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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
WA SHfNGTON.

THE president has n minated Albert
Shuneman of Col, receiver of public
moneys at Prescott, Ariz.
Col. ROBERT MURRAY's nomination as
surgeon general of the array has been
confirmed.
THE house committee on military af-
fairs authorized Gen. Slocum to report
a bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter
THE issue of standard silver dollars
for the week ending Jan. 70 was $780,
900; for the corresponding period Of last
year 1884, 600.
SENATOR ROMERO, Mexican minister,
has paid the secretary of state the in
demnity instalment due Jan. 81, 1884,
from Mexico to the United States.
THE chairman Of the house committee
on claims has appointed Dockery, Till
man, Dowd, Warner and Vanalstyne
chairmen of subcommittee with three
members each, to consider bills referred
to the committee.
THE bill prepared by the cattle men
for the extlrpation of the lung plague
wds submitted for consideration to the
following members of the hou> COM
mittee ON agriculture: Messrs. Hatch,
Dibrell, Winans, Cullen, Wilson and
Ochiltree.
A VACANCY will soon occur in the
grade of Brigadier General. General
Wesley Merritt, Superintendent of West
Point Academy, and Colonel D. S.
Stanly, of the Twenty second Infantry,
ar mentioned as likely to receive the
promotion.
THE contract for lathing the custom
house at Memphis has been awarded to
HOugh, Ketcham 6 Co., indianapolis,
and the contract FOR mantles for the
public buildings at Topeka, Kansas, to
the pickle Stone company of st. Louis.
THE secretary of the treasury has ac-
cepted the offer by the New York Cen
trail railroad company of $65, 900 to
compromise liabilities incurred by the
Hudson River raj road company amount
ing to $4,000 prior to the consolidation
Of the two companies.
THE War Department is informed
that the condition of General Mackenzie
has considerably improved. The report
was made by a staff officer who recent
ly visited him st BloOmingdale. The
medical officers of the asylum howev-
er, refrain from the expression of any
opinion regarding the chances of his
recovery. It is generally believed that
his present Improvements is but tempo
rary, and that a reaction will follow.
His restoration to command is regarded
as an impossibility.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

ton, which was referred to the foreign
affairs committee, instructing the com
mittee TO make inquiry whether any
foreign minister accredited to the Uni
ted States endeavored to nullify the eff
fects of the unanimous resolution of the
house by representations rejecting on
the honor and integrity of its mem
bers
Mr.. Slocum moved to dispense with
the morning hour, and though there
was a 'general opposition on the repub-
lican side, the motion secured the re-
quise two-tnirds.
The house then went into committee
of the whole on the private calendar
Mr.. Springer in the chair, the first
blu being for the relief of Fitz John
Porter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24
HeaIthfuI stimulation.

Diffusbe stimulants provided they be absolu-
tely pure, re-among the most useful medicinal
agents employed by physicians. When the tone
of the system is lowering by the depressing in
huences of disease, or there is ali inherent want
Of vigor in the constitution they to counter
act weakening tendencies and cheer the mind OF
the responding inva id. But when as in the case
of nostetters Stomach Bitters, they possess tonic
and Alternative properties, their effects are render
ucial result. The Bitters Lot only relieve nervous
debility and meDt depression, by their health
fully stimul4tive acton, but infuse abiding viger
Internal disturbances which are the real
c uses of weakness The purity and the
wholesomeness of the alcoholic basis of the
Bitters greatly increases the efficacy of their
DO, anic ingredients a fact which the completeness
of their curative effects sufficiently demonstrates
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24
CEIfTE.

