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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02
FOREIGN.

YAKooB KHAN is the coming man in
Afghanistan. His father, the ameer,
sought safety in flight.
ONE hundred thousand men are in
volved in the impending colliery strike
in Yorkshire and Derbyshire.
THE Earl of Carnarvon was married
Dec. 26th at Greystoke, Cumberland,
England, to Miss Howard, of Greystoke
Castle.
The Archduke Rodolphe, Grown
Prince of Austria, will shortly be be.
trothed to the niece of the king OF Sax
Ony.
The supreme court of justice of Spain
has finally condemned to death Mon
casi, who attempted to assassinate the
king.
A MADRID cablegram of December
18th says a marriage has been arranged
between the infanta Pillar, sister to the
king, and the Prince de Joinville's eld-
est son.
SULIEMAN PAsHA, says a cablegram OF
Dec. Goth, whose alleged misconduct OF
the Turkish armies during the late wal
was due to Damad Pasha's orders, has
been pardoned
The captain and officers Of the steam
ship Ponsmera'lia have been acquitted.
The inquiry decided that human effort
did all possible to avoid the collision
and loss of life.
AN India cablegram Of December
28th says Yakoob Khan, son of the
ameer of Afghanistan, has come into
Jellalabad. This is regarded as equiv.
alent to submission to the British.
A CORRESPONDENT at Kuram under
date of Dec. 9th says a proclamation
of the ameer Of fghanistan has been
discovered, dated Nov. IL. It shows he
had declared holy war against the
| British.
A CITY of Mexico telegram of Dec.
9th says robbers attacked a train for
Vera Cruz near Puebla, Dec. 18th, kill
ed the baggage-master, wounded the
conductor, and escaped with $27, 900 in
silver.
A LONDON cablegram of Dec. 27tk
says ten thousand pounds is required
for the sick and hungry of Sheffield
The severe weather continues through.
out the kingdom, and the distress in
creases.
FRED GRANT has been granted 6
years leave of absence to join his faith
er in the latter's trip in the East Indies
The secretary of war allows him his
lieutenant-colonel's pay during his alb
SenCe.
4 TELEGRAM from Ceora, in NortI
Brazil, reports the smallpox as very
fatal in that province. The deaths il
the capital number 600 daily, and the
distress III the interior is appalling; the
people devour carrion and bodies of tht
dead.
THE state line steamship State o
louisiana, from Glasgow, which left tha
port on the 2Sd, inst, for New York, raj
ashore Dec. 24th, at Hunter Rock
while entering Larne Locke, Ireland
| Thevessel will probably become tota
| wreck.
| A PEsTH telegram of December 28tl
says: Rumors have been current of at
tempts on the life of Francis Joseph
The police guarding the palace of God
elloe, where the emperor, EN- press an(
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02
BAYARD TAYLOR.
"reminiscences of Col. John Hay.
Cleveland (Ohiol. Special.

Cleveland (OhlO), Special
In conversation with the Leader re-
porter this morning, Col. John Hay gave
some very interesting "reminiscences of
Minister Taylor. Col. Hay for many
years enjoyed the intimate personal
friendship of Taylor, and had not heard
OF his death till announced by the re-
porter. He was much shocked, but,
after recovering, said: GO had expect
ed as much, sooner or later" His dis
ease was dropsy of the worst kind. He
had two operations last winter, and
fifteen pints of water were drawn from
him. He would not give up, he had
always been SO vigorous. He has been
connected with the New York Iribgne
for twenty-five years. He was city ed
itor for q long time. Have heard him
tell of that day of small things. He did
city work, wrote editorials, and every
thing else, a good deal Of the time. He
was worked to death, nearly, but re-
tanned his freshness by always reading
or writing something solid before going
to bed at night. He made all his trips of
travel in the interest of the Tribune.
He was never engaged, being called
traveller always, and went with ali OBJ
ject, and not as other travellers go. His
literary feats, some of them, were very
remarkable. He would write some
times a whole page of the Tribune in a
single day, and it was fine literary mat
ter too, and that which required much
study. His greatest achievement in
this line was that of writing nearly a
page Of the Tribune in twenty-four
hours on the volume Of Victor Hugo's
poems The remarkable thing about
this was that the book arrived in New
York one morning, and the next the re-
view appeared with several columns OF
metrical translations of the poems, re-.
tanning their original vigor and strength.
He went to the Icelandic Millenial
for the Tribune, and just before landing
it was Fug ggested that poem should be
written for the occasion. Seating him
self, surrounded as he was by his
friends, he wrote the gem, "Iceland's
Thousand Years" In response to
toast at the celebration. he spoke in the
native language, and astonished all
present. He has been at work for
years Oh his life of Goethe, but had only
gathered the material thus far and not
written word. His appointment as
minister was the crowning glory and
honor of his life, and has been the cause
OF his death. The change in his mode
Of life was very great, and too much
for him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02
WASHINGTON.

