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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-06-16
1lba Country has q Real President

The Country has Real PRESIDENT
The Democratic papers, and a. few
extreme opponents of Secretary Blaine
make desperate efforts to sbCIw that
President Garfield is un.11er the infu-
snee of Blaine, or soGe other person,
and that his acts are not his own, but
controlled by others. To persons who
really know President Garfield, this
stuff has but little effect; that he
thinks and acts for himself; that he is
a great hearted, generous man, with
strong mental powers, cultivated by a
superior education and extensive read
ing; and that his judgement is quick
and clear, and his will power strong.
Such man is not influenced against
his judgement by any person in the
country. He reflects his own honest
convictions in his every actions, and
rarely makes mistakes. It is reported,
and is no doubt true, that in the NOM
ination of Robertson, the President
acted entirely on his own motion, and
that instead of the nomination being
dictated by Mr.. Blaine, it was not
even suggested by that distinguished
gentlemen. II is also reported from
reliable authority, that neither the
President or any member of his Cabi-
net is taking any part in the Senator
ial contest in New York. A special
from Washington says: "No official
influence whatever has been, or will
be, brought to bear upon that contest
from Washington, directly or indirect
ly, with the wish or consent Of the
President. He says as far as he is
concerned, when the senate confirmed
Robertson. as Collector, he had no
further QUARREL with Mr.. Conkling or
any body else; that if Mr.. Conkling
has any occasion for quarrel at
Washington, it must be with his late
brethren in the Federal Senate, and
not with the Executive Department,
which, had performed its part when
the name of Robertson was sent to the
Senate The President seems quite
Indifferent as to whether Conkling
shall be returned or not. Even Conk-
fing's friends in this city do not see
how reelection could indicate him,
the only question at issue having been
decided when Robertson was confirm
ed. Conkling's mistake was in de-
sorting the field Of battle while the
battle was actually in progress.
President Garfield is not a man to
seek quarrels, nor does he hold malice.
He desires to do exact justice in all
things and cannot be driven into terms
arbitrary power of any man. He was
elected President by the people. and he
stands responsible for his official acts,
and while he will gladly receive advice,
he will act in obedience to his own
judgment, after full investigation of
the subject under consideration. He
is himself the President OF the United
States, and when he becomes fully
known to the people, he will be ac-
khowledged as one of the sblest, most
conscientious and popular President the
country has ever had. We place this
as prediction. to be remembered by
all rho read il.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-06-16
D1sANCES

D1sANCES:
From Green BIO New London. SO miles
Plever, 81 m; Cd Rapids, 96 m; Mcmillan
junction, 14S N; ,adia, 1872 m; Winona 2l4m:
LaCrosse, 239; Stul, Isl; Minneapolis, 292.
CCECTIoNs.
At Green Bay Chicago 4 Northwestern
and Wisconsin Gal Railways for Milwaukee
sndChlcago, anda points, North, East and
south and with ION Steamboat Co. for De-
SQIClsvsland,f alo az the east.
At New Londoiith the Milwaukee Lake
Shore d Western for Shawano, Appleton,
kee.
At Amherst ] un ci and PloYer with Wiscon-
SIN Central r. Z Ashland, Stevens Point,
Portage and Mad
At M errillan wThicago, st. Paul & Mime
apoIls and OmaR ailway for Black River
FaIis, Eau Claire, Paul and Minneapolis.
At Winona withicago, Milwaukee i ST,
t Raui K Y, for st. and Minneapolis, with
" mona St. Petailroad, &C. &. n. W. ) for
hoehester, harshSioux City, Yankton and
points West.
At Lacrosse wtsouthern Minnesota and
Y. Z. ID. NJ. Divhs, C. NJ. Il st. Paul R'y
TIMOY CASE, Receiver
and Gen1 Manager.
MCsSoN T. CT, GenI Pass. Agent.
Green Bay. Wis.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-06-16
w HERE To BUY!
MONTGOMERY WARD & co.

