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Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
THE OLD LETTER.

Crouching over the fire with wan cheek and
 whitensd hair, And sad sunk eyes, on the embers fixed with a dull unseeing stare; Crouching over the fire, the woman, worn and old, With the hickering flame on the letter that trembles in her hold. Outside, the sleet beats fast and thick on the uncurtained pane, The wind sobs round the lonely house, as it sweeps the snow-clad plain, Inside, the ghosts of joy. and hope and fear less household mirth Fit and whisper round the woman who sits beside the hearth. Yet the magic spell of thI letter has sent her fancies back, Flying fast past all the graves that mark the past's long track, Flying past change and sorrow, flying past wrong and ruth, Till the heart beats fast, and the pulses thrill, to the passionate glow of youth. Ah, duller still her life will show, harder the task-work seem, For that weak hour by fancy snatchsd for memory's golden dream! Put by the letter, let it share thy slow and sure decay; Patient and meek take up again the burden of the day.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
DeLOng and His Party.
MR. GEORGE KENYON BELIEVES THAT
 THEY ARE ALL DEAD.

MR. GEORGE KENYON BELIEVES THAT
 THEY ARE ALL DEAD.
 Commenting upon the last advices received from the Arctic regions with reference to the Jeannette party, MT. George Kennon, the Siberian traveller, remarked to newspaper correspondent that he believed DeLong and his com- panions were dead.
 Said he: eff De Long and his party were alive think we should have heard from them before this. If they had been found by the 25th of February the news would have reached us by this time. When the two sailors left them you will remember that was away back in October, just as the Arctic storms begin to sweep down on to that coast and all living things move toward the interior to escape their fury long the exposed coast. The party lal ded just too late. If they had been but two or three weeks sooner they could have passed up the Lena in their boats, but the ice was just beginning to form over the stream and they had to make their way southward on foot. It was just at that season when the reindeer were leaving for the south in search of sheI- ter from the storms and more abundant food. In some of the records found they spoke of having killed sone game, but it was probably about the last rein deer left along the coast which they killed aftes they landed. The ability to subsist upon game in that region at thls season would, of course, depend largely upon the condition of the mer. If the party had been in good he"Ith they might have subsisted longer, but to men hardly able to hobble along, V ith frost bitten feet, it would be extremely diff cult to kill game enough for so large 0 party. The only game they would be liable to meet with would Do white grouse and Siberian hare, and these are not abundant. At any rate, it would take great number of this small game to support a large party of men. have myself travelled over thoso steppes in Siberia for days and days without seeing living thing, except once in 8 while white grouse.
 "There are native villages in the country, and while not very lar apart or Siberia, say 100 miles or So, yet to ta party of starving men living on half an ounce of alcohol a day, haii frozen, with thermometer thirty degrl es below zero, in the face of terrific storms, they might as we'll be at the other sde of the globe. I think that within tn ee weeks of the time after the sailors left them DeLong and his party had all perished. I think their bodies will be found in some of the abandoned huts which the natives use in fishing in summer"
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
MURDER IN A BOSTON SUBURB.
A Crazed Old Man Beats His Mother
 in-Law to Death With 8 Brick.

