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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29
GENERAL NOTES.

EZRA B. FRENCH, second auditor Of
the treasury. died in Washington on Sat
urday, the 25th.
DISPATCHES OF the 22nd inst note the
fact that the state of New Hampshire
has just completed new penitentiary at
a cost of s230,000.
Two thousand French Canadians left
Montreal, on the 23rd inst, for the manu-
featuring districts of Massachusetts, dur
ing the last three weeks.
THE Canadian government has remov-
ed the embargo on American cattle, and
shipments may now be made from Do
minion ports.
A NEW loan of $3,00O,000 made by the
C.. 81 n. w. Railway was all taken by
three New York banks, On Saturday at
the highest price ever paid for these
bonds
CERTAIN infidels in Massachusetts
are endeavoring to raise enough money
to retain Bob Ingersoll as counsel for
Freeman, the religious child murderer
of Pocasset, says dispatches of the 23rd
inst
The heavy rains of the last week have
raised the water in the lower Mississippi
~ SNASh u Oeu5S3 iS"o VI thC -oI u
inst, that the greatest anxiety is felt
along its banks over the condition OF the
levees.
A BILL was introduced in congress, on
the 23rd inst, appropriating $15000O TO
set up statutes of Madison, Jefferson,
John Adams, Randolph, Pinckney, Web
ster, Clay and Calhoun in the public
squares of Washington.
SEN. DAVIS, of Illinois, introd uced a
bill on the 22nd inst. authorizing the
president to nominate and with the con-
sent of the senate to appoint Major Reno
| to his former rank and date of commits
sion, and assign him to the first vacancy
occurring in his grade.
THE sen ate, after long and tedious
consideration of the Geneva award bill,
laid the whole subject on the table on
| the 22nd inst. The bill as finally
amended seemed TO suit no one, and it
was thought best to lay it away, in the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29
How WOod Pulp is Made.


SO much is said about the paper pulp
which is extensively used in the manu-
facture of paper that brief description
of the process of making it will be en-
tertainipg. Any white soft wood may
be used. The bark is taken eff, the
knots and dark and decayed places are
cut out. 1t is then put into a large
caldron and boiled, which extracts all
the glutinous matter and resin and rem
ders it soft. 1t il then put Oh large
stone grinder, with water pouring on it
all the time. The grindstone wears off
the fibres until they are finer than saw
dust, which float away into a receptacle.
The water is drained off by the means
of a fine sieve leaving the pulp, which
consists of fine fuzz or splinters of wood.
1t is white and requires no bleaching,
but is ready to be mixed with rag pulp
or anything else that has a strong fibre
and receive the proper constituents to
make it into paste, after which it is run
off into paper sheets, whereas rags have
to be washed and bleached with chic
ride of lime, soda ash and alum and
such strong chemicals to take out the
color. They are picked to pieces and
made into pulp. The process by which
the wood pulp is made is purely me.
chanical. 1t can be made cheap, say at
about one cent pound.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29
The Most Perfect Tenor Singer Who
Ever Lived.
Partisan,

PARIS, March 13.-Fra Giovanni del
Papa, the famous Franciscan tenor of
the Sistine Chapel, and monk of Ara
Ce', is dead. He had been singing a
great deal in all the church festas this
season. At every function in the SIS
tine Chapel, at St. Iqnazio, for the
requiem mass of Plus TX, on all occa-
sions, we have heard his angelic voice
soaring pure and clear, hmpid and
sparkling, like a mountain stream
thrown up into high-water shaft, and
spreading off in spray as transparent as
sunny sheen against The heavens. Sew
eral times when l have heard him sing
this spring l have thought, SIT is an
angel and no human being"
The poor Frate was i'll only few
days with violent infammatory gas
trio fever. aggravated by intestinal gan
creme. Fra Giovanni was simple,
kind-herted contadino. He was the
son of contadini and was born thirty
seven years ago at st. Maria del Giudice,
near Lucca. He entered the order of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29
THE PRINCE CONSORT,
His Action in the MaSOn.Slidell Affair


