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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-07
CYRUS I'll. McCOrmck's Estate.
From the Chicago Inter. Ocsar


In the Probate Court Yesterday an
inventory and appraise.aent of the es-
tate of the late Cyrus Fl. Mccormick
was filed and approved The docu-
ment occupies some thirty pages of
legal cap. The executors of the estate.
Mrs. Mccormick and Cyrus H, Nc
Cormick, Jr., filed a bond in $50. 900.
900. The list begins with a detailed
account of the real estate owned by
the deceased at the time Of his death,
and also of the annual rental derived
therefrom. One piece of property
brings yearly $43, 900, and another
$4,000, besides many others ranging
from $3.50 upward. The total income
from landed estate is about $129, 600.
There is also a list of non productive
real estate, including the family man
sion on Rush street, a summer resi-
dence at Warren, n Y, and farms
and timber land in Iowa, Nebraska,
Wisconsin and other States There is
next an inventory of property held by
deceased in common with Leand9r j.
Mccormick and the heirs of William
S. Mccormick. The personal proper
ty is given as follows: Household
goods, 81, 3S5 rs; cash in hand, Sc
bouds (par value), $2,647, $50; Gov
eminent bonds. $780, 600; postal tele-
graph bonds, $4,000; 1st Regiment
Cavalry, 500; mining stocks, $35, 900,
most of VIII CHI is set down as worth
less; Interior newspaper stock, S25,
600; bills eceivable, $15S, 178, Of
which about 100000 are considered
"desperate;" book accounts, S45, 600,
not worth much; two-thirds interest
in the unsettled business of the late
firm of @. III. Mccormick & Bro, ST.
064, 450 II, and three fourths inter-
est in the unsettled business of the
late firm of @. Ell. & L. J. McCor-
mick, 1868, 201 81, making grand
total of some 81, 400, 00O Among the
items included IN the 81, 647, $50 of
stocks and bonds given above are:
American Exchange in Europe, 1, $50
shares at $40, SIS, 300; American Ex-
change in Paris, 500 shares, at $40,
S.. 600; Calumet and Chicago Canal
and Dock Company (preferred), ST.
500; same (common), 1854, $50; Chica-
go Sugar Refining Company, $50, 600;
Chicago and Norta western Railway
Company (preferreD, 5000; same
(common), 5000; Merchants Loa'a G
Trust Company, 500 shares at 800,
$4,000; Ohio Central Railroad, 761
shares at 800, $76, 100; Postal Tele-
graph, 800 shares at 800, 1000; IL
linois Central Railroad, 1000 shares
at 800, 800, 900, and Is, 700 shares of
the Mccormick Harvesting Machine
Company at 800, 81, $40, 900. The
above are all par values. The Court
also approved the widows award of
$17, 4sO. AS much of the real estate
is unappraised no approximation of
the actual value Of the estate of Mr..
Mccormick can be given. bat it can
not be far from $20,000,000.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-07

THE forthcoming annual report of
the Postmaster General will show an
increase of $4,000 IN the number of
postage stamps sold during the past
year over the sales of the preceding
year. This will bring the total num-
Der sold during the year up to about
] ,215, 100000, or an average of about
twenty-four each for the population
of the country during the year.
There were, in addition to this, about
220, 900, 600 stamped envelopes, bring
ing the total to about 1900, 900, 900.
Adding 375, 600, 900 postcards, which
will be shown to be about the number
used during the year, will bring the
total mail communications of the
year up to 1, 800, 900, 900 IN round num-
bers, or an average of about 80 letters
or post cards each for the whole ma
tiOn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-07

TIE new iron steamship FL Paso,
owned by the Southern Improvement
Company of California, for service
between New York and New Orleans,
recently launched from William
Cramp & Sons shipyard near Phila-
delphia, is $50 feet in length, 423 feet
beam, and 305 feet depth of hold. She
will be fitted with all improvements
In marine architecture, with com
pound surface condensing engines Of
1880 average horse power. She will
be supplied with steel boilers, steam
stearing gear, and winches for load
ing and discharglng cargo. The
Eureka, the first launched, is almost
ready for her trial trip. The Elnora-
do, the third vessel of the line, will
be ready for launching in about three
weeks.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-07

