Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-07-07
GENERAL NOTES.


track Maud 5. trotted a mile in PIG.
GENERAL GRANT says no one has offered
to buy his farm of eight hundred acres in
Missouri.
DISTRICT-ATTORNEY WOODFoRD, of New
York, has appointed as his assistants son
of Postmaster General James and nephew
Of Roscoe Conkling
IT is probable that not over 5000. and
certainly not over 100000 persons, own
the entire debt of the country.
YALE COLLEGE has 1OS instructors.
1,O37 students, and 10000 volumes in the
libraries.
PETER COOPER has decided to open
schools Of instruction in type-writing and
photography in Cooper institute, New
York, at cost of $25, 900.
The Bradford oil district is alive with
excitement over two rich strikes across
the line in New York, flowing 100 to $50
barrels per day.
A RABBI. at indianapolis has levied on
the cemetery of the Children of Jacob con-
gregatlon, and will advertise it for sale on
a Judgment for salary.
A FLOCK of carrier-pigeons owned in
Boston have been Iessening the record.
One of the number flew from Schenectady,
n. Y, to Boston in four hours seventeen
minutes and fifteen seconds.
In consequence of the abandonment of
his German newspaper partnership in St.
Louis by Carl Schurz, the business man.
ager of the concern has been forced to re-
tire from the enterprise.
HENlY WILLARD and his associates have
filed at Portland articles of incorporation
of the Oregon Transcontinental company.
with capital of $50.000000.
TWELVE indictments were presented by
the grand jury at Albany, seven of which
were sealed. but the names Of the Offend
ers can not be learned.
THE directors Of the De Lesseps canal
company have practically completed the
purchase of the Panama railway for BIZ,
100000, and the canal is to follow closely
the line of the track.
ONE hundred Indiana journals were rem
resented at a convention of the Democrat
ic editors of that state at Michigan CITY.
At the evening meeting Henry Watterson
delivered an address on The Restored
Democracy"
THE Southern yacht club had an excit-
ing race on Lake Pontchartrain in which
the prize of 81 800, was taken by the Lady
Emma. The yacht Silence was brought
round from New York to enter the con-
test, and her hackers lost about $l1 600.
TOBACCO cultivation in the United
States, for 1880, is placed at 473, 10Y, 5S3
pounds. The average yield per acre is
shown to be 731 pounds, varying from
$50 pounds in Massachusetts, to Al
pounds in North Carolina.
GESFp AT RETrpEc ,pn tho v;o;o,,, Lor,o
which recently killed two grooms in New
York, and has lately been in danger of
starvation because. no one dared to attend
him, was shot in his stall as an unsafe
beast r...
GEORGE II. SPENCER, of St. Paul, who was
appointed agent of the Crow Creek Indians
on the recommendation of Bishop Hare,
speaks the Sioux language, was nearly
murdered in the outbreak of 1862, and
was rendered penniless by Indian plumber
ers on the site of Ortonville.
JOHN GYUMBER, the Hungarian who
has SO greatly puzzled the authorities at
the poor-house at Reading, Pa. after alb
solute silence for one hundred and thirty
five days found voice to express his thanks
Tor flower which was given him.
Ex-ALDERMAN CLANCY, of Ottawa, Ont,
entertained thousands of people by an ex-
hlbItlon of his flying machine, on which
he has been at work for thirty, years 1t
has wings and is worked by a crank, and
he kept steadily in the air for a quarter of
mile at an average height of twelve feet
The banquet of the sons of Maine resi-
dent in Chicago was in every sense a
success, especially as large delegation of
the Pine Tree state were present as guests.
Judge Drummond delivered the address
OF welcome and Professor Rodney WEIGH
the poem. Among those responding to
toasts were Hannibal HamIin, E. B.
Washburne, James II. Howe, and Mark
FL. DunnelI.
The Iowa republican state convention
called to the chair Hon. James Wilson.
The delegates in attendance numbered
1,Q19. Hon. John Y. Stone was made
permanent chairman. An informal bal
lot for governor gave Sherman 416 votes,
Larabee 36S, Harlan 146, Campbell rs, and
Kimball IL. On the twelfth ballot Sher-
man was nominated, receiving 500 votes,
which was made unanimous. On the
third ballot o. III. Manning, of Carroll
county, was nominated for lieutenant gov
ernor. Austin Adams, of Dubuque, was
selected as candidate for supreme Judge.