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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15
THE WEEKS WORK,
Selected From Every Source.
WASHINGpOE,

SAYS Washington telegram of Jan.
9th: Assistant Secretary Hawley, of the
treasury department, has announced
himself candidate for the governorship
of Illinois, and has solicited the aid of
his friends to secure the nomination at
the approaching convention in that state.
THE president on the 7th inst nom1-
mated Marcus W. AchesOn, of Pennsyl-
vania, district judge of the western dis
trict of Pennsylvania James n Kerns,
of Pennsylvania, United States marshal
for the eastern district of Pennsylvania; !;
John K. Valentine. of Pennsylvania,
United States attorney for the eastern
hdistrict of Pennsylvania; Jacob Wheeler,
I of Illinois, United States marshal for the
southern district of Illinois; George w.
Hazelton, of Wisconsin, United States
attorney for the eastern district Of Wis
consin, and John NJ. Morton, collector
of internal revenue for the first district Of
California.
THE Ute delegation arrived in Wash
ington Jan. II. They were met at the
bureau, who escorted them to their quar-
ters at the fremont house and kept strict
watch upon them during the day. The
4iOtCI " do dII ny CIOWSS VI
curious people anxious to see the Indi-
ans, but all were disappointed, as the of
ficials of. the Interior department had
given strict orders that that they should
not be allowed to talk to any one pre-
vious to the council of the department.
They remained in their rooms all day.
AN association called the Mormons'
Anti-Polygamy Society of Utah, says
dispatch of Jan. 9th, has published and
distributed among the members of con-
gress, memorial demanding the eXpul-
sion of George @. Cannon, now serving
his fourth term as delegate in congress
from Utah. The memorial, sisned by
the officers and executive committee of
the society, all women, alleges that Can
non is one of the twelve Mormon apos-
ties, and one of the ablest and most siren
uous upholders of this disgraceful insti-
tuition, polygamy. The fair petitioners
assert that although Cannon cowardly
denied it before committee of the
house, he has four wives with whom he
lives openly, and introduces as such, and
the memOrialists give the following in
yentory of his martial treasures: First
wife, Elizabeth Hoagland Cannon, has
six children, four SOILS and two daugh-
ters; the second wife, Sarah Jane Jenny,
has four sons and one daughter; the third
wife, Eliza Tenney, has two children,
boys; the fourth wife, Martha Til.ey, has
five children, twin girls, and three boys.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15
DIVISION OF DAKOTA.
The Proposed Slieing Up of the Terri.
tOry-lnterestiag Figures.
Sioux City Journal.

Judge Brookings of Sioux Falls, was
in the city yesterday. and was inter-
viewed in regard to the proposed divi-
sion of Dakota into two territories. The
Judge said that Delegate Bennett
would introduce bill in congress, i'm
mediately after its reassembling, for a
division on the line of the forty-sixth
latitude. A division on that line was
the wish of almost all the citizens of
the territory. A few politicians at Bis
marck, conspicuous among whom was
Col. Lounsberry, had talked of a divi-
sion on north and south line, with the
hope that if such division was made
Bismarck might be the capital of the
west half of the present territory.
All the great railroad lines now built
or projected in Dakota follow an east
and west line. There is no community
Of interests Or intercourse between the
northern and southern parts, and di-
vision OH any other than an east and
west line would be worse than no divi-
sion at all.
AS to the present population of the
portion of Dakota south of the forty
sixth parallel, the judge thought that
the different counties now had a popu-
L. Il. {o1I
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

THE London Building NelUs says that
the extraordinary demand for italian
marble has raised question as to how
long the quarries are likely to hold out,
According to reportof the French ge-
ological commission, there yet remains
considerable surface and depth of the
true Pentelican marble untouched, but
no specific statements are given on this
head. At Uarrara dreadful waste OF
material goes on. A late traveller was
assured on the spot that hundreds OF
tons are needlessly thrown away
through sheer carelessness and the clum-
siness of workmen. Much of this ex-
quisite material is removed in enor-
nous masses for the decoration of COM
monplace edifces. The Italians are at
length becoming alive to this. The
quarries have been worked almost with.
out intermission since the days of the
Roman emperors. A little community
of sculptors is established around the
quarries, and the artists chisel is piled
almost side by side with the marble
naso"'s saw. Thi marble goes every.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15
CABLE4RAMS.

