davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02
A DEATH-BED MARRIAGE.
Judge B0uic, an HonOred MaryIander
Biesses His Daughter with His Last
Breath
Baltimore American

Baltimore American.
This town was startled today about
noon by the report that wedding at
death-bed had occurred. Judge
William Viers Bouic, who was defeated
for denomination at the recent pri-
maries by George Peter, who was taken
sick on last Saturday with nervous
prostration and symptoms of tvpho-
malarial fever. Almost imm ediateIy
his ailments took vital hold and he has
been growing rapidly worse each day.
This morning his attendant physician,
DIR. Nathan S. White, of Jacksonville,
announced that the case was hopeless
and that death would hastily ensue.
As soon as his true condition was made
known to the Judge he requested that
his eldest daughter (Ellal should be
married at once, and in his presence,
to DIR. White, to whom she bad been
engaged for several years. Aftel con-
sultation between the interested couple
and others of the family it was decid-
ed to acquiesce in the death-bed request
of the father. Accordingly, a license
was quietly secured from E. B. Pretty
man. Clerk Of the Court. The Rev.
S. r. White, Baptist clergyman of
this town, was sent for, and he about
10 o'clock repaired to the house where
shortly he performed the marriage
ceremony.
Gathered in the dying mans room
were his son, William Viers Bouic, Jr.,
his wife and three daughters. Solemnly
and quietly the little com pany gather
ed around the bedside. The Judge
was propped up on pillow, shis pale,
sharp features standing out prominent
ly. The Rev. Mr.. White took his stand
near the head of the bed, the contract
ing couple standing near the foot and
facing the father. Quietly and firmly
the clergyman read the marriage GER
emony, his voice sounding strangely
solemn in the subdued apartment.
When he had concluded and pronoun-
ced Nathan S. White and Ella Bouic
man and wife, the dying man gave a
sigh of relief ana fell back exhausted.
Approaching closer the daughter leaned
over tenderly and kissed her father,
whose hand was firmly compressed in
that of his attendant physician and
new son-in-law. 1t was an impressive
touching scene as the Judge lay in mis-
bed in sight of the court house where
he had presided with honor and digni--
ty for fifteen years.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02
TELEGRAPH TICKS.
Important and Interesting Items
from the Wires During the Week.
WASHINGTON.

OR. HAMILTON has forwarded to the
Garfield auditing committee a bill fol
| $25, 900 for professional services.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR left the city Friday.
for New York, where he will remain until
after election.
TIE Board of Directors of the Gar
field Monument Fair Association armour
ces that reduced rates over the various
railroads leading to Washington have
been secured.
J. HYATT SMITH, the ecclesia stical con
gresham from Brooklyn, Is in the city
In conversation with a friend he ex
pressed himself as confident of re. cleo
ton.
JOHN Pope has been promoted to major
general, being the senior briga1ier, and
having the support of General Grant.
K. 5. Mackenzie, of the 4th cavalry, the
youngest colonel on the list, is to be co M
aissioned brigadier general.
Gan. BRADY's i'll luck does not come
singlY, according to gossip. 1t is said that
in addition to his troubles resulting from
the pending trial and disagreement of a
serious nature in the Office of his Wash
| in8ton newspaper, his Canadian invest.
ment threatens financial embarrassment
| of grave nature.
THE rations turned over to agents for
the relief of the sufferers from the Mississ-
| ippi floods amounted to 50 Psi 900. The
value of stores reported lost by theft, fires,
storms, ETC., during the year was 81, ,162,
and the value of supplies issued to In
dians during the year $37, 1876.
THE report of the Surgeon-GeneraI Of
| the Army shows that among white troops
the total number of cases of all kinds
| taken on the sick list the past year was
34,080. being at the rate of l 679-1000 per
1000 of mean strength. Among colored
troops 4099, or l 100000 per 1000 OF
mean strength. There were 218 deaths
among white troops, 25 among coIored and
among Indian troops.
THE evidence taken before the tariff
commission will, it is expected, be print.
ed and ready for distribution from the
government printing Office within a week
| The recommendations of the commission
| will not be made known in advance of the
| assembling of congress, but it is expected
| the abolition of compound duties, or ad
valorem and specific duties combined, will
be advocated, and that the arguments ad-
vanced for reimp0sing the duty on qui.
nine have failed to make any Impress or
upon the commissioners.
T. B. NEEDLES went to Washington to
secure financial aid for the eighteenth Ill
inois congressional district in their strug-
gle with William r. Morrison. A pre-
vions appeal to Long Jones drew from
him statement that his committee had
collected only $1,000 from country post
masters and that Chicago merchants h ad
refused to contribute a cent. Hubbel's
committee recited how Virginia was call
ing loudly for $4,000; $4,000 had gone
to North Carolina, and $4,000 had beer
given to Speaker Keifer for use in Ohio
Mr.. Needles then solicited contribution!
from Illinois men in the departments, bu
was met by refusal in nearly every case
and went home disgusted.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02
DETECTIVES.
Branch of the Leading Agency Estab-
Iished in Chicago,

