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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-19
Assemblyman.

For the first time in her history,
Wood county will this fall elect an
Assemblyman without the aid of other
counties. Hitherto she has been only
one of at least two, sometimes four or
five, counties, acting together for As
sembly purposes, but was last winter
made separate Assembly District,
and must hereafter ego it alone. -
great value to our people if they
rightly use it. Wood county is one
of the richest in natural resources in
the entire State, or, indeed, in the
west. She is rich in agriculture, al
though scarcely commenced in devel
opment; rich in her variety of soil,
adapted to the profitable growth of
wheat, grass, and all the agricultural
products of this latitude; rich in her
forests of. timber, and in the vast
manufacturing interests that are in
duccd and sustained thereby, and
which are yet comparatively in their
infancy. She is rich in her unsurpass-
ed water-power now beginning to
command the attention of capital;
richer than in all else in her thrifty
and rapidly increasing population, with
their homes and children, schools and
churches. moving rapidly forward to
all there is of glory and happiness in
human prosperity and progress. These
vast and growing interests will in the
future require the fostering care of
enlightened, upright government
Those selected to serve our county in
Legislative position, charged with the
special duty of guarding her local
interests, as we'll as of sharing the
responsibility of general legislation in
behalf of the people of the State at
large, should certainly be taken from
the ranks of her very best men, at
least when she alone has the absolute
power of choice.
In accordance with the policy here
advocated, the Republican County
Convention placed in nomination for
the Assembly, Geo. r. Gardner, ESQ.
of this city. 1t is not the purpose o.
this article to indulge in fulsome nrs
of Mr.. Gardner. He il the conDtv
. "O'' u VI" tSSly or by reputation.
1nnei -"6se who personally know him
no praise is necessary. To those who
do not personally know him, it is prop
er to say: Mr.. Gardner has been a
resident of the county some ten years.
He came here to follow his chosen
profession of the law, and was then
sufficiently advanced in years to have
his habits of life and thought firmly
established. He at once took lead
ing position at the bar of this circuit.
which he has since easily maintained,
growing stronger and stronger as the
years have flown by, and the increas-
ing ilabors and responsibilities of his
profession have borne down upon him.
Never asking or seeking office, he has
been repeatedly chosen to official pos
ition in this city and county, and
always, as the people became better
acquainted with him, by increased
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-19
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For Member of Congress-
ISAAC STEPHENSON,

For Member of Congress-
ISAAC STEPHENSON,
Of Marinette.
For State Senator
CHAS. NJ. WEBB,
of Wood.
For Member of Assembly
GEO. R. GARDNER.
For Sheriff
j. j. Human.
For Treasurer
I. w. Pitts.
For Clerk
J. G. Davis.
For Register of Deeds
P. n. Christensen.
For District Attorney
Geo. L. Williams.
For Clerk of Court
r. 2. Bronson.
For Surveyor
VIM. Scott.
For Coroner
A. NJ. Atwood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-19
A Party Without a Parallel.

lErCm the OSHKOSH y OrT q western.
In his letter of acceptance, written
in advance of his nomination, to the
Ninth District Democratic Convention,
Judge Park who was soldier in the
Union army. took occasion deliberately
to say:
Gentlemen, you. as well as myself,
belong to party whose political his
tory is without a parallel After
administering the government for sixty
years it was expelled from office by a
party lacking million Of a majority. For
twenty years it has suffered successive
defeat by that party which was always
in the minority. With each successive
defeat its members gathered for the
next conflict with undated zeal, the
confidence in final triumph, like the
antique wrestler who, at every fall.
received from the earth renewed
strength, and returned to the conflict
with increase vigor from profound
conviction of living principles, stood
and stands to-day confident that final
and overwhelming victory is at hand.
1t has been supposed by numerous
friends of Judge Park among the
Republicans, that he was somewhat in
advance of his party on the great
questions of the day, and that he had
some convictions Of his own, which
might commend him to the people
aside from his political sympathies.
But his letter destroys all hopes of
Republican support A man who
will to-day eulogize the past history of
a party whose record shows corruption
and treason, party so base and un-
trustworthy that even "a minority"
kicked it out of place and has for
twenty years kept it out of place.
is likely to be little better than the
party he represents. 1t is good thing
for the country that the history of the
Democratic party IS "Wlthout par
allel.,, And yet it has one parallel
the defunct confederacy. It has the
same ''profo und convictions of living
principles, as it had in 1861. Its
previous sixty years of power-which
is an exaggeration = were years Of
dissipation resulting in disease, decay
and death. 1t cannot be resurrected
by appeals TO sentiments which do
not exist. The old sinners are mostly
gone, and the young men feel no pride
in party whose ''history is without
parallel, as record Of incompetency,
of official robbery and corruption, Of
treason and of official stupidity. 1t has
not improved under the discipline of
the past twenty years, and is as little
worthy of trust to-day as when the
people discharged it from further
service in 1861 If Judge Park wants
votes, he must ask for them in some
other name than that of his party.
There is too much of the oder of the
rf>Il NF7er,f,lN0.1f,.s - 80 Il -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-19