MONTGOMERY WARD & co.
request all who visit Milwaukee to
call at their Stores, Nos. Al, 4f6
and 41S MILWAUKEE STREET.
near the post-ofice.
While they invite comparison with
other stores, they are confident that
= trial will demonstrate the ndvan-
tages Of trading with them.
Receiving supplies daily from
their own WHOLESALE DRY
GOODS HOUSE in Chicago, their
counters displly the very latest
!, novelties, also complete line Of
staple goods It prices beyond .
doubt the loves, because, as jobbers,
they can save Du the intermediate
profit.
Attentive salsmen take pleasure
I'm showing gods even though you
may not wish buy.
The dress ani cloak-making and
millinery department, in charge Of
q competent lady with 10 years'
experience In New York City, is .
feature worth, OF investigations.
Samples Of cit goods are sent free
upon application. Selections may DO
made at home and orders will be
promptly filled by mail or express.
All goods sen out on approval.
Any articles not satisfactory may
be returned nd money will De
refunded.
For parttcuIre Of special sales
see Milwaukeedaily papers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-06-16
Where the Letters are Written

Last fall an official count was made
of the letters mailed at each post Office
Pm the United States during one week.
From this count an estimate has been
made of the amount and distribution
of the postal business of the county
during fifty-two weeks, or the entire
year ending Dec. 81, 1880.
The Post Office Department has
just issued statement of the results
of this inquiry, which shows that the
number of pieces of all classes mailed
during the year was 2,720, 234 252.
The whole number of letters mailed
was 1858, 252, SIC, or an average OF
Il for each man, woman, and child in
the United States; 324, $50, 440 postal
cards. s12,O32,00O newspapers, 40,
1892 magazines and other period
icals, and 81, SIS, $50 packages Of
merchandise.
The statement is accompanied by a
table giving Gin alphabetical order
the several States and Territories, the
number of letters mailed in each, and
the average number to each inhabitant.
The two extremes are, naturally,
Alaska. with its unlettered population,
and the District Of Columbia, which,
as the center of the postal system and
the seat of National Government, must
necessarily have more than the normal
or domestic and business correspond
ence. II Alaska only ore inhabitant
in FIVE is credited with one letter 8
year In the District of Columbia
there are S5 letters mailed for each
inhabitant.
At first though almost any one
would mention as the probable regions
of most frequent domestic and bust
ness letterwrighting the States contain
ing the great business centers, the
regions of abundant schools and
general literary culture, but he would
be wide of the mark. The most letters
are written where there is proportion
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-06-16
Newly Elected Officers Of the Green
! Bay, Winona & st. Paul Rail
road C0mnauv

The directors of the above named
road held meeting in the city of
Green Bay, June 7th and the follow
ing officers were elected:
President-Samuel Sloan, of New York.
Vice overwhelmingly 0. Case, of Green Bay.
Sec'y and Treas.-Theo. Sturges, New York.
Asst Sec'y-W j. Abrams, Green Bay.
Asst Treas.-Timothy Case. Green Bay.
Gen'l Sup't-Timothy Case, Green Bay.
Asst Sup't-Theo. G. Case. Green Bay.
Gent Solicitors-E. c. & w. C. Larned, Chica-
go.
Genl Attorney-The go. G. Case, Green Bay.
Executive Committee-John J. Blair. of New
jersey; P. r. Pyne, BENZ. G. Clark and E. F.
Hatfield, Jr., of New York.
This completes the organization OF
the new company, which we believe is
destined to be one of the most power
full and successful organizations in the
west. At meeting in the evening,
at which some of our citizens were
present, some of their plans were
showed forth. AS heretofore predict
ed, this road is destined to form a part
of a grand trunk line between the
States west of the Missippi river and
New York city and the iron and coal
mines of Pennsylvania Samuel
Sloan, the newly elected President, is
also President of the Delaware, Lack
awana & Western Railway Go. The
latter company is now building, or
has about completed. branch line
from Binghamton to Buffalo, which
will be about % miles the nearest
route between Buffalo and New York.
1t wll also give full connection with
the Wabash system of railroads. This
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-06-16

