Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-02-02
IN A NUTSHELL.

Rev. DR.. Fowler says the man who
at baptism does not go deep enough
into the water to get his pocket book
under has not been dipped enough to
save him.
Alexander Mitchell, the President of
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Railroad, is the heaviest Taxpayer in
Milwaukee. Last year he paid $24, 900;
this year $4,000.
In the international skating contest
at Vienna, just ended, Cretis, of New
York, was defeated. Come home, Cur
tbs; the Cornell crew will sympathize
with you.
Clara Louisie Kellogg got vaccinated
the other day, mot on the arm," as
she declares, and she is little lame in
consequence. Besides. she has bad
cold, and for that reason was unable to
appear at Rochester few nights ago.
"Perley" writes from Washington to
the Boston Journal "Mrs Nellie Grant
Sartoris is enjoying the germans after
former English life, but she somewhat
Mortified the ladies at the last one
given by the Bachelors club by appear
ing in red kid gloves"
General and Ex-Governor Cox, of
Ohio, says: II have always defended
the loyalty of Mcclellan and his sub
ordlnates, but to say that Fitz Jonn
Forter's conduct on the Goth of August,
'62, was the ideal of excellence, is one
of those things which, as we say, takes
ones breath away"
Mr.. Francis Wise, distiller, and the
richest man in Ireland, has just died.
He left no will to dispose of his wealth,
which amounts to $15,000,000. A rea-
sonable share of this is in American
securities.
James Wyllie, the Scotch champion
checker player, is astonishing the
checker-p players at Coldwater, Mich.
he played ninety-four games with the
local players, and was beaten but twice
Miss Emma Haskins and A. L. Buck
being the successful ones.
Mr.. Enoch Pratt, a we'll known re-
publican and capitalist of Baltimore,
Md, proposes to build a public library
for $225,000, and spend 1888, 900 tor
books, if the city will give $4,000 a
year forever for its support.
General Joshua L. Chamberlain, of
Maine, who is now i'll Florida, has
bought an orange grove, and it is said
that party of capitalists are urging
him to resign the Presidency of Bow
doin College, and take charge of their
property in Florida.
Senators Malone and Riddleberger,
of Virginia, have been formally invited
by the governor of Massachusetts, to
visit Boston on Washington's birthday
the 22d of February. The invitation
promises the Virginians boundless hos
pitality, and it is signed, moreover. by
four ex-governors of the state.
1t is reported that the celebrated
twins, Garfield and Arthur, of Gilbert's
Mills, near Oswego, n. Y, are very i'll
of congestion of the lungs. They are
extremely beautiful little fellows, al
most exactly alike, and not one of the
family has been able to tell them apart
except by marks that are kept on their
clothing
A Scotch correspondent writes of the
work of Moody and Sankey, in Edin-
burgh "The labors of the evangelists
among the lapsed masses of the city
are being crowned with manifest tokens
Of success. Day after day thousands
of people assembled in the Corn Elk
change, many Of them men and women
who have been leading hopeless and
wicked lives, and who were perfect
| strangers to religious services.