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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05

Ne W ORLEANS is good deal Worrie
over a threatened danger ef the most
serious character, being no'bing less
than the loss of the Mississippi river.
For several years a larger part of the
Father OF Waters has been DETECTED
into the Atch&falaya river, and reaches
the Gulf by that channel. The Missis-
sippi River Commission estimated that
IN 1881, one-sixth of tk e food discharge
had been diverted to the smaller
streams, and the increase has been SO
extraordinary since the Captain Eads,
of Eads jetties fame, declares this, if
left to itself, the great river will within
two or three years change its course
entirely and pour down the Atchaf4la-
va to to the sea. As this would close
the Lower Mississippi to navigation and
leave New Orleans on a small and trib-
utary stream, it is not strange that the
people of that thriving city should be
alarmed. To add to the seriousness of
the situation, the failure of the River
and Harbor Bill in the last Congress
has put an embargo on the proposed
works for arres ing the DETECTION of the
Mississippi, and the New Orleans pa
pers fear that this delay will prove dis
astrOus.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05
ENERAL NOTES.

THE total cost Of the Vanderbilt fancy
dress ball Monday night is estimated at
s2J0,000.
TIE poetess, Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson,
has been commissioned by the govern
ment to investigate the condition of the
Mission Indians Of California.
A NEW YORK corporation on Saturday
bought seventy thousand head Of cat
tie from Texas stock men, the considera-
tion being nearly 100000.
TEE death is recorded of Gen. Charles
Houghtailing, postmaster of Carmi, ILL.,,
at the age of 65 years. and of Gen. Charles
Graft, of Terre Haute, Indsana, both OF
whom rendered valuable services in the
volunteer army in the war of the rebel
Hoa.
CIRCULARS were distributed Saturday in
the churches of North Adams, Mass,
charging the board of selectmen with cor
ruption and calling upon the citizens to
overurn the ring.
Two companies of cavalry. one company
of infantry, and a party of Indian ecouts
have been dispatched from Fort Assina-
boine 10 intercept the Crees who have
been committing depredations in northern
Montana.
A COMMITTEE of the Pennsylvania house
of representatives has been instructed 10
inquire and report whether the Absence
during the whole of the present session of
Representative-el Dukes, the murderer
of Captain Mutt, is due TO disability or
vice.
POLK City. Iowa, contributed $4,000
toward the construction of the narrow
guage railroad from Des Moines to Ames,
conditioned upon Polk City being made a
station, which condition was complied
with until the road passed into the hands
Of the Chicago and Northwest ern Railway
company, when he guage was ordered to
the standard, ana, in order to avoid the
heavy grade approaching Polk City, a
cutoff was constructed, which leaves the
city two miles from the railroad Suit is
about to be begun to compel the North
western com pany to fulfill the agreement
made by the narrow guage company.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05
FIRES AND CASUALTIES

THERE we're sixty-nine deaths from
smallpox in New Orleans last week.
The temporary j all at Edorado. Kan
sas was set On fire by a drunken inmate
named Frank G. Hamilton, who was
burned to death, the building being de-
s,royed.
EARTE QUAKE shocks and subterrarean
rumbliDgs have caused panic among the
inhabitants of villages near Mount Il ma,
and they are removing to the plains.
The Aplches at present committing
outrages in Arizora are said to be from
the San Carlos reservation, their numbt r
being estimated at three hundred. A
band of twenty-seven Iodians made an
stack uroa the town of Winchester. Ar
izons, on Saturday, but wer3 repulsed.
Two W White men were kilie'.
TWENTY-FIVE of the eighty corpses in
the Diamond coal mine, near Braidwood,
Illinois, were recovered and hoisted TO the
surface. Twenty of the number we're iden-
tilted. The task Of removing the bodies
from the pit will be prosecuted as diligent-
constantly at work.
MONDAY night, performance in tent
known af Faranta's Summer Pavilion, at
New Orleans, panic took possession of
the audience, consisting OF about five
thousand people, in consequence of the
tent canvass taking fire from lamp,
and in the crush that ensued five persons
were injured.
Mr.. r. P. FLOWER, who represented the
eleventh district of New York in the last
congress, has returned to the treasury of
the United States $458 so, being the pre-
portion of his salary as sfeDreSentativa n at
he thinks he is not entitled TO by reason
of absence from his seat In the house.
Four long-established business houses
of Montreal went into bankruptcy Satur-
day. The E1ost important failure of the
number is that of Lord & Mum Qately
Lord, Mayor & Num-, produce shippers,
whose liabilities are es' s'imated at $780,
600, with nominal assets of an equal
amount. The other failures were G. G,
Snowdon & Co, hardware. S120, ,000 liabiI-
tiles; w. B. Desmarte eau i Co., groceries,
wines and spirits. 800 000 liabilities; and
c. Desmarteau & Co., $4,000 liabilities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05
FOREIGN.

