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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03
GENERAL NOTES.

A DESPERATE fight for right Of way is
in progress at Youngstown, Ohio. be-
tween the employees of the Pittsburg
Cleveland and Toledo road and those Of
the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
Hon. JOHN A. KASsON has accepted
an invitation to deliver an address at
the formal opening of the new capitol
of Iowa, next month.
WITH capitalization eff 1925, 900, The
Chronicle and The Telegraph,of Pitts
burg, will be consolidated, retaining
both names.
ROWELL and an alderman of New
York are to have six days walking
match in that city in February, for $500
q side.
A Boston man, named George Cakes
Clarke, left in trust for his family an
estate valued at $300,000 and gene rous-
ly provided that when his race runs out
the money shall go to Harvard college.
GENERAL SHERIDAN has been informed
that the missing Charlie McComas is
probably with band of Chiricahua In
dams who are daily expected to arrive
at San Carlos agency.
TWENTY thousand coal miners in the
UlO4lhOUO IC$3lOIO VI w SSUJlOI6ld u,
Blair, Bedford Huntington; Center and
Clearfield counties, 2re preparing to
resist a proposed reduction Of wages.
SEVEN citizens of Spartansburg, South
Carolina, for a reward of 81, 900 offered
by Mrs. Coolidge, undertook to kiGnap
her four children from their father at
the Kings Mountain. gold mine Most
OF the party were captured and jailed.
A divorce suit is pending between the
Cooledges.
GEORGE r. CLARKE, of Chicago, at the
close of a gospel meeting at the Pacific
mission, caused Christmas dinner to
be served to five hundred poor persons
Bountiful tables were provided at the
Newsboys home, all the hospitals, the
Old Peoples home, the jail, the bride
well, and the insane asylum. Ex-Alder-
man Jonas distributed over a ton of
chickens, as well as other dainties, no
appllcan being refused.
FREDERICK c.. BURCHARD deposed at
San Francisco Wednesday, in the Hill
Sharon case, that he was engaged to
Miss Hill in 1881, meeting her at Sen.
SharOn's country reeidence, but she
broke off the match for financial reas-
ons. During their Iove-making period
Miss Hill informed him that her rela
tiOns with Sharon were simply those of
friendship, and that two other persons
greatly desired to marry her
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03
A Little Widow Briggs,
Detroit Letter.

A span OF ponies attached to an
emigrant wagon, containing a woman
and three children and various house
hold goods, halted on Grand River
avenue yesterday to have black
smith set a shoe for one of the horses.
AS the woman seemed to be alone, or
at least had no man in sight, the
smith asked:
"Old man sick?"
$'No, sir; [ buried him up the coun-
try year ago"
Then are you a widow?"
Il reckon [ am, and my name is
Briggs"
(Which way are you jogging?n
Going southwest-maybe into
Indiana
''Got sick of Michigan@ continued
the smith, as he pared away at the
hoof.
''Well, this State is good enough, "
she slowly answered, Some mighty
fine land, good schools, and tolerable
weather, but | had to get out of where
was. lost a pound a week right
along for the last three weeks"
"Ague?"
''Humph I'd like to see the ague
upset u.s. No, sir My husband wasn't
dead before I had an offer of mar
riage! It wasn't month before | had
three of 'em. Why, it wasn't six
months before their tracks were as
thick around my house as cat-trails
upon the snow"
Had your pick, EN-"
"Pick! I could have married any
body from my hired man up to a chap
who owned a section of land and
four sawmills They came singIy
and in droves. They came by day
and by night"
"And you you-?"
Say you, She exclaimed, as she
drew herself up, ''dO l look like an
idiot?"
mo, ma'am"
"Well, when [ fling my three chill
dren at the head of a second husband
and give up the $500 in cash in my
pocked you can call me an idiot. No,
sir, [ repealed EN-"
"And they got?"
'They had to. Susan hand me
that second husband repeller. It's IN
the back end of the wagon"
The girl hunted around and hsned
up hickory club four feet long, and
the woman held it out for inspection
and said
There's hairs of six different col
ors sticking in the splinters, and these
blood stains are the pure quill. You
can judge whether they sat there and
made love, or tore down the front
fence in their hurry to reach the
woods"
'By George!" whispered the
smith after long inspection. We'll,
I guess you don't want to marry"
''K'rect, sir If you have any old
widowers in this town, or if you
know of any one between here and
Indiana who wants a headache that
will last all winter without letting UP,
just put 'em up to begin to ask me if
my heart don't yearn for love and my
soul rattle around for some one to
call me darling!"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03
A Long Plunge to Death.
Il OEv a Miner Went Over the Big ShOs-
hone Falls in Idaho.

