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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10
More Old Women Than Men.

1t is a curious fact that the number
OF women who reach one hundred years
and upward is nearly double that of
leng-llved men, remarks the Buffalo
Courier. They lead less exposed and
often more regular lives than their hus-
bands and brethern, and if their consti-
tntlons are not broken during their first
half century, are likely to attain good
old age. 1t is only necessary to look
around in any community TO verify this
fact. Certainly Buffalo furnishes no
exception to the fact. Out of the seven
or eight thousand graduates of Harvard
College since 1642, only four have &C
tually risen to par" while a fifth lack
ed fortnight of completing his centu-
ry. So few persons reach one hundred
years of age, and stories of great longe-
vity are so exaggerated th~t Sir George
Cornwall Lewis boldly declared few
years ago that no one ever lived one
hundred years. Of course, this state
ment was little piece of countsr. ex-
travagauce, but it is Certain that fewer
persons live to reach the age of one
hundred than is popularity supposed.
Out of the many thousand Revolution
ary soldiers AID their widows on the
Governments rolls, two or three entered
and even passed the second decade OF
their second century, and these are
the oldest American cases. English
seventeenth century annals tell of
Countess of Desmond who, at the age
of one hundred and forty, was in the
habit of climbing trees to pick cherries.
but it is to be feared that this old lady
was given to pulling the long bow about
her birthday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10
Chicago Market.

CHICAGO, May A. Flour Firm, un-
changed and regular. Wheat-UnEettled; opened
weak and lower, closed firm at outside prices,
L13A for seller May; 1.151 for seller June
Ll7H@Ll7H for seller July; 1.16& for seller
August; .l65i for seller September; l.12H for
seller the year; No. Chicago spring, 1.I3@
l.1314; No. 3, Chicago spring, 95; No. 2 red
winter, 1.l3H. Corn-Active but lower; 55K
for seller cash and May; 57A@56X for seller
June; 5Sh@582s for seller July; 59H a II for
seller August; 521s for seller the year. Oats
Dull and lower; 1H for seller cash; AK 70
seller May; 42X@43 for seller June; AK for
seller July; 80 for seller August; 33h h@33H for
seller the year. Rye-Qniet but firm and higher;
634z. Barley-Dul and nominal. Flax Seed
In fair demand; Las. Pork-0pened weak and
lower but closed firm at outside prices; 1850 for
seller cash and May; l9.70@19.721 for seller
June; l9.S7HQ19.90 for seller July; 1997HQ
1000 for seller August; 2O.O5@2O1O for seller
September; 17.2O@17.25 for seller the year.
Lard Opened weak and lower, closed frm at
outside prices; 1lS0@1.85 for seller cash and
May; 11.9O@11.92h for seller June; 1.s2A
@11,95 for seller July; 11.S7H @11.9O for seller
August; I.sO for seller September 11.SO9 11.S5
for sellerlthe year. Bulk meats-In fair demand;
shoulders 500; short ribs 1875; do clear, 11OO.
Butter-Quiet and unchanged. Eggs Easier;
4K@15. Whiskey-- Steady and unchanged.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10
FOREIGN

THE importation of American pork into
Greece has been forbidden.
TREvRLYAN, the Irish Secretary, stated
in the House of Commons that wide
spread conspiracy to murder existed in
the County Clare.
A RELIGIOUS riot between Creeks and
Arabs at Port Said. Egypt, resulted in
the death of many persons. The Greek
Church was protected by British troops.
THE prospects for the wheat crop have
improved in England, and corn, -four and
wheat rule steadier. Domestic wheat
sold at London last week As I'd per quarter
cheaper than in the corresponding period
in 1882
The British government is alleged to
have made request upon the United
States for the eytradition of about dozen
persons accused Of murder in Ireland.
JOSEPH HoNLoN, one of the men accused
Of the Phe nix park assassinations, has
turned informer, but too late to save him.
self, and his own admissions will be used
against him when he goes to trial.
FITZHARRIs, the cab-driver, known az
Skin the Goat" was acquitted at Dublin
Yesterday of participation in the Ph@nlx
Park murders. Another charge is pend.
ing against him, of conspiracy to mGrder
ANSWERING the question about the tri
pie alliance in the senate, the French for.
eign minister said the matter was eur
rounded by mystery; but France desired
to be in accord with all foreign countries
when her honor and dignity permitted it
A RIOT between Greeks and Arabs al
Port Said is reported. British troops and
sailors protected the Greek church, while
the Greek consul took refuge on board 8
2unboat. A general massacre of Europeans
is said to have been averted by the land
ing of the British forces.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10

