Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-03-24
GENERAL NOTES.

THE czarowitch ascends the throne as
Alexander III.
THOMAS CARLYLE hequeathed his Dunn
friesshire estate to the university of Edin,
burg.
HOPsoN 4 SHEPARD, crockery import
ers of Utica, n Y have made an assign
ment, with liabilities Of 1900.
/ DEADwooD has been organized under the
recent act of incorporation. The mayor
is Daniel Mclaughlin, formerly OF
| Cheyenne.
The Milwaukee and St. Paul directors
| have declared semi-annual dividend of
81 per cent. on both classes of stock. pay
able April 26.
! AT the late sale of trotting stock III New
York, Robert Bonner sold Astoria and
Alma for $4,000 and $1,000. Patchen,
with a record of 2:1S4 was sold for 81, ,450.
IN the late pigeon-shooting match at
London, Carver beat Scott by score of 70
to "A, winning the championship cup and
$3.50. Another match has been arranged.
THE Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
railway has filed, at Des Moines, a mort
gage for 81 900, 900 in favor of the Farm
ers' Loan and Trust company, Of New
York
THE first overland train by the Southern
Pacific route LETT San Francisco on the
| 18th inst. The cars composing the train
are all new and of the finest construction.
THE emigration movement has already
begun. Over four hundred emigrants
from the counties offs furon and Bruce,
Canada, went through st. Paul recently,
bound for western Minnesota and Dakota.
! In the Illinois house, in a debate on a
temperance bill, the argument was ad-
vanced that a country drug store ought to
be allowed to sell a little whisky to a poor
farmer bitten in the heel by rattlesnake.
| SARGEANT BATES, the fiag-carrier, is ly-
ing very i'll at his home in Saybrook, Nc
! Lean county, Ill. He has a wife and six
children, and is said to have been living
in great poverty for some time past.
AT Charleston, ILL.,, band of masked
men took out several supposed thieves
and hOuse-burners, who have infested the
! place, and committed numerous crimes
lately, strung them up and whipped them
as warning. More vigorous measures
are to be used if they do not leave.
STEINER MoREY, boy sixteen years old,
from Talbot, Ind, took stryohnine, at
Paxon, ILL.,, intending to kill himself
His condition was discovered and physi-
clans think they can save his life. He
says he was driven from home by the cruel
treatment of relatives, and could find no
employment.
IT required five years and cost $500, 900
to remove from Alexandria the obelisk
now erected in Paris and place it in its po-
sition. Only one year and four months
was taken, and $105,000 the aggregate ex-
pense, to bring across the water the obe-
| Iislz recently put in position in the city of
New York. Here is comparison OF
American with French engineering.
THos. HUGHES, clerk of Iowa City, who
died recently, was the founder of half
dozen pioneer newspapers in that state,
and was president of the earliest state SEN
ate. As soldier Of the Graybeard regi-
ment he spent nearly two years in a con-
! federate prison in Texas.
THE sun shining brightly after the re-
cent heavy snow storm caused entire gangs
of snow-shovelers to retire for treatment as
snow-blind. Eighteen men shoveling
snow on the tracks of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul company, near Osh-
kosh, had to be led home. At other points
the refraction was equally injurious.
BISHOP POTTER has appointed com
mission who will likely decide soon
whether or not the Rev. Mr.. Cowley, who
passed a year in the penitentiary for
cruelty to the children of the Shepherd 5
Fold. shall have an ecclesiastical trial