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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

PLEURo- PNEUMoNIA, it is stated, has
made its appearance among the cattle OF
Washington county, Penn.
ADyICES from India state that the
cholera is abating at Calcutta. One
death from the disease is reported from
Bombay.
SIX families in Louisville, KY, were
poisoned by cake purchased at a confec-
toners, one child dying, while ten other
persons suffered severely, but are out of
danger. A chemical analysis showed
the presence of arsenic, but how it got
in the cake remains unexplained.
THE Connecticut republican conven-
ton, which met Wednesday at Hart
ford, while eulogizing President Ar
thurs administration, and pledging
loyal support to the Chicago nominees,
believing that Joseph r. Hawley was
the first choice of the state for presi-
dent. The Hon. Samuel Fessenden pre-
sided over the gathering.
A ST. PAUL telegram states that Mayo
& Clark, wholesale hardware dealers
have suspended payment. Liabilities,
S135, 900; assets, $155, 900. Unless an
assignment is forced list Of liabilities
and assets will not be given. The cred
itOrs are in New York, Chicago. Pitts
burgh, ST. Louis, Cleveland, Milwaukee,
Cincinnati, Louisville, Grand Rapids,
indianapolis and Davenport.
A WELLsBURG, w. VA, special says
that what is claimed to be the heaviest
flow of natural gas in the world was
struck at the Barclay No. 2 we'll at tEis
place, Wednesday, at a depth Of 1887
feet The well is pouring forth an enor-
NOUS quantity of gas with q sound
audible for miles. There is now suffi
cient gas to light and Leaf large city
It is probable that pipelines will be run
between here and Wheeling, and the gas
used for mills and factories.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01
Strange Attitudes in Death

Prof. &. h. Brown-Seouard writes
that at the battle of WILLIAMSBURG a
United States zOuave was shot directly
through the forehead as he was
climbing over 8 low fence, and his
body was found IN the last attitude in
lfe-one leg half over the fence, the
body crouching backward. One hand
partially clenched and raised to the
level of the forehead, presented the
palm forward as if to ward off an ap-
preaching evil. a brakeman of
freight car on the Nashville & Chat
tanOOga railroad was inStantaneOusly
killed by a shot between the ewes.
fired by guerrilla. The murdered
man was screwing down the brakes at
at the moment of the shot. After
death the body remained fixed, the
arms rigidly extended on the wheel
of the brake. The pipe which he had
been smoking remained clasped be-
tween his teeth. The conservation of
the last attitude can take place In 9th
er circumstances than sudden death
from wounds to the brain, heart or
lungs, although an injury to vital
organ is the most frequent cause of
that phenomenon. A detail of United
States soldiers foraging near Colds
boro, n. c., came suddenly upon a
party of Southern cavalry dismount- 4
ed. The latter Immediately sprang
to their saddles, and, after a volley
had been fired at them, they all but
one rode away
That one was left standing with one
foot in the stirrup; one hand, tie left,
grasping the bridle,rein and name of
his horse, the right hand clenching
the barrel of his carbine near themuz-
zle, the butt of the carbine resting on
the ground. The mans head was
turned over his right shoulder, appa-
rently watching the approach of the
attacking party. He was called upon
to surrender, without response, and
upon a near approach and examina-
ton he was found to be rigid IN death,
In the singular attitude above de
scribed. Great difficulty was expert
enced in forcing the name of the
horse from his left hand and the car
bine from his right. On the battle
field of Beaumont, near Sedan, IN
1870, the dead body of a soldier was
found half sitting, half lying on the
ground, delicately holding tin COB
let between his thumb and forefnger,
and directing it towards an absent
mouth. While in that De sition the
poor man had been killed by cannon
ball, which had carried away the
whole of his head and face, except the
lower jaw. The body and arms had
been suddenly seized at the time of
death with a stiffness which produced
the persistence of the state in which
they were when the head was cut off.
Twenty-four hours had elapsed since
the battle
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01