ally the largest intelligent adult p0pu-
lation who are away from home |
namely, the newer States and
Territories. Colorado heads the list
of letterwrighting communities, with
ftv.6ve and a fraction. to each
inhabitant.
The settlers in Arizona write s.
letters each year, Dakota (onH'f0s
the decimal and giving the nearest
lnteger), sc; Montana. 40; Navada,
81; California, 26; Idaho, %;
Wyoming, AZ.
The States which supply most of
the letter-writers of the Territories in
addition to being the great seats of
manufactures, commerce, and general
intelligence, come, next: New York,
with AZ letters to each inhabitant;
Massachusetts,, with 80; Connecticut,
with 38. In the next group we may
put the States and Territories which
are near the average in letter writing
activity. They are mostly thrifty
agricultural and manufacturing States,
with an abundant and settled popula-
ton. They are Illinois, %; Maine, 20
Michigan, 20; Minnesota, Il; Penn
sylvania, rs; Rhode Island, &c;
Vermont, 81; Ohio, 10; New Jersey,
Is; Maryland, Is; Kansas, IS; Iowa,
Is; Utah, IS. 1.-THE surprisingly low
figures of Ohio may be due to the
heavy draught upon its writing popu-
lation to fill Government positions
elsewhere. ]
1t will be noticed that no distinc-
lively Southern States has yet been
mentioned; the people of the South
are not letter-writers generally, nor
are they as much given to migration as
the people of the North. They are
more apt to spend their lives within
hailing distance Of their relatives and
friends; and besides, those States
carry heavy population of blacks
who are illiterate. The result is the
contributions of the Southern States
to the mail pouchers are strikingly
meager. The annual average of each
inhabitant of Alabama is 7; Arkansas,
| 8; Florida, IL; Georgia, 8: Kentucky,
9; Mississippi, 6; North Carlina, 7;
Tennessee, Z; West Virginia, s.
The higher rate of Florida is due,
no doubt, to the new element which
has gone there OF recent years. The
same may be said of the three or four
other Southern States which markedly
outrank the rest of the South in the
matter of letter writing, namely,
Virginia, IL; Texas, II; Louisiana,
Is; New Mexico, Is. The more north
ern States which write the fewest
letters are: Delaware, 16; Indiana,
ID; Wisconsin. IT; Washington
Territory, Is.
In the total number of letters post
ed annually the more populous North
ern States naturally lead: New York,
with in round numbers) 211, 435. 900;
Pennsylvania. 1O5, 237 900; Massa-
chdsetts, 100000; Illinois, IS,
643, 900; Ohio, 81, 464, 000.-Scien-
titfc american.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-06-16
: doubIe track and steel rail,

line is double track and steel rail,
There is much significance IN this
connection with the coal fields OF
PennsyvanFa. It means the building
af immense. coal-decks here and the
supplying of the great and growing
North West with the best coal IN the
country from this point
The very Essmme Of the 49,
~ avn company
indicates its aggressive character.
Possessed of unlimited means, it will
make such extentions and throw out
such feeders as are required to make
it one Of the best roads in the coun-
| try. We do not doubt, either, that it
will become one of the greatest arter-
les for the flow of the wheat of Min.
nesota and Dakota to the seaboard,
and we shall expect before long to see
new elevators erected here for that
purpose, in addition to our present
facilities,
The road will remain for the pres.
ent in the hands of Receiver Case,
until the old business is fully settled
and he receives his discharge from the
court.
At meeting on Tuesday evening,
at which quite number of our citi-
zens were present, Hon. John /.
Blair, who knows what he is talking
about, in the course of few remarks
prophesied that Green Bay would be-
come the third city On Lake Michigan,
being only exceeded in size and impor.
lance by Chicago and Milwaukee,
Green Bay ADVOCATE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-06-16
Guardians sale.
STATE OF WISCONSIN,,
COUNTY COURT, SWood County.
Tn Probate

In Probate.
In the matter OF the Guardianship of Lora
Whittrock and Clara Whittrock minor child
rem of Chas. w. Whittrock. deceased.
BY virtue of an order of license hereto fore
made in the above entitled matter by said
County Court. [ will offer for sale at public
auction and sell to the highest bidder for cash,
at the front door of the Court House in the City
of Grand Rapids in said county, on the 9th day
of July, A. d. 1881 at two O'Clock in the after
noon, all the following described real esta tie. 81
which said Chas. W. Whittroek led seized to
wit: The following described real estate stu
ate in the County of Wood and State of Wis
consin to-wit: Commencing at the South East
corner of the East haifof the northwest quarter
of Section No twenty two (22) in township No
twenty-five t22) north of Range No six (6) east
running thence north thirty sew en- (37) rods to
the line of the road thence along the road in a
northwesterIy direction, forty eight (49 rods
Thence south ffty-fve $50 rods to the quarter
line, thence east along the quarter line forty
eight rods TO the place of beginning, containing
twelve and three fourths acres more or less.
Dated une 18th 1881. HENRY OSTERMAN.
Junel6w3 Guardian of said minors,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-06-16
NE ADVERTISEMENTS.
Notice..
LAND OFFICE, WAUsAU, WIS. !