THE widow of Informer Cary declines
to go abroad, and asks for safe employ
ment in Great Britain.
SECRETARY FOLGER is about to issue
a call for $10,000,000 in three per cent,
bonds.
THREE paupers' bodies were sold at
public auction in Cape Girardeau coun-
ty, Mo.
THE winter carnival will begin at
Montreal, Feb. (. The preparations are
elaborate.
THE United States College or Medicine
and Surgery at New York has been re-
fused charter.
HERMINA SCHLoPP suicided in Buff
falO, New York, by taking rat poison,
because his love for a young lady was
not reciprocated.
GRIZZLY" JOHNSON, a well-known
character at Standing Rock agency, was
arrested ON Sunday by the Indian DO
lice, charged with the crime of selling
liquor to the Indians. When arrested.
seventeen bottles of liquor were found
secreted about his clothes.
THE examination of Marx Wellstein
of Fargo, charged with obtaining sever
al thousand dollars worth of goods from
Milwaukee dealers. occupied most Of the
time of the Milwaukee municipal court
yesterday. The testimony was of very
damaging character, and he will proba-
bly, be held for trial.
A SENSATION was created in Omaha
Monday by the announcements that Mai
James Newell, manager of the Consoli-
dated Tank Line company, was a defaul-
ter to the amount of nearly $4,000. He
has been relieved, and will probably be
arrested.
GEORGE B. SAVIOR, arrested in Balti-
more, charged with having with BLACK
Bart" and another robbed the Wells
Fargo company's express stage near
Sacramento City, was yesterday deliv-
cred to special officer of the Wells
Fargo company, who will take him to
California tomorrow.
MRS. MARY HUBBARD, an aged widow,
while out of her mind. committed a ter
rible suicide near Baltimore. After sew
eral unsuccessful attempts at her home.
she went into the woods, and, making a
funeral pyre from some corded wood,
set fire to 1t and was Cremated.
THE case of Frank James for the Blue
Cut train robbery was called in the
criminal court at Kansas City Friday,
and continued till Feb II, on account of
the illness of the defendant. The case of
Charles Ford, same charge was also con-
tinued until Feb. II, it appearing that
Ford is in ST. Louis, likewise too i'll to
attend.
NATHAN HILLS and wife and Lomar
Robinson have been, arrested at Big
Rapids, Mich, in the act Of making
counterfeit silver coin. All the tools,
dies, ETC., were captured, with bogus
dollars, Canadian quarters and new
nickelS.
WITHIN the past two weeks there has
been an alarming frequency of boldly
precipitated and brutal assaults upon
respectable citizens of Boston, commit
ed for the sole purpose of robbery, until
now it is considered absolutely unsafe
to walk on the public highways, be-
tween the commons and Dover street
either, late at night or early in the
morning.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

left; the rest of his body lay scattered
along the track in parts from the mill to
the depot-over a mile. His remains
had to be shoveled up into a basket
The engineer whistled repeatedly and
the bell rang continuously, but the
sounds were apparently unheard.
E. W. COLEMAN 6 Co.. gram brokers.
New York, failed Saturday, with heavy
liabilities. Tie firm, which had been in
existence for thirty years, We're 'Iong"
on corn and wheat, and the failure of
customers to put up margins fastened
the crash. The decline in wheat also
caused the suspension of j. N. Fuller 6,
Co, who owe about 100000. These
failures caused excitement on the Pro
duce Exchange and depressed prices.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

IN a barn IN Robey street, Chicago,
have for some time been stored two
huge African lions in cage and a
Shetland pony. The tanner Saturday
went in among his pets to put them
through their leaping exercises, but a
friend who accompanied him forgot
to close the door of the cage. One of
the lions sprang on the floor of the
barn and Immediately buried his teeth
in the neck of the pony. After gorg-
ing himself with flesh and blood, the
wild beast was made senseless by
chloroformed sponges and put back
into captivity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24
Subscribed and SWOrD To.
Venago Spectator.

Andrew Jackson is a Seneca Indian
who has exemplifed the saying that
little learning is a dangerous thing.
He could write a little, and only a
little, and so when one day he Dor
rowed So so from John Halftown, he
gave him his note for the money with
interest. 1t ran like this: "Me, An
drew Jackson, day after tomorrow
six months, will pay to John Half
town, maybe three or four days, s. Or
81, no fetch paper no get money, by
dam y
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

D. r. Locke (Nasby) is making a
tour of the South, investigating its
growth and development, the charac-
ter Of it's soil in different states, its
mineral resources, it's water powers,
its agricultural resources and their ia
ducements for settlement by people
from Europe or the North. The fact
that the people north of the Ohio
river know less than is known in Eu-
rope about the resources of the South
is what first prompted Nasty to make
this investigation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24
GENERAL NOTES.