'That he will receive the nomina-
ton in the Republican Convention we
have no doubt, as the ''pins were set"
some time ago, notwithstanding your
ignorance of the fact. &C. A. Coon
in Marshfeld Times. in speaking of
R. Conner, Of Auburndale, as being
the Republican candidate for Assem-
blylnan, which the REPORTER denied.
Again the Coon is caught in trou-
bic. Our ignorance Of the fact that
the ''pins were set, etc, prove to
have been premature knowledge in the
Times. When we speak we mean to
get near the facts so that what is read
in the REPORTER may be used as
something more than guess OF sur
mise. Our neigh Dor will now ac-
knowledge the corn.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-19

A St. Louis poll tician named Col.
Slayback was shot by newspaper
editor on the 18th inst from which
death resulted Is minutes later Stay
back had been quite roughly handled
by the editor of the Post Dispatch
for which he assaulted Col CockeriIl
with revolver. Col. Cockerill imme-
diately shot his assailant and thereby
saved his own life.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-19
That wonderful catholics, Lro

~That wonderful catholicon known
as Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound has given the lady a world
wide reputation for doing good 1t is
likely living spring to the vital
constitution. Her Blood Purifier viii
do more to cleanse the channels of the
circulation and purify the life of the
body than all the sanitary devices of
tue Board of Health.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-19

A CHICAGO MERCHANT ExPER-
I5NCE.-After I had become almost skin
and bone, with neither strength, APPETITE
nor ambition left the doctors coulden't
help me. two bottles Parker Ginger
Tonic cured me completely NJ. B.
Westcott, Lamp Mfr, Chicago.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-10-19
Merchant Tailoring
II. J. MCRaith, PropT.

Keeps on hand full stock of Cloths
Cassimeres, Vestings, &c. Has com
pletc line of Woolens at lowest market
prices. Call and examine before pur-
chasing elsewhere
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06
Engaging Female Help.

On Cny Derrlck.
81 seen notice in The Derrick that
you wanted to hire girl?"
The speaker was welldressed and
well powdered female who had called
on an Oil City woman, in answer to an
advertisement.
YES" replied the lady. "Do you
want situatiOn?"
"Oh, I don't know; that depends.
I've got morn fifty good chances
why don't you accept some of
themT
"Well, you see. I'm heightened girl
and little particular about whom /
work for"
"Do you require recommendations
from your employers ?"
"No, I'm not so particular as that"
"What are your terms?"
"Well, in the first place, I've got two
children"
YES"
81 don't allow my employers to re-
fer to them, nor to inquire about their
father"
"Of course not"
"And want it understood that
am to have one day each week to visit
them"
Eyes"
"And must have three afternoons
each week to do my own sewing"
Certainly. Anything else?"
81 never allow the lady of the house
to come into the Kitchen
"No."
"And I always enter the house
through the front door,"
"Of course"
"And demand the privilege of two
half days each week for taking my
music lesson"
Eyes"
"And of course use the piano."
Certainly. Is that alp"
"NO, it must be understood that wheI
have company entertain them in thu
parlor, and when 1 am occupying tina
room no other person must enter"
"Of course not. And what SALARY
do you demand"
"My regular rate is S. per week"
"Well," replied the lady, looking a
her meekly, "Pll speak to my husband
and If ! can arrange with him to sit il
the parlor and entertain you. perhaps
we can make bargain. But in tn,
mean time you take a walk, and you
needn't call again till 1 send for you
Co."
The poor laboring girl departed.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06
Treatment Of the Feet.

