Cologne
and Wiesbaden. A brilliant future is
predicted for her.
The French Government has seiz-
ed certain property of the ex-Empress
Eugene as security for the restitution
of considerable sums Of money which
the BOnapartes are said to owe France.
A committee of investigation has re-
ported that Napoleon iii. owes the ma
ton his allowance for September, 1870,
which he drew in advance; also that
the regular civil list was habitually ex-
ceeded by $4,000, 900 francs, and final.
ly, that he alienated large extent of
crown lands. ,r..,....
The third auction sale of ex-Queen
lsabella's jewels recently, in Paris,
realized S9S,995. The principal set
was a pair of earrings, composed of
brilliants weighing 81 carats, and of two
pear-shaped pendants of brilliants
weighing AZ carats. For these S64,0O
was given by connoisseur who possessed
a remarkable collection of jewels from
numerous countries. A brooch repre-
senting butterfly with extended wings
was bought by jeweler at 1928, ZOO for
q European Queen. The three sales
realized $l99,7O3. t, .,lt, 'ye d
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
Haps and Mishrps.

AT Holly Springs, Miss, during g
recent storm, James Briggs, aged 16,
and Louise Malice, aged IA, were struck
by lightning. ..t. .u.fs.s
AT Hagerstown, Md, at pigeon
shooting match, Samuel Donahue, aged
30, was shot dead accidentally by VIM.
Cokenour. r.-t .l-.s.'. .''..'.. ..
At Thornton, Ind, Tom Casey, aged
16, while carelessly handling arevolver,
shot himself in the abdomen, fatally.
AT Lanaconing, Md, Mary Pritch-
ard, aged 10, was killed Robert Dick,
aged 20, probably fatally injured, and
Abram Lynch, severely bruised, by the
breaking of q swing. ...'' AZ. .,... ...
An express train, running at full
speed, ran into q covered wagon at Mil
lersburg, Pa, demolishing it complete
ly. OF the five occupants one, Martin
Weaver, was killed, and the others were
all severely injured. ". .'r. r
AT New Orleans family of four
were poisoned by using oxalic acid by
mistake for sugar in cooking. G. A. w.
Milthac died; the Others it was thought
would recover.
Ida Moudy, daughter of DIR. A.
Moudy, living near Greencastle, Ind,
took three grains of morphine, through
mistake, for quinine. She was not ex-
pected to recover. .
"A 5-year-old son of Isaac Ruth, of
New Albany, Ind, died from eating a
dog-button which had been left in the
front yard by the police.
Warren Cooper, brother to the
Postmaster of Winterset, Madison
County, Iowa, was killed by lightning
while stacking hay. His companion,
Mr.. Hildebrand, was severely stunned,
two horses were killed, and the stack
set on fire.
At Stanton, Va, johnnie Harris,
aged IG, while employed in feeding
slaves to the equalizing saw in Young's
saw-mill, fell against it, and, in flash,
was sawed through from his right hip
to above the breast-bone. He lived one
hour and Is minutes.
Near Paris, Ky, j. William Bed
ford accidentally shot and instantly kill
ed an Swear old colored boy, while
out driving turkeys. Bedford was car
rying a gun and leading his horse, and
the hammers of the gun caught IN the
bride, causing the discharge OF both
barrels.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
Prof. John w. Mears. writing of

Prof. John w. Mears, writing of
college rowdyism, says that 1t is almost
wholly connected with the dormitory
system, and that it is kept up because
students think they must do as students
have done before them. He adds: "No
circle in America is more dominated and
tyranized over by established opinion.
The unwiliingness Of individuals to differ
from classmates and collegemates
amounts to clear case of moral inabil-
iity. That independence which would
be applauded as manliness in other cir
Giles is liable to receive the deepest brand
OF unpopularity here,
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14

A Boston minister of the sensation
al order takes . steamboat load Of peo-
pie down the harbor Of Sunday 10 an
island, and there breaches a sermon to
them, al for round-trip price.
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
Science and Industry

:. The rear teats of COW produce a
milk richer in cream than the forward
1 IA Connecticut pillow factory is max.
Ling 5000 plows to fill an order from
South America. F
The ice factory in Knoxville is turn
ing out seven tons per day at one cent
per pound. ',llt. 3Gktsbb.,i
The aggregate value of the petro-
leum exported from this country was
S62, 900, 600. In 1861 it was 81 900, 900.
"A cotton-mill with 10000 spindles
and employing 200 hands will begin
operations in Vancluse, s. c., in Octo-
Der. w. "N-s,F' -.
AN Indiana farmer advises planting
few hills of broom corn, as experience
has taught him that for tying shocks or
binding fodder this is very much pref
cradle to Irvine or rye straw.
"A North Carolina inventor, William
A. Weant, of Davie County, has con-
structed a switch which gives the engi-
neer of train power to close it without
stopping, if it has been left open before
him.
-Wisconsin's offer of $4,000 for II
successful steam road-wagon has pro-
duced one which has hauled a wagon
weighing $500 pounds over the POI
miles from Fort Howard to Madison in
80 hours, or over six miles an hour. I
Miss Bertha Olsen is superintend-
ent of a "Silk Society" in Rockville,
Kane County, Utah. The society owns
a lot, has planted 10000 mulberry cut
tings, besides a large quantity of seed,
has built a silk-house, and has raised
plenty of eggs from five dozen imported
silk-worms.
Wood peeling-th is, stripping
the bark off oak and larch-is business
in Scotland. Between May and July
some 1900 men, women and children,
chiefly Irish, have been employed at this
The wages, which in the last 10 years
have been more than doubled, range
from 80 cents to 81 for men to % to 80
cents to children, but large importations
from abroad have diminished the price
of bark 20 to 25 per cent.
The cultivation of the opium poppy
which has hitherto been exclusively con-
fined to the East, bids fair to become
thoroughly established and remunera-
tive in Eastern Africa. Seeds of the
best kinds have been imported from
Malwa into Mozambique, where $4,000
acres of uncultivated State land have
been granted to accompany with a capt.
tai of 100000 for the purpose of culti-
waiting and trading in opium. ,' $685..
San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14
Foreign Notes.

1t Is stated as fact that the num-
Der of impecuniOus Americans in faTls
is very large, and that the bankers have
been solicited to make advances on Jew
els and personal effects.