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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19
GRAND RAPIDS. WIS, THURSDAY DECEMBER 19. 1878.

fore the senate, but a motion to ad-
iourn till Monday was carried.
FRIDAY, Dec. 13-House.-A great
amount of routine business was trans
acted by the house in clearing up the
speakers table The bill to reimburse
William and Mary college, VT, for
property destroyed during the war was
considered in committee of the whole,
but no action was taken. Another bill
was introduced to make trade dollars a
legal tender.
SATURDAY, Dec. -Se,tate.-The SEN
ate was not in session to-day.
SATURDAY, Dec. 14-House-The bill
passed authorizing the issue of dupli-
Gates Of the registered bonds stolen from
the Manhattan Savings hank Of New
York. The committee on appropria-
tions agreed to recommend $3.50, 900 for
expenses ofthe fast mail service. The
senate amendments to the military ac-
ademy bill were adopted. Mr.. Phillips
submitted a resolution reciting late In
dian raids in Kansas and Nebraska,an
the capture of marauders, and calling
on the secretary of the interior for in
formation as to why he had not surren-
dered guilty and responsible parties oi
such Indian bands to the authorities oi
Kansas and Nebraska. Adopted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

OF the most facinating, sights on the
planetary programme, the reappear-
ance of Venus as evening proudly
shining IN the western sky long before
it Is dark enough for any other star in
the myriad throng to keepher compa-
ny. Venus exhibits greater variations
ia aspect and apparent magnitude than
any other Of the planets. She is now
at her greatest distance, one hundred
and sixty millions Of miles, and pre-
sents the appearance of small round
disc. When nearest to the earth, at
her inferior conjunction, she is only
twenty-five millions of miles distant,
and her apparent diameter is more
than six times greater than at the pres
ent time. But her dark side is then
turned toward us precisely as at new
moon. There is no more interesting
study than to watch the phases of this
pearless evening star for nearly ten
months to come. Oscillating in a
seemingly straight line farther and far
ther from the sun, till she reaches her
greatest eastern elongatioh next July;
then reversing the process by drawing
nearer to the great luminary till she
reaches her interior conjunction next
September, she is all the time coming
towards us, growing brighter inspite Of
the 1essening of her illuminated disc,
and presenting the varied aspects Of the
moon from full to new No simpler
star study is included i'll the celestial
catalogue, none is more brilliantly i'm
pressive in its influence on the imagi-
nations, or more powerful in its illus
tration Of the simplicity and symmetry
of the laws that govern the material
universe IN, .--,-t
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19
Venus in December.

Venus holds the place of honor
among the planetary brotherhood for
the month of December. On the 9TH
she is in superior conjunction with the
sun, and her whole enlightened disc is
turned towards US. She then rises and
sets with the sun, as the word "conjunc-
ton" indicates, but is invisible, her
lesser light being hidden by the bright
ness of the solar rays. After the 9TH
she commences her role Of evening star,
seemingly passing from the western to
the eastern side of the sun, and setting
later each succeeding evening, until at
the end of the month she fingers above
the horizon about twenty minutes after
sunset. Bright-eyed observers may pos
sibly catch glimpse of her, beaming
amid the glow of the western twilight a
week or two after the ushering in of the
new year. A week or two later, ordina-
ry Observers will be rewarded with one
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19
A Whole Family In Heaven,

The following eloquent passage is
from the pen of Albert Barnes: A whole
family in Heaven! Who can picture
or describe the everlasting joy? No one
absent. Nor father, nor mother, nor
son, nor daughter, away. In the world
they were united in faith, and love, and
peace, and joy. In the morning
of the resurrection they ascended to-
gether. Before the throne they bow to-
gether in united alteration. On the
banks of the river Of life they walk
hand in hand, and as a family they
have commenced a career of glory
which shall be everlasting. Their here
after is to be no separation in that
family. No one is to lie down on
bed of pain; no one to sink into the arm
Of death. Never, in Heaven, is that
family to move along in the slow pro-
cession, clad in the habiliments of woe,
to consign one of its members to the
tomb. God grant that in his intimate
mercy every family may be thus
united.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19
Diptheria.