THE South American earthq uake is
at its old tricks. The whole Republic
of Colombia has been shaken up lately.
Few lives were lost, but church walls
were cracked and thrown out of plumb,
pillars thrown down, houses demolish-
ed in certain villages, tidal waves invad-
ed cellars and swept away everything
loose on the wharves, and in che place
a prison was demolished and the in
mates set free. A large island at the
mouth of the AtaIto disappeared and
didn't leave any word where it had
gone or when it would return. A war
rantey deed of real estate in that frisky
country wouldn't insuro perfect title
by long ways. A tolerably vigorous
earthquake is liable to sink q mans
plantation SO deep that an exploring
party couldn't even find the hole it
went in at.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

FIVE inches of snow fell Wednesday in
the vicinity of Grad Forks, Oak.
THREE hundred emigrants from Come
mara, Ireland, arrived at Montreal Wed
nesday, destitute, hungry and filthy. They
are on the way to Minnesota, and will be
followed by large numbers in like condi-
tion.
ALBERT II. BEALs, merchant of Bos-
ton, shot his partner, A. Perley Pickett.
through the head, on board Fall River
steamer Sunday night. having mistaken
him for burglar as moved about the
state room they were ,upying conjointly.
FIRE losses include $4,000 to Wards
Milling and Manufa, uring Company, of
Bangor, Maine, o. which there was
$4,000 insurance: $4,000 to the Ohio
sewer-pipe works, of Columbus, Ohio
the insurance being $4,000, and an
aggregate of $4,000 among number Of
property-owners at Newaygo, Mich.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10
GENERAL NOTES.

HERR Schultz, the founder OF the friend.
ly societies, has died at Potsdam.
The New York police Sunday made
about one hundred arrests for violation OF
the excise laws.
The SoorT bill. which has become a
law CT Ohio. prohibits the sale of liquor
to be drank on the premises. 1t fixes the
Incense Tor the sale of alcoh olic liquors
a. sIoo per annum. 1t exempts ci ties of
the first class from the operation of the
Sunday law
TnE senior senator from Colorado, Dr..
Hill, has written letter to Secretary
Teller. with whom he has rot been on
friendly terms for some time. In this letter
the secretary is accused of discourtesy to
the senator in removing officials appointed
upon the latter's recommendation. The
Yellowstone park lease is passed in review
in manner that is calculated to impugr
either the wisdom or the integrity of the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10
A Mad Dog in Church.
Charlotte Observer.

The Presbyterian congregation at
Davidson College had their nerves bad
ly unstrung last Sudnay night. The
people had gathered in the Presbyte-
rian chapel to attend divine service,
which was being conducted by DR..
Lattiumer. There was a. large congre-
CATION present, including many ladies.
DIR. Lattimer was just reading a chap
ter in the Bible, when a bowling, yelp-
ing canine burst into the church right
into the midst of the terrified congre-
CATION The scene that followed may
be imagined. Dr.. Lattimer stopped
In the middle of a sentence, and IN a
second was viewing the scene from his
perch on the top of the pulpit, encour-
agingly, but somewhat excitedly, call
ing upon the congregation to Kill it
Kill il % The men and women stood
on top of benches, and there was some
pretty loud shouting and screaming
done. One of the students present,
VINO had evidently healed himself for a
combat with mad dogs, pulled out pis-
tol and made the interior OF the ssnc-
tum echo with the sound Gf battle.
Two shots were fired at the animal,
both wounding him severely and dis
abling him, when the men fell upon the
dog with sticks, and quickly dis patched
him. The carcass was dragged from
the church, but it was SOM time before
every body settled down again, and
manv of them, indeed, had no ears for
preaching the balance of the night.
The ladies stood the ordeal rem ark
ably well, only one of them going eff in
faint, but it might have been worse
had not the voice of the pastor, stand
ing on the pul pit, been heard above all
the din and tumult. The dog had been
shot at and wounded outside the church
and, bloody from the wound, frothipg
at the mouth and barking like mad, it
bounded in among the unsuspecting
congregation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10
Milwaukee Market.

