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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12

surface. Why did it not come down?
Could it be always falling and never
come down? That seemed impossible.
1t was always falling, but it had q
motion perpendicular to the direction
IN which it was falling, and the result
of continual falling was simply a
change of direction of its motion. That
was simply the dynsmical theory of
centrifugal force. If stone were
thrown horizontally it descended in
parabola, the stone falling away from
the line in which it was thrown; so it
was with the moon. 1t was seen always
to be falling from the present direction
and from the further altered line, aud
so 1t might be always falling and never
coming down. The parts of the moon
nearest the earth was falling most
rapidly, the parts further from the
ea1tn least rapidly. Each preserved
constant distance, or very nearly con-
slant distance, from the common CEN
ter of gravity of the two. The earth
experienced according to its mass
force depending on the average dis
tance. The result clearly was, then,
tendency toward the moon and from
the moon, and thus, in necessarily
manner, he had explained
how it was that the waters were net
heaped upon the eide next the moon,
but were drawn up toward the moon,
and fell away from the moon, SO as to
tend to form an oval figure.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12
The Cost of Special Cars

The passage over the various rail
road lines of so many Special" or
in other words, Pullman and other
private cars chartered by persons of
endless means or extensive influence,
Is so common an occurrence that the
following information in regard to the
charges for car, including services
of conductor, porter, cook and two
walters, will be interesting: The Pull
man company charges $50 "a day for
the use of car, which includes the
services of a conductor, cook and two
walters. Besides that, person hiring
the Car must buy eighteen full tickets
OF the railroad line over which the car
passes for hauling it. The Car is usu-
ally attached to q regular train, and if
q special engine is secured, which is
rarely the case, the cost is greatly in
creased. Provisions and liquors are
supplied by the Pullman company at
cost, or the person to whom the Car is
let may stock 1t himself. Sleeping cars
are let at the rate of $65 per day, in
cluding conductor and porter; and
hotel cars are $75 day, including q
conductor, cook and two walters. The
Pullman company has also two hunt
ing and fishing cars, one is named the
Davy Crockett, and the other Izaak
Walton. The charge Tor the cars is
$s5 day, which includes cook and
waiter for each These cars are pro-
vided with kennels for dogs
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12
FOREIGN