A murder in high life startled the quiet little city of Somerville, four miles from Boston, recently. The arrest of the murderer, which soon followed the deed, and the almost fiendish circum- stances of the crime created intense excitement in both Somerville and Cambridge. The murdered woman was the mother in. law of the murderer and was seventy-nine years old. Edwin R. Prescott, sixty-six years old, who for fifty years has been in the dry goods business and was recently superintend- ent of the largest house in Boston, married as his second wife Mary M. Russell, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Philemon Russell. MT. Russell died some years ago, leaving the bulk of very large property to his widow. The property included many valuable estates in Somerville and Cambridge. Russell street, where the house in which the murder occurred is situated, was named after MT. Russell. After the widow became Prescott's mother-in-law, so said the murderer in the interview with him, she began to make his life un- endurable. He was unfortunate in certain business transactions, and she made his troubles the occasion for taunts and gibes. For year past those who knew him say Prescott's mind has been affected by the strain upon it, and his retirement from business WAS caused thereby. Mrs. Prescott went to Boston on shopping tour, leaving her husband and her mother in the house-which is, by the way, in the most aristocratic portion of Somer- vile. The murderer coolly told the story of the terrible affair to this effect: After his wife had gone he came down from bed to breakfast and found his mother-in.law in the kitchen in her usual temper. She began to taunt him, at which he demonstrated, and after an exchange of hot words Mrs. Russell, who though seventy-nine years old was very active, seized up 8 crockery utensil lying at hand and endeavored to strike him. He closed with her and they fell upon the floor. Prescott says he now felt brick under his hand. With the brick he struck the old lady eight or ten blows on the head and face until she was senseless. Then fearing, as he says, that if she came to she would suffer greatly, he seized coal shovel and beat the prostrate gray head with it time and again. The height of fiend- ishness was reached when, still doubt ing the completion of his work, Prescott procured a case knife and cut his victims throat from ear to ear. Then he sat down, read the morning papers and otherwise busted himself until the arrival of his wife, who came home at three o'clock p. m. He coolly informed her that he had murdered her mother. When arrested he made no resistance and seemed rather to gloat over his deed, remarking that he was rid of his mother-in-law forever. He is without doubt insane. The murderer's wife, an only child, will inherit all her mothers nronnrfr
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
The Rodgers.

The steamer Rodgers, burned and sunk in the Arctic Sea while in search of the Jeannette. was originally whal- ing vessel-the Mary and Helen-and was purchased early last year by the Government for an expedition to the Arctic regions in search of the Jean nette. The vessel was named the Rodgers, in honor of Rear-Aimiral John Rodgers, president of tho Jean- nette Relief Board, who had in 1855 made surveying expedition 10 the North Pacific. After some delay, oc- casioned by the discovery that some of her provisions were in damaged con- dition, the Rodgers sailed from San Francisco early last summer, under the command of Lieutenant R. M. Berry. By September she had gone to the northward of Wrangell Land.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

FOR THIRTY YEARS. Macdougall, the famous tartan manufacturer of h. verness, died recently. It was owing to him that Lord Brougham always wore trousers of shepherds plaid. His lordship sent an order to Inverness for "two pieces" of the cloth, and this being interpreted in 8 wholesale eense, Macdougall dispatched two large webs, which afforded an ample supply of trousers for the purchaser during the last thirty years of his life.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

OUR CoLoRED PoPU1ATIoN.-In pa per read before the Paris Societe de Medicine, M. Chervin points out that, while up to the census of 1860 the col ored population of our Southern States numbered 4, SSO, ,OOO, in that of 1880 it had increased to 6,557, 151, an augmen- tation of 35 per cent. He regards this as an important fact, because cit has always been hitherto admitted that when an inferior race comes in contact with @ superior one, it must disappear sooner or later, on account of the excess of deaths over births." M. Chervin re- gards liberty and agricultural prosperity as the underlying causes of the happy results above mentioned.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

"HAu1o, what is this I hear You, who have always been preaching about disinterested love and decrying mar riages for money, about to marry a widow with 8 million." "And do you think, sir, that I am selling myself for gold? Sir, I love the woman. and would not hesitate to marry her if cir cumstanees were changed and she had not more than half million to her name."
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

THERE are people who will buy any thing on sight if they can be allowed to pay for it on time.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

WHEN is an estate like watch :? When it is wound up.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
TERMS

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Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26

