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Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-24
Transfxed by an Iron Rod.

Jacob Dickey, who had charge of the
oil at Rutherford Run lease, was Satur-
day agtating a well, says New York
Times special dated Bradford PA. },
Feb. Is, using for the purpose an iron rod
about eleven feet long, which was at
tached to a rope passing through crown,
pulling the rod and dropping it down the
tubing until it reached sand rock. The
rod agitated the we'll so effectually as to
cause a strong flow of gas, which blew
the rod and rope out of the well and up
into the derrick. In descending the point
of the rod struck Dickey square on the
top of the head, and passing through it
toward the left ear, came out at the oc-
cipital bone, and passed on down through
the left lung. narrowly escaping the
heart, and coming out below the last rib.
The man did not lose consciousness, and
stood without flinching the operation OF
pulling the rod from his body. He lived
long enough to give directions about his
funeral. He leaves a widow and two
children.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-24
He 1IeIieved in TVitches.

The heirs of Christian William Wetzel,
says a Philadelphia special OF the 2Ott
inst. are cOntestlng his will. The ole
man, who was 20 years of age when be
died, had three wives living, having sepa-
rated from two Of them. He only left 81
to each of the seven children by the earlier
wives and the balance of his estate to the
son by his last wife. IL was testified
that Wetzel was a great believer in
epirItualism and witches, and was in the
habit Of placing a bag over his door to
keen witches out. He told the witness he
had sold some property because he was
not divorced from his second wife.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-24
Blaine as an Editor.
PHILADELPHIA Press.

Mr.. Blaine is very systematic in his lit
erary work. His methods are those of the
journalist rather than of the professional
bOokmaker. He is, indeed, a born news
paper man, and it is a pity, some OF US
think, that he did not follow that calling
instead of switching off from editing a
country paper to run for Congress. L hap
pen to know, by the way, that when
Speaker of the House Of Representatives
he had a great temptation to put his feet
on the very top round of the journalistic
ladder. He was offered the editOrship of
one of the greatest New York newspapers
at a salary larger than any editor now re-
ceives and nearly as large as that of the
President of the United States. Curiously
enough, too. the offer came from journal
which has never been friendly toward
Blaine from that day to this. AS an illus
tration OF Mr.. Blaine's careful writing, l
recall that he once told me he had in his
last reading of his Garfield memorial ora
tion cut it down ], 1SO words, simply with
a view to the utmest cOnciseness OF eX-
DressiOn.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-24
Prince Bismarcl4's Obesity Cured



Stout people would no doubt be glad to
have further information as to the method
by which Prince Bismarck has at last got
rid Of his superfluous flesh. For dozen
years the man of blood and iron
has been afflicted with all sorts
of maladies, more or less directly
traceable to his excessive cOrpu.
lence. He passed sleepless nights, and
could hardly walk a couple of hundred
yards without fatigue. Doctor after
doctor was called in; but physicians
were in vain" At last, however, he has
found his savior. Count William Bis
marck, the Princes second son, was, like
his father, long troubled by obesity. One
happy day a literary friend introduced to
him a certain DIR. Schwenninger, Bava-
rian, who claimedstO have hit upon regi-
men which was an infallible cure for fat
ness.
Count William placed himself unre-
servedly in the hands of the Herr Doctor,
and in few weeks had lost his super
fiuous bulk. ThereupOn DR.. Schwenning-
er was summoned to the Chancellor,
whom he undertook to cure, as he had
cured his son. At the end of seven or
sixty pounds less, and he now looks upon
himself as cured. He sleeps long and
TRANQUILITY; he is at his desk at 7 in the
morning; he takes long walks which
would fatigue a young man, and, after ten
years absence from the saddle, he is
now able to ride. All this is prOdigiOus !;
but what is DIR. SchwenningeI myster-
ious regimen?
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-24
The Longest Three Jumps.

