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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-23

LARGE shipments of dry goods, from
New York to Chicago, are being made
entirely by water. The shipments are
made by canal to Buffalo, and thence
by lake. Here is an effective regulator
of railway tariffs for a portion of the
year at any rate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-23

DURING 1867 there were manufac-
tured in the United States 459, ,55S tons
of iron rails and g. $50 tons of Bessemcr
steel rails-total, 462, Jos. From that
time to the end of 1877 the production
of steel rails steadily increased, so that
at the end of the latter year, of the
764, ,7O9 tons rolled in this country, 432,-
169 were of Bessemer steel to 332, ,450 of
iron.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-23

THE strike of cotton operatives
throughout England and Scotland is be-
coming serious. Many thousand opera
tives are out of employment and threats
are being made of resorting to violence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-23

THE associated press agent in New
York, who has relied upon Tweed and
Mrs. Tilton for sensational items for
several years, now informs the afflicted
world that Mrs. Z. is soon to increase
the population of the United States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-23

SRENCER T. BAIRD, assistant secretary
of the Smithsonian Institute, has been
elected secretary in place of Prof. Henry
deceased.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-23

THE democrats of the house of repre-
sentatives after long struggle succeed
ed in passing Potter's resolution to in
vestigate the Florida electoral vote.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-23
sCHoUyALoFF's MISSION.

A st. Petersburg correspondent tele-
graphs under date of May 18th that he
has just had an interview with Count
Schouvaloff on Thursday night. imme-
diately after his return from a confer
ence with the emperor. Count Schou-
valoff said: 'I regret that I can tell you
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-23
Foreign News.
WARLIKE AGAIN.

London advices of the 21st state that
it is reported that the British govern
ment sent instructions to Lord Lotus.
ambassador at st. Petersburg, to re-
quest categorical explanation from
the Russian foreign officers concerning
the reported armament of the Russian
privateers in the United States. 1t is
also understood that Lord LOTUS is to
make inquiries about the mission of the
Cm,bria.
AT VIENNA
A dispatch of the 21st thinks that the
expectation of the congress meeting
within fortnight is too sanguine.
AT OTTAWA. CANADA.
An associated press dispatch of the
21st from Ottawa, Canada, says the
government has received dispatch
from the imperial government this
afternoon announcing the war between
England and Russia as inevitable.
IT MEANS PEACE.
st. Petersburg advices of the Goth state
that Count Schouyalof left for London
by way of Berlin, on Saturday. at /
O'Clock, after brief farewell interviews
with the Emperor and Prince Gortscha-
koff. He went straight from the palace
to the railway-station. The Car and
Count Schouvaloff, are in complete ac-
cord, Notwithstanding all rumors to the
contrary. The result of the counts
visit will remain secret, as announced
few days ago, until after the Russian
ambassadors interview with the queen.
Nevertheless, feelings of relief and con-
fidence are too plainly evinced at palace
and among the visitors to the court to
be mistaken or pass unnoticed.
The official Russian journals, by I'm
perial order, remain silent about Eng
land. Indeed, the departure of
Count Schouvaloff is simply an
nounced among the eourt news with
out comment No more importance
would appear from the public prints)
to be attached to his departure than if
he were leaving for weeks shooting.
However, the suspense is no less in
tense
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-23
A RUSSIAN STANDPOINT.

A st. Petersburg dispatch of the 18th
inst, saws that notwithstanding the Sc
crecy observed in regard to Count
fSchouvaloff's reports to the emperor
and conferences at the foreign Office,
the various points whereby real un-
derstanding may be attained from the
subject of discussion in we'll informed
political circles. Though in the first
place the necessity ofsecuring the great
object Of the war-the independence of
Chfistians-is insisted upon, there is,
ON the other hand, no disposition to in
scribe laoh me tangere on the map of New
Bulgaria which was only set up as a
provisional draft. At the same time.
other compensations than those fixed
In the bill of war indemnity are
not regarded as excluded from
the discussion. While it is
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-23
AT VIENNA.