ShOshone Letter in the Salt Lake Tribune.
Great ShOshone Falls, as seen from
the bluff, is one of the grandest views
we have ever beheld, and it grows pref
tier and is more interesting as we ap-
proach and become familiar with its
islands, rapids. cascades, rainbows and
other peculiar features. The river at
Bells Landing is about 900 feet wide,
and below spreads out to double that
width. As sentinels standing above
the water, three large rocks-the three
Sisters guard the entrance to the rap
ids. Bells Landing is a large rock
which juts out into the river where the
water is deep and smooth, and yet is
just above where it becomes rapids,
falls in cascades and then takes its
long leap below.
Tom Bell was a miner who could
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03
their liberty. One of them struck the
iaiier a severe blow in the mouth.

their liberty. One of them struck the
iaiier a severe blow in the mouth.
HENRY SCHROEDER and six comnan-
ions, having been refused liquor in q
saloon at Cleveland, threw empty beer
kegs at the door. One or the proprie-
tors fired a shotgun through the win
dow, wounding Schroeder so badly that
he died within fifteen minutes.
JAMES SUMMERS, one of the counter
feiters captured at Vincennes, Ill. last
Friday, has been identified as the motor
ious John SpraSue, alias Spray, one of
the most noted counterfeiters in the
country. The Government officials have
been looking for him for a year. Sprague
is fine looking man and we'll educated
FIVE unclaimed corpses lie in the
market-hOuse at McDale, Texas. Three
men were taken from a saloon at mid
night by fifty armed and masked citi-
zens and hanged to a tree, for horse
stealing. Six friends or relatives of
the deceased victims road into town and
forced a fight with the suspected lynch
ers, in which two of the assaulting par
ty were killed and two others mOrtallv
wounded
HAVING been charged VITA the muir
der of his wife, in a suit brought by her
father at indianapolis, Captain Johnson
produced, under positive orders from
the court, sixteen letters from the dead
woman, clearly detailing the events Of
a criminal intimacy between herself and
Mr.. Henry, of Nashville. johnson had
carefully guarded the reputation of his
deceased wife until her father brought
the scandal before the public.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03
The Mind Dependent on the BODY.

Hypochondria is a far more common maladv
than is generally supposed. 1t has its degrees, it
is true, progressing from mental depression or
The blues to mental hallucination; but they are
all forms of the same malady. 1t is a significant
fact that this mental alment is invariably accom-
pIished by dyspepsia and nervousness, and the
fact that it readily yields to the Alternative action
of Hostetter's Stomach BitterS, which are pecI1-
larly adapted to the eradication of indigestion
and nervous debility proves that it originates in
those complaints 1t will thus be seen how de-
pendent IhU mmd is upon the body for the pre-
servation of cheerful equilibrium. and also how
readily the causes of mental gloom may be re-
moved. There is nc surer or pleasanter way Of
shaking off fit of depression brought on by in
digestion, than by. swallowing dose or two of
tnis agreeable medicine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03
Where to see the Great TrOtters of
New York.
Cincinnati Times-Star.