The man who has occasion to per
use newspapers will discover much
latent humor in the advertising col
umns. For instance, an advertise
ment in New England paper reads;
Lost, two cows, one of them bull. ,
In another paper it is scberly stated
by sorrowing widow: Il am very
sorry to inform all the friends OF the
family that my dear husband entered
into better and happier life beyond
the grave, on the 18th of this month,
with paralysis"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-07

rotary, ''can not be delegated, and if
the attorney in fact should be guilty of
wrong doing his principals might escape
responsibility on the ground that the
attorney acted beyond the scope of his
delegated power. As the act in ques-
ton avoids all controversy and equally
protects the rights of both attorney
and claimant, 1 feel quite confident
that all attorneys will not only assent
to but commend the wisdom of the
LEGISLATION"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-07
Tee mortality in Chicago was as
Deaths from Deaths from
cholera. other causes.
Total. ..............4.61S

In 1S49 the deaths were 1 in Sc of
the population ia Chicago. Since, the
percentage greatly decreased. Still
it will be seen that the fact that the
deaths from cholera in this city in
1866 were enormously large in pro
portion 20 the population than was
the case in New York should admon-
ish us that there still remains great
deal to be done In the direction of inn
proved sanitation.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-07

The ST. Louis, No, Post-Dispatch
says, that Mrs. Phoebe Rice, 1908
Madison street, a sister of Hon. e.
Clay Sexton. Chief st. Louis Fire
Depart, had been a sufferer from
lnaammatory rheumatism for seven
years; the muscles of her hands and
limbs were contracted and she used
crutches. By single application of
St. Jacobs Oil she was benefited in
simultaneously, and finally completely
cured.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-07

Ev cry dog has his day, the cats take
the nights, the iceman and the milk
man the early morning hours, and the
scissors grinder with his bell and the
fruitman with his yawp take the rest
of lifetime that is worth living
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-07

Mounted police are to be put in Fair
mount park, Philadelphia, on Sun
days, to compel the bands there to
play nothing but sacred music.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-07
GATHERING BODIES.
How the Young Doctors Spend the
Hot Weather.

Hot Weather.
"What are you young doctors doing
this hot weather. was asked a voun Q
physician who was lately connected
with one of the medical colleges of
the city, says the Cincinnati Sun.
Getting in bodies for the fall dis
section"
How do you keep theme"
''Pickle 'em in brine in the vat"
"What sort OF picker
salt and sugar The vat is zinc
lined, and each body has a vat"
where do you get them?"
GIVE, man SO for hauling
them"
"Where from?"
Hospital. Got four in pickle
now"
''The hauler makes money!
Eyes, but nothing TO what the de-
monstrator Of anatomy gets. Each
student pays him S. feo and S. for dis
secting material, and there are five
parts, two legs, two arms, one head,
$25; that makes $50. He pays $40 for
hauling, pockets the rest. Soft snap. "
why don't you get bodies at Ha-
big's?"
''Too much battered up; don't want
mutilated bodies"
"Wha- becomes of the skeleton?"
1.-THE boys draw cuts for it, and
whoever gets it cleans it, and it's his
own"
How does he clean it?'
''Boils it in his landlady's wash
boiler for about four hours, and then
hangs 1t up on the roof to bleach.
Comes out as sweet and clean as a
Chinese laundry shirt [ boiled mine
in back yard one Saturday night in
the landlady's washboiler. and built a
brick furnace underneath, and like to
make the whole neighborhood sick
with the stencil. Oh, it was awful.
But the janitor will clean 'em for $40
or SIS. He's got a boiler with pipe
that carries all the steam aud odor up
the chimney"
What's good skeleton worth?"
can articulated and cleaned one
from $50 to $780,"
How long do you keep bodies ia
pickle?'
"Till it's cold enough to work on
EN-"
who takes 'em out of the vat?'
1.-The janltor has long pole with a
hook Oh the end, and he dips IN his
hook aad catches on and pulls it up to
the tackle and rope and up the chute
he goes into the dissecting table"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-07

