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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25
Another Washington Scandal.

Washington Telegram to the Pioneer ress
The investigation of the clerk of the
house, John Bailey. which will begin
soon before the special committee ap-
pointed for that purpose, promises
some interesting features. The charge
is that Bailey is the paid agent of the
Washington Gas Light Company, and
has acted in the double capacity of lob
byist and clerk, and the truth of the
charge is apparently established by
the character of legislation where this
monopoly is concerned. Every public
Office, if it is charged, sports some paid
agent of the company, whose influence
is used to retard or accelerate legisla-
ton, as Bailey has been doing at the
capital. Even this committee of inves-
tigation was appointed by the speaker
from friends of the company. The
members who brought the investiga-
ton about were shut out. The reason
for this, it is said, will be brought out
before the investigation closes. A long
list of witnesses have been called
among whom are prominent senators,
members and public men. One of the
witnesses will swear, he writes, that he
Was In he employ of the gas company
at S., 900 per annum ''to retard legisla
ton" and that Bailey operated on the
floor of the in the same way as agent of
the company.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25

Mr. john F. OLhsTEAD is In posi-
tion to know something of the vanities
of politics. The president nominated
him as one Of the commissioners of
the District of Columbia, thus giving
hira an introduction to fame and pub
lie life. The press was alert and at
once began to examine his record.
This was found to be very vulnerable,
and such buzz was made about his
ears that he was forced to defend him
self in the lame fashion common to
his class. The senate committee found
out something about him after the
newspapers had fully ventilated his
surroundings and associates and they
concluded yesterday to let him down
as easy as possible. He has for his
reward a character more or less
smirched and the privilege of going out
with as good q grace as possible, as
sured that if he does not see fit to re-
tire he will be rejected. Very few
politicians have had an experience so
varied and valuable in the same
space of time as that through which
Mr.. OImstead has gone in the last
mouth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25
GENERAL NOTES.

The legislature of Tennessee elected
Atha Thomas state treasurer. He is a
lawyer at Franklin.
THE Milwaukee Germans have sent
$24 600 10 the food victims of Father
land.
A BILL to prohibit the sale of liquors,
is before the senate of Texas and will
probably pass. although influential whis-
ky dealers are lobbying against it
The surviving sons of Israel Washburn,
of Maine, haye resolved to erect a me-
mortal granite building at the homestead
in Liverm, re, for use as public library.
MA1Taaw F. WHITTIER, the only broth
er of the poet, died of rheumatism in
Boston. where he held a custom-house DO
sition.
THE select and common councils of
Philadelphia elected Wm. NJ. Taggart as
city comptroller in place of Gov. Pattison.
The governor has already sent to the
senate the name o A. Davis Page for
that Office. A legal contest is expected.
TIE stock farms around Lexington.
Kentucky are alive with eastern and
northern borsemen in search of roadsters
and trotters. Breeders in that section
dislike to sell to each other. A 6,vear-
old-mare wBs sold the other day for 81 500
after Milte 7 Dung had offered $500 for
her.
THE republican national committee met
in Washington Thursday. John A. Mar
tin, of Karsas. was elected secretary in
place OF S. w. Dorsey After prolonged
debate it was resolved that the basis of
repre- sentation in3national conventions be
two delegates for each senator, the same
for every member of congress, and two
for each territory and the District of Co
lumbia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25