ADMIRAL HoFF died in Washington on
Christmas.
E. L. PIERCE, of Boston, has been ap-
pointed assistant treasurer of the United
States.
THE committee investigating Chinese
Minister Stewards official acts will be
ready to report February 1st.
IT is reported that strong effort viii
be made to secure a reduction of money
order fees during the present session OF
congress.
The house appropriations committee
expect to have all appropriation bills
passed and sent to the senate by Febru-
ary Goth at the farthest.
THERE have been distributed during
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

The New Orleans Times furnishes
some corrections for the touching story
of Annie McKeene, the youthful and
daring wife of noted guerilla, who
turned nun, took the name of Sister
Celeste, and died while nursing yellow
fever patients during the recent cpl
demic. as was set forth in a touching
manner by New York paper not long
ago. These corrections are to the ef-
feet that no nurse died under the cir
cumstances mentioned, that there was
no nun in New Orleans called Sister Ce-
leste, and that Mrs. McKeene never
took the veil.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

THE Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise lect-
lures the people of the city roundly
for their extravaganza. A dine is the
smallest currency employed in ordinary
transactions, So that if person buys a
ten-cent article and gives the dealer a
quarter, he only gets ten cents change.
The laborers on the Comstock smoke
twenty-five cent cigars, drink twenty
five cent whiskey, cut the tenderloin
from porter-house steaks, and chuck
the remainder in the waste-barrel, anG
so on. BY the way, not until recently
did the people of the southern cities
import pennies and smaller coin than
the fve-cent nickel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

THERE is in course of preparation
by persons near the war department a
paper which will review in detail the
army bill, the purpose of which will be
to show that the bill should be materi-
ally amended before passing. Special
attention will be paid to what are called
the constitutional features of the bill,
and it will be maintained that these
provisions, which partly openly and
partly covertly, practically strip the
secretary of war of all powers and make
him subordinate TO the general of the
army, are in contravention both of the
letter and spirit of the constitution, and
tend to place the civil entirely under
the control of the military power.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

The New ork Herald says of the
late Baya Taylor: Beyond the age
at which literary men are most active,
and without the whip of necessity to
urge him to labor, he was almost to the
last an industrious, painstaking, volu-
minous writer, always carrying to his
work degree of enthusiasm which
many Younger men might envy"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

THE king of Denmark has had pretty
good III k marrying OF his daughters,
but the Princess Thyra has fallen short
Of the fortune of her sisters. She had
to choose between two dethroned prin-
ces, the son of the emperor Of the
French, and the son of the ex-king of
Hanover. Wisely, she chose the rich
est and the most reputable, and became
the Duchess Of Cumberland
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

IN its secret history of the Louisville
Library lottery the Louisville CONNER
ciaI shows that the gross sum received
for tickets for the five drawings was
S6,25O,0OO. The total awarded for
prizes was So 142, 800, and the library
was given $424, 1862. The remainder,
$2,683, 103 6S, seems to have clung to
the hands Of the conductors of the lot
tnrN
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

