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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16
CRIME.

THE man charged with an attempt on
the life of Justice Lawson, of Dublin,
proves to be Pat. Delaney, who was once
sentenced to seven years penal servitude
for highway robbery and firing upon an
officer.
OFFICER GROVE, of Brooklyn, in at
tempting to disperse a crowd of Italians,
was assaulted with sticks and stones, and
was compelled to shoot one of the rioters
in the side.
RRvENUE officers in New York have ar
rested Geo. D. Bayard and Gustave F.
Perremond, liquor-dealers of that city,
and J. III. Busted, diatiller of Westfeld
Mass, for defrauding the revenue by using
stamps the second time.
AT meeting of the higher Mormon
priesthood after the late conference,
President Taylor gave instructions that
bishops and councillors can only hold their
position by becoming polygamists One
apostle has lately complied with the
order, but another resigned his Office.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16
A GeOrgian's Suit.

In 1864, while Gen. Sherman was
passing through this section, the Kings,
wealthy family of Roswell, owned
factory worth about $50, 900. In order
to keep Sherman from burning it, they
transferred it without consid r.tion to
Theophile Roche, a Freedman en-
ployed in the factory, whereupon the
Frenchman raised the French flag
upon the property and claimed protec-
ton under it. Sherman disregarded
the flag and burnt down the factory
and put Roche under arrest. Roche
now sues the United States for $50, 900
and interest, damages for destruction
of property, and $4,000 damages for
his arrest and imprisonment, interest
and all aggregating about $125 900. C.
J. Jenkins, attorney at law, has been
appointed commissioner, before whom
the testimony In the case will be taken
at Atlanta.-Aatgusta Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16
LATER FROM ELECTION
Complete Returns Showing
the Results of the Late
Elections.
The Tidal wave was Larger
than First Expected.
The Facts in a Nutshell as Re
vealed by States
Telegraphic Totals.

Packed in a nutshell, the general re-
suits of the congressional and legis-
lative elections in states voting on
Tuesday, the TIN inst, are as follows:
Grover Cleveland, democrat, of New
York, has a majority over Secretary
Folger, republican, of about 205 ,000-a
larger majority than ever given can
didate in any state election since the
formation of the republic. In Pennsyl-
vania, the plurality of Pattison, demo
crat, for governor, is 81 900. Ben Butler,
nominee of the democrats for COVER
nor of Massachusetts, goes in with
1882 majority. Hale, the republi-
can candidate for governor of New
Hampshire, at first reported defeated,
has majority of $50. The democrats
of Delaware elect Stockley governor
by ], ,5S5 majority, while Waller demo-
cratic candidate for governor of Con-
necticut, goes in with q majority of
4, 400. In Michigan, David Fl. Jerome,
republican, was beaten for governor
by ]. w. Begole, (dem. by about 5000,
but the remainder of the republican
state ticket was successful. Indiana
gave the democratic candidates fer
state officers an average majority of
10000. Illinois has elected the repub-
ican ticket by about 5000 majority.
George w. Click, democrat, beat ST.
John for governor of Kansas by nearly
10000, but the other republican candi-
dates were elected. In Colorado, Jas.
B. Grant, democrat, was elected COVER
nor by 5000. Nevada chose demo-
crat governor and republican congress
man, and Nebraska chose q republi-
can governor by q majority of 1900,
electing also its full republican state
ticket. The majority for General
Stoneman, democrat candidate for
governor of California, is 1900. Iowa
elected Hull secretary of state by 30,-
900 majority over tie democrats. Thus
much of general results on state tickets
subordinate candidates on the
tickets faring, save where otherwise
noted, as did the heads of the ticket.
Aside from the uniform and sweep
ing democratic victories, two notable
results of the congressional contests
were the election in Virginia, by 5000
majority, of John S. Wise, Mahone's
candidate for at-large, and
the defeat of Robson, of New jersey.
The table here appended will give the
result of the congressional election and
show perfectly the political compelxion
of the popular branch of the forty
eighth congress:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16
International Rifle Matches.