LAND OFFICE, WAUSAU, WIS.
June 9th, 1881. (
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has lied notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim.
and secure final entry thereof on the 9th day
Court at Grand Rapids, Wood County, Wis. viz
JOSEPH WHITE, Homestead entry No 1861
for the NeA Nw4 Section Is, Township %. n
Range East and names the following AS his
witness, viz: Thomas Hanifin, Michael Kane,
Samuel Boynton and James Rouhan, all of
Sigel, Wood County, Wis.
Ii. S. ALBAN, Register.
june9W5
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-17

In the Virginia Enterprise of yester
day appeared an editorial, in which
was given an epitomised history of tfss
earlier labors of the jealous men who
established Methodism in the wilds Of
Nevada: The article, which want Of
space prevents us from giving in full in
the APPEAL, was suggested by the
Conference meeting now being held in
Carson. We quote portion of the
article referred to:
Excepting the Mormons, it was the
first Christian church to plant it's BAN
ners in this part of the world. AS
early as 1855 there were lay preachers
of the order roaming through the Car
son Valley. 1t was then a remote mis-
sionary field, but the Methodists have
always been an aggressive body, and
did not hesitate to occupy it. Not, how
ever, until the time of the first Washoe
excitement was the work of active
church building commenced. An tim
Grant preacher one Sunday morning
surprised the heather population on the
Comstock with a praise service and a
sermon delivered from the top Of a dry
goods box. The rough congregation
equally surprised the preacher by fill
ing his hat with coin after it had been
passed around among them. Money
was abundant in those days. and the
ministers who came afterwards had no
trouble in raising funds to erect houses
of worship. The Rev. S. B. Rooney
was the first Methodist minister
assigned to Virginia City. He was bet
ter known among the miners as
"Father" Rooney. He built the first
Methodist church in the Territory. In
1868 it gave way to finer editice, put
up during the passionate of Rev. c. V.
Anthony. A church was built few
years later in Carson by the Rev. War
rem Minis, who carted the stone from
the quarry and did much of the rough
work himself. "Father" McGrath, who
was then a shining light in the order,
built another church in Washoe City in
early days. The pioneer preachers
were hardy men and endured many
in the performance Of their
work. They went Into every mining
bamp, intent not upon personal gain,
but upon seeking the good of their
church alone. The influence of their
abors was always felt in the commun-
tiles they sought to better. Were they
induced to do so, they could recall stir
ing episodes of their missionary work
IN Nevada. ..-a
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-17
THE GREAT AMERICAN HUNOR-
lST.o

Some one has discovered that the
character of Col. Sellers, the central
figure of Mark Twain's ssGilded Age"
was stolen from an old English comedy.
There is nothing improbable about this
discovery. Mark Twain is one of the
most INSCRIPTIONS of dealers in stolen
and pinchback jokes, and it would be a
discovery indeed if any person could
find anything good in his books that
had not been stolen. His dumping
Frog of Calaveras," which added greatly
to his reputation as a humorist, was
clear case of larceny; was written
twenty years before Mark Twain was
born; and under its original name,
"The Jumping Frog of Arkansas" was
doing service as a flatboat and steam
boat deck yarn nearly halfa century be-
fore this spurious humorist took his
first lesson as a "cub pilot" on the Mis-
sissippi river. .-... a.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-17
THE LATEST.

Since the news concerning the Presi-
dents condition was put in type, as
given in another portion of this paper,
the following telegram, dated at 6
O'Clock P. NJ, passed. over the wires:
Presidents pulse 1I6. Some fever.
Giving stimulants to brace him up.
Looks bad"
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-17

Chicago wants design for her fire
memorial monument. A kerosene lamp
artistically connected with cows hind
leg might do.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-17
NEW ADVERTISEMEN
CHANGE OF BUSINESS.

