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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The courthouse and county records at
Greenwood. Ark, have been reduced to
ashes.
By the burning of a livery stable at Ne
braska City, on she 23d of February, two
employees were roasted.
JOHN G.. SMITH and wife, octogenerians
of Roscoe, ILL.,, died Feb. 23d within eigh-
teen hours OF each other.
chine at Boyces fax-mills, at Muncie,
Ind. on the 23d of Feb, Eryin Weller, a
son Of John G. Weller, had his left leg
caught IN the machine and ground off to
the knee. The leg was amputated above
the knee.
THE linseed oil works of Kellogg & Nc
Dougall, of Buffalo, were totally destroy
ed by fire February 23d, involving loss
OF $4,000.
TIE Fletcher Place church. at Indian
apolis took fire during service, from a
defective furnace, causing Il damage of
$4,000.
IMMEDIATELY after being emptied Of a
large audience, Feb. 26, Nordheimer hail.
at Montreal, took fire beneath the stage
and was totally destroyed, causing loss of
$4,000.
A LOSS of $4,000 resulted from the
burning Of business block at Battle
Creek, Mich, Feb. "a, owned by J. G.
Buckley, and the partial destruction of
another owned by S. G. Chadwick.
A REPRESENTATIVE of the Chicago Times
was dispatched to the cattle ranches to
investigate the losses from the unprece-
dented storms of the winter. He reports
that Thousands of beeves line the northern
banks of the Arkansas, having dritted in
from the north, and that they are dying in
great numbers. A gentleman who has
Just reached Denver declars that he saw
fully five thousand dead cattle lying be-
side the Union Pacific track in Nebraska.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03
GhicaRn NJ arkeL.

CHICAGO, March 1.-Flour.--Steady and TN
changed. Wheat-Demand fair; prices higher;
No. Chicago Spring, 98H for seller cash;
9S3G@99H for seller February, March and April;
1.0336 for seller May; Nc. 3 Chicago Spring, 85Q
90; rejected, 74@76. Corn-Fairly active and a
shade higher; 37A @3814 for seller cash; 9814
for seller March; 3S& for seller April 42I@
42}4 for seller May; 42a42H for seller June
rejected, 36k, Oats-Fairly active and
shade higher; No. 3 29A93O for seller caah; 291l
for seller February; 2911 for seller March; 293s
@2SK for seller April; Il for seller May. Rye
-Firmer; No. 2, 80 for seller cash. Barley
Nominal. Dressed hogs-Steady and in fair
demand, light, good heavy at 6.5OGG.55. Pork
Fair demand but at lower rates; irregular; II. so
for seller cash; 1445914.5O for seller Feb
auary; 14.45@ 80 for seller March; 14.62K9
1866 for seller April; 14.771z@14.8O for sell
ler May Lard-Fair demaud at lower rates;
1905 for seller cash and February; 10.05@
IO.O7K for seller March; 1OI59 1O.171z for sell
Ter April The "Drover's Journal" reports:
Live Hogs-Demand fair; market firm; receipts,
20, 900; Shipments $500; light, 5.3O9 $50;
mixed packing, 5.2O95.55; good to choice
heavy, 5.7O@61O; extra prime heavy, 6.l5@
6.25. Cattle-Steady; receipts, $500; shipments.
3, 400; common to choice shipping, 4.OO@ 5.25;
butchers, 2.75@415. Sheep-Receipts 1000;
shipments, 3,OOO common to extra, 3.25@5.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03
FOREIGN

The British house of commons has COM
pleted the coercion bill.
THE extensive creamery of c.. w. Gould,
at Algonquin, ILL.,. was on Tuesday night
reduced to ashes, the loss being $4,000.
NINETEEN natives of India have been
convicted of conspiracy to murder the
European residents of Kolapore.
II is said that Greece will demand of
the powers admission to the conference at
Constantinople.
FIVE persons at Kirkwood, ILL.,, have
been attacked by what is believed to be
SMALLPOX, and a quarantine has been es.
tablished over the house where they lie.
DIRECTORS of arsenals in France have
been prohibited from selling arms or am
munition, and projects have orders to pre-
vent arms from leaving the republic.
NOTWITHSTANDING the personal appeals of
Emperor William, the Count Won Eulen-
berg insists upon the acceptance of his res
ignatiOn as minister of the interior.
TIE announcement was made in the
| house of commons, Feb. 24th, that Great
Britain had no intention Of prohibiting
the importation of pork from the United
States
AT an early hour an Wednesday morn
ing flames broke out in four-story frame
building at East Liverpool, O. Egress
was soon cut off, and the wife and six
children of William Sloan perished in the
structure.
WHILE alighting from his carriage in
London, Feb. 26, Mr.. Gladstone fell, cut
ting his head severely by striking on the
step of the vehicle. Traffic in Downing
street was stopped, that the premier might
not be disturbed
A GREEK man-of-war has reached
Pir@us with cargo of muskets and tor
pedoes. Turkey has ordered thirty mill
ion cartridges from the United States.
War is considered at Berlin to be certain,
and efforts are being made to localize the
struggle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03

