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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-24
mounted infantry and batch of captiyes,
has reached Fort Buf Ird.

mounted infantry and batch of captive es
has reached Fort Buf ,rd.
( CANADIAN hay, or "-aich the duty is S5C
per carload, is being, imported into the
eastern cities In consle} -able quantities.
Two Cinnamon OF nicago applied to
Judge Moran for Ma turalization naners
and the matter was taFlan under advise.
ment
, 30. ADAMS, the def iultine nostm.star
OF Deadwood, who VS. sentenced to five
wears in the ietroIt NOISE of correction,
has besa paTdoned out by the president.
MATERIAL is going forward for the ex-
tension of the Sioux Gil II and Pacific road
to Fort Niobrara, whicN II will give it the
nearest terminus to the y ,ack Hills.
On account of the = 1T subscriptions
toward the worlds fair New York. it is
rumored that General mt will resign
the presidency of the e,N prise.
Miss ADDIE BALL ,e i aba, ILL.,, when
attacked by small-po. Was deserted by
her parents, and had only the attention of
loving brother for two days, when death
came to her relief.
EXODUS agents are distributing railway
tickets gratuituously among negroes in
southern Tennessee, by which indacement
one hundred were run off from Giles
county last week
GENERAL GARFIELD will start for Wash
ington on the last day of this month. He
has consented to the plans of his neigh
bors for public reception at Mentor,
and will make parting speech on that
occasion.
CHARLES IBACH, of Indianapolis, is un
dnrnOJnCr forr HI e,
sis. Being employed in packing-house,
he was in the habit of lunching on bits Of
pork but partially cooked.
SMALL-Pox has become epidemic at
Cuba, ILL.,, five new cases being announced
and citizens are leaving the region. On
account of a case in the convent at Streat-
or, ILL.,, the city authorities forbade
services at the adjacent church.
PRESIDENT GoNZARES, of Mexico. has
granted to Samuel Bowman; formerly of
California, fifteen hundred leagues of
land in Sonora. on which to colonize one
thousand American families. General
Mannel Costas, who is favorable to the
scheme, will command the department in
which the grant lies.
John w. Young, son of the famous
Mormon leader, having been indicted at
Salt Lake for bigamy, was on the 18th inst,
arrested at Denver, and gave bail in
$4,000. The complaint was made by his
first wife, Philadelphia lady, and the
arrest was ordered by the marshal of
Utah.
CATTLE-RAIsERS are unanimous in the
belief that the severity of the winter has
had a marked effect from the Rio Grande
to the British boundary. Some Nebraska
herdsmen predict loss of 20 to 30 per
cent, with still greater damage unless
there shall soon be marked rise in tenn
perature. About $4,000 Texas cattle are
wlntering in Indian territory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-24
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The extreme cold weather has been de-
structive to fish and oysters, and the prices
have materially advanced.
THE hat factory of 7. +. Brennan & Co.
at Orange, n. j., has been burned, the loss
being $24, 900.
]. H. BURGERS iron works, in Circin-
natl, valued at $4,000, were destroyed by
fire on the 10th inst.
THE proprietors of the WOODEN mills al
Trifin, O., have made an assignment, THEN
liabilities being 100000.
THE sbip-carpenters of Milwaukee have
resolved to strike for an increase of fifty
cents per day.
A LOSS of $4,000 was incurred at Den.
yer by the destruction of a number o1
buildings on Cliff street, Feb. %.
Two trains on the Pacific division of the
st. Paul road collided at Savanna, Ill.
Feb. %, wrecking both locomotives anG
dangerously wounding an engineer.
THE paint-shops of the Wisconsin Cen.
trail road at Stevens Point. containing two
coaches and baggage-car, were destroyed
by fire on the 18th inst.
A dispatch stated that an unknown
clergyman from Boston had died of small
pox in the Brooklyn hospital, and beer
buriediin the potter's-ield. 1t now ap,
pears that the unfortunate gentleman was
the Rev. George II. Paul, a Presbyterian
residing in New Jersey.
PIERCE's Palace hotel, at Buffalo, {
stately fve-story structure. which cost
about $500, 900, was totally destroyed by
fire on the 18th inst.
The families OF Messrs. Boyce aud Eel
ter, of Roundout, n. Y, were found on the
18th inst, in a dying condition from
trichiniasis.
ARAMIs, a noted stallion. owned by A
Hankins, of Chicago, died on a farm neal
Decatur, H., on the 10th inst. He had g
low trotting record, and was valued a
$4,000.
A TORNADO sweeping through the pine:
of South Carolina, on the 10th instant
crushed rude hut occupied by turpen
tine-makers, killing ten of them and seri
ously wounding three others.
A WABASH train struck broken raj
near East Hannibal, Mo. The caboost
was thrown over an embankment of TWEEN
ty-hve feet, and took fire. Y. Smell, o
Crescent City, Iowa, was killed. and Con
ductor Pollock was bruised and cut badly
F. A. MCLAIN started from Bradford
Pa, on the 10th inst, for Aiken, with tive
hundred pounds of nitro-glycerine in
cutter. His horse evidently ran away. a
after an explosion only pieces of flesh re
mained of the outfit.
A NOVEL case of blood-poisoning is re
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-24
Physicians Have Found out

