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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-09-30
Criminal.

JAMES 5. GROVER, a prominent citizen
and merchant of Oak Greek, Wis, hung
himself on the Dist
POLA SHEPHERD SCoTT, of Omaha, Neb.,
aged II, while out hunting on the DIST
inst, on Florence lake, accidentally shot
himself and died almost instantly, in
presence of his champion, Arthur Pur-
tell
Two moro of ST. Louis fireman have
been severely injured while in the line of
duty About one-third of the members
of the department are now. in the hosPi-
tai. t
A MAIDEN lady named Nancy Haywood,
was murdered in the town of Rockland,
Manitowoc county, Wis, on Sunday
night. Her throat was cut from ear to ear
and her body concealed in atwood pile
Phe servant girls have been arrested on
suspicion.
A BOY at Beloit, Wis, pointed a shot
of soaring them The weapon went off, of
course, portions of the charge striking the
girls in their faces. While not fatally in
.iured, they are disfgured for life.
Ii is alleged at the treasury department
that a woman in Kansas city, who some
time ago asked to have $4,000 worth of
bonds, then registered in the name of her
deceased husband, t1ansferredtoe herself,
is now married to the murderer of that
husband, man who also killed his first
wife IN order to enter unto msfpresent
matrimonial engagement. - 7=- -
A SPECIAL from Corning, O., saws: One
of the militia officers to-day found a sus-
picious character in camp, who, upon be-
ing pressed for particulars, said that in
the battle of Sunday one miner was killed
outright and eight wounded, one of whom
will die. The man who was killed was
buried on theway home by his associates
1t is said the miners expect arms from
some quarter, and intend making gener-
al attack on the troops as soon rs the arms
arrive, and that they will commence oper-
ations by burning buildings. The colored
miners all went to work.
The postoffice at Ahnapee, Wis. was
broken into and about fifty letters in the
general delivery broken open. The thief
| got away with all the money in the cash
box, about five dollars, and eight new re-
volvers. Monday morning he was discOv-
cred by means of the revolvers and arrest
ed by the city marshal. Soon after arrest
he broke away and ran for dear life with
half the village at his heels. but was re-
captured. An examination was held be-
fore Justice Parker, and he was bound
over to the circuit court, and is now lodg-
ed in jail. He gives his name as Chas.
Joyce, and is blacksmith. The postoffice
department has been notified of his cap
ture, and 1t is thought will send an agent
to investigate the matter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-09-30

other counties. In Norton county 1,S00
people are in absolute want of of food.
The wheat crop in all these counties failed,
and in June was plowed up and planted
with corn, which, when it came up, was
destroyed by the web worm. He gives a
sad story of want and suffering. One
family had no food for eleven weeks but
wheat bran. Another family had nothing
for three weeks but corn meal. He says
the loeaipapers ofthe state suppress these
facts, as. it vii iniure the state A public
meeting was called there on the 24th inst,
TO procure supplies for these people.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-09-30

The eimports of these four ports in 1860 were
S279 ,49l ,015 their exports S24S, ,479 ,0S6; total
S545. $50 ,l6l. In 1880 their imports were S66S.
l52 604; their exports s5I2 29S, ,3l5; total 240-
420 ,920. In 1860 the foreign commerce of New
Orleans was "a per cent of that of the four ports
Just named. In 1880 It'll only s per cent, falling
off from Sl30 735 $50 in 1860 to l0I 092 12S in
1880. The foreign tonnage of 1859 is 659 oS3: in
1860 it was 632 39S; in 1880 it was $50, ,9l0. The
foreign tonnage of Charleston in 1859 l28 I64:
in 1850 twas I26. All; 1880 it is 116 ,2S3.
In 1860, year ending June 80, the tonnage Of
vessels entered at seap0rts south of the Potomac
was third as large as the tonnage of all northern
ports, both Atlantic and Pacific. This year end
ing June 80, 1880, it is only about one-seventh.
Democratic orators bid us look at
THE EXPORTS OF COTTON.
| have looked at them. and find these facts
touching cotton and breadstuffs: In 1860, bales
of cotton exported 3SI2, ,355: value S19I sos 800.
In 1870 bales of cotton exported 2095, ,323; value
S227. .027 624. In 1880, bales of cotton exported,
$50, ,I53; value. S2ll ,535 ,905-fewer bales this
year than twenty years ago. In 1860. the bread
stuffs exported sold for S24 422 800. In 1870 the
breadstuffs exported sold for $72 go ,933. In
1880 the breadstuffs exported sold for S2SS 036-
$50. Cotton has stood still, while surplus bread
stuffs have multiplied twelyefold. Look again,
look at the value of all exports as they have
risen and fallen in part of the country and in
others. The value of all exports from south of
the Potomac was. in 1860, Sl99 097 80: in 1879,
1892 $50 ,92O; in 1880, SlS7. .l40, ,573. Here is a
steady decline. These unerring pools mark and
locate the bulk and substance of the nations
wealth and business.
l repeat here, as said in the senate, when the
government was taken by the throat and threat
ened with strangulati0n unless the election laws
were stricken down, that the democratic party
would have no majority in either house of con-
gress, except for elections dominated and decided
by violence and fraud.
REPUTATION OF SOUTHERN DEBTS.
What use is made of all this ill-gotten power
One of its chief uses has been the reputation OF
honest debts. Every southern state but Texas
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-09-30
BeautiferS

