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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10

the land commission in such number as to
swamp it. Sexton has assumed chief di-
rection of United Ireland.
THE nihilists threaten to prevent the
coronation of the czar unless he grants
specified concessions.
FIVE Russian political prisoners have
been sentenced to terms of deportation
ranging from four to ten years,
The principal journals of London con.
tinue to demonstrate the impossibility OF
| any return from confederate bonds. and
| the price fell in that market to 81 rs sd
per 1000 pounds.
! PARNELL was forbidden to see his solic-
itOr and order steps to test the validity OF
his arrest, except in the presence of the
warden. The land court has received two
thousand more applications to have fair
rents fixed. The police in London pre-
vented a public meeting called by the
branch land league of Great Britain.
SENIOR PoRTUoNDo, deputy for Havana
in the Spanish cortes, criticised the liberal
government for delays in carrying ont re-
forms in Cuba. Castillon, minister of col
onieg, upbraided the Cubans for ingrati-
tude, saying that autonomy was danger
Gus, and that Spain had the right to be an
American power. AS u tue aIllIuUS OI
the government toward slavery, he point
ed to the recent emancipation of five mil
lion natives in the Philippine islands.
FARMERS are focking into the land
court in increased numbers every day
Fifteen hundred were entered on Thurs
day, 1000 applied Friday. and $500 Sat-
urday. The staff of clerks is working
night and day, yet all are completely
swamped. 1t is in contemplation to ap-
point more sub-commissioners as the four
about to sit are inadequate to the labor.
1t would take two years for the present
staff TO work off the cases which will
probably apply during the coming month.
The defeat of the attempt to confer free
dom of the city of Dublin on Parnell and
Dillon was accomplished in the face of de-
termined efforts on the part of Gray and
his friends to enforce the support of mod
Grade home rulers. When Gray found
that the requisition had not received the
signatures of a majority of the council
he intended to abandon the proposal, but
the Tories taunted him into Persisting
with it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10
NO. 46.

the Mechanics National bank and act
ing as member of the committee,
said that Oscar L. Baldwin, cashier of
said bank, has from time to time for
several years past, abstracted and will
fully misappHed the funds and creCits
of said bank, and by such misapplica-
tioa has caused loss to said bank of
over two million dollars, with intent
to lnjure and defraud said bank and
creditors and stockholders thereof.
wherefore this deponent charges said
Baldwin is guilty of violation of sec
ton 5 209 Of the revised statutes of the
United States, and prays he may be
and dealt with according
to law.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10
Damaging a Reputation

The reputation, originally good, Of many pro-
prietary articles, is in some instances damaged by
that most egregieus of sll business folies, fam
boyant advertising. The public soon becomes
disgusted with an article concerning which state
ments are made with the evident design of hood
winking it, and is nauseated rather than imposed
upon by wreckless claims to impossible merits. 1t
has ever been the aim of the proprietors of Hos
letters Stomach Bitters to make the published
allegations relating to it conform with reason and
proven facts. That then have succeeded in this
laudable design is shown by the fact that their
remedy is not only popular, but widely respected.
Experience without the aid of bombast has dem
onstrated that it is tonic of the first order, a
safe and thorough remedy for and preventive of
malarial diseases, a salutary anti-spasmodic and
remedy for debility, and capital corrective of
disorders of the stomach liver and bowels.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10

THE Mississippi river improvement
convention elected Hon. Mark H. Dun-
nell, of Minnesota, permanent chair,
man. A paper from General Gilmore
was read, stating that active operations
will be commenced next month on
reaches above Vicksburg and above
Memphis, comprising seventy miles
of the worst navigation below Cairo.
The resolutions prepared declare it to
be the imperative duty of the govern
ment to permanently secure the safe
and easy navigation of the Mississippi.
An independent resolution favors ap-
preparations by congress to establish
tree water communication between
the father of waters and the great
lakes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10

THE Boston water board appeals to
citizens to be economical in their use
of Cochituate. The Croton supply in
New York has been diminished by
eleven million gallons per day, and the
situation grows alarming. In the neigh
borhood ofCanal street and the Bowery
the supply has wholly failed. and the
Murray Hill quarter was left almost
destitute. The evening newspapers
were greatly delayed by lack of water
for steam power.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10