Pursuant to resolution adopted by
the National Rife Association. Mr..
George ]. Seabury, its Secretary, has
forwarded letter to the Council of
the National Rifle Association of Great
Britain, in relation of the proposed
return rifle match next year. After
com plimenting the Britisherg on their
victory at Creedmoor, it qualities the
compliment by mentioning the advan-
tsge under which the visitors shot, ahd
declares the object of the match to
be the creating of friendly rivalry and
the bringing of the military rife to
perfection. Particular stress is laid
upon the American success in shoot
ng with the sporting rife as opposed
o their failure with the military weap-
on, and request is made that the
time of enlistments be extended to
Jan. 1, 1888. The privilege to use the
Eind-gauge is also requested.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16
American Fables.

A parrot who lived next door to
nightingale one day rushed over and
rang the bell and called out:
"For heavens sakel do ask your
children to stop that noise"
"What noise?
"Why, that internal chattering and
shrieking in your back yard. People
talk about the sweet song of the night
ingale, but in truth it is enough to
drive one insane. [ demand that you
keep your children still"
"But | have no children"
"Well, who is it making such noise
behind the house?'
"Beg pardon, but the noise is in your
own yard"
"Then what business have nightin-
gales on the premises ?"
"The racket is caused by your own
children, Mrs. Parrot"
Indeed, so it is; but if you didn't
live next door they wouldn't act so."
"You forget that | had lived here for
years when you came into the neigh
borhood."
: "Yes; but / didn't think you would
bC 81 tOdChJ 1OOIo a VI lDlllS
"Let me tell you had not even no
ticed the noise until you came over
here to complain"
"Oh, WE'LL" snapped the parrot as she
turned away, eff you are bound to pick
a fuss with me because the voice of
parrot is sweeter than that of night
ingale, you will certainly find some ex-
cuse to do SO, and | might as well save
my breath"
Moral.-If you are O parrot, never
get among nightingales, unless you
banker to be abused.
THE HAWK AND THE HEN.
a fsh-hawk who had way of
throwing three cards about in a dex-
trous manner, one day met hen and
invited her to bet on his game.
"But don't understand it."
"Why, all there is about il, throw
the three cards SO, and so, and SO, and
you bet, for instance, that you pick up
the ace of spades"
"I don't want to take your money"
said the hen.
Oh, as to that, you are quite well
CONS"
"Well, here's an x that 1 pick up an
ace"
The hawk smiled as he thought how
easy it was to throw snuff in the hens
eyes, but 10! Biddy picked up the ace
she had named, and raked in the gu
gar.
"I'll be hanged film not discouraged
trying to earn an honest living" cried
the hawk, thowing down the cards in
disgust; and he thereupon not only
turned robber, but he ate the hen to
boot.
Moral.-Never discourage thrift and
integrity by taking money from
three card monte player-M Quad.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16

The will of Miss Barbara Scott, a
wretched old woman who inherited
several fortunes and increased them
by every means which her misery in
stincts could devise, has been upheld
by the superior court in Montreal.
McGill university gets $4,000, and va
rious hospitals, churches, and charit-
able institutions receive the rest. For
years before her death she lived isolat-
ed in the old family mansion in the
suburbs of the city, until the dirt and
filth became so intolerable that the
board of health was forced to interfere.
She refused even to employ a female
domestic, but allowed an old man to
visit the house daily to do chores. She
died without any attendant, and, when
the executors took possession, thou
sands of dollars were found rolled up in
scraps of old paper. Not the least
remnant of food was discovered IN the
house, and the doctors thought she
starved herself to death. The relatives,
who were practically ignored tried to
break the will on the ground of insani-
ty, but the court held that the testatrix
was of imposing mind though eccentric.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16
HUMOROUS.

