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The Business mSn o. Kew
CLEANS. says that the Picgyune,
a -e bitterly opposed in calliin, a
State Constitutional ConveA
ton.
The Bastrop Advertiser, pub
lished at the home of Major
Joseph D. Sayers contains near
ly a column of complimentary
notices.
PoErs and Poetists please
take notice. The Austin Ga
seH wants poems on Spring
A nod Is as good as wink to a
blind man.
JOACHIM PEccr was on We'd
nesdav elected Pope in place of
Plus TX recently deceased. He
is an Italian and is now IS
years of age.
FRIDAY is the anniversary of
Westinghouse birth day. 1t
should be celebrated by the
Mexican war veterans thourgh-
out the State.
IT appears that Pope Plus TX
was once in love. The lady
that he had al affection for re
used to marry him. He became
Pope, ana Of course never mar
ricd.
The Vicksburg Herald is of
the opinion that if the Moffett
bell-punch tax were imposed in
Mississippi, that the LegisIa-
lures OF that State would pay
taxes right lively.
THE Waco Examiner is either
in love with the BANNER. or it
has special spite against it.
The last few numbers of the
daily has come to this Office in
very bad shape.
THE twenty-five devoted
wives of the late Brigham
Young ere having rather
a warm and clamorus time over
the division OF the property Of
this wicked old sinner.
THE Hampstead Courier hav-
ing been pied at the late fire
in that city on Friday last made
its appearance on Thursday.
We can sympa:hize with the
Courier in its misfortune.
The Dallas Commercial has
had on its studying cap'tor sew
eral days. The result OF its
cogitation is, that one Wendell
Phillips wants to make other
people feel as he does himself.
1t is the honest opinion of
the editor of the Brazo5 Pilot
that Dick Hubbard will be the
next Goyener of Texas: and we,
incline to the beleit that his
head is about level on that
point.
A NORTHERN fashion paper
says that boiler iron, sheet iron
and copper plate is the thing
for the upper crusts OF nlince
pies. Hash founders and board
ing mistresses willgovern them-
selves accordingly.
A MISS D1cKEr, after an in
generation of seven years, in
New York lur attic asylum has
been, by competent authority de-
clal ed, not to have been insane.
Such cases though rare are not
without precedent.
The Dallas Herald in a col
umn editorial makes very
strong endorsement Of Maj. JOS
eph ID. Sayers for Lieutenant
Governor. II any reliance is
to be placed on Texas newspa-
pers, Maj. Sayers is the coming
man.
THE BANaFR being without
Associated Press dispatches can
not keep up with the European
news. One thing, however, it
is well satisfied of, and that is
this: The prospects of a gen.
eral European war are grad
nally diminishing.
THE Dallas Herald contains
nearly a column article relating
how hayward youth in Min
Hesota killed his own mother and
two brothers and a sister as
they Law in their beds. The
man has been arrested, and will
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STATE NEWS.

