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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26
Tumneling the English Channel.
London Pail Mall Gazette.

The works which are going on at
Abott's Cliff tunnel, between Folkestone
and Dover, on the Southeastern railway,
in connection with the sinking of a
shaft for testing the geological forma-
tions of the locality, with view to the
form alton of a tunnel between England
and France, were inspected yesterday,
and pronounced satisfactory, by NJ
Leon Say and the French engineers, in
Guiding NJ Duval, NJ. Oreton and the
Count de Montebello. A shaft ninety
feet deep has been sunk from the level
of the engine house at high water, and
a heading has been driven to the level
Of high-watel mark for the purpose of
depositing the chalk Powerful ma
chinery has been fixed for the purpose
of driving an atmospheric drill, with
which it is intended to drive heading
as far as Dover, a distance of three
miles, under the line of railway, the
heading at Dover to be 800 feet deep.
The experiments are being carried out
under the direction of Colonel Beau
mont and Captain English. The South
eastern railway company has made a
grant of $4,000 for the purpose.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26
CablegraIns.

THE harvest in the west of Ireland is
now certain to be not only abundant, but
unusually early.
A DISPATCH from Bergin, Norway, an
nounces the death of Ole Bull, the famous
violinist. He was 20 years of age
THE situation of affairs in Ireland is so
serious that VIM. E. Foster, chief secre-
tary, has gone there in great haste.
A COMPANY Just organized in London will
lay another Atlantic cable from England
to the Azores and thence to America.
THE weavers of Bolton. Eng, to the
number of ,450, have struck because of a
reduction of 5 per cent. in their wages.
A BOMBAY dispatch says: Candahar is
safe. Ayoob Khan is occasionally firing
shells. But little damage is being done.
The siege is scarcely formed.
IT is reported from Simia that the Can
sortie against the besieging Afghanese. in
fiicting heavy loss upon them.
THE Servian government wants to make
a contract for one hundred thousand rifles
of the newest American pattern, to be de-
livered to them the present year.
RUMoRs are that Ayoob Khan attacked
the south side of Candahar, ,at the Shikarah
gate. The cannonade was kept up from
morning to evening on three sides OF the
city The British loss is trifing.
THE Porte has finally decided to cede
Dulcigno to Montenegro. Abeddin Pasha
Minister Of Foreign Affairs, says he hopes
the transfer will be effected without great
difficulty.
A COLONEL of French infantry regi
ment who expressed hope recently, while
presenting a flag to his command, that the
standard would soon represent only the
United States of Europe, has been suspend
ed for one year by the minister of war.
THE British Government having evi
dence pointing to the probability of Fe
nian plot to blow up the barracks at Cork
the guards have been doubled and patrol,
of eighty men watch the exterior of the
barracks nightly. 1t is stated that two
barrels of gunpowder were found on Mon
day in the railway tunnel under the bar
racks.
A BAD riot occurred at Dungannon, Ire
land on the 10Th inst Many of the rioter,
almost rushed on the points of the bay
onets in eargerness of attack. The police
then fired a yolley of ball cartridges, anC
many persons were wounded. One mar
had his head riddled with buckshot, anC
received a bullet in the abdomen, from the
effects of which he died shortly after. A
Downpatrick, in the fight between the
Catholics and Orangemen, firearms were
used necessarily from II in the evening
until 3 the next moring. Several person.
were severely wounded.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26
Campaign Literature.

