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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12

QUITE a commotion occurred in a
farmers house, short distance out ol
Rome, n. Y, Monday afternoon. They
were cleaning house, and left open doors
leading to all parts of the house. In
one of the rooms was large Dirror,
reaching to the floor. On the premises
Is a sheep whose head is graced with
horns, and which is very tame, entering
toe house whenever an opportunity is
presented. This woolly animal got into
the house unnoticed. When first dis
covered it was standing face to face with
the mirror, shaking its head fercely.
Before it could be reached it jumped
back for good start, and then plunged
its head into the mirror. Instead of
coming in contact with some other an
imal. as it expected, it demolished
$50 mirror. The crash so frightened
the animal that in its endeavors to es-
cape from the screams and attacks of
the women OF the house, it found a
place of exit through French window.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12
THE WEEKS WORK.
a Record Of Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON.

1HE senate committee on privileges
and elections has begun the work of in
vestigating the election contest between
Spaford and Kellogg, of Louisiana.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 9TH
says information received by tie Indian
bureau from Ft. Belknap states that 800
lodges of Sitting Bulls Indians are re-
ported south of the British line. They
have not as yet committed any acts of
direct hostility.
ADvICEs Of the 9TH inst, from Wash
ington, leave little doubt that congress
will adjourn with the Warner silver bill
still in the hands of the financial COM
mittee of the senate. Senator Jones,
the strongest advocate of the bill, SAYS
it will not. come up III the senate at this
session.
A DISPATCH of the 9TH from Washing
ton says the Iowa greenbackers say
they expect to elect a greenback CON
gresham to succeed the late Rush
Clarke. The house election committee
will probably decide the Iowa case to-
morrow. Members are now examining
the briefs.
1 IT is stated in dispatch of the 9TH
rom Washington, that the senate
finance committee held a special ses-
sion to consider the Warner silver bill.
The motion pending at the adjourn
ment of the last session was one sub
mitted by Mr.. Voorhees,, that the COM
mittee proceed to the consideration OF
the measure. MIR. Morrill, moved to
amend by adding: "And for the purpose
of having time for its full consideration.
further action thereon shall be post
poned until the first Monday in Decem-
Der next" The amendment was adopt
ed by the following vote: Yeas-Messrs.
Bayard, Herman, Ferry and Allison.
Noes-Messrs. Beck, Voorhees, and
Jones of Nevada. Senator Morrill, was
paired with Senator Wallace. The lat
er, If present, would have voted no.
The motion thus amended was adopted
oy the same vote, and the whole subject
was laid on the table accordingly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12

GENERAL SHERMAN writes to the Mich
igan military academy that he will be
on hand June 10, but not to make a
speech. He says: You must excuse
me from making any formal address.
Don't print it in any programme, but
whatever occasion you make, Lave
some proper person to make the ad-
dress, and leave to me only such ex-
tempore remarks as the occasion may
suggest. You know | must be at West
Point June u, and must return to
Washington and come from this place to
yours as above indicated. Iplefer that
you should conduct your examination
and graduating exercises according to
your ordinary standard, simply enabling
me to see the ordinary state of facts,
and not to make my presence an ex-
cuse for departure"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12

THERE is q curious district in Arizona
called the Thousand Wells. 1t is on the
western slope of Echo cliff, remarkable
for the reverberation of sound. The
counter rock is impervious sandstone,
extensively striated with deep grooves
made by winter rains. Where the
sand rock is friable large basins have
been worn. These are so many reser-
voirs which are filled in the rain-time,
and which supply the country, with its
cattle and people, through the long dry
season of that climate. The great high
way of travel passes through the midst
of the Thousand wells. There are no
other water sources, and without these
natural wells no life could exist. On the
eastern slope of the range the country
presents striking contrast. Innumer-
able springs flow perennial. Verdue is
rich, trees evergreen, fields cultivated
and wigwams alive with people.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12
GENERAL NOTES.

