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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22
The Boy Who Would Not Go to Bed.

You may think him Ounce,
But he begged that for once,
He might sit up all night or as long as he
pleased;
The nurse was in tears.
With her murmured MY dearS!'
But only the louder and faster he teased.
Overhearing the din,
His father came in;
"Wish to sit up all night John?' he thought
fully cried;
You shall have your request
Till you've learned we know best.
Nurse can go. ] will stay at this naughty
boys SIDE
When two hours had passed,
John grew sleepy at last
And so tired that he feared he would fall
from his chair;
But, attempting to go,
Heard his fathers stern "No!"
Keep your seat at the table. Your place, sir,
is there.
Obi how slow'tic the clock,
With its dickory dock
For his father insists he should keep wide
awake).
Till quite humbly he said:
May please 90 TO bee?
I've found you were right and, made mis-
take"
His father said yes;
And now you can guess
If ever that boy did the same thing again,
No sermon could preach,
No punishment teach,
A lesson more clearly than he learned it then.
Now, boys. when you're told
That it's bed time, don't sCOld,
And say that you feel just like keeping
awake;
Sitting up all the night
Isn't such delight,
inst try it for once, and you'll own your
mistake
Sophia D. Eastman, in the Independent.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22
Political Nicknamcs.

The nicknaming of prominent men.
particularly of those mixing in politics
is practiced in this country, more. per-
haps, than in any other, and, as a rule
the recipient takes TO it kindly. Thus
Gen. Jackson was as well known as
"Old Hickory and more readily rec
ognized than if called President Jack
son. Senator Benton in his lifetime
was almost rs well known as "Old
Bullion" SO called from bis advocacy
of a gold and silver currency and his
inVeterate opposition to banks and pa
per money. The late Thomas Ewing. of
Ohio, while q senator in congress, had
his nickname of Solitude. > and it so
stuck to him that even now, long after
his death, the prefix is still given him
to distinguish him from his son and
namesake, Gen. Tom Ewing.
Senator Ewing made a speech in the
United States senate which fastened
the Solitude" upon him. 1t was dur
ing the national bank agitation, when
the supporters of that institution were
active in picturing the ruin that would
come upon the country if the bank S
charter was not renewed. Senator
Ewing in debate spoke of the mechanic
being out of work, and that the busy
hum of industry is not heard in this.
the busy season of the year, and
wound up with the assertion that ''our
canals are solitude, our lakes but
desert wastes of water" A number.
OF greSsmen-several of them sem
ators, and more than half of them
democrats-made up party to return
to their homes by the way of the New
York canal. The west was then send
ing its produce to the east via lake and
canal, and the congressional party
found that the canal trade, if Judged
by the number of boats met. was i'm
menSe, and it was standing Joke with
the democratic members when fleet
OF boats hove in sight to call Mr.. Ew-
ing from the cabin of the packet-boat
to look at his ''solitude."
At the lower end of the canal there
had been break, and a large number
OF boats were usually in sight. Of
course there was fun to see them and
to point them out to the Ohio member.
but the fun was not on his side nor to
his liking. At Rochester, Just as the
packet boat landed, freight-boat was
dlscharging cargo, and Mr.. Ewing and
the other congressman were lockers
on. BY some accident a hogshead
filled with molasses had its head burst
in, and the contents poured into the
canal. An Irish laborer standing near
to Mr.. Ewing, without knowing who
he was, exclaimed "Jabers, mon,
that must be solitude swatened." The
other congressman roared with laugh
ter, and Mr.. Ewing was forced to Join
them. The democratic members told
the joke and it got into the news
papers, and it aided in perpetuating
the sobriquet of ''Solitude'' on Senator
Thomas Ewing. l tell the tale as it
was told and printed at the time.-Cor
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22
The Bite of an EpiIeptic.