A dispatch of the 21st thinks that the
expectation of the congress meeting
within fortnight is too sanguine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-23
e GRAND RAPIDS, WIS., THURSDAY, MAY 90 1878

nothing before my departure, which is
fixed for tomorrow Friday noon.
promised secrecy before leaving Eng
land. wish you would declare every
thing rumored as coming from me about
my mission as absolutely false. I have
not conversed with any newspaper cor
respondents. s- q 1s7Iz3
/ The count worked for two hours to-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-23
wEITzEL's SUCCESSOR.

Advices from Washington under date
of May 18th says the president has
nominated Amos Smith, jr.. of Cmcin-
natl, collector of internal revenue, for
the 1st district of Ohio, vice Wertzel, to
be removed; G. St. Gem, surveyor of
customs, at st. Louis; and Jno. H.
Smyth, of North Carolina, to be minis
ter resident at Liberia 2'' 'N.'- -'"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-23
LDERO ADIIERENTS.

from JANUARY Ist 10 May Ist, 1873, were
$263, 1868. The expenditures for the
same time, exclusive of $45, 900 for re-
pairing of models injured by the fire,
were $16S, ,577-an excess of receipts
over expenditures of So, ,585. AT this
rate the surplus for the year would be
1896, ,755; much larger amount than
has ever been derived in a single year.
Last year there was $31, 900 surplus.
The amount in the treasury to the credit
of the patent Office is 81, ,1S9, S07.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-02
Cooking for Centuries.

An English writer, speaking of Pom
peii, says: cone house in Pompeii had
evidently been in state of repair when
the volcano storm buried it. Painters,
and decorators. and cleaners were mas
ters of the situation. The household
goods were all in disorder, and the
family, if not out Of town. must have
been undergoing that condition of misery
which spring cleaning and other like in
fections invariably entail. Painters
pots and brushes, and workingmen's
tools were scattered about; tell-tale spots
of whitewash starred wall and floor.
Such domestic implements as pots and
kettles had been bundled up in corner
all by themselves, and the cook was
nowhere. Dinner, however, had not
been forgotten. A solitary pot stood
simmering Gf it ever did simmer) on the
stove. And (start not, for it is true)
there was bronze dish in waiting before
the oven, and on Nhe dish sucking pig,
all ready to be baked. But the oven was
already engaged with its full complement
of bread, so the sucking pig had to wait.
And it never entered the oven, and the
loaves were never taken out till after q
soiourn of seventeen hundred years
They had been cooking ever since No
vember "a, A. d. 79. M. Florelli has
them now in his museum at Pompeii,
twenty-one of them, rather hard, of
course, and black, but perfectly pre-
served.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-02
/" Join at Once"

A story is going the rounds (says the
Bombay Gazette which is too good to
be lost. A young sub-lieutenant left his
regiment a short time ago on sick leave,
and but mp at the best hotel not hun
dred miles from Poonah, where he Vas
Immediately smitten by the attractions of
lovely maiden who was staying there.
He proposed, was accepted, and the
happy day was fixed. The colonel, how
ever, disapproved of sub-lieutenants
getting married, and particularly of the
marriage of the sub in question. As he
happened to be a friend of the young
mans father, he thought to prevent the
union of the fond couple by sending a
F~---Ps~-J s~r-o-- =. a
following words " Join at once"
The son of Mars was in despair. He
presented himself before his intended
with the fatal missive in his hand and
anything but look of pleasure in his
countenance but the lady was equal
to the occasion. With blush of maiden
simplicity and virgin innocence she
cast her eyes on the ground and re-
marked;
"Dear me I'm glad your colonel ap-
proves of the match but what a hurry he
is inl don'tthink 1 can get ready so soon,
bat I'll do my best, because, of course,
love, the command of your colonel must
be- obeyed."
The young warrior was puzzled.
"Don't you see, my darling" he said,
"that this telegram puts stopper on
our plans? You don't seem to under
stand the telegram. He says peremp-
torily, join at once. "
The lady's bushes redoubled, but
with look of arch simplicity she raised
her lovely eyes to her fance and re.
piled:
at is you, my darling, who don't
seem to understand it. Your colonel says
plainly, Join at once,' by which he
of course means get married immedi-
ately. What else can he possibly
mean 2"
A look of intelligence replaced the air
of bewilderment in the young hero's
classic features, and bestowing regular
fusilade of chaste salutes on her rosy lips,
he accepted the explanation, and was
enabled to answer the colonels telegram
in forty-eight hours afterward in these
words
"Your orders are obeyed. We were
Joined at once"
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-02
Tales of Two BROOKLYN Cats,