An Appleton, Wis.,, special under
date of June 9th, states that the Wiscon-
sin Editorial Convention to meet at
Oshkosh June 18th, promises to be the
largest ever held in the state.
AT "a meeting of the Chicago & North
western railway officials in Chicago
June 9th statement of the earnings
and expenses was made for the year,
which statement shows gross earnings
S14, ,5S2,576. expenses S12,312, ,633; net
earnings 81. .269,S equal to z per cent.
on preferred and per cent. on COM
mon stock. The present officers were
reelected at a meeting OF directors held
subsequently,.
A ST. PAUL dispatch of June 9th an
nounces the sale of the 100 miles of the
St. Paul & Pacific railway extending
from St. Paul to Morris The road was
sold under foreclosure of $4,000. 1t is
expected that the other lines of this
road will be sold soon.
A DIS MONIES dispatch of the 9th
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12
CRIME.

A SPECIAL from Austin, Texas, of the
9TH says: "Wesley Hardin, in the pen
itentiary at Huntsville, confesses to the
killing of Holderman. for whose mur,
der Brown Bowen was hanged years
ago. Bowen protested his innocence,
and Hardin says ne was uniustly exc
cuted."
A PoUGHKEEPsIE, n. Y, dispatch of
June 9TH says a tramp attacked the
widow of farmer Vinegar, near Miller
ston. Duchess county, yesterday, and
she was so frightened that she died in
stantly. Sae was between 60 and 20
years of age. A lynching party is in
pursuit.
DEADWoOD advices of June 9th saws
the three renegade Cheyennes who shot
and killed private Bader and Signal
Sergeant Kennedy, while en- route to
Fort Keogh, and who were turned over
to the civil authorities of Niles city, M.
l.. to answer 10 the charge of murder.
were, on Tuesday last, sentenced to be
hung on the 9TH of July. The same
evening two of them committed suicide
by hanging In the cells of the guard
house at Fort Keogh. &,
SANTE FE, New Mexico, advices of
the 9TH state that at Los Vegas an Ital-
ian who last fall, murdered a French
man and Mexican woman, and who
was sentenced to be hung, but was al
lowed a new trial, and Mexican who
on Wednesday, murdered man. were
taken from the Jail and hung in the
public square by the citizens. The
bodis were still hanging yesterday fore
noon.
A LINCOLN, Nebraska, dispatch of
June 9th states that Rufus Pope. con-
vleted OF bigamy in Lincoln, Neb., was
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12
The Condition of Women.
Westminster Review.

"NSeAlAlhASbCA 1eCNlCNs
The ages of animal passions, of mus
cular supremacy, of conflict with wild
animals, of barbarian wars, when the
only ordeal was one of muscle-belong
indisputably to man. The subserviency
of woman WAS one of the conditions Of
progress in tn ose rude phases of human
existence. But it does not follow that
this will always be the case. 1t is a
generally recognized principle that the
stepping stones of one generation are
likely to become the stumbling blocks
of succeeding one; and Mr.. Spencer
even uses the argument of pre-
sumptlve evidence againt opinions
which have arisen in barbarous age.
Legouve says: "The protracted sub
lection of woman proves but one thing,
that the world so far has had more
need of the dominant qualities of men,
ard that her hour has not yet come.
We have no reason to conclude from
this fact that it will not come" And
he fortifies his position with the follow
ing striking illustration: "Hcw many
centuries did it take to produce the
| simple maxim of common sense: All
men are equal before the lawY The
tardy advent of an idea, so far from
| proving its uselessness and fallacy, is
often an argument in favor of its
grandeur. The principles of liberty,
charity, fraternity, are all modern prin-
ciples." 1t remains for these principles
to become still further modernized by
their extension to women as part of
the human family. Their co existence,
.l.D
| the ages of muscle, supplies striking
example of the remarkable tolerance of
the average human mind for incon-
gruOus ideas, provided these ideas have
been associated for sufficient length of
time. In England, Until the reign of
William and Mary, women were refused
the benefit of clergy, and in the time of
Henry VIII. an English Parliament
prohibited the reading of the New Tes-
lament in English by women and others
Of low estate. The male mohammed
to-day Indignantly rejects the idea that
his female companion, as well as him
self, may have a soul. Among the
Hindoos women are still excluded from
the advantages of reading and writing,
and, with a few exceptions, the higher
institutions of learning are everywhere
still monopolized by the more muscular
sex. That these facts gathered from
widely separated ages and countries)
harmonic in spirit and principle, thus
revealing q common origin, scarcely
needs to be pointed out; the laws of
heredity and descent are therein con-
spicuously illustrated, and, as between
men and women, the age of muscle still
exists.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12