That contaminating and foreign element in the
blood, developed by indigestion, is the cause of
rheumatism. This settles upon the sensitive sub
cutaneous covering of the muscles and lgaments
of the joints, causing constant and shifting pain
ard aggregating as calcareous, ehalky deposit
which produces stiffness and distortion of the
joints No fact which experience has demon
strated in regard to Hostetters Stomach Bitters
has stronger evidence to support than this. name
ly, that this medicine of comprehensive uses
checks the formidable and atrocious disease, nor
is it less positively established that it is prefer
able to the poisons often used to arrest it, since
the medicine contains only salutary ingredients.
It is also signal remedy Tor malarial fevers con.
debility and other disorders. See that you get tho
genuine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-24
Chicago Iiarket.

CHICAGO, Feb. 2.-Flour-Nomnall un-
changed. Wheat-Unsettled and generally
lower; No. 2 red winter, 96Q9S; No. 2, Chicago
spring, 97@977z for seller cash; 972s for seller
March; 9S14G9S14 for seller April; .O14 fol-
seller May; rejected, 70@7j. Corn-Unsettled
and generally lower; 379371s for seller cash
315s for seller March; 373l for seller April; q
@4l1s for seller May. Oats-Steady and in fair
demand; rejected 294; fresh 81 for seller cash
291s for seller March; 33K for seller April
33A@335s for seller May. Rye-Steady and
unchanged at SO. Barley-Easier at Lee. Pork
Active but lower and unsettled; l462H for
seller cash; 1922 bid for seller March; II S06
II 82a for seller April; 14.95914 81 "a for seller
May. Lard-Active, firm and higher; 1O.O7I0
1910 for seller cash; 10.07H @1020 for seller
March; lO.7A@1O.30 for seller April; 1927 \
9lO.3O for seller May. On call-Every-
thing closed unchanged. Receipts-Flour 16,
900; wheat, $4,000; corn, $4,000; oats $4,000;
rye; 400; barley, 1000. Shipments-Flour, II, :
900; wheat, "a 0OO corn SO 0O0 oats, 81 ,OO0 rye,
1900; barley, $500. The ''Drover's Journal;
reports Hogs-Receipts % 900: shipments
$500; badly demOralized; regular stampede in
prices in sympathy with the break in mess pork;
prices fully zoe lower on all grades; mixed pack
ing, 5.259 .5.65, light, 5.254 5.65; choice heavy,
57596.25, extra lot, 6.35; closed with many left.
Cattle-Receipts, 5000; shipments, $500; many
here which the blockade kept back last
week; market exceedingly weak; almost nominal;
l5929c lower; common to fair shipping, 3 95@
45O; good to choice, 4.7OG 800; exports, nominal
5.25 954O; butchers, plenty and weaker; 25O9
3.75; stockers, steady; 2.9O@4.OO. sheep-Re-
eeipts, $500, shipments, 400; declined &c; in
fair demand; mostly sold; Texans, 3.759425
common to medium natives, 4.O0@4.5O; good tc
choice 1860 5.75.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-24
Fees of Doctors.