Ladies, you cannot make fair skin, rosy cheeks
and sparkling eyes with all the cosmetics of
France or beautifers of the world, while in poor
health and nothing will give you sueh good
health strength, buoyant spirits and beauty "a
Hop Bitters. A trial is certain proof. See another
eolumn.--Te Telegraph.
California girls prefer runaway mar
riages.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-09-30

in this progress was the funding act of July 1870.
The act authorizing the redemption of the 5-2O or
lower interest. All the democrats resisted this
bill also, and voted against it. Exempting the
new bonds from taxation was opposed in the sea
ate. Mr. Bayard moved to strike out the proEis-
sion and to subject the bonds to taxation. All
the democrats voted for it again. Mr.. Bayard
moved an amendment to bring back the state
banking system. and all the democrats voted for
that also the bill was at length carried by repub-
lican votes. BY this time our currency had much
appreciated and funding at lower interest began.
In 1874 by a vote not democratic alone an lnfia-
tion bill made its way through both house. This
bill proposed to keep out permanently S26,OOOOOO
of legal tender notes belonging to the treasury re-
serve, which had been put out temporarily during
, 1880-01-22
Prescription OF Stimulants.

N
In recent letter to the New York
Evangelist, Rev. DR., Cuyler writes as
follows in regard to the temperance
movement in Great Britain: SIN the
medical profession the total abstinence
cause is making quite as rapid progress
as among the clergy and churches. Sir
Henry Thompson, whose practice is
worth 100000 q year, has taken strong
ground against alcoholic beverages. He
would even use wine and brandy spar
ingly as q medicine. When such men
of science as Thompson. Sir VIM. Gull
and DR.. Richardson take such a position
it is deplorable that so, many physicians
in Britain and in our country too, are
constantly endangering the lives and
the souls Of their patients by the reck-
less prescription of port wine, ales and
Bourbon. Some Of the worst cases of
intemperanee / have ever encountered
have grown from a medical prescription.
An exemplary member OF my own
church was led into shocking drunken
ness by using an alcoholic tonic pre-
scribed by his family physician. The
poor brother was saved 'as by fire, and
became a total abstainer, but he could
not blot out the record Of three years Of
oathsome drunkenness"
, 1880-01-22
FOREIGN NEWS.
ArlnrrIcanc "a thc Atlantic.

LONDON, Jan. l3.-TLp steam Slls.a,
which left Hamburg December 9Th fur New
York. aud put in at Plymouth Souni on
Jan. 81, with her steering gear damaged,
reported that she had reached 600 miles west
Of Queenstown. when she experienced "a
tremendous hurricane, continuing from Dc
cember 9th to December 3lst, which con-
lelled her TO lie to from the 29th 10 the 3la'.
Gloomy England.
New York. Jan. IA cable dispatch 10
the Herald, dated London, Jan. 81. says:
The new year has opened dismaily IN Eng
land. Our coasts are swept by tempests and
there is hourly apprehension Of new storm.
The newspapers print gloomy summaries Of
the year that has gone-a year that has
witnessed Isandula, the French Prince In
perial's death and the massacre Of Cavag-
mari.
ReLicf for Sllesia.
BERLIN, Jan. s. In the Lower House of
the Prussiau Diet, the Minister Of Finance
is asking a vote for the relief of sufferers 10y
famine in Upper Silesia, announced that the
Government also contempt Ited the construc-
ton of two branch railway lines in Silesia,
which would require a grant of twelve and a
half million marks. He sad that one hun
dred and six thousand persons at present
needed relief, and that provision for these
had been mads up to the end of the month.
Ihe Panama Project.
PANAMA, Jan. 6.--The Star and Herald
yesterday was quite truculent. In an ar.
ticle on the action of the United States
Congress concerning the canal, it said that
there are only two things to be considered in
connection with the enterprise, the money
to build the canal and the local consent OF
the Government of New Granada. The
assumption of any control Of the matter by
the United States is arrogant and outrageous.
, 1880-01-22
RI ht and wrong.

