Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-10-21

for the most meritorious composition
for chorus and orchestra, to be per-
formed at Its festival in May, 1882.
Last Sunday Mr.. Beecher began the
thirty-fourth year of his ministrations
in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.
DR.. Gordon Holmes advises singers
to wear ffannels. Without being a
doctor we advise everybody to wear
fannels.
Baltimore calls her approaching 15Oth
anniversary "the sesquI-centennial.
Sesqui is classical and tony like, you
know.
A marble statue of Senator Blaine
has just been completed in Rome by
Mr.. Simmons, who pronounces it his
best work.
English operatives have come to the
sensible conclusion that it is better to
say employers, rather than mas
ters"
Two young girls in Providence, r. l.,
have been sent to the Reform School
for eight years for smoking cigars in
the street.
Mr.. Parke Goodwin, during his sum
mer sojourn at Cummington, Mass,
has been writing a memoir of his
father-in-law, William Cullen Bryant.
Mr.. William Macarthur, member of
the House of Commons for Lambeth.
has been elected Lord Mayor of Lon
don. Mr.~McArthur is a liberal,
The mausoleum of the late Mark
Hopkins at Sacramento, Cal, is just
completed. 1t is built of huge red
granite blocks from the Sierra Nevad-
as.
Wade Hampton has been injured
again while deer-hunting at Dagger's
Springs, Va, but this time he rode
horse instead Of a mule, and was only
bruised.
Col Ben. Brownfeld, of Uniontown,
Pa, the Oldest man in Fayette county,
has died at the age of 101 years, 6
months and 10 days. He leaves a
large estate.
Mile Belle Gabrielle, of the Humpty
Dumpty troupe, recently fell from the
stage to the floor in Syracuse, and was
severely bruised, but will recover.
Says the Boston Transcript, which is
a philosopher: Bear steadily in mind
that betting proves nothing, for those
who bet know no more of the future
than the rest of mankind"
In166! u Syracuse man died and left
81 diamond to one of his daughters. She
has had several chances to sell it for
81 900, but took it to New York the
other day to find it was only paste, and
not worth 50.
90 TO,, 1,-hD cTo,,oI /, = IL,
boat the Shannon, in the action against
the American boat Chesapeak, off Bos-
ton harbor in 1918, died the day before
yesterday in London, and was buried
yesterday with military honors.
The New Orleans Picayou1e doesn't
believe in the youthfulness of a we'll
known singer. 1t says: Chicago claims
William Castle the tenor, as a Chicago
boy. Chicago is too young city to
make the claim good.
Cyrus w. Field, who is about to
make atOur around the world, will be
banqueted by number of prominent
citizens of New York, previous to his
departure.
It is now stated that the marriage of
the Baroness Burdett Coutts and Mr..
Ashm cad Bartlett will be celebrated in
October, the precise date being kept a
secret.
Associate Justice Clifford, of the
United States Supreme Court, who re-
turned to Washington yesterday from
Boston was taken suddenly i'll on the
train. He was last night in serious
condition, being at times delirous. He
has two physicians in attendance.
The Rev. Michael A. Corrigan, d.
D., Bishop Of Newark, n. j., has been
appointed coadjutor to Cardinal Nc
| Closky, with the rank Of archbishop
and the right of succession to the arch
bishopric.
The widow of the late San Francisco
banker Ralston, has made q complaint,
covering 265 pages of legal cap, against
| Senator Sharon, her late husbands
partner in business and executor. She
| claims that Sharon has defrauded her
in the settlement Of the estate and de-
mands accOuntings and such restitu-
ton as may be deemed just.
George Magee, ST., known as the
Lone Fisherman" and one of the
most expert swimmers in Canada, was
drowned in the canal at Welland q few
days since. He went into the canal at
noon to battle, and was found soon af-
ter standing upright, with his head
above water, but quite dead.
Mr.. ?. 7. Barnum is a practical
worker in the field of temperance as
well as lecturer. He offers to give 81 900
towards a reading and amusement
room in Bridgeport, where young men
may find sociability away from the
saloons.