The papers received by the last mail
from Europe mentioned the death from
diptheria of the Princess Marie, the
daughter Of the Princess Alice, and one
of the twenty-six grandchildren of
Queen Victoria. At the same time four
of the remaining five children of the
Princess and her husband. Prince Louis
of Hesse, were seriously i'll of the same
disease. According to the latest tele-
grams, ii has just broken out with great
violence III the town Of Geneva, New
York, where in the last week thirty
two children, nearly all between the
ages of 10 and 16, had died of it. This
IS another illustration of the theory now
thoroughly recognized i'll medicine, that
new diseases, or new forms of an old
disease, are constantly cropping out to
tax the skill of physicians and stimulate
all their ardor for the advancement of
science. 1t is stated upon good author
lty that but little more than twenty
years ago dipetheria as a distinctive
malady was scarcely recognized among
general practitioners. 1t then appears
to have been almost entirely confined
to single district in France and was
called ''the Boulogne sore throat" 1t
soon appeared nearly in its present
form in Norfolk, in England, then in
Wales, and afterwards in London, where
it was for time very destructive. In
the few intervening years it has spread
everywhere, attacking chiefly children,
but not sparing middle age. and to this
day there is a conflict of authority be-
tween European physicians upon the
question whether it is a disease per Sc,
or another and an aggravated variety of
Group.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

ern near Dewitt, and Kansas and Pacific
and Santa Fe between Lawrence and
Topeka. No passenger trains went out
this evening. Business all over Kansas
is virtually suspended.
NITRO GLYCERINE EXPLOSION.
An explosion of nitro glycerine and
gun powder occurred at St. Bernard
coal mines, Darlington, Kentucky, Dec.
18th. The shock was felt for miles.
A train Of mining cars, mules and negro
drivers were blown to atoms. There is
a panic among the miners and their
families.
SILVER DISCOVERIES IN NEVADA.
A Denver special of Dec. 18th says:
New discoveries of silver deposits con-
tinue in the vicinity of Leadville.
Among the latest and most remarkable
discoveries is one which was made by
Lieut.. Gov. Taber, last Saturday morn
ing at sand carbonate vein from which
$500 was taken that day and the dis
covery of very rich deposits on Ten
Mile creek, where a fssuue vein, sew
enteen feet thick, is reported. By an
examination of the Denver and Red
River Railroad Company's books for
November, it appears that nearly two
million pounds of base bullion were
transported from Leadville by that
route in November, and upwards of
that quantity of high grade by the Col
orado Springs route in November. 1t
is evident that that produced in silver
of the Leadville mines will very largely
exceed any estimates hitherto published.
LOST IN MID-oCEAN.
A New York dispatch of Nov. 11th
says: A fate like that which the steamer
City Of Boston met in mid sea has pro-
badly overtaken the Herman LudlUiq.
She left this port for Antwerp on Oct.
%, and was never seen after she passed
the Fire Island light. No bit of wreck
found on any shore has been identified
as hers, and no fortunate passenger or
sailor has escaped to tell the story of
her wreck. The date of her departare
comedies with a series of very severe
gales along the entire Atlantic coast.
The charterer and owners gave up ali
hope CT her long ago. The captains
wife and Henry Greve, an Antwerp
merchant, together with the thirty
E1SulISu S6dHl6u, composed nef entire
ships company. Her cargo consisted
of $150,O00 worth of general merchan-
disc. She was valued at $12O,00O.
There is no list on this side the water of
her crew. Her cargo was largely in
sured by the shippers, but the amount
lost by the insurers has not been ascer-
tanned. The steamer belongs to the
White Cross line. plying between New
York and Antwerp, of which Messrs.
Funch, Eyde & Co. are the agents. She
originally belonged to British owners.
She was built on the Clyde by John Rey,
in 1870, and was baptized the Andes.
She almost as soon as launched passed
under the Belgian flag, and was re-
christened the Herman Ludwig. She
was built of iron, on the newest models,
rated..1 100 A in Lloyd's, and was regard
ed as a patent freight steamer.
FLOODS IN THE EAST.
Heavy storms prevailed on the Allan
tic coast Dec. 10th. Floods prevailed
through Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, New York, and elsewhere. Con-
siderable railroad and mill property was
destroyed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