The republican congressional committee
is at work Issuing Scandinavian documents
for the Northwest. They consist of Gar
fields speeches, Frye's speech on the fl
nancial achievements of the republican
party and the republican platform. Large
editions of these similar documents are al
ready out in the German language. and
are doing good service The republican
platform, Garfeld's speeches and Schurz's
address at indianapolis are especially
called for In the German tongue, and are
being distributed by thousands. Docu-
ments in English are sent at the rate of
fifty mail bags per day, and a docu-
ment has been completed embodying
extracts from Garfeld's speeches,
not only political but of all descriptions,
and containing his best expressed thoughts
on every conceivable subject. The Demo
cratic litterateurs are all at once intensely
active in this tongue, and they have dis.
covered that their opponents are a month
ahead of them in this work, and are hard
at it to catch up. Indiana, Maine and
Ohio are receivers of a class of bogus lit
erature. The literary men have had great
trouble TO prepare proper amount of
reading matter for campaign purposes,
which accounts in part for the delay. The
records of every public question are against
their party, and they have had either to
directly falsify or steer clear of all peril
nent questions of the public mind Even
dissertations on free trade will only do for
some sections of the country, and they
have to be judiciously circulated or they
do more harm than good. Then Hancock s
life, told in most fabulous vein, can only
be sent North, as it is not agreeable to the
southern wing of the party to read how
successfully he had their brothers shot
down in battle. About their only cry is
:" no more bloody shirt and conciliation,
non-sectionalism, etc. The case really
demands more talent than the Democratic
party can command.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26
Accidents.

THE Newcastle Ontario, wooden mills
burned on the Goth inst Loss, $4,000.
Mrs. LAURA MILLER, aged % years. of
West Springfield, Mass, took tiy-poison by
mistake and died in few minutes.
JOHNNIE LOTUS, u years old, of Iowa,
City, Iowa, while playing with little
killing him instantly.
HEAVY rains have caused disastrous
floods in Donegal, Ireland. A church at
Commienon has been carried away and Il
number of people have been drowned.
FIFTEEN persons were precipitated into
deep cellar by an iron grating giving
away, and were all injured. Seven persons
were severely. Officer John Hay had a leg
broken; Geo. Steffer, leg and arm broken
and John Houghton, leg broken.
\ FALLING elevator at the Sandusky, O.,
wheel works crushed man and a boy,
who we're passing under it, to death,
manghng their bodies frightfully. There
were sixteen persons on the elevator, only
two whom were injured.
The Universalist church, of Marble
head, Mass, was burned by incendiaries.
Loss $4,000, insured for $4,000. B.
Hooper, dealer in fancy goods, occupied
the basement. Loss $1,000; insured for
S2,2OO
W. H. BoGAR, the telegraph operator at
Arlington, ILL.,, received telegram on the
9th int. that his brother had been instant
ly killed and almost entirely devoured be-
fore help could reach him, while perform
ing in cage of hyenas connected with a
menagerie in Pennsylvania.
Mrs. JOHN SENTLE, of Alliance, Ohio,
ran over to a neighbor's, and in an excited
manner was communicating something
that had passed in another neighbor' S
family, when she fell over on the stove
and instantly expired. Cause, heart dis
ease.
An explosion occurred in the Wager
mills at 81. Louis, on the 18th inst, and in
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26
NO. 50.

ence and in full view of these facts. | ask
all the voters of Maine and of the whole
Union, so far as my voice can reach them.
whether they think the financial policy
that has proved so brilliantly successful
should now be placed under the control of
the men who were its bitter opponents, or
whether it had better be kept in the hands
OF It's friends or among these friends none
stronger, abler, more jealous or more con
sistant can be found than James A. Gar
field. Never by word or deed so far as
L know, has Gen. Hancock ever made anv
expression on the subject. His letter of
acceptance is discreetly, or, as should
say, indiscreetly, silent in regard to this
great subject, as, indeed, it is in reference
to all matters of administration that NAV
come up for Judgment before a president
of the United States.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

OVERLAND passengers who arrived in
San Francisco Aug IS, had as fellow
passenger desperate known rs Big
Nosed George" who was being taken
back to the territories, in charge Of a
sheriff, to answer to few Of his many
murders. At Carbon band of vigil
antes took forcible possession of the
train, captured the prisoner after des-
perate struggle, dragged him from the
car, and strung him up until they had
checked a full confession out of him,
and then restored him to the sheriff.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