Fair weather makes corn; foul wealth
er makes 'em ache.
When does 8 clock conceal itself
When it gets behind time.
Say, for instance, a dog loses his paw
and a rooster loses Its NAV, does it make
orphans of them?
Philadelphia citizens are very vel
liked at home, judging from the reward
offered for their return when they leave
the city
The Cars version of the familiar
hymn would be:
I'm going home, I'm going home
I'm going home to dynamite"
Twice within the last week, says a
western contemporary, temperance
audience in Oskaloosa, Iowa, have been
disappointed by total abstinence lectur-
ers, who were too drunk to lecture.
A subscriber wrote to an editor in the
west: II don't want your paper any
longer" To which the editor replied
II would not make it any longer even
If you did; its present length just suits
me-"
'Marmion" has been voted out of the
Ontario public schools as an immoral
poem. Probably a book-publisher in
that region who had lot of copies he
desired to sell contrived to influence
the school authorities.
An advertisement in a western paper
offers a fashionable" piano for sale.
Mrs. Yeast was at loss to know what
a fashionable piano really was, but she
has come to the conclusion that it must
be one that is banged"
"What station is this?" asked lady
passenger of an English tourist near by.
Looking out of the Window and reading
sign on the fence, he replied, "Rough
on Rats, guess, num-"
Statistics are fine things. When man
gets smashed up on the railroad it must
be great consolation for him to reflect
that on the average only one passenger
IN several millions gets hurt.
Mrs. McCoble, an Austin lady, rebuk-
ed her colored cook, Matilda SNOWFALL,
in the following words "When I hired
you, you said you didn't have any male
friends, and now find man in the
kitchen half the time" "Lor' bress
your soul, he amt no male friend of
mine" who is he, then?" "He am
only my husband"
Professor Swing characterizes the
salvation Army" in England as brio a.
brac in religion-a harmonious blend
ing of the clergyman and Oscar Wilde"
Ex-Governor Fenton has just resign
ed the Office of Village Trustee OF
jamestown, N. Y, in the expectation
Of being absent from the town for sew
eral months.
Mr.. Thurlow Weeds condition con-
tinues much the same. He rests COM
fortably, being free from pain, but feels
very weak through inability to partake
of sufficient nourishment.
Father Chiniquy the well-khown
French Canadian Protestant and mis-
sionary, has left Springfield, Mass, for
Chicago, where be will deliver q few
lectures. He then expects to go to Eng
land for a month or two,
The first Congregational church, Col
umbus, O., has extended unanimous
call to Rev. Washington GLADDEN., LII.
D., of Springfield, Mass. to become its
pastor, and confdentially believes that
he will accept.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16
GENERAL NOTES.

SENATOR HoA2 is 10 be succeeded by
Governor Long, whose seat in congress
will fall 10 Lieutenant Governor Ames.
The revenue cutter Corwin destroyed
an Indian village on the coast of Alaska,
on Saturday, where the warriors had
seized steam launch and made prisone RS
of two white men.
GIN. ORD failed in his effort with Pres
ident Gonzales for the amalgamation of
the Mexican Southern road with the Ori-
entail. Jay Gould will secure a modif-
cation of the Oriental grant in regard
to the forfeiture of the concession, and re-
commence work.
THE defeat of Horace T. Page, repub.
lican, in the Second district of California,
is now assured. Michigan has chosen six
democratic congressman, Wisconsin six,
Iowa four, and Illinois ten. The demo
Gratis gain four congressman in Indiana.
The legislatures of Illinois and Wisconsin
will on Joint ballot be anti-republican.
New Mexico has elected Tranquilina
Luna, republican, delegate in congress.
Cleveland's majority in New York is now
estimated at 10000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16

THE first purchase of California red
wood timber lands for eastern account
by Buffalo syndicate during the past
summer has created demand among
local capitalists, who have recently
bought about seven thousand acres on
Eel river, Humboldt county, known as
the Ralsten tract. The price paid is re-
ported at 100000. This syndicate pro-
poses to build a railway from the tract
to tide-water at Humboldt bay, q dis
tance of some twenty miles. Prominent
lumber men of Chicago and Detroit
have had representatives in California
at various times during the past year,
with view of ultimately using red
wood for finising- work in place of white
nine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

Two deaths by yellow fever and nine
new cases are reported from Pensacola.
TEE wooden railroad bridge acro5s the
Susquehanna river at Great Bend was
burned Tuesday.
A LOSS of 100000 was caused at To-
ronto, Saturday, by the burning of the
storehouse of the Hamilton and Western
railway.
A PANIC was created in the St. Law
renee Catholic church, New York. by
the falling of portion of the ceiling.
three women fainting, but no one being
seriously injured.
JOHN O'CoNNoR, formerly Catholic
priest, attempted to lecture in a public
hall in Toledo, but so loud were the
threats to kill him that he was taken to
the station by the police, followed by
over 1000 persons, one of whom hit him
with stone.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16
The Famous India Jugglers.