The fee of doctors is an item that
very many persons are interested in just
Ut present. We believe the schedule
for visits is $500, which would tax a
man confined to his bed for a year,
aad in need of daily visit, over $1,000
i year for MEDICAL attendance alone.
And one single bottle of Hop Bitters
taken in time would save the S1,00t
and all the years sickness.-Poa.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-24

Hon. FERNANDO WoOD, the famous
ex-Mayor and Congressman of New
York, died at Hot Springs, Ark, on
the 18th inst. His health has been
failing for some time and he went to
tho Arkansas resort two or three weeks
ago, in the hope of finding relief. Mr..
Wood was born of Quaker parentage in
the city of Philadelphia. June IA, 1912.
His father removed to New York in
1920. When 10 years of age Mr. Wood
commenced business as a shipping
merchant, in which he was entirely
successful, retiring with an ample for
tune in 1850. He was thrice elected
mayor of New York, serving in that
office during 1855, '56, 81, 'G1 and 90.
He was Il member of the Twenty
seventh, Thirty eighth, Fortieth, Forty
first, Forty-second, Forty-third, Forty
fourth, Forty fifth, Forty-sixth and was
reelected to the Forty-seventh Con-
gress. Among his acts of public use
fnlness was the Inauguration of that
movement which gave New York its
great Central Park. Mr.. Wood was a
man Of ability, but was an intense
partisan. He was recognized as one of
the chief leaders of the democratic
party of the country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-24
milwaukee, Market

MILWAUKEE,. Feb. 22.-Four- -Drooping.
Wheat-opened weak; closed steady; No. 1, hard,
nominal; No. l, 1,o4: No. 2, 9614; 964 for
seller February; 961z for seller March; 97e5
tor seller April 1.Ol1z for seller May; No. 3,
6z13: No. 4, 76 rejected nominal. Corn
Dull; No. 2, 371a. Oats-Qriet; No. 2. 3OK
Rye-Stronger; Ne. l. SO. Barley Stronger;
No.2, fresh, 8414.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-24
GENERAL NOTES.

SMALLPOX is prevailing to an alarming
extent in Chicago.
GENERAL HANCOCK has concluded to at
tend the Inauguration of General Garfield.
Col. ILGEs, with two companies of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-24

request, be supplied to the senators and repre-
sentatives for distribution among the agricultural
constituents.
The house then adjourned to attend the funeral
of the Hon. Fernando Wood
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-24
VOL XIV.
NEWS NOTES.

EX-VICEPREsIDENTS SCHUYLER CoLFAX,
happened in during the session of the
Indiana house of Representative, recent
" and Immediately recess was
taken to allow the members to greet
the distinguished visitor. Mr.. Colfax
made happy little speech.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-24

SUIT has been entered by the United
States Direct Cable Co., to break up the
recent telegraphic consolidation. Sen.
Edmunds has been engaged as chief
counsel for the cable people, and the
suit promises to be one of the most for
midable attacks yet made on the great
consolidation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-24

ported from Richmond. Ind where Rich
ard Jackson died from crushing potato
bug in his fingers and atterward touching
the inside of his ear, for which he suffered
for twelve months, losing one hundred
pounds of flesh.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-24

In 1880 John Forbes, collector of Yer
million county, which then included
Chicago, paid tie Chicago taxes out of
his own pocket, rather than take the
trouble of going over the prairies to
Chicago after the money.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-24

NOTWITHSTANDING Senator Conkling's
sneer at the suggestion made by Sena-
tor Hoar, of Massachusetts, as to the
questionable propriety Of assembling
4 large body of armed military at
Washington on the occasion of General
Garfield's approaching inauguration,
we cannot but think that the Massa-
chusetts senator was quite right. This
massing of armed troops at the na-
honal capitol on such an occasion,
however peaceful and innocent the
intention may be at this time, might,
II made a precedent, and established
INTO custom, at some future time be
not only mischievous and dangerous,
but absolutely calamitous. The inaug-
uratlon of a chief magistrate ought to
be peculiarly ciric event, unattended
by great military parade or the display
of the paraphernalia of war. The
people can assemble at the national
capital and signaGze such an event
without great military pomp, and the
latter ought to be discountenanced. If
formidable force of thousands OF
armed men is justifable now, the
country's enemies might at some frl-
ture and more critical occasion of a
similar character deem a like display
equally iustifable, with less innocent
purpose. Let us be careful how we es
tablish new precedents of a lhartla
character. In time of peace, and OF
civic occasions, let the instruments anc
spirit of peace and civil order hoiG
sway, keeping the swords and the guns
of Mars in the background.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-02-24