Sheep buyers are numer-
Gus in Atascosa county.
= Brady City. Nc Gollsuch
county, has only one barrooom.
The San Saba courthouse
Is in progress of speedy compile.
tiun
High way robbers and
horse thieves are plentiful
about Dallas.
THE Mexia broom factory is
now turning out large quanti-
ties OF splendid brooms.
San Saba county already
has two candidates tor the Leg
stature. More OF them will
report soon.
Tx Dallas the average small
boy wants to go a6shiug. The
fishing season has not commenc-
ed down this way.
The mutton eaters of Gal
weston now have weak stomaches.
"A dogs foot was discovered
under a butchers stall.
The Schulenberg argus
also tavors the nomination Of
Maj. j. d. Savers, OF Bastrop,
tor Lieutenant Governor.
= Rockdale has again been
subjected to an incendiary fire.
Two business houses have been
destroyed involving q loss Of
$4,000.
"A match game of Billiards
will take place at Hampstead
next Saturday. between John
MeDade and Dink Fuller, at
Zadow's Saloon
THE Dallas Herald is respon-
sible for the assertion that the
Waco Eramtner has started a
ladias department. The Editor
OF that paper is said by the Her
aid to be an old batchelor.
THE Jefferson limp says there
was not a single mile of railroad
built in Arkansas, Georgia OF
Mississippi during the year 1871
Texas built a few miles, but
not enough to amount to any.
thing.
= There are now on the rolls
OF the Dcnisor public schools
fitty-seven colored pupils and
strange to say every one of them
was present on NJ ,nlay last.
This fact is highly creditable to
the colored children of Denison.
An old lady named Mrs.
Horton, residing six miles north
west of Pleasanton, was burned
TO death last week. Her cloth.
es caught fire and before assis-
lance could arrive she was so
badly burned that death ensued.
The editor OF the Denison
Nesos has been shown a spcci-
man of the Colorado wheat,
which is said to be very sup
erior quality. The kennel is
extra large. plump and very
white, bearing a strong resem-
blance to the E! Paso wheat.
Waco had a $4,000 fire on
Tuesday. several buildings, in
GLIDING the National Bank, were
destroyed; also large quantity
of goods, books, &c, Incendiary-
ism is the supposed cause of the
fire. The firemen rendered no.
BILE service.
: A special from Bremond
to the Waco Telephone states
that the people are panic strick-
en-, caused by the small pox
spreading So rapidly. Two new
cases are reported, and several
who have been exposed are i'll. a
large number OF people are
leaving town, and business is
entirely suspended.
= Hampstead has it appears
made a very unenViable repnta-
ton. She has seven churches
aud one hundred and fifty citi-
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The times are very dull. 1t
has been as much as three four
days since anybody organic d
a new partly Haaokeye.
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Brigham Young, according
to the spirtualists, is having
an aristocratic time of it in the
other world-he has his brim-
stoae sent to Lis room.
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GENrLEdEN's vests arc M
this season with handles on them
to pull them down, you know.
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WADE HAMPTON has been III
vited TO deliver the address at the
next commencement of the Un>
iversity of Mississippi.
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Square meals tor 20 cents at
the Phenix Restaurant
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The New Orleans Democrat
openly declares that the two
negro members of the Returning
Board, Kcnncr and Casanave,
will be pardoned, if thoy will
make a clean breast of all the
secret doings of the Board and
fully expose ell who had any
thing to do with It's inner work
ings. Anderson and Wells must
70 to the penitentiary. The
negroes were only their dupes
and their punishment is not a.
important to the vindicatioa OF
right and justice as ia full
knowledge of the secrets Of the
Returning Board.
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INTIMIDATION BIT ARMED
Men IN NEW YoRK.-The Gov
ernorof New York on Monday re-
ceived telegram from Green
wood, Sreuben county, inform
ing him that at sale there OF
land for taxes on Friday last
200 armed men appeared tor
the purpose of intimIdating
buyers, which they succeeded in
doing. The dispatch was ask
ed tor assistance. The Govern
or replied that the Sheriff is the
legal CONSERVATION OF the peace
of Steuben county; that he had
power to call out citizens to aid
in suppressing riotus disturban-
ces, and that he must exhaust
his powers before the aid OF the
State can he invoked.
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THE GAINESVILLE Banner de-
clares that Mills or Reagan
would serve the interest OF the
State better than any other one
suggested, and adds:
We cannot forget Roger @.
Mills when he stood up alone
from Texas, in opposition to the
compromise which robbed US OF
lawfully elected President.
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ANOTHER special dispatch to
the News from Dallas says that
lot of Pennsylvania Germans
have bought $4,000 acres OF
land in the Elm creek settle
ment. Every last family is com
ing to the Great State OF Texas.
The BlNvER men feel as though
Texas was the greatest country
on the globe.
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= A man nam, d Beckwith
was arrested at Jacksboro,
Texas, a few days since by
Deputy Sheriff Saunders, OF
Davis county, Mo-, charged
with larceny, arson and Jail
breaking. Beckwith is said to
be a dangerous character. and
will likely be assigned a posi-
ton in the Missouri peniten-
tiarv.
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EXTENDED preparations are on
foot in Berlin for the marriages
of the Princesses Charlotte and
Elizabeth. They will be the first
Princesses OF the house of Hob
enzollern to be married since it
became invested with imperial
dignity, and especial eclat will
therefore he given to the cerem-
onies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02