MILwAUKrE, May 4.-Rlour Dull and Nom
nal. @heat-Irregular; No. 2 hard, 1.2l;
No. 2, LIP; liz for seller May; LAS. for
seller June; 1.16X for seller July; No. 8,
81, No. 4, 80; rejected nominal. Corn-Lower;
No. 2, 545.. Oats-Dull and lower; No. 2, Al
white, 441l. Rye-Higher and in fair de-
mand; No. 1, 62A; No. 2. COZ. Barley
Dull; extra No. 8, at "a. Provisions-Easy
Mess Pork-l965 for seller cash and May;
1875 for seller June. Lard-Prime steam,
u.s0 for seller cash and May; 11.9O for seller
June. Live Hogs-Easy; 7.OOa7.95. Freights
Wheat to Buffalo, nominal, 81. Butter
Higher and scarce Cheese Scarce and wan ted.
Eggs-Firmer. Reseipts-Flour. $685.; wheat,
23,175; barley, $500. shipments-Flour, "a, ;
no; wheat, $50; barley. 661.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10

The terrible tornado which lately
devastated Mississippi and other South
ern States has once more furnished the
occasion for an exhibition of benevo-
lence. The later reports show that
the destruction was widespread and
the casualties and losses frightful.
The killed IL single county are stated
to be-one hundred in number, while
tho wounded are placed at twice that
number. For a space of twenty miles
houses, fences, trees, bedding, clothing,
furniture-in fact everything but the
inhabitants-are blown away. More
than thousand homeless people are
dependant on the charity of neighbors
in that single locality.
In view of these deplorable facts a
call is made for contributions through
the Red Cross Association, which has
its headquarters at Washington. 1t is
to be hoped that the responses will be
prompt and liberal. The money can
be sent to any one of the three trustees,
of the association at Washington
They are Secretary Folger, Secretary
Lincoln and Commissioner Loring
The well-known character and stand.
ing OF these gentlsmen are a sufficient
guarantee that themoney will be wisely
and properly applied. As the disaster
is widespread, it is better that the mon.
ey be collected and distributed from
Washington to the various points oi
need than to send it direct to any par
ticular locality in the devasted district.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10
How TO Battle Disease,

The man who puts bullet through his head
dies more speedily than he who Is continually
his throat but the drastic pellets are as fatal in
the esd as the leaden ball. 1t is only question
of time. Common sense should teach every body
that the idea OF expelng disease bv subverting
the bodily vigor which is It's natural Antagonist
is supremely absurd. There should be no purga-
tion without inVigoration and regulation. These
three processes should go together, and they do
so in all cases where Hostetter's Stomach Bitters
are used IS remedy for disease, or for the gen.
eral debility growing out of torpid state of the
digestive and seeretIve organs. In this great
vegetable restorative mingled three essential
elements of cure, purifying element, g. tonic
element and an anti-bilious element. By these
means dyspepsia, bilious disorders, intermittent
fevers, sick headache, constipation and nervous
debility are readily cured and epidemic disease
prevented.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10
Associate Justice Harlan.

TO HOLD COURT IN THE EASTERN DISTRICT.
MILWAUKEE. May 3.-Associate JUS
tice John M. Harlan, of the United
States supreme court, will hold court
in this city commencing Monday May
14th, and continuing through the
week. The calendar of cases for the
session contains a number of consider
able imnortauce
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10

An indianapolis baby was bitten,
In teasing a pet Maltese kitten,
Before day ended.
st. Jacobs Oil mended,
And with il mothers are smitten.
A hunter who lives at Bear Run,
Hurt his arm by the kick Of a gun,
The hunt it did spoil,
But St. Jacobs Oil
Cured him before swelling begun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10
The Fatal Elevator.

