Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-08
GENERAL NOTES

The four chief hop-raising counties O
New York report that nearly an averag
crop will be harvested.
THE Mutual Union Telegraph compan,
will commence business in October witt
$4,000 miles of wire.
AN ice famine prevails in New Orleans
where customers can obtain only one
fourth the usual supply.
DIVIDENDS of Il per cent. have been de
claled by the Union Pacific road, and O
% per cent, by the Illinois Central.
| The federal grand jury at Deadwood il
engaged in investigating the mail service
over the star route to Sydney.
GENERAL MERRITT, late collector O.
customs at New York, has sailed to enter
upon his duties as consul general at Lon.
don.
MALONE has secured the removal OF
Geo. NJ. Arnold, the mulatto postal route
agent in Virginia, for attempts to manip.
ulate the republican party. Wilson, a
colored revenue official, expects to be
forced to walk the plank.
THE bark Western Sea has returned to
Boston with the cargo which Fuller and
his accomplices attempted to steal.
THE hurricane on the coast of South
Carolina caused loss Of forty negroes at
Port Royal ferry.
SENATOR BEN HILL is again troubled
with cancer on the tongue, and has started
for Philadelphia to consult his physicians.
A YOUNG man named Rector obtained a
verdict at Lewistown, H., of $4,000
against the Wabash road for having been
forcibly elected from train.
w. F. DALRYMPLE, the wheat king, saws
the yield in Dakota will average fully
eighteen bushels per acre. He and his
brother have $4,000 acres to harvest.
The drouth in Indiana has assumed
alarming proportions. White river has
dwindled to a mere brook, and farmers
are greatly troubled to obtain water for
stock.
A FAMILY of five persons, named McMa-
hon, residing near Dubuque, have been
rendered insane by grief. The mother
and one daughter died in a demented
mental condition.
"a feet wide, has reached Boston from
Toronto, having been towed through the
Erie canal and Hudson river 10 New
York, and thence by sea.
A MATCH at lacrosse for the champion
ship OF the world was played at Montreal
between the Shamrock club of that city
and the Torontos. The former won three
straight games. The hnt+:-- .---1-->A
oESF & GhEhGg' GS1h2EHhNGg'frhnI, 'frhnI, unU mas been taking a
census of the Indian tribes, reports having
met at South Pass, Wyoming. surveying
party of the Central Pacific, who have
oI fOoc;h1o e. rooI ~,
den to Yankton.
GENERAL CARR is believed to have had
with him in the massacre five officers and
sixty-three men of the 6sh cavalry.
There are ten thousand Indians on the
San Carlos reservation, and as many more
in the Navajo tribe, located sixty miles
northward.
THE national convention of free-think-
ers, which has been in session for the past
week at Hornellsyille, n. Y, expressed
admiration for Charles Bradlaugh, in
dor3ed the action of the governor of Texas
in refusing to call day of prayer for the
president, and urged the publication of
the letters of Ingersoll and Black.
THE hostile Indians who have been
making trouble on the Menominee reser-
vation are encamped a few miles from
Clintonyille, Wis, and will resist any at
tempt at capture. They are well armed,
and have plenty of spies. A company of
troops with twenty days rations is march
ing toward the reservation.
The cotton presses of New Orleans,
which usually open on the first day of
September, are confronted by demand OF
thirteen thousand laborers for an advance
of 25 cents per bale in handling. The
cotton factors have raised $250,000 to
maintain the old rates, and are hunting