THE Chinese minister at Washington
has given notice that his government
has, by official decree, removed the
ancient restrictions on commerce, and
that the Celestials may hereafter trade
with foreigners at will. The announce
ment is gratifying to everybody except
the few foreigners who have for years
enjoyed a monopoly of the trade at the
treaty ports, and amassed gigantic for
tunes thereby.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

THEY are having what they call a po-
htical crisis in the Argentine confed +
alton in the South America, DR.. Mic
olas Avellaneda, the president, wants to
step down and out, but the national
congress, while declining to accept his
resignation, insists that he shall over
throw the provincial chambers, to
which he objects. The Buenos Ayres
garrison has been reinforced, and
the situation is represented as serious.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26
Wicked for Clergymen.

REV, washington, D. c., writes: {" believe
it to be ali wrong and even wicked for clergymen
or OF her public men to be led into giving testimo-
mails TO duack doctors or vile stuffs called medi
c1nes. butwhen a really meritoriOus article made
of valuable remedies known TO all, that all ply
slcians use and trust in daily, we should freely
commend IL therefore cheerfully and heartily
commend Hop Bitters for the good they have
done me and my friends firmly believing they
have no equal for family use. will not be with
out them .f-NelD Y0rE Baptist Weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

LEAF tobacco from Connecticut and
Pennsylvania is now shipped to San
Francisco, where it is made into cigars
by 'cheap Chinese labor" and the
manufactured article is reshipped to
New York for sale. Over million
cigars have recently been sent East
from San Francisco.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

OK the day the Cincinnati convention
nominated Hancock, Mrs. Margaret
Perry of New Orleans gave birth to
triplets, two boys and II girl, who have
been named Hancock, English, and
America
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

TYPHOID fever Of malignant and
mpudent type, has carried off the
brother Of member of the Cincinnati
board Of health, and is creating alarm
among the local physicians.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

FARMERS in Central and Southern
Illinois arc complaining of the pro
tracted drouth, which, they say, is
damaging the corn and potato crops
and drying up the pastures.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26
Criminal.

TREMAINE, an East St Louis saloon
Keeper, shot and killed Horace B. Vail, a
drunken customer, who assaulted him.
AYoUNG man nameo Waldron was ar
rested at Sunny Side, Ga, by Sheriff Spald-
ing, and posse overpowered the sheriff
and took the prisoner and cut his head
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

4 Philadelphia contractor says
whisky can be made out of garbage.
And we believe him. Whisky makes
garbage out of man, and why
shouldn't man make whisky out of gar
bage. 1t is poor rule that won't work
both ways
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

Mis-. PARAN STEVENS pays the penal
ty of being wealthy and snobishly in
inclined to display. She has been COM
PEELED to apply to the authorities of
Newport for protection against the
vulgar herd of sight-seers who congre-
gate in the vicinity of her palace-cot-
tage to see, admire and criticise.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

THERE are five men to one woman
in LeadvilIe, Col. At Silver Cliff the
ratio is seven to one. The older cities
in Colorado, such as Denver, Colorado
Springs, Pueblo, Georgetown, Boulder,
Central and Golden show fair pro-
portion of women.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

THE next annual meeting of the Uni
ted States Hay Fever Association, of
which Mr.. Mark Richards Muckle, of
Philadelphia. is President, is to be
held at Bethlehem, n H., on the 31st
Of AUGUST
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26
INNOVATIONS,

IT is believed that Abdmrahman
Khan is acting in concert with Ayoob
Khan in Afghanistan probably IN re-
spOnse to Russian intrigue.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

Two Nexicans, arrested at Albuquer-
que, New Mexico, on suspicion of hav-
ing murdered prospector, made full
onfession of their guilt when informed
that they would be lynched unless they
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

FRED MAY, who was the antagonist
of James Gordon Bennett in that blood
less duel some years ago, was, it is re-
ported, arrested at Long Branch on the
18th inst, for disorderly conduct, at the
West End hotel. He had been drinking
freely and got into a controversy with
tho nnlinn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