PRINCE OSCAR, of Sweden. was mar
ried to the Princess Helen, of Waldeck,
Jan. 9th.
THE court of appeals has annulled the
marriage of Gen. Garibaldi with the
Countess Raimondi, says Rome cable
gram of Jan. TO-
IT was reported from Berlin Jan. 10th
that Prince Bismarck vas very i'll and
his life was dispaired of. His family
had all been summoned to his bedside
IT was announced from Madrid, Jan
Sth, that the health Of the Queen of Spain
has received severe shock, owing to the
attempted assassination of Alfonso. She
has been attacked with epileptic fits, &c
which she was not previously subject.
A ROME dispatch of Jan. 18th relates
sad accounts of the condition of the pop
ulation in the northern provinces, the
former kingdom of Naples where the
fever is epidemic. In a population OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15
SAmaZiDg Hrace."
Editors Drawer in Harper's Magazine for Jan


Editors Drawer in Harper's Magazine for Jan
uary.
The following is vouched for by one
of the most reliable of Philadelphia
divines:
A young clergyman having agreed to
supply the pulpit of an older brother
absent from home, escorted to the
church the daughter of the pastor, and
after seeing her safely in her fathers
pew, ascended to the pulpit, uncon-
scious that this natural attention to the
young lady was sufficient to excite
lively imaginations and inquiries in the
audience.
Upon reading the hymn to be sung,
the young clergyman was surprised to
perceive evident efforts in the congre-
CATION to suppress laughter. The
daughter of his friend possessed the
mellifluous name of Grace, and, all I'M
suspicious of that fact, he had chosen
the hymn beginning with the words
Amazing grace" and proceeded
with:
Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears relieved.
How precious did that grace appear
The hopr | first believed
Through many dangers, tolls and snares
| have already come;
It's grace has brought me safe thus far
And grace Will lead me homei
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15
The Cost of a COW-Bell.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette sends the following story of law
case from Lloyd County, Ind: "May-
field and Featheringill were well-to-do
farmers. One of Mayfeld's COWS drop
ped bell from her neck in the woods
that cost fifty cents, and was half worn,
and was supposed to be worth twenty
five cents when lost. One of Feather
ingill's boys, in pa sing through the
woods one day, found cow-bell. May
field claimed that it was his bell, and
demanded it. Featheringill refused to
give it up. Mayfeld then replevined
it, and this commenced lawsuit that
absorbed the farms and personal estate
of the contestants. Not being able to
pay lawyers fees any longer, the law
yers refused to serve in the case, and
the litigants were compelled to compro-
mise, which they did by each agreeing
to pay his own costs, which amounted
to over 81 $50 a side, or an aggregate of
over So 0O0"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15
about as follows

Total. .-....... ..........--..-.....l3 l39, 5OO
To this very satisfactory showing the
Judge said there would be added at least
$4,000 population next year. Of these
perhaps 10000 would be attracted to
the Black Hills counties by the rich
mines discovered and the rapid devel-
opment of that mining country. The
counties east of the Missouri, in the
proposed southern territory, with seven
great lines of railroad running through
them the coming season, would
easily add $4,000 to their present popu-
lation. The most northern of these
lines is the extension of the Hastings
and Dakota road, pushed by the Mil
swaukee company lastseason into Dakota
above the head of the Sioux. The sec
ond crossed coming south is the Kam-
peska line of the Northwestern, which
next season will probably be pushed
west to the jim. Third comes the Black
Hills line of the Northwestern, already
graded to the Jim River, and certain to
be built as far as the Missouri river next
season. Fourth is the Southern Mime
sofa, built to the Sioux river at Flandrau
last season, and graded forty miles fur
ther to Sioux falls. Fifth, the Sioux
falls branch of the st. Paul road, for the
extension Cf which westward large
quantities.of material are being stored
at Sioux falls. Sixth, the Black Hills
line of the Milwaukee road already
built to within twenty miles of the Jim,
and to be pushed west as soon as spring
opens, to or beyond the Missouri. Sew
enth is the Brule City extension of the
Sioux City and Dakota road, which is
only waiting spring, and right-ofway to
begin. Besides these seven main east
and west lines, there is the proposed
extension of the Pembina northward up
the valley of the Sioux, and the line
which the Milwaukee company has be-
gun from Rock Mills to Yankton. All
these, the Judge said, are roads already
operated across the east border of Da-
kota, aud all are backed by wealthy
railroad com mpanies. The extension of
most. if not all, of them another season
was certain, and it was just as certain
that the country opened up by them
would be filled up by at least thirty
thousand new settlers before congress
met another winter.
LII would De useless, the JuQge InOugnl,
to hope for the admission of southern
Dakota as a state before another presi-
dent has been elected. Then the terri
tory formed Of the part of Dakota south
of the forty-sixth parallel could show a
population of one hundred thousand,
at least. The argument advanced by
theRapid city J0auno! that Dakota would
be sooner admitted as q whole than if
divided, had no weight, because there
would be at least fifty thousand more
population than required for new state
IN the portion south Of the forty-sixth
parallel, at the earliest time that any
movement for admission could hope to
succeed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