HAVING DIS POsr ID OF NY BUSINESS
in Empire City, consisting Of general merchandise,
and good will of the to w. j. Smyth and James
Morris, would respectfully bespeak for
continuance of former patronage heretofore bestowed
me. W. O. H. MARTIN
Empire City, Nevada, September IA, 1881.
In reference the above would inform the public
of Empire City and vicinity that will endeavor in
dealings merit the good will and support prede
cessor and the public generally.
W. SMYTH,
sel71m JAMES MORRIS.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-17

Gath, who is spending the hot days
down at st. Johns, New Brunswick,
writes that there is strong feeling
in faver of annexation to the United
States.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-17

The Republicans of the United States
saw with painful surprise that the Re-
publican State Committee of New York
forgot in the hurly-burly of its very
important business to take note of the
crime which has plunged nation into
mourning. One would think, under all
the circumstances, such an occurrence
would not have been overlooked by
body of men, even though largely COM
posed of Stalwarts, and which had just
obeyed the mandate OF former leader
by electing Thomas C. Platt its chair
man. All this has been noted by the
people of the country. Rightly or
wrongly, this omission will be credited
to Roscoe Conkling, and will not serve
to endear that Inundated political boss
to the Republicans of the land. Such
things sometimes reach further tina n
their authors anticipate or expect. How
different with the Republicans of Penn
sylvania, who exhibited no lack of SYM
pathy for the stricken President of the
United States in the resolutions of their
Convention on Thursday. The great
heart of the Nation refuses to allow its
sympathetic thr9bs to be regulated by
little contemplate crew, who can only
see in the Presidents condition an OPP
portunity to peddle their petty political
wares and SANDER their neighbors.
Detective Hume informs the Sacra
mento Bee that he has not the least
doubt but that the parties recently ar
rested are the real train wreckers.
Hume neither admits nor denies that
one of the parties has made con-
fession, and the reporter who expected
him to "give away the business must
have been ignorant of his own business.
No time has yet been set for the pre-
liminary examination of the prisoners,
and they have not as yet retained any
counsel. For the prosecution Judge E.
Hale, E. l.. Craig and j. NJ. Fulweiler,
all of Auburn, have been retained by |
the railroad company and Wells, Fargo
& Co.
Whenever Nevada county boy |
makes his mark in politics, the drama,
or other walk of life, the Nevada Trans
cript boasts that that boy learned his |
trade in that Office. George Shinn, one
of the train wreckers, is Nevada City |
raised boy, and the Grass Vally Free
Lance wants to know if Shinn learned
his latest trade in the Transcript Office
Gratitude in New York shrinks from
expressing itself financially. The penny
contributions to the free ice water
fund average only fifty-four cents per
day, the drinks outnumbering the PEN
MES about thousand to one
Vanderbilt pays his hostler larger
salary than nine-tenths of the bank
cashiers receive. But the latter have
one advantage over the former, they
can elope with the peoples money.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-17
TO THE PUBLIC
WILL SELL
Fresh MILK
AND
Deliver the Same Morning and Evening.

Those with young children or delicate pc rsons using
milk diet will do well TO order ONE COWS MILK from
and thereby avoi the complaints occasioned
from the use OF mixed milk do not pay 81 per month
for swl and malt to sell my customers slop milk.
The cows al healthy and feel either adow grass
or alfalfa hay. j. W. DUFFY.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-17

Vanderbilt pays his hostler larger
salary than nine-tenths Of the bank
cashiers receive. But the latter have
one advantage over the former, they
can elope with the peoples money.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-17

STATE OF NEVADA-COunty Of Ormsby.
H. Kinkead and Jasper Babcock, being
duly sworn severay say they members of the Board
of Examiners of the State Of Nevada that the 18th day
ofSept 1884, they ter having ascertaned from the books
OF the State Controller the amount of money which should
be in the Treasury made official and count
of the and vouchers for in The State Treas
of Nevada and found the same correct as follows:
Paid coin vouchers returned to Controller &c. $50 10
STATE SECURITIES
Irre1eemable Nevada State School Bond $3.50 600 90
Nevada State bonds ......... .......... 10000 90
Signed JOHN H. K1NKEAD
JASPER BABCO, X.
Subscribed and to before this fourteenth day
(sEALl of September, A. D. 1881.
JAS. G. CHESLEY, Notary Public.
ee15-1t
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-09-17

Gratitude in New York shrinks from
expressing itself financially. The penny
contributions to the free ice water
fund average only fifty-four cents per
day, the drinks outnumbering the PEN
MES about thousand to one.