Mr.. Theodore Martins concludingIvol-
ume of the life of the prince consort has
especial interest to American readers
on account of the light it throws upon
the position taken by Queen Victoria
and Prince Albert on the Trent affair.
Until now it has hardly been known
that it was largely owing to the efforts
of the queen and Prince Albert that an
amicable settlement ofaffairs was reach
ed. On the receipt of the news that
Mason and Slidell had been arrested.
Lord Palmerston instantly ordered
troops to be sent to Canada. At that
time England was in a state of excite
ment. The illness of the prince con-
sort, the insideous attempts ON the part
of Louis Napoleon to instigate the Man
chester people to active opposition to
America, and the natural hostility Of
many kept things in a ferment. In the
midst of this excitement and hostility
Prince Albert remained cool and anx-
ious to settle the affair amicably. Ill
and scarcely able to hold a pen, on the
1st Of December, 1861, he made cor
rections, with strong objections, to the
dispatch of Lord John" TO Lord Lyons,
the tenor of which and his opinions
may be gathered from the queens
memorandum on returning the dispatch
to the foreign office. 1t reads: "The
queen returns these important drafts,
| which upon the whole, she approves,
but she cannot help feeling that the
main draft is somewhat meagre. She
should have liked to have seen the ex-
preston of a hope that the American
| did not act under instructions or, if he
did, that he Inexperienced them;
that the United States government
must be fully aware that the British
government could not allow it's flag to
be insulted and the security of her
mail communications to be placed in
jeopardy; and her msjesty's govern
ment are unwilling to believe that the
United States government intended
wantonly to put an insult upon this
country, and to add to their many dis
tressing complications by forcing a
question of dispute upon us; and that
we are therefore glad to believe that
upon full consideration of the circum-
stances of the undoubted breach of in
ternational law committed, they would
spontaneously offer such redress as
alone could satisfy this country, viz,
the restoration of the unfortunate pas
sengers, and suitable apology" The
result of this was that the dispatch
finally sent to Lord Lyons was go mod
flied that, even in the excited state of
the two countries, it was received by
both with satisfaction. This averted
war. and, as the queen said, cit was
greatly owing to her beloved prince"
whose observations on the drafts of the
two dispatches were the last words that
he wrote.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE Union glass works near the city
of Baltimore, burned on the Goth loss
$50 5000, partly insured.
WILLIAM M. TILoTsoN, who had one
arm and both legs broken at the Madison
Square Garden accident died on the 23rd
inst. Another death from injuries re
ceived has been reported at st. Vincent's
hospital.
THE Maplewood public school build
ing, located at Camp Point. in Adams
county Ill, burned down on the 22nd
inst. The building was one of the finest
in the county, erected at cost of $780,
900. Insurance, $4,000. Cause of the
fire unknown, but supposed TO be in
cendiary.
GRAHAM ORMBY's team became frac.
tiOus while being driven upon the ferry,
fiat at Wickliff's landing, on Kentucky
river, on the 23rd inst, and his motht r,
sister and Miss Miller and the horses
plunged into the river and drowned. The
young man, who was on his way to be
married, narrowly escaped death.
a FIRE was discovered in an old barn
located at Leesburg, Ind, on the 23rd
inst. 1t was kindled for the purpose OF
plunder. The rascals who touched the
match took advantage of the absence OF
the greater portion of the male sex, who
were attending a convention at Warsaw
Damage to the barn and wagon shop ad
joining, about $1,000. This makes the
second attempt to burn that town within
six months. The people are good deal
excited, and are trying to ferret out The
matter.
Four incendiary fires occurred at Ls
Fayette, Ind, on th e 23rd inst, at about
the same time. The first alarm, at 80
was from the barn of A. z. Pierce, of the
National State bank, which burned, tC
gether with valuable horse, buggy
harness. etc. The next alarm, shortly be
tore O'Clock, was occasioned by fires a
Tim berlake s. Browns stables, and also
at the large cooper shops of Peck s. Alb
bot, six Or eight squares away. In these
instances the fires were speedily extin
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29