THE national banks object to the new
Funding bill for the reason that it will
compel them to exchange the bonds
they now hold to secure their circula-
ton, which draw 5 and 6 per cent. in
terest, for the new bonds that draw but
) per cent, thus entailing loss upon
them of the difference of interest
They regard it something in the nature
OF a forced loan; and the bankers think
that congress has taken an unfair ad-
vantage OF them, and that some favor
should be extended to them in the way
of compensation, such as relieving them
of the tax on deposits. Many of the
New York bankers. who probably re-
fleet the sentiment of the bankers of
the whole country are Of the opinion
that the new per cents. cannot be
foated-the wish probably being father
the thought-but Secretary Sher-
man is of contrary opinion, and re-
minds the bankers that the same un-
favorable prediction was made in refer
ence to the per cent. bonds, which
went off like hot cakes"
1t is thought that a systematic at
tempt may be made to throw a wet
blanket upon the new bonds, and EN-
Oarras the new secretary of the trea-
safS' whoever he may be, unless con
sress makes some concession to the
Banks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03

tearing up the grave and ascertaining if
the corpse is buried.
TIE coroner of Milwaukee found a
house in the suburbs where an infant lay
dead and four children had been almost
without food for forty-eight hours, while
the father was in jail for the theft of a
harness.
II an amateur walking match in New
York, Thomas Smith, lad of Is, became
exhausted after walking ninety-eight
miles, and was carried by his father from
the track where he tainted. He was sent
home in a carriage. and the parent was
arrested for cruelty.
THERE is considerable excitement in
New York over the story of Miss Marion
Cali8ch, who disappeared from her home
in Hoboken an January 19. She claims
to have been detained as a prisoner in
residence until Wednesday evening, when
she was handed out Of a coach on Fifth
avenue corner and told to go home.-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03
.SsTiwaukea Market.

MILWAUKEE. March L. Flour Steady and
in fair demand. Wheat-Opened firm and re.
higher; closed steady; No. l hard. nominal No.
l, LOS; No. 2, 97A; 97z for seller
February; 975s for seller March, 81. for
seller April; 1.O34 for seller May; No. 3, 80;
No. 4, II; rejected, nominal. Corn-Quiet and
unchanged No. 2, 38. Oats-Firmer; No. 2,
3Oh Rye-Nominal; No. |, 81. Barley Dull;
No. 2, 81. Provisions-Steady. Mess Pork
14.O5 for seller cash; 1929 for seller April Lard
Prime steam 1000 for seller cash. 1920 for seller
April. Live Hogs-Steady; 5.25@ 500 Re
ceipts-Flour 1O, ,559 wheat, 81 JOG; barley, 538.
Shipments 12O, 600; wheat, 2,572; barley,
G 465
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03

THE present winter hos been grand
season for matchmaking. Tucked
under the same robe with pretty girl
and the music of sleigh-bells in his ear,
the temptation IS too strong to resist.
A man who would not make love under
such circumstances does not deserve
much happiness in this life. There
have been more weddings this winter
the country over than ever occurred in
one season. Good times doubtless had
something to do with it, but the "beau-
tiful snow and the long sleigh-rides
have done more.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03