THE German emperor Is suffering with
a cold.
TIE centennial anniversary of RI
phaefs birth was celebrated at Rome
Saturday.
JOHN Brown. the body .ervant of
Queen VIctoris, died Saturday at Wind
sor castle.
MINISTER LOWELL declines to interfere
IN the case of Michael Boynton, arrested
In Ireland
BAND of Arabs attacked four Otto
man battallions, near Yemen. The Turks
lost four ficers and number Of soldiers,
KILLED and wounded. Tie Arabs were
repulsed.
HE inhabitants of SONS Roumeltan
towns, as protest against the importa-
tion of wooden thread, have pillaged and
burned warehouses where it has been
stored.
BLANCA VILLA, a town on the slope of
Mount E ns, has been thro xn into con-
sternation by three earthquakes. The
residents are panic stricken, and are fleeing
TO the open country.
WHILE services were progressing in St.
Paups Cathedral, London, Tuesday, a
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05
The Hopeful HaWkeye Democrats.

DEs MONIES, March 26.-The demo.
cratic state central com nittee met here
to-day to fix the date o. the next con-
vention. All the members were pres.
ent, also a large number of prominent
members of the party. The conference
lasted into the evening, but adjourned
without fixing the date. The matter
was left with the executive committee,
after an expression of those present
was taken, which, by large majority,
favored the calling of convention not
later than June 15 There were about
fifty persons present, including the nov
city OF democratic congressman.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05
GRAND RAPIDS, WIS, THURSDAY

man invaded The sanctuary, jumped uYon
the altar. and dashed the cross, candle
sticks, etc., to the Fl )or. He was arrested
after a struggle. The affair caused many
persons 10 leave the building.
LADY FLORENCE DIXIE, who recently
assailed the integrity of the trustees of
the land league faads. was assaulted at
Windsor Saturday afternoon by two men
dressed in female apparel: Two dagger
thrusts penetrated her clothing. but a
steel corset rib and the guardianship of a
st. Bernard dog probably saved her life.
The lady swooned at the sight of the
immense knives. and the last thing she
remembers was one of the men filing her
mouth with mud. The palms of her
hands were cut across, the gloves being
severed, and her clothing was rent in
MANY places
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05
A Bad Beginning

Sometimes makes good ending. Sick folks
who failed to find permanent relief because they
relied upon palliatives, STATE that the aid they
vainly sought at first from such unreliable sour
ces, they finally obtained after course OF Hos
teters Stomach Bitters. This leading American
medicine has been the theme of penegyric in the
press, the subject of commendation by leading
physicians, and the acknowledged means of BEN
citing hosts of sufferers from fever and ague.
debility, indigestion, constipation, kidney and
uterine troubles and other bodily ailments. It is
a pleasant tonis and reliable appetizer, renew
ing strength, fastening convalescence, and is a
genial means of mitigating the in1rmities of age.
The elimination of vitality which, falling short
of actual disease, causes a sensation of nervous
ness and lassitude, is speedily removed by this
benign tonic.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05

An Elder was cramped wiki all ache,
ST. Jacobs Oil did the pain slake;
He was SO highly pleased.
That again he was CREASED,
And took lot home 10 Salt Lake.
A soldier on guard al Fort Wayne,
Was suddenly smitten wit b pain,
He thought he was gone,
But when he rubbed on
St. Jacobs OIL, be was all right again
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05
ARABI IN EXILE.