A LONDON dispatcn to-day gives a
most distressful account of the destitu-
ton and suffering in that city and vicin-
ity during the present cold weather and
hard times. The poor-houses are full,
and the usual agencies of public char
ity are overtaxed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

FATHER HYACINTHE has settled
down at NeulIIy, just outside of Paris,
and will give religious lectures if allow
ed to do so by the government. He
has declined the offer of English friends
to build him chapel or establish for
him a newspaper.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

PETER WRIGHT & Sons, OF Philadel-
phia, Pa, have put on a regular
monthly line of steamers for Bristol,
Eng, for which Chicago parties will
furnish the grain and meat. This is IN
addition to the new Liverpool line re-
Gently started.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

The department of state has received
note from the minister from Denmark
in this country, stating that 4 bottle has
been found upon the Danish coast.
which contains the following notice:
eve are near St. Helena. Our vessel
is about to go under, and we are with
out any chance to be taken up.
JAMES WYKEHAM,
Owner and Captain"
This information is given by tie COY
ernment of Denmark on the presump-
ton that it may relate to an American
vessel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

AT coroner's inquest in California
a Chinese physician of high repute
among his countrymen testified that a
man has seven lungs. The heart, he
said, usually has five holes in it, and its
principal use is to catch air in"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

THE Five Nations of the Indian terri
tory have given the president permission
to settle wild Indians on their lands.
A proposition is before the house to
prohibit any further settlement of the
kind without a special act of congress.
The Five Nations deny that congress
has jurisdiction in the matter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

FIVE members of the Forty fifth Con-
gress have died-Messrs. Welch, of Ne
braska; Leonard, of Louisiana; Quinn,
of New York; Williams, of Michigan,
and Douglas, of Virginia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02
I.adY'S MiSh.

so, how L do wish my skin was as
clear and soft as yours" said a lady to
her friend. "You can easily make 1t
So" answered the friend. ''HowY in
quired the first lady. ''Bv using Hop
Bitters, that makes pure rich blood and
blooming health. It done it for me, as
you observe"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

REV. JOSEPH Cock explains why a
boy climbs a tree to steal apples: " The
apples are the objective natural motive,
the boys appetite is the subjective nat
ural motive, his intention is his moral
motive"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02
TIMELY TOPICS.

The German Empire has popula-
ton of 75,000,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

THERE is very seldom SO remarkable
a revival of religion as that which is
now occurring at Fall River, Mass.
The whole city is declared to be moved.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

4 PEORIA, ILL.,, dispatah of Dec. 29th
says: An almost incredible story is
told here by a young girl named Mag
gle Lahre, to the effect that last Thurs
day she was kidnapped by two un-
known masked men and taken in
sleigh into the country, tied to tree
and her clothes set on fire, having first
been chloroformed here. The flames
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

THE Illinois legislature will ballot for
a United States senator on the 21st OF
January.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

FIVE telegraphic cables now unite
Sicily with the main land of Italy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

A THIEF at Alamosa, NJ. T., has dis
tinguished himself by stealing a saw
mill.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

The worlds production of gold is
one-third less than in 1850.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-01-02

THE Catholics have 239 converts for
women in England, and over 400 fe-
male academies in the United States.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-30
Use MORE THOUGHT.

1t is time farmers and mechanics should
bring into their business more thought. If
corrupt office seekers, through caucuses
of their own bidding, present themselves
for your suffrages, and take charge of your
dearest interests as office-holders, be no
longer stocks or stones. If they present
to you good, honest and worthy men who
will faithfully use their time to the public
interests, vote for them. But, if they Sc
lect for your support city stripplings and
squirts who have never done an honest
days work except electioneering for Office,
put on your thinking cap. Study if you
could entrust your private funds and bust
ness in their hands. Think whether theirs
have been such lives of industry, honesty
and economy as to entitle them to be held
up as the brightest specimens of mankind
for oursons to copy after. Have they BY
their zealsa energy in9life, and by their
practical good sense, hewn out for them
selves a proud position in the world, and
aided largely in building up valuable i'm
provennents to bless mankind? If they
have, vote andwork for them. Ifnot, tear
the political chains from your limbs, and
be freemen. Thinks and be not driven
like beasts ofburden-Iowa Grange Wis
itor. els ~ 4ee, aaro $500
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-30
WHY