Considerable interest centred in the
] jumping wager between George Hamilton,
the champion of the country, and Dick
Smith, the amateur of our city, at the
Springs yesterday afternoon. The wager,
500 a side, having been deposited, time
was called, and the conditions We're read
as follows: Three standing jumps, Ham,
iltOn to allow Smith three feet, and each
man to have five trials. The record was
as follows:
Hamilton's best jump, 40 feet inches.
Smiths best jump, 81 feet inches.
There being a tie the bet was declared
of
After this Hamilton gave an exhibition
of his powers, taking a flat-foOted stand
ing leap over a horses back, 151E hands
bfuh
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-24
Matthew Arnold VS.. American CULTURE.

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We dare say it in fact makes very little
difference to most people what our English
cousins think of us and our culture, but
there is no doubt that-while they give us
full credit for our material greatness-they
rather underestimate our finer acquire
ments. Mr.. Matthew Arnold is certainly
a great deal more than an average expo
nent of English intelligence, but even he
has betrayed considerable ignorance Of
American culture. At dinner not long
since, in conversation with the lady next
to him. he happened to mention W ords-
worth, adding, in an apologize way, that
he supposed very few Americans knew
anything of that poet The lady, who hap
pened to be very good specimen of the
rerd Americana, couldn't quite endure
that reflection on her cOuntrymen and took
a strong exception to the statement, in
forming the great man that he was mis-
taken. To fortify her assertion she said
she didn't believe there was guest at the
table who hadn't a copy of Wordsworth's
poems IN his or her library. Mr.. Arnold,
acting on the suggestion, Intercepted
each one on the subject. To his surprise
he learned from the replies that every one
(the party being either an exceptional
one, or some of its members fearing to be
found deficient) claimed to possess the po-
cts works. We say fearing to be found
ueuCleOL. because, uuueI huCu CuCulu-
stances, if an American worthy of the
name had any doubt as to whether he
owned the books, he would have given
himself the benefit of it to aid in the con-
fusion of the Britisher who should ques-
ton that any American assemblage should
not be thoroughly acquainted with Words
worth's writings. We say he met with
an affirmative answer to his question, and
only wish to use the occurrence to point
the statement that our transporting
friends do not give US credit for the cultT-
walton we really do possess. We would
venture to make the further claim, and
think we could support it, that take our
people and compare them class for class
with the English, and they will be found
to have as thorough an acquaintance with
what is really best in English literature
as the English themselves. We do not
wish to talk spread-eagle too much, but
think our cosmopolitan spirit is giving the
American people truer and more gene
raj culture than Englishmen can ever at
tain, unless they abandon the insular
prejudice which makes them skeptlcal OF
any cultivation but their own.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-24
For Eilions Collie.

For abating the spasms of bilious collie,
Benson's Capcine Porous Plasters act
promptly and splendIdly.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-24
A"Fresh' Discovery at Pompeii.

Naples Correspondence american Register.
Apropos of P0mpeii, a we'll known Pres
byterian divine OF London. now visiting
Naples, told me one of the best things
connected with the buried city that !
have heard for long time. This divine
has not only the advantage Of being a
ScOthman, but also that of having had
some experience in America-in travel in
the United States, and in residence in
Canada only few hours distant from the
Greater Britain" as Sir Charles Dixie
termed our country. A few days ago,
at dinner time, he perceived opposite to
him at the table-d'hO of his hotel a gen
tleman who, by his peculiar observations.
freely given iii backwoods English, pro-
claimed himself to be an American, and
one of those men, probalY the son OF an
ignorant Irish emigrant, who, by native
force of character, had worked up from
poverty to a certain degree Of afiluence.
His brain, however, had not been filled
with knowledge as his purse had been
with dollars. He evidently had succeeded
in his own neighborhood as a lumberman
or a small trader, and finding himself
possessed of means, thought that a little
foreign travel would set him up in the
world. Vanity and great selt-esteem are
0ttentimes the Accomplishments OF acquir-
ed wealth without culture, and these two
luolibAOo iASHACAbtt BAGfGub sum IACu
from getting Information by inquiries, as
they do not wish to show their ignorance
by asking questions about things which
others seem to know all about. So our
backwOOds american cousin" had come
all the way to Naples, and had never
heard of Pompeii, although he chad
heard tell of Vesuye." Noticing that
travellers all around him went to POmpeil,
he considered it the correct thing for him to
do. He had been here two weeks, and
had never put single question about the
city, so that when he arrived there, enter
ing it by the marine gate, down which
poured the commerce of Pompeii eighteen
centuries ago, he was all taken aback to
seen ruins of houses emerging from the
strata of pumice-stone and ashes. He
once forgot his ignorance, and with an air
of surprise, horror and almost stupeiactiOn
he exclaimed: "What on airth's the
matter with this place? Sometimes
wrong here! Why, it seems all kivered
up, and the peepul all dedv 1t has been
the standing joke with his companions
ever since. But his shrewdness and ma
tive wit, as a general thing, keep him
even with the John Bulls who surround
him.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-24

