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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02

AT the Presbyterian ministers associ-
alton at Pittsburg recently, minister
read an exhaustive paper upon the ex
pensiveness Of funerals. 1t was written
with the design Of making burial cere-
monies unostentatious and was full of
good sense. The writer dwelt on the
fact that funerals are oppressive in their
cost, and threw the blame upon fashion,
which makes necessary expensive burial
caskets, long lines of carriages and use
less floral decorations Some of this
display is due originally to the weakness
and vanity of mourners, but great deal
Of it is doubtless a mere matter of pro-
fessional development among undertake
ers, who have devoted themselves to
the subject of improving burial pomps
and ceremonial and take advantage of
the apathy often found in the house OF
grief 10 indulge in their artistic tastes
regardless OF costs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02

The house committee on civil service
has agreed to report a bill and recon-.
mend its passage effecting claims
against the government. 1t provides that
all claimants shall file bill in the
court of claims and the attornev-gener-
al shall appear and plead thereto as
provided III certain cases now. When
any issue of fact is joined the court is
to find the facts appearing from the tes-
timony before it and report its findings
to congress, with its opinion rs to the
determination which should be made.
Congress is not to consider or allow any
private claim until it has been heard
and reported upon by the court of claims.
All claims are to be presented within six
months from the passage of this act. If
this bill becomes = law congress will be
relieved Of an immense amount of busi-
ness and great saving of expense will
be effected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
NORTHERN PACIFIC,
About Northern Pacific Bonds and
Stock.
The New Northwest

The New Northwest
The reason that Northern Pacific
railroad 7-30 bonds are quoted higher
than the preferred stock is because the
bonds are sold fiat, without anv al
lowance for the accrued interest, while
IN converting the bonds into stock forty
dollars of interest is allowed on each
500 bond. On the other hand,
Sl,4O0 of preferred stock EQUALS
$1,000 of bonds, and $15 per share for
stock is the same at $21 per 100 for
bonds. We are not prepared to advise
any of our readers as to buying or
selling stocks or bonds, but we do not
hesitate to say that holders of North
ern Pacific 7-30 bonds should certainly
convert them into the company's pre-
ferred stock. Nearly all holders have
already done so. The preferred stock
sells more readily than the bonds, and
generally at a better relative price.
After getting the preferred stock our
own inclination would be to buy land
of the company with it, believing as
we do, that the land will increase in
value more rapidly than the stock, and
as the first corners, of course, get the
choice, we should say the sooner this
was done the better.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
THE BANKRUPT LAW

A Washington dispatch of the 26th
says the house last night passed the
bankrupt law with slight amendment
which will be concurred in by the SEN
ate, and within few days the uncondi-
tional repeal of the bankrupt law will
be effected. The motion to refer the
bill to the judiciary committee for fur
ther consideration was defeated-yeas.
A; nays, 145. A proposition to have
the law take effect July 1, was also de-
feated. On the substitute of the Judi
ciary committee, providing that the law
shall go into effect Immediately as to
involuntary, but extending the time for
voluntary bankruptcy to Jan. 1, was re-
jected, and the senate bill, with slight
amendment, was passed by a large vote
-2O6 yeas to 80 nays.
SEVERAL STATE CLAIMS.
Associated press advices from Wash
ington under date of April Oath states
that some time ago the Governor of
Illinois employed Gen. Logan to in
vestigate the claims of the state under
the 3 per cent.fund. Logan argued the
case before the department and COM
mittee of congress, and the House
Public Lands Committee has decided
to favorably report the bill. The
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02

A CORRESPONDENT describing the force
of the tornado ut Mapleton, Iowa, says
the mouse of the section boss at Maple
ton rolled over twice and its occupant
his wife and child were all badly hurt
the child probably fatally. from being
scalded by hot water from the stove.
Wagons, cattle and horses were carried
long distances III the AIR. while poultry
was blown away like puh-balls, and
stripped of feathers. Two men VINO
were in boat hunting on the lake dis
covered the approaching cloud and en-
deavored to get ashore; but the cloud
overlook them, when they sprung from
the boat and sought refuge on muskrat
houses. Their boat was lifted from the
lake and carried over the town. and
with their guns cannot be found. Two
children were not far away, on the
shore of the lake, watching cattle. and
they cannot be found. II is supposed
they were blown into the lake. or car
ried away and dropped in the fields
The machinery of a horsepower was
carried half a mile. The largest anC
finest house in Ida county, which stood
just outside the village, was torn into
kindling-wood, not a particle of it being
left. The shade-trees and large or
chards surrounding were all torn ul
and blown away, SO that nothing but
the bare earth now remains where was
an elegant home, emhellished with
beautiful surroundings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02

The United States, by geographical
and Typographical relations as close and
convenient to Mexico as to Oregon or
Nevada, serves that country with one
sixth of its imports, while England,
separated by 1000 miles of sea, supplies
nearly one-half, and France, Germany,
Spain, Cuba and China over one-third.
The causes of our practical exclusion
from the trade lie very close to the sur
face. They are in part due to our navi-
CATION laws, which are little wiser than
the wisdom of semi-barbarians, but still
more to the want of a commercial
treaty by which the two nations, with
respect to each other, should mutually
agree to substantial free trade; and also
by which Mexico should pledge herself
to the protection and security of Amer
ican capital and emigrants for a long
term of years. Such treaty would
soon result in the construction Of inter-
national lines of railway, new lines of
steamships and rush of our people
into the Northern States of our sister
Republic. What transpired a very few
years after the Americanization of Cali
fornia would happen in Sonora, Sinaloa,
Durango, Chihuahua, New Leon and
farther south. That is to say, the ma
terial developments and wealth of the
country would be increased hundred
fold, and the United States would secure
forever nine-tenths of the trade. On
our part we can produce and supply
illimitably every article which Mexico
needs. Agricultural implements, ma
chinery for her mines. cotton and
woolen goods, boots and shoes and hats,
bacon, lard, oils, and, above all, skilled
labor, which is the greatest want in all
Spanish-American States. On her part,
she can send US back her zinc, tin, cop
per, lead, silver, sugar, oranges and
other fruits, coffee, tobacco and fine
woods. Why should We exclude the
sugar, coffee and timber of SO close
neighbor, or she our manufactures, by
discouraging tariffs, when it is SO per
fectly clear that free trade between us
must inevitably rebound to the interest
of both9
We hope the rumored commercial
treaty will soon turn up as fact, and
that its terms will be liberal to the ex-
treme. 1t would enliven business all
along the border, but more especially on
this coast and in the Territory of Ari--
zona, which ought to be commercially
in as close relations with Sonora as with
California.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
s54,53S, O7O

In reference to the large increase of
failures in the first quarter of 1873, over
the corresponding period of 1877, the
report says:
1t should be remembered that we
have passed through an exceptional
winter, probably the worst that has
been experienced in its effect upon the
general retail trade of the country dur
ing the past twenty years. The results
anticipated from the abundant crops
have not been realized, and stocks pur-
chased to supply wants have been abso-
lutely unstable, AMI moreover have
had Of necessity to De sacrificed The
shrinkage of resources during the past
six months has undoubtedly, in the ag-
gregate, been enormous, and has con-
tributed to swell the figures of the
failures of the past quarter. 1t may
also be borne in mind that the constant
extension Of the operations of the Mer-
camille Agency, by the opening of new
offices, etc, has a tendency to bring
into its classification a smaller class of
traders whose wants are purely local,
thereby increasing the number report
ed, and that this also contributes natu-
rally to swell the number of failures.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
Quarterly Report of Failures.

As an indication of the course of bu-
siness, we print from the report of the
mercantile agency of r. G. Dunn & Co.
the following list Of failures in this
country for the first three months OF
1873, aid for the purpose of compar-
ison, the failures for the corresponding
period of 1877:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02

PoSTMAsTER-GENERAL KEY and party,
who were on visit to Havana, have
returned to Washington, after consum-
ing over two weeks in making that ten
DAYS visit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02

FROM the annual reports of the lu-
matte asYlums of Bengal it appears that
not less than 30.66 per cent. of the total
number of cases of lunacy San be
traced to the excessive use of gunga.
one of the most deleterious preparations
made from Indian hemp.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02

A WASHINGTON telegram says the New
York syndicate has taken already fifteen
million of the fifty million 43-per-cent.
bonds to be taken prior to January list,
1870
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02

SIMPLE REMEDY FOR BURNs.-Com-
mon whiting, mixed with water to the
consistency of thick cream, spread
on linen, forms an excellent local ap,
plication to burns and scalds, The
whole burnt surface should be covered
thus excluding the action of the air
The ease it affords is instantaneous, and
it only requires to be kept moist by oc-
casional sprinkling of cold water.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
VOL. XXI.
GENERAL NEWS.

THE associated press tells us that
Hayes drank wine moderately at Phila-
delphia at the recent reception in that
city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02

HoN. COLES BAsHFoRD, Ex-Governor of
Wisconsin and ex-secretary of Arizona
territory, died in Arizona April 25th.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02

BERRIES SPRINGS in Michigan is des-
cribed as the "loveliest village of the
plain;" it has no lawyer in it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
Washington.
THE TEXAS PACIFIC.

Washington advices under date OF
April 29th states that the friends of the
Texas Pacific railway report the pros
pect of the passage of the Texas Pa
cific bill continually improving. They
report that they can now safely count
upon majority in favor of the bill when
a vote can be reached.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02

SIX thousand acres will be planted in
sugar cane in Minnesota this spring.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
THE MEXICAN MINISTER

d vote can Do reached.
THE EMEXICAN MINISTER
The Mexican Minister Senior is il
Washington and will present his ere
dentials to President Hayes during the
present week.
SECRETARY EvARTS' AFFLICTION.
Advices received at Washington from
Windsor, Vermont, state that Secretary
Evarts had to postpone the funeral oi
his son which was to take place on
Sunday the 2Sth inst, and he and his
wife took special train to New York
city where another son is lying at the
point of death with typhoid fever
A SUNDAY NIGHT CABINET SESSION.
The president returned to Washing
ton Sunday morning from his visit to
Pennsylvania and on Sunday evening
the members of the cabinet in Wash
ington were at the executive mansion
in consultation with the president for a
long time. The nature of the business
is unknown.
TREASURY STATEMENT
The following is the treasury state
ment for the week ending April 9th:
U. S. bonds to secure national bank
circulation. S347, 11S, $50
BONDS To secure public deposits II, 44S 0OI
U. ). bonds deposited for circulation
week ending to-day ................ 792, OOC
Bonds held for circulation withdrawn
week ending to day; ............... 643, OOC
National bank circulation outstanding
currency notes ............ 3e1, 62s, O59
Gold notes. ....-................... !, 432, 120
Internal receipts to-day .......-.... 499, 32I
customs. ................ 556, 868
Bank notes received for redemption
Tor week ending to day. y............ $500, 600
responding week of 1S77....... ), 1854, 600
FATE OF THE TARIFF BILL.
Advices from Washington under date
of April 9th, say that a careful canvass
of the house OH the Wood tariff bill has
been prepared, from which it appears
that there are 135 votes for the bill and
156 against it. The canvass has been
made by an equal number of demo-
Gratis and republicans from each of the
states interested in the fate of the
bill. On this canvass the speaker is
counted as not voting, and there is one
vacancy in the Louisiana delegation.
The majority against the bill is therefore
21, and, unless Mr.. Wood concludes that
discretion is the better part of valor, and
postpones action on the measure until
the next session, the enacting clause
will undoubtedly be stricken out The
canvass, of the accuracy of which there
can be no doubt, is in detail as follows:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02

The Mexican Minister Senior is in
Washington and will present his Gre
dentials to President Hayes during the
present week.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
THE STRIKE AT MANCHESTER

ALondon telegram of the 25th inst,
says that nearly all the operatives at
Burnley whose notices expired last
evening, have joined in the strike.
Thousands of idlers at Blackburn are
wandering the streets, some of them
becoming very clamerous. Employers
in the Lancashire district say arbitra-
ton is out of the question.
THE ANGRY WIND.
A Sioux City, Iowa, dispatch dated
April Goth, states that the storm of
Sunday did gleater damage than
anticipated in previous reports. In the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
SECRETARY EvARTS' AFFLICTION.
TREASURY STATEMENT.

The following is the treasury state
ment for the week ending April 9th:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
Miscellaneous News.
HARD TIhIES.

A Boston special under date of April
18th. states that the Matapan paper
mills have shut down on account of dull
times and want of orders. The dis
patch says these mills are the oldest in
America and have not been closed be.
fore for over one hundred years.
THE PARIS EXPOSITION.
A Paris dispatch, dated the 2Sth of
April, states that over one hundred
thousand had already arrived to wit
ness the ceremony of the opening of
the exposition, Wednesday next, May,
1st. The prices of living have advanced
but not to the extent that was feared.
The exhibition will not be III full trim
until the beginning OF June. The build
lngs are finished but the exhibitors are
behind hand.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-09-12
From the AnOha union.

Last Saturday, in Reed & Sher<
woods mill the saws run on to seven
different pieces Of iron and steel, which
some miserable and dastardly william
had driven into the logs, in spirit Of
revenge. One Of the circular saws had
great number of teeth Knocked out,
utterly running it for further work.
while another was injured considera>
bly,. Fourteen gang saws also suffered
the loss Of teeth, and altogether Pc
cuniary loss Of not less than $500 has
been caused to the proprietors, besides
the life of almost every man, V no works
in the mill endangered. The wretch
who is periodically guilty of these
damnable outrages. must be fend in
deed to place SO many lives of human
beings in danger, and it would not be
we'll for him if his discovery should be
Econsumatea, for we assure him that
the workmen are getting reckless in
their threats, and it would be better
Efor him if he had never been born
The city authorities owe it to the pros
perity Of our city, to take necessary
steps to discover the perpetrators o.
Ethis damnable aud 6eudish spike drlv'
Fine.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-09-12
( An Interview.

= :. + ~
Last Thursday morning at the early
hour of 1882 the special train bearing
President Hayes and party arrived at
Sank Rapids, and A. DeLacy Wood,
Of the Benton County Press, deter>
mined to interview the President.
The following taken from the Press
shows how he did it r. +: '<.. -, :. ;.
sour reporter, shocked at the fails
ure of Sank Rapids people to turn out,
borrowed plug hat, and, cheered by
the smiles Of Hon. .Jeremiah Russell.
and the majestic whirl Of. his cane, de-
termfned, at all hazards, to tell the
President all about the future great
city, and mustering up courage enough
to face a cannon 5 mouth in the midst
of battle, he proceeded to enter the
Chief Magistrates apartments. There
was no .troubls in opening the door
leading to the platform Of the coach,
but, alas, far human hopes and expee>
tations, there happened to be another
door that Was locked The reporter
peeked through the key hole, and
thought be saw the President; but we
guess he didn't, as we do know he
Arabian like, silently stole away, think.
ing this world hollow ,nockery:"
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-09-12
Communicated,
Little Falls, September

Little Falls, September 4, 1873.
Editor Of the Transcript:
A few of the friends of Rev. T. G.
Kinnie and wife met at their residence
in Bellevue on Monday, Sept. 2, to
celebrate the third anniversary of their
marriage: After dispensing turkey
and many other good things, too nu.
merous to mention: Mrs. K!nnie passed
around some of the cake made for hel
wedding three years ago in old Con,
necticut. The cake was in GOOD
state of preservation. The company
did not, however, find themselves "toe
full for utterance," but. discoursed
sweet and soul stirring music until a
late hour, as the young people of Tw,
Rivers and Bellevue ale wont to do a,
their social gatherings. That tbei1
anniversaries may be many, their do
nestle bliss never grow less, and Their
cake never get mouldy, is the wish Of
GUEST.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-09-12
From the Sank Rapids Sentinel.

From the Sank Rapids Sentinel.
On Sunday morning, between the
hours Of 4 and 5 O'Clock, Stauton's
cooper shop, situated, near the water
power, and about $50 feet from the
Eagle mills, was discovered to be in
flames. The alarm wassquickly given,
but before anything could be done tt
stay the fire, the entire shop, as well
as large corn crib near by, vas en-
vcloped in flames, and soon nothing
remained of the buildings and con.
tents, but the smouldering- ashes
Fortunately the wind was from Che
south, else it would have been impos,
#sible to save the large building, about
30 feet from the fire., which Mr.. STAN
ton is fixing up for q store house, and
which escaped with a-slight ssorch:
,:,S- 81. 4. q.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-09-12
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
EAND OFFICE,

! ST.. PAUL, August 26, 1873.
Notice is hereby given that the Commission
err Of the State Land Office will offer at public
sale, at the Office Of the County Auditor in
Little Falls, all the School and Internal I'm
provement Lands that have been appraised,
in the County of Morrison; on tuesday, Octo-
Der 8, 1878, at 9 o'clock a: NJ.
Printed lists of the lands to be offered may
be obtained at the Auditors Office in said
county for two weeks prior to the sale.
"'5 TERMS OF SALE.
Fifteen per cent. of the purchase money and
interest at the rate of seven per cent. per an
mum on the balance from the day of sale to
the first day of June, 1879, aoiU be required on
the day Of sale. Tn timbered lands an amount
equal to the value Of the timber will be re-
,quired in addition to the fifteen per cent.
!: After the first payment the balance of the
purchase money in full, or in installments, is
payable, 1t the eptian of the purchaser at
ANY time within thirty years from the date of
sale, on School Lands, and twenty years on
Improvement Lands, provided that
annual interest thereon at the rate of seven
per cent. is paid, III adrance, on the first day
.of june or within six days thereafter. Upon
"a failure to pay interest When due the lands
revert to the State without further notice or
process, and will again be offered at public
sale, unless double the amount of interest due
is previously paid. No lands can be sold at
less than the appraisal, which cannot be less
than S. per acre. I'll. s..3}s-.ssss::s z
@x H.. r- o. p. WHITCOMB,
!: =. :~r4ye:, -. Commissioner.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-09-12
Vanadium is reckoned the most cos,

Vanadium is reck toned the most cost.
~ of the fifty known metals, and iron
the cheapest; though really the most
valuable Of all. As estimated BY com
lnercial prices current, pound Of van
adlum costs more than two hundred
tons of pig iron. There are nineteen
metals more costly then gold, though
manyof them are rare and practically
salueless as far as applied to any prac-
tical use in their metallic state. None
Of the metals are poisonous By them
selves, probably because they are insol-
ublesin their metallic ndition Elk.
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-09-12

On the train last Wednesday we
met Mr. A. J.-Demeules,. of Sank Rap
ids, and he informed US that he was
then gong to St. Paul to bring ur
the 5"dy of his infant daughter, who
had just died, for interment in the
cemetery at St. Joseph. Mrs. De-
meules had taken the infant. which
was in perfect health, with her to St.
Paul to remain during the week Of the
fair, but it was taken sick suddenly
and died ofinAamation of the, bowels
Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-09-12
From the Benton County Press.

A huge boulder was taken from
the river this week just below the
rapids that: is estimated. to lave
weighed over ten tons. ...-.-..>
Tuesday, L. Robinson commence
to quarry the stone for our new rail-
road bridge. "A force Of some II, men
are now employed in blasting the rock,
and Mr.. K. expects to increase it to
twenty FIVE at once. We understand
he will also superlntend the construc-
Zion Of four piers for. the new bridge.
Mr.. Robinson informs us that the new
structure will be built Of iron, and that
it will be completed and ready for the
cars to cross by the 18th ofApril. next.