Tie dog. d, la.., irgu uty c.a.a.r
% knowledge uiu-btaul wrong. u.s.ue
a deliberate gIuir. &C Ile one az che
other, perfectly aware ui ami rrugt4
for thr consequence oi such % selection.
The animal has occasionally the moral
courage to ch5os, the right all suTr
for It, 20 bear wrong rather than do IL
(Elaml. Not only does this frequently
noble animal know the right, nut it
darcs do 1t, enduring the expected, the
inevitable, consequent suffering One
Of the many evidences tnat the 90. Is
sensible of right doing is to be found in
the familiar fact that when it performs
an action which to it seems meritorious.
or which it has reason to believe its
master will deem So when il saves q
life, or successfully defends a trust, or
resists a great temptation-it looks at
once for some sign of the said masters
appreciation, perhaps for some reward.
There are both the self.approbation or
self satisfaction Of the mems couscia
recti and an expectation of mans ap-
proyGl. The animal is gratiied if such
approval is in any form vouchsafcd, dis.
appointed if it be withheld. 1t must
also distinguish between the right aud
the expedient-what would be most for
it's own interest to do. In other words,
it is just as apt as man is, and not more
so, to take u selfish view of all affairs
to consider how they are likely to af-
feet its own personal interests. The
choice that is finally made between the
right, the expedient and the wrong is
determined by variety of ccnsidera-
tions-by conflicting emotions, by the
balancing of probabilities and inclina-
tions, by thedegree or kind of tempta-
ton, by the presence or absence of wit
nesseq, especially human, by other spec
ialties Of an animals position, by the
nature and extent of its moral training,
blythe character of the rewards and pun
ishments offered on previous occasions.
In the dog there is sometimes obviously
the same kind of conflict and collision
between virtue and selfshness, between
sense of what is right-which is too
generally also what is painful, what
calls for terrible self-Genial and suffer-
ing, including the physical pangs of hun
ger. and thirst, as we'll as the moral
pangs, say, of unsatisfed revenge-and
a sense of what is simply pleasant and
profitable. Temptation frequently be-
gets in the dog, cat and other animals
the same kind of mental or moral agi-
tatior, and the same sort of result as in
man. Sometimes we can see--in the
dog, for instance-tl whole play of the
animals mind-the battle between its
virtues and vicious propensities, irs
promptings to the right and its en-
deavors to stick by the right, its long
ing for the wrong-for the tidbit, which
it knows it would be improper to steal
and the final triumph either of virtue
or temptation. The poor animal, know
ing or feeling the weakness of the flesh,
sometimes has the moral strength, the
force of character, the good sense, to
avoid temptation altogether. But dogs,
like men, are apt to have the most trying
temptations thrust unexpectedly upon
them, and then comes the tug of war of
the appeiites and passions. Popular
Science Monthly. ''". .''."
, 1880-01-22
The Press.

Napoleon /. said IL had rather have
the press with me than a million bayo-
nets, and David Hume, "Ths liberty Of
the press and the hbarty of the people
must stand or fall together" Wendell
Phillips once said "What gunpowder
did for the war, the printing press has
done for the mind; and the states nan
1t no longer clad in the steel Of special
education, but every reading man is his
judge"
, 1880-01-22
State and Territorial.

4 debating club is to be organized at STAY.
ton.
Typhoid pneumonia prevails in the yicini,,
o! Amty.
Namhi'l wheat folds look green anl prom.
is.ng sine, the snow has disappeared.
One murder trial on the docket at AILarv
that OF +. II. Reid, Tor the murder q
S.mous.
Nothing has a. yet been heard Of Higlev
,hc man supposed to have been drowned n
the Sautam several weeks ago.
Dllley proposes to ask an appropriation 20,
a lighthouse to offset the Indian reseryatios
appropriation for Forest Grove. No govern.
mont layOritlsm allowed.
During the month Of December the WI.
lamette Valley Railroad company employed
Il men at an average rate OF - 26 per day.
and paid for 292 days Chinese labor at an ay.
erage Of 81 cents per day. Between the 22s
and 29th no trains were run owing to the So
we're weather and consequent slack OF bus.
, 1880-01-22