STRENGTH OF MIND is exercise, not rest.
Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
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dued tones. "You ought to be careful about that fellow" says one; Che may get you into trouble" ooh, nonsense; I know all his secrets." "Yes, but he knows all yours." "I know it, but -contemptuously--"he'd never think of giving me away r'
 "A BOY said to a gentleman, My father and mother have daughter, but she is not my sister Now, how do you explain that ?" asked Molecule. Atom reflected, but in vain. To his every suggestion Molecule replied by mild but decided negative. At length Atom was forced to give it up. Why, it's simple enough" said Molecule, with an exasperating smile, "the boy lied Y How DEAR to my heart is the school I
 attended,
 And how remember, so distant and dim, That rcd-headed Bill, and the pin that
 pended ..... t
 And carefully put under him!
 And how recall the surprise of the master When Bill gave yell, and spfang up with
 the pin
 So high that his bullet head busted the
 plaster
 Above, and the scholars all set up grin. That active boy, Billy, that high-leaping
 Billy!
 That loud-shousing Billy that est on pin
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28

THE LIQUOR QUEsTIoN.-A suffi-
cient quantity of liquor is used in the
United States annually to fill canal
four feet deep, fourteen feet wide and
120 miles long. But what has that to
do with Swayne's Pills, the best family
medicine in the world Millions of
boxes have already been sold and there
is call for millions more. They
cleanse and build up the overtaxed
system as no other medicine can, all
all for quarter OF dollar. Do not
delay, but give them fair trial.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28
LOCAL BREVITIES.

Donate on Friday evening.
Remember the Y. NJ. D. G. in
Writer'S Hall on Monday night.
Scarlet fever is raging below Pointe
Basse. Several families are down.
One hundred and twenty mine teams
were hauling lumber from Vesper on
Saturday last.
N. Gerard & Son expect to put in
500, 900 feet of logs this winter.
Geo. Hiles has six logging camps
and expects to put in 100000 feet.
Ladies and children's furs of all
kinds sold way down at T. G ST.
Amour's Fair corner.
Messrs. Wood and Slocum have had
larger sales in holiday goods this year
than last.
Miss Douglas, of Appleton, was the
guest of Misses Minnie and Mamie
Spaford.
F. L. Tibbits is kept right busy
handling the lumber as fast as it is
hauled to the yard.
VIM. Pierce. bingham, Wis, says:
II find Browns Iron Bitters the best
appetizer [ ever used. "
Mr.. AL. Lunt who attends the
Racine college, is home spending the
holiday vacation.
You can keep your hair abundant
and glossy, and retain its youthful
color, with Parker's Hair Balsam.
A. } Webster and wife were over
from Pittsville on Wednesday in at
tendance at the Masonic party,
G. f. Witter physician and surgeon.
Office on Main street, residence or
Drake street. If
Mrs. Carrie J,esleyong has recover
ed from her late illness. She ha;
been enjoying bit of sunshine this
week.
Miss Fanny BalderstoD is on the
sick list this week. Overwork anc
cold is the cause Dr. Robinson il
attending.
Major Cole, We are informed, ha
been discharged from the employ o
Messrs. Hyde & Co. and has gone tt
Appleton for good.
Will Bisbee of Wausau was among
the large number of callers at thi
Office this week. He is on his wa.
to Clinton, Iowa.
Messrs. Willis and George White
are home on their holiday vacation
They are doing nicely in their studio
at the University,
Mrs. Brown, Miss Ella Hiles ant
w. II. johnson, of DexterVille, wer
over to the Masonic doings on Wed
nesdsy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28
CONSUMPTION.

Consumption is often the result of
not curing a cough or cold at the prop
er time. People seldom realize their
mistake until they have fallen victims
to this terrible Disease, when it often
proves too late Take advice and
when troubled with coughs, colds,
asthma, whooping cough, Group, infu-
enza, bronehitus, pains in the chest
and all Diseases of the Throat and
Lungs, use DIR. Bosanko's Cough and
Lung Syrup, an infallible remedy for
the above named disease. Ask your
druggist for it, price soc. Call for 10
cent sample bottle at T. j. Woods.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28

With the opening of the New Year
Grand Rapids is to have new furni-
ture store. Mr.. j. Ware who has
been manufacturing bed springs and
bottoms in this city the past year has
leased the Miller brick block and will
open a furniture store in addition to
his present business. Mr. John Wag-
ner will move his business into the
same building, This will give our
people new accommodations.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28
w eek of PRAYER.