We are pleased to notice that the we'll
known detectives. Messrs. Mooney & Bo-
land, of No. 1872 Broadway, New York,
have located a branch of their agency at
No. Isl Monroe street, In this city,
Thomas III. Whippie superintendent.
They propose to strive for the best bust
ness usually given to private detectives.
The reputation of the Mooney & Boland
agency is world wide; their facilities for
transacting work is unriyaled 1t will be
remembered that Becker, the forger of
the 1000 franc notes of the Bank of
France; ESposito, the Italian bandit, who
led 800 men. and was a terror over all
Italy; Charles Lawrence, stupeadous en-
bezzler ard forger; Alfred E. Legrave,
who swindled western merchants to the
extent of $500,000, and Escott, the Mont
real embezzler, were all ferreted out and
captured by Mooney & Roland, within the
past few years. This, aside from the
thousands of lesser operations in which
their services have been retained by this
and other governments, and the mighty
corporations of Europe and America, GER
tainly entitle the Mooney & Boland
agency to the highest professional stand
ing. 1t is not too much to say that their
appearance IN Chicago, with trained off
GERS and operatives, and capital to swing
any cases intrusted to them, make an era
in our police annals. We have no doubt
that the people of the northwest will
eYince their appreciation of them. and
generously employ their services Chica-
40 Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02

The people of the state of Oregon
will now have an opportunity to
vote upon the question of ex-
tending the right of suffrage
to the women. The legislature of 1880
took the preliminary step to amend
the constitution by the passage of the
necessary joint resolution, and recent
ly the present general assembly has
ratified their action for its submission
to popular vote. The question of
woman suffrage seems to be gradually
gaining ground among the men, but
whether it is among the best informed
and most intelligent ladies of the land
is a matter of serious doubt in the
minds of most thoughtful persons.
And that is exactly the point which
we should be glad to see tested, and it
is to be regretted that the Oregon legis-
lature did not first pass an enabling
act, authorizing the women themselves
to vote upon the question, and then,
if it was approved by MAORI ty of
those voting upon the subject, it might
be ratified by q majority of the male
voters of the state. The test would re.
veal two facts: First, whether a ma
jority of the women of Oregon would
take sufficient interest in the matter
to 60 to the polls and vote, and, second
", if they did, whether a majority of
them, or what proportion of them,
favored the proposition. There has
not been anything like general de.
mand yet made among the women
themselves for tie elective franchise
to be extended to them, and that those
who have beel most clamorous for ii
do not represent anything like ma
jority of the fair sex. Whenever il
shall appear that majority OF the
mothers, wives and daughters of the
best families il the land shall unite in
serious demand to have their ':rigths'
extended to them, and their sphere ot
duty so enlarged "a to include political
responsibility, we do not believe it will
be long withheld from them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02
GENERAL NOTES

SPINNERs at the Mechanics Mills, Fall
-.iver, who struck last Saturday, have re-
turned to work.
A VICTORIA, 3. c., dispatch says the
election in the Yald district for member
of the legal house resulted in the co m
plete overthrow of the government.
THE London Telegraph states Count
DeLesseps has completed grand scheme
which will result in shortening by three
days the time for the passage of Jessels
through the Suez canal.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Harriet R. Shat
tuck and Elizabeth L. Saxon addressed
woman suffrage meetings in Nebraska
Wednesday night.
THE widow of President Fillmore left
property in Buffalo valued at S125. 600.
Her will is to be contested by cousins In
Brooklyn.
: JOHN MCCULLoUGR's matinee at ST.
| Louis for the benefit of the family of Col.
| SIayback netted nearly $S 600.
A REPRESENTATIVE of the Chicago and
| Mort thwestern road is circulating a state
ment at Des Moines that his company and
| the Wabash have joined hands against the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