CHOLERA is epidemic in parts of Borneo
and Sumatra.
FIRE at Smyrna caused loss of .s70,-
600.
THERE is no fear of trouble between
Brazil and the Argentine Republic.
INsURGRNT Arabs attacked a French
outpost on the Algerian border.
THE Suez canal is to be improved and
enlarged.
The Turkeslan GaseRe states that the
Afghan troops have revolted against the
Ameer.
In consequence Of the failure of the
council to sell bills, business in silver is
completely disorganized.
ARRANGEMENTS have been completed for
two lines of steamers TO run between
Boston and Antwerp and Rio Janeiro,
Brazil.
The revenue receipts ef many prov
inces of Spain have exceeded the expen-
ditures.
JkwIsH families to the number of 800
have left Pressburg, Austria. on accou Mt of
the riots.
ENGLISH legal assistance will be useless
to Arab Pasha, aC the pleading before the
court-martial will be made in Arabic.
TERRIFIC lightning and rain stroms, ac-
companied by slight shocks of earthquake,
occurred on the Isthmus during the last
days of September.
A NUMBER of non-commissioned officers
OF the India regiments are to be brought
from Egypt to England in order that
| Queen Victoria may present them with
war medals.
DR.. GEORGE A. WARD, once professor
in Yale college, who went to Peru with
| Henry Meiggs and become medical super
| intendest of his works, died in that coun-
try recently.
| ARABI PAshA says he would never have
undertaken the war if he had supposed
England would send an army to suppos
the khedive. He praises the treatment
shown the prisoners and the wounded by
the British troops.
| THE Paris Figaro publishes a report
that the Pope, while walking in the gar.
dens of V atican, was fired at by soldier
but not hit. The report has not yet been
confirmed, and is discredited at the tall
an Embassy in London.
SENIOR YGLEsIs, Peruvian minister Of
war under Pierols, has announced his op
position to the provisional government Of
! Calderon and Montero. The latter hal
| formed new cabinet at Areqsipa. Gen,
Patricio Lynch h rs increased the expor
and import duties on all merchandise 81
per cent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE Hughson wagon-works in SYRIA
cuse, New York, valued at $4,000, we've
burned Saturday.
The ades-assembly of Milwaukee,
after Sunday session Of five hours, nomi-
mated a full county ticket, headed by
John Bently for sheriff
THREE children were burned to death at
Goodwater, Ga, during the absence of
their parents.
NELSON w. WILLING veteran manu-
facturer of Millbury, Massachusetts, has
suspended, with liabilities of $91 900.
A TRAIN on the Midland & Northern
railroad was derailed at Goldsborro n.
C. One man was killed and several pas
sengers injured.
A COLLISION Of passenger trains at
Salem, Kansas. caused the infiction Of
serious injuries on several persons and
the destruction of both engines.
THE American ship Hagarstown, on
her way from New York to San Francis
co. encountered severe gale on her voy-
age. A number of the crew were in niured
by falling spars.
FORTY THOUSAND Bostonians were on
the l1th carried over the rival roads to
IF1n III uN6 CShto ShShs LAAC bl6OlhCItf
conduct of the people made the Lynn
people wish that the war of rates was
over.
GEORGE AMEs, nephew of the late
Bishop Ames and brother Of Mrs. Wind.
sor. state librarian, who jumped out of a
four-story window in Richmond, Ind,
last week while insane, cannot recover.
4 MISPLACED switch near Muskogee, In
dian territory. sent freight-train into a
ditch. Engineer Spiar was crushed to a
| jelly, and Fireman Walker had both legs
severed from his body.
| A COMMISSION of experts reports in fa-
vor of removing the vaulted stone ceiling
in the assembly chamber at Albany and
replacing it with wood. The change will
cost 5000, 900, but is to be made.
Dr.. JAMES A. MULLEN, a prominent
| physician Of Baltimore, died Sunday from
a disease in the head and neck. caused
from the wound of a poisonous arrow re-
ceived in a fight with Indians some years
ago.
I A PASSENGER train on the Memphis and
| Charleston railroad was thrown down an
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12
Mother-in-Law I'm India.

London Daily Telegraph.
That the youthful wife or wives OF
the budding Hindoo are very much
under the personal jurisdiction of their
mother-ln-law has always been regard
ed as peculiar fact in Indian sociology;
but the appalling consequences which
result from this arrangement have
rarely been brought to light in so forci-
bic manner as in case of female
suicide which has recently been the
subject of inquiry in Bombay. 1t was
proved that the girl, almost a child in
age, who had committed the dread act
of self-destruction, had been driven 10
it by the persistent persecution she had
undergone at the ruthless hands of her
husba nd's mother ever since her mar
riage. In directing the jury the coroner
stated the remarkable fact that by far
the largest number of female Hindoo
suicides are those of women between
the ages of twelve and twenty; and it is
beyond question that the cause which
impels these hapless maidens to put an
end to their existence, just when at an
age to reap most enjoyment from it, is
in nearly every case the organized des-
potism of the mother-nl-law in the IN
terror of the zenana.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12
What AZ g the Tides 2

Sir W. Thomas, in a recent address
found some difficulty in explaining the
tides, which he defined as the motions
of water on the earth, due to the at
traction of sun and moon. There were
places where lunar tides vanished alto
gether, and where there was only a
rise and fall once in the solar day, or
twice in the solar day. There were
places where the water rose and fell
according to the sun, and not accord
ing to the moon; but such functions
were modified by local causes. In the
theory of tides proper, there was also a
solar annual tide, and again solar
semi-annual tide. The first rough
view of the theory of the tide-generating
force was that the moon attracted the
waters of the earth toward herself, and
heaped them up on this side of the
earth. That was not so; it would be
so if the earth and moon were stuck
on two ends of strong bar and put
at rest in space, but there was no such
rigid bar.
Why did not the moon fall toward
the earth? According to Newton's
theory, the moon is always doing 80.
Newton compared the fall of the moon
with the fall of stone at the earth's
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12
NO. Al.