buffalo robe there can be scarcely a
doubt that it would pay to produce
them in domestication under favor
able circumstances. With the inn
provement that could be made by
selections they could doubtless be
brought to produce a fine quality of
beef. 1t may justly be predicted that
robes of as yet unequalled quality can
yet be proquced Ia the same way.
The race should be kept pure, and inn
provement accomplished by selection.
The buffalo bull crossed on common
COWS would by prepotency of so
strong aud pure race, produce ami
mails with fair quality OF robe and
carcass of good beef. Here is a new
held entirely unoccupied, waiting Cor
the skill and vim of a Bates and a
Booth.
1t is to be devoutly hoped that one
OF wealth, with the patriotic ambition
of founding domestic breed of dis
tlnctly American race of cattle. will
step into the field and win victory
quickly, before it is forever too
late
r. Z. ROBERTS, in Chicago Journal.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01
The Old Fashioned Quilting.

Turn the kaleidoscope and you
see the neighborhood quilting. The
mothers and wives comes in the after
noon, all wrapped up from the cold,
and their feet on a footstove. Where
they got warm and took out their
needles and sat down, it was a merry
group and full of news. Once in a
while a needle would slip and make a
a bad scratch upon the character of
some absentee, but for the most part.
it was good wholesome talk. And in
the evening when the young folks
came there was some lively stepping.
When the black boy played money
musk" even grandfather in the next
room, who had distributed many
tracts on the sin of dancing, was seen
to make his heel go. 1t seemed to me
a great fuss and great gathering to
get one quilt made. But the fact was
that good neighborhood was quilted,
warm sympathies were quilted, life
time friendships were quilted, and
connubial bliss quilted. And they
stayed late And such plays as you
had in that back room, where you
Joined hands and one of the loveliest
stood in the ringI What circumfer-
ence to what center.-Dr. Tall
nadoe
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

The cotton mills at Fitchville, Conn.
owned by the Providence Company,
burned Thursday. Loss over 800, 900.
FROST prevailed all over Northern
Texas on the night of the 22d inst -
heavy in some sections and slight in
others. Corn and late cotton were kill
ed at many points, and fruit generally
suffered considerably.
SARAH BOLIVIAN, aged 80 years, resid-
ing on Blue mountain, Pa, died sud-
denly Thursday. She quarreled with
her brother about chOpping some wood,
and in moment Of anger she said she
wished she was dead. Directly the
woman dropped dead.
A CINCINNATI, OHIO, dispatch says the
American Oak Leather tannery, occupy
ing the square bounded by Kenncr street,
Mclean avenue and Dalton and Florence
streets, was burned Thursday, excepting
the japanning department, which was
saved by the desperate work of the fire
department. There were 10, 900 hides in
the factory. The loss will reach 100000.
The insurance is 100000. Portions of
the tannery were burnt a year ago
Four hundred people were thrown out
of employment.
A FIRE started in the main factory of
the Celluloid Brush Company, on the
eastern verge of Newark, n. j., and in
half an hour all the buildings were in
ruins. The damage is probably $780,,
900. The insurance has not been ascer-
tanned. The fire started in the comb
room, where few men and boys were
doing overwork, and was caused by a
small piece of celluloid flying from an
emery-wheel into the gas and then drop
ping into the scrapings on the floor. AS
it burned the celluloid emitted a gas
which frequently exploded without
much noise, but with force that shook
down the walls. The following en-
ployes of the factory were seriously in
iurGd: Rudolph Scrack, aged 10, who
will probably die; Travers Kenworthy,
aged So: James Rankin, aged -, ard
John Riley, boy.
A'FALL RIVER dispatch of the 25th
says the Sagomore Mill, No. 1, was to-
tally destroyed by fra last evening, The
help had just left, and in a very few
minutes the flames entered the tower
in the center of the mill, and the entire
tower was soon mass Of flames.A por-
ton of the basement was used as store
room for cotton and contained several
hundred bales. This cotton was on fire
in three places when first discovered,
leaving little doubt but that the fire
was the work of an incendiary. The
fire department was called out. The
flames climbed the elevator shaft
through the tower to the stories above,
and the whole interior Of the mill was
soon a mass of flames. The roof
finally fell carrying the remaining
floors to the basement. Then the south
half of the east wall fell with tremen-
dous crash into the huge furnace of
| flames. The mill is total loss, which
will amount to about 100000. The mill
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01
An American Breed Of Cattle.