have imposed upon him parliament
with which he gets drunk from morn
ing till evening. At Onitcha the count
came across several English establish
ments, who were rather jealous OF
him, and more inclined to throw
obstacles in his way than to help him
on his road. Higher up the country,
ia the country of the Mitchis, the
count nearly saw his travels brought to
an abrupt conclusion. However, the
king, after Staying before him one hun
dred human victims. and examining
their entrails, declared them favorable,
and made the count a present of twenty
wives. The one hundred victims were
cut up into small pieces which were
distributed through the city, and the
count, who dined with the sultan in the
evening, was obliged to eat morsel,
and take draught of human blood.
Fortunately he was able to conclude
his repast with fruit and palm wine.
The count writes glowingly of the
natural wealth of the country, which
evidently requires good deal of open
ing up.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15
NO. 4.

''smorgos," not merely leads to much
untidiness at mealtime, but makes them
feel contented to live on bits and scraps.
The smorgos consists of little dishes,
such as slices of smoked reindeer and
caviare and sardines, with pickles,
cheese, and other whets provocative of
thirst. These are fshed out with fork
of general utility, and laid on thumb
pieces of rye cake thickly smeared with
butter, which serve by way of plate.
Then they are bitten into, regardless of
the fragments which may fall on other
dainties (for your true smorgos-eater
seldom sits at his repast, and they are
finally washed down with glass or two
of spirits which stand handy by their
side. Such prelude to meal is not
only uncleaniy, but must vitiate the
palate and injure the digestion. Indeed,
[ feel convinced that were the smorgos-
bord abolished, not merely would the
cookery IN Sweden soon improve but
very many of the people would be
gradually wesned from their weakness
for strong drink.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

WILLIAM A. owens, of Pine Hill, KY,
had killed three men in affrays, and
he declared that, having shed blood
enough, he would never under any cir
cumstances shoot at anybody again.
Now, James Langford, q brother Of one
of Owens victims, desired to take his
life, and usually tried to do it whenever
excited by drink. On such occasions,
Owens always fled from Langford, and
was once shot while speeding away on
horseback. They met few days ago
in a village store. Langford was drunk
and murderous. Owens hastily mounted
his horse and rode away. Langford
followed on another horse, firing fire.
quently. At length Owens horse threw
him, and he found himself within close
range of his pursuer's pistol. Then he
shot Langford dead.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15
GRAND RAPIDS, WIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 15 1885,

100000 the sick amount to $4,000, and
deaths from January to December, 1879,
numbered 3, 3,423.
AT Hartford, Conn, jan 10th, shoot
ing affray occurred betwean Dr. Geo. F.
Hawley, and Chas. NJ. Webster, an in,
surance agent, at the dwelling of the lat.
ter. Webster was shot through the hand,
and Dr.. Hawley in the arm near the
shoulder. Mrs. Webster was about
leaving her husband with their three
children, ostensibly to visit friends in
New York. Webster came home, found
her about to take carriage for the depot
and the doctor locked in. He broke
open the door, and the doctor said he
was on professional visit. After the
shooting Mrs. Webster started for the train
with her children, but was stopped by
the police. The husband expressed a
willingness that she should go, but for.
bade her taking the children.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

ENGLISH farmers will derive small
comfort from the report on American
competition which Messrs. Read and
Pell are preparing for the royal COM
mission of agriculture. They affirm
that the resources of the United States
for supplying England with food are
receiving every day a new develop
ment, both IN the extension of agricul-
tural enterprise and in the facilitation
of transport. Mr.. Gladstone suggested
some time ago that the farmers should
turn their attention to raising fruit, veg
etables, poultry, eggs and butter, but
the Echo apprehends that even in this
limited field they will be outdone by
foreign competition. In that case
nothing will avail them but a universal
reduction of rents.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

Hon. john BRIGHT, the Liberal states
man of England, at recent banquet,
spoke of the greatness and the pros
pective progress of the United States.
He said: ats population now has
reached $4,000, 900, which is nearly half
or about half more than the whole popu-
lation of Great Britain and Ireland at
this day. | have no doubt there are
scores in this room who, before they
live to the age | have attained to, will
live to see the day when the population
of the United States will be more than
double what 1t now is, and that it will
pass 100,0OO,C0O people"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

SOME sensation has been created in
London by the officiating clergyman,
the rector OF st. Peters, Kensington,
having at the Afillais wedding, instead
of reading the last portion of the mar
riage service, substituted q new and inn
proved version, in which it was explain
ed, or rather stated, for no one could
explain whatwas meant, that husband
should be as indulgent to wife as heav-
en- is to the church.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15
How the SWedes Eat Their Meals.
From All the Year Round.