THE governor of Kilmainham jail has
been superseded for allowing ParnelIs
letter opposing the formation of the
Tenants Defense association to be
published. It is likely that Parneu
Will, on account of his letter, not be
allowed to receive visitors for fourteen
days. A priest Of the diocese of Kill
lala has been arrested for holding league
meetings IN his chapel. There are now
1900 cases for the land court to decide,
of which $500 were entered in one dav
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10
GENERAL NOTES

A VEIN of coal over FIVE feet thick was
struck at Mattoon, Ill, at depth of 720
feet.
THE safe inSthe store of T.. w. Aiken &
Sons, at Carlisle. Ill, was blown open and
robbed of g, 100.
PATTI and Nicolini reached New York
by the Algeria, after an exceedingly rough
passage across the Atlantic.
A MISSIONARY bishop of the Mormon
church has made 125 converts in southern
Virginia, who will soon leave for Utah.
A CUT to $3.50 between Cleveland and
Albany is announced by the New York,
Pennsylvania and Ohio road, which thus
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10

The rains do not always fall with
equal distribution upon the just and the
unjust. While much of the country
throughout the Northwest is at present
overfowed in consequence of super
abundant rains, in the East the rivers,
creeks, wells and cisterns are drying up
for the lack of rain. Too much water
and not enough water are, in these in
stances, found to be about equally dis
aSfrAI1S
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10
FOREIGN.

In the lord mayors procession at Lon
don, the American flag will be escorted by
a guard of honor.
The failure of Surcock & Debbas, of
Paris, is announced, from specu lation in
Egyptian securities, with liabilities of
5000, 900 francs.
THE editor of the French paper at Cal
70, Egypt, has been forced to fee from the
country on account of threats against hi
fife by the sheiks for calling Mahomet
false prophet.
THE Irish Land-leaguers are said to
have directed tenants to send in claims to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10

JUDGE FoLGER will not be able to en-
ter actively upon the duties of his Office
as secretary of the treasury until some
important cases pending in the New
York state court of appeals, of which
he is the chief judge, shall have been
decided and disposed of, which, he
thinks, will require about two weeks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10
BROKEN BONDS.
a Terrible Financial Crash in New
ark. =. >.

NEWARK, n. j., Oct 31.-The follow
ing appeared on the doors of the Me
chanics' national bank, this morning:
"Closed in consequence Of statements
affecting the bank made by the cash
ier, to the board Of directors, which are
now undergoing investigation" The
bank was considered the strongest IL
Newark
NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-The Posts New
ark, n. J., special says the Newark di-
rectors of the Mechanics national
bank, in Newark, this morning an
nounced its suspension. a meeting OF
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10

OVER 100000 more German immi-
grants arrived in this country during the
first nine months of the present year
then came hither from the same coun-
try innine months Of any previous year.
The number thus far for 1881 is 1875, ,743
"a number larger than the entire pop
ulation of Colorado, Delaware, Florida,
or some Of the New England states.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10
VOL XIV.

A SURVEY for branch of the Utah
and Northern road from Dillon to the
Yellowstone park, by way of Virginia
City, Montana, has been completed. 1t
will be narrow guage and 80 miles in
length.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10

THE paper and envelopes used in the
official business of President Arthur
are very deeply edged in black, and in
stead of the wonted heading, "Execu-
tive Mansion" there are the words
coffee of the President of the United
States, Official" This heading will be
retained, as more appropriate than the
co~,,o~
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10

REV. ISAAC /. STEIN, of Leavenworth,
Kan, robbed some rooms in the Metro
politan hotel in New York and was
sent to the Tombs. He begged hard to
be released, and declared that it was
mis- first offense, although a set of skel-
eton keys was found in hts valise. He
is 50 years of age, and has wife and
EIGHT children.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10
KAHoKA, No.. Feb. 9, 1880.

purchased FIVE bottles of your Hop Bitters
Bishop & Co. last fall, for my daughter, and am
well pleased with the Bitters. They did her more
good than all the medicine she has taken for six
years. WM. L. MCCLURE.
The above is from very reliable farmer
whose daughter was in poor health for seven
eight years, and could obtain no relief until she
used Hop Bitters. She is now in good health
as any person in the Country. We have large
sale, and they are making remarkable cures.
W. Ii. BISHOP & co.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10