DR.. George Thin, of London, en-
phasizes strongly the advantage of
using some preparation of boracic acid
to overcome the offensive odor of the
feet, and gives instances in which this
treatment has been thoroughly success
full. In some cases he recommends
the wearing of stockings and cork
soles saturated with the acid. In
others he prescribes an ointment, or
rather kind of glycerine cream, made
as follows: A solution of boric acid
is incorporated with fatty basis Of
white wax and almond oil, which
produce soft, homogeneous mixture,
free from the irritating crystalline
plates of the crystal that are apt to
seperate from vaseline. He finds that
this is also very useful remedial
agent for inf1amed feet, as, after long
walking tours, and in such eczemas as
are produced by the irritation Of dyed
underclothipg.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06
How the American Girls Kiss.

LA1 vegas Opuc.
The Maine girl, tall and rudy, kiss.
es as though she were taking an inn
preston in the chewing-gum of her
native state. The Massachusetts girl
kisses in the Greek style, favored with
brown bread. The New York girl
goes at it as though she were dabbling
in Wall street speculation. The kiss
of the New Jersey girl is fiery as a
taste of applejack, better known as
Jersey lightning. Little Delaware's
girls are as soft as the peaches which
grow there. A Maryland kiss is rich
aid juicy as terrapin stew. In the
Old Dominion you are met with gen.
uine hospitality; the girls kiss as
though they wanted you to stay. The
Ohio girl is described as possessing the
comprehensive qualities of the Ohio
man-she wants all she can get and
gets all she can. A Louisiana kiss is
said to be like eating sugar cane, while
North Carolina girls stick like tar.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06
Another New Agricultural Machine

GERMANTOWN Telegraph.
The west is the source Of nearly all
of our new agricultural machines and
implements. There farming is con-
busted on so gigantic a scale that in
ventOrs are all the time engaged in
contriving some new machine or imple-
ment by which labor may be dimin-
ished, and the cultivation of the soil
increased, and as consequence the
profits augmented. A majority of our
best mowers, reapers, threshers, bind
ers, plows, harrows. etc, originate in
the west The sulky pillow of itself
where the soil is not too tough, is re-
markable improvement. Then the
reaper, self raker and binder, all COM
bined in one machine and the work ac-
complished in one operation. is the
greatest wonder in agriculture the
world ever saw, and every farmer can
see at glance the enormous amount
of hard labor it saves.
Eliminating in the west is the Screw
PulveriZer, which is claimed to be a
combined substitute for the plcw, har-
row, seeder and cultivator, and which
performs the whole in one operation,
On dry, plowed land, those who have
used il. say that with four horses and
one man they have pulverized, sowed
and covered twenty acres of wheat in
enc day. The machine is already in
use in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minneso-
ia, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, Georgia,
Nebraska and Dakota, and is approved
of by the most experienced farmers as
very great acquisition. Last year
over one hundred thousand acres OF
grain were put in by it at one half the
price of the ordinary way. If such
should turn out to be the advantages
of this new machine, all farmers will
admit that upon extensive plantations
it must become Of vast Importance.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06
a Mormon Wife's Death.