Some of our ambitious breeders
have advocated the founding of an
American breed of cattle The Eu-
rOpean breeds are so numerous and
embrace so wide range of adapta-
tons, it would seem as though moth
ing more could be desired. For beef
we have the Shorthorns, Herefords,
Polled Angus, Galloways, Norfolks,
Suffolks and Devons. In all these
breeds there are families possessing
merit in the dairy. For large milk
producers we have the Holsteins and
Ayrshires, and both these have merit
as beef producers. For butter we
have the Jersey and Guernsey. In
these breeds we have all that can be
asked for the economical production
of the finest qualities of beef. milk,
butter and cheese, with perfect adap-
tation to differences in climate, soil
and physical constitution of the Uni
ted States.
Many individuals Of these breeds
have reached the acme of perfection,
and the skill Of the breeder will find
scope for its exercise in maintaining
the present high attainments and
leading the masses nearer the highest
standard. It would be just as absurd
to create a new language for the
United States of America, as it would
be to found an American breed of cat
tie for the production of beef, milk,
butter and cheese. The English lam
guage is good enough for the United
States, and the beef, milk and butter
breeds of Great Britain are good
enough for the world. The most that
any breeder could hope to accomplish
with these breeds as a foundation
would be to form a breed with some
fanciful characteristic Of form or
color. If he could by selection for
many generations establish a breed
perslstently and invariably white,
with red ears and switch, it would
simply be fanciful but in no wise use
full.
If it were possible to cross the
American eagle on the Poland China
and produce an American breed with
small wings on their shoulders, they
would be a fanciful but inconvenient
ap pendage. But stay! Why has it
not occurred to US that we have an
American breed of cattle? The Amer
lean buffaloes are a distinct race bred
for centuries without alloy. They
have characteristics strikingly distinct
from any other bovines An import
ant question is: Have they qualities
which would make it desirable to do
mesticate this pure and distinctively
American race of cattle? 1t is indis-
putable that under the present condI-
tons this race will soon become ex-
tinct by the merciless butchery of the
improyident hunter. The buffalo
robe is purely an American product,
and is so useful and fills SO universal
a want that when the supply is cut
off, as it soon must be, its annihila-
ton will make terrible void.
The question of their domesticstion
and perpetuation will, ! suppose have
to be subjected to that crucial test:
Will it pay? From the usefulness,
value and universal demand for the
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01
CRIME.

AS a result of bad bookkeeping the
accounts of TIE Massachusetts, state
prison show deficit Of $4,000.
The trial of Frank James at Hunts
vile, Ala, for completely in the Mussel
Shoals robbery in 1871, was concluded
with verdict of mot guilty" The
verdict was greeted with a round of
cheers.
LUKE PHIPPs, who killed his wife on
a ferry-boat in the Detroit river las
August has been convicted of tho crime
and sentenced to be executed June II,
at Sandwich, Ont. It will be remem-
bered that he broke Jail in December
and came to Pullman, Ill, where he was
employed in billiard-room.
Two burglars entered the house Of
Amos Brackenstros, near Berne, Adams
county, Ind, about midnight on the 24th
inst, shot Mr.. Brackenstross dead by his
wife's side and decamped with $73, after
informing the woman that they would
murder her if she quilted the house be-
fore daylight.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01
What they Had for Dinner.
Grit.

ooh, myl'' exclaimed little Tommy
Blower, who was visiting his aunt
the other afternoon. You just
ought to know what we had for din
ner to-day"
Roast beef?" suggested his Aunt.
'Nowpr' replied Tommy.
Pork and beans?" again queried
his Aunt.
''Newp! worse than that" said
Tommy.
1T vast chicken or pot pie, or
OYSTERS" again asked his Aunt.
ooh! no; you're way off, replied
Tommy. 1T was the new minister. "
And his Aunt tainted dead away at
the very thought of it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01
GLEANINGS.