sounded, the women shrieked, and
many tainted; the men sprang up and
stood aghast, some ran, others fell and
cried for mercy, and ali felt for a time
that the judgment was set and the
books were opened. Dow stood and
watched the drifting storm till the
fright abated, and some one discovered
the colored angel who had caused the
alarm quietly perched on limb of the
old spruce, and wanted to get him down
to whip him. Then he resumed his
theme, saying: ST forbid all persons
present from touching that boy up
there. If 81 colored boy with a tin
horn can frighten you almost out of
your wits, what will you do when you
hear the trumpet thunder of the arch
angel? How will you be able to stand
IN the great day of the wrath of God?"
And this is the origin of the oft-times
heard expression, "When Gabriel blows
his horn"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12
TAKING THE BLACK VEIL,
Extraordinary Ceremonies at Liam
thOny Abbey "A Nun Placed in a cOf-
fin,

An extraordinary scene was witnessed
at Lianthony Abbey two or three Sun
days ago, when Father Ignatius admit
ed novice to the mysteries Of the
"Black Veil" Opposite the principal
shrine was black funeral bier, cover
ed with velvet'pall, with white cross
and with a huge candle-stick at each
corner. The novice knelt by its side.
After mass and sermo on, the "Father
Abbott" sat down in his chair by the
alter, arrayed in q gorgeous robe, en-
broidered with saints and angels, with
a richly-jeweled miter on his shaved
head and crozier in his hand. The
nuns in their grated gallery sang a
chant, while tho "Eathosn .sut of the
hair of the novice, two acolytes holding
towel to receive it. Then she was
clad in her nuns robes, with crimson
veil and a wreath of flowers, and after
variety of intricate ceremonies she
was placed on throne-like chair before
the altar, and the whole ofth" monks,
nuns. Sisters and acolytes p ostrated
themselves before her, and as they kiss
ed the hem of her garment she placed
her hands on their heads. After the
procession she was laid on the bier and
covered with the pail, and the Abbott
and acolytes came forward in mag
pie-like costume of black and white,
the Father with high, sculcap-like
linen miter on his head. Then the
funeral service was chanted, and the
monks bore away bier and nun behind
the grating
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12
CRIME.

II. G. MEAD, of Waupaca. Wis, was
murdered in bank robbery which oc-
Cured at that place Saturday night.
JAS. RHODES was taken from Jail at
Charlottesville, Virginia, Sunday night,
and hanged to tree for the murder OF
the Massie family. He made confession
of his crime.
Two convict guards on a cotton planta-
ton south of Houston, Texas, named
Tower and Thomson. fought duel with
revolvers. Twelve shots were fired and
both fell dead.
NEAR Norwood Park, Illinois, Oct. 5,
a quarrel occurred at a well between a
servant girl and lad of eight years, when
the latter secured an Enfield rifle, and lit
orally blow her head to pieces.
BANK examiners ha We concluded the
examination of the Manufacturers Ma
tional Bank, of Troy, n. Y. The defal-
cation of Cashier Wells is said to be over
$31 900. The bank will lose nothing.
4, w. Ross, coal-dealer of Cincinnati,
who resided at Glendale, was murdered
A reward of 5000 has been offered for
the detection of the perpetrators.
THE committee which has been investi-
eating the Fenian skirmishing fund has
found sufficient evidence to send the trus-
tees to state prison, and adopted resolu-
ton applauding the Irish World for clos
ing its columns to the Land league. The
Buffalo Land league resolved to forward
$1,000 to Father Walsh, the national
treasurer.
A DAsTADRLY attempt at assassination
was made at Brownsville, Tenn, upon
the person OF William Capel who with
his wife and several children, was sitting
at a table. The assassin missed his mark,
but the bullet killed one of the children.
LEO PoLD FURRRR, president of the
board of supervisors at Fort Yuma, was
shot dead by William Douchy for refus-
ing to pay an alleged debt. The latter
was taken to tn g Arizona penitentiary 70 r
fear of lynching.
ANDREW EsENHARDT, a merchant at
Iberville, Q uebec, has followed his fourth
failure bv absconding to the United
States. He was formerly member of
parliament, and three times compromis-
ed at 25 per cent. His present liabilities
are 10000, and he is thought to have
carried away considerable amount.
AT What Cheer, Iowa, Mrs. Benjamin
| Williams shot dead a boarder named Alli-
son, whose attentions had caused her hus-
band to leave her, and then blew out her
own brains, leaving for her husband a let
ter conveying her regret for her course.
JEROME STEWART, young student of
the dental department of the University
of Pennsylvania, was arrested at Phila-
deldhia charged with being concerned in
the robbery of book and stationery store
at Jacksonville, ILL.,, last July. Stewart
denies the charge.
The Chattanooga, Tenn, county court
has increased the reward for the Taylor
brothers, who murdered Sheriff Cate and
his chief deputy two weeks ago. to 81 800
The total reward is now 81, 800. The
state will also increase its reward. The
Taylors are thought to be hiding in the
mountains seventy-fve miles north Of
| Chattanooga.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12