The discipline of the Mormon
church was never shown more than in
the death of, the legal wife of George
Q. Cannon, which took place on
Wednesday last. Cannon knew she
was dying, but he stayed in Washing.
ton to fight to keep a polygamist in
congress that the Mormon church
might be fully represented in that
body. Mrs. Cannon knew she was
dying, but telegraphed him to remain
at his post. The poor woman, the
mother of eleven children, died at the
age of forty-six. The Mormon journals
tell us she was a consistent Mormon,
and was willing to suffer anything for
her church. She has suffered very
much. AS her charms began to fade
she saw the man to whom in her youth
she had devoted herself take one wo
man after another to fill her place, and
to share not only her husband, but the
property she had helped to accumulate
and found at last that her life and hel
sufferings only resulted in her having
a fourth place in the mans heart
which she thought in the long ago she
had entirely won. Come to think, we
do not wonder that she telegraphed
him to remain in Washington. The
poor woman is described as being z
thoroughly womanly woman. If tina;
be true, we do not wonder that she
desired to be alone as she approached
her final release.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06
France Exporting Poor Sardines.


ST. James Gaze
Buyers o. sardines are cautioned by
the Brittany manufacturers to be care
full as to the brands they choose. If
they want the best fish, preserved when
fresh inthe best olive oil, they must
get them from houses which have a
name to lose. The cheap kinds are
made with fish that have turned" or
have been spoiled by sailing on board
the smacks, and the oils used are those
of the cotton-seeds or the Senegal
ground-nut. But this is not all. The
brands Of established firms are initiated
and the worst qualities of all are pre-
pared "for expectation" The sardine
traders think it necessary just now TO
give warning against these export
sardines, and advise foreiners to buy
only those which are produced for the
home French market. The current
wholesale prices of these are given.
There are three sizes: Small, medium,
and large (known at 6, 8, and 8-12),
and only two qualities, first and Sec
ond. The largest and best are now SO
shillings 65 francs) the hundred tins,
while the smallest are sold by the
makers at 46 shillings and 6 pence.
But the "export" kinds can be bought
as low 81 shillings the hundred.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06
Utility of a Trade.

The Jews had saying that che who
does not teach his son a trade is much
the same as if he taught him to be a
thief" and every male child was re-
CURED, at FIVE years of age. to learn a
trade by which he could support him.
SELF. In Germany the Crown-prince is
a turner and could easily earn living
if his inheritance was lost. His eldest
son, Prince Wilhelm, is an excellent
artisan, and another son who died was
book-binder. The present Emperor
keeps samples of his grandchildren's
work in his cabinet. If Guiteau had
been trained to useful labor it might
have saved him from the dreadful
crime for which he was tried.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06
la CIoche Island

The Canada West Land and Agency
company have negotiated the sale OF
La Cloche island, in the Georgian bay,
to an English gentleman for the sum
of $45, 900. 1t is understood that all
details have not yet been settled, but
the purchaser has re- urned to England
to arrange for colonizing it partly
with English and partly with Cana
dams. The island is said to contain
forty thousand acres.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06

the law as against individual criminals,
instead of, as now, resorting to war to
punish a whole t1ibe for the individual
acts of a few. The time is now op-
perfume to perfect that system, and
Gen. Sherman believes Col. Dodge's
volume will greatly aid congress in the
accomplishment of that end.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06
The Reason Why:

duced by its cleansing and purifying action
on the blood. Where there is a gravelly
deposit in the urine. or milky, ropy urine
from disordered kidneys, it always cures.
Leader.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06
StonewalI Jackson's To-day,
Philadelphia Times.

InlaOelpnla Times.
Having fingered to the last allowa-
BILE moment with the members of my
family, "hereinbefore mentioned" as
the legal documents would term them
it was after ten o'clock at night
when returned to headquarters for
final instructions, and, before going to
the Generals room, I ordered two
whisky-toddies to be brought up after
me. When they appeared l offered
one of the glasses to Jackson, but he
drew back, saying,
"No, no. Colonel, you must excuse
me: 1 never drink intoxicating liq-
uors."
81 know that, General" said I, "but
though you habitually abstain, as 1 do
myself, from every thing of the sort,
there are occasions, and this is one of
them, when stimulant will do us
both good; otherwise 1 would neither
take it myself nor offer it to you. So
you must make an exception to your
general rule and join me in toddy
to- might"
He again shook his head, but never
theless, took the tumbler and began to
sip its contents. Presently, putting it
on the table after having but partly
emptied it, he said,
Colonel, do you know why habit
ualy abstain from intoxicating
drinks?" And, on my replying in the
negative, he continued,
"Why, sir, because 1 like the taste of
them; and when discovered that tc
be the case I made up my mind at
once to do without them altogether. .
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06
Vinegar Fever.