Very little has been known of the
birds ofsouthwestern Texas, an extreme
ly interesting region ornithologically.
Some recently published notes by
George B. Lennett, of Erie, Pa, are
therefore welcome, and contain much
news. The country worked over, as de-
fined by the author, lay between Point
Isabel, on the coast near the mouth of
the RIO Grande, and point few miles
above Hidalgo, embracing distance of
100 miles by road or 800 miles by river.
The result of the trip was the securing
of some 500 birds, three of which are
new to our fauna and one new to our
science; about a thousand eggs, many
of which are new or rare; a few NAM
mails, nearly all of which proved interest
ing; a number of alcoholic preparations
of birds, mammals and reptiles, and a
collection of insects, principally lepidop-
terra" The new species discovered was
ParatLa nigrilord, which is distinguished
from the common blue-winged yellow
warbler p. AmeTiea1aa) by the extension
of the yellow to the middle belly and
TANKS, absence of the decided blackish
collar, lack of white on eyelids and
broadly black lores. The upper parts.
wings and tail, are substantially as in
americana. A nest of this new warbler,
afterwards found, was followed out of a
bunch of pendant moss"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
The Good Shall Triumph.
Detroit Free Press.

The other day man who might have
attended Sunday School, in his boyhood
days, but more likely deceived his moth
er and spent the day in fishing, took
home a cake of maple sugar. That
can be sworn to. Saturday morning he
came down on a Woodward avenue car
with a cake of maple sugar. That also
can be sworn to. When he got off the
car and headed for grocery he met the
proprietor at the door, and without a
word unwrapped and held out the cake.
1t weighed about four pounds. Three
or four pieces of yarn were imbedded
in one side, two dried leaves were visi-
bic on the other, and a part of baby's
rattle-box had been melted into the top.
"P.re maple sugar." quietly observed
the citizen, pointing to the ornaments.
The grocer turned pale.
"We warrant our sugar pure and
freshw continued the citizen, breaking
the cake in two and exhibiting part Of
a spool of thread, darning-needle, two
marbles and piece of coarse comb.
"Ssh!'' was all the pale-faced grocer
said, as he took the pieces and heaved
them across the street at hand swiil-
cart. Then, swiftly entering the store,
he grabbed up two four-pound cakes OF
beautiful sugar, swiftly wrapped them
up, and, as he handed them to the citi-
zen, he gasped:
Il bought that sugar in the night. in
the woods, of man supposed to be a
Christian. Hush! 90 'longW
And yet there is no question, but that
the wicked citizen melted that cake
over and incorporated into it all the
superhuous luXuries.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
Yankee Cheek.
Potter's Ma ga zine.

1t is a curious fact that the United
States was the first nation to force an
entrance through the closed Straits OF
the Dardanelles. In 1901 Commodore
cambridge, who had a secret message
o convey to the Sultan from the Bey of
Algiers, sailed from Algiers for Con
stantinople, in the American frigate
George Washington. As he knew he
would not be allowed to proceed up to
the capitol, he made show of coming
to anchor off the Castles of the Darda-
nelles, in the meanwhile firing heavy
salute. As the wind blew strong up the
channel, under cover of his own and the
reciprocated salute, he spread all his
canvas to the breeze. Before the Turks
could discover his maneuvers he was
out of range of their cannons, and
speeding his way with such speed and
velocity that it was impossible to over
take him. When he cast anchor off the
mouth of the Golden Horn, and dis
played the stars and stripes, great was
the surprise and CONSERVATION. He
was supposed to be a pirate, as the flag
of the United States, never having be-
fore fioated in Turkish waters, was I'M
known, Having no knowledge of
America, the Turkish authorities were
informed that the vessel was from the
New World. After considerable delay,
and threats of Imprisonment in the
Seven Towers for having passed through
the Dardanelles without permission, the
Commodore was admitted to an audi
ence at the palace and eventually &C
complished the object of his mission.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
A Butter Joke.

Mr.. Atkinson is o farmer, and very
fond of a joke. Recently he wrote to a
business house in Boston, with whom
he is on terms of intimacy, as follows:
81 will send you the finest butter next
week you ever saw. The first lot will
weigh about sixty pounds-Will divide
the proceeds of sale with you" En-
couraged by the liberal terms of the
offer, the firm advertised extensively
that they were prepared to fill orders fol
dairymen and produce merchants for
the finest butter ever sent to market
The butter arrived as promised, but was
in the form of most ferOcious goat oil
enormous size, which was no sooner
liberated from the crate than he COM
menced a career of the most unbridled
villainy ever witnessed. He knocked
the senior partner into the corner, and
butted three of his ribs out; the junior
partner took refuge on the top of some
bales of wool, but the goat jumped after
him and butted him off on the floor, and
prodded him with his horns until he
was insensible. After knocking about
things generally, SO that each member
Of the firm looked as if he had been in
vited to a first-class massacre, he
wound up by determined assault upon
a thrashing machine. The first class
butter" was at last caught with Il
rope and sent to the city pound.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
The Perils of the Sea.