IT is said that Fifty Canadian news
apers have declared in favor of in
dependence. Annexation finds but
few advocates.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-07

The revision of the Old Testament
is about completed.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-08-07
A New Haven Sunday Eighty Years
Ago

Thus sense OF duty induced them
to violate the law themselves in order
to compel It's observance by others.
The aeath-like dullness and absolute
privation of sound which prevailed
throughout the day can hardly be
imagined. The labor of eating dinners,
prepared on the previous Saturday,
seemed to be looked on as O. lamentable
necessity, and though such noises as
coughing and sneezlng were excused
if quite spontaneous, it was directly
forbidden to induce them by taking
snuff, or carelessly letting your liquor
go the wrong way. [ know not
whether the chattering of mans
teeth in an ague fit would have been
considered reprehensible, but in the
case of your hands becoming dirty I
am persuaded that it would have been
held more correct to let them remain
SO than to resort to the labor of asing
soap, water and towel. Under the ia
fuence of this mournful contrast to
the p1easurable tranquility or the
light hearted, innocent gaiety of a
European Sunday [ really conceive
myself distracted from the world or
rather like the parsonage in one of
the Arabian Tales who wandered into
a petrifed city and in the midst of
human habitations beheld no sign of
life. But while every noise was total
ly suppressed indoors, what does my
reader suppose he would hear or
observe we're he to take his seat
with me at one of the inn windows
and survey the streets? For the
most part he would hear nothing, for
when the inhabitants were allowed to
issue from their doors they stole
about the highways like so many
sprites or like the mysterious heroes
were their movements and their steps
SO inaudible. The principal OBJECT IN
sight would be those guardians of
the peace already mentioned, locking
like a detachment of Cromwell's body
guard as they marched to and fro
with the utmost precision and solem-
nifty, arrayed in the square-cut gar
ments which betokened their Office.
Perhaps, at last, some luckless pig
would waddle forth from an avenue
upon a muddy research. Alas, his
first grunt of triumph, as he lighted
upon some spoil, would serve as a
signal to his enemies, one of whom
would secure him ON the instant,
drive him ANONYMOUSLY home to his
sly and there execute retrlbut1ve JUS
tice for his pagan disregard of sacred
ordinances by forthwith dispatching
him. Or should some caitiff dog or
even thoughtless puppy, in profigate
contempt of the law, begin frolicking
and barking in the road, he would be
summary shat upon the spot. Or
perhaps some gentleman cat, amor
ously disposed, would be SO unfortu-
nate as to commence an ill-timed fell
inc serenade under the gutter of his
adored tabby, the vigilant street
keepers, attracted by the sound,
would rush to the place, and at the
moment perhaps when tender res
ponse was awakening in the bosom
and the throat of Grimalkin, and the
passionate duetto of the hapless pair
rising to a climax, both would be as
sailed with a battery of staff and
stones, to the interruption of their
loves and great peril of their lives
'sRetrospections Of the american
Stage" an the. Manhattan for Au-
gust.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-05
A Blind Nyife-Murderer.

OTTAWA. Ont. Doc. Cook Teetes is SEN
fenced to be hanged at Owen Sound, to morrow,
and it is altogether unlikely the Privy Council
will interfere with the sentence of the doomed
man. who is totally blind, and is convicted of hav-
ing murdered his wife by poisoning, in the town
ship of Artemisa, one year ago. He had married
her a short time previous to her death, getting
insurance of S. 400 on her life, payable to him
self. They went to the States for a few weeks,
and about week after they came back, and
Mrs Teetes died in commissions. On the con
tents of her stomach being analysed, strychnine
was found.
The evidence clearly pointed to the husband
as having administered it, and the verdict Of
guilty was recorded against him.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-05