states that the sUpremcOurt of Iowa,
has decided constitution and valid the
law prohibiting the So of wine and
beer within two miles the corporate
limits of any municipay where such
sale has been prohibite by vote of
the people, or within t, miles of any
voting place at any eleion.
| San FRANCISCO adviounder date of
June 9TH state that Ind of Indians
supposed to be renegas from the San
Carlos reservation, hasaen marauding
for three weeks. Resu to date as Civ
en- by military headqusers at Prescott
barracks, are that CaPin Byer over
took and fought the negades in the
Mlmbroes mountain killg four, among
them their chief Terrifand wounding
four. So far the India have killed
five men and run off conderable stock.
The military are pursuin their usual
vigorous policy and will son havethem
in hand.
The Public a commend sheet OF
New York in its issue of te 9th inst.
contains the following conn onts on the
course ofbusiness as show through the
Clearing House return. The pay
ments through twenttvo clearing
houses in May, 1879, exceled those in
May, 1873, by 4O-6-10 pr cent. the
total this year being $;.9l9,O00,00O
against $2,079,OOO,OOO lat year, while
New York's great incres, is attributa-
BILE in part to active speplation in cot
ton, grain, and stocks. 'he greatest
gain at other cities is wfee the whole
sale trade of the countryis manly con-
ducted-exclusive of spe,tation of all
kinds. The volume of estimate busi-
ness, in the strictest sene must have
been larger by nearly o quite one
quarter during May, l879than during
the corresponding monthlst year. The
increase, too. appears i almost all
cities, though varying irdegree quite
widely. Business greatlyexceeds that
of any May since the paic of 1873.
The usual weekly table isomitted by
the Public.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12
CLAIMS by the lunch.
Fall River Mass News.

One of our prominen families lately
removed from our cityo a neighboring
state, where very many of the inhabi-
tants are Germans. Madame one
morning went to maket, and to the
polite gentleman who waited upon her
he said: II wish a ,eck of CLAIMS"
He replied: "Will you have bunch" /"
GA peck OF clams," r,plied the lady,
and the answer came a!ain, evil you
have bunch" She, thinking the for
eign nationality did not comprehend,
now spelled it-c-La- mts-but this did
not bring the required Rhode Island BIZ
valve, and so Madame said, "Let me
see your CLANS" To the ice-box he
went. and to Madames utter amaze
ment produced clams-but strung on a
wire or string, in bunches, having been
removed from the shell.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12
GRAND RAPIDS WI, THURSDAY, JUNE 12 1879

sentenced to-day by Judge Pound, tc
seven years Imprisonment, the full term
Of the law. The man came to Lincoln
a stranger, and got a footing in society
as church member and Temperance
reformer. He married a young lady in
Lincoln, and deserted her in a month
or two, going to Sedalia, Mo. 1t was
| found that he had similarly victimized
a young lady at Quincy, H., and that
he has a wife and four children in
| Woodstock, ILL., His real name is Rol-
la Dow Chase Pope.
A CHICAGO dispatch of the 7th saws that
Henry n. Hanson, stout colored boy
about 30 years old, had been dispatch
ed by the Illinois Central treasurer
with package of money to
the Merchants Loan and Trust
company's bank Carl Wilson, the
bank messenger, accompanied him
as guard. The package contained be-
tween nine and ten thousand dollars.
The exact amount is known, but the
treasurer refuses to give it for prudeI-
tial reasons. When Wilson and Han
son reached the point above indicated,
two men walked up to them at an or
dinary brisk gait, separating as they
approached, going on either side of the
messengers. When they arrived with
in reaching distance they threw the
contents Of half pound can of Cay
enne pepper full in the tace of Wilson
ard Hanson, and subsequently dealt
Hanson three heavy blows with sand
bag. Quick as thought they then seized
the package of greenbacks which Han
son carried in a small canvas bag under
his arm, jumped into covered buggy
which stood by the sidewalk and drove
off at furious rate south down Wabash
avenue. A considerable number of
people were on the thoroughfare at the
time and quite a number witnessed the
bold proceeding bat none were able
to interfere in time to prevent the
escape. The messengers were nearly
blind from the effects Of the pepper but
as soon as possible reported the affair.
The news was speedily flashed to all
police stations and most vigorous steps
were taken to capture the highwaymen.
There is no very valuable clue to them,
all descriptions being unsatisfactory.
The rig has been found and identified
as one hired at IL o'clock this morning
at 5l7 State street, by stranger.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12
The Evolution Bile.