Very sad is the story of the sinking of
the British training ship Eiwydice. She
had been on cruise to the West Indies.
with about go young men in training
for the navy, and officers, seamen and
passengers, making the whole number
on board between 800 and 400. She had
been for some days expected at Ports
mouth, and was nearing her destination
with full spread sail-an object of ad-
mlratlon to the visitors who crowded
the esplanade at Ventnor. on the Isle of
Wight. Suddenly the sky was darken-
ed; snow and sleet fell amid violent
gusts Of wind, the binding storm OBJ
securing every thing from the sight of
those on shore. The squall was brief
but when 1t had passed the Eiuy1ioe had
disappeared. Capsized by the gale, she
had sunk IN an instant, carrying to death
her human freight. Five persons only
were picked up by passing schooner,
and but two of those survived to tell the
brief details of the disaster. The wreck
occurred on the southern coast of the
Isle dwight, off Dunnose head, about
half past four o'clock ofthc afternoon of
March "a.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
A Girls Composition OH Boys.

Boys is strange things. Boys is Of
three kinds. The baby boy, the little
boy, and the big boy. / don't like the
baby boy, cause he squalls and kicks,
and [ have to rock him with a cradle
But ifthe big boy or the little boy squalls
and kicks, | can rock him with stones.
[ like the little boy best when he's got
candy and gives me some. But I like
the big boy best when it SHOWS, cause
he can haul me on his sled. A boy is a
little man, if he behaves himself, and il
he don't he's little devil; that's what
mother said brother Bob was the other
day when he told old Miss Smith that
mother said she was g old bore. My
papa said he was a little boy once, but
mother said she wasn't, and she wishes
papa was a little boy some more. Sister
Julia says she don't like boys, and when
[ saw her and Tom Brown setting in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
More Than Il Year Without Food.

The London Neocs says: THE female
anaconda in the geological Gardens was
torn from her home in South America
some time in 1876. She was carried
across the ocean in narrow box, which
caused her great discomfort, and may
possibly have impaired her digestion
In February. 1877, the anaconda was
consigned to her English abode, but she
refused to be comforted or to take any
thing to eat. The dainties which have
the greatest charm for her, live birds
and other animated trifles, were, hap
PLY for them exhibited in vain. She
persevered in starving herself resolute-
ly, not to say sullenly, and we do not
learn that food was thrust upon her
perforce. A few days ago she recovered
the taste for living, and gratified her
friends by Staying and swallowing an
unfortunate duck. She may now do
very well, for appetite comes as we eat,
but her prolonged fast of at least year
might prove trying to most serpentine
constitutions 1t would be interesting
to know whether the anaconda's weight
has varied atall during her unexampled
performance"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
Casting the Champion Gold Bar of the
World.
Helena (Montana) Herald.


This afternoon, April 4, all the pre-
parations having been previously made,
the largest gold bar of which there is
any record was cast in the assay office
of Molitor Bros, in this city. The pro-
cess of melting, which commenced be
fore midday. consumed several hours,
and not until 3 o'clock was the accumu-
lated mass of retort crowded beneath
the lid OF the No. 100 crucible and re-
duced to its molten state. The Messrs.
Molitor, experimenting the work, were
assisted by f. Bohm, Messrs. John and
Benjamin Williams and Mr. L. G. Trent,
all of them practical assayers and ex-
perts. The crucible, fed with five hun
dred or more ounces at intervals of thir-
ty minutes, received the last chunk of
retort, which speedily fused and be-
came part Of the golden liquid.
When the bar was discharged from
the mold and lifted into the cooling
tank, and its temperature reduced to
handling touch, it was taken from the
water; and muscular man put to scou-
ring. This labor ended, the bar was
logged to the counter Of the front office,
the doors thrown open, and the public
admitted. In the course of couple OF
hours hundreds of eager people hurried
to the office to inspect this extraordinary
golden specimen.
The dimensions, weight, fineness, and
value of the bar are as follows:
Length. twenty inches.
Top breadth, seven inches.
Bottom breadth, six inches.
Depth, three inches.
Weight, 3,3S9.96 ounces.
Fine, 760 gold; 223 silver.
Value, 53,25830 gold; $977.32 silver.
This is understood to be the largest
gold bar ever cast in Montana or else
where. 1t excels by more than 1000
ounces the great gold bar cast in Helena
by S. III. Bohm & Co. in 1870 The pro-
duct comes entirely from the Penobs-
colt mine, and is the result of thirty full
days working of one arastra and less
than twenty days working of five
stamps.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
THE PARTING HOUR.