Il is human to owe, divine to pay up.
, 1880-01-22
DFidge Fares Reduced =,

Fares over the Union Pacific bridge. be-
tween this place and Council Bluffs, have
been reduced about 40 per cent. since The
river has besE frozen over.
The Omaha hail voTxs are nov runnipg
90 full time, turning out 300 kess Of nails
per day.
Over $1,000 600 worth Of gold and silver
bullisn and 10. I35 ESQ pounds Of lead were
shlppsd from the Omaha Smelling Works in
1879, the product principally Of Utah mines.
, 1880-01-22
Burned TO Death.

OMAAA, January ia Swede named
Oieson lived with a male companion in
dugout, about IL miles from Ponca. The
next morning after Christmas q man passing
along lhs road saw tho smoking ruins OF
Oles0n's hut, and going there was horrified
TO mud ol,sOn lying in the doorway dead.
one leg being burnt of aud other parts Of
HIS person showing the effects Of Ore. A
ooroneT's inquest was being held at Ponca
YESTERDAY, but the result reached il not
known here at this time,
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-04-06
a Shower Of Worms.
baltimore sun.l


Those who were out socn after sun
rise yesterday morning, when it was
quite warm, with a mild atmosphere.
observed Thousands ofworms crawling
upon the streets and sidewalks. They
were seen in great numbers in North
Baltimore, en.the solid pavement on
North Avcnns, leading from Charles
street to York road. They wore very
much like the common mud or fishing
worms, varying in length from three
to eight or nine inches. with quite a
large, fat head and sharp tail, rough
surface, from one-eighth to three
eighths Of an inch in circumference,
and brown in color. Some were dead
or motionless, others moving. There
was a peculiar shape and conforma.
tion about them, differing materially
from the fish worm. 1t was absolute-
ly impossible for them 70 have come
out through the solid Schilliager pave.
ment--henco the hypothesis is they
were rained down during the shower
Of Wednesday night, and must have
descended from mild atmosphere in
the upper regions. When the suns
heat grew more powerful most ofthem
died or withored into seeming inani-
mate nothingness and finally disap-
peared. Such a natural phenomenon.
though rare, ID within the recollection
Of many Baltimorsans. These singu-
lar creatures were seen by many per-
sons in the city, as well as those resid-
ing on its suburbs.
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-04-06
Longevity and Journalism

The Atheneaum In it's obituary ar-
ticle on William Hepworth Dixon,
says: "The gentle intellectual excite
ments of literary ease are conducive
to longevity, but the severe strain OF
incessant literary toll exhausts the
stronges: nerves aud shortens the
workers days. This oughtto be true
1t is so plausible, says the New York
Times, but the exceptions are alto
gether too numerous TO admit of its
unqualified acceptance. No sort of
literary toll is more wearing and in-
cessant than that of the journalist,
aud II Is to Dixon's career as jour-
nalist that the Atheneaum more par
ticularly refers. o. n
l, may be, In these days Of tele.
graphs and special correspondents,
when what would have been extraor-
binary feats of enterprise twenty
five years ago are now daily common
places of journalism, and when the
newspaper man works hard and fast
and under constant tension OF mind
that the business is unfavorable to the
length OF days, but lives of the found
ers OF most Of the worlds great jour-
nails, many Of whom are still with ns,
or have only lately dropped out OF
the ranks, do not point that way.
Joseph Gales, who was for SO years
connected with the National Intelli-
gencer, lived to the age Of "a; his fa-
lher, Joseph Gales Of the Sheffield
(England) Register, and later Of the
Raleigh IN. CO. Register, was 81
When he died; Grcely lived to 62,
and Bennett, the founder ofthe Her.
aid, died at II. Bryant was "a at the
time Of his death Samuel Bowles.
50; Henry J, Raymond, 40; Delane,
Of the London Times. 62; and Will
messent, OF the Paris Figaro, 7S. OF
The living journalists we have Thur
low Weed at 83; Baldwin, Of the
Worcester Spy, at 70; and Story, of
the Chicago Times, at 50. The aver.
age of all these ages is68 years and 5
months Physicians toll Us that
tho average life Of the professional
man Is so years; that Of o farmer 63.
Longevity and journalism evidently
20 hand In hand. Complete NOR
tality tables might, and doubtless
would, show q shorter average Of life
but the twelve cases cited, selected on
no other ground than the fact they
happen to be the best known Of mod
ern Journalists, and are sufficient
proof that severe literary toll does
not necessarily and per Sc shorten the
workers days. stpF @is
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-04-06