G. K. MARTIN, well-known or iminal
lawyer of Milwaukee, died Tuesday of
Bright disease.
destroyed the village of GrindelwaId,
Switzerland.
AFIRE in the stock-yards Tuesday at
Lexington, Kentucky, destroyed twenty
five short-horn cattle.
THREE men were entombed in coal
shaft at Shenandoah, Pa. Rescuing par
ties are at work.
REEDS opera house and hotel at Salem,
Oregon, was destroyed by fire on Thurs
day. Loss not stated.
TURNER, TUTTLE e Co.'s mill and Arm
ington's elevator at Atlanta. Ga, were
destroyed by fire. Loss, $28 900; fully
insured.
A MACARoNI factory at Nos. 269 and 271
Decatur street, New Orleans, occupied by
J. Sambola, was destroyed by fire at mid
night, Tuesday, the loss being $4,000.
JOSEPH BUHM, yourg Detroit man,
dentalIy discharged his gun, the load en-
tering his breast. He lived an hour.
THE Chilian schooner Berta was sunk
off San Vincents by. the British steamer
Chloe, on Wednesday. Several lives
were lost.
SHOCKS of earthquake at St. Thomas,
Antiana, and Cape Hayti, shook up those
places considerably on Wednesday.
THE Maquoketa Gowa) wooden mills
burned Saturday night, involving loss of
$15 coo. The building at Winnipeg in
which the branch Of the Bank of Mon
treal is located also took fire, and 800, 900
damage was done, the bank being the
principal sufferer. w. P Hays & Sons
sash, door, and blind factory at Dover, n.
H.. burned; loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
THE Irish National Confer ence assem-
bIed at Dublin Wednesday, Parnell pre-
siding. The platform was occup ed by a
number of prominent men, including the
Lord Mayor of Dublin and the extreme
Irish members of parliament. Egan.
treasurer of the land league, presented
his report, and stated that e250,000 passed
through his hands. Parnell presented
the programme of the conference, which
declares for home rule and the right of
tenant-farmers to become owners by pur-
chase. He denied that there had been
any dictation from Irish-Amer as
serting that if there had been he, as least,
would have disobeyed it. All the speak
ers united in declaring that the land act
was an utter failure. Michael Davitt,
while dissenting from Parnell's land-re-
form scheme, will cooperate with him in
efectipg the abolition of landlordism. An
| amendment by Davitt to the constitution
regarding the numerical membership OF
the new council, brought I. P. O'Connor
to his feet, who charged Davitt with try
ing to iniure Parnell's prestige. Davitt
said gentleman would not have uttere
the accusations No ade by O'Connor, and
withdrew his e-nendment to prove how
groundless re O'Connor's statements.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02

THE United States Signal Service
warnings of the October cyclone detain-
ed hundreds of vessels in ports on the
Atlantic coast, and prevented the
jeopardizing Of property to the value
of nearly Sc, 100000. The contemplated
further Improvements of the service
cover points Of special interest to far
mers, cotton-gro wers and tobacco
growers. Recently eleven new signal
stations have been added to the cotton
and tobacco growing region of the
country. It is stated that the men en-
ployed in the signal service cost the
Government less than $3.50 600 a year,
which is small sum in comparison
with the great benefits to the weather
warning service.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02

THE Portland (Oregonl Ne'O North
accst the woman's suffrage organ in that
State, says that tn esuffrage movement,
which has now passed two successive
Legislatures, has been in no sense a
party measure, it having been cham
pioned by both Republicans and Demo
Gratis, although, the present Legislature
being Republican, It naturally received
more votes from that party than from
the Democratic. The gentleman who
took especial charge of the resolution
in the Senate and urged its adoption is
a Democrat. The opposition to the
measure come from both Republicans
and Democrats, but was limited and
mild.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02
AT colored peoples prayer meeting