AREUNIoN Of the surviving soldiers of
tle Black Hawk war of 1882 will be
held in Springfield, ILL.,, on the Sth of
January next. Each county in the
state is requested to ascertain, as near
as may be possible. the number of sur
viving members of that war, and report
to Judge J. III. Matheny, Springfield.
Menard county has already reported
nine members. and it is thought there
must be several hundred in the state.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

UNDER the system of improving the
Mississippi which has been adopted by
the war department two dams are to be
built near Hannibal, Missouri. One is
to be an eight hundred feet wing dam,
and the ether sixteen hundred feet
dam across the head Of Gilbert Chute.
The work. therefore, is of no little mag
nitude, and will require some months
in its completion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19
IndIrated Customs,

Some of the indurated customs and
practices III the Russian service, the
origin of which has been forgotten, are
very curious. Bismark is reported in
Dr.. Bush's book as telling about sem
tinel continually stationed in the mid
die Of a lawn in the summer Garden at
Petersburg, without any one knowing
why. Strict inquiry revealed that 100
years ago the Empress Catherine had
given orders for the protection of a
snow-drop at that particular spot, and
sentinel was sent to perform the duty.
The order never having been counter
manded, he and his successors kept on
guarding the spot for century, and
long after the original occasion for it
was forgotten. A correspondent of the
London Times matches this story with
another. Toward the end of her reign
the Empress Catherine discovered that
the civil list other son Paul was charged
with some thousands of bottles of bran
dy, though it was a liquor he never
touched. The charges were traced
back to the day of his birth, when the
nurse had sent for some brandy to
make lotion for him. From that
time bottle of brandy was sent, or at
least charged, to to him every day
Ne,g York Times.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

DURING the last eight months the
missionaries of the American Sunday
School Union have established in the
northwest alone 27G new Sunday-schools,
besides aiding and encouraging 9S5
other schools. Besides this, 1888 per-
sons were supplied with the Scriptures,
and nearly $4,000 worth of religious
juvenile reading was put into the hands
of the children.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19
Truth and S0hnrneSS.

What is the best family medicine in
the world to regulate the bowels, purify
the blood, remove costiveness and bill
business, aid digestion and stimulate the
whole system?
Truth and soberness compells us to
answer, Hop Bitters, being pure, per-
feet and harmless. See "Truths" in
another column.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
THE MINNESOTA RAILWAY WAR.


A St. Paul dispatch of Dec 18th says:
The trouble between the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul and st. Paul & Sioux
| City railway companies eliminated in
an agreement between the two COM
panies by which they retain joint owner
ship gof the tracks and gain mutual
! right Of way for short line to Min
neapolis. A meeting of representatives
of nine railroads centering in st. Paul
was held to-day, at which union depot
and transfer company was formed. with
q capital Of halfa million, with authority
to handle and transfer all freight, build
side tracks to all industrial establish
ments. and to form connection with
any roads that may be built hereafter.
The new company will build a union
depot 160 by 800 feet.
THIS CAUSES INDIAN OUTBREAKS.
| A Washington telegram of December
10th, says: Indian agent John A.
! Wright reports to the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, under date of Lempi
Agency, Dakota, I'd inst, that at Salmon
| City. on the night of the 1st inst, two
Indian prisoners. hostiles, vino were in
charge of the agent to be conveyed from
Salmon City to Fort Hall, were cap
tured by mob and shot to death. The
agent has procured the names of num-
ber~of the participants in the riot. The
participants include Charles Price, for
mer sub-contractor for beef at Lempi
agency, and DR.. George 4. Kenny, late
agency physician.
HEAVY SNOW sTORlI.
A dispatch from Kansas City, Mo-, of
Dec. 14th. says the heaviest show storm
ever known in this section has been rag
ing for the past "a hours. 1t began
about eight o'clock last night, and there
was depth of IL inches at daylight.
This morning at 9 o'clock the fall was
between q and % inches, about which
time the storm seemed to abate. A per-
feet gale attended the storm and in
many places the snow is drifted to the
depth of six and eight feet. The only
passenger trains that have arrived to-
day were the Hannibal & St. Joe which
came in five hours late, and Council
Bluffs that arrived; almost all other
trains are snow bound, but some are
expected tonight. The Mo. Pacific
due here this morning is stuck near
! Greenwood, the Kansas City and North
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