hope that after awhile more judicious
bill might be passed.
On the day of the Marshfeld tornado
alargesized roof landed in door yard
near Lawrenceburg, Iud. Careful in.
vestigation in the neighbOrhood fails to
disclose building minus its covering
and the beliefis gaining ground that the
visitor came from Missouri.
A QUINCY, ILL.,, dispatch says cyclone
struck the north line of this (Adams)
county last evening, doing great damage
along the line. 1t went from west to
east As far as heard from some twenty
houses and barns were demolished. Sew.
eral persons are reported killed and
wounded, but their names have not yet
been learned.
THE leaders of the woman suffragists
of the United States issued call on the
23rd inst, for a "mass- meeting of all the
women who want to VOTE" TO be held at
Farwell Hall, Chicago, June 2. They
demand an amendment to the national
constitution, giving women the right to
vote, and propose to bring pressure up.
on the political party national conven-
ton to espouse their cause.
The president nominated for Super.
visor of the census for Ohio, on the 22nd
Meredith r. Willett, of Bryan, for the
First District; John II. Little, of Spring
field, for the Second District; Cyrus
Cado, ST., of Pleasantville, for the Fifth
District, and VIM. A. Hunt, of st. Clair
vile, for the Seventh District.
The discovery ofrich deposits of gold
and silver in the rock and sand of the
south shore of Lake superior, in nerth-
ern Wisconsin was reported on the 22nd
inst. The settlers are excited with
dreams of wealth. The exis ence OF
rich silver deposits in all island of Lake
Superior, which is now being success
fully worked, has been known for some
years, and it is not surprising that the
same mineral should be found on the
shores of the lake. But it is believed this
is the first discovery of gold in that
region.
THE democratic state committee of
Texas, assembled at GALVESTON on the
22nd inst. Z. G. Bower was made cleo
tor at large. Resolutions were adopted
advising the support of the Iwo-thirds
rule, and that delegates go uninstruc ted :;
it also resolved that the devotion of
Gen. Hancock to the constitutional rights
and privileges of citizens, entities him TO
the confidence of the people, and Texas
will, when called upon, show her appre-
citation of his generosity and magma
nimity. The resolutions pledge an in
dividual and enthusiastic support to
whomsoever the national convention
shall put in nomination.
The Pullman Car company will soon
begin the erection of mammoth works
in Chicago. These works will undoubt-
edly be the finest on the continent, and
in connection with them will be estab-
lished paper car-whGel mandatory.
The combined works will cost about
$1,200,000, and give employment to 1000
skilled wOrkmen. In connection with
the manufactures between 800 and 400
handsome brick cottages will be erected !;
probably, also, a fine hotel. The town
will be known as pullman" The great
Corliss centennial engine will drive the
machinery.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29
NO. 49,.

the Minor Osservants FranciScans when
he was only IL. He was, it is said,
good student of religious philosophy
and theological discipline, and at one
time was robust and effective preach
er. About six or seven years ago it was
discovered that he had a magnificent
tenor voice of marvellous sweetness,
extent, and, what is unusual with
that style of voice, of great strength, and
it seemed incapable of fatigue. It's
freshness and purity were truly un-
equaled. 1t was totally unlike other
human voices. All who heard him
were enchanted only a few said it
ought to be subjected to musical train
ing. The Princess Cantucszene Altieri.
IN her beautiful story, "Poveverina,"
gives this description of Fra Giovanni's
voice and IFS powerful effect in
church: Then voice arose which
excited a sort of trembling in the crowd;
all heads turned in the same direction;
all curious and eager looks rested on
the same point in the tribune. 1t was
a tenor voice, fresh, pure, caressing,
out, above ali, touching and tender
one Of those voices which, in spite of
uelects, ulSarm all criticism, because
they make vibrate that chord of true
feeling which exists in all human
souls"
Fra Giovanni del Papa had many
rich and tempting offers from impreSa-
rii, but he always refused them firmly.
Fra Giovanni was a protege of the AL
teri family; he was under the protec.
ton of the prince, and occupied room
in the Polazzo Altieri, Rome, whenever
he wished; he was a petted child of the
family. He was a gay, happy, bon en-
ta1t, with a heavy, coarse form and
face; there never was such contradic
ton between body and voice; it was dii-
ticult to believe they were of one being.
He was most imprudent in his mode of
living, never took care of his health, and
ate and drank the most indigestible
food and common wine at the most un-
reasonable hours.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29
CRIME.
the matter