Mrs. J. W. johnson, Rome, Ca, says:
81 used Browns Iron Bitters for indiges-
ton and derived much benefit"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-24

For sale by r. B. Cassels. TAYLOR and East
Broad streets. Telephone No. T.-AdU.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-24

Daniel Buie, Laston, Ga, says: browns
Iron Bitters relieved me Of severe suffer
ing from dyspepsia"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-02-24
CoMPARATIYELY EASY.

and every year over 1000 eXiles are ar
rested i'll European Russia and sent back.
In 1876 there were 10000 hard labor con-
victs mostly in Eastern Siberia, These
conyicts are men whom we in America
would cit er hang or send TO prison fer
life. There are only two convict mixes in
Eastern Siberia at present. Political
exiles 20 to Siberia as other travellers;
engage in business and grow wealthy and
prosper. They are not beaten or COM
PEELED to work in quicksilver mines.
have met some of these eXiles and have
been entertained in their houses. The
political exile Ofthe Nihilistic newspapers
who works out his life in underground
mines does not exist if indeed he ever
has existed. The Russian government
claims that it is desirable that the crimi-
nails should be sent away from the scenes
of their crime and perhaps reformed, and
as they do not want them in the penal in
situations of European Russia they are
sent to Siberia. Whatever exile may
have been in the past it is now a more
lenient mode of punishment than is prac-
ticed in England. The exile system will
be 9bOlshedIn Russia within the next
quarter of century, and has been abol-
ished in England, and for substantially
the same reasons, one of which is that the
sending of criminals to country drives
away other classes of settlers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-24
DON'T LIKE THE MINISTER,

81 don't like the minister" That
settles the matter. If you don't like
the minister you have no duties to
perform. Not liking the minister
absolves you from all responsibility.
If you are leader you may sulk, or
resign or 'object" to do nothing.
The fact that you ''don't like the
minister" releases you from your VOWS.
If you are trustee you need not take
any further interest in the financial
affairs Of the congregation. The fact
shat the people entrusted you with
certain duties, which you engaged to
preform, is neither here nor there il
you "don't like the minister" Oh
course you needn't pay anything if you
''don't like the minister" Certainly
not. The easiest of all ways to get
rid of supporting the church and its
ordinances is simply to say, Il don't
like the minister" Of course you
need not go to the prayer meeting; why
should man pray if he "dosen't like
the minister" There are a number Of
reasons why some 'sdon't like the min.
sster." Some of these reasons are GOOD
no doubt; but many are the reverse.
Neither the good nor the bad absolve
a nearer from his duty. Perhaps ii
would be presumption to ask why you
don't like the minister UntuersaZsst.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-24
WILL SUE FOR SIS, 1000.

Mr.. j. r. Spears of this city, while
in Chicago during the Democratic con-
vention had an interview with GEN.
B. r. Butler relative to the prosecu-
ton of his cases against Mr.. Geo.
Hiles, of DexterviIle, for false impris.
onment of himself and wife. Mr.. J.
V. Quarrels of Raci ne, has charge OF
the case and will furnish the money to
prosecute.
Ben. Butler after closely examining
Mr.. Spears papers said he would aid
IN the prosecutions and advised Mr..
Spears to have Mr. Quarrels alter the
papers and sue for $4,000 damages.
He said that the claim was a valid one
and that damages could be secured
without much trouble. Benjamin will
give the case his personal attention in
the near future. J. Y. Quarrels is a
gentleman of rare Veracity and will
push the cases for all there is in them
MIR. Spears feels quite elated over his
success thus far. The first trial will
take place at Sparta in October.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-24
BLAINES LETTER,