for the forfeiture of the Northern Pacific
land grants.
A CABINET officer is authority for the
statement that should the Fitz Ohm Por-
Ter bill pass the house it will never be
signed by the president.
TIE comptroller of The currency has
author I'd the commencement of business
bv the Drovers' National bank at the
Union stock-yards, with a capital of
800, COO.
The grand jury has returned an indict-
ment against Frank II. Fall, charging
him with attempting TO corruptly control
the vote of one Brown, juror in the first
star-route trial.
Ex SENATOR SPENCER, who is wanted at
Wasnin gton az a witness in the star-route
cases, has for some time been staying In
Kingston, Ontario, closely watched by
detectives but is now reported at Halifax,
en- route for England.
THE house committee on public build
ings and grounds has authorized the pur-
chase for $4,000 of the house in which
Abraham Lincoln died. A report will be
made against the sale OF the brideweil
deck properly at Caicago.
GEN. CAUEDo, one of the commission
er8 appointed by Mexico to negotiate a
commercial IL eaty, has arrived in Wash
ipgton, and called upon Grant and Tres
cott in company with Romero.
The court of claims has rendered a de-
cision in favor of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship company for $83 333. 33 in suit
against the United States under its con-
tract for carrying the mail on the China
line a number of We ears ago.
REV. Dr.. HICKS, spiritual adviser of
Charles j. Guiteau. has executed leg ii
instrument transferring to Surgeon-Gen-
eral Crane all his right a I'D title to Quit
eau's body. The paper recites a clause of
the will by which Guiteau bequeathed
his body to DIR. Hicks, and it bears evil
dence of acknowle dgment before justice
of the peace. Surgeon General Crane is
unable to state what the final disposition
of the assassin's remains will be.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The business portion of the village oil
Macarthur, Ohio, has been destroyed BY
fire.
Hon. E. B. WAsHBURNB, while riding
at San Antonio. was painfully injured by
being thrown from his horse.
TRE Jail at Oak Harbor, Ohio. was
burned Sunday morning, and a prisoner
charged with drunkenness perished in the
flames.
SMALL Pox has developed in the lum-
Der camps near Rat Portage, Manitoba,
and the government has sent out physi-
clans and urses.
TRICBINIAsIs made It's appearance in
the family Cf Jacob Schrieyer, at Fred
ericksburg, I e1as, from which three chill.
dren died.
The steamer Josephine, with twenty
passengers ard full load Of freight, e1.
ploded her boiler in Port Susan bay, or
the Pacific, ard several lives were lost.
sTRAGGLIHG bands of Indians, en- rou {
from San Carlos reservation to join Ju in
sonora, are seen frequently near Tomb.
stone, Arizona. The governor of Sonors
h8n ordered out large force of troops to
intercept the hostlles.
Dr.. J. w. Groat of Aurora. Illinois,
registered at the Palmer House Thurs
dry and paid for his room for one day,
Tho next evening he was found in a dy-
ing condition evidently from poison, and
soon expired.
The village of Mara, Sutherland, has
been entirely destroyed by landslide. a
great mass of earth, rocks and trees NOV.
ing down the mount ain side, ard huryinp
ho FHha MI bah M ~
their lives by fleeing hastily.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25

The New York Tribune sees a posi-
bility of financial troubles ahead, but
advances two reasons for hoping that
they may be avoided. The first is that
banks and business men have had
some pretty sharp warnings of the
danger. 1t would be strange indeed, it
thinks. if they should not take especial
precautions to draw away from de-
pendence upon operations so plainly
dangerous. The second is that the
speculative fever has about reached
the stage at which the professional
gamblers are left to amuse themselves
with each other.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25

GREAT fires, like other misfortunes,
come not singly. While woTkmen are
clearing away the debris of the New
hall house FIRE in Milwaukee, the wires
are burdened with weight of woes.
A portion of the Plahters house, St.
Louis, burned Sunday morning, In
which three lives were lost; the Russell
house in Neenah, Wis, together with
the Pettibone block, the First National
INK and other property; the Mandt
IN mandatory at Stoughton, near
IN, and the First Presbyterian
a of Memphis. No lives were
at Neepah or at Stoughton or at
.empnls, which is cause for profound
congratulation. But terrible catas-
trophe was narrowly averted at the
Memphis church FIRE, as the congrega-
tion had hardly passed across the
threshold into the outer air when the
destroying element seized upon it and
reduced it to heap of smouldering
ruins. A remoter calamity, mcagerly
outlined in the cable dispatches, recalls
the frightful horrors of the Brooklyn
theater fire. A fire breaking out in q
circus building, in a jewish town oil
Russian Poland, destroyed 800 lives
and wrapped the whole city in mourn
ing. The recurrence of these warning
alarms in America is hardly to be re
gretted, since the loss of life is insig
ni6cant, as they repeat and emphasize
the lesson of the Ne eRhall house fire
The owners and proprietors of that
luckless hostelry have endured q good
deal of indignant criticism, but it is the
concurrent evidence of the whole trav-
cling g'public that nearly every consid
cradle town in the northwest has one
or more hotels as dangerous. The
need for reform in Gazing for the safety
of guests is almost universal. The sub
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25

New ENGLAND is having a very severe
drouth. The streams have not been
so low for many years, and some of
them appear to be drying up. The
consequent embarrassment to maun-
featuring establishments, some OF
which have already come to a stand
still for want Of water power, is a seri-
oI1a matter
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25
Gus matter

THE preponderance of current con,
gressional opinion is that there will be
no tariff legislation this session, as the
question is badly complicated and
there yet remains but thirty working
days, while much necessary legislation
is still unperf fected.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25
Hungary

The Iowa supreme court convenes
in adjourned special session next
week, when it Is expected an
opinion on the validity of the liquor
prohibition constitutional amendmen
Will be delivered
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25

The daughter of governor Hamilton,
of Maryland, Mrs. Clara ii. Stanhope,
has obtained a divorce from her hus-
band, John I. Stsnhope, of Hagers-
town. The romantic marriage of the
couple caused something of sensation
in Baltimore about year ago, Stan
hope who is a clerk, did not oppose
the granting of the decree.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25
VOL XVI