AT a colored peoples prayer meeting
in Philadelphia he other evening,
Daniel Douglass, who had been
threatened by Samuel West on account
of his attention to Mrs. West, remarked
to West that if the meant fight he was
prepared, snd made movement with
his hand toward his hip pocket. "I
never allow anyone to get the drop on
me" coolly replied West, as he poked
a revolver under the nose of his oppo-
nent. There was a panic in the church
which subsided when an officer led
West of to the police station.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02

Attleboro fair, but when the train had
reached the Corliss works the locomO-
tive became in some way disabled,
causing considerable delay. The con-
sequence was that the train failed 10
connect with the train at the junction,
and Mrs. Healy and her friends had to
take moving wagon for the fair
grounds. Then occurred another &C
cident.
When still at a considerable distance
from the track the axle-tree of the
wagon broke, and the party again was
left on the road. Another team picked
them up, and, som ewhat to their as
tonlshment, perhaps, they all, in
cludlng Mrs. Healy, at last reached
their destination in safety.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02

ATTORNEY GENERAL BIZ EWsTER and
his special counsel have prepared an
answer to the attorneys who defended
the star route cases. The document is
10000 words in length. 1t reafirms
the assertions made by the attorney
general that persons in the employ of
the department had been tampered
with by the star route conspirators and
used as spies to corrupt jurors.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02
Nickel Plate Road Open.

CHICAGO. The first regular train over
the New York, Chicago & st. Lo uis
"Nickel Plate" road, left this city at
8 o'clock this morning, for Cleveland,
and the road is declared formally
opened for business. The run for a
week or two will be merely for local
traffic in order that the train men and
agents may become accustomed with
the route and its workings. For the
present one passenger train per day
each way will be run between Chicago
& Cleveland, together with such freight
trains as are necessary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02

Col VALENTINE BAKER, an ex Off
Ger of the British army, and now bet
ter known as Baker Pasha, late of the
Turkish Military service, has been
officially appointed to the chief com,
mand of the new Egyptian army.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02
FOREIGN.

THE Bey of TuRis is very i'll and not
expected to live.
THE victorious duke of Connaught has
embarked at Alexandria for England.
FRANCE, by a treaty with the bey, as
sumes sontrol of Tunis, both financially
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02

FRANCE has at last taken supreme
control of Tunis. This has been antici-
dated by close observers OF Frances
recent military operations in that
country.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02

Wickham Hoffman, Secretary of the
United States Legation at st. Pittsburg,
who arrived at New York, says that
most of the stories regarding the Cars
coronation are untrue. Mr.. Hoffman
thinks that while Minister Hunt prob
ably will spend only 81 900 he ought to
spend 5000 in representing America
properly at the coronation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02

Baron Beuter was employed when a
boy, in a brokers' office in Frankfort on
the-Main, and while there he originated
the idea ofduplicating stock messages
from London and other large cities by
means of manifolding. Soon afterward
he conceived the idea of establishing
the general news agency which has
since made him famous.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02

The city of Manila, in the Phillip
pine Islands, which was recently
scoug ged by the cholera, was last Sat
urday, in a great part, destroyed by a
terrible cyclone.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02

IABoRERs' strikes are becoming so
numerous and formidable in France
that the public IS beginning to feel
larmed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-11-02

BRIeHT's DISEASE of the Kidneys. Diabetes,
and other Diseases of the Kidneys AMI Liver,
which you are being SO frightened about, Hop
Bitters ig the only thing that will surely and per-
manently prevent and cure. All other pretended
cures only relieve FOR time and then make you
many tin5s worse
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-04-03
THE CROP REPORT.
Corn and wheat During the Years 1856
mud 1871.