NEARLY 1, 900 workmen in the three
largest tobacco factories at Petersburg,
Va. have struck against a reduction of
wages.
DR. TANNER, the faster, accused of
practicing illegally by the physicians of
jamestown, n. Y. has been indicated
by the courts.
JAY GOULD has purchased a large
waterfront property at Port Oxford,
Oregon.
OVER 5000 workingmen have been
thrown out of employment in Buffalo,
n. Y, within few days, and the situa-
| ton looks very blue.
EXCITEMENT prevails at Bodie, Cal
! over the rich strikes IN Standard and
BOdie. 1t is claimed that the Standard
has in sight rich ground enough to last
two years.
MIKE CLEARY, of New York, chal-
| lenges any man in America to a hard
! glove fight for 81 900 a side. A $3.50
| forfeit has been posted.
| A MACHINE has been invented at Pitts
burg, for manufacturing hob-nails,
which has a capacity of one ton day.
and is operated by three men. The use
of these machines will throw thousands
of men out of employment
! In the Legislature Of Texas a bill has
been introduce making justifiable hon.
icide the killing of a man found cutting
! fence. The cattlemen in convention
at Austin, declared against d herd law,
but opposed the doctrine of free grass
CHARLES DUDLEY, residing at No. 500
! North HalSted street, Chicago, was ar
raigned before a Justice for cruelty to
| his little daughter, whom he had choked
until the blood spurted from her nose
and ears. He was fined $500 and held
in $500 to the Criminal Court.
ROBERT w. BOYD, a tobacco merchant
of New York, died in that city yesterday
! of yellow fever. He contracted the dis
ease in Havana, Cuba, from which place
he arrived on the 18th, instant. Two
days later he was stricken with the fatal
sickness.
PASSENGER Conductors Ripley, Steele.
Robert Adams, and Carlisle, of the Chi
cago & Alton railroad, running between
Chicago and st. Louis, were cropped off
the rolls of the company's service Satur-
| day without notice. They were all old
employees.
| Gel. Sheridan Will soon make bis
annual pilgrimage to his old home in
Ohio, To visit his mother. She is SO
years old, and the General never neg
lects to visit her once a year. Fe
would be glad to have her with him
in his new home, but tho old LADY
clings tenaciously To the Homestead,
where all the five children 6rsr az
the liUht of a successful Iifa
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

THE foreign exhibition at Boston,
representing forty-six countries, is to
be removed to Chicago next summer.
The exhibition, which opened there
September 5th, closed Saturday night.
1t was failure financially, the deficit
being estimated at $50. 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24
The Hon. BilIa Flint,

Life Senator of the Dominion Parlia-
ment. Belleville, Ontario Canada, writes:
II tried ST. Jacobs Oh for ague in my
face, and tootache. 1t acted like a
charm. A few times rubbing with it
took away all soreness and pain; far bet
ter than having than drawn at the age
of seyenty-seven.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

FLEMING & LORING, of Chicago,
the swindling commission men, of
''Fund W. notoriety, were Monday
sentenced by Judge Blodgett, of the
United States District Court, to one
years Imprisonment and to pay a fine
of $500 each. The prisoners at once
appealed to Judge Drummond, of the
United States Circuit Court, and he
granted a supersedeas, holding the
defendants in 81 900 bail, which they
furnished, with Mike Mcdonald as one
of the bondsmen. Judge Drummond
will now investigate the case, to see
whether or not they are entitled to a
new trial.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

Four THOUSAND unemployed citi-
zens of Paris met Saturday and listen
ed to speeches favoring armed revolu-
ton to end the stagnation in trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