john GRILL, was hanged at N. j., on
the oath inst, for the murder of his
daughter last June.
HERMAN LlMBERG, shot and killed
McGarry, stranger whom he met in a
saloon in Chicago on the 22nd inst,
There was little provocation. The mur
derer was arrested.
THE Kane county, H., grand jury re.
fused on the 23rd inst, to indict Wells
Brown for the murder of his mistress in
Aurora, ON the theory that the woman
killed herself
GEORGE w. REDDlNG and Jacob Ful
ton, arrested at North Vernon for coun
terfeiting, were, on the 23rd inst, com
mitted to Jail in default of $4,000 bai
each. Spurious coin was found on their
person.
The straw shop of the Hil} Manu-.
featuring Company and the straw works
of H. S. Fearing & Co., burned or
the oath inst, at Amherst, Mass. Loss
S100,0O0; insured. The coal yards oil
E d. Hunt and w. Morgan also burned
a DIssiPATED youth at Mayfeld, KY.
who persisted in paying attentions TO &
young lady, despite the objection of hel
brother, was shot dead by the latter or
the 23rd inst. A pistol and a pair Of
brass knuckles were found in the pock-
cts of the deceased.
JAMES FEwELL, policeman, entered
the store of Cooley s. Son,at Nelsonville
Ohio, on the 23rd inst, and with but {
single word of warning shot Charlie:
Cooley, junior member of the firm, kill
Ing him instantly. He then went out
short distance and shot himsef in th'
head Physicians say he will die
i Cooley leaves a wife and one child
Fewell has wife and three children.
A SERIOUS stabbing affray was report
ed from the town of Greenfield, Milwau
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29

guished with small loss. The fires were
all undoubtedly incendiary, and were
within a circuit of haIf mile. Great
excitement exists in the portion of the
city adjacent thereto.
THE bark Sea Breeze, seventy-eight
days from Rotterdam, arrived in New
York on the 23rd inst, bringing the cap
tain and the crew of the brig Annie
Wharton, abandoned in sinking con-
dition. The Sea Breeze spoke the brig
D. Artagan, which reported the captain
and first mate washed overheard. The
Sea Breeze also reports the sinking of an
unknown bark during hard snow squall,
and heavy adverse winds prevented the
rendering of any assistance.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29
From Rev. j. E. Rankin, ID. D,

June 18th, 1879, the Rev. J. E. Rankin, D. D., OF
Washington, D. c., certified as follows: 81 have
known of several persons who regarded them.
selves greatly benefited and some of them as per.
urinary organs by the medicine prepared by
Charles Craig, of Charlotte, ny. 1have known,
too, of 1ts use in similar cases By physicians OF
that it has great virtue" In previous commu-
nication to the Congregationalist, DR.. Rankin re-
ferred at length TO the beneficial trea tment of a
ease by six physicians, with the Safe Kidney and
Liver Cure, and said: s'This 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, 1880-04-29
Milwaukee Market.

MILWAUKEE, April 27.-Flour-Dull and un-
changed. Wheat Opened firm and g lower;
closed strong; No. hard nominal at 120; No.
1, nominal al 1.16; No. 2, 1.12; seller April,
1.12; seller May, 112h; seller June. LOS
No. B. 102; No. d, 96 rejected. 81. Corn-hc
lower at 36A for No. 2. Oats Steady at 29A
for No. 2. Rye-Higher at % for No. l. Bar
ley CHER at 73 for No. 2.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29

SEVERAL American residents of YokO-
hama, Japan, have sent to their home
friends accounts in detail of the recent
earthquake at that place. One of these
accounts has reached the Baltimore
San. The writer says that on the
morning of the earthquake the first
shock caused him to turn over in bed
merely, as he attributed the commotion
to some lesser cause. AT the next shock
the noise was awful the word being
used not in its schoolgirl sense, bnt in
It's meaning "full of awe ~ day
break he found both the chimneys
that belonged to his house were gone
Other chimneys were hanging by the
edges of loose stones, and looked as
though they might have been showed
over with the little finger Many ol
the houses were cracked from cellar to
ridge. The writer continues: Chow
strong this earthquake was one can see
by looking at heavy pianos, which have
in some instances been moved three
feet away from the wall into the room.
1t was by far the strongest shock have
felt so far, ana on the bluff there is
scarcely house which has escaped
damage altogether. All the ladies de-
clare that they are going to leave this
country by the first mail steamer, and
feel sure that some will really 60 if We
get another shake like this last one
which Go forbid. / have had enough
of earthquakes and do not wish for any
more.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29