4 poet chirps: 'Encircled by that
yawniHg gulf stood entranced." 1t
looks like a delicate imtimation of the
fact that he tried to kiss u st. Louis
girl.
New spring bonnets are certainly
very beautiful, but it would interest
horticulturist to know where the flow
ers grow that are represented on some
Of them.
A wholesale tobacco dealer IN New
York city claims that cigarette smok-
ing is dying out, and that IA, 600, 600
less cigarettes were sold in 1883 than
in 1882.
Mrs. Dubuys, of Pass Christian,
daughter of General w. T. Sherman.
is the owner of one of the loveliest
rose gardens in Mississippi. She has
$50 varieties of roses in it.
A quantity of ore from the Ellen
vile, New York, gold mine sent to a
New York assayer, the other day, as
sayed at the rate of 1868 ton. The
mine is said to be rich in both gold
and silver.
A woman with five pairs of twins
took the cars at Woodline. Iowa the
other day, and the entire party of
eleven travelled on one ticket, none of
the children being old enough to pay
one fare. It is such things as these
that make stockholders poor, and
bankrupt railway companies.
"A grateful friend" sent the Boston
Herald S. lin recognition of what
that paper has done for him" The
publishers sent the money to chart
table institution.
The best Orange County butter
sold III New York markets comes from
Illinois. Next to Illinois Iowa ranks
as the best putter-producing state.
New York leads IN cheese making.
Michal Fitzgerald, Federal soldier
who deserted Is years ago. recently
surrendered himself at Vicksburg,
Miss, because his eyesight is failing
and lie can no longer. take care of him
self.
Mr.. Cupples, the publisher of Miss
McLean's Cape Cod Folks" says
that since Nightingale's verdict ia the
libel suit nearly every person in Co
darville has presented a claim for
damages, and that he has paid some
thing TO pretty much everybody in the
village.
In Louisville the style of dress
known as the Mother Hubbard has
been outlawed. Women appearing
on the streets in such costumes here
after are to be arrested and fined.
One victim has already been gathered
in and the police are on the lookout
for others. The first offender was
neatly arrayed in pink Unfortunate
ly for her, il was proved that her
reputation was not of the best, and so
quick work was made of her case by
the magistrate before whom she was
tried. The order to the police ex-
tends, however, 10 all women. and,
whatever the station in life of the cul-
prit may be, the vigilant guardians
Of the peace are to bring her in"
Under these circumstances it is prob
able that the iron heel of tyranny
will crush out in one American city
the astheticism SO recently pr0pagat-
ed by BunthOrne.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01
FOREIGN.

REPORTS from the interior Of Egypt
state that the cotton worm has reap
peared.
The British parliament reassembled
Tuesday after the Easter recess. The
position Ct General Gordon was the sub
ject of enquiry in both the lords and
commons.
A PHENOMENAL cold wave has Just
swept over Switzerland and adjacent
departments Of France, doing enor-
nous damage to agriculture One-third
of the vintage crop is destroyed. AT
Macon and vicinity the vines were de-
wasted by frost. The damage in the
Sanre valley is estimated at many mill
ions of francs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01

was built in 1873 and had an insurance
of $500, 900, distributed among fourteen
mutual companies. It gave employ
ment to about 500 hands, with weekly
pay roll of about $4,000. The Sagamore
was one of the ten mills included in the
spinners' strike twelve weeks ago, and
was one against which the efforts of the
strikers were mainly directed. Notwith-
standing the strike the mill has been
kept steadily in operation, and to-day
nearly the full complement of machin-
cry was running.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01

MANITOBA is still standing on the
ragged edge of separation from the
Dominion. Her premier, in q speech
which he has just made, declares that
if the Federation does not furnish the
money for the administration of her
affairs, she must withdraw and take
charge of her own revenue. How
happy Manitoba would be as obe of
our territorial sisterhood. Her gov
ernor and all her other officers would
have a nice provision made for them
every year at Washington, and their
drafts would be promptly honored at
the treasury department. Let her
come in at once and receive the hand
some dowry with which Uncle Sam
in his generosity is ready to endow
her.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01