The following statement relative to the corn and
wheat crops Of 1880 and 1881 has been furnished
by the Department Of Agriculture: There are
seven States that produce q surplus Of corn. These
States together yielded 1OiG, 10000 bushels in 1880
and 737 900 I'm 1881. On the Goth of March re-
turns Of the estimated quantity of corn Of the last
crop in the hands Of farmers were made
from over 400 counties of these States to
the Department of Agriculture. They rep
resented more than two-thirds of the
entire area. The percentage of the product Of each
State still on hand is reported as follows: Ohio,
%; Indiana, % +; Illinois, %; Iowa, &c: Missouri,
10 Kansas, IL, and Nebraska 49, The average Is
nearly "a per cent. and amounts to 176.0O0O00
bushels, The estimated proportion on hand March
90 1881 of the larger crop of 1880 In Ohio, SO
per cent? Kansas, 30, and Nebraska, %.
average 81 per cent, or 3So.0OOOOO bushels.
els of wheat in 1880, and lG9,00O,OOO in
1881. The proportion on hand March 20,
rs estimated was: Ohio, 25 per cent; Indiana, 49,
Illinois, 10; Iowa. %; Missouri, II; Kansas, Is
Nebraska, y average, 81 per cent, or nearly
thirty-six million bushels One year ago the pro-
portion remaining Of the crop Of 1880 was Ohio
30 per cent; Indiana %; Illinois, p: Iowa, %;
25 per cent. or 6i,0OOOO0 bushels The
results of this investigation indicates a
comparative shortage of 2l3,0O0000 bushels
or IS per cent. less corn on hand than on
March 20, 1881 and also n decrease of 49,
100000 bushels of wheat or A per cent less than
on March 20, 1884, in these seven States, in addi-
ton to the shortage Of three other surplus wheat
which are credited with 100000 bushels as the
crOD of 1891
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1882-04-03
VIRGINIA NEWS,


Suffolk has purchased chemical fre-enginc,
which at public trial is said TO have given gem
cra satisfaction.
A sui. Of the Baker wrecking Company ekains.
the British steamer Sandrngham, at Norfolk, was
compromised by the steamer paying $4,000.
During the three months from January 70 April
Of this year the inspectors Of the West Hill ware.
house in Petersburg sold l,031 34 pounds Of loose
tobacco.
The Fredericksburg Guards have been assigned
TO the Third Virginia Regiment Colonel G. G.
Wertenbaker commanding, aud is now Company
q OF that regiment,
The board Of trustees Of the Norfolk Academy
have elected the following officers: DR., William
Selden, president; Mr.. r. II. Baker, ST., vice presi
dent, and Captain w. w. Chamberiayne secretary
aud treasurer
DR.. J. b. Hawthorne, Of the First Baptist Church
Gnmond has aecePted tns iny n dciy OF h he
baccalaureate sermon on the occasion of COM
mencement in June next
The Southwest Virginia Improvement Company
owns 40 600 acres Of mineral and timber land In
Tnzewell County, covering, as one item, seam of
coal eleven feet thick. There are in addition In
eXbaustible supplies ut other various points.
The following named postmasters have been
commissioned in Virginia; James A. King, Kings
Mis- Major L. Wallis, New Garden Edward q.
Flaherty, Roaring Run; benjamin w. Ogburn
North View, and Waller X. Cabell, Nelly's Ford
The internal revenue collections in the Peters.
burg district during the month of March amounted
TO S67, OBJ o. The exports of manufactured tobacco
amounted to 167 pounds, an increase over the
exports OF the previous month.
Miss Jennie Latham Sabler died at LyuChburg
on Friday of heart disease. She was q lady of fine
literary requirements, and under the nom dc plume
OF Jennie Woodvillo" contributed number of
stories and sketches TO the popular periodicals of
the day which attracted much attention
The Lynchburg Foundry and Machine Company
has been exempted from municipal taxation for
twenty years, under the general ordinance OF the
city which directs that all capital invested In en-
terrrises Of this character shall be encouraged
this way by protection from the ordinary burdens
OF taxation.
Bishop Keene, Of the Roman Catholic diocese of
Richmond, II Is stated can no longer either read
write owing to the condition of mis- eyes and is
threatened with total blindness During the
present Lenten season, however, he has been de-
livoring series of dOctrinal discourscs which
have attracted immense congregations,
MIR. CHARLES TOWNSEND of Sedaia No., had
rheumatism Of the worst kind A sea trip was n
failure as to renewing his health, and he was go
ing home to die. An eX-consul of Great Britain
advised the use of St. jacobs OIL with the result OF
curing him in two days.