SEVENTY years ago Samuel Gist, who
owned 4 large amount of property in
Virginia, died, leaving a will, in which
he bequeathed it all to his 274 slaves
and their heirs, with their freedom.
The property was in Goochland, Han
over, Henrico, Amherst, and Carolina
counties, and in the Dismal Swamp.
In 1916, by act of the General Assem-
bly, of Virginia, the slaves were freed
in conformity with the provisions of
the will, but were removed from the
Virginia lands. The trustees, TOler
and Wickham, arranged to have them
put on lands in Brown and Highland
counties, Ohio. AS time wore on they
allowed their trust to lapse; some of
the colored people bought and paid for
the land they were on. Recently a
convention of about two hundred col
ored people who claim to be heirs to
the Virginia property under the will of
Samuel Gist, held convention in Hills
boro, and determined to prosecute
their claims. The matter was given to
the care Of the Rev f. Cumberland, of
Mechanicsburg who has consulted and
employed attorneys, who think that
sufficient documentary evidence can
be found to prove the claims of the col
ored people. The property is now
worth several million dollars.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-03-19

ROLLA RYAN, who was here with his
father several years ago, will visit Ope-
lousas again in few days. He Will
perform here, we are informed, next
Tuesday, 22d inst. Many of our towns
man will remember how he delighted
them before. The Shreveport Times,
of the 18th ult., says Of him:
This young man came almost unher-.
aided, and but for the fact that some OF
our citizens remembered bis and his
fathers appearance here IN 1876, ana
a vivid recollection of his inimitablc
recitations and presentations OF cllarac-
ter, there would not have been baker s
dozen at Tally's Opera House SO unfa-
vorable night as last night was. Des-
pite every drawback, however. there
was a fair audience and certainly a
highly appreciative one. Through una
voidable accident we did not get In
until several of his favorite characters
had been given, notably the Texas COW
boy, but were informed by such com
petent critics as our friend Sam FORD that
it was all simply magnificent, ana That
Rolla is better than Harry Mccarthy In
his paImiest days. The scene IN an
Alabama squatters cabin was emlnently
true to life. The PRESERVATION was per-
feet, nothing overdrawn, but so real
that every one in the audience felt that
they had seen just such a character as
the old squatter.
But the lateness of the hour prevents
us from doing anything like justice to
the entertainment. 1t was a happy
combination of humor and pathos. Prof
RYAN himself is a finished elOcutiOniSt
and reader. Mr.. Jas. B. Wilson played
the banjo to perfection.
1t is no idle praise to say that this il
one Of the very finest entertainments
we have ever witnessed in Shreveport
and we risk nothing in saying that al
who were present last night will agree
.tI,
St. Landry democrat., 1881-03-19
Absorbing the Malaria.
Chicago Times.I

Near the city of Rome, in Italy, not
far from the church of ST.. Paul, upon
the river Tiber, there is the old mon
astery of the Three Flowers" In
consequence of the new laws upon &c
clesiastical property the monastery was
appropriated by the Italian government,
but rented out again to the Trapplsts,
Catholic order of every strict obser-
vance, who had settled at the spot about
twelve years previously, and were en-
gagged in pursuits most useful to the
country. The monastery is situated
upon the borders of the Campagpa, that
pestiferous district as yet unredeemeu
by the agriculturist.
There reigned, therefore, IN the place,
the malaria of the neighborlood, WHICH
rendered it uninhabitable during tie
hot season-thatis is, in July and August
which time the former inhabitants OF
the monastery had always been COM
PEELED to spend in the city, OF Rome;
The Trappists did notIike taking forced
holidays in that manner, but commenced
planting the eucalyptus tree IN very
| large numbers, and, strange to say, the
tree oyerpowered the malaria, the air
continued good for breathing in the
summer time, and the Trappists are now
able to remain in their residences all
the year round.
That excellent result led to the raising
of the question whether it would not be
possible to get rid of all the malaria OF
the Campagna by raising plantations OF
the Eucalyptus tree all over that most
valuable ground in the most fertile
region of Italy, and that way gain room
for an immense population of agricul-
turists. In order to carry out that idea
if possible, the Italian government now
furnish these pioneer Trappists with
laboring hands from the States prisons
and the monks now go on extending
their eucalyptus groves from the mon
astery through the regions Of the Cam
pagna.
It might be worth the trouble of th.
inhabitants of the States and district:
in the South to try if the eucalyptus
tree can be acclimatized in this country
and serve. as in the Campagna, to des
troy the malaria and render the countr.
free from fever. The monks also pre-
pare an eucalyptus liqueur" (sweet
ened brandy,) which is reported to &C
we'll as a preventive of the fever.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-03-19

