Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-09-29
IN 4 NUTSHELL.

Uncle Sammy" Tilden is going to
the Cotton Exposition at Atlanta, Ga.
Miss Myra Kingsbury was ordained
for the ministry in the Universalist
church at Sheshequin, n. Y, last week.
The rival candidates for governor OF
Mississippi, Col. Benjamin King and
Gen. Robert Lowry. are canvassing the
state together.
The health of Governor Witt, Of
Louisiana, is shattered, and he has
been sent by his physicians to. the
plains of Texas. Lieutenant Governor
McEnery is acting governor.
1t is announced that Lieutenant
Governor Tabor, of Colorado, will next
Winter found an extensive public library
in Denver. The building is to cost $780,
900 and will open with 100000 volumes.
The disturbances over the late Pope
have greatly stimulated the contribution
of Peters pence, the receipts since the
troubles having been 100000 lire, or
about 100000.
Ernesto Rossi, the compatriot of
Salvini, and also a great tragedian, has
sailed for this country. He will make
his first bow in Boston on October 3,
and will probably appear in "King
Lear"
Mr.. Peter Bogart and wife, of Downs
vile, Pa, celebrated, on the 18th inst,
their diamond wedding, being the sew
enty-fifth anniversary of their marriage
They are each 50 years old, and both
are in excellent health.
The emperor of Germany has sane
toned the acceptance of the descend
ants of the Baron Won Steuben of the
invitation to attend the Yorktown cen
tennial celebration. The descendants
are all officers of the Prussian army.
The lack of teachers in the art OF
fencing is so much felt in the French
navy that the minister Of Marine has
just obtained from the government the
right of allowing fencing masters to
hold the rank of adjutant in the navy
as in the army.
Rev. Edwin Paxton Hood, distin,
guished Congregationalist, recently pas.
tor of a prominent church at Man,
chester, England, has arrived in New
York. 1t is possible that he will be
persuaded to make this country his
home.
The similarity of the names led az
over-zealous railway porter in England
to believe that packages of operate
paraphernalia belonging to Carl Rosa
and labeled with his name were dyna
mite explosives, and that Mr.. O'DOnO
van Rosa had the effrontery to publish
his criminal connection with the dan
gerous packages.
A number of leading citizens o
New York, have organized company
to erect at the corner Of Broadway anC
Thirty-ninth street a place of amuse
ment modelled after the European
summer theatre It will be opened IL
April with series of concerts di
rected by Herr Strauss, of Vienna.
Count Adleberg, the only person who
during the late Cars reign, enjOyer
the intimate confidence of his master
has retired from his post of Minister o
the Palace. He was Alexander's con
slant companion, and was, as boy
his playmate and friend. He is a good
natured man, and popular in Russian
society.
Four students who were suspended
from Purdue University, Ind, for no
complying with new regulation re
quiring all students to pledge them
selves not to be members of "Greel
letter" societies during their colleg
course, have brought suit in the court
to test the authority of the faculty t
make such a regulation.