THE work of ascertaining who holds
our now outstanding government bonds
was begun on 18th inst. by the treasury
department of Washington. 1t will ue
comparatively easy to find the holders
of the registered bonds, but it will be
more difficult to ascertain where the
500. 1000 900 of coupon bonds are held.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

THE census taller at Wakefield, n. c.,
found man 60 years of age, who is the
father of twenty-nine living children,
twenty-six ofwhom are by one wife.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

DAN RICE has already retired from
the religious field, and is fitting up a
floating circus for the Mississippi river
and its tributaries.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, who
married Miss Jerome, is gaining IN
reputation as a parliamentary speaker
and tactician.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-08-26

Boston has appropriated $50 900 for
the celebration, on Sept. II, of the two
hundred and fiftieth anniversary of her
discovery.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-11-25

agement of their grandmothers. Rv ex-
ample, no less than actual saving tbev
may do world of good. Let them show
their husbands that they are determined
10 oppose wastetul and 6unseemly outlay
as @ matter of principle. The family
may be able to afford such an outlay TO.
day, but may not be. able to afford It to-
morrow. ... f's
= 'Auseful lesson is to be had here from
the King who insisted that his children
should be taught trade; and this ap-
plies to girls as well as to boys. No one
can tell what his future circumstances
may be. Some of the. richest noblemen
IN England are also the poorest because
OF the constantly-increased demand upon
their resources. Poor Richard NAV not
: be the best guide in the world in eyerv-
thing, but he is certainly safe one in
domestic economy. There is no earthly
need Tor dong always what other people
do, or thinking always what other peo-
pie will say. If American women will
but dare to insist on becoming house.
wives of the good old sort, of regulating
their homes, not of necessity as others
do, but as their own sense of right and
length of purse justify, with an eye to
the future as well as the present, there
will be fewer breaches of trust and
broken fortunes in the business world
hereafter than in the ten sad years that
have been, as well as much sounder. be-
cause much safer, enjoyment of life
among business men.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-11-25
FiItering Cistern Water.

Ex-Mayor Clymer, of Reading, Pa.
proposes the following, which is proba-
bly, the best cheap mode of fitting rain
water, for drinking or culinary purposes:
Pure fresh water in the West is Sc
cured the year round by their large and
admirable cisterns, built of brick and
Roman cement. In the center is placed
brick chimney in said chimney the
pump is placed. The water from the
top to the bottom of the cistern is con-
stantly filtering through the chimney to
supply the demands of the pump, and
this process. keeps the water in the main
body of tho Scistern in q. state of con-
slant agitation, thereby it is always
sweet and good. Every family can have
pure water by hlterng the rain of heaven
from theirlli rlliodsetops, CT by filtering the
impure water from our water basins"
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-11-25
Kimdred and AgeinYty ),

The Protestant Episcopal Bishop OF
Albany, N: Y, has published pamphlet
with the above title, or Goods Law of
Marriage" ," in which he tries to show
that man should not, under any cir
cumstances, be allowed to marry his
dead wife's sister. To urge, he says,
that such a marriage is " the sweetest
and most natural thing" for widower
is mere sentiment and "often sickly
sensunlism poorly disguised under thin
veil and against it is to be set up the
fact that the impossibility of marriage
establishes firmly the sacred and most
blessed relationship of the wife's sister
in the family. The very name by which,
the relation is known involves the GER
tainty of this protection. She is o Sis
ter-in-law-i. e., in the law of God /; as
onr good English defines it, sister,.
with whom, because marriage is impos-
sible, the wise intimacy of brothers
relation is possible and safe" n
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-11-25

Now that you are being courted, you
think, of course, it is all very well, and
it will be nicer when you get married.
But it won't. He thinks he's going to
keep on this high pitch of love all the
time. But he won't. He doesn't know
himself, and you don't know him. When
he sees you as many times day as he
wants to, may be more, when he sees
your head done up regularly every morn
ing in curl papers and the bloom is all
off the rye when your home contains
good deal of wash-tub, cradle and cook
stove, he won'tsstand innfront of the
house for one hour, out IN the cold.
watching your light In the window.
He'll be thinking rather of getting out
of the house. Young woman, protract
this courtship as long as you can. Let
well enough alone. Acourtship In hand
is worth two marriages in the bush.
Don't marry till Christmas after next.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-11-25
nIr. whittier ON Woman Suffrage.