A Hindoo, lecturing in Brooklyn, said
of the famous India jugglera: 'They
can swallow a chain and make it clink
in their stomach, and also can swallow
a sword. The Magic trick is one of
their best feats. They procure small
piece Of wood, and having planted it in
the ground they ask the bystander what
fruit he would prefer The juggler,
wrapped in sheet, will crouch to the
earth, and through rent in the gar
ment one can see him cut himself with
a razor under his arms and rub a piece
of wood in his blood. The tree then
comes forth first as sprout, then full
of leaves, and finally bearing fruit"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16
FOREIGN.

a DAUGHTER made her appearance in
TIE royal household at Madrid.
As philanthropic measure, the gov
eminent of India is to institute agricultur-
al banks, to make loans to the posrer
classes at the maximum rate of II per
cent.
TIE Lyons socialists held a riotous
meeting Saturday night, in which the po-
lice, upon interfering to prevent trouble,
were pelted with mud and hustled about,
and cries of Long live social revolution!"
rent the air.
DUBLIN journals oppose the granting of
the freedom of that city to Gen. Wolsel ey =,
as on two distant occasions he expressed a
hearty willingness to lead an expedition
TO Ireland to quench insurrectionary
fires.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16
NO. 46.
AN ODD LITTLE INDUSTRY.
How the Oil sOf Wintergreen Is Dis
titled In the Forests of PennsyIvan-
Providence Journal.

Providence Journal
| The manufacture of oil of winter
green has some interesting features-in
fact, nothing from shoe peg to loco
motive is without details of more or
less interest to all readers. Just at this
time the essence of wintergreen is
very high-ss high as So
pound The oil of wintergreen comes
chiefly fron New York State and
Pennsylvania where the wintergreen
vines aud birch trees grow in abun-
dance. Wintergreen is a plant COM
mon IN nearly all parts of the country,
but not in every part do the inhabi-
tants therefore make the oil of winter
essence are under the surveillance of
the government.
The oil is made from wintergreen
when wintergreen is abundant. II it
is not plenty, birch is used. The plant
of an oitmaker consists of furnace
made of rough stones, boiler, a tin
pipe trough, a barrel and running
brook. The tin pipe leads from the
top of the boiler through the water in
the trough to barrel. Under the end
of the pipe is placed barrel and on
the end of the pipe in the tarrel is
hung glass jar. The boiler is filled
with water and birch bark and winter
green twigS. A fire is built, the steam
is forced through tin pipe, and is
condensed by the pipes passing
through the water in the trough. The
oil of wintergreen and the water fall
into the glass jar, but the oil being
heavier than the water, goes to the
bottom of the jar, while the water
runs over into the barrel aud is used
again.
The business is carried on in certain
seasons, both day and night, as the pot
must be kept boiling. The men who
work at this business make their
homes during the season in the forest
or field wherever the birch or winter
green is to be found. They enjoy s.n
all-season picnic unless the Internal
Revenue Collector "drop down" upon
them, as he has done upon many, and
collects $50 for every still-like appara-
tus he finds. 1t is supposed that some
of the rude affairs for condensing,
which the government calls stills are
so concealed in the forest that the col
lector does not find them. The man
ufacturers dispose of it (the oil to
apothecaries for about 81 pound,
who after diluting with alcohol, sell it
to confectloners and others at the
usual apothecaries' profit.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16

The skeleton of a fulI-grown masto-
don has been found in the Cowee tun-
mel, ON the Duckland branch of the
Western North Carolina railroad.
When the monster was discovered the
convicts fed in terror, and it was by
hard work that they could be induced
to return to their picks. 1t was found
six feet below the surface of the earth.
It was in a perfect state of preserva-
ton, and crumbled to dust as soen as
exposed to the air.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16
A Circus ROmanee-The Fat Girl and
the Living Skeleton.

