Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1882-12-21
BRIEF ITEMS

ulOIJlls
1t is announced that the bachelor
goyernor-elect of New York is about to
marry.
Pope Leo XIII. will celebrate the ff-
tieth anniversary of his ordination as a
priest on the 23d inst.
The doctors who attended Garfield
are awarded about $3.50 enough
in all conscience; and yet they think it
ought 10 be four times as much.
Quee Victoria is fond Of Welsh
woolens in plain and neutral tints, ano
in tiny checks of rich dark red and
brown. Her favorite is black and
dark green.
The proposition to make Sir John
Macdonald governor general of Cana
da meets With considerable favor. 1t
seems as if the time had arrived for
Canada to furnish her own governor
general.
The Marquis of Lorne and party ar
rived at San Francisco, few days ago,
from British Columbia, and were
greeted with salutes fred from the
forts.
Miss Yates, who is trying to induce
reforms concerning English working
mems food, is sustained by high au-
thOrity when she says that dogs fed on
white bread die at the end of forty
days, wniie they thrive and flourish on
bread made of whole meal.
Sig. Nicolini has been taking 81
back seat of late, Nine. Patti having
consented to sing occasionally without
her faVorite tenor in the leading sup
porting roles. Patti and Sig. Ravelli
are now sharing q good deal of the
leading business together, and NicOli-
III seldom appears at all.
Mr. III. M. Kimbail, of the Carlin-
vile, H., Democrat, has sold his interest
in that paper to his partner, Mr.. A. G.
David, and will remove to Rockford
Ill, where he has purchased the Jour
nal of that city. Mr.. Kimball has been
connected with the Democrat for the
last twenty-six years.
The venerable Simon Cameron is WIS.,
ting Washington, it is supposed, in the
interest of the pacifcation of the re-
publican factions.
IL IS SAID that the late Congressman
Updegraf, Of Ohio, was nearer 20 than
go at the time of his death. He was
the only man IN congress who would
not give his age for publication in the
Congressional Record.
Mr.. William A. Banister, of New
y Ork, has given to his native town of
Brookfeld, Mass, $4,000 for a public
library building, q library having previ-
ously been given to the town by Judge
Merrick.
Kentucky will have two candidates
for the speakership of the next con-
gress-Congressmen Carlisle and Black
burn.
A state convention of prohibitionists
is called to meet in Louisville, KY,
February 10, 1883, to nominate candi-
dates for governor and other state Off
cerg.
The vote of Louisiana at the late
election was the smallest for several
years. The democratic vote was 49,
l65 and the republican 1896. New
Orleans cast "a per cent. of the entire
vote.
Virginia has q total voting popula-
ton of 334 900 of which 10000 are
whites, and 12S,000 blacks. AS there
were less than 100000 white votes cast
ut the late election, at least 1000
white people did not vote. This was
mainly due to the capitation tax. That
is now repealed.
Ex-COngressnan Lewis d. Campbell,
who died recently at his home in Ohio,
said, q few days ago, that he had
written the true history of the Burlin-
game duel of 1854, which would be
published after his death.
Miss Anna E. Dickinson is said to
have resolved never again to appear on
the lecture platform, nor on the dra-
matte stage. She is now living quietly
st Honesdale, Pa, with her mother-a
venerable Quaker lady of Sand
younger sister.
A party of Sunday school girls called
upon Mr.. John G. Whittier, in Boston,
one afternoon last week, and brought
with them D basket of flowers. Mr..
Whittier received the gift with the
modesty and dif1idence he always mani
tests under such circumstances, and
said: 81 do not deserve this"
Capt. II. II. Crews, of the fourth
cavalry, stationed at Washington, has
been found guilty of ENLIGHTENMENT and
neglect of duty, and Secretary Lincoln
has asked for his resignation.
Miss Rowe, of Boston, for the cele-
bration of Whittier's birthday by
schoolgirls, has written a little dia-
losue or play for seven girls, in which
the life of Whittier and his most
characteristic poems are ingeniously
introduced.
Mr.. and Mrs. Blaine have been in
New York, purchasing upholstery,
table linen and other things for their
Washington house, and they will have
things in order before Christmas.
DIR. ]. M. Buckley, editor of the
Christian Advocate, n. Y, city, will
preach the Baccalaureate sermon, and
Dr.. j. I. Duryea, of Boston, deliver
the commencement address, at Lasell
Seminary, Auburndale, Mass, next
June.
The Rev. Charles E. Stowe, son of
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Pas
tor of the Congregational Church of
Saco, Me-, has handed in his resigna-
ton. He says family matters will re-
quire him to move to Hartford, Conn,
at the last of the month.
Senator Frye, of Maine, spent
happy Thanksgiving Day in company
with four generations of his family,
his parents, his children and his grand
children being present, besides cousins,
uncles and aunts too numerous to
mention.