FROM the annual report OF the consul
general established at Rio de Janeiro
some important facts are revealed in
regard to trade in Brazil which may
be serviceable for merchants to under
stand. As Brazil is tropical country,
and the grains of our northern and west
ern states are not grown there, the i'm
plements used in reaping, etc, are not
in demand; and as winterless country
is not hay producing, ,mowing-machines,
scythes, and the like, are not much
wanted. There is little demand for
wagons or carriages. All houses in
Brazil are rooted with porous eartheu
tiles-:he only suitlble roofing for that
climate. For this reason roofing paint
and patent roofing materials of various
kinds can not be sold there. Metal
shingles and corrugated iron are only
used for roofing very large buildings
that are open at the sides, such as ship
houses, etc. For ordinary houses, such
a roof would convert the dwelling into
an oven.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29

ABOUT two weeks ago. George L. Tay-
lor, a well-to-do citizen of Denver. Col,
began 10 feel a weightiness in his
cheeks. The muscles appeared to be
growing stiff and the skin certainly had
become hardened. Mr.. Taylor's friends
made Jocose remarks about his "cheek"
when the hardening began, but the suf-
ferer himself was in no mood for fun.
Before the expiration Of a week both
sides OF the mans face had assumed
the solidity of marble. He was unable
to hold up his head. His ewes took $
stony glitter. One side of the neck also
grew hard, and on Tuesday of last week
the victim died. The Denver ply
sicians pronounce the case one of de-
eide petrifaction. Mr.. Taylor was
eighty-two years of age, adjust before
the appearance of the singular disease
weighed sixty-fve pounds. After death
the petrifaction continued, so that the
weight Of the old mans booy is now
six hundred pounds. Mr.. Taylor had
the use of his tongue until the hour ot
ms death, and, realizing the oddity ol
his taking off, requested that his body
De sent TO the Smithsonian Institute.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29

PARIsIAN toy dealers are in trouble
There have been several cases Of poison
ing Of children who have played with,
and doubtless sucked, colored toys. and
now the F. eject of Police has ordered
that all colored toys offered for sale and
supposed TO contain poisonous matter
shall be seized and sent to the munci-
pal laboratory for examination.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29

THE eloquence of a Wisconsin divine
on the in;quity ofany more dealings on
the Sabbath had such a telling effect on
his enthralled audience that not cent
anneared In the collection plate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29

TWENTY SEVEN lawsuits are to be
brought against the French govern
ment by the Jesuits, in the name OF
the twenty-seven establishments which
they possess in France; and each of the
directors of the educational houses kept
by the Jesuits has addressed a protest
to the superior council ofpublic instruc'
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29
SPARKS.

DURING the past FIVE Yeas the losses
by fire in the United States have
amounted to 1858 O1S 255
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29

AN Illinois gentleman counts among
his choicest treasures, and very rightly
too, quaint old ambrotype of Abra-
ham Lincoln. 1t shows gaunt and
awkward man of 81 seated in an old
rush-Eottomed chair, and dressed in
well-worn dark clothes, with an old
fashioned stock, and his uncombed hair
standing out in all directions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29
Tile GreataSf assinp.

A simple, pure, harmless remedy, that cures
every time, and prevents disease by keeping the
blood pure, stomach regular, kidneys and liver
man. Hop Bitters Is that remedy, and Its pri-
etors are being blessed by thousands who have
been saved by ii, See another column.-Eagie.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29

THE health OF Paris Is below par.
Typhoid fever and smallpox are the
prevailing epidemics.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-04-29

The railway system is extending rap
idly in Japan, two lines having been
recently completed in the island of Nip
hon, and a third in the island of Yasso
the most northerly of the Japanese
group. The rails are of English make,
but the rolling stock and engines have
been ordered in America. The two
first engines are to be named Benki
and Yoshitsze, after two celebrated early
Japanese heroes. 1t is the first order of
the kind that has been given by japan
TO American houses.