Pittsburg Dispatch Z: Altogether
the letter is broad, fair, and able
Indianapolis Times: 1t is calm,
dignifed, and untainted by partisan
ship.
Cleveland Herald: AS a ready letter
writer Mr.. Blaine is also a success.
ST. Louis Democrat It is a
carefully written and we'll tempered
document.
New York Journal: It gives no
uncertain tone. 1t means republican
campaign on the issue of tariff for
protection.
Omaha Republican: 1t is such a
letter as his friends have expected,
and to say this is to pay it the highest
possible compliment.
Washington Republican: IF the
republican party had no platform, it
could safely go before the country en-
Mr.. Blaine letter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-24
THE TYPICALAMERICAN

Mr.. Blaine, says the Philadelphia
Press, will be the best, the brayest
and the strongest American Presi-
dent of our generation in the sense
of standing before the world for
broad and progressive American
nationality.
Mr.. Lincoln was absorbed In a
gigantic civil struggle to the ire
mendous demands of which he rose
with heroic grandeur. General
Grant was great in war, and made his
fame as a soldier rather than as a civic
ruler. General Garfield was struck
down on the threshold of his career as
President, and what he might have
done is left to conjecture. Apart
from these, all of our Presidents since
Jackson, acceptable as some of them
were, have been cast in the ordinary
mould, and, instead of making events,
have themselves been the creatures of
circumstances.
But Mr.. Blaine will come to the
Presidents chair as the strongest, the
trHest and the most typical American
of our times. At least it is not an
accident, but the choice of the natural
and the acknowledged leader. Mr..
Blaine is the most popular living
American, because he is the most
representative living American. He
is to the American people what Glad
stone is to the English and Bismarck
to the German. He has the same
creative genius, the same original pow
er of conception, the same high
statecraft. He will dignity and exalt
the American name. He will make
the American name respected and
honored at home and abroad. He will
give new lustre to the American flag,
and new sweep and scope to American
trade and interests.
And he will do this by peaceful
means. 1t is the quality of such
power that It's frank, direct manly
assertion is commanding. This spirit
represents the policy at once of peace,
and of American manhood.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-24
A British Free-trade Ticket.

From the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser.l
AS the ticket and platform of the
Democrtie party this year seems to
have been constructed especially to
please the British rather than the
American public, it was in keeping
with the general tone and character OF
the conventions work that the pro-
ceedings should close with "God Save
the Queen" by the band. The Lon.
don press is solid for Cleveland and
the freetraders are enthusiastic for
him, but he has not the American
heart as Blaine has The Democracy
will not capture the federal government
under the freetrade flag by the help Of
foreign allies this year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-24
The Wool-Growers will Speak.
From the Kansas City Journal

From the Kansas City Journal.j
When we hear from the great wool,
producing states in November our
Democratic friends will find that a
fraudulent tariff plank has not saved
them from the just Indignation of the
American farmers. In 1880, Ohio
alone produced over 25,OO3,756
pounds of wool. In 1880 Ohio alone
had 4, 928, 635 sheep. In 1880 New
York produced 10, 1922 25 pounds OF
wool and had 2,1S1,5 78 sheep. Our
Democratic friends had better call
another convention and take thirty
six hours to produce a befogging
resolution in regard to sheep and wool
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-24