The weather until Thursday last was
exceptionally fine, but that day the rain
came down steadily and drearily. We
ought not to complain, however, for we
have had delightful weather, and plant
ing operations have advanced rapidly
The spring 80 far has not had any Of
those sudden alterations from heat te
cold which make that season trying
to the health. winter lingering in
the lap of spring." is pretty quotation
to read, but to feel it is another affair
You go cut in the morning Zig htly clad
hut before night the cold winds have
penetrated to the very marrow of YOU
bones, and you shiyer and sniffie with
heavy cold upon you. But this Marcel
so far has behaved like a sweet tenn
pered woman, though she may go GU
like a shTew.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-03-19
Changing Names.
New York letter to Cincinnati Gazette.l

New York letter to Cincinnati Gazette.l
Another aspect of fashion is shown
in the changes of a name. Some per-
sous of the extensive family of Smith
have improved the above mentioned
fashion so as to modify their unaecept
able titles. A Mr.. John Howard Smith
now writes his name j. Howardsmith,
which his family considers an improve
ment. In the same manner Roswell
Smith becomes Roswellsmith. Another
instance is found in the family of the
famous surgeon DR.. James Marion Sims.
He wrote his name j. Marion Sims, but
his children have altered it into Marion
sims, thus compromising two names into
one. Other transformatio ions, however,
of a similar character have formerly
occurred in society. The German baker,
HUM, had family of sons who became
fashionable, and therefore, called them
selves Hone, Dame which once held
| distinction in social life.
The Jew Jacobs has under similar
pressure been turned into Jacot, which
| has French sound. August Belmont
country but he Immediately adopted
the much prettier name by which he
has since been known. Frank Leslie
was Henry Carter in London, but the
change in lis case was in order to assist
in secrecy. The late Henry Wilson was
/ the only one of our vice presidents that
changed his name, and as the latter wal
Joshua Goliath am not surprised thai
he disliked it.
Another still more striking instance
of an alteration occasioned by antipathy
is found in the history of Robert Trea
Paine, Jr. His father was one of thu
signers of the Declaration of 1ndepen
dence. He was also an admirer of thu
author of the I" Crisis" whose name HI
gave to babe born during those troub
lous times. When the latter reaches
manhood the cage ofReason" was pub
lished and its author fell into disgrace
This led Thomas Paine, Jr., to adopt TIL
name of his father, all act being passe'
for that purpose by the Legislature.
St. Landry democrat., 1881-03-19

To illustrate the extraordinary
lengths which the temperance fanatl-
cism is being carried; mention was
made yesterday in these columns OF the
fact that the Kansas prohibitory law
made illegal the use of wine at the COM
munion table. Among the absurd pro-
visions of this law are the requiring of
every physician to take an oath not to
prescribe any article into which alcohol
enters, unless it is necessary for the
health of the patient, and requiring Of
eyerv druggist to take similar oath
not to put up or sell such an article ex-
cept by prescription, duly signed of a
practicing physician. Druggists there
fore, cannot sell spirits OF camphOr, CO.
logne, or tlavoring extracts, except up
on prescription.-[N. o. States.
These so-called temperance fanatics
ought to 60 off to themselves, like the
Mormons. We believe in temperance
and try to practice it, but we do not
want to he forced in the matter. We
do not believe in propagating christian
ity by backing the bible with sword
and we do not believe in forced totaI
abstinence. We believe man should
be free to wear, and eat, and drink
what he pleases, and he responsible t.
the community only for his bad con
duct. If he grets drunk let him b.
punished for drunkenness and let ;
law be enacted and enforced according
ly. A man has natural right to drink
and we are opposed to his being de
prived of that right. Besides, alcohol
ic liquors are often needed when NJ
musician or drugstore is at hand
Whisky is generally sure cure for an.
kind of snake bite. A man bit by
ratte-snake, twenty or thirty mile
from physician or drugstore, Nigh
die for the want of bottle of whisky
According to the law alluded to by tn
States, the whisky could not be obtain
ed before the bite. When we go wher
there are snakes we like to have whisk
along; and we are opposed to any rid
culous law that will prevent it. If som
fools willfully and knowingly drin
whisky till it kills them, that is n
reason why others should suffer IL
their folly.