New YORK, May 4.-Tbe ele.
vator of the Bryant building
on the corner Of Mason and Liberty
streets became unmanageable this
morning and Gustave Schif, glass
merchant, in attempting to escape was
crushed to death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10

seer etary. and his distribution of the pat
ronage of the interior department is criti-
cised unfavorably.
NUMEROUS labor strikes were inaugur-
ated in various parts of the United States
Wednesday, the most noteworthy being
that of the railroad coal miners of TIE
"Pau Handle" district of the Penn sylvia
MIA railroad. Six thousand miners have
quit work rather than submit to the pro-
posed reduction of wages. In numerous
instances cigar makers who have been re-
fused an advance of 81 per thousand
have struck work, At Lynn. Mass. there
is a general strike of shoemakers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10
VOL XXVI

The date of meeting of the Ohio
stateprohibition convention has been
changed from June II to August l.
They want to wait and see what the
other state conventions will do.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10
A Baby Camel.
New York Tribune.


There has been an interesting in
crease in the happy family of birds and
beasts which is assembled arouEd the
old Arsenal in Central Park. The latest
conner is 8 young camel, which began
its career of earthly troubles on Satur-
day night. It's first experience of life
was rare one fer camel, for it found
itself reposing in heap of snow. Never
theless, it did not pine for the hot
sands of the Great Sahara, which ought
to have been its native health, but pro-
ceeded to make itself as comfortable as
it could until day daWned and keeper
removed the youthful quadruped to
mere comfortable quarters. For six
hours the little infant was not permit
ted to draw nourishment from the nat
ural source. The old Mrs. Camel was
inclined to be somewhat ungracious
toward her little one, and had to be
tied up with strong ropes before she
would permit the caresses' of her
babe, Said babe is about the size of a
colt, and is so ugly that if it ever catches
sight Of itself it will 60 off in a dark
corner and die. It consists principally
of legs. These are long, cumbersome,
and apparently very much in their own
way. The infant camel has back like
any other persons. There is no hump
visible yet. The keeper says that the
young beast will sprout a hump il the
course of time, and be as proud of it
as boarding-school boy of the first
down on his lip. The infants neck
moreover, is so short that it could no,
eat grass, if there were any to eat, whit
out lying down. This slight inconven-
ience will stretch out and double on
itself in the manner most approved by
camels which have reached the years
of discretion.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10

Congressman George E. Adams, of
Chicago, has been ia Washington re-
Gently, to select residence for next
winter. Thomas B. Bryan, formerly
of Chicago, has sold his residence there
to Theodore Lyman, new Boston
member.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10

Remarkable for overcoming diseases caused by
impure water, decaying vegetation, ETC., is
Browns Iron Bitters.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-05-10
THE DIRECT LINE TO
WESTERN and NORTHERN IOWA,
NEBRASKA, MINNESOTA and DAKOTA.

Close Connections at Mcmillan, reaching
st. Paul and Minneapolis the same day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-10-31
e recommend Ely's Cream Balm

We recommend Ely's Cream Balm
where a cure for catarrh is called for,
and consider that we are doing the public
a service by making its virtues known to
those afflicted with this loathsome dis
ease. for which it in most instances a per-
feet cure. PECK BROS, Druggists, Grand
Rapids, Mich. price so cents. See
advertisement
Since last October | have suffered from
acute inflammation in my nose and head
often in the night having to get up and
inhale salt and water for relief. My eye
has been for a week at time, so | could
not see. have used no end ofIremedies
also employed a doctor, who said it was
impure blood-but it got no help. fused
Ely's Cream Balm on the recommendation
of friend. | was faithless but in few
days was cured. My nose now, and also
my eye is well. 1t is wonderful how
quick it helped me- Mrs GEORGE S
JUDsoN, Hartford, Conn.,, (Easy to use.
Price so cents.) 2
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-10-31
IN BUTTER-MAK
ING.