Arab Pasha reached Ceylon, whittier
he was sent in exile, on the 10Th of
January, and on the following day
landed at Colombo, in the presence of
a dense crowd. He was received By
the chief of the Ceylon police, and es-
corted to Lake House, mis- appointed
residence. This is a spacious, long
two-story building, standing extensive
park like grounds. The clump of
palms on the left of the house is q
cocoa-nut plantation; the bushes or
the right are mangoes; while the tall
trees on the right of the picture are
frs. Arabi is said to be perfectly con-
tented with his lot, and he appears to
have been kindly, il not enthusiastic
ally, received by the people among
whom he is to live.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05

A spirited and p'o racted debate was
preci pitated BY the bill to create the four
teenth judicial cirouit from a few of thS
extrem northern counties It was final
ly killed by a vote Of 46 TO So. The as
emily bill legalizing certain acknowl-
edgments of il sruments was passed. All
low License lqucr bills were indefinitely
postponed by vote Of 81 to S6.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05

THE Missouri legislature has been
discussing the liquor question, and has
finally decided in favor of high licenses.
A bill has been passed which levies a
tax of from $25 to 5000 for state pur-
poses, and another of from $3.50 to
$500 for county purposes, upon each
license every six month9, while no
license is to be granted unless the ap-
phcant secures the t;gnatures of two
thirds of the taxpayers in his neigh
borAood and files q bond of $1,000 to
keep an orderly house and refuse
liquor to minors. The law provides a
heavy penalty for selling liquor to
habitual drunkards, and has other
stringent features. The enactment of
such measure only emphasizes the
present drift of opinion regarding the
repression of drunkenness. which is
distinctly in favor of trying system
of high license fees and other restric-
tions upon the liquor traffic, rather
than to pass prohibitory laws which
public opinion will not enforce.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05

Two hard fighting Confederate Off
GERS, Colo mel William R. Symons, of
Savannah, and Colonel W. M, Watkins.
of Dyers1burg, Tenn, died few days
ago. Tfhe latter figures in the history
Of three great battles -Murfreesboro,
ChicY cYkamauga and Franklin. He car
rie6 / a good deal of lead to his grave.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05

Mr. LIPPITT, who was governor of
Rhode Island once upon time, has
been talking to New York reporter
about the Sprague hurrah. According
to Mr.. Lippitt, Butler aud Pryor stand
a good chance of pulling their man
through, tbe ground being fellow for
the seeds Of discomfort among the Re-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05
VOL XXVI

LELAND STANFORD, the California
millionaire, once kept small store in
that state, where he retailed picks,
pans, shovels, provisions aad clothing
to the miners.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05
EXCITEMENT IN ENGLAND.

The excitement in England over the
disclosures as TO the Irish murder con-
spiracy has scarcely subsidized, when q
fresh sensation is produced by an at
tempt to blow up the Local Govern
ment Board offices in London, which is
OF course, attributed to the Fenians.
The explosion occurred on the evening
Ht March 15ah, and was so severe as to
shake the galleries of tho House of
Commons, some distance away. Dyna-
mite was used, and the building looked
as though 1t had been bonn barded; but,
happily, nobody was injured. This
nrst outbreak OF the dynamite party In
London naturally made profound i'm
preston, and strong guards were placed
about the government offices and the
residences of the ministers. The even
ing before the explosion in the govern
ment offices, an attempt was made to
blow up the London Times office, but
no serious damage was done.
The explosion occurred on the day
next succeeding that on which the
house of commons had rejected, by
the decisive vote of 250 to So, Mr.. Par
nelFs bill amending the land act. Mr..
Gladstone said the bill amounted to
virtual remodeling of the act, eliciting
hearty cheers from the tory benches
by declaring that it would be in viola
ton of the duty Of the governm ent to
demand further sacrifices from land
lords. Mr. Gladstone also expressed
the hope that Mr.. Parnell would give
assurance that the new crusade would
be conducted in q strictly legal man
ner-a word which derives new en-
phasis from the dynamite party on the
following day. The trial of the mur-
der conspiracy prisoners has been set
for April 19yh.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05

There's little hope for the American
young man who, deliberately and of bis
own fee will and accord, gets to part
ing his hair in the middle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05
The BelfOrd Check.

