Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-05-26
GENERAL NOTES.

ANNIE MYRTLE, a young miss OF Racine,
died from the effects of skipping rope
over one hundred times consecutivelY
BOB EDWARDS, a famous horse-thief of
New Mexico, was killed at Rattlesnake
Springs by deputy Sheriff McKenney.
A PARTY of Scotch farmers will make a
tour in the west this summer, with view
of learning our agricultural facilities.
THE switchmen employed in the yards
of the Chicago railroads, after a strike of
two weeks, have returned to work on the
terms offered by the companies.
JAMES w. POWELL of Owingsville, KY,
who suffered from a dreadful malady for
more than year, claims to have been re
stored to complete health by prayer.
The marquis Of Lorne is said to have
declared his intention to retire from the
governor generalship of Canada after his
journey to Manitoba.
WATERTowN, n. Y, is suffering from
the dreaded armY-wOrm, which is destroy
irg all kinds of vegetation and ravaging
the whole northern part of the state.
A FREIGHT train on the Chicago, Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad ran into a
herd of cattle near Genoa, ILL.,, ditching
the engine and cars and killing four
COWS.
THE break in the Ievee at Alsatia, La,
has created a river a mile wide, with a
current of eight miles per hour. The
water is TWENTY-FIVE inches deep at points
along the Vicksburg and Shreveport rail
road.
GENERAL GRANT and Senator Chafee
have arrived at the quarantine station be-
low New Orleans, where they will be
forced to spend three days for having sail
ed from the infected port of Vera Cruz.
JOHN WALRUFF, brewer, of Lawrence,
Kan, will try in the United States Su-
preme Court the constitutionality of the
new prohibition law of the State. He has
the financial backing of the National
Brewers Association.
So rapid is the progress of the Northern
Pacific road that t IS expected that by the
end of the year the track-layers will reach
Pompey's Pillar, on the Yellowstone.
Fourteen surveying parties are in the field
on the Rocky mountain division.
HOWARD CARROLL, a New York Jour
nalist, was married to a daughter of Hon.
John II. Starin, of Fultonville, n. Y.
Presents were received from President
Garfield, Vice President Arthur, and ex-
Senators Conkling and Platt.
Gov. PILLsBURY, of Minnesota, has is
sued an order that applications for par
dons must be accompanied by recon-
mendation from the judge and prosecuting
attorney who tried the prisoner, as we'll as
by petition from at least two-thirds of
the Jun ors who convicted him.
y Mrs. MORGAN, of New York. has sued
her physician for $25, 900 damages, on &C
count of injury to her physical condition,
resulting from the improper administra-
tlon of nux vomica. The evidence in the
case is of a sensational and prurient char
acter.
A CONVENTION of representative colored
men of North Carolina was held at Ra-
leigh, at which the white republicans were
denounced, and strong resolutions were
passed asking recognition from the ad-
ministratiOn. A committee was appoint
ed TO carry the resolution on to Wash
ington.
The committee of the New York Legis-
lature which has been investigating as to
the terminal facilities in New York CITY,
report that they are utterly inadequate to
the demands of commerce, and should be
increased, but fails to point out the ways
and means by which that increase is to be
effected.
DURING the fist four days of this week
9200 immigrants have arrived at Castle
Garden, and 41.611 have arrived so far this
month. 1t is expected that the arrivals
for the entire month will exceed 10000,
and may exceed the arrivals during the
entire year of 1875, when they reached
5000. The arrivals thus far this year
are more than double those sf the year
1877.
THE London Standard severely criticises
the revised version of the New Testament.
1t is claimed that the revisers ''have so re-
vised the noblest book in the English Ian
guage as to deprive it of much of its beau
ty, and they have destroyed many of its
historical associations"
Young ladies are forming archery
clubs for the purpose of drawing bows.