Why should men who loaned green
backs, worth less than gold, demand gold
payment? ~ sra bns .I35Tfio 5siFIsa
81 Why should the bondholder who gave
the gold value of but $4,000 900 for the
$40 bonds receive interest on 81, zoo, ooo,-
co., and demand the latter amount in sat
isfaction Of their claifa's sf4il 10 s9iqIaalta
Why should debtors who purchased
property sixyrars ago and agreed to pay
in currency Possessing a gold value of
but seventy five per cent of their face,
now be compelled to pay in gold or its
equivalent?
Why should the owners OF productive
property be compelled to suffer a Ioss Of
one-half the value OF their possessions,i in
order to add.one-halfto the monied claims
of few non producing usurers and mon
ey lenders9
Why should the interests of American
industry be turned over to airing of fof-
eign and domestic government creditors
and be deprived of government protec-
ton, simply to perpctuate the Republican
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-30

1t is matter of congratulation that our
Order is SO web Represented in its Off
GERS. Thoroughly imbued with sense
of the important &c and dgaity of the Or
dersthey are Worrying Iwitha noble zeal
wherevef we hear from them. In Tenn
essee. Worthy Master iHarwelI and Wor-
thy Overseer Hancher,- in Mississippi
Worthy Master Darden, in Texas Worthy
MasterLang and Worthy Oyerseer Rose,
in Arkansas Worthy Master Williams, land
in Florida Worthy Master Wilson are
doing good service, and if they are only
sustained by the farmers their work will
be effectual and far reaching at takes a
high. souled man to stir the Masses -
and we feel assured that those whose
names are mentioned belong to the class
of ''high-souled" men whose enthusiasm
on behalf of cause contributes SO largely
to its success. These men have sszeal ac-
cording to knowledge"-they are intelli-
gent and far-seeing, and our farmers may
safely trust to their guidance. They are
giving their time and attention to all ques-
tons pertaining to the Order and appre-
ciate to the fullest extent the necessity for
a compact Organization Of forces. For
this complete organization they are labor
ing with might and main, assured that
there was never greater need for cooper
alton and never a more encouraging pros
pect of it. If the disinterested labers of
our officers are met by a corresponding
energy and determination on the part of
the farmers, success is assured aud the
principles which We have striven to incul-
cate will manifest themselves in an i'm
proved condition of agriculture, and an
elevation of the laborer
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-30
BREEDS OF STOCK.

A newspaper correspondent thus re-
views the qualities of the different breeds
foi the dairy or for meat:
AYRsHIRE-Good size, a good feeder,
well adapted to hilly farms, produces a
great flow of milk-of ordinary richness,
making good butter and cheese; and as a
dairy cow is highly esteemed.
HoLsTEIN-This breed is of Dutch orr
gin, is larger than the Ayrshire, an enor.
nous eater, with very large flow of milk,
exceeding all other breeds, and of good
quality. This breed is better for beef than
the Ayrshire.
SHORT HoRN.-This is the breed for
good beef, decidedly the best that exists;
and the most beautiful in form of all
breeds, and in size about as large as the
Holstein, but do not equal that breed in
their flow of milk. The Short horns are
not adapted to billy farms and short pas
lures, fourishing only when highly fed.
JERsEY-This breed and the Alderney
are now rated as the same breed. They
are small, and unfit for profitable beef
Their flow of milk is small, but of aston
ishing richness, making two pounds of
butter from the same quantity of milk that
makes but one pound from other cows
This breed is mostly kept by men who
want but one or two cows, and prefer
quality to quantity in milk.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-30
THE WOOL YIELD OF MERINO
SHEEP.

