Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1883-03-15
BRIEF ITEMS.

Inc daughter of ex-Secretary Of War
Stanton Is receiving much attention in
New Orleans society.
President Arthur has made a dinner
party for Charles Dudley Warner, who
Is passing p week in Washington.
Csssius NJ. Clay attributes sunstrokes
as we'll as the floods to the destruction
of forests.
William Lloyd Garrison is to have a
bronze statute nine feet high in one OF
the publ squares of Boston.
Miss Margaret Mather, the actress,
who has been Ill with pneumonia in
Boston, is convalescent.
Mrs. McCourt, who married Senator
T&bor, of Colorado, the other day, was
a divorced woman, as he was div0rc-
ed man.
John Letcher, the rebel war governor
of Virginia, is almost wreck physical
~ and mentally. He is confined to his
room, and barely recognizes his friends
After Mr.. Edwin Booth finishes his
professional tour in Europe, he viii re.
turn to America, and it is stated that he
will spend the summer in Newport.
Miss Lillian Russell, the actress, is
about to begin q cult against the New
York Police Gazette for intimidatiDg
that her late illness was not what her
physicians stated.
They thought SO much of Ben Hi
the day of his funeral, that the Gsor-
gians at once resolved to build 800
coo monument to his honor; but the
subscriptions have stuck at So 367.
The Misses Tallman, of New York
| the victims Of mismanaging trustee
of their mothers estate-are among the
fortunate few who can lose half mil
lion dollars without being seriously en-
| barrassed.
Mrs. Caldwell, of Louisville, was late
ly converted through the efforts of Rev.
| George 0. Barnes, the so-called "MOun-
tain Evangelist" AS result, she be-
came cranky, and has named her twins
after the Saviour and the "Mountain
Evangelist"
A Chicago lady was heard to remark
recently, speaking of the close of Con-
gress: "No, Tabor is no longer g. SEN
ator-he's paired with the woman from
Oshkosh"
There is rumor in Washington of a
prospective matrimonial alliance be-
tween Congressman Kasson, of Iowa,
who is d widower, and the daughter OF
Secretary Frelinghuysen.
The New York Society for Ethical
Culture recently rendered a farewell
reception to w. L. Salters, who has
been appointed lecturer for a kindred
organization in Chicago.
The United States Consul at Z4nzi-
bar, away off Oh the African coast,
gets a salary of $1,000 per year and
fees. Polachek, the Chicago optician,
has been appointed to the place.
The latest news from Judge Cooley,
of Dubuque, is that he is fast recover
ing from his recent attack, and in few
days will be well enough to be removed
from Sioux Falls to his home in
Dubuque.
Mr.. Paul Dana, son of Mr.. Charles A.
Dana, of the New York Sun, will have
editorial charge of shat paper during
the absence of his father in California.
He is q Hsrvc ID graduate, and a gen.
tlcman fully conpetant for the posi-
ton.
When Susan B. Anthony arrives in
Paris, che will be delighted to find her
self registered in the French press as
1.-THE American Louise Michel" This
is the name she is known by there, &C,
| cOrding to a correspondent Of the New
York Post.
1t is believed in Canadian official
circles that the Pr nee of Wales will
reach Montreal the first week in March
and stay in America until the Science
Association meeting in 1884, making a
Journey through the United States and
the far northwest.
Henry G. Marquand, of New York,
has given Little Rock. Ark, So, 900 to
start free library.
Edwin Booth is quoted as saying re-
Gently, in Berlin: There is one kind
of men I don't like to meet. It is
those great Shakespearean scholars
who ask me if l think Hamlet was
really mad! They get beyond me, and
| don't care to 90 into abstruse facts"
Miss Susie Richardson. daughter Of
the cotton King of New Orleans, was
queen of the carnival ball in TAFT city,
and her dressmsker has just sent in q
, bill for over three thousand pearls,
which were required 10 embroider her
msjesty's point lace and white satin
dress.
Theodore w. Haven, youngest son
OF the late lamented Bishop Z O. Ha-
ven, at present g student IL the Boston
Theological seminary, on q recent Sab
bath occupied the pulpit of the Metho.
dist church, Saxonville, Mass, greatly
TO the satisfaction of his auditory.
Three hundred thousand persons
have petitioned President Arthur for
the pardon of Sergeant Mason, but the
would-b avenger of Garfield's death is
still in the Albany penitentiary, and
Betty and the baby at their humble
home in Virginia are supported by pop
ular subscriptions.
Nathan Golf, Of Clarksburg, West
| Virginia, an uncle Of Representative
Nathan Gof, for sixty years has been
a voluntary distributor OF the Bible.
! He estimates that he has distributed
between q, 600 and $4,000 volumes.
Sir Francis Brakes body is to be
searched for by the British squadron
belonging to the West Indian and
North American stations, which dur
ing IT'S coming cruise will visit Puerto
Cabello. Of this port. nealy three
| centuries ago, the gallant explorer was