In England, recently, a young man
was bitten in the hand by a woman
who had fallen in an epileptic fit.
Three days afterward he died, and the
neighborhood became greatly excited
over the occurrence. The case only
tends to add additional testimony to
the fact that the public love sensations.
This death may have been merely a
coincidence, or, again, bite from any
person or any animal will occasionally,
or we should rather say might occa-
sionalIy, set up degree of infamma-
ton in an already depraved and weak
ened constitution that might prove
fatal. But to suppose that the bite of
an epileptic is any more serious, SIM
ply because it is inflicted by an cpl
leptic, than would be similar wound
received from any other person, is Ger
tainly unreasonable, and not to be en-
tertained in the pathological light of
to-day. = Medical and Surgical Re-
71OTteT
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22

had driven her to it, and not being natur-
ally a wicked girl, the thought of what
she had done in that moment of mas
sionate impulse had SO preyedupon her
mind as to craze her
| shall never forget the look of peace
which came to her when [ told her of
Zintha's almost miraculous rescue at
the hands of some sailors who had
been obliged to abandon their sinking
ship, and whose boat had CHANGED to
be drifting near the spot where she had
been pushed overheard.
God has been good to me, sinner
l can die in peace, she said. These
hands are no longer stained with
blood -
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22

Whatever may have been the fail
ures OF Edward Payson Weston on the
sawdust ring, he deserves some sort of
credit for covering more ground straight
away than any other pedestrian. His
1,200-mile walk from Portland. Me-. to
Chicago, was virtually the beginning
of pedestrianism in this country. He
has now in England successfully com
pleted 5000 miles in 100 days, under
the auspices Of the temperance people,
who employed him to disseminate
their principles, and at the same time
to illustrate that physical endurance is
greater when stinnulants are not used.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22
The Noise OF the Fingers.

When you poke the end of your finger
in your ear, the roaring noise you hear
is the sound of the circulation in your
fingers, which is the fact, as any one
can demonstrate by first putting his
fingers in his ears, and then stopping
them up with other substance. Try it,
and think what q wonder OF q machine
your body is, that even the points of
your fingers are such busy workshops
that they roar like small Niagara.
The roaring is probably more the noise
of the circulation than of the blood. 1t
is the voice of all the vital processes to-
gether-the tearing down and building
up processes that are always going on
IN the living body, from conception
down to death
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22

: Keely, the motor man, wears a mag
nifcent solitaire diamond stud, and a
solitaire diamond on his left little fin
ger, drives fast horse to handsome
top buggy, has jet black whiskers and
hair, bright black eyes, handsome
physique and dresses faultlessly. 1t is
not stated how the stockholders dress.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22

The cattle now owned in Colorado
are valued at $4,000 900.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-05-22

group.
"Oh, my Zintha! I thought to never,
never see you more! Where is it you
have been?''
Il have been near my death, Herr
mani was Zintha's answer. But for
the good God, and for these kind peo-
pie, [ should now be lying white and
still at the bottom of the ocean! All, /
have such dreadful thing to tell you.
Frederika pushed me over the side of
the vessel. She meant to drown metz
The wicked Frederika!" exclaimed
Herman, stamping his foot. Il will
take the law on hertz
Her sin has already found her out. -
I said solemnly. She is in a mad
house. | did not tell you all she said.
Herman, because thought it best to
learn the truth about Zintha, before
alarming you about the wild talk of
having committed crime"
'1t is now clear to me why the once
kind Frederika tried to kill me! She
was not in her right mind, and have
always heard that q crazy one turns
against those she has best loved"
This explanation came from Zintha,
and as it was as satisfactory to Herr
man as it was to herself. thought it
best to let them remain undeceived as
to Frederika's true motive, or, at least,
what | thought it to be.
Herman was well-to-do, and he was
married to Zintha within the month. [
felt great interest in the two so nearly
lost to each other, and went with them
to select their furniture for the neat
home they were to dwell in, and where
they have lived happily ever since.
Poor Frederika regained her senses,
but she was in a dying condition. She
sent for me to come to her, and made
q full confession.
As / had expected, love and jealousy
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-02-22

A committee of grave Senators at Wash
ington lave been laboriously investigat-
ing the Danville riots of last fall Not
withstanding all the zeal and ingenuity
of Honest John" Sherman and his COM
patriots, the unpretending mole hill will
not assume the proportions of mountain.
After all the parade, the affair seems to
have been purely accidental conflict be-
tween mob of negroes and crowd OF
white men brought together by the threat
ening and overbearing conduct of the
former, and that after shots had been
mutually exchanged the negroes fled. 1t
appears, too, by the testimony of the
colored voters themselves, that their alb
sence from the polls at the succeeding cleo
ton was due to a secret understanding
among themselves with purpose of un-
duly magnitying the conflict of few days
previous, rather than to any tear of VOL
ence being done TO them at the polls. We
fear that Honest John" will hardly be
able to create breeze enough by this affair
to give the ensanguined garment the faint
est kind of a f1utter
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-02-22
Representative Willis eynects to boya