A man in Hector, Schuyler county,
n. Y. has been drinking cider to ex-
cess for the past fifteen years, and he
is now dangerously i'll with what is
called vinegar fever. Upon examina-
ton he was nearly filled with vinegar
mother.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06
Starting a RaIky Horse.

The London Live Stock Journal
gives two methods of starting balky
horse: 81. Tire your steed out by re-
manning perfectly quiet until he starts
of his own accord. 2. When horse
refuses to draw at all, put him in a
cart in a shed and keep him there
until he walks out. In one instance
the obstinate one was thirty-six hours
in the shafts before he gave in"
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06

The Carson City New appeal says
st. Jacobs Oil is good for rheumatism,
neuralgia and thousand different ills.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06

heroic remedy is the only one that will
prove effective in this case; and its ap-
plication has already been postponed
too long.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1882-04-06

Whoever elevates himself isolates him.
self.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1882-11-17

"oi BANDITS ENJOY MOCK HANGING. WITH
WELLNIGH SERIOUS CoNsHoUgNcEs.

ist Louis Globe DemocratI
Inc pernicious effects caused bv dime.
no'ei reading and the presentation OH tho
s|1se OF such Observation-Disclosures dramas as
buualo Bill" "Jesse James. the Bandit
/ hihg,' and so on, are seen in st. Louis
In the houses which border on Seventh
street and Clark avenue are numerous fam
iiies, which include many children.
iaVorlte diversion OF some Of these voun0-
sters Is TO study the elaborate posters and
| tneh, III friendly coal-shed. situated in
Ihe backyard at the northwest cor.
ner OF the thoroughfares named. 10
attempt TO reproduce the scenes with liyino
ngures. They have succeeded thus far in
uisgulslng themselves az Indians-ycrv
crude limitations OF Lo. being mostly rcd
pant and leggings-and binding their vic.
tims to stake. As in real dramatic com
oinations, so in this infantilc AGGREGATION
!eaiousics have arisen, and the other day.
.hc leader being absent, his most trusted
lieutenant, lad Of about ten years. deter.
mined TO give added fcLdt TO his prescnta-
uoh OF the drama, so he-Herman Booch-
procured the victims and the necessary az
ccSsOrles, ropes, etc. and had a hanging
lhere was convenient ra,ter, and the
candidates for the moose were two children.
aged respectively six and three wears. OF
a: q. Schmidt, butcher, the other of the
trlo being Louis French. about eight wears
old. 0'''
Lhe audience was composed Of juveniles
OF both sexes OF quite tender age. The
candidates for the hanging were dressed in
'hclr ordinary everyday toggery. and were
as willing 70 be hanged as the spectators
were proud to see them thus done. The
eNcc1toner proceeded TO his work with
mtch OF the skill Of q Calcrait, but dis
dAined TO use black cap OF 10 pinion the
happy participants in the mock tragedy.
lie first adjusted the moose upon the neck
OF one OF the older boys. and with the
KIND assistance OF volunteers from The au-
diencc strung him up. The boy OF the
same age wa then lifted parallel with his
cn'huSed partner, and the very Youngest
OF the three was next hOisteI by his own
rope TO a leye! with his rapidly
diScolorcd comrades. The three were thus
suspended, and the spectators were loud in
their applause. The realistic effects were
my immense. One OF the older boys
fclt the pressure 100 extensively and began
to scream. As luck or fate would have n,
Schmidt, the father Of the two young play.
actors, was near and heard the shrek. lie
rushed rapidly to the coal-shed. saw the
three hangccS, cut them down, and ban
ished the audience and the other children
from the neighborhcod.
1t is secretly, by the management Of the
Coal,hed Grand Comique, amounted that
in few days the great realistic scene OF
the Ford boys asSassnating j. James will
be reDrcScDtcd.