Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-01-13
GENERAL NOTES.

THE authorities of Caldwell, Kan,
have given Payne's raiders provisions and
forage for thirty days.
| The pews Of Plymouth church, Brook,
lyn, were sold at auction, Jan. ), realizing
$42, 1862.
AUGUSTA Ga, is enjoying fine sleigh
ing, for the first time in quarter of a
century.
THE appointment of Don Cameron as
secretary of war in the new cabinet is pre-
| dicted by Senator Burnside.
Col. ISRAEL FoDGEs, of the 1st artil-
lery, has been retired. at his own request,
after forty years service.
THE message of Governor Foster an
nounces that the funded debt of Ohio ag-
gregates Sc, ,476,605, of which two-thirds is
payable in July next.
| THE president has nominated Nathan
Goff, Jr, of West Virginia, to be secretary
of the navy, and he has been confirmed bv
the senate.
THE friends of w. P. Frye have with
drawn his name from the senatorial con-
test in Maine, and rendered their votes to
Eugene Hale Mr.. Frye will be quite con-
tent to fill Blaine's vacant seat after
March f.
THE republican legislators of California
have selected General John F. Miller for
the United States senatorship, Newton
Booth receiving five votes.
DEER searching for food have been easi-
lY caught near dwellings in the rural re-
gion of Virginia, and birds are found fro
zen in the fields.
The Manitoba wave vented its range on
northern Mexico, last month. The cotton
crop of Darango is thought to have been
DESTROYED.
THE Milwaukee driving park assoeia-
tion has leased its grounds to J. w. Dun
bar, who will arrange for meetings in
June and September.
An investigation of the congressional
greenhouse develops the fact that $l4,8OO
of government funds was paid last year,
for labor and incidentals
THE state legislature of New York met
Jan. 5. General George H. Sharpe, re-
publican, was elected speaker. Erastus
Brooks received the votes of the demo-
Gratis.
CARDS are out, at Washington, for the
wedding of Dwight K. Tripp, Of Chicago,
and Miss Cassie Williamson, daughter of
the commissioner of the land office.
SURPRISE will be created by the an
nOuncement that Gen. Ben Butler declines
to act as counsel for ex-senator Sprague
in the divorce case, but will accept re-
tainer in the civil suit against his cred
itOrs.
u. q. SANBORN, general freight and
ticket agent of the Northern Pacific road,
has rendered his resignation. 1t is rumor-
ed that }. W. Bishop, general manager of
the Chicago, st, Paul and Omaha road, is
to give up his place.
A MOVEMENT to have General Mcdowell
made secretary of war in the new cabinet
is being made by Leland Stanford. Charles
Crocker, and other Californians.
WITH the provision that 81, 100000 shall
be raised in New York for the worlds fair
the Central railroad has subscribed $3.50
600. Grant, Tilden and Vanderbilt are
mentioned for the presidency of the COM
mission.
IN asking for an additional half million
dollars to complete the census, Gen.
Walker reviews the rise in prices and
wages since the commencement of the
work, and reiterates his desire to make the
tenth census an almost perfect inventory
of the industrial, social and vital condi-
ton of the people of the United States.
Mrs. HARRIET n. COOPER, colored
woman, died at Cheltenham, one of the
suburbs of St. Louis, on New Years day,
aged one hundred and fifteen years. She
weighed four hundred pounds. Mrs. Coop
er was mother of twenty-five children, the
youngest of whom is e2 years old. Her
husband is one hundred years old and still
living.
The first biennial session of the Penn
sylvania legislature was held Jan. 5. The
republican caucus nominees were elected
officers. In the senate, a sensation was
caused by E. B. Coke, democrat, from Lu-
zerne county, declining to take the Iron
clad" oath. He made long statement,
showing that he had used money in secur-
ing his own election, and therefore could
not conscientiously allow himself to be
sworn in.
THE marriage of Governor-elect Porter,
of Indiana, to Miss Stone, sister Of Gen. r.
Stone and daughter of a late prominent
resident of Chatauqua county, took place
JAM 6 at the residence of Walter S. Garn-
er, uncle of the bride. The ceremony was
performered By the Rev. John Freeman,
of Lockport, n Y The wedding was pri-
vate and only few of the relatives pres
ent among whom were Albert and Annie
Porter, SON and daughter of the bride
groom. The couple left for Indianapolis
via the Pennsylvania railroad.