The heavy SHOWS and rains that
have fallen the last week overin Ohio
and the country east of the Mississippi
will probably occasion, with the first
rise of temperature, considerable
floods in the rivers. The exceptional
snowfall of more than twenty inches
Tuesday last at Pittsburg, and about
the same at Wheeling, indicates a
general accumulation of snow and ice
In the Alleghenies, which cannot long
remain in the solid state. The Ohio
River, already swolled, may therefore
be expected to rise In its upper course.
The extraordinary snowfall in Central
Kentucky and the rains in Tennessee
will swell the lower river As the
recent precipitation of snow in the
Central Mississippi and Missouri Val
leys may soon be melted, the rising of
the Mississippi's tributaries may at
any time cause a flood wave between
Cairo and Memphis. Already freshets
and Ice gorges in soae of the smaller
Eastern rivers give warning of what
may be expected in all the water
courses on the Atlantic Slope lying in
the broad track of Tuesdays snow
storm A few days after like storm
last January the Roanoke River at
Weldon, n. c.; the Savannah River
at Augusta, Ca and the Tennessee at
Chattanooga, rapidly rose at high
mark.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

BUFFALO people mourn the removal
of the glucose industry from that
city to Peoria and Leavenworth,
and the shutting down of two stove
foo; e.riac
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

Among the various substances
found on the human tongue, as shown
by the microscope, are the following
Fibers of wool, linen and cotton, fibers
of spiral vessels and Gbers of muscle.
starch grains, cheese mold, portions of
potato skin, scales, moths, etc, hairs
from legs of bees, hairs from legs of
spiders, pollen Of various flowers,
stamens of various flowers, hairs of
cats, quite common; hairs of mouse,
once only; hairs of various leaves,
wings of mosquito, once; fragments
from leaves of tobacco, of camop,ile
flowers, etc.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

By the wrecking of a steamer IN
Chinese waters, six Europeans and
100 Chinese are believed to have per-
ished
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

IT is said that some o; theOId bucks
got sheered, as well as the young
lambs, in the recent shrinkage of
railroad securities. Jay Gould's
losses are estimated at $40, 900, 900,
and Vanderbilt's at a still larger sum.
The difference is that these rich men
can hold on to their stock until there
is another turn of the wheel of for
tune, while the poor lambs, who
cannot copper the queen" with mar
gins, are closed out with the first de-
cline.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

THE National academy CT Sciences
at Washington reports to the Com
missioner of Internal Revenue that
twenty-nine starch sugar factories in
the United States, having capital CT
S., 900, 900 and consuming 1000 bush
els of corn per day, produce annually
goods valued at $40, 600, 900; that the
processes are unobjectionable, and
the sugar S are pure and healthful.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

The proposed bill in congress fol
the establishment of Bureau of ami
NAL industry in connection with the
department of agriculture might be
a good thing if wisely framed; but
there is a suspicion among cattle-men
that the whole thing is little scheme
of certain persons or interests that are
more anxious to create new set of
fat Offices for lazy political hacks than
to guard the livestock interests of the
country. All propositions to increase
the already too many public offices
should be scrutinized with care and
not be acted upon too hastily by con
gress. 1t is always much easier to ere
ate a new office than to abolish it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

What a rich man uses and gives
constitutes his wealth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24
Bombay More Crowded Than London

One of the results of the Indian CEN
sus, the various returns of which are
now being collected, is to show that
Bombay, the second city in the Brit
ish Empire, is more crowded than
London itself. The density of popula-
ton in London in the most densely-
peopled parts is less than the density
of the twelve most crowded sections
of Bombay, with a population of near
~ 100000 people. These sections
have an average population of 458. 81
persons per acre. In Bombay the av-
erage of population is about SO per
acre; in London, 40. The extreme in
London rises to 222 per acre, whereas
in Bombay it rises to 759. The pop
ulation of the sections in which the
crowding is double that of the most
crowded divisions of London is equal
to more than 80 per cent. of the total
population, but the area of these sec
tons is only 81 per cent. of the island.
In other words, 81 per cent. of the
population are crowded on 81 per
cent. of the land.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24
Frauds on the Customs.
Washington Special.