No two men in America have had
more experience with fine trotting stock
and none are better judges than Calvin
NJ. ? lest, Of the New York Club Stables,
2Sth street ne2r Fifth avenue and Dan
Mace. of the Excelsior Stables, west goth
street. New York, the champion double
team driver of the United States. Both
of these gentlemen say, that for painful
ailments in horses such as cuts, bruises,
swelIings, Iameness, stiffness, st. Jacobs
Oil is superior to anything they have
ever used or heard of. This Is also the
opinion of Prof. David Robarge, the eel
.ebratea horse-shoer of the metropolis,
and thousands of stock-owners through,
out the country. As pain cure for
man and beast ST. Jacobs Oil has no
equal. Mr.. Priest recites the case of
valuable trotter, so stiff from rheuma-
tism that he could not move an inch.
By one, thorough application of st. ia
cobs Oil at night, the animal was COM
pIetely cures, and was fit for the race
track. the next day
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

THE remains OF belong and his
comrades, of the Inflated Jeanette ex-
position, reached Irkntsk, Siberia,
Friday, and were borne in procession,
escorted by troops and a large con
course of people. Wreaths were plas-
ed upon the coffi MS, and poems were
distributed describing the party's ex
D1OitS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

IN his speech the other day in favor
of the appoin tment OF standing com
mittee on Woman Suffrage, Congress-
man Bedford, of Colorado, ventured
to say: eff there were more of wom-
ans influence in the political arrange
ments of the country, even the morals
of the House of Representatives might
no innrOvpd y
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03
GRIM

JOHN HENESsY, discount clerk of the
Banque du Peuple at Montreal, embez-
lied S15, 900, which sum was made good
by his uncle,
In the celebrared murder trial of
Higham, at WATERFOWL, n. Y, for kill
ing Mr.. Eames, the jury returned YER
dict of not guilty.
WHILE the jailer was in the hallway,
getting the empty supper dishes, five
prisoners rushed past him and gained
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

The announcement of new play
in which Sarah Bernhardt appeared
the night after that horse-whipping
episode suggests that perhaps the
whole affair was intended only as an
advertisement. 1t will increase the
sale of Colombier's book and the size
of Sarah's audiences.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

IF all the recent reports of rich
finds be true-which is somewhat
doubtful-the city of Las Vegas, in
New Mexico, and the vicinity are a
veritabe eI dorodo-a golden region.
Cautious people, however, have be-
come very suspicious of alleged fabu-
Ious mineral discoveries, which gen
orally turn out to be the grave-yards
of venturesome capital, rather than
bonanzas of wealth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

SAN FRANCISCO is not we'll pleased
at the prospect of losing much of its
rich trade by the opening of the North
ern Pacific Railroad. A large amount
of the railroad traffic OF the far North
west heretofore enjoyed by San
Francisco is now finding its way to
Chicago over the Northern Pacific
and the roads that connect Chicago
with ST. Paul.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

CERTAIN indications arenot wanting
that FL Mahdi's army will fade away.
The rebels are fighting ameng them
selves, and two of the leaders are on
their way to the Khedive. It is also
announced that the Krngof Abyssini,
has begun war in Egypt.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

SEVENTEEN Of the thirty-eight per
sons on board of the steamer st. Au
gustine, who were supposed to have
been lost by the burning of that YES
sci in the Bay Of Biscay, have been
saved
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

FROM October 80 to December %,
Chicago packers have slaughtered
and sailed 1861 600 hogs, against
1923, 900 the corresponding periop
wear.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03
Boston Courier

For generosity the advanced wom-
an cannot be compared with her
brothers, The young ladies of Cir
ton College, in England, are about to
enact Greek play in one of their
own buildings, no member of the
male sex being admitted to witness
the performance Who ever heard
of mems having a Greek play and re-
fusing to admit the ladies?
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

Ten of the Glasgow dynamite Fenians
were found guilty at Edinburg. Five
were sentenced TO life-terms of i'm
prisonment and five got seven years
each. The judge, previous to passing
sentence, made the usual speech of
adherence, with which Americans are
now tnlerahlY familiar.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

THE steamship Batavia, from elias
Cow to New York, struck rock in
the Clyde Friday evnning, and sunk.
Her passengers were rescued.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

A man recently spent half an hour
trying to sell ticket for a course OF
lectures to arural barber, but he didn't
succeed. 1t is the BARRIERS business
to deliver lectures, and not to listen
to them.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

THE French having gained their
FIRST great victory in Tonquin, having
captured the city of Sontay, one of the
chief points. It now remains to be
seen what China will do about it.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