nomination for large
from New York, on the ground that a
large portion of the republicans are not
satisfied with the work of the convention.
AN important meeting of strawboard
manufacturers was held at Lima, O., to
regulate the prices and manufacture of
that article.
A PARTY comprising the elder Wander
bilt, his two sons, and his uncle, with
some SD ecial friends, have left New York
for Chicago, intending to spend two weeks
in an inspection of the roads controlled
by the family, going as far west as Denver
or Salt Lake.
The official report of the financial con-
dition Of the several New York state pris-
ons shows a surplus of net earnings OF
S6 2e9 for the past year, being 5,704 bet
ter than for any previous year in their
history.
STARCH manufacturers are in session at
Cincinnati with view of consolidating
their interests so as to reduce the cost of
production and sale. The conference has
not as yet decided on a definite plan of
action.
From fear of an injunction, the New
York. Chicago and St. Louis railroad
company KEEP three hundred men and
several locomotives at work on Sunday
night at Fort Wayne, filling in the chan
mel in the Wabash and Erie canal, leav-
ing only the box-fume of the City mills.
THK New York democratic ticket COM
plete is as follows: For governor, Grover
Cleveland, mayor of Buffalo; lieutenant
governor, David B. Hill, mayor of EI-
mira; an-at-large, Gen. Henry
w. Slocum; judge of the court of appeal,
VIM. G. Ruger. Thomas III. Patterson
was elected chairman of the state central
committee.
On aH agreed case, the prohibitory
amendment in Iowa is now before the
state supreme court of that state for final
adjudication. If the court should decide
the amendment valid, it will also give its
opinion as to whether the Same is now in
effect, or whether legislation is necessary
to carry it into effect. Should it decide
that such leg islation is necessary, the gov
ernor will at once convene the legislature
in special session to take the needse ac-
ton.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12

SoMETHING of the enormous proper
tions of the oil trade in the various ex-
changes of this country may be gath
cred from an inspection of the sales
and resales ofthe past week, in the three
exchanges at Bradford, Oil City and
Pittsburg. The transactions during the
six days averaged 28. .5ss 600 barrels
per day. Add to this the transactions
il the New York, Warren and Phlla-
delphia exchanges, and the total would
aggregate upwards of 100000 bar
rels daily. That the great bulk OF this
trade is speculative is manifest from
the fact that the total daily production
does not exceed $4,000 barrels at the
nresent time. But there are upwards
of 100000 barrels in store, besides
the daily production, and this vast
amount, represented by certificates
which are readily transferable, fur
nishes the material upon which an
immense speculative trade Is MAIN
tanned
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12

A Boston dispatch says: at has
been definitely settled that the govern
ors of the New England states, with
the exception of Vermont, whose legls-
lature meets on the day of celebration,
and Governor Plaisted of Maine, who
has not been heard from, will be pres
ent at the coming Daniel Webster cen
tennial at Marshfeld, Mass. These
dgnitaries will be accompanied by
their full stats. The list of dignitaries
who will be present is q long one,
comprising in addition to President
Arthur, members Of the cabinet, Gen.
u. s. Grant, ex-Secretary James e.
Blaine, Ex-Governor Morgan, of New
York, Hon. William NJ. Evarts and
Jerome Napoleon BoRaparte, who mar
ried the granddaughter of Webster"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12
Twin Sisters Married on the Same Day.
New York Evening Telegram.