THE credentials of Secretary Win
dom, as senator from Minnesota did
not arrive in Washington until after the
senate adjourned sine die, consequently
he cannot take the oath of office until
next December. By request of the
president, Mr.. Window has consented
to remain at his post as secretary of
the treasury until his successor, Judge
Folger, shall be ready to enter upon
the duties of the off Ce
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10

A dry conversation - considering
the necessity of putting a fiat on the
back building. fashionable pa
per says: Married ladies now use
the arms of their husbands" Has the
use of the husbands pocket book gone
out of fashion
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10

Mr. E. G. Gartman, the business
manager Of the EUening Dispatch, Of
York, Pa, was cured of neuralgia by
three applications of st. Jacobs OIL
Boston (MaSs.) Saturday EUeaing Es-
aJreSs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10

Four nihihsts, among them a wo-
man, have been sentenced in st. Peters
burg to exile.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10

LIEUTENANT HoxIE, of the engineer
corps, in a report to the commissioners
Of the District of Columbia, recon-
mends the reclamation of the Potomac
Flats, which would be of great advan-
tage from a sanitary point of view.
He also has scheme for removing
all steam tracks from the streets of the
capital city, and placing them on ele-
waited railroads or under ground.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10
STAR ROTTE CASES.

WASHINGTON, Nov. Col. Cook,
special attorney for the government in
the star route cases, appeared in the
criminal court, to-day, and said the
government would be prepared to
argue the motion of quasi information
in the star route cases tomorrow. Dis
trict Attorney Corkhill then informed
the court that no other assignments
would be prepared, in order that am
pie time should be given for argument.
1t is expected the counsel for both sides
will be present, and discussion begin to-
morrow
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10

A WASHINGTON newspaper having
stated that Colonel Bliss, of counsel for
the government, had told the president
that there was no case against the star
route conspirators, Colonel Bliss denies
the statement. On the contrary, he
says there is very good case, and,
under ordinary circumstances, does
not doubt that conviction will be Sc
cured. 1t appears that the amount of
which the government was defrauded
il nearly $9.OOOOOO.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10
MACS STORY.

McVeagh states that he long ago de-
clared that he would prepare the star
route cases for court, and then drop
them; that he never had any intention
of going beyond the grand jury with
them, and in pursuance of this plan he
employed eminent counsel for the pros
ecution, therefore he maintains he can
not be charged with abandoning the
cases or shirking duty upon insisting
upon leaving the cabinet.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10
WORD FROM WASHINGTON.
what is Transpirin= in the City of til
Nation From Day to Day
PUBLIC DEBT.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.-The following
was the condition of the treasury, Oct.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10

ON DUTY.
WASHINGTON, Nov. Capt. Francis
NJ. Ramsey has been assigned to duty
as superintendent of the U. S. Naval
Academy, and Admiral Rodgers will
be retired.
WASHINGTON, Nov. st is said here
that Postmaster General James visit to
New York will be fraught with the ut
most importance to the public at large.
The postmaster general has always
cOntended that mail trains should ex-
ceed passenger trains in speed, that the
mails should be given the right of way
on the track as they are given the way
on thOroughfares In towns. When the
Pennsylvania's new fast train was put
upon the road General James believed
the mail service should receive some
benefit from it, and he started for New
York yesterday. 1t is said that he CON
templates a general improvement in
the railway mail service, and will en-
deavor to send out 8 New York mail
ont over the New York Central and
Pennsylvania's fast limited to Chicago,
whence sharp connection will be made
to Omaha and thence to San Francisco,
where the mails will arrive at 6 o'clock
in the morning intead of l 80 in the af-
iernoOn as at present.
WASHINGTON, Nov. At is learned
from good authority that President
Arthur is seriously contemplating the
question of superseding District Attor-
ney Corkhin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-11-10
INTEREST.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2-The interest
due Nov. /, 1881, on the funded loan of
1881 continued at 81 per cent, was
computed by taking full interest for
the quarter ending Oct. 81, at g per
cent, and deducting therefrom the in
terest from Aug. 1st to Aug. 18th, II
days, at 81 per cent. August II being
the date on which the interest com
menced as stated on the face of the
bond.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-25