The sun shines every day Of the year
in Denver. The Colorado Bulletin
states that IN old resident, who has
kept record Of the days when the sun
was visible or invisible, vouches for the
fact that there has been unobscured
sunshine on 365 consecutive days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

SOME negro boys organized mock
court in Baldwin, Ga, condemned a
playfellow to death, and hanged him
from beam. They supposed he would
tell when to let him down, bat he only
kicked, and they took that for sport.
He was choked to death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

JAHANDAR SHAH, late Prince of
Badakshan, 4 province due north of
Afghanistan, has been murdered by his
Two sons, aged respectively 16 and IA,
at Utcy Kurghan, in Russian Khokand.
He was an exile, having been over
thrown by a recent revolution.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

THE 600 Immigrants who removed
from Quebec into the lake st. John
district, 120 miles north of that city,
during the past season, are said to be
in destitute condition. Recent letters
say few of them will be able to survive
the winter, unless assistance in the
shape Of provisions is forwarded them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

IT is said that the Missouri river
above the great iron bridge at Leaven-
worth, Kan, is rapidly cutting new
channel through eastward of the bridge,
and that unless arrested, in a shorttime
the bridge, which cost nearly million
dollars, will be completely isolated and
rendered useless.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

HENRY WELLS, Esq, one of the origi-
nal pioneers in the business of express
transportation, and who had for many
years been at the head of Wells, Fargo:
( Co.'S Express, died in Scotland Dec.
10th, whittier he had gone for the ben
eft of his enfeebled health. His resi-
dence was in Aurora, Cayuga county,
n. Y.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

LADY JANE GREY SWISSHELM thinks
there is no way to ciyilize the Indians
but the old way by which white men
were civilized; and that is by severe
tuition Of the Lords schoolmasters-
cold and hunger. An Indian will work
rather than freeze or starve; and when
he begins to work, he begins 10 civilize.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

THE government clerks at Ottawa
have petitioned for an advance of two
months salary, to be repaid in INSTALL
ments by the end of the fiscal year, be-
cause they will have to go to heavy ex-
penses in attending the levees, &c. The
government has not answered their pc
titiOn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

A QUEER case springs from the failure
of the City of Glasgow Bank. A lady
died recently having no heirs and leav-
ing no will, and her property went to
the Crown. Among Der possessions
was some of the stock, and as such
shareholder is individually liable for all
the debts it is proposed to hold the
Queen responsible.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19
GENERAL NEWS,

THE vote in Virginia, last month was
almost 100000 less than it was in 1876,
which is largely owing to the enforce
ment of the dollar poll tax as pre-
requisite of casting ballot.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

By the recent storm on the Atlantic
the Toronto Cam export firms lost
5000 head of cattle. 1t is estimated
that cattle to the value of 100000
have been exported from that city this
year
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

MOBILE Register: We have seen a
portrait of the ameer of Afghnaistan.
He parts his hair on the isotherrai
line. This is enough; let the war pro-
ceed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

A DUTCH clergyman was In the habit
of giving out two lines of a hymn at
time for the choir to sing. One dark,
rainy day he could not see the words,
and said: "Mine eyes ish dim, [ can
not see; left my specks at home"
The choir, supposing this to be the
hymn, struck up the time of common
meter. The old fellow bawled out,
;, Mein Gott! mein Gottl dat ish no
hymn, l only said my eyes wash DIM"
The choir sang these two lines, the old
fellow saying, " L think de debil's in you
A sharp tongue is the only edged
tool that grows keener with constant
use.-Iruing.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