TIE funeral services over the re-
mains of Fernando Wood took place
Saturday afternoon, from his late resi-
denGe in Washington, and were attend
ed by many members of congress and
prominent officials of the government.
The services were in accordance with
the ritual of the Protestant Episcopal
Church. The pall-bearers were Sena-
tors Thurman and Bayard, Speaker
Randall and Representative Morton
and Loring, Judge Swayne, ex-Mayor
Berret, and w. w. CorcOran, Alderman
McAvoy, Fink, Murphey, Bernard,
Kenney, and Hilliard. A committee
appointed by the board of aldermen of
New York was present. The remains
left Washington at 10 o'clock Saturday
night for New York, accompanied by a
congressional delegation. The remains
were inferred in Trinity Cemetery, New
York, yesterday. Mr.. Wood left a
large property to be divided among his
eleven surviving children. He was
married three time, but had no chill
dren by his first wife. The house, and
the grounds surrounding it, occupied
by Mr.. Wood while in New York, are
worth over 100000, and he was pos
sessed of great deal of valuable real
estate in other parts of the city.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03

A LARGE eagle attacked a boy as he
sat at breakfast in his fathers house
near Milton, N. c., dragged MIN out
through an open window and tried to
carry him off. The fight was despe-
rate one, and would have ended in the
death of the boy had not the bird IA
tally injured itself by striking its neck
upon a sharp stick which stood upright
in the ground. The father was attract
ed to the scene by the boys cries, but,
thinking the eagle was the devil, ran
'sway as fast rs his legs would carry
nim. The boy was terribly mangled.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03
PERISHING CATTLE
Hundreds OF Thousands OF Animals
Will Probably Perish on the Plains
Causing Loss of Many Millions of
Dollars
Telegram to the Pioneer Press.

Telegram to the Pioneer Press
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 23.-Information
so far is very meagre concerning fatal
lty to cattle, on the great plains west.
The whole country is still showed in
and communication with more distant
points is almost entirely cut off. The
result of researches thus for is unsatis-
factory and indefinite. Stock and
ranchmen at Omaha, Lincoln, Kansas
City and other points are without spe-
clhc information. 1t seems to be a
generally accepted fact, however, that
the prolonged and severe winter will be
disastrous to the cattle interests from
the Rio Grande to the British posses
slons. While all estimates are mere
speculation and guess work, inteli-
gence from accessible regions indicate
great probable loss, and the graveSt
! fears are entertained that the thicklv
/ populated pasture lands of Montana,
Idaho and Oregon, may be strewn with
carcasses by the time spring
opens William Parton, of Oma-
ha, has $4,000 head of cattle on the
| North Platte, expects to lose from
| 100000 to $4,000 by the storm and
cold, or about half of his entire herd.
}. McShone of the same place, has 90
600 head about 100 miles westward, and
expects to lose from 20 to 80 per cent,
though he thinks possibly the cattle
may have drifted into the foot hills,
where, in a measure, they will be pro
tected from the wind. 1t is confidently
believed that cattle west of Sidney and
north of Cheyenne have not suffered
greatly, though experienced ranchmen
would net be surprised to learn that
the death rate reaches so per cent. on
the exposed ranches of the North
Platte. All depends on the weather for
the next few days. If it turns warm
and thaWs the icy crust that covers the
grass, the herds may pull through but
unless it does, hundreds of thousands
of cattle must perish, entailing loss
of many millions of dollars. Every
one agrees that the winter is harder on
through cattle or cattle driven north
from the breeding grounds of Texas
than to cattle born and raised in this
latitude. Fifteen thousand Texas cattle
are now wintering in the Indian Terri
tory, and from that section word comes
that they are eating their heads off, and
that thousands of them must die of
starvation before new crop of grass
grows. Although the cattle raisers are
more conservative in the estimate of
losses, yet on the whole they no longer
try to conceal the fact that at best the
season of 1881 will be very disastrous
to their interests.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03
Useless and HurtfnI Medicines.

There is a certain class of remedies for consti-
patton absolutely useless. These are boluses and
potions made in great part of podOphylin, aloes,
rhubarb gamboge, and other worthless ingredi-
ents. The damage they do to the stomaehs of
those who use them is incalculable. They eyacu-
ate the bowels, it is true, but always do SO vio-
lently and profusely, and besides, gripe the bow
els. Their effect is to weaken both them and the
stomach Better far to use the agreeable and sal
utary aperient, Hostetters Stomach Bitters, the
laxative effect of which is never preceded by pain.
or accompanied by conVulsive, violent action Of
the bowels. On the contrary, it inyigorates those
organs, the stomach ard the entire system. As
a means of curing and preventing malarial fe-
vers no medicine can compare with it, and it rem
edes nervous debility, rheumatism, kidney and
bladder inactivity, aud other inorganic ailments.
United States Minister Lowell's wife
is in retirement, owing to i'll health, and
official receptions at the American le-
cation in London have been discon-
tinued
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03