II want bundle OF old papers,"
"What do you want them for?"
swell, you see, after we get through
reading them, We feed them to the only
Egyptian Bovaltpus. to clear his voice,
besides the patent medicine advertise
ments in the papers purify his system
and prevent him from contracting the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16

IT is understood at Washington
that the United States Government will
be invited to select the President of the
international Commission, organized to
determine the value of property des-
troyed at Alexandria during the late
war in Egypt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16

RUFUS HATCH, the wall street 'bear,
says he has 'the figures to prove the
assertion, taken from the books of the
New York stock exchange, which show
that since last New Years day $780,,
100000 worth of railroad securities
have been listed on that institution. OF
these over $1O0,OO0,OOO have been listed
within the past three weeks, and $751;
100000 were listed in a single week.
This was at the average rate of s9,6OO,-
900 a week up to October 16. The total
amount put on the list since January,
1880, is about s1OOO,O0O,OOO" Uncle
Rufus sees danger in this enormous ad-
dition to the list of exchange securi-
ties.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16

Workmen are now digging trenches
around the open space in front of the
old Second Reformed church, Albany,
n. Y, for an extension to the market
which now occupies the site, and their
spades are throwing up from day to
day the bones of ancient Knickerbock-
ers who were laid to rest more than q
century ago in what was then q peace
ful graveyard. There relics of the col
onial period are carefully preserved
and will be reburied when the work is
done.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16
IF Marty Dead

after taking some highly pufed up stuff, with
long testimonials turn to Hop Bitters, and have
no fear OF any Kidney or Urinary Troubles,
Bright's Disease, Diabetes or Liver Complaint.
These diseases cannot resist the curative power of
Hop Bitters; besides it is the best family medi-
cine ON earth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16

The negros of Buckingham county,
Va, have forcibly taken possession of
the colored schools taught by whites,
and refuse to let them be continued
unless colored teachers are employed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16
VOL XIV.

The dedication of st. Michael ceme-
terry makes the tenth burying- ground
for Louisville; the Eastern cemetery,
with thirty thousand graves, has the
most buried.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16

Robinson latter long whist bout at
the club)-It is awfully late, Brown.
What will you say to yoir wife?
Brown lin a Whisper oh, l shan't say
much, you know. "Good morning dear,
or something of that sort. She'll say
the rest.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16

The Washington city savings bank,
which suspended in 1873, owing 81
100000 to depositors, has just paid its
last dividend, making dollar for dollar
rastored
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16

SEVERAL white men of Anderson
county, Kentucky, induced an old ne
gro named San Bohannon to drink q
pint of cheap whisky at one drink He
did so, and died.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16

ABOUT mile north of Newport, VT,
the line of the Southeastern railroad
runs through the farm of Thomas
Farrant, who claims that he has never
been paid for the damage done his
farm by the road. Therefore, week
ago, when the company began to set
posts for a wire fence along the line,
encroaching, as he claims, still further
upon his land, ne sent his men to cut
down the posts. This continued for
three days, until the corporation was
obliged to withdraw the men, for the
present at least.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16

Milwaukee claims to have the largest
brewery on this continent, and the sec
ond largest In the world. This estab-
lishment turns out 100000 barrels of
beer per annum.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-16
The State Elections.

The state elections on Tuesday re-
suited as follows:
DEMOCRATIC California, Colorado,
Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Kan
sas, Massachusetts,, Michigan, Wiscon-
sin, Missouri, Nevada, New York Una
Iority 100000, North Carolina, Penn
sylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee
and Texas.
Observation-Disclosures, Iowa, Mime
sofa, Nebraska and New Hampshire.
In some other states part of the re-
publican ticket was elected.