LAST week the commercial failures
mounted to the extraordinary number
of 1913. This is Dun's report. Two
years ago the same agency reported
from ninety to one hundred weekly.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

NEAR Troy, n. Y, party of quar-
ry men attempted to warm barrel of
giant powder by an open fire. Con-
tributions for their widows are now
being solicited.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

An immense strike has been in
augurated by the Lancashire cotton
operatives, $4,000 men having left
their work.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

THE Duke Of Edinburg is response
BILE for the latest English mule
riding. He introduced the fashion by
himself riding one of the particular
ly fine mules which he obtained in
Eor,r,nt
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

IT is believed that the depression in
the iron and steel trade has reached
its limit
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

OWING to a war of rates, third-class
tickets for ocean passage from New
York to Europe can now be purchased
Co. GOO
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

THREE pension attorneys We're IN
dicted by the grand jury at Washing
ton, Friday.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

IRISH doctors in London are subject
ed to very close espionage by the de-
tectiyes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

THERE was severe earthquake
hook at Lisbon, Portugal, Saturday
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

Miss Mary Blake has published a
little volume entitled Twenty six
Hours Day" Mary must have got
UP about two hours before she goes to
bed
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-01-03

morning.
The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-10-28
Bokton Herald
l.
Skill I'm Lying.

fConstant practice in lying ought to
mike man skillful liar, but it does not.
Al rule, the more man lies, the more
reckless he becomes. When a man be-
cofnes chronic liar, he tells unnecessary
lid and goes out of his way to lie when
th5 truth would involve TO trouble.
ahe New York Evening Poskpoints
o,A the grave mistakes made by Mr..
Blhine as liar, especially in telling big
ge1 lies than are needed in a given case.
1t reems to be habit Of his mind to make
hii false statements as sweeping as posi-
blA They may make better impression
at The time, but they leave no loophole
fog retreat. A more skillful liar would
leave loopholes.
IL Mr.. Blaine had been more skillful in
HID dsnials of the "absu-d" newspaper sto-
ritk that he ever had $4,000 in Little
Rock and Fort Smith bonds, or that he
WIS ever interested in Hooking valley
coSl and iron lands, how much easier it
wdnld have been for his defenders!
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{" bloody Shirt"

The editor of the st. Louis Globe-
D,ntocrcu, who damned Blaine before he
was nominated, but has taken his crow
like little man, cries out:
Oh, tor !. yard of bloody shirt in place of the
dreary miles OF Mulligan in The present campaign
1t was Mr.. Blaine who said in 1850 that
there WAS another President in the
bloody shirt" 1t was Mr.. Blaine who
"made an ISSUE" as he expressed it, for
the campaign Of 1876, by making his
staggering speech against jeff Davis on
the general amnesty bill, exciting slum-
bering preudices and mouldy hates, and
who expressed his delight that such an
issue was possible to stir up the North.
Yes, bloody shirt is better than the
Mulliyan letters to make President on
Mr.. Blaines side.
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FSn Barpers Weekly.l
3 The Self-COnvicted knight.

fWhen Blaine was being interrogated
bS Congress he prayed on his knees for
tl.e retGrn of his letters, for the sake of
hip wife and six children, and declared
that if the committee should get hold of
tl4s communication it would sink him
inSnediately aud ruin him forever"
iNow he says there is not word in
tn. .'se letters which is not entirely consist
erf with the most scrupulous integrity
ana honor, and hopes that every Repub-
li,an paper in the United States will pub
lis,a the letters in full"
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BuIWer LyttOn'S Bridge.
Where il Touches the shores and
rhe l:real Columns in Midstreann.