Col. HERCULES HADLEY, whose name
got into print in undesirable connec-
ton with the Morey letter infamy, is
out in a card to the newspapers in
which he denies that he ever heard oi
the letter until after its publication, and
in proof of his good faith suggests that
a reward of 50, 500 to 50, 900 be offered
To- tlo diooo"ory Of tho PorPotrotor Of
the forgery, together with a guarantee
of immunity from punishment-such
immunity or reward not to be given to
Hadley himself or to any member or
agent of the national democratic COM
mittee. With the fear of punishment
removed, and the additional induce
ment of a large reward, it is probable
that some confessions and disclosures
would be promptly forthcoming.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03
NEWS NOTES.

The act of the French government
IN forbidding the importation OF
American pork was caused by the re-
port of the prevalence of the trichin@.
1t is anticipated that the order will
shortly be modified 50 as to make 1t
restrictive, instead of prohibitory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03

Affairs in Ashantee are growing criti-
cal, and the outbreak Of hostilities is
momentarily expected. The Ashantee
force was on the 10th inst, but three
days march from Cape Coast Castle in
New Guinea, where the English COM
sisting Of $50 troops and the crew of a
gunboat, with supply of Gatling guns,
was awaiting an attack.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03

General Garfield, having been visited
by committee has consented to have
public reception of constituents of his
old district. Special trains will run to
carry the people. He will deliver a
farewell speech.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03
Maine News.

Hop Bitters, which are advertised in
our columns, are a sure cure for ague,
biliousness and kidney complaints.
Those who use them say they cannot
be too highly recommended: Those
afflicted should give them a fair trial,
and will become thereby enthusiastic IN
the praise of their curative qualities.
Portland Ar0lLs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-03
An Electric Watch.

A matchmaker at Copenhagen, OF
the name of Sonderberg, is reported to
have made watch which requires no
winding up, inasmuch as it performs
that work itself by means of an cleo
trio current. An electric magnet fixed
inside the watch keeps the spring per-
petually in a state of tensioe. Al that
is required to keep the watch going is
to preserve the battery in proper work
ing order, for which purpose one or two
inspections in twelvemonth are said
to be sufficient.
The fashionable streets OF New York
are infested with boys and girls on roller
skates.
Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson ("H. II. y
is in Washington visiting Miss Olive
Ridley Seward.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-31
An old Settlers Story.
Forest and Stream.1

The boys had been telling few fish,
turtle and snake stories, to which he lis
tened very attentively. When they had
all finished, old Messy gave a hitch or
two and unlimbered. 'tWall, boys,
never have doubted any sort of huntin
story since my little turtle scrape down
on the bottom" The boys all looked in
quiringly and he proceeded: II was a
pokin' round thar one day last year, when
came acrost the durndest old lookin'
turtle 1 ever seen. Why, the moss was
an inch thick on his back, and the old
cuss couldn't hardly wiggle his tail. 1
cut stick to measure the depth of the
moss ON his back and accidentally scraped
off hunk on it, when seen some letters.
So scraped it all off and thar in big
letters wuz writ 'B. c. follored by the
.fggers '567' Wall, l stud up kinder
faint like, and TUX my hand off on him
to sorter rub my old head, when he
fetched flop to git away and slid down
the bank bit and turned clean Sver,
when, I'll be dogoned, if thar Want
printed in the biggest kind O. capitals on
his belly, just ahind his forelegs, Adam,
and down little furder, nigh his right
hind leg Tin the same style that they put
the name of the town on dog collars),
was printed in smaller type, sParadise!' "
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-31
The Drudgery Of Position.