BROOKLYN has lost the right to her
title as the "City of Churches" Cincin,
natl, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago
have now more churches in proportion
to population than Brooklyn has.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25
How Lawyer Treated the Case.

l, David Strouse, of New Haven. Con-
necticut, was attacked with a severe rheu-
natism in my right arm, hand and foot
so that walked with difficulty and could
hardly use my hand to eat with. I used
one bottle OF St. Jacobs Oil, rubbing well
three times day, and obtained instant re-
lief and perfect cure.
DAVID STROUsE. AttorneY-at-Law
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25

The hospital belonging to old Fort
Crawford, at Prairie du Chen, Wis,
which was a government military sta
ton early in the present century, and
was one of the landmarks of the past
in the northwest, was destroyed by fire
ON Satnrdav.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25

The loss OF property IN Germany
alone, by the recent calamitous floods,
is estimated at about $2OOO0,OOO. 1t
must be equally large in Russia and
Hungary.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25

Fortunate Adolphus: "By Jovel'
exclaimed Adolphus, stroking the cap
illary suggestions on his upper lip:
"the fellows say that a moustache
hides the expression of g. fellows face,
and they're all going to shave before
taking part in our theatricals." Chow
fortunate!' exclaimed Julia, sympa-
thetically, "you won't have to shave,
will YOU p
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25
FRIDAY, JAN. 10

Senme-At the close of the mornir e
hour the postotfice bill vas laid aside aud
the senate resumed consideration of the
tariff.
House-The house passed two private
bills. A war claim bill then gave rise to
some debate and the yeas and nays were
ordered on its passage, pending which, on
motion of Robson, of New Jersey, the
house at o'clock adjourned and a repub-
licaR caucus was held Immediately.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25
Liver. Kidney and Bright's Disease.

A medicine that destroys the germ of Bright's
disease, Diabetes, Kidney and Liver
Complaints, and has power to root them out of
tie system, is above all price. Such a medicine
is Hop Bitters, and positive proof of this can be
found by one tlial, or by asking your neighbors
who have been cured by it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25
MONDAY. JAN. 15.

Se1adte-Mr. Pendleton presented re-
monstrance from Cincinnati manufactur-
ers of iron roofing against the reduction of
duty on tin plate, The following also
were presented:
By Mr.. VOORHEES,, petition signed by
eminent men in Indiana, favoring legis-
lation putting an end to the monopoly of
medical employment under the govern
ment by the regular school, aud making
all qualified physicians equal before TIE
law In government service.
By Mr.. Garland. petition against in
reference with the tariff on cotton seed
oil.
By Mr. Harrison against the passage
of the Bankrupt law,
number of bills were then intro
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25

Edwin Booths engagement in Berlin
has been prolonged on account of his
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25
THE FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS-
SATURDAY, JAN. Is.

iSere0te-The senate spent the day in
discussing the bill to make the head of
the agricultural bureau cabinet Office.
Sen. Plumb sent up and had read
letter of the late Gambetta, transmitting
copy of the act establishing a ministry
of agriculture in France and referring to
the action on the same subject in Ger
many, Australia, Italy and the . nited
States; also dispatch from London on
the 22d of December last, announcing for
the arrangemen for the creation of a
ministry of agriculture in England were
almost completed, and Right Hon. JOS.
Chamberlain would be the first to fill the
Office. A bill of this character, in in
terest of the greatest and most important
portion of the community, ought not to
be bushed aside in order to pass DILL to
enable a claimant to take half a million
dollars out of the treasury, which if
paesed would be followed by thousand
other claims. Sen. Williams, as one of the
very practical farmers In the senate, was
heartily In accord with Sen. Plumb in all
he had said In regard to to the i'm portance
of the agricultural bill, and he thanked
him on his own account and in behalf of
the farmers of his own country. When
the doors re-opened the senate adjourned.
House-Mr. Joyce called up the bill
providing that any person who, while in
naval or military service, shall have lost
the sight of one eye. shall be entitled to
receive a pension of $12 per month, and
in cases in which the injury to one eve
manifestly affects ibjuriously the sight of
the other eye, he shall be entitled to an
eq"itable increase In his pension not to
exceed in whole the amount of S25 Der
month; and all those who. under like Cir
cumstances, have lost the sight of the
other. having been previously lost, shall
he entitled to pension of $50 per month
and all those who were in the military or
naval service in the United States in line
of duty, by injury received or disease con-
trac ed, or shall have lost hearing of both
ears. shall be entitled to $25 per month
and for any loss of hearing less than total
deafness in one or both ears. they shall
receive an equitable portion of FIVE PEN
sions.
The bill passed-ayes 126 noes 55.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25
THE DIRECT LINE TO
WESTERN and NORTHERN I0Hk,
NEBRASKA, MINNESOTA and DAKOTA.

Close Connections at Merrllap, reaching
St. Paul and Minneapolis the sam3 Day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-01-25
WASHINGTON.