Young Folks-German- English-appears with
a double Christmas number. After January /,
1885, it will be issued twice month, all the sub
jectmatter appearing in parallel columns in
German and English. The International News
Company New York is agent.
The English Illustrated Magazine for Decem-
ber-a double number-contains several full
page plate engravings from pictures by Thomas
Gainesborough, r. A., including a portrait of
David Garrick. A fine study of head-sug-
gested by the poem of King Cophetua and the
Beggar Maid"-by E. Burne Jones, is given also.
The illustrations are numerous and good, while
the subject matter is in wise inferior
Wide Awake, always good, even surpasses it
self in its holiday number. Its frontispiece-"A
Merrie Christmas to You"-is very fine picture
in colors. The plan of accompanying articles
with the autograph of the author has been
adopted.
The International News Company, 90 and 81
Beekman street, New York, has put in circula-
ton the magnificent holiday number Of the
London Graphic and London News, each fully
illustrated many of the pictures being in colors.
The marvel is how these can be put forth at a
shilling twenty-five centsl each.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-05
THAT CACTUS STORY.
A Detroit Lady Who Saw Briars Growing in
Human Flesh.
Detroit Times.

Detroit Times.
''Yes. l was down in Kansas about three years
ago." said little, elderly lady, with brown eyes
and gray hair, yesterday. This was Mrs. G. w.
Perkins. of 321 Second street. this city. II was
visiting cousin of mine, Mrs Robinson, in
Ottawa, Kan. One day lady whose husband
is quite wel-todo came into Mrs Robinsons.
She had one of her hands bound up. She then
told. me that one day, two years before, she was
transplanting Kansas cactus some
thing like We call prickly pear
and that few of the briars got under
the nail of her little finger. 1t panied her a
great deal at the time-she described the feeling
as being violent shock. Pretty soon afterward
a lot of cactus briars began growing out all over
her body. They were cry small, just like
needle points This lady, don't remember her
name told me that she suffered the most ex-
crutiating pain, and l could well believe her be-
cause she was emaciated and her face bore
marks of extreme suffering She showed me
the hand which not bound up. 1t was a
very dark red, and l could see those little
briars-just like those prickly pear-stick-
ing out all over l can't remember anything
else because it was some time ago, and did not
ask the lady many questions. 1t was the most
curious thing ever saw, though"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-05

gallant Major took his own time for IT, wheeling his
burden certain number of miles per day, and then,
leaving it at some waysde inn farmhouse, would
return home and rest at night He was, if remem'
ber about week in accomplishing his task, and his
reception in Boston was an ovation"
Mr. FAwcETT the late universally regretted Post
general of England. though deprived of sight
always had a crowd of shortsighted members around
him in the House, to whom he would tell the names of
those who speaking as he knew all the members
by their voices those who rarely took parts in de-
bate. Wh en- answering question, too, he would
quote from official documents freely as though he
were reading them Mr. Shaw Lefevre who succeeds him
In the Office is son of Sir John Lefevre and nephew
of Lord Eversey who for so many years the pop
ular Speaker of the House of Commons, and who, at
the ago of ninetyone retains his freshness unbroken
BY govt or years of toll.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-05
A Veteran Journalist.
"A Cb'
Washington Letter.


Major Ben: Perley Poore has returned from
his farm and settled himself in his winter apart
ments at the Ebbitt. He is feeling in better
health than for ten or fifteen years, and by his
severe regimen of twenty weeks on stale
bread and sweet skinned milk, unrelieved by
the slightest variation of diet he has rid himself
of alarming symptoms and reduced his apoplec-
tic superiority of flesh sxtyone pounds by
which loss he is as much the gamer in personal
good looks ex-senator David Davis by a
similar reduction. He is now hale and decided
ly handsome gray-bearded leonine figure, wear
ing his sixty-four years like crown on his
massive head. Much solicitude felt by his
many friends here lest the death of the last re-
naming member of his trio of intimate associates
Senators Sumner, Burnside and Anthony, should
PROSTATE him quite; hence their joy is the
greater to find him emerging from his summer
retreat at Indian HILL like a giant refreshed
with new wine" A man of intense freside at
tachments, he has also been sorely stricken
within the .ast six years by the death of his only
children, two fair daughters, in their early TWEEN
ties, the one maiden the other a wife and the
mother of his only grandchild, Ben: Perley Poore
Mosely, now youngster of three years.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-05
A Woman for President.