The wife Of the rising man advances
with him, and with all her might strives
to enter s'society" Her old friends read
in the papers of her receptions, her Ger
mans, her costumes, her distinguished
guests, and remember the days when they
were poor neighbors, happy with their
babies, their work, and homely little
gayeties. The successful woman, strug-
Cling, maneuvring, climbing up the slip
perry peak Of fashion, could tell her how
often the taste of the melon is bitter n
tongue; she could tell the price she paid
for it. She has an enormous list of
friends, chiefly kept up by cards and
glimpses in ballroom, but the hearty
love of the people in the little village
where she was born, the familiar faces,
the ready hands in sickness, the hearts
that would faint and fall is she were
dead-she had put these things all away
from her. They were the price she paid.
For in this world nothing is bought for
nothing. For all sorts of success the full
price must be paid.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-31
Rescued from Death.

The following statement from William j
Coughlin of Summerville, Mass, is so remark
able that we beg to ask for it the attention of
our readers. He says: ''In the fall of 1876 I
was taken with violent bleeding of the lungs
followed by severe cough. soon began to
lose my appetite and flesh. Twas so weak at
one time that I could not leave my bed. In
the summer of 1877 was admitted to the city
hospital. While there the doctors said I had
hole in my left lung as big as half dollar.
Iexpended over hundred dollars in doctors
and medicines. was SO far gone at one
time report went around that / was
dead. gave up hope, but a friend
told me of DIR. :. William Halls
Balsam for the Lungs. laughed at my
friends, thinking that my case was incurable,
but got bottle to satisfy them, when, to my
surprise and qualification, commenced 10 feel
better. My hope, once dead, began to revive,
and to-day feel in better spirit than 1 have
the past three years.
write this hoping you will publish it, so
that every one afflicted with Diseased Lungs
will be induced to take DR.. VIM. Halls Balsam
for the Lungs, and be convinced that con-
sumption can be Cured. have taken two
bottles, and can positively say that it has
done more good than all the other medicines
I have taken since my, sickness. My cough
has almost entirely disappeared, and shall
soon be able to go to work. Sold by all
druggists.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-31
A Strange Canadian Religion.
Huntsville Forester.1


In April last Wesley Walls, lad aged
20 years-a new arrival from Scarboro,
Qnt.-began to hold religious meetings
in a private house in East Chaffey. AS
the interest grew he told the people that
when they felt they were condemned by
the influence Of the Holy Spirit this feel
ing was on account of the ribbons,
founces and jewelry worn by them. Ii
they did not take off these they would go
to hell right away. When the people
were well excited, Walls introduced "a
stranger, one Sage, as the proper one to
administer communion. When Sage
came the excitement was at its height.
The neophytes, when called upon, one
after another would rise, shout, roar, clap
their hands, stamp their feet and fall
PROSTATE as if in a tit. On recovering
from the fits some of the converts would
tell of seeing angels and even the Saviour.
As the meeting progressed-they were
held almost every night-the excited
hearers were continually enjoined to give
up their jewelry, etc. The speaker him
self, after mildly gesticulating one even
ing, fell on the floor, paved around like
a dying alligator, and after. a time he re-
gained his feet and part of his senses.
He told the converts if theyyonly saw all
he had seen and felt they would give the
world to enjoy it. Some ladies took off
their wedding rings and gave them up,
although enjoined by their husbands not
to do so.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-07-31
Listeners.

Nothing is truer than the saying that
listeners never hear any good of them
selves. Why 1t should be so cannot be
explained; but, although kind words are
often spoken of listener, he never hears
them. Praises may be lavish, but it is
only the cruel criticism that catches the
ear of the listener Kindly excuses may
be uttered. but it is the reproach which
the erring one inevitably hears when he
becomes an eavesdropper. [ think that
in early youth every romantic person has
had the idea of listening to the couversa-
ton of his intimates for the purpose of
making sure which were true-hearted;
but one who has ever carried out that
sentimental plan has probably become
aware that by this method he would be
apt to prove himself without friend in
the world; for, by some strange trick of
fate, those who have concealed them
selves behind curtains to hear their own
praises generally remain there, shocked
by cold satirical remarks, and do not end
the little drama, as they intended, by
bouncing out with a cry of, ssMy dear
friends, know your true hearts now; /
know you all adore me-" but glide away
sadly and miserably,. with a large store
of budding suspicious and grudges which
are apt to ripen into very bitter fruit.
And yet there is not always reason for.
this. The tongue is very unruly mem
Der, and expresses momentary emotions
more readily than it does abiding sent1-
ments, and one may thoughtlessly say
some very irritating or unpleasant thing
about you, who is, really you friend at
heart