There's something in " the parting hour,
Will still the warmest heart
Yet kindred, comrades, lovers, friends,
Are fated all to part.
But this I've seen-and many pang
Has pressed it on my mind,
The one who goes is happier
Than those who stay behind.
No matter what the journey be-
Adventurous. daE gerous, far
To the wild deep, or bleak frontier,
To solitude or war,
Still something cheers the heart that ddreS
In all of human kind;
And they that 90 are happier
Than those they leave behind.
The bride goes 70 the bridegroom's home
With doubling and with tears;
But does not Hope her rainbow spread
Across her cloudy tears?
Alas! the mother who remains,
What comfort can she find
But this-the gone is happier
Than the one she leaves behind!
Have YOU trusty comrade dear
An old and valued friend,
Be sure your term of sweet concOur5e
At length will have an end.
And when you part-as part you Will
o take it not unkind,
II he who goes is happier
Than the one he leaves behind!
God wills it SO, and so it is
The pilgrims on the way,
Though weak and worn, more cheerful are
Than all the rest who stay.
And when at last, poor man, suDdued,
Lies down to death resigned,
May he not still be happier far
Than those he leaves behind!
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
Lae0nics.

!" Beautiful lie of the sea''-Whale
The prevailing strawberry-mark-
1925 per quart"
Never strike a man when he is down
unless you can't lick him any other
way.
About three-fifths of the jury trials in
this county include at least one man on
the jury who ought to have been born
mule.
A lady on the westsidc, joked the
other day about her nose, said, II had
nothing to do in shaping it. 1t was
birthday present"
Widows above fifty cannot marry in
Portugal. The law is designed as a pro-
lection for aged and innocent bachelors.
Old Deacon Dobson always boasted
that he was prepared for the worst"
and his neighbOrs thought he got it
when he married his second wife.
In the spring the Boston blueblood
Lightly turns from thoughts of beans
To the twin intoXication
Found in dandeliOn green's.
The 1000 young women of Cleveland
who are pledged not to associate with
young men of convivial habits, are get
ting terribly lonesome.
"She isn't all my fancy painted her."
bitterly exclaimed her rejected lover.
and worse than that, I" she isn't all she
paints herself
A fashionable young lady dropped
one of her false eyebrows in a church
pew and badly frightened young man
next to her who thought it was his
moustache
A hard case was asked the other day
if he had anything stored up in Heaven.
"Sartin, sartin," replied he. AZ guess
they must be laid up there if anywhere,
for hain't got any laid up to home"
Two little girls were comparing progress
in catechism study. al have got to
original SIM" said one, chow far have
you got?" ooh, Pm beyond redemp-
ton" said the other
"What to eat and how to cook it," is
the name of book recently published
What to eat and where to get it,"
would meet with a livelier sale among
the laboring classes here just now
A boy beggar of Gotham is placqrded,
" | have been blind for forty years.
Exchange. We have little girl in
Philadelphia who placalds herself, 81
am blind and the father of five children"
She wears it when the old man is sick
or out at his country place-Philddel-
phia Bulletin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-05-02
BANK ROBBERS will be especially in

BANK ROBBERS will be especially in
terested to hear that the French Elk
position Commissioners are construct
ing a strong room for the state jewels,
twelve feet deep and ten feet square,
thickly cemented, and with a double
iron floor, and pipe to flood it in case
of fire. The jewels will be exhibited in
glazed case of exquisite design, which
will be let down into the place below
Immediately the Exhibition doors are
closed, and covered with heavy iron
trap, on which Two special guardians
will place their beds.