The preparation of thenew Bible,
which is to be inspired byweet reason
ableness has not made nach advance
yet. We lay before our readers the
improved version Of thefst chapter OF
the Book of Genesis: There never
was beginning. The HGnal, without
US that maketh for righteousness, took
no notice whatever OF anything. 2.
And Cosmos was homogeneous and un-
differentiated, and somehow or another
evolution began and moecules appear
ed. 3. And molecule eDlved protop-
lasm, and rhythmic thnls arose, and
then there was light. 4. And spirit oil
energy was developed ard formed the
plastic cell whence arose he primordial
germ. 5. And the prmordial germ
became protogene, and posogene some
how shaped cocoon, tina was the dawn
of life. 6. And the heb yielding seed
and the fruit tree yield1g fruit after its
own kind, whose seed j in itself, devel-
oped according to its ON fancy. And
the Eternal, without us maketh for
righteousness, neither new nor cared
anything about it. Z. he cattle after
his kind, the beast Of To earth after his
kind, and every creepig thing became
evolved by Heterogeneous segregation
and concomitant dissiption of motion.
s. So that by survival othe fttest there
evolved the simiads frm the jelly fish,
and the simiads differentiated them
selves into the anthropmorphic prim-
ordial types. 8. And i due time one
lost his tail and becam man, and be-
hold he was the mos cunning of ali
animals; and 10! the fas men killed the
slow men, and it was odained to be so
IN every age. 10. An in process of
time, by natural selection and survival
of the fittest, Matthew -rnold, Herbert
Spencer and Charles Drwin appeared,
and behold it was verygood.-Lcndon
Freeman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12

The eruptions of Mount Etna, though
less frequent than those of Vesuvius, are
lar more violent. Its great size-the
helghth of the cone being nearly eleven
thousand feet, and its circumference
elghty-seven miles-renders the over
How OF Its lava very formidable affair.
During one OF the earlier eruptions, the
lava, when checked by the walls of Ca
tania, fifty feet in height, accumulated
till it actually overfowed them and de-
vastated the entire town. On this occa-
sion peasant, cut off by stream of
lava that encircled the rock on which
he stood. escaped by leaping upon a
boulder that had fallen into the burning
stream and thence springing on to the
other bank, with no other injury than
the loss of the whole skin Of his face
by the intense heat. The earliest re-
corded eruption of Etna is one men,
toned by Diodorus Siculus, as coeval
with the Trojan war. The next are
three eruptions referred to by Thucyd-
ides, 425 and 475 B. c., and one at an
earlier time not specified. These, added
to the later recorded eruptions to the
present time, make seventy in all. The
most important are those of 1859, 1869,
t|oo' 1857, 1892, 1852 and 1868.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12

The sleep of winter and that of night
are different in those animals which are
torpid for months. The bat, the hedge
hog, the tawrie, the marmot the ham
ster, the tortoise, the toad, snakes, mol
iosca, spiders. bees, flies, bears. badg-
ers, ETC., retire to their closed holes, and
in various degrees undergo a temporary
death of four, or five, six and even
seven months of the year. They usual
ly roll themselves up, but bats suspend
themselves in caves. Those who Law
up provisions use them before they be-
come torpid, and on reviving before
they venture abroad. Their tempera-
ture lowers; their respiration is less
frequent, and at times their circulation
is reduced; they lose their feeling; the
digestive organs are inactive and they
suffer loss of weight. The confined air
IN which they shut themselves, added
to the cold, is one cause OF their torpid
ity. Facts lead to the belief that some
birds hibernate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12
A Railroad Train Stopped by Insects.

