Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-10-20
IN A NUTSHELL.

tyPnolu dysentery, and Is not expected
to live.
Preston Powers bust of the poet
Whittier has been placed in the art
room of the Boston public library. 1t
was bought by the subscriptions of over
100 persons
Hon. Alexander Ramsey and Hon.
w. d. Washburn will represent the
state OF Minnesota at the Yorktown CEN
tennial celebration, by gubernatorial
appointment
Furmer Dickens, nephew of the
great novelist, Charlie Dickens, was
elected a deacon of the Methodist
church, by the Rock river conference,
at Sycmore, on Saturday.
DR.. Robert Young, Of England, the
author OF the Analytical Concordance
to the Bible, has written to his pub
fishers in New York, stating that MS
physicians have ordered him to abstain
from al literary labor for one year.
Miss Carrie Hayes. of Forest City,
Me-, is seventeen years old and weighs
1929 pounds. The weighty distinction
is claimed for her that she is the hea-
lest girl of her age in Aroostock coun-
ty.
Mr.. Aldrich, the new United States
senator from Rhode Island, is a very
prominent member of the Masonic fra
ternity, and is past grand commander
of the Grand Commandery of Knights
Templar of Massachusetts and Rhode
Island.
If Mrs. Christiancy's statements are
true, the ex-iudge, ex-senator, and ex-
minister to Peru was a valiant man
when in combat with his wife. If she
speaks the truth, on two occasions he
achieved decided victory by knocking
her down.
The unmarried women of America
may now breathe easier. The much
married fellow, Marvin, of Richmond,
with many aliases, who went about the
country like a cooling dove, marrying
every giddy woman who would have
him, has been sent to prison for ten
years for bigamy.
Mr.. Burton c. Ingersoll, son of Dr.
John Ingersoll, of Waukesha, Wis, and
nephew of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, re-
Gently rescued a child from drowning
at Long Beach, Long Island. The
parents of the child presented him an
elegant gold watch as an evidence of
their gratitude.
Miss Jean Ingelow ordered two vol
umes of her poems to be sent to Presi-
dent Garfield during his illness, with
her "kind regards and sympathy"
| They reached Washington after his
death, and have been forwarded to his
widow at Mentor
The venerable ex-Gov. Inland Hall
is reported as having said at the Gar
| field memorial meeting in Bennington,
VT: II heard the announcements of
the deaths Of all the deceased presi-
dents at the time they occurred, begin
ming with that of Washington and end
ing with that of Garfield, whom we
mourn to-day"
The third-class cadet midshipmen at
the United States Naval Academy, at
Annapolis, Md, who were sent on the
Santee for refusing to make adisclosure
in regard to the hazing Sunday night,
have signed a pledge not to again haze,
and have been returned to the acade-
my.
A bartender in beer saloon in Pitts
burgh, Pa., whose linguistic and must
cal bilities have been the surprise of
| topers, turns out to be none other than
a German Prince-Prince Salm Salm.
His family is said to be one of the
wealthiest and most noble in Germany
Charles PARCEL, 60 years of age, and
q cook in the boarding hall of Coe
College, at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has
just received the official notification,
which was also the first intimation of
the fact, that his stepmother has left
him $4,000, portion of it being in
New York, and part in Germany. He
| has always been a poor man, and &C
| Cepts the fortune with thanks.
The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher sym
pathizes with the Rev. DR.. Thomas. In
his sermon in Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, yesterday, he said:
at is an injury to the church to try
to suppress free thought. [ love the
Methodist Church for the grand work
it has done, but when I see an import
ant gathering like that meeting in the
West to cast out a man like the Rev
DIR. Thomas, free proclaimer of the
truth that > revealed to him, man of
sweet nature, of fragrant piety, of peace
and purity; when they cast out such a
man, | say they have cast out an angel
to let in devil. A church which can
not hold pure, noble, Christian man.
is not fit to live, and call itself a Chris
tian church. If it puts the thumbscrews
on men and racks them for moral pur-
poses, it is no church of Christ. No man
owes anything to the church, but the
church owes all to him. as the mother
to the babe on her breast. Woe to the
time when men Of action ard thought