A resident of Charles street, Brooklyn,
N. Y, while recently breaking up a
barrel for kindling. gave it a violent
blow with the axe that drove one of the
slaves out, striking squarely between
the eyes cat that was standing a couple
of feet away. The blow was SO forcible
and SO precisely delivered that both of
the poor animals eyes were started ont
of it's head and left hanging on its
cheeks. 1t could not be caught and
killed, as the owner was desirous of
doing, but three days later neighbor
captured it, and, having an idea that
perhaps the animals sight could be
saved, with rude surgery put the eyes
back into their sockets. Singular as it
may seem, though one eye is hopelessly
gone, the other is feebly sensitive to an
object placed before it suddenly, and
there are hopes that the cat will recover.
The other Brooklyn cats habitat is
the corner of Hicks and Cranberry
streets, which also is the, habitat of a
tribe of very noisy boys. One of their
latest manifestations was the orgauiza-
tion of an amateur fire company, having
for an engine a tin pail full OF Goals in a
baby carriage. This was hurried toward
an imaginary fire with such demoniac
clangor and yelling that the cat-kitten,
rather thinking the end of the world
had come, inflated her tail and scampered
with much agility to lofty limb OF a
tree, where she remained for three days
and three nights without venturing to
move, completely paralyzed with terror.
At last her humane boy-owner, at the
risk Of his neck, clambered up and shook
her from the limb, whereupon she de.
scended as precipitately as she had
mounted, struck 2:14 gait for Fulton
street and Albany avenue, and has not
since been seen or heard of.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-02
IIems OF Interest.

The daughters Of Jefferson Davis are
at school in Germany.
Philadelphia is credited with ninety
nine millionaires, of whom the richest is
Asa Packer, worth Sl2, 100000.
The cost to the State of Pennsylvania
of suppressing the railroad riots last
July will amount to about S500,00
The Georgia supreme court has de-
cided that a murderer, to be too drunk
10 form the intent to kill, must be too
drunk TO form the intent TO shoot"
Mr.. Henry w. Longfellow received
through the post-office of the Old South
Church Fair the other day letter writ
admiration of the poets works.
The largest horse railroad company in
New York-the Third Avenue roads
eight miles long, owns 275 passenger
and nine freight cars, has 1850 horses
and mules, and carried 30, 700, 600 pas
sengers during the past fiscal year.
"Will you always trust me dearest?
he asked looking down into her great
blue eyes with unspeakable affection.
She was saleswoman up at an uptown
shirt store, and she told him business
was business, and he'd have to pay cash
every time,
The young women of Orion, Mich,
have adopted the fashion of wearing
their hair cropped close. They look
odd, especially when their smooth heads
are gathered in church but they are
gamers in pocket money, for they sold
their hair at good prices.
Mr.. Sutton, well known professional
base ball player, was converted at
revival meeting in Philadelphia not
long ago, He arose to address the
meeting, and said 81 have made the
first base, and by the help of the Lord
will make home run. "
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-02
Their High Noses.

He wore sheep-skin mittens, had his
pants in his boots, and he covered his
horses with old pieces of rag carpet, and
entered hardware store and asked to
look at q sheet-iron stove. He was
shown several patterns. one after the
other, bat none seemed to exactly suit
his ideas.
81 have shown you every style of
parlor stove on sale. by any house in
Detroit, :" said the dealer as they stood
before this last one.
Eyes, L s'pose SO, but none o them
quite fills the BILL" was the dubisno
answer.
"Why not Aren't they big enough,
tall enough, handsome enough, or what
is the trouble ?"
"Waal, I'll tell you," slowly replied
the would-be customer. "The old wo-
man she takes a story paper, and her
head is chuck full of such names as
Evangeline, Emilena, Maud, Arabella
and Riverbell. The gals they read
Shakespeare, and they are all the while
talking about Hamlet, Claudius, Petru-
chic, Romeo, and so on. I'm kinder
postin' up on astronomy myself, and I'm
all the time thinkin' about Venus, Mars,
Saturn and Jupiter Now, you hayn't
got stove in the lot with more ro-
mantle name than Ajax, and just inn
agine folks like us sittin' around a stove
with plug name like that ~
He thought he'd look further, and as
he unhitched his team he called out
"Whoa, now, Lady Estella-stand
around there, Othello !''--DetroH Free
D,oop
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-02
Tive Children Die of HydrOphObia.