One cricket would stand a poor show
trying to stop railroad train, but mil
lions of them can do it, as was proved
Saturday night. The yestern-bound
emigrant train No. met an army of
crickets at CIarke's Station, about fif-
teen miles west of here, that night, and
was detained two hours and half try
ing to get through. To make the pas
sage, the train men were finally forced
to take brooms and sweep the insects
off the rails. The crickets covered the
track for about three miles, and when
the driving-wheels of the engine struck
them they would whirl around without
going ahead an inch.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12
NO. 81.

shown 1t to be unnecessary to tax labor
for the support Of capital. All internal
taxes should be dispensed with and
graduated income tax substituted. The
immediate payment of all government
bonds in legal tender greenbacks and
the equalization of soldiers bounties. A
platform reported by Gen. Sherwood as
minority committee on resolutions
called out bitter discussion and when
it was voted down a number of delegates
left the convention.
MAINE GREENBACKERs.
PORTLAND, Me-, advices of June Sd
state that the greenback convention met
at noon. VIM. M. Rust was made per-
manent chairman. Committees on
resolutions and nominations were APP
pointed and a recess taken.
At the afternoon session the commit
tee On resolutions reported as follows:
This convention reaflirms the cardinal princi-
pies enumerated in the platform of the national
greenback convention of Maine in 1878, and looks
with pride and satisfaction at the endorsement
by the people of the same at the September cleo
tfon; aiso congratulates the people of Maine up
on reforms inaugurated by the nationals and
carried forward by the last legislature. The de-
cay of American shipping is subje that justly
causes anxiety and alarm, and we demand such
legislation as shall cause its early restoration.
The increase of the coin-bonded Indebtedness
of the government in time of profound peace
from Cne billicn one hundred thousand million
dollars in 1863 to TWO billion dollars in 1879 is
fact so startling as to alarm every friend of the
country that the reduction Of the rate of coin in
teTeSt, and at the same time increasing the prin-
cipal to such an amount TO vastly increase coin
interest continually, under the pretext of econo-
my and by reduction of the rate of interest, is
such deception and fraud upon the people as TO
merit the most severe condemnation, etc.
Joseph III. Smith, of Old Town, secur-
ing 851 votes,was unanimously declared
candidate for governor and the conven-
ton adjourned.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12

ACCORDING to official statistics the
number of emigrants from Germany in
1873 was 24,217. or 1888 more than the
previous year. OF these 29,373 sailed to
the United States, 1,O48 to Brazil, 1,718
to Australia. and the remainder to the
small South American States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12

Much Of the wood used for making
briar root pipes is derived from Corsica,
the roots are dug and cut into rough
forms of tobacco pipes by saws worked
by the water power of the mountain
streams, and are sent in sacks to France
and thence to America.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12

NEGOTIATIONS are in progress for the
Bry and the adjacent territory in South
Africa, from the Portuguese. This pur-
chase will give England the command
of vast region, and will 0urround Zu-
In land on every side with British ter
ritory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12

house went into committee of the whole
on the bill making additional appropri-
ations for the service of the postoffice
department. After increasing the ap-
preparation the bill passed and the house
adjourned till Monday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12
POINTERS.

IT is supposed that eating rich clover
pasture wet with dew or recent rains Is
dangerous to COWS as producing bloat.
But when dry there is but little danger,
if the COWS are not too hungry and un-
used to such food.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12

Once when Beethoven was hard up,
he wrote letter to friend asking for
a loan of s.. He didn't get the money,
but perhaps it would cheer him up to
know that that letter sold for S2250
last week. Doubtless Beethoven wo;ild
have given the buyer that letter origin
ally at lower rates and been well
pleased.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12

A Frenchman having heard the
phrase, GIVE got other fsh.to fry" very
readily learned its application. One
evening after escorting young lady
home, and being invited to walk in, he
thought of the above expression, and
excused himself by saying, 81 thank
you, must go cook some other fish,"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-06-12

FIREMEN's balls are like women's hair
because they always cme Of, at nigh