ANOTHER 81 B B." GOT IT, IT SEEMS.
WAsHINoToN, March 26 j. B. Bis
sci ls here He says he did receive a
check of $4,000 of Dorsey, signed H.
III. Teller.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05
SOCIALISM IN FRANCE.

The various phases of anarchism in
different European countries contin-
ues to engage attention. The social
lists IN Paris are very active, and a
''Black Hand society has been dis
covered in northern Portugal, while no
less than 200 persons have been ar
rested in the Spanish province of An
dulusia alone for completely in the an
archist movement. The Russian gov
ernment has proposed the the other
powers that an International detective
force be organized to coupe with an
archists, nihilists, fenians and socialists
FIance, Switzerland and Austria have
acquiesced in the proposal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05
THE TRANSVAAL.

The Transvaal is again demanding
attention. The Beers have been max
ing many attacks upon the native
chiefs, and many Enslishmen feel that
it is the duty of their country to inter
fere for the protection of the latter.
The government, however, is very
much disinclined to assume new obi
cations In that quarter, Lord Derby
saving that the use of force would
only tend to create an African Ire
land.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05
ACROSS THE OCEAN.

Excitement in England Over the
Dynamite ENp10sien-The Socialists
in France Prince &ortschakof
supposed to Have Been Poisoned
The New Swiss PresIdant-4rabi
in Exile aud Other Foreign Matters.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05
Monroe. M1cH.. Sent. 25. 1882.

MONROE, MICH, Sept. Is. 1882.
SIRs-I have been taking Hop Bitfers for in
famnation of the kidneys and bladder It has
done for me what four doctors failed to do. The
effect of Hop Bitters seemed like magic to me.
W. L. CARTER.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05
THE SWISS PRESIDENT.

The Swiss nation have selected their
president for 1888, and their choice
would seem to have fallen upon the
right man for the right place. M. Louis
Ruchonnet was born in England in the
year 1884, where his father and mother
were then residing. In the year 1858,
having completed his studies. which
had been prosecuted both in Engl and
and France, NJ. Louis Ruchonnet re-
paired to Lausanne, and entered the
Academy of Jurisprudence. In 1863
he plunged into political life, and Was
elected to the great council Of his
canton. In 1868, so marked were his
abilities, that he was elected president
of the council of his canton, and in
1873 be was honored with a seat in the
national council and the presidency of
the principal committee. In 1882 he
was elected vice president, aGd now we
find him nominated for the presidency
of 1888 No man has worked harder
at his profession, and no man stands
higher IN the picturesque country Of
William Tell.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05
PRINCE GORTsCHAKoFF.

The suspicion that Prince Gortscha-
kof was poisoned is sustained by his
physician, and it appears that the
Prince himself knew of the theory, for
in his will, made on MS deathbed, he
requested the authorities TO suppress
any inquiry as to whether or not he
had been poisoned. The Spanish Dy-
nastic Left have appointed commit.
tee to manage the party, as Marshal
Serrano desires to resign the leadership
1t is announced that all the prelim-
inaries for placing bust of Lon, fellow
in Westminster Abbey are now ar
ranged, sufficient capitll having BEEN
subscribed, the sculptor engaged, and
the position for the bust selected. The
latter is column standing between the
memorial niche of Chaucer and the
bust of Dryden, with a full and unin
terrupted stream OF light falling on the
position, Sc that the bust will OCCUPY a
central and most conspicuous place in
the Poets Corner.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05

Jay Gould7s family passed through
here this afternoon, en- route for New
York. from Jacksonville, Florida.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05

ONE of the coming reforms in the
country is the aoption of o0nstitu-
tional amendment allowing the execu-
tive 10 veto separate items of an ap-
preparation bill. Governor Bntler has
called attention to the necessity of
such provision in Massachusetts in a
recent veto of bill making appropri-
ations for various expenditures con-
nected with charitable and reformatory
institutions of the state, some of these
appropriations he approves; but he can
only arrest others which he condemns
by vetoing the bill as St whole. New
York has set an excellent example to
the country by a constitutional pro
vision allowing the governor i'll such
cases to pass judgment upon any item
without endangering the fate of the
rest. The system works admirably
and other states as well as the national
congress could not do q better thing in
the interest of good legislation than to
apply it in their respective spheres.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05