------ ;..a;n;a--- no,,, r,,ittaa has de.
The Red Cloud chief., 1883-11-16
How II PAYS

II paws 10 feed well. Let me give
you n case. Having n good lot II COWS.
which ! have bred and reared myself
aud trained them well to be Kind and
gentle in every way, | do o like 10
part with them. But having a few o
than ! could well take care Of this year
! rented out live of them 10 n ncighbor.
One Of these COWS j. n cross-brcd pure
Ayrshire and Jersey. and with her first
calf gave eight pounds of butter in the
first weeks churning; with her second
calf she gave III pounds the first week
after the milk was kept. tthe calf was
fed on skinned milk only. This cow
is now six years old. and in her prime.
The mar complained Of her and said
she was a poor COW. What feed DO
YOU give herr" mo feed nj all
but the pasture in the swamp
meadow; and she milks only four
quarts n day. l brought the COW
home. and she was n mere skeleton in
n bag Of loose skin. The first milking
rs | knew she deserved. | gave her
two quarts of fine ground corn meal and
middlings mixed with cut sweet corn
fodder three times a day. with what
grass the pasture would afford. The
fourth day she MIXED nine quarts, the
seventh day IL quarts; the first four
days her milk made three pounds of
butter; the last three days il has made
fou pounds seven ounces This is not
her full yield. as she i putting on flesh.
anu will do so until she weighs 100 or
200 pounds more than she did when she
came home.
If we figure this up the profit on this
feed can be shown very easily. -Four
quarts q day ut five ccnts-thc price at
which her milk has been sold all sum
mcr-is 20 cents. Tia. is the value
of swamp meadow feeding. Eleven
and a half quarts a day is equal To j1l
cents; the feed costs - cents. SD that
this ID cents gives 22l cents profit.
And TO me the satisfaction of the thing
is worth a good deal more than adollar
a day would be. for | certainly have a
good deal of regard for my cows, which
| have reared from the first, and each OF
which is n pet and regards me with
evident kindliness and affection. At
the rate shown by these figures ten
cows would return 1925 daily profit
for the expenditure of $50, which is
in itself rs much n many a mechanic
in a city is obliged tn support his whole
family upon. And yet there are
farmers and dairymen who are growl-
ing every day Of their lives that farming
does not pay. wish some of them
would change places with some of the
people in towns and cities whom they
profess to envy SO much. What n mis-
take they would make.-N. y. Times.
The Red Cloud chief., 1883-11-16
A Baflied Bridegroom.
J NJ"

Aunt Targood's gander had been the
terror Of many wcll-meaninS people.
and OF some yil-docrs, for many wears.
l have seen trampS and pack-pcdilcrs
enter the gate. and start on toward the
door. when there would sound that
ringing warning like n war-blasi:
..Honk. honkr' and in a few minutes
these unwelcome people would be gone.
Farmhouse boarders from the city
would sometimes enter the yard. think
ing To draw water by the old we'll
sweep; in = few minutes il wa custom
airy Ia hear shricks. and la see women
and children flying over the walls. fol
lowed by a~ir-rcnding monks and
jubilant cackles from the victorious
gander and his a'imiring family.
Aunt Targood sometimes took sum-
mer boardcrs. Among those tina, | re-
member was Rev. Mr.. Bonncy. n fer
vent-souled Methodist preacher. He
put the gandcr TO flight with the cart
whip. on the second day aft IT his ar
rival, and seemingly To aunt's great
grief; but he never was troubled by the
fcathercd tyrant again.
Young couples sometimes came to
q Wv ~ w t' al tatu. IIft WI
summer afternoon, there rode up to the
gate u very ycung couple. whom we
afterward learned had run away" or.
rather, had attempted To get married
without their parents approval. The
young bridegroom hitchcd the horse.
and helped from the carriage the gayly
dressed miss he expected { make his
wife. They started up the walk upon
the run. rs though they expected II be
followed, and haste WAS necessary To
prevent the failure of their plans.
.'Honk,'
They stopped. 1t was Il voice of
authority
Just look at him. said the bride.
.'Oh. OH
The bridegroom cried '.Shoo,' hut
he might Is well have said shoe 10 a
stcam-cngine. On came the gandcr.
with his head and neck upon the ground.
He seized the lad by the calf of his
leg. and made an immed' ATE applica-
ton of his wings. The latter seemed
10 think he had been attacked BY drag
ons. AS soon rs he could shake him
off he ran. SO dill the bride. but in an
other direction; and while the two
Were thus perpleNed and discounted.
the brides father appeared in II car
riage, and gave her a most forcib.e IN
vitation To ride home with him. She
accepted it without discussion. What
became Of the bridegroom. or how the
matter ended we never knew. -He.e-
kidh BatterTorM, IN 81. Nicholas.