The New Orleans Picdyupe of late
date says: About three months ago two
of the children of Mrs. Ferlin, residing
on Jourdon avenue, near the levee, were
playing in the green near the residence
of their parent, and were attacked by a
savage dog and severely bitten. One Of
the two, little boy, aged two years,
was bitten III the arm and face, and the
girl in the ankle. The dog, at the re-
quest of the owner, was killed immedl-
ately, and the children attended by a
physician. A few days after the occur
ence, both children were, as it was
thought, well, and played around the
house as usual. One month later the
boy complained OF being i'll, and, after a
few days, died of what was declared by
the physician to be hydrophobide Just
one month and two days after the death
OF the little boy, Victoria told her mother
that her leg, at the place where she had
been bitten, panied her. Hardly had
the child been removed to her bed than
she complained of violent pains in the
stomach and expressed an ardent desire
for water; but as soon as the liquid was
handed to her she repulsed it. The
next day, whenever any one would ap-
proach her, she would complain that
their breathing was SO violent that it an
noyed her extremely, and during the
four days of her illness, whenever one Of
the dogs of the house would enter her
room she would scream and order it
taken away. On Wednesday the pains
increased considerably, and, after terri
BILE agony, Victoria died at two o'clock
Thursday morning.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-02
The Morning Street.
BY JOHN JAMES rIArr.

Alone | walk the morning street.
Filld with the silence vague aud sweet
All seems as strange, as ssll; ar dead
As il unnumber'd years had fled.
Letting the noisy Babel lie
Breathless ard dumb against the sky;
Tho light wind walks With me alone
Whore the hot day iame-lile was blown,
Where the wheels roard, the dust was beat
The dew is in the morning street.
Where are the restless throngs that pour
Along this mighty corridor
While the moon shines ?-the hurrying crowd
Whose footsteps make the city loud 60
The myriad faces-hearts that beat
No moro in the deserted street?
Those footsteps in their dreaming maze
Cross thresholds of forgotten days L.,
Those faces brighten from the years
In rising suns long set in tears
Those hearts-far in the past they beat,
Unheard within the morning street.
A city of the worlds prime gray,
Lost in some desert far from Time,
Where noiseless ages, gliding through,
Have only sifted sand and dew
Yet mysterious hand Of man
Lying on all the haunted plan,
The passions Of the human heart
Quickening the marble breast of Art
We're not more strange to one who first
Upon its ghostly silence burst
Than this vast quiet, where the tide
OF life upheav'd on either side,
Hangs trembling, ready soon to beat
With human waves the morning street
Ay, soon the glowing morning flood
Breaks through the charmed solitude
This silent stone, to music won
Shall murmur to the rising sun;
The busy place in dust and heat,
Shall rush with wheels and swarm with feet /;
The Arachne-threads of purpose stream
Unseen within the morning CLEAN
The life shall move, the death be plain;
The bridal throng, the funeral train,
Together face to face shall meet
And pass within the morning street.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-02
Russian Battle Songs,

The Russian battle songs are mostly
mournful. The inspiration of music,
the means of gain, the hope of glory, the
intoxication of woman's love cannot
wipe from the mind of the Slav the
ever-present possibility of painful
death, in the midst of his dying friends,
rolling in anguish on a bloody field,
where the last sight of his eyes is
his flaming home, the last sound in his
ears the cries of his wife and family
abandoned amid it's ruins. If they weep
not for the loss of hair, of home, of
parents, or of sweethearts, they may
still weep for the loss of an emperor.
''By the tomb of the Emperor
young sergeant prayed to God
Weeping the while, as river flows,
For the recent death of t1Ae emperor,
The Emperor Peter the First.
And thus amid his sobs he spake
Split asunder, o damp mother Earth;
On all four sides
Open, ye coffin planks;
Unroll, o brocade Of gold;
And do thou arise, awake, Gosundar, &c.
The present Russian army is said to
be very scantily supplied with bands,
and the men march to the sound of music
and words of their own composition.
Apropos OF Russian war songs, witty
American once said that when man had
been compelled 10 listen to Russian
melody he would certainly be exceeding
ly anxiously to fight somebody, even il
he had to walk thousand miles 10 find
| him, - london Society.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-02
A Russian Newspaper Man.