Representative Willis expects to have
his bill providing for federal aid to edu-
cation favorably reported this week from
the committee on eduea ion. lie has pre-
pared table, embodied in the report of
the subcommittee that has recommended
the passage of the bill, which shows that
iliteracy holds the balance of power in
fourteen Northern and all the Southern
States. The report says: I'm the thirty
eight States there are 1871 217 illiterate
voters Only one voter in five can write
his name. The illiterate voters in South
Carolina are more than one half; in Ala
bama, Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, North
Carolina and Virginia one to two, while
Missouri, with one in nine, presents the
best record. In the presidential election
I"f 1876 New York, New Jersey, New
Hampshire, Connec icnt, Indiana, CaIifor-
LA, Nevada. Ohio, Oregon, Wisconsin, H.
linois, Rhode Island, Michigan and Penn
sy vania were ranged on the side of ilit-
eracy. In The last presidential contest,
thirty of the States of the Union, with 29S
electoral votes, were again within the do
mlnatlon of sovereigns who could not read
The very charter of their liberties. The
mal"rities which they gave could have
been over'hrown 10y combined vote OF
their illlterate voters, even if those major
tiles had been five times as great as they
were. 10 1875 Mr.. Tildtn's majority of
The popular vote was 157 1874 in 1880.
Garheld's majority WIS only 3,033 In
1876, 60 Of our rs Senators. three fifths of
he whole, and 259 of the 292 Representa-
tives were in the grasp of iii eracy. In
1880, 50 OF our 76 Senators, and 292 of our
325 Representatives were in States and
districts where ilIiterute voters ho'd the
balance of power
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-02-22

In response to resolution calling for
Information as to what immediate appro-
priations" are needed for the improvement
of rivers and harbors in advance of the
regular appropriations for the next fiscal
year becoming available, the Secretary Of
War has sent to the House list of items
prepared by Chief Engineer Wright. The
total appropriation asked is s4,s29,o0o
and includes $15O,OOO for the Delaware
breakwater harbor, $4,000 for the Della
ware river, $4,000 for WILMINGTON haroofs
Del: 100000 for channel at Baltimore,
Nd; $4,000 for Great kanawha river, W.
Va; 100000 for the Potomac.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-02-22
State Appointments.