Revs. D. L. Barrow and J. Rowland
have arranged the following program
for the week of prayer.
Dec. 31st. preaching at the Con-
gregational Church at 7 o'clock p. m.
and at 9 o'clock a sermon at the NJ.
E. Church and watch night meeting.
January LIST. services at the Cong.
Church at 7 o'clock.
January Cd. services at the NJ. E.
Church at o'clock.
January Sd. services at the Cong.
Church at I o'clock.
January 4th. services at the NJ. E.
Church at 7 o'clock
January 9th. services at the Cong.
Church at o'clock.
January 9th. services at the NJ. E.
Church at O'Clock ~,
These services are to be union ser
vices and the pastors earnestly desire
the presence, prayers and the CO.
operation Of all Christians, in these
meetings, for the revival Of the work
Of God in this city. As these services
will consist largely in prayer and praise,
let our young people turn oat and
assist in our songs of praise.
If all the Christians in this city will
turn out, we can make these meetings
interesting and profitable to all, and it
will be good start in entering upon
the New Year About one hundred
have passed from our midst to the
other shore in the past year, and "the
boatman pale'' may be waiting to carry
rs over. Let US get ready to meet
our loved ones Oh the other shore.
D. L. BARROW,
j. ROWLAND,
Pastors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28

The Green Bay Advocate i'll late
issue asked the question: "Why can
not the Constitution of the States be
so amended as to have postmasters
voted for, the same as any other city
or county officials Z" To which the
Republican Sentinel properly and
logically replies 1t can be if the
people desire such an amendment, but
we should not be likely to get better
postmasters under the elective system
than we have at present. A serious
objection to choosing postmasters by
popular election lies in the fact they
are subordinates of the Postoffice De-
partment. The Postmaster General
should have full authority over them.
Postmasters being functionaries of the
General Government, and responsible
to that Government, it would be in
consistent to choose them as we do
town and municipal officers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28
Probate Notice.

State Of Wisconsin. County Court for Wood
COunty-In Probate.
term of the County Court to be held in and fol-
said County at the probate Office in the city OF
Grand Rapids in said County, on the first Tues
cay of February 4. ID. 1893, at ten o'clock, a,
N. the following matter will be heard and
CO nsidered:
The application Of Mary Yaehal for the APP
pointment of Joseph }. Hand Of the Iswn OF
of the estate of Albert Fachal late Of the Town
of Milladore in Wood county deceased.
Dated Dec. 9th 1888
By order cf the Court,
Gro. r. GARDEER, County Judge.
Dec2Sw3
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28

Messrs. Edwards & Hooper have
lately purchased two new sleighs. One
is an easy riding two-seated cutter of
the latest pattern, beautifully finished
and upholstered. The other is a sub
stautial three seated bob sleigh for the
accommodation of parties. Each scat
has cushion and lazy back. With
these two additions to their already
complete stable, Messrs. Edwards &
Hooper have the best equipped livery
stable III the Northwest. Their prices
are moderate.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28
DIED !:


From the Stevens Point Journal
COLEMAN-Tn this city, Wednesday, Deem
Der 10th, 1882, Flora, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. S. B. Coleman, aged years and
months.
Little Flora had not been feeling
we'll the fore part of last week, but as
late as last Friday evening took supper
with the family and in the evening
engaged with the other children in
singing. Afterwards, however, she
grew worse, with the above sad results
the disease being pronounced by the
doctors in attendance, inflammation of
the stomach. Flora was a bright,
promising child and the stricken
parents, we were about to say, will
have the sympathy of all. But in its
broadcast sense, only those who have
passed through a similar ordeal can
really and truly sympathise with
parents in an affection of this kind.
Those to whose lips the bitter cup has
not been pressed. may in some degree
imagine what the feelings of parents
must be when the dark curtain of
death has been rolled down between
them an a loved one, but only those
who have been compelled to put away
the books and playthings, and leave
one plate from the table, can really
comprehend what it is to have the
family circle broken,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28