Secretary Folger has information of
very extensive frauds in the customs
service. The honor of leading firms
in New York, Boston, Philadelphia
and other places is affected. The re-
ports show systematic differentiation
by invoices that have cost the govern
ment millions in revenue, and in
some instances have been great en-
ough practically to prohibit home
manufacture of a certain line of 9 DDS.
The majority of cases of this kind
were traced to some leading firms in
Nav York. There were some. too. in
Boston and Philadelphia. One COM
mon form of fraud was practiced with
Cordova carpet wool, which was
shipped from Bradford, England, to
the River Platte in South America,
thence, to allGy suspicion, into New
York at an differentiation, which en-
abled the importers to get the goods at
duty of three cents a pound, when
they should have paid six. The spe-
ciaI agent recommends that one large
importing house be prosecuted, and
suit be brought for $25, 200 due the
government. The firm has already
paid so, 600 in penalties for underval-
uatiOn. Chloride of calcium has been
shipped into New York at valuation
of 45 shillings a ton, when it should
have have been 60 shillings. Almost
as extensive frauds were committed
by silk, as well as WOODEN importers
In silks, velvets, silk plush, ribbons,
embrolderles, carpets, woods, mean
descent lamps, East India woods, and
even pickles and chow-chow, frauds
have been very extensive. Cashmere
goods and paper-hangings were also
falsely invoiced. The differentiation
has alarmingly increased by means of
the ingenuity of the manufacturing
and exporting merchants of Earope.
Honorable manufacturers have held
out against it until recently, and have
been compelled to resort to dishonesty
in order to retain their trade with the
United States. The evil has grown
SO great, and the fraud has become so
systematic and successful, that many
European manufacturers who conslgn
to this country will not sell directly
to the American importer, but will re-
fer him to their New York and Boston
consignees. Ali of the papers that the
secretary of the treasury has in con-
nection with these frauds will be made
public in a few days.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

A Misconstrued Smile. Butcher Ito
poet: We'll, how are your poems
selling?' Poet: "Oh, splenddly They
60 like fresh sausages do with you.
Butcher: ''Aha, by the pound. For
eign Fun.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-24

factories.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-07-04
I5UUtNO7t sun
SUS0UEHANNA GRANITE.
Developing Quarries in Hartford Count
sOr the rs. and q. Extension.

The building of The Philadelphia extension of
the Is. and o. Railroad has very largely developed
stone qnarrying In the neighborhood of Lapdum
Messrs. Ryan, Mcdoald and Burke Bros have
for some weeks been working small quarrcs on
the farms of the Messrs. Archer and Silver. On
Saturday operations were begun to reopen the
large quarry on the place ofDr. w. W. Virdin
which was formerly much used for the Rp-Raps
in Hampton Roads. The stone is of the same
quality as the Port Deposit granite ON the Cecil
side, exactly opposite The Lapidum quarry, and
is all being shipped to Baltimore fog the eleva-
ted railroad and other purposes of the company
in that city. The contractors are required to
furnish large quantities of the stone by January
next, and they have a large force of Italian and
Hungarian laborers at work getting ii out 1t
is shipped by barges and loaded at Barnes q
Archer's wharf by steam derricks The stone
is near the Susquehanna and very convenient
for shipment The reports of blasts are heard
every hour of the day, and great activity pre-
walls ON both sides of the stream between Port
Deposit and Ilavre de Grace. The Port Deposit
quarry is very extensive. A large quantity OF
stone is procured also from Garrett Island,
within few yards from the line of the great
bridge across the river. The Port Deposit and
Garrett Island stone is all used fos this bridge.
Five of the piers are being built in caissons from
the bed rock of the river, and great progress has
been made in the extensive work.
The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1884-07-04
no FARMERS.

have two new first class TRACTION EN-
GINES, with complete thrcshing rigs and all
modern improvements, with which can thresh
as slowly as the smallest AMI faster than the fast
est machine in the county doing the work TO
everybody 4 satisfaction. have also experienced
hands with both machines. One machine will be
under my personal supervision and the other will
he managed by Mr.. VIM. r.. liilditch, we'll.
known and experienced thresherman.
sG TERMs.-Wheat, cents per bushel; Oats, 3
cents. Cloyerseed at the usual price. A liberal
discount for cash. Five per cent. off for all bills
paid within 40 days. Cord Wood, Timber and
Grain taken as cash.
JOHN +. 0LDFIELD
je20 Bel Air, Md.
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