The following are the State appointments
sent to the Senate on Tuesday last by Gov
McLane. OF this number Senator Turpln
as one of The managers Of the House OF
Correction; ex-Senators Barnes Compton
and Henry d. Farnands, for managers OF
the Insane Asylum and John II. Bond, for
Tobacco Inspector, were Immediately con-
tirmed The rest have been referred to the
committee on Executive appointments for
action:
Weighers OF grain eigher general Luther
birmingham assistants, G.. r. Hamilton ire
'ppointed j John " Dougherty. (reappoint-
edS) ); Edward Ward, vice William A. Col
ms; Samuel H Jamison, (reappointed, J and
IL A. J. Hopkins (reappoinied
Direclor Of the Maryland Peniteniiary--
" iIber Jackson and John Ford
Managers of House of observation-disclosures
Hunt, Enoch Pratt, W. T p. Turpin, VIM.
Downev. Henry II keedy, Dr. Charles A. Fox.
frank /. Shaw, John Ireland and George p
rhomis
State Board of Educntion-James T Will
Jams of Howard county. Rev. VIM Dale of
orcester county, Peter A Wilmer of Wash
Tngton county and james l.. Bryan of Dorches-
ter county.
Managers Insane Asvlum-B ,rnes Compton,
Or }. Pembroke Thorn, Henry ID Farnandis
Managers of House Of .fuge-Dr John T.
Morris DR.. j. K, Ward. Lewis A Bierly and
Buchanan Schlry.
Military Saf-Adj Acknowledgement James
Howard, of Baltimore city, vice Wesley
Watkins resigned TO take effect March 81 F.;
llutriermaster general, Bradley T. Johnson,
baltimore commissary general, Henry ) Tay-
or, Baltimore chief of engineers James G
Pberret Carroll county chief of rduance W ID
VI Mchaig, Cumberland chief of artillery, r
LSnow den Andrews Baltimore chief of cavalry
iJohn Gill of K Blltinore INSPECTOR general.
kAndrew u th'pman, Charles county: paw
Imaster-general, George Brown, Baltimore ;
Surgeon general, William Lee, Baltimore ;
Ijudse-advocate general, Joseph g. Seth Talbo,
BOUNTY
State Vaccine Agen,-Dr. ST. George "
irackie, disappointment
y State librarian-Dr. f p. Davall (reap.
on'msnt.l
Commissioner of the Land Otice-J Thomas
lSch4rf, vice Dr. Wm. K Hayward, tesigned
DO take sF-rt March 81
'mmissoners OF Fisheries -Eugene W
humphreys WToniro couuiy; Gustavus W
lb-twier u trreit county. II appointment.
Nr'@her OF Live Stock Samuel Caver o
IIHrroti county, vice Edwd. Ly n,h, OF Carroll
Toe acc" slectors-AuguSiin + Brooke d
RraTt George counir. warehouse No l. IRE.
appointment j + A kroh. Baltimore county
kNo. ,, vice Or \ J >moot: j. T Bond, Cal
vert county, No. ;, vice T VI Ralcy: VIM
~. HELEN, Montgomery county. No :, vice f
D1rsey, Carr, Auipw 7 Pennington, Bat
more eng, No, 5 vice W ). Redgrnves
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-02-22

Gov. McLane is decidedly in favor of
the States absolute and unconditional
divorce from all works of public improve
ment, whether productive or unproduc-
tive. He holds that it would be more to
the interest of the State to pay its debts
than to refund them and continue taxa
ton, which would always be necessary, so
long as the income from the public works
is less than the interest on the deb's-
which is sound business like PROPOSE
ton. The productive investments of the
Safe, including its railroad, bank and
turnpike stock, amount to $3,472,OS5.-
The unproductive assets have face value
of about $1O,OOO,OOO, to which may be
added over ST., OO0, 900 interest due the
State from the Chesapeake and Ohio Ca
nal. The Governor would sell out the
whole lot, good, bad and Indifferent, and
apply the proceeds to the payment of the
debt of the State not otherwise provided
For
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-02-22

The professors Of the Maryland University
Hospital, Baltimore, performed an interesting
operation, and one of rare occurrence, on We'd
nesdav of last week The patient WAS a color
ed boy from Virginia, whose organs of hear
ins were of extraordinary size externally In
other words, he was Suffering from lhs dis
ease known as elephantiasis, skin trouble.
attended with either destruction or deformity
of the parts Affected. About ten years ago the
boys ears began to enlarge, and he was re-.
Gently sent to the hospital for treatment. On
" edresday he was ciiloroformed, and while be
was unconscious the doctors cut off his ears.
The right one was eight inches in length and
twenty-six in circumference, and tn. left fifteen
inches in circumference, weighing t. ether
three pounds, six ounces. The hoy appeared
well after the operation. On his breast are
protuberances that look like wings, and it is
probable that these, like his unnatural ears,
will be removed by the knife.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-02-22