W Warrington tObt'
"Will there ever be woman President Of the
United Statesr Mrs. Lucy Stone was asked re-
Gently.
Every likely. don't see why there shouldn't
be. There have been good queens and good
expresses, and why not good women presidentsl
1t was to the jewels of Queen Isabella that we
owe the discovery of America and England owes
more to Queen Elizabeth than to any other of
her sovereigns. You know the old coupet
Women as sovereigns oft have graced the land,
But never ruled we'll at second hand"
when do you expect universal suffrage in this
countryl"
II fully believe in this generation. think
that this political campaign just closed will show
n great many men that they need in politics a
great moral power, not now possessed, and that
nothing will bring it but the presence of woman
as q political power 1 mean to say that woman
must be part of the political life in order to
give a moral power to politics, which it doesn't
now have, as has been shown so woefully in the
past campaign.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-05

o thou so fair in summers gone,
While yet thy fresh and virgin soul
Inform'd the column'd ParthenOn,
The glittering Capitol
So fair in southern sunshine bathed,
But scarce of such majestic mien
As here with forehead vapor-swathed
In meadows ever green;
For thou-when Athens reign'd. and Rome,
Thy glorious eyes were dimmed with pain
To mark in many freemans home
The slave, the scourge, the chain
o follower of the Vision. stifl
In motion to the distant CLEAN,
Howe'er blind force and brainless will
May jar thy golden dream,
Who, like great Nature wouldst not mar
By changes all too fierce and fast
This order of our Human Star,
This heritage of the past;
o scorner of the party cry
That wanders from the puolic good.
Thou-when the nations rear on high
Their idol smear d with blood,
And when they roll their idol down.
OF saner worship sanely proud;
Thou leather of the lawless crown
AS of the lawless crowd;
How long thine ever growing mind
Hath still d the blast and strewn the wave,
Though some of late would raise a wind
To sing thee to thy grave,
Men loud against all forms of power
Unfurnishd brows tempestuous tongues,
Expecting all things in an hour
Brass mouths and iron lungs!
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, in New York Independer
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-05
A Tram from Ven;oa tn R.ome.

Mr.. Bolton and his friends. this evening, will
visit Italy, land of the myrtle, olive and vine
land of art and sunshine Whole lectures are
written Venice, Florence, Pompeii and Rome,
but at Plymouth Church you get clear and in
telgent view of the entire history of Italy i'll a
single evening.
Large audiences were present at the matinee
and evening performances, and all came away
delighted Children's matinee at 420 p. NJ.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-05

logic Of right and wrong as interpreted
by the unaided conscience. 1t was very
natural thing, then. that the unhappy "Mrs.
Wallstonecraft" las she calledl should take
up with and live with him after her desertion
by Captain Inlay But Goodwin, after the lapse
of year. seems to have thought differently of
the matter, and formally made her his wife, she
DIVING in childbirth
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-05
PriyiIeges of Journalists.

Boston. Dec. 4.-Judge Blodget to-day rem
dered his decision In the case of James p. Frost
and Daniel H. Sanders, of the Boston Globe.
who were arrested, charged with the contempt
of court in refusing to disclose to the grand jury
tho source of certain recent information con
corning an old murder case in this city. The
judges decision is, in effect that the facts in
the case did not warrant the commitment Of the
journalists for contempt as the question Is q
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-12-05
FINEST Oyster Stew, % cents, schaffners

COLDS are flying about in the air thicker than
flakes in a snow storm. Everybody is catching
them, but everybody knows or ought to know
how to get rid of them. A few doses OF Hale's
Honey of Horehound and Tar, and pres they
are gone Why continue to cough, with a posi-
tive cure at hand. Sold by all druggists.
Pixies Toothache Drops cure in one minute.