Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1885-03-19
'E'ELEGRAI2 III(5.
GENERAL NOTES.

GENERAL GRANTS salary under the
retirement sill is S13,500 year, and
S125 per month as Communication for
quarters.
NEARLY all OF the IL, 900 men enaploy-
ed in the coal mines at Pittsburgh and
vicinity are out on d strike for q small
increase Of wages. A ong aud stub
bonn contest is predicted.
THE Sippo Valley Glass Company at
Massillon, Ohio, failed Monday with
liabilities of $4,000 and scant assets.
The water is three feet deep in the
streets of Alexandra, Iowa, and the
people have taken refuge in the upper
stories Of their houses.
THR Connecticut House of Represen-
tatives Thursday passed a resolution Of
sympathy with General Grant, and
expressed qualification at his restora-
ton TO the army.
l1R. N. B. BACON, of Toledo, Ohio,
President Cleveand's brother-i. law
denies that he has been offered the
Office of Supervising Architect Of the
Treasury, or that he is an applicant for
any office.
THE Hon. Lorenzo Burrows, ex-con-
SISSSI1dA cJl(i SA-SOdIS COIl diScl
Friday at Albion, n. Y, aged so years
Vice President John w. Sterling, of the
Wisconsin State University, expired
suddenly Monday morning.
THE Grand Central Railroad of Bel
GUM laid a quantity of steel rails in
1865. When they had been laid twelve
years, it lad been necessary to renew
less than per cent. of them, and then
they seemed to fail all az once, so that
it was necessary to replace 483 per cent.
or them in the thir tenth and 50& per
cent. in the fourteenth year. The best
of iron rails laid at the same time lasted
but three years.
GOVERNOR LOWRY, Of Mississippi,
has appointed General E. G.. Walthall
to succeed Mr.. Lamar as United States
Senator from that state. General Walt
hall stands at the head of the bar in
Mississippi, is fac speaker, and is in
the prime of life. While he has long
been an important factor in the lead of
state politics, he has invariably declined
office. He has been the lifelong in
innate friend of ex-senator Lamar.
By order of President Arthur the In
terror Department, on Tuesday Of last
week, issued patents for the lands in
Louisiana granted to aid the construc-
ton of the New Orleans and Pacific
Railroad. These lands, comprising
about 100000 acres, are what is COM
monty known as the Backbone grant,
and it was in regard to them that several
members of congress sent q protest to
the president few days before, and in
regard to which the United States Sen
ate proposes an investigation. Tt is
claimed that the railroad company for
feited its rights to those lands by fail
ing to comply with the terms of the
grant,
Tx. PETER COLLIER, Of the q. S. ag-
ricultural department at Washington,
delivered an address before the n Y.
chamber of commerce recently en- the
sorghum industry, dwelling especially
on the Importance Of making sugar at
low cost. He thinks the American peo-
pie ought TO make their own sugar, and
that they can do so he has no doubt just
as soon as the facts of which he is in
possession are recognized by the masses
end have attracted the attention of cap
italists. The doctor thinks it by no
means improbable that sorghum was
the plant that Pharaoh saw IN his
dreams, and its seed the CORE which the
SONS of Jacob went down into Egypt to
buy during their seven years of famine.
Sorghum could be made as valuable
crop as that of Indian corn.