On the afternoon Of the last day of the
recent Royal Irish Show at Limerick,
says the Irish Farmers Gazette, perhaps
the most interesting and instructing fea-
ture in it took place, viz: the butter
making contest, in which seven entries
were made. One of the competitors was
the young lady from Germany, whose
skill and dexterity in the various de-
tails of the department over which she
had charge excited the admiration of
spectators.
The other six were taken from the
fair daughters of the Emerald Isle, and
it was real pleasure to see such large
number of elegant girls, many of them
highly educated and accomplished whose
parents were large occupiers of land,
thinking it not beneath themselves in the
least degree to compete thus publicly for
the prizes fered for what has been, until
lately, much neglected part of Irish
agriculture, viz: butter making. Equal
quantities OF cream having been weighed
to each competitor, on signal from the
Steward (Mr. Robertson), whose arrange
ments Tor the competition were as perfect
DO Poo0lD1CJ CdplIdl SldIL was UlduG.
No. had her butter ready for working
in thirty minutes, followed very shortly
by the others The butter of each COM
petitor, as taken from the Holstein but
ter-worker, was carefully weighed in the
lump, and again weighed when made up
in one pound rolls; but so carefully had
the working been done that. it was found
only the 120th part was lost in the oper
alton. The butter was found to be of
very fine quality; the texture, favor, and
color being excellent. These gratifying
results are doubtless due to the instruc-
ton the competitors had received in the
Munster Dairy School, the manager of
which (Mr. Smith) took lively interest
in the success of his pupils. Only two
prizes were offered in the catalogue; but
so keen was the competition that uum-
Der of gentlemen placed five other prizes
at the disposal of the judge. To each of
the competitors II pounds of cream was
given, and the produce of butter averag-
ed about pounds or ounces. The
temperature of the cream, when put into
the churn, was 5S degrees. Some of the
girls, it is stated, worked churns they had
never tried before.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-10-31

~ma era g. Hwv The use of the term
20 "Short Line in con
" 81 Ia nection with the cor
a. W Nr9g pOratG II m e OF
en great road conveys
LINZ e.: :.: s.; s. $ :i s9 8:
Time and the Best of accOmmOdatiOns-al of
which are furnished by the greatest railway in
America.
CHICAGO,
INE IL w AUKEE
md T. I'D AUL.
1t owns and operates over $500 miles of road
IN Northern Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa aud Dakota; and as its main lines. branches
and connections reach all the great business
centres of the Northwest and Far West it nat1lr-
ally answers to the description of Short Line, and
Best Route between
Chicago, MjE1oaashee, 81. Paul and Mjnneapozs.
Chicago, La Crosse and Wtnona.
Chicago, IijJa0aubee, aberdeen and Glendale.
Chicago, JIiI10aukee Eau Claire and StiHacuter.
Chicago, MfElUaukeS, nu8UU and MeJriH
Chicago MjllOaukee, Beaver Dam and Oshkosh.
Chicago, Nty10aukee, WaukeshG and Oconomowoc
Chicago Mil10aubee, Madison and Prairie du Chen
Chicago, NiIoCaukee, O1gat0nna and Fd7i6auH,
Chicago, Bel0H and Mineral Point
Chicago, F7gtn, Rockford and Dubuque.
Chicago, Clinton, Rock Island and CEDAR Rapids,
Chicago Council Bluffs and Omaha,
Chicago, Sioux City. Sioux Falls and Yankton
Cb5cn0O JEI2DnuEeo 1fitcIeU and Cbl,a,5o,.,o;
Rock Island, Dubuque;& Paul and NinneaDozis.
Davenport Calnaa;, st. Paul and minneapolis.
Pullman SIcPpers and the Finest Dining Cars
I'm the world are run on the main lines of the
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-10-31
Business Property for
sale or to Rent.

The undersigned offers for sale or rent what
is known as the Devy dwelling just east Of the
Junction in the Third ward. The house is a
large two story brick consisting of 70 rooms
with hard and soft water on the premises. 1t is
suitable for hotel or boarding house, being
built for that purpose by NJ. Devy. 1t will be
sold cheap. ANY one DESTROYS OF running a no.
tel or boarding house Will find it q suitable To-
scation.
He wishes also to dispose Of his two story
brick blacksmith shop and tg,o lots one block
south of Main on lst street The building is a
new brick, 20x4O feet, and in the rear of it is
fine a1tesian well, adding considerable to the
value of the property. The location is q deaira
BILE one, and very suitable for first-class black
smith shop.
Anyone wishing to buy fine site for dwell
ing house can be accommodated also by apply
ing 70 the undersigned. He has twelve lots
consisting of one-quarter acre each in the 4th
ward, north of the Sacred Heart College, near
the home of II. WILDER. These lots Will be sold
in whole or in part and all ofthe above property
on the most favorable terms. Property is low,
and now is the time to purchase. For further
particulars apply TO
P. KENNEDY,
Liveryman, list. St., south of Main.