The editor of the Rural Home visited
the farm of Mr.. Lusk, near BATAVIA, N. Y
and speaks as follows:
Mr.. Lusk has mastered the art of so
breeding and feeding the Merino as to put
the maximum weight of fine wool on one
hundred pounds of carcass. We looked
over his rams, his ewes and his lambs, and
wondered how nature could be SO directed
that she could wrap around sleeps body
skin large enough to cover twice the d.
mansions, and to do it by LAYING it on in
folds or plaits, and covering all with thick
wool. Wonder if the modern belle took
the hint from the Merino, to wrap around
her form twice or thrice the number of
yards of dry goods necessary for dress
by laying it on in folds, plaits, bows, etc?
Mr.. Lusk's entire flock of 10Y sheep shear
ed, this year, an aggregate of 1886 IL
pounds of wool, which is an average of
over II 35-1oo pounds to a head. His
five-year- old ram. Hopeful, sheared q
pounds, 8 ounces; a two year,old ram,
New York, sheared 20 pounds, II ounces;
a two-year ram, Money Maker, sheared
81 pounds; five year eve sheared IS
pounds. S ounces; two-year eve sheared
"a pounds; another 81 pounds This will
do as sample of what careful breeding
and constant attention to the wants of the
animal will accomplish.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-30
heart the interests of the minority -,
than the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. St,ot rather
THE PRACTICE OF FALL pr ou.
/ ING. NOW.

that fall powing is oflthe utmost ser,. agree
the soh Many con slider It eouaI :, 70
dressing of manure, inasmuch as i II i, 70
| the ground in condition to assim;, o.aces
the feitilizing properties of minera, aq
atmos pheric lplant-food. Soluble ma, apd
which have leached down too far fnr 81
feeders to reach are also. brought to the
surface by the turning over of I.u me
Weeds, grass and the stubble of gatbsr"u5
crops are covered in the,soil, where thsU
will undergo decomposition and be in My
right place for the rootlets to feed unns
! when the crops start. y ~"
| Disintergration is one of the great -.
Icrets of the beneficial effects from fan
blowing. Its action is both mecbar;"u,
and chemical Land when broken bv II.
! pIow holds q greater percentage of waite,
IL freezes when in This wet state, then !,
kfIiaws and the disintegration is complies
All nloistGrereceived on the surface 6ltsr,
throug Il the puiverized earth evenly, and
in consequence the n,annral properties i
the water reach every particle of the soil
Another advantage of blowing Is fl.
much greater surface of soil exposed
Compact ground presents but one surfac.
to the air, while that which is well broken
exposes nearly every side of every particle
of soil as deep as the filth goes. The filth
is also deepened, and clay subsoil thrown
on top becomes subjected to atmosphere
actions which prepare it for any solvent,
that may be applied.
The uncarthing ofpestilentinsects from
their comfortable hiding places in the fall
and exposing them to the weather is one
of the incalculable benefits arising from
fall blowing. The turning under of cookie
burrs, ox-eye daisy, foXtail and other nox
ious weeds with the stubble of the grain
fields before their seeds mature is still an
other benefit, as these growths are de
stroyed and forced to serve the land the,
previously burdened by enrichiag it.
/ Farmers who are constantly Complain
ing that blowing under certain weeds on
| ly tends to a more luxurious growth ar
reminded that weeds which are propaga
ted by seed should be turned under befor
the seed ripens. If the process is delay
| ed foul crop of weed seed is planted in
stead of destroyed. Cultivators who IN
derstand the good effects of fall blowing
some of which, by the way, is best &C
complished during the summer, will 500
set the plows moving, if they are not al
ready started, on lands designed for win
ter grain, fall seedlings, and for corn neA
| spring.
The patron of husbandry. (Columbus, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-08-30

Claiborne County Grange, in this State,
at the August meeting, appointed the
Master and his wife delegates to the State
Grange Our correspondent in that coun-
ty, Bro. Regain, suggests that other Coun.
ty Oranges also appoint the wives of the
Masters as delegates. Wewould be glad
to see this suggestion carried out. A gene
raj attendance flady delegates would add
greatly to the interest of the meetings of
the State Grange. .sa4 Is fGad ess-.