The most eminent journalist in Russia
is NJ. Katkoff, friend of the czar and a
pet of the Panslavist party. He con-
ducts the Moscow Gazette, a journal
controlled by the University Of Moscow.
He has hired it on lease of twelve years
in consideration Of the annual payment
OF nearly 100000, an enormous rental,
but as the paper has circulation OF
10000 copies and monopoly of
advertising in The city, he Is making q
fortune out OF it,
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-02

AFTER A LITTLE SoUALh. He waltzed
out of the front door, followed by a
, dashboard and two bars Of soap and
as he Strengthened himself and walked
firmly down the street, he remarked
GA man must draw line somewhere,
or he can't be boss of the house and
I'll be hanged if I'll pump more than
one tub of water for no washing, and
there amt woman can make me do it
unless she locks me in.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-02

Mrs. Shade, Of Guthrie county, Iowa,
has been in trance for six months past,
only awaking once in October to speak
to her family. She is regularly fed, but
gives no sign Of knowing or approaching
what II is she il eating,
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-02

Al its best. the spiritual impulse Of
the idea Of reward" is not very
thrilling one. Great actions, or even a
succession OF smsll actions, are seldom
done or perseyered in with an eye to
recompense.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-02
NILES g. THOEP
z. q. SAWYER.
AMERICAN HOUSE,

F. KELLEY, Proprietor,
Os Hyde Park, VI.
Having rented the American Hotel and closed the
Union House to the public, we are now prepared to
take good care of the patrons Of both houses, and
hope to give satisfaction to all.
J. r. KELLEY
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-02
HYDE PARK, VT. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2 1878

Then Charlie improvised bed over the
bath and after draping the machinery
with curtains, and making upa valance
for the side of the bath, 1 really felt
quite proud Of our handiwork. And we
had fairly began TO enjoy ourselves
among our friends, when late one warm
afternoon some one raped at the door,
and 1 was greeted with, "H'm and
how do you do ?"
1t was Uncle Buncle, and he had come
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-01-02

The daughters Of Jefferson Davis are
:. ..laz1 =, no,.,,,,,-
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-08-08
The Workingman,s Ticket

The Republican ticket of Marshall
county is pre-eminently a working
mans ticket and as such should re-
ceive the support OF the working
men OF this county without regard to
party. On visiting Bourbon last
Saturday We found Fred Tescher
hard at work in the hardware store
covered with sweat and dust, and
evidently not thinking Of how he
could manipulate the Treasurer's Of
fee so as to make anybody afraid to
enter the field against him for a Sec
ond term as the gentlemdrly DIR.
Reynolds proposes to do. Lowery,
Ashley, Jockey, Hoover, Macomber
and Wiltfong are all workingmen,
men OF the people, uncontrolled by
rings or cliques, and IL the common
people, the workingmen Of Marshall
county ever expect to destroy the
ring power and place tire Democratic
party In such a condition that each
and all the members OF that party
shall stand on their own merits and
have and equal chance for promotion
they will vote the Republican ticket
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1878-08-08
Virginia BarbariSm.

On last Thursday a young white
woman was stripped naked to the
waist and publicly whipped by ne
gro Constable at Elizabeth County
Court House. Va. This was done un-
der law passed by the recent DEM
ocratic Legislature OF Virginia, COM
posed OF persons who ostentatiously
assume to be gentlemen. The SEN
tence was inflicted by Justice who
probably claims to be gentleman,
and is accepted as such in Virginia.
This humiliating scene is an evidence
Of the deadening and degrading influ-
ence of slavery. 1t is simply impos-
sible that this outrage should take
place in Pennsylvania or any State
north OF it. 1t does take place, how
ever, In Virginia. The woman is
poor, and, therefore. liable to degra-
dalton and insults OF any kind. Such
instances as this prove that the insti-
tuition OF slavery was something
worse than a wrong to a race. II
was not the degradation OF the black
man merely, but Of labor.