the Great Columns in Midstrealn.
What a beautiful bridge between old age and
childhood is religion. How intuitivey the child
begins with prayer and worship on entering life,
and how i. tuitvcly, on quitting life, the old man
turns back to prayer and worship, putting himself
a,ain side by side with the infant, remarks Sir r.
Rulwcr lytlon, iu his Strange Story"
Yes but between its distant abutmens the bridge
of life has many high and awful arches, through
which the wild waters dash and roar in wrath and
drsolation Prayer and worship alone do not sus-
tin these Natures solid rocks must lie unshaken
beneath. aud human art and skill must rear and
solidify the structure overhead. Gods will is best
e,rmplited in the laws He has made for the crea
,nres whom He has placed under their control
N,i,her the child's trustiul Our Father, nor the
old mans Forget me not in the midst of mine
infrmiIes will alter this by the weight of single
Science and art tirst-then fat and prayer-is the
order of Heaven itself Divinity heals through its
aents and those agents are The discoveries of man
mi the vague announcements Of prophets or secrs.
Ia life a burden TO you? Does time drag: 10 your
nower to cope with lifes problem and duties weak
md y You are not well. Yonr blood is sluggish
and tainted. perhaps or some important organ is
tnrnid ar overworked. This fact may have taken
the form of dyspepsia, rheumatism, gout, malaria,
nai,s In the stomach chronic headache or any of a
dozen other ais Parker's Tonic will invig-
crate Won as fresh air invigorates those who have
been smut up In damp. fetid cells 1t is powerful,
nnre delicious scientific, safe-the keystone Of the
Central arch of the bridge Of life. Oct. 2l-lm
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District No. 3.

Bounded - follows, VIZ Beginning at Moccasin
""i' fUu A.@' The Tai Ihde,ee and lhomasy He
road III sou, hwc-tcily direction - Jhe junction Of
'ii' ROAD th ihc neI-ho"rhood ro ID Roberts
school io'ier. lhcn IL an elstcrly direction along
thIe Hrl-hb"cl"rd rad i Roberts mill To human
tl>hcrs: the south and in eVuthcastcrlv dlrcc.
'oh AIuhs sad ncigh6OrhoOd road via Cruml, .
= Re to The Monticello road near Barrow liil then
along the Mont ,eilo road in tasterN direction
10 lis inter- cctIun with the range line dividing
rAl-"> ald3 eat fhcn noIth Llon. said range liuc
|" rs intersection Wit. the Miccusukie and Mecca
eIh zap roa then IN YVES er direction along said
road L. tie bc-IunIa. point. Registration officer
H. / Felkci Place of registration, al Solomon
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District No. 5.

Bounded 4. follows, VIZ Beginning at the north
west corner ut township !, ran-r > y. aud t., run
cast along t..e iitr Gividif townships and the
Jeiteiaoh County ilne; then along TIE j, tfcre ON
c'uuiI lmc N . southWcsteriy dire tion . the basc
Inc then west along the base line to lis inlersec-
Hon with the Newport road near Station then
al" SAID Newport road iu nprtherly direction to
IT, intersection with the Monticello road al Barrow
Hin then along said Monticello road in casterlv
direction To It's Intersection with tue line dividing
Ranges and ) then north along said line 10 tie
beginning point Registration officer, f. C. Smith.
Place of registration, TuecawilA.
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District No. 7.

B"andcd - follows, viz: Beginning at the point
where HE IAomasIli He road Via Duucan,lle leaves
the city limits OF Tallahassee, in a nOrthtrly di
r-ction along said road to its intersection with SEC
NOu linz between sections ~ and -, township >
range J. y and r then east To the stage road near
'entrcNi!lc. then il a sOuthcrly direction aloug
said road to Roberts schoohouse; then in al
c.>tcfll direction along the road Roberts mil
t. lnman Fi>htre then south 10 Crump's store
then along the MIccosukie road in a southwestcrly
direction 10 Tallahassee then north and west along
thc city limits TO poiut Of beginning Registration
o!iiecr, X A. Whitfield. Jr. Place of registration
t. \ Wnitfrlu'e
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District No. 9,

Bounded As follows, viz Beginning on the Merid
ian road at CarrO Spring Pond, run south along said
road 10 The southeast corner OF section -, town
ship , range l. y and + ; then east to the Thomas
Vile road; then in southw esterly direction along
id road 10 itn Junction with the Meridian road
then north along said road to Mill Branch then
down Mill Branch in westerly direction to Lake
jackson. ttcn along the eastern shore OF Lake
Jackson to the beginning point. Registration Off
Ger Wilson Pope. Place oi registration, Hawkins