Abiding to the revised version Of
the New Testament the New York
Tribune Of the Goth says:
The changes which have been made
in the accepted version may be
grouped, for the sake of convenience,
into three general classes: First,
those arising from the condition Of
the text and mainly from mistakes
aud an~notations of copyists; secondly,
those due to an amended text, the
most ancient manuscripts not having
been discovered when the King James
version was published and textual
criticism being in its infancy; and
thirdly, those required by amended
translation owing to the advance in
biblical scholarship during two hun
dred years. These general classes arc
subdiyided and copiously illustrated,
so that the dullest reader will recog-
nize the magnitude of the labor per-
formed, even if be fails to appreciate
the painstaking care and enlightened
scholarship bestowed upon it.
EThere are two points to which we
direct special attention, because it is
important that certain erroneous i'm
pressions derived from loose writing
10 the religious as well as the secular
press should be corrected. The first
is that the present work is not so
essentially different from the old YER
sion as to be a new translation. These
Who expect to find startling changes
or revolutionary cancellations will be
disappointed. 1t is a revision, and
not a translation. 1t is a purer, more
scholarly and more settled text, but
it is the same scripture. Christianity
remains unchanged. Not a single
doctrine Of faith is clouded. There
are fewer errors of man to mar the
primitive text of the New Testament,
but for all practical purposes the faith
of every Christian believer will re.
main precisely as it is. The second
point on which we wish to lay stress
IS that the New Testament has not
been unnecessarily modernized. The
old words have been allowed to stand
wherever they remain generally %intelli-
gible, although they may have gone out
Of common use. Where there is so
radical a change Of meaning as 20
mislead a careless or untutored reader,
the obsolete word is cast aside, but
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-25
Obelisk ~Inscriptions.

NOW YIN AlNAdAusl
Professor Seyfarth's criticism Of
Brugsch's system of translating
Egyptian hieroglyphics has shocked
many people until they do not know
what to believe. Not that the hitherto
accepted translation of the inscFip-
lions on our obelisk was wildly edity-
ing, for one can read more entertaining
statements with bigger lies in them
on some comparatively modern stones
in Greenwood still, it was very
comforting to know what the obelisk
was all about. If, however, there is
no absolute system of deciphering
what is to prevent any q from trans
lating the inscriptions for himself by
the light of common sense2 A far.
mer could claim, with some show of
reason, that the big stone is a far
mer's almanac, with prophecies and
directions for four years, for he
can see cattle, hayrakes, po-
tato bugs, pruning knives,
spring chickens, army worms and
various other insects hal help the
farmer to sweat Tor his bread. Ladies
may claim that the Inscriptions are
really a list of Cleopatra's wedding
presents, for it needs only the merest
suggestion OF such a thing to enable
the eye to find napkin rings, butter
knives and cheap bric-a-brac dupli.
Gated all over the four faces of the
stone. Once admit that the three
birds at the top are crows, and mu
sicians might pronounce the big stone
the original draught of 1.-THE Three
Black Crows" Temperance lecturers
could suggest that the obelisk is a
warning against strong drink, the PIC.
lures having been drawn from
memory by an artist who had de-.
lirium tremens. Journalists can see in
the inscriptions the records of several
years life Of the people. The three
birds that began the tale can pass for
boiled owls, and thus suggest New
Years festivities then come beef cat
lie, knives and forks, pipes andhuman
beings in various attitudes of awkward
gravity, all of which are symbolic Of
the great society dinners that come in
January and February. Following
these are some pictures just hideous
to remind one Of his comic valentines.
The baseball and bat, fish hooks and
small game in variety follow at natural
intervals, human fragments in q%uanti-
ty appear in the middle ofthe column,
where Fourth of July records
would come in weapons with which
midsummer murders are committed
are suggested in great profusion, and
gallows trees appear at intervals.
Deck lines Of yachts and racing shells,
with lacrosse and lawn tennis players,
may be discovered by the imaginative
eye; so may straw hats, mosquitoes
and demoralized thermometers. Far
down in each column may be found
the Thanksgiving turkey and goose,
and at the extreme bottom a number
of blank checks to be filled out in
payment for Christmas presents. One
of the four sides is almost blank
from early summer to late autumn,
except for two geese and some things
that look like election posters; this
may refer to the regular quadrennial
period in which the presidential fight
prevents anything else being done.
By thus taking the hieroglyphics at
their apparent face value anybody can
translate the obelisk without outside
assistance.