The recent ireshe and heavy rain tails
have occasioned destructive foods along
the line of the Ohio river and its tributa-
ries and have suffice ed the people living
along its route Ia the greatest hardship
and suffering from the ruin and devasta-
ton that has been caused along their path
way. Thousands of people have been
thrown out of employment and many more
have been rendered homeless and desti-
tute for the time, depending solely for ex-
istence upon the generous charity OF their
commiser tting fellow citizens The lat
est dispatches from Cincinnati indicate
that the river will not rise any higher a.
that point, and that it has commenced to
steadily recede This vast va ume Of wa
ter is now rolling south, toward the Gulf
and has other work before it. and ihe ter
tile valley through which it has to pass
has a sad pro pect of disaster before it.
Although the loss ana damage done to
property 80 far has been enormous but few
lives have been lost, and few will be los
as the warning has been sufficien, to give
all time to prepare for it, and also to save
much of their property. Farms and houses
however, must stay where they are, and
take their chances. The flood of last year
was, up to that time, unexampled in point
of extent and destructivenes and it was
then supposed that so severe visitation
from the same source would not again
soon recur. The food of this year seems,
however, to have surpassed that of last
winter in magnitude and destructivenss
to property. The theory has heretofore
been that the great foods in that and other
western rivers, which in recent years have
increased greatly in severity, are due to
the sudden melting of the snow upon the
mountain slopes and forests which have
in the past half century been to great
extent denuded of their covering of tim
Der. 1t was supposed that the removal of
the forests by the artificial propagation
of timber trecs would serve to render the
melting of the snow more gradual in the
valleys. In the present winter, however,
the snow fall has been very light and the
present great fl ,od Can hardly be at'ribut-
ed TO that cause. At latest advices the
waters are subsiding and no additional
destruction Of properly is apprehended.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-02-22

We failed last week to notice the change
in the management of our contemporary
the Baltimore Day. Mr.. Crossdae, who
for the past two years has been the sole
editor of that paper, retires from its man
agement and g. w. Cruikshank, Esq, as
sumes the entire editorial and business
control of the paper. The morning edi-
ton has been abandoned, having been
found unremunerative, and the paper will
henceforth be conducted exclusively as an
evening journal. Mr.. Cruikshank, the
new editor, has had considerable journal
istic experience as editor of the Cecil DEM
ocrat. He yields facile and graceful pen
is sound and consistent Democrat, and
we predict for the Day under his manage
ment an increased circulation and good
business success.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-02-22

The leading democrats of Louisville,
Ky, are actively working to have that city
selected as the place for holding the next
national democratic convention. At a
meeting Friday a wealthy citizen pledged
himself to raise $25 900 to pay the expen-
ses of the convention if Louisville is Sc
lected as the place. A strong delegation
have left Louisville for Washington to
press the matter before the democratic
national committee, which viii select the
place TODAY.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-02-22
The Tobacco InspectOrships.

We publish elsewhere the list of APP
pointments of tobacco inspectors sent to
the Senate by Gov. McI.ane on Tuesday,
1t will be seen that Charles, Anne Arundel
and st. Mary's counties, which rank res
pectivey second, third and fourth among
the counties of the State in the production
of tobacco, have been entirely ignored by
the Governor in making these appoint
ments. In view of the law regulating these
appointments and the uniform custom here
tofore in regard thereto, this action of the
Governor affects the people of this part of
the State with some surprise.
The act of 1864, CHI. 346, regulating the
appointment of these officers provides as
follows:
The governor, by and with the advice
OF the senate, shall appoint as soon as 1ossib le
after the passage of this act, and before the first
Monday of February, at each regular session
of the general assembly thereafter, five tobacco
inspectors one for each state tobacco warehouse
in the city of Baltimore whose terms of office
shall respectively continue until their success
sors shall qualify propided, that the successors
of the present governor, in appointing inspec-
tors, as aforesaid, shall select four Of them from
the tobacco growing counties of the state; no
two of whom shall be selected from the same
county.
1t will thus be seen that the Governor is
required, to appoint these officers be-
fore the first Monday of February and to
select four ofthem from the tobacco grow
ing counties of the State" That tn Gov
ernor in the recent appointments has dis
regarded the first of these requirements
there can be no doubt, and that he has al
so failed to comply with the second re-
quirement in our judgment admits of little
question.
By the ter ms of this law the Governor
is required TO select four of these officers
from the tobacco growing counties, and
the selection of the fifth is left to his dis
cretion, either from the non tobacco grow
ing counties, or the city of Baltimore In
order to ascertain whether in the selection
of one inspector from Baltimore city and
one each from Baltimore and Montgomery
counties the Governor has violated this
law, it becomes necessary to inquire what
was meant by the term tobacco growing
counties as used in the act
As preliminary TO this inquiry, it may
be we'll to look at the relative annual pro-
duction of tobacco in the several counties
of the State. The census of 1880 shows
that the production of tobacco ia Mary
land is as follows, the figures opposite to
the several counties indicating the num-
Der of pounds annually produced in each {: