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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-11-07
South and East,
should buy their tickets via the
" Chicago st. Paul & AiuneanO|is
Line"

Close connections are made at Chicago with
the Lake Shore L Michigan Southern, Baltimore
& Ohio, Michigan Central; Pittsburgh, Fort
Mayne 3 Gacago' man 6jts Line an S ran
East. and with the Chicago & Alton and Illinois
Central for all points South.
New York Office, No As Broadway: Boston
Once No. State Street; St Paul Ticket 0ficess
corner Third and Jackson SITS. and az Depot on
SibIey street; Minneapolis Ticket Offices, No. 8
Depot; Chicago Ticket Offices, So Clark street.
under Sherman House; 10 Canal, corner Madi-
son street; kinzie street Depot, cor. West Kin
lie and Canal streets; Wells street Depot. cor.
Wills and kinzie Streets.
T B. CLARKE. W. II. STENNETT,
G,P.A,w WR'y, 9. Paul. Gen Pass Ggt Oh q.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-11-07

Concert. The far famed Clement
Brothers troupe embracing the re-
nowned Wymans and L. R. Raymond
and NJ. G. Evans viii soon give rare
musical entertainment in our city.
We bespeak for them big house.
They arc at St Paul coming this way,
a. We are informed by card from the
troupe.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-11-07
puIlm an Palace Cars.

All trains of this great route run through with
out change of cars. Pullman Palace Drawing
Room and Sleeping Cars run on all trains.
All Express trains on this route are equipped
withiW aShing ton Patent Air Brakes and Miller's
Patent Safety Platform and Cuplers-the NEST
Perfect Protection against accidents known.
This popular route is unsurpassed for speed.
Comfort and Safety. The smooth, well LASTED
and perfect track of steel rails, the celebrated
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars, the perfect Tele-
graph System of Moving trains, the regularity
with which they run thu admirable arran cement
for running through cars between Chicago and
all points West, North and Northwest, secure to
passengers all the Comforts in Modern Railway
Travelling.
Ifyau wish the Best Travelling :ccommoda-
tions, you will buy your Tickts BY this Route
and will take no other.
All ticket agents can sell you Through Tickets
and check usual Baggage Free by this Line.
Passengers for Chicago. Detroit, TeledO, Cletve-
land. Buffalo, Niagara Falls Pittsburgh, Cincin-
natl. Toronto, Montreal, Yuebec, Portland. Bos-
ton New York. Philadelphia Baltimore, Wash
ington, Indianapolis, st. Louis, Carlo and all
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-11-07
The Open Temple Meeting.

The Open Temple Neeting.-
Writer'S Hall was crowded to its ut
most capacity last Sunday evening to
hear Grand Worthy Chief Templar
Wstrous discuss the temperance ques-
ton. Mr. Watrous spoke nearly an
hour and half in a way that carried
conviction to the vast auditory. The
address was 50 different from the usual
style of speakers that all were edited.
Mr.. w. is not an orator, but he can
get down in the hearts of men and
touch them as only few can. The
Templsrb were out in force in regalia
The Congregational Choir furnished
the music. The meeting was a sue
cess in every particular, and we pre-
dict much good will come from it in
various ways. The temperance senti-
ment is growing in our city as the
open temple meetings attest.
Almost Fire. -The residence O
Judge Wood came near being destroy
ed BY fire last Friday, week. Mrs
Wood had occasion to rise earlier than
usual to perform household duties. and
citing csndle upon a stand near
some folded bed clothing in the sitting
room, left it while she went into the
kitchen. Shortly thereafter her son
Walter had occasion to go into the
room, and found the somke so dense
as to almost suffocate him. With rare
presence Of mind he took in the situa-
ton at once. and raising window
threw the blazing bed clothes out upon
the ground, and extinguished the
flames which had ignited bracket and
clock shelf, burning them both to a
cinder. Further investigation disclos-
ed the fact that the fire had eaten
through the wall and was just getting
good start in the ceiling. But for
the timely discovery, the building
would have been consumed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-11-07

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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-08-10
THE SCOURGE IN THE WEST,

'7le OF the most interesting chapters in
the report of the commission on the locust.
Is that which treats of The permanent breed
ing grounds of the locust. The area in
which the locust breeds each wear, in greater
or less numbers, the commission says, is
approximately 500, 900 square miles in ex
tent 1t is not to be inferred that the To-
Gust breeds continuously over the whole of
this area each year, for it is to be under
stood that the locust within its native per-
manent habitat is essentially migratory in
its habits. For series of years il NAV
deposit its eggs i'll given river valley, in
some park, in some favorable area in
some of the plains lying abou; the noun
ta!nS, yet it may desert It's customary breed
ing grounds for adjoining regions, or cross
a low range of mountains and breed in a
more distant valley. Even in this area the
true Matching grounds aru, for the most
part confined to the river bottoms or sunny
slopes of upiands, or to the subalpine grass
areas among the mountains, rather than
continuously over the more elevated, dry,
bleak plains. The area in which the locust
breeds lies mainly between longitude l02
degrees, and ia degrees west of Green
wich, and latitude ID degrees and 30 de.
giees north.
From this general breeding ground the
locust is distributed i'll all directions. The
eastern limit of its range is marked by the
commission 10y the following line: From
the southern end Of Lake Winnipeg. by
way of Lake of the Woods. To Pierce county.
Wisconsin; thence directly south to Powes.
hicls county, Iowa; thence southwest to
Worth county, Missouri; then south and
through Montgomery county, Arkansas, to
Houston, Texas, curving westward from
this point to Live Oak county, Texas" In
Manitoba the eastern and also the northern
limit corresponds very closely with the tim
Der line. The extreme western limit of the
distribution of THESE ocustS is the eastern
flank of the Oscade Range in Oregon and
Washington Territory and the Sierra Ne
vada mountains, though III many parts Of
the country they do not reach point SO
far west.
As To the southern limit, the commission
lacked data for determining this line salts
factorily. All that its members are able to
say in reference to it is that the locusts
have been known to cross the Rio Grande
at Eagle Pass, and to penetrate a mile and
4 half into Mexico; that they have been
observed in Western Texas as far as the
settlements have extended; that they have
penetrated New Mexico on the northeast
as far rs Las Vegas and Fort Union, and
have passed down in the mountain region
from Colorado to Taos, and possibly fur
Their south.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-08-10
BUBBLES.

"A shocking affair-a galvauic battery.
A doctors fees, for instance, would
you call them ill-gotten gains?
Speaking of rude remarks, any remark
is rued that gets you into trouble.
There IL no good substitute for wis
dunn, but silence liz the best that haz been
discovered yet.
Young mother: What do your chill
dren say when they get candy" Infant
recipient of CONNECTIONS: More"
This is the latest for wedding invi-
tations: Come around and see us capture
mother in law at eight o'clock, sharp"
"A st. Louis coroner, who was formerly
a base bali man, instructed his jury to
bring IN verdict of "out on a sunstrike.
Mrs. Butler, nee Miss Thompson, the
celebrated artist of war, has produced
what is regarded as her finest artistic effort.
It's boy.
A lawyer, wanting postpoaement,
appealed to the Judge to "lct the broad AK
of justice be swung by the hand of mercy"
1t was swung.
A " Feast of Lanterns" was held at
Buffalo recently. 1t is not stated how the
lanterns were cooked, but we should call
them very light /" diet.
=" Have you ever read the Tale of
Bundle Bee =" asked George of Sarah
Jane. No." said she, as she turned the
color OF red paint: but I've felt EN-"
The cable announces that Newgate
prison is to be destroyed, and its site sold
for business purposes. The efforts Of the
antiquarians to preserve it have all proved
New gateory.
1t takes one hundred and twenty-three
trunks, packages and parcels to contain the
travelling outfit Of James Gordon Bennett
and sister. \ family out West can travel
from place to place with no more luggage
than tobacco box and dog.
If you take one of the new silver half
dollars, pour little muriatic acid on the
figure Of the eagle, and set it out in the
sun for twenty minutes, when you come to
look at it, it will be gone. And the man
who took it will be gone also.
Two Baltimore commercial tourists
purchased two crows on Baltimore street,
in that city, yesterday. 1t is said that
they mistook them for Spring chickens
Another party says they were told that
they were a new kind of sable canary.
An ingenious wife tells her oppressed
sister how to come ii over the tyrant
man. When | want nice snug day all
to myself she says, al tell George dear
mother is coming, and then see nothing
of him until one in the morning" Try it,
These are hard times, and the Con-
necticut cigarmakers excuse their custom of
making the wrapping Of their cigars of
leather, because it makes the cigar last
longer and is consequently lighter bur
den on the pocket Of the consumer. This
is unseliish.
Thousands of writer's have been trying
to tell why the times are hard and business
depressed. 4 writer occupies a column in
one Of our contemporaries, and reaches the
conclusion that the whole trouble in the
business world arises from the fact that
"a great many people have not the money
in their pockets to buy what they want"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1878-08-10
GI.EANINtsS.

The boy who had turned a grindstone
or fanning-m mill all day doesn't go much
ON the asdage that lone good turn deserves
another
Coming back from little trip to
ilavrr, 4 Partisan thus bewalci his mis-.
fortune 10 his railway companion: :" One
thing is certain; you won't catch me on any
more of these excursions. have lost my
wife and my cane And then he added,
with tears in his eyes, And it was a new
cane, too
-"Och, Jamie, did yc nivcr hear NV my
great spache afOre the ilibernian Society ~
No, Pat, how should |: for shure was
not on the ground" well, Jamie, you
see | was called upon by the Hibernian
Society for spache; and, be iabors. rose
with the Enthusiastic cheers of Ihousan ds.
with my heart oven allowing with gratitude,
and my eyes filled with tears and divil a
word die spak -
Louis NV, going to mass one Sunday,
found that the congregation consisted of
his own immediate attendants and the
officiating officer of the chapel. He asked
FenelOn the meaning of this extraordinary
lack of attendance. 1.-The fact is, sire, :"
said the Archbishop, O. let it he supposed
you were not coming to-day, that you
might judge how many come to worship
God, as compared with the king
In an action against stage coach pro-
prietor by gentleman who had suffered
from an upset. Erskine, the eminent
counsel, once began: Gentlemen of the
jury, the plaintiff is Mr.. Beverley, re-
spectacle merchant of Liverpool, and the
defendant is Mr.. Wilson, proprietor of
The Swan with Two Necks,' in Lad Lane
"a sign embiematic, suppose, of the
number Of necks people ought to possess
to travel by his vehicle"
-" Jock, said farmer to one of his
workers one Sunday, after the return of the
latter from church, "whaur was the text
to-day" :" dinna KEN" answered Jock I:
- was over long in gaun ill.," what
was the end OF them al dinna ken:
came yet afore it was dune" What did
the minister say about the middle OF
then p said the master, angriy, deter
mined to have an answer of some sort. II
dinra ken, MASTER" replied Jock: al
sleepit a the time"
-"Of what is milk composed ~ asked
the Professor. And the smart bad boy,
has to study through vacation, replied,
lone part oxygen to two of hydrogen"
The Professor looked incrcdulous. "well
not quite SO bad as that" he said any
thing else >" Sometimes, said tho
smart boy, "a little t;ncturc of Tactic acid
or some Gaseous matter" The Professor
sent him TO his room and told him the
next time he wanted to analyze milk lie
mustn't buy it so near tho river.
There is a celebrated professor in Ger
many, whose works on Biblical science are
authorities, who is singularly ignorant of
all affairs save his studies. lie was lately
paid sum of money by his publisher, on
account of COPYRIGHT funds. The amount
was more than he could use for present
demands. What on earth can do with
all this money!" he asked, in real distress
Why" replied the publisher, you can
put it ont at interest After thinking a
moment in evidently greater anxiety, he
continued: No, no that will never do,
for don't you see that will make it still
worse, for there will be ever so much more
of it."
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-11
"BLACK LENA" WANTED.

Judge Dykman. OF the Kings County Supreme
Court. General Term. yesterday morning affirmed
the conviction of Mary Morris, alias BLACK Lena
on the ground that in the procce lings could
he found. Mary Morris 1t will be remembered. was
shoplifting at the dry goods store OF Journey
Durham. Atlantic avenue, Brooklyn.
Bail was offered 10 the extent OF $4,000,
but was refused. They escaped from Raymond street
Jau in May. 1875 while awaiting indictment. They
were rearrcsted in Boston III December pf the same
year Their trial took place on The 2st of December.
and they wer. convicted and sentenced 10 the Kings
County Penit.ntiary for four years and six months
each Eighteen months after the conviction and
OF the accused Mary Morris, through the efforts
OF her counsel. secured her release BAIL II being
claimed that had been made in the proceed
ings. An effort will now he made 10 refrrest the re-
l.a spd pre0npr.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-11
ACT FIRST OF A TRAGEDY.

'why won't you treat this woman bctter1' said
Judge Otserbourg TO the stalwart muato before him
The complainant was his rather pretty spouse
Treat her better? Treat her better?"
'shc swears that You struck her.
"Ah. ledge, she swears struck her. I did strike
her. But why Did she tell you why?'
"No she said you met her the street and slapped
her face"
80 did, sab; so did. But l loved dat woman
dsr wild all my heart, an would give her my life!
Would work my hands down to lie bone 70 heri
Wouldn't Rose? turning to her with large tear
trembling ON his eycd). But, Jedge, would rather
sec her dead than where she was agwne, when
struck her dat blow for which she swore agin' me-"
"what do you meany said Judge Otterbourg,
looking from one to the other.
"Jedgc" replied the man. in trembling accents,
''she wor gwine down, down inter a brothel, when I
put my hand on her shoulder aud said, 'Rosel don't
go down dar. my wife; don't 90 down dar. Dat am
de- gate oh destr,cshun.'"
"And then r.
"An then. You Onah. sho laughed at my breaking
her away from dat ar cussed place Mex ting know
she have me rested. as you See"
There was pause for moments then the Judge
questioned the woman, whose replies sullcnly
given, and who did not deny her desire 10 leave the
husband and do she liked.
MY poor man, said the Court, Il am sorry for
you ana viii not hold you. But you must not strike
her again 'Twere better to leave her: she Is irro
claimabc."
Tho pair left the Court-thc woman defiant, the
man wrctched.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-11

nowers Of dramatic fancy ruthlessy nipped in the
bud is appallingly grim Every ono OF these dusty.
yellow manuscripts seems TO assume ire anu VOICE
ana 10 cry out for revenge upon the heal OF 1hs
slaughterer who has doomed 1t to these lnusty aiiu
mody shelves. How many crushed ambitions anu
destroyed hopes these piles or pressed manuscript
fepresented--how many anxious days and sleepiess
nights, and racking torinents of the mind
Here, said the murderous Cazaulan pointing.
apparently unnoved, at his victims, ARE plays re-
Jected by the management in their entirety ana ne
added with grim satire that afford me absolutely
California from the Territory of Wyoming. from tho
editorial sanctuns and reportoral rooms of the mag
azlnes and the daily press. No idle French manu-
WHAT Mr. cAzAunAS SAYS.
- wsh 70 ask you regarding ~ hass,s play No
laugh. not shudder IN it,
Was the Bankers Daughter plagiarism from
could not really say. Mr.. Howard brought the
Bankers Daughter here in its original shape OF
Lillian"
..But is it like the Golden Calf?''
We'll there suggestions and possibilities Of ef
feet in it that Howard seems 20 have either hit upon
or initiated. If the latter it is hard on Roge."
Did you read the Golden Calf conscientiously
and carefully z.
II read act and half"
why not the whole?"
I'm hfty-six-litc is short"
TOO GOoD!"
what did you think OF what you did read or it?
1.-THE play struck me as being too far above the
average capacity of New York public for
An auulcnce OIL HERALD editors. members or the
Cabinet and of members Of the Board OF Education
might come TO see it twice. Int that woudnt
pay for tho getting up
NJ. Rose. presume, is All American author, as he
takes up the cudgels for American authorship"
mo, sir. M. Roge is a Frencman. but, as second
tdramaic) Lafayette he has placed his pen, not his
sword on the side OF American liberty and progress.
IN. koge complains that rejected plays not
duly returned to Their authors?"
my dear sir. Mr. Roge never camc for his play.
and supposed he had actually forgotten it much
had. or else wished to keep it valuable
sion TO our mournrully increasing collection Of re-
jected plays which numbers seven hun
dred and twenty-sevcn copics-exclusiyo OF tho
Golden Calf -
Are you not afraid of the injunction threatened by
Mr.. Roge r.
Rather like it. Lay on. Macduf. and SO and so
be he who first cries Hold! Thought"
1t was evident that nothing serious could be got
out of Mr. Cazauran on subject grave in itself
and magnihed in its Importance by the prospect OF
protracted litigation in the courts, and tho writer
therefore babe Mr. Cazauran and this graveyard of
plays farewell.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-11
ADJUSTMENTS.
A FINNISH CONCERT.