Our writer and poet says =" The So
ciety Of the future must be acted on
more directly by women than that of the
past. In the bringing out of the sensi-
bilities they must take leading part.
Woman suffrage regard as an inevita-
ble thing and good thing. Women in
public life will bring it up more than it
will bring them down. There will be
considerable foundering before society
would become completely adapted to the
change, but after it shall be fairly &C
complished and in working order the
work of society will go On without any
deterioration, and with gain in purity
of motives and unselfshness of law
makers and administrators. I fear its
effects in large cities, where bad women
will come forward. Women are so in
tense that bad women will be worse in
public life than bad men. But the diff
Guilty is in the nature of the city,"
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-11-25
A Mother and Daughters.

1 once met Git was at o garden parity
clergyman wife-a graceful, accom-
plished women who introduced her
three daughters, all so much after the
mothers type that could not help ad-
miring them.
"Yes," she said, with o tender pride.
Z" think my girls are nice girls. And
SO useful, too. We are not rich, and we
have nine children. So we told the ell
der girls that they would have either to
turn out and earn their bread, or stay ut
home and do the work of the house.
They chose the latter. We keep no
seryant-only char-woman to scolir
ana clean. My girls take it by turns to
ne COOK, housemaid and parlor- maid. In
ele nursery, OF course [happy mother
VINO could say 'of course they are all
IN all to their little brothers and sisters"
But how about education % asked.
Oh, the work being divided among
so many, we find time for lessons too.
some we can afford to pay for, and then
The elder teach the younger ones. Where
tneres will there's o way. Ny girls
are not 1gnoramuses, or recluses either.
Look at them now."
And as watched the gracious, grace
tul damsels, in their linen dresses and
straW hats-home manufacture, but as
pretty as any of the elegant toilets there
Il saw no want in them quite the con-
trary. They looked so happy, too-so
gay and at ease
Yes, answered the smiling mother,
~; III Is because they are always busy.
Lhey never have time to pet and NOPE,
especially about themselves. L Go believe
ny glris are the merriest and happiest
girls alive"
\ could well imagineif. dfgg. 1fsxkealk
Grain, $5a Basay.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-11-25

RHEUMATISM. M.-Rheumatism is a disease of
the blood. The blood in this disease is found
to contain an excess Of fibrin. Vegetine acts by
converting the blood from it's diseased condi-
ton to a healthy circulation. One bottle Of
Vegetne will give relief; but to effect perma-
nent cure, 1t must be taken regularly, and may
take several bottles especially in cases of long
standing: Try it, and your verdict will be tho
same as that Of thousands before you, who say,
II never found 30 much relief as from the use
OF Vegetine," which is compounded exclusively
Of barks, roots and herbs.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1880-11-25
Where Women Were Needed at the
Polls.

David Hopkins and Gustave Dettloff
were candidates for School Trustee in
District No. of New Lots, l.. l., at the
last election. Mr.. Hopkins is farmer,
and was seeking reelection. Mr.. Dett-
loft is connected with an insurance COM
pauy in this city and is a well-known
resident of the town. The friends of
Mr.. Hopkins, about an hour before the
closing of the polls, perceived that there
was danger of their candidates defeat
A consultation was held, and it was de-
cided to utilize the new law giving wom-
en- the privilege of voting. Accordingly
several farm wagons were procured and
sent through the district to gather in
the farmers wives and daughters. The
wagons returned to the polls with 1O7
women, all of whom voted for Mr.. Kop-
kins, thus saving him from defeat. It
was too late to use counter-poison.-
Neay York World