A rather unusual and very interest
ing event a few days since, In Toronto,
at St. James Cathedral, were the we'd
dings of twin sisters on the same day.
Miss Jessie and Miss Louie Ridout,
daughters of the late Thomas Rldout,
of London, Ont, who were born on the
same day, were also married on the
same day. Mr.. William Kersteman,
jr., of Toronto, was married to Mise
Jessie, and Mr.. Edward Porter, mana
ger of the Bank of Ontario, at Portage
Ia Prairie, to Miss Louie Ridout. The
Bishop of Toronto, assisted by Rev.
John Pierson, performed the ceremony.
Mr.. Joseph ID. Ridout, uncle of the
brides, gave them away. The brides
were attired in cream satin, trimmed
with brocade. The bridesmaids looked
charming in cream-colored nuns veil
ing, trimmed with MORE.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12
How to Grow Cheerful.

Disease is in great many-perhaps the ma
joritJ-of instances, the underlying cause of
mental depression. It will almost invariably be
found, for instance, that hypochondriacs are
dyspeptic, bilious subjects, and all persons who
have had any experience of such cases are aware
that sufferers from diseases of the kidneys and
bladder are especially subject to fits of despond-
ency. The sure way to overcome depression is to
try course of HoItetter's Stomach Bitters a
cheering cordial which is peculiarly antagonistic
to the 'blues" as well to the causes which pro-
duce them. This popular and efhcacioBs correct
i've of disoraered condition of the system RENE
dies the most obstinate cases of indigestion, bill
iouEness and constip .tion overcomes disorders of
the urinary organs, purifeS and enriches the
blood, and restores vigor to the body a. well as
elasticity to the mind.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12
GENERAL NOTES.

SING SING prison reports net earnings
of Sc, ,022 for September.
WILLIAM Z. DODGE has been nominated
for Mayor of New York by the Manhattan
Temperance association.
A GRANITE monument, in three Sec
tions, to be placed by the government on
the field in Montana where Gen. Gibbon
fought the Nez Perces in 1877, was ship
ped from ST. Paul.
In the United States court at Pittsburg,
Judge Turnkey decided that railroad
company must honor its ticket by who
ever sold.
A. B. HEPBURN declines the republican
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12

ANOTHER trusted man has fallen.
John F. Burrill, late Grand Secretary
of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Hill
nois, has been arrested for the embez-
element of some 1000 of the Grand
Lodge funds while he was Secretary IN
1879 and 1880. A Minneapolis dispatch
dated Saturday night, says: Something
of a sensation was created here this
evening by the ground facts of what
was at first hinted to be a case of
mysterious disappearance. John F
Burrill, of Springfield, H., had not been
seenvat his desk in the MINNEAPOLIS and
St. Louis Railway Office since last week
Friday, nor could his wife or family give
any account of him. 1t now transpires
that he was arrested and taken back to
Springfield on a charge of having en-
bezzled s., 900 while acting as Treasur-
er of the Masonic Grand Lodge OF
Illinois. Burrill was taken before JUS
tice Kane in Springfield, and, waving
examination, was sent to jail in default
of $4,000 bail. The arrest of Burrill
caused good deal of excitement, but
not much surprise, among the Masonic
fraternity. Some two years ago Burrll
achieved notoriety, through his divorced
wife stating, in a newspaper interview
that he had obtained fraudulent dl
vorce from her without her knowledge
This sensation was imme ediately follow.
ed by an application for divorce OF
Burrill from his wife. Burrill appears
to be "bad egg."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12
GRAND RAPIDS WIS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER II. 1882.

embankment of fifty feet by striking
broken rail. OF twenty-five passengers
in the coaches seventeen were more or
less seriously injured, among them being
Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Tate, of Little Rock.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12

The Duchess of Talleyrand Is ia
NOUS sport.woman. She dresses IN
plain wooden stufa, and, with a small
felt hat and q waterproof, takes hel
gun under her arm and all by herself
marches over hill and dale, climbing
fences and jumping bitches in quest OF
game.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12

SoM startling revelations are prom
ised by the Government as the result
of the investigation at Washington into
the bribery charges in connection with
the late star route jury.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-12

THOSE peculiar outgrowths of Mis-
souri, chivalry, the Ford brothers, have
been thrown into alarm in Brooklyn by
the sudden appearance of q yelled
woman, whom they suppose to be the
widow of Frank James. The widow Is
said to have sworn vengeance for the
outlaws murder. Like all men of their
stripe the Fords are moral towards, and
it would not be strange if the ghost OF
Jesse James should haunt them day
and night until their death. Next to
ghost vengeful woman is about the
worst thing that can haunta q man. The
Fords may find that they purchased
notoriety at q heavy cost.