An audience respectable in numbers md character
gathered at Chickerng Hall last night to assist at the
third grand concert of Miss Selma Borg. The pro-
sramme almost exclusively comprised Swedish and
Finnish music. the folk songs and operate cndea-
vors of the composers of Finland being given the
preference. After medley of Swedish national airs
by Lander's orchestra Miss Borg appeared on the
platform and heartily welcomed She at once
that nothing she has heard either the
room or at the opera. gave her 50 much comfort as
the feeble little heart songs of her native country
When we study nations SONGS she said "we
have perfect mirror OF that nations heart She
not speaking aguinst the magnificent works Of
the modern composers; but before single nocturne
which she is introducing into Amer
lea SING by the people OF Finland
The charm Of the address IN Mis- Borg's wonder
ful attempts mt managing the rns1st words in the
English language. in which she ne SO oxqIsitcly
that there in the cndaavorS.1fth Of the sweet
simplicity OF the Finnish folk songs. At the concu
sion Of the address Professor Lander presented her
with beautiful baton. and she At took
her place the leader of the orchestra in
the Interpretation of Finnish music. First she gave
series OF Finnic songs. but an rrcverent youth who
got into the hall by mistake complained that there
too much heart in them and too little mnsic.
The last number ''The quaint old March of tho
Firms. played at the battle OF Lubzen in f32 Sub.
sequenty the orchestra. under Miss Borgs leader
ship gave the to the Finnish opera of FLIP
Won Sclautz's ''Kullervo, and Mile. Amanda Carlson
sang Finnish song by the composer. The +
tcr.ainment closed with Bjorneberg's March and
the National Hymn" OF FINLAND by the orchestra.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-12-11
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC NOTES.

Annie Louise Cary is thirty years old
The Josh Hart Combination playing in San
francisco.
Miss Ada Cavendish is playing with her usual sue
the Pacific slope.
Miss Emma Abbott is attracting large and fashiona-
BILE audiences in the West
Paris has As theatres which give employment to
!, TIT actors and ], l02 actresses
Miss Kate Claxton's company, now playing ''The
Double Marriage at the Lyceum Theatre, are draw
ing well.
Miss Batemsn has appeared at the Prince Of Wales
Theatre in character for her. that of Queen
Elizabeth in Giacomettis translation OF the play.
1t is denied that Henry Irving, the actor, has been
commanded to provide dramatic entertainment at
Windsor Castle on the occasion Of the marriage the
Duke of Connaught.
Nine. Patti and Nicolini appeared in AIDA in
Brussels last month. Mile Albani--now Nine. Gye--
has been engaged to sing at Moscow aud ST. Peters
burg during the winter.
Nine. Rose Hersee is to receive f5, 200 for six
months engagement at Melbourne. She will be ac-
companied by her husband. Mr.. Arthur Hoet. late
the Carl Rosa company.
This is the last week of "Our Boarding House" at
the Grand Opera House. Several of the company
have made "hits," among them Mr.. Harry Little
Gillypod and Frances Kemble Betty.
lle directors OF the ClnclnudL MUSICAL fcStlVal
Association that the fourth festival will be
given during the month of May, 1880. in the Music
Hall Building. Mr.. Theodore Thomas has been en-
gagged as musical director.
princely violinst of remarkable ability s Prince
William the eldest OF the Crown Prince. and the
Germans, in prssing his SKILL refer to the fact that
Frederick the Great thorough musician 1t is
limited that the young Prince is not by any means
captivsted with the music Of the future.
Signor Bettn the operate singer, has brought an
action in the English courts against his wife, Nine
Trebelli Bettn from whom he is separated, to re-
cover e. O00 which he claims to be due him in the
division OF certain property that made in the
settlement Of their mutual interests The is still
pending.
At the late elimination Of the bodies Of Beethoven
and Schubert from their graves in Waehringcr Gene
terry, in Vienna. the fine. delicate, almost feminine
head Of Schubert contrastcd strangely with the
massive thick bony and great brain holding skull Of
Beethoven The bumps Of musical talent were miss
ing in both-at least in those places where bump
theorists put them Schubert had still thirteen teeth
and Beethoven fourteen. The formers skull showed
more perfect portions than the latter's