Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-11-04
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Martinsburg, W. Va, is dead,
General Hancock's pay as Majo
General is 81 600 per annum.
Nine. Thiers, widow of the late ex
president of France, is seriously i'll il
Paris.
Hon 0Iuscoe Garnett, late county
judge of Essex county, Va, died las
week
Mr.. VIM. shands, a rising young
lawyer of Harrisburg, Va, dice
Wednesday.
All reports to the contrary, the ice
crop for 1881 has not yet been damaged
by frost.
The death of the Baron Bettint
Ricasoi, formerly prime minister o
italy, IS announced from Rome.
One of the Frenchiest pattern bon
nets this season is a cOrOnet of eight
humming birds, each in its nest.
Marcus Richardson, aged one hun
dred years, of Bangor, Me-, has been q
mason for seventy-seven years.
The widow of DR.. Hoge, of Halifax
county, Va, died suddenly last Sunday
whilst taking bath.
Ferdinand w. Richardson, clerk Of
the circuit and county courts of Fair
fax county, Va, died Wednesday last
The King of Bavaria has bestowed
on the eminent Orientalist, Professor
Spiegel, the honor of life nobility.
The death is announced of Captain
Hobsen, who discovered the remains
of Sir John Franklin in the Arctic re-
gions.
A French statesman, presuming to
speak for Gambetta, says the latter
would much rather have German al
lance than war with Germany.
Miss Emily A. Smith, assistant state
Entomologist of Illinois, was duly
elected a foreign member of the En-
tomological Society of London on Sep
tember 1st.
One Of the murderers of DIR. Parsons,
the American missionary, has been
condemned at Constantinople to death,
and the other two to fifteen years penal
servitude.
a Sacramento (Cal.) bride recently
whipped her father because he induced
her husband to drink in q bar-room.
1t was a very effective temperance
lecture.
Charles L. Perkins, Esq, of New
York, is reported seriously i'll. He is
one of the receivers of the Atlantic
Mississippi and Ohio railroad.
Miss Belle Mackenzie that was, Mrs
Archer now, with her husband, is play,
ing in New York, and the two com
bined receive a salary of $85 per week
Mr.. Leonard Grover, a well-known
Marylander, theatrical manager and
author, has leased the Broad Street
Theatre, Philadelphia, for term OF
years.
There was a grand wedding in Port
land, Maine, recently-that of Mr..
Sweetser and the beautiful Miss Alice
Anderson, the daughter of Gen. Ander-
son.
Mrs. Amanda Newsome, of Marion
county, Georgia, lady 81 years of age,
has just completed quilt containing
six thousand six hundred and ninety
two pieces.
Mr.. Murray the celebrated London
publisher, will shortly publish the Earl
of Dufferin's speeches and addresses
delivered in Canada and in the House
of Lords.
A young lady in New York is under
treatment for lameness caused by
wearing French heels. She is in great
pain and it is feared is permanently
disabled.
When Miss Alice LiddelI-the origi-
nal "Alice in Wonderland mar
ried the other day, she wore among her
ornaments horseshoe of pearls, the
gift of Prince Leopold.
Senior Ponies Pererra de Milo, the
ex-Prime Minister of Portugal, has
negotiated the marriage of the heir ap-
parent to the thone of Portugal with a
Russian princess.
Senior Zamacona is not going to
France as the first Mexican minister
since the Maximilian tragedy, but will
return to Washington, with his family,
at the close of the present month.
Frank Venable, son of Professor
Charles S, Venable, LID, of the Uni
versity of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va,
has accepted the position of professor
of Chemistry in the University of North
Carolina.
NJ. Emile Girardin recommends
young Frenchmen to let Greek and
Latin alone and to study English and
Spanish, because they are the languages
of the future.
Elisa, the famous circus rider, and a
friend of the Empress of Austria, is at
last on the road to fame. Her dia-
monds and q quantity of jewelry have
been stolen from her apartments by a
chambermaid.
Mr.. John W. Langley, of Baltimore,
we'll known in insurance circles, is in
Winchester, Va, and, it is feared, hope
lessly paralyzed. He is with friends,
and all is done for him that love and
affection can suggest.
The colored people of Georgia are
prosperous. They own 541 ,199 acres OF
land; have good public schools; a fine
college at Atlanta, and two-thirds OF
them vote the democratic ticket
Mr.. John II. Steele, Mexican vol
unteer, died at his residence in Augusta
county, Va, on the night of Oct. Oath,
aged IS years He was a member OF
the company of Captain Kenton Har-
per.
General William Malone, OF Virgin
ia, was in Baltimore recently. He re-
ceived attention from several friends,
and dined at the Athenaum club with
Edwin Fitzgerald, Esq, and a few
others.
Lady Haberson recomends the adop-
ton of trousers for walking dress, or,
as she calls them, skirts" divided
above the knee and made full down to
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