The Swedes have queer way of To-
comotion at their meals. They often
fit about, like flies, from one table to
another, and sometimes seem to turn
the menu topsey-turvey when they or
der repast. 1t is no rare thing to see
them begin with cheese and biscuit;
nextsproceed to ham and salad, with a
slice of meat to follow, and then sud-
denly start up in the middle of their
dinner to swallow, while they walk
about, plateful of pea soup.
A habit which they have of beginning
each -repast with what they call a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15
From ReY. j. Il. Rankin. ID. ID.

June 18th, 1879, the Rev. j. E. Rankin, D. D., OF
Washington, d. c., certified as follows: "I have
known Of several persons who regarded them
selves as greatly benefited and some of them as
permantly cured of diseases of the kidneys and
urinary organs by the medicine prepared by
Charles Craig, of Charlotte, n. Y. have known,
TOO OF Its use in similar cases by physicians of the
that it has great virtue" In a previous commu-
aication to the Congregatlonalist, DR.. Rankin re-
terred at length to the beneficial treatment of o
ease by six physicians, with the Safe kidney and
Liver Cure, and said: '9This treatment want, in
the interest of humanity, to describe and COM
mend
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

BITS OF former great mansions in Eng
land are curiously scattered here and
there. The columns of what is known
as the National Gallery, in Trafalgar
square, once adorned the front Of Carl
ton house, the famous abode of the
prince regent, OF which not trace to-
day remains, and the stone screen, from
the same palace now stands in front OF
the Duke of Westminster's London
home. The staircase of the Duke oi
Chandos' residence, Canors, was bought
by the lettered Lord Chesterfield for
Chesterfield house, where it remains.
A BUST of Tom Moore is to be put UP
in Central Park, New Yerk city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

NJ. HENRI SAY has not given up his
proposed trip around the world, and his
yact, the Henrietta, whose bones were
crushed by playful little storm off
the capes of Chesapeake, is at Balti-
more undergoing repairs. NJ. Say
wears on each wrist a heavy bracelet
of linked gold set with rubies.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

AT midnight, lately, Justice Otto, of
Newark, was reused from slumber to
marry Edward James to Sarah Jones.
The ceremony concluded, woman OF
the party snatched the certificate and
tore it in atoms. "What is the mean
ing of that?" said Mr.. Otto. "Oh, it's all
a joke" she replied; 'fshe doesn't want
to be married" "You may have been
joking, am not" rejoined the justice.
II pronounce Edward and Sarah James
man and wife," A new certificate was
written, fee paid, and the party left.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15
entity OF Wrong.

Some people have fashion of confusing ex-
cellent remedies with the large mass of ''paten
medicines, and in this way they are guilty of 2
wrongs There are some advertised remedies
fully worth sill that is asked for them, and one a,
least we know of-Hop Bitters. The writer hal
had occasion to use the Bitters in Just such q
climate as we have most of the year in Bay City
and has always found them to be first class ane
reliable, doing ali that Is claimed for then-Tri.
bRnE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

PETER GoELET, the millionaire bachel-
or, always gave as a reason for not mar
ryng that he was too poor. He left $685.
900 OOO.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

THE census supervisors are allotted
$500 each, for nine months full service.
The enumerators will serve twenty-four
days at 81 per day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

ALL the gold in the world would make
pile only twenty-five feet wide, forty
five feet long and twenty-five feet high.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

IN Pittsburgh and immediate vicinity
there are seventy-fve glass-making es-
adjustments.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

THE Tay bridge was regarded as the
greatest engineering feat ever attempted
in Great Britain.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

FASHIONABLE puppies in New York
city wear blue checkered ulsters trimm-
ed with red braid.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

ONE-THIRD of the gold mined goes to
wear and tear, one-third goes into circu-
lation, and one-third into the arts and
manufactures.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

THE German Emperor mas ordered
that the fund of more than 100000, col
lected on the occasion of his golden
wedding, be exclusively devoted to the
relief of the famine stricken Silesians.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

THE "Chinese Encyclopedia" has just
been published to meet long felt want
in the FIowery Kingdom. 1t deals with
every subject and treats of every cline.
In point OF completeness it may be said
to rival the labors of literary men in
any age. 1t comprises 5000 volumes,
which can be had for 81 500, and it is au-
thoritativeiy said to be very cheap al
that nrice
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

DE LEssEPs will arrive on the 18TH
mus just in time to observe what his
canal will have to contend with in the
way of floods,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

A BALL, banquet, and bull fight
are the attractions offered by Panama to
III. de Lesseps.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

The conviction of one of the proprie-
tors of New Haven's low variety theaters
hss been secured by the testimony of
two students ot~the Yale theological
school, one of whom says he went to the
show and bought beer, part of which he
put in his mouth and the rest in flask,
which was produced in court.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-01-15

COLONEL THOMAS SCOTT began his rail
DAD life as station agent at Holidays
burg, Pa.