A donation sociable will be held in
the basement of the Congregational
Church on Friday evening next. 1t
is the intention of all those who attend
to bring something to be donated to
the pastor, Rev John Rowland. This
of course is not to be applied on his
salary, but is to be donated to him.
Allow US to state in connection with
this donation sociabie that the pastors
of our several churches in this city
are not supported as we'll as they
should be- 1t is rather surprising
that the amount that is promised to be
paid to them, is not voluntarily given
every Sabbath morning in weekly
offerings. 1t is SO much easier to give
% or so cents every Sabbath than it
is to give fifteen dollars at one time.
We wish that the clergymen of our
city might be more promptly paid. If
those who are interested in the matter
would make their payments every
week the pastors can be paid monthly.
Don't fail to attend this donation
sociable and do your full duty.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28
The Cream Of all books Of Ad-
venture.
PIONE ER
HEROES
AND
DARING
DEEDS.

The thrilling adventures of all the hero ez-
plorers and frontier fighters with Indians, out
laws and wild beasts, over our whole country,
rom the earliest times to the present. Lives
and famous exploits of DeS OTTO, LaSalle, Boone
Standish, Crockett. Bowie. Carson, Custer, Cali
fornia Joe, Wild Bill. Buffalo Bill Gen. Miles
and Crook, great Indian chiefs and scores Of
others. Gorgeously illustrated with IT'S fine
engravings to the life. Agents wanted, low
priced and beats anything To ell. Address all
communications to
G.. L BENJAMIN,
57o Main St. Fond du Lac, Wis.
Dec7ES
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28

1t is not very often that a printer
gets two dinners in one day. but We
enjoyed that pleasure on Christmas
day-not at home of course-but
with friends. We don't consider it
necessary to say that Christmas was a
merry one with us, because any man
that has the capacity for two turkey
dinners in one day, has good nature
enough to appreciate his friends kind
ness the balance of the year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28

TIME AND EXPENSE SAVED.
Hard workers are subject to bilious
attacks which may end in dangerous
illness. Parker's Ginger Tonic keeps
the kidneys and liver active, and BY
preventing the attack saves sickness.
time and expense. Detroit Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28

All ladies who may be troubled with
nervous prostration, who suffer from
organic displacement !; who have a
sense Of WEAKNESS and a feeling Of
lassitude; who are languid in the
morning; in whom the appetite for
food is caprioious and sleep at proper
hours uncertain. should have recourse
to Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28
SPECIAL NOTICES.
Attention.

All persons owing me upon account
are hereby notified that the same must
to settled, paid or secured prior to IAN
31st next or steps will be taken to col
lect the same by legal process. A
word to the wise is sufficient.
JOHN HAMM.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28

The little man who has seen years
of service and yet continues to thrive
under its hardships is certainly giving
remarkable bargains in clothing and
overcoats at the Fair Corner. Call in.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28
Notice.
US. LAND OFFICE,
MAusan. Wis. Dec. 9. 'S2.

Us. LAND OFFICE,
Wausau, Wis, Dec. 9, '82. !
Notice is hereby given that the following
named settler has filed notice of his intention
to make final proof in support of his claim,
and that said proof will be made before the
Clerk of the Circuit Court at Grand Ra pids,
Wis, on January 18th, 1888, viz:
WILLIAM G. DEAN, Homestead No. 1919 for
the SWA SW4 Section 2, Township . n.
Range4E. He names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence upon, and
cultivation of, said land, viz: james NJ. Tuttle
Samuel Smith, Robert Wason, and Daniel
Henry all of Auburndale, Wis.
Dec14w5 S. II. ALBAN, Register.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-28

Through the use of S350.OO0 of
the funds of the City Bank of Roches-
ter, N. Y, by its president, G. E.
Upton, to carry on oil speculations,
the bank closed its doors. The
amount of deposits is stated at $780,
600, and the amount of paper held by
the bank 100000, Upton was treas
urer of the Western New York Epis,
copal Diocese and had its funds in the
bank. The savings banks of the city
had large sums deposited with the
bank.