Made during the week ending Wednesday
July 10th, 1884, as furnished by Register P. N.
Christensen
Mary Kelly and husband, Geo. W. Kelly.
to August Kisten, Sc Sw, 3-25-3....... $4,000
Mary Ames to August Kisten, Ne Sw.
O-AO-o $lbU.UU
VIM. J. Carpenter and wife to VIM. j.
Bates, Ne Nv, 1885 ............ .S250.00
James E. Ingraham to Catharine Cum
m1ngs, NV Sw, 2l-21-2... $4,000
Lawrence Ward and wife to J. W, Knapp
NV NV, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $1,000
Loren Shumway and wife to C. II. Finley
Sw Sw, 1884, Ne Nv, 1924 80. -. $500
VIM 3: Moves and wife to w. p. Wheeli-
han, NV Sc, 1924 NATURALIZATION. $4,000
VIM. B. Neevos and wife to Lyman Lum-
Der co. Sc Sc, Sw Ne, %, Sc Ne, 81, Nv
No, %, Sc Ne, observation-disclosures 500. 90
Frank Garrison and wife to Amelia Fog,
part of lots and block IL n. ofC. M.
u st. K. Il. track, Centralia. ....... $50 90
Chas; Leach to August John, lot in Cen
tralla IN Ne Be, 7-22-6 .......s.........$30 100000
E. FL. Gerard and wife to Martin r.
Hanson, Sw Nv, Sw Sc, 10-23-4. .$60O.00
Caroline Yoigt and husband to VIM, E.
Ietter, 81 Ne, 1-22-6............. 100000
E; J. Kelly and wife to T. E. Nash, Ell
NE, 5l-Z4-4.. observation-disclosures. 1925. 90
Jas ! Young q and wife to W. P; Wheelihan,
r. 81 Sc W ST, S-28,4, VIZ Ne, FL
Wa Nv, %, NJ Ne, 30-A-4. ......... .$3O00 90
VIM. E. letter and wife to Caroline J. T,
Voigt, 81 Ne, I-22-6......... ...... S1001. 10
Jos. Hooker and wife to J. W. Knapp,
NV NV, $685.. .-...................S $4,000
Jos. Boucher and wife to Chas. Fritz lot
3, block B, MAYORS add. Centralia. 80. $500 90
F. Garrison and wife & S. n. Whittlesey
to Chas. Fritz, lot 3, block 3, MAYORS
add. Centralia, ........................$ $500 90
Chas. Fritz and wife to Naming Brozinsky
ot3, block 8, MAYORS add. Centralia $4,000
Herman Able to John Smith, Sw Ne, Nv
Se, o-Az-o... S3U0 30
FOR WEEK ENDING JULY %.
Upham Mfg. Co, and Marshfeld Stave Co.
to Henry n elson Sw of Sw, $685.. $780, 90
e. G.. Clark & j. P. Scott and wife to NJ
krumaletskl W Sc, 1880. ........... $4,000
John J. Marsh to Jacob Moeler lot $50 blk
95 Marshfield 25-3.... ..................$ $4,000
James J. Hunter to D. E. Carey lot and 8
and tract. lot and 2 block and n lift.
lot and fracti onaI lot 3 block l Klines
unrecorded plat Grand Rapids, 1922
-O....... SZ0O,UU.
F. S. Banker to Ell. Gerard Sw of Nv
l0-23-4,....... ....-..-...... ....... $500 90.
William L. Sprowl to A. and Jacob Searls
Nv Sw of sec. II, Sc Sw sec. Ii, E1a Nv,
SW Nv and NJ Sw sec. "a, Sc Ne, Ne
Sc sec. %, 22-4 part Ne Sw 13-4-4, $4,000
R. Conner and wife to Frank Baker lot in
. e OF Be zZ-Z0-4...... S303 90
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-24
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-24

Wausau Central: NJ. H. McCerd,
treasurer of the log drivers association
was in Stevens Point the first of the
week and paid thirty eight drivers
$4,000 wages. The pay roll for the
season will amount to $4,000. The
Eag lie river drive started June %.
with a crew of forty men. They are
picking up every log on the river
as they go down. Tuesday a drive
was started from Merrill for Stevens
Point managed by crew of thirty
eight men. The association will have
handled about It's, 100000 feet of
legs at the close of the driving season.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-07-24
Republican State Convention.

The Republican electors of the state of Wis
consin are requested to elect delegates to a
State Convention to lie held at Madison, Wed
nesday, September Sd, 1894, at II o'clock noon
for the purpose of placing in nomination can
didates of the Republican Party for the sever
al state offices.
The last Republican State Convention
having changed the basis of representation for
future conventions, delegates will be elected,
not by Assembly and Senatorial districts as
heretofore, but by Counties. The convention
will consist of 299 delegates, of which number
Wood County Is entitled to delegates.
II. A. TAYLOR, Chairman.
Il. G. PAYNE, Secretary.