CARLOS AGUERO, the CUBAN revOlu-
tionary leader, is a man below the
medium height and weighs only about
115 pounds. He has black curling
hair and small mustache that turns
up at the ends. His smiles are grim,
and there is a look of ferceness about
his face, but ordinarily he is the most
harmless person imaginable in appear
ance. Aguero belongs to a wealthy
family in Puerto Principe. He is not
yet 80, and has been in arms against
Spanish authority in Cuba almost
continuously since he was Il, No
one who knows him doubts his BRAY
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01

The prospects are that Indian Ter
ritory will, in the next few years, be
covered with network Of railroads.
There are six bills now pending be-
fore congress permitting wealthy cor
porations to run tracks across the ter
ritory to connect Texas with the states
of the Northwest and Colorado.
Three of the bills have already been
reported favorably from committees,
and are now pending on the calendars
Of both the house and senate. If
reached they will doubtless pass be-
fore the adjournment of congress, and
the three bills still before the commit
tees will in all probability be favora-
bly, reported and passed. Each COM
pany agrees to literally compensate
the Indians for the right of way, but
Id spite Of this there is general dis
trust among the tribes. They feel
that railroad building through their
country means their exterminatioE,
and besides sending their chiefs here
to intercede, numerous protests have
been forwarded to Washington. The
feeling in congress, however, is that
the interests of millions of white
people should not be sacrificed to graf
ify few savage tribes, and there is
disposition to annul any treaty that
may stand in the way.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01

Mr.. Peter Mallen, 212 w. Twenty
fourth street, New York, says that he
suffered six years with rheumatism
and found no relief until ST. Jacobs
Oil, the sovereign remedy, was aF-
piled, which cured him completely.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01
Swept and Devastated by the Floods,

The land inundated By them, will prove unusually
fruitful of malaria, for the retiring waters leave
hanging like a pail above the saturated earth,
sow fever and ague bilious remittent and diseases
equally malignant. There is sure protection
however, to be found in Hostetter's Stomach Bit
tiers. the ruling remedy and chief preventive of
disorders caused by miasma. Since the Bitters is
a tonic of perfect purity, and means OF regulat-
ing the system as well as renewing strength it is
admirably fitted to the wants of the debiitated,
bilious and nervous who are i'll fitted to encounter
climatic influences uDfayorable to health. Rheu-
matism disorders of the stomach liver and bow
els kidney and bladder ailments are eradicated
by this safe, agreeable and benign remedy which
specially commends itself for family use.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01

THE mayor Of Baltimore recently
vetoed an ordinance making school
text books free to pupils of the public
schools, on the ground, chiefly, that
if books were made absolutely free to
the children, they would by no means
be so to the taxpayers, who would
have to pay additional taxes to the ex-
tent of $4,000. At present, in Balti-
more, there is a charge for books Of
one dollar quarter in advance to
each pupil whose parents are not in
INDECENT circumstances. The payment
is apparently optional however, the
sum realized from this source last year
being SO, $50 from about so, 900 pu-
pills, In Massachusetts the new law
makes school books free in 5he state
schools, but the true principle seems
to be that only children who are too
poor to buy text books should be fur
nished with them without cost.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01

A STEAMER on the river Nile, loade
with Egyptian refugees from Shendy,
en- route for Berber, ran aground re-
Gently, was captured by the False
Prophets followers, and all on board,
$50 in number-men, women and
children-were horribly massacred.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01

Gambetta's grave is still covered
with funeral wreaths, and bushels OF
visiting cards are placed On his grave
stone.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-01

THE famous Dutch Gap Canal must
forever remain associated with the
war record of General Butler. It is
five miles below Richmond, and
saves about seven miles of navigation
in the passage from Richmond to
City Point. When General Batter
ceased work upon it, it's depth was
only five or six feet. It IS now fif-
te feet deep at low tide