A wise mans thoughts walk within
him, but fools heart without.
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EX-REBEL SOLDIERS AND THE ARMY BIZ

Subscriptions to per cent. loan. 275, $50
EX-REBEL SOLDIERS AND THE ARMY BILL.
Says Washington telegram of De
cember 18th: 1t is claimed by members
of the commission On the reorganiza-
ton of the army, that the repeal of sec
ton 1928, revised statutes, which for
bids the appointment in the army of
any person who served in the confede-
rate cause, will not, under the new bill
open the door to the appointment of
confederate officers or soldiers to any
grade except tnat of second lieutenants,
and that only through graduation at a
military academy on promotion from
the ranks.
THE NEW PENSION BILL.
A Washington telegram Of Dec. 18th
says: The bill for payment to invalid
and other persons for the next fiscal
year, as it passed the house to-day ap-
propriates $29,366,000, being $3.50 900
less than the amount estimated, and
$500 less than the appropriation for
the present fiscal year. The bill con-
talns a proviso that any unexpended
balances from the former appropriations
may be expended for similar objects in
the present bill. The bill as reported
yesterday was in precise accordance
with the estimates, but it having been
found there was an unexpended balance,
the committee on appropriations ac-
cOrdlngly prepared a substitute for that
bill making the apparent reduction as
above noted.
CONFIRMED.
The senate, on December 18th, con-
tirmed Thomas Hillhouse, of New York,
as United States assistant treasurer at
New York. Sidney w. Barnes, of Ar
kansas, attorney for the district of New
Mexico. ID. G. Moody, of Dakota, as
sociate justice of supreme court, United
States territory for Dakota. Martin v.
Davis, of Pennsylvania, coiner, and Jo-
seph Albright, of Louisiana, assayer at
the New Orleans mint, and Maximillion
Ferdinand, of Louisiana, refner. Cap
tain Richard L. Law, of Indiana, chief
Of bureau of yards and docks, with rel
ative rank as commodore in the United
States navy. Medical director ]. Win
throp Taylor, of New Jersey, chief of
bureau of medicine and surgeon gene
eral, with relative rank of commodore.
A STILL LATER REPORT ABOUT DEvENs.
Says Washington telegram of Dec.
18th: It can now be stated positively
that there is, at least, no present proba-
bility of Attorney General Devens re-
firing from the cabinet. The president
and other members of the cabinet con-
slider it of advantage to the government
that no change shall occur atpresent;
and while Gen. Devens has had offered
to him the position of first circuit judge
ship, he will defer his own wishes in
regard thereto and remain in his pres
ent Office.
THE PENSION BILL.
Says telegram of Dec. 18th: The to-
tai amount recommended by the pen
sion appropriation bill is $29,610,00O,
the department estimating $245,0O0
more than the appropriation for the
current year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

Mr.. Blaine tried to bring his resolu-
ton, IN regard to citizens being de-
prived of their constitutional votes, be-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19
THE PENSION BILL.

Says a telegram of Dec. 18th: The to-
tai amount recommended by the pen
sion appropriation bill is $29,610,OOO,
the department estimating S245 ZOO
more than the appropriation for the
current wear.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19
WASHINGTON.
TREASURY STATEMENT.

The following weekly treasury state
mCnt was made Dec. 14th:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

ern near Dewitt, and Kansas and Pacific
and Santa Fe between Lawrence and
Topeka. No passenger trains went out
this evening. Business all over Kansas
is virtually suspended.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-12-19

An explosion OF nitro glycerlne and
gun powder occurred at St. Bernard
coal mines, Darlington, Kentucky, Dec.
18th. The shock. was felt for miles.
A train Of mining cars, mules and negro
drivers were blown to atoms. There is
panic among the miners and their
families