A correspondent of the Pail Mall
Magazine, descanting on badness,
cites some eminent examples as fol.
lows:
Ii one may Judge from the excep.
tioual case vi Elisha, badness seems
10 have been considered u disgrace
among the Jews In remote ages, still
u disgrace with which II was not per-
mi,ted to reproach nh honorable man.
The punishment inflicted by divine
iutcrp positiOn, and ut the express So
licitati0n Of the prophet. upon forty
unfortunate children, seems 10 per-
SONS in the present day--eyell, II may
be added, to those who have lost
their hair-rather severe. Lovers Of
analogies, coincidelcies and con-
trasts may be invited to remark that
the grease OF the wild beasts en-
plOyed rs instruments OF vengeance
against the little ones who had launt-
cd the good old prophet with his
badness was In later centuries TO be
employed as capillary restorative.
The strcngth Of Sampson and the
beauty Ut A 5saloin lay in their hair
and there 10 q significance, no doubt,
in the fact that through their hair
both OF them came TO grief. sa.
Among the Crooks, the two most
famous bald men werc Eschylns end
Ulysses. The balliess of Escliylus
10 known to have been the cause OF
his death, IN caglo carrying tortoise
IN It's claws having dropped Its prey
with the view Of breaking the, she'll
upon what It took to be a rock, but
which vas in fact the shining skull
ofa great tragic poet. Tho badness
of Ulysses is commcmorated In the
'OdessY, and the fearful vengeance
taken upon the siitors Of Penelope
seenIs 10 have beeu In great meas
use due to the pleasantries In which
one oftliem INDUCED concerning the
glittering aspect presented by her
husband crauium. Badness, how
ever, was no more admired III those
days than in our own (, and when
Ulysses was restored to youth, stress
10 laid upon the fact that locks Of the
most luxuriaut kind were given back
10 him. b,n.l
i Julius Cesar was notorious for his
badness, and the joke made Oh this
subject by his soldiers OH the occa-
sion OF one Of his trlumphal entries
into Rome are only too well known.
Nor need the story be repeated Of the
pleasure he took In wearing q wreath
which covered his denuded temples;
and which, according to one Roman
historian, was his chief reason Tor
vaIuing 1t. It may be remarked,
however, that the lifc-like bust of Jn-
Illus Cesar in the British Museum is
not that OF a man who in the present
day would be considered bald. The
hair is not thick, and brushed for
ward IN a style which indicateala de-.
sire TO make up fora certain want OF
hair In the region Of the forehead and
about the temples. Something, how
ever, must be allowed tor the COM
| plimentary disposition Of the sculp-
tor reproducing the head Of all all
powerful commsnder aud ruler who
was known not to be withtat per-
sonal vanity. sfit ~ t7a,i
The south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1879-1883, 1880-04-06
Where Sarah Was.
detroit Free Press.l


A Wayne county farmer had some
wheat stolen = few nights since,and he
was so sure that he knew who tho
thief was that he came TO Detroit an d
secured a warrant for certain young
man living near him. When the case
came up for trial in Justice alley, the
defendant said he could prove an
alibi. In order to do this, he:.hatl
brought in "his girl" buxom lass Of
twenty-One. She took the stand and
swore that he sat up with her from
seven o'clock in the evening until
broad daylight in the morning. 81
People can be verydearly mistaken
observed the plaintiffs lawyer.
/ don't care--I know he was there
she replied.
Who do you talk about?
Love | she promptly answered.
What time did the old folks 20 to
bedp
give 'em the wink about 10.
Sure he was there at midnight, are
you?
Yes sir.
Why are you sure?
She blushed, looked over to her
lover and laughed, and getting q nod
TO 60 ahead she said:
Well, sir, just as tho clock struck
IL the old man jumped ont Of bed up
stairs and hollowered down: Sarah,
yer mar wants some o. the catnip tea
And we got such o start that we
broke the back off the rocking chair,
and went over backwards kerplunk.
Then the jury must understand
that you were seated on Samuel's
knee2 Y
I object, put In Samuels lawyer.
and his honor remembered the days
Of his youth aud sustained the objec-
ton.