SEYMOUR ard Conkling, although re-
lated by law, are in all respects won
dertully unlike each other. The first
is atfable, condescendirg and patient
to a rare degree. He has the happy
faculty of interviewing interviewers
themselves, by the hour or half day,
during which he artfully contrives to
extract from them all the political in.
formation they have flcted from
others, W. en- he sends them away in a
grateful mood, with no more of the
Governors opinions, perhaps, on
political topics than when they came.
This is not characteristic of Conkling.
Next to personal and political enemies,
newspapers excite his anger most. To
him interviewers are almost as .irri-
tating as a red flag to baited bull.
Within a year or two Seymour's health
has become fitful and unsteady; yet
his near friends believe him less feeble
than he imagines himself to be. Occa-
sionaliy he appears on the street under
heavy pressure of outer clothing,
muffied to the verge of sufocation.
His only brother, John F., a lawyer
in good practice, has been married
vice.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-04-05

Close Connections at Mcmillan, reaching
St. Paul and Minneapolis the same day.
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-08

. red, l OSJa1 OSg; No. ? red, | llg@1 70,
Corn-SG3c higher; hru; uugrsded, 30
@6Sbc: M. 2, 6SgG 69c.
Osts-Shace better; mixed western, Al
G47c: white. 47G50o.
Eggs-WFresh western, quiet and
steady at 26@2Sc.
Pork-Ddl and weak; new mess, Is %
@lS 81.
Lard Hi her; prime steam, 10 20.
ST. LOUIS
Sr. LoUIs, January 6.-Flour-Firm
and 50lJc better.
Whe lt-Higher Int allow; No, 2 red 99t
@'94, for cash: 99fd 99Yc FIR January,
l GOAL 10. for FebrusrN; | 02s for March;
l o. tor a ri; Oj4Gl 0jb tor May; No.
8 red fall, 9 &c
Corn Higher but SLOW; 45b@4jgS for
cash; 46idl5s for January; i6f@i7c for
February; 4Sc, 49l@4gic Tor May.
Oats Finn; S7fc t ~ cash; sac for Van.
uar, 37tc tor February; 37k for May.
Rye-Dall; 55Ac hid
BIrey-Steauy; COO SOC.
Butter Steady; Creamery, 35G40c;
dairy, 2SG 80
whisky eady: l IA.
Pork -uuli; lG 81 bid for cash; II 80
bid for Nav.
Bacon Easy; sides, 10 0O@1o %.
Lard-Nom,nally lower at ~ l2b,
Omaha daily bee., 1883-01-08
LIVE STOCK


special Dispatches to THH BEE.
ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS. January Cattle There
is not enough supply to make the mar ct
prices nomina ly UNCHANGED. Prospa rs
tor next week thOn hit to be tair for 4 "a
runs an firm prices.
Sheep Good butchers and shipping in
demand and prices firm; good to fancy
muttons, 8 h0a5 00.
Hogs-Market Glow and UNCHANGED;
light, 3 60G5 81; packing, 5 90G6 20;
butchers to extra, 6 20Gs 30.
CHICAGO.
CaIcAGU, January 6 The Drovers'
Journal rep 'rts ~ follows:
ived, 5 4006 10; heavy, 6 00@6 30;
light, 5 50d 6 %; skips, 4 00@5 %.
Cattle srse slow ana heavy cattle
dull; extra. C0@6 40; good to choice ship
ping, . S0@59J; common to fair, 4 90
as 90; butchers fair demand and selling
1t strong prices, 2 30G435 stockers and
feeders unchsng led at 3 25@4 30.
Sheep Good, steady, and prices firm;
common TO- fair, 3 00G4 TO-; medium t.
sood, 4 2I64 70; choice to extra, goa
) 40.
KANSAS CITY.
KANSAS CITY, Janusiy 1.-THE Live
Stock Indicator reports:
Cattle Market steady; native s%teels,
4 60d5 A.; cows, 2 90@3 80; stockers and
~feJders, 3 50d4 10.
Hogs Market active at 4 40@6 20;
bulk sales, 8 5O@6 90.
Sheer@ Market quiet at . 90.