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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

THE tobacco factory of j. D. Buckner
d Co., on Jay street, New York, was daH-
aged $4,000 by fire.
AT Logansport, Ind, the Pan handle
railroad depot was destroyed. Loss S12,-
900.
Two EXPLOSIONS of gas Monday in a
mine at Lykens, Pa, burned twenty men
seriously. No deaths as yet reported.
The freight depot of the Delaware and
Hudson road, at Saratoga, N. Y, was to-
tally destroyed by fire early Thursday
morning; loss, $4,000.
THREE freight cars left the track in
Cincinnati, Thursday, smashed a milk
wagon, killed the mules, scalped the driv-
er and plunged into saloon near by
crushing the fixtures. Total damage,
$4,000.
FURIOUS wind and rain storms swept
over Victoria and Cuero, Texas, destroy
vast deal of property and several lives.
Among the missing are DR.. Lewis, Cap
tain Reed, DR.. Rosencrans, Mrs. Shep-
hard and family. The loss is $4,000.
A BRICK building on East Seventeen
street, New York, caught fire Tuesday
and the East Side Moulding Company,
Smith & Bell, carpenters, and Boynton,
Peel & Co. were damaged to the total
amount of $4,000.
REV. JAMES G. BEECHER, of Connecticut,
the youngest brother of Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher, killed himself Thursday at the
water-cure at Elmira, New York, on ac-
count of failing health. He was about SO
years of age. During the war he was a
chaplain, colonel, and brevet brig
adler general
The business portion of Earlville, Mad
ison county, N. Y, was destroyed on Sat-
urday. Loss $123,49O; insurance $780,
600. There was only one brick block in
Earlyille, and the frame buildings burn
ed like finder, the fire being spread by a
strong wind. Twenty-eight families,
comprising ITO persons, are made home
less.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02
CRIME.

NATHANIEL S. BATES died on the scaffol6
at Richmond, Thursday, in expiration of
the murder of his wife. He confessed
the crime, and said the punishment was
just.
DIR. G. G. SEERs, of Boston, has been
arrested on the charge of numbering, in
conjunction with Mrs. Sarah Jane Rob-
inson, the latter's daughter, Lizzie Jane
Robinson.
The City Marshal at Warsaw, Ind,
Monday night arrested William O'Malley,
who was intoxicated, for recklessly firing
his revolver. When ascending the jail
steps the prisoner fell over the railing
and broke his neck.
PATRICK CAH1LL, a crank, attempted to
force an entrance to the Office of the
Mayor of Philadelphia, and N Getting with
determined opposition from John Dunn,
superintendent of the office, he beat the
latter into state of insensibility.
The Quakers of Indiana have endeav-
oIed to secure communication of sentence
| for n. S. Bates, the Richmond murderer.
The condemned man has just given to
the press confession that he followed
his wife from Council Bluffs to kill her
| because she refused to live with him.
| "A MOB attempted to prevent the Broad
way line of street cars, in New York, from
operating their property Wednesday.
! The police charged the crowd, and a
number of heads were cracked. The cars
were somewhat damaged and delayed, but
were sent through.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02
When We DemoraIize the Stomach

b. excuses or inprudence in eating we cannot
hope to escape the consequences for any great
length Of time. The most robust digestion must
succumb to abuses of that important function.
But suppoSing that We have been foolish enough
TO enfeeble the stomach, is the damage irrepar-
able? By no means. The dyspeptic has only to
do two things to insure his ultimate recovery
First, he should adopt an easily digestibIe diet
sistence Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. the leading
gastric invigorant of the age. The rnultiforrn
symptoms OF dyspepsia, and the almost inyari-
patton. will assuredly cease to prosecute the suf-
ferer If the above advice is attended to. Who
that mas suffered the torments that chronic indi-
gestlon lnhtcts will neglect to take advantage of
remedy which, if the most positive evidence of
the medical profession and the public is to be re-
celVed with due credence. is an absolute specific
for the complaint
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02
Grand Inter-Fair Sweepstakes.

For the best bull and four COWS or
heifers of any of the beef breeds, COM
petition open to the world, grand gold
medal valued at $3.50, and 500.
1t is we'll known in stock circles that
the battle OF the breeds has been going
on more fiercely than even during the
past twelve months and that preparation
of most extraordinary character are be-
ing made by the champions of the differ
ent families, to make THAR favorites the
victOrs in the leading show rings of America
in 1886. We have positive advices from
the foremost breeders of Shorth0rns,
Herefords and Polled Angus cattle
in Great Britain and America, that the
best herds in existence will be here to
compete for show ring honors. Atnofair
ON the continent with the possible ex-
eeption of Chicago (where the same
herds that are entered here will compete
for the Droversr $4,000 sweepstakesD, will
there be such a grand exhibit of the
beef breed as Will be shown here this
season.
The liberal specials above mentioned
are in addition to our regular class, and
herd prizes which will be found the larg-
est offered by amy agricultural society in
Wisconsin.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02
Benefits of Electrical Treatment.

The benefits to be derived from
electrical treatment in many diseases
when such treatment has been left to
the care of intelligent men who have
made a study of the subject, often
prompt people to try the same remedy
without consulting competent authority.
Nothing can be more has ardous than
this, and numerous cases could be cited
in which treatment ''at home" by cleo
tricity has resulted in permanent injury
usually paralysis of the parts so treated.
1t was only recently that we heard of
such a case from the lips of a physician
who employs electricity largely in his
practice, and another case has been re-
ported from Portland, Ore, to the effect
that a quack, Stimulating the power of
magnetic healing, wore shoe with metallic
sOles. Thus, standing on other metallic
plates connected to battery which was
concealed, he was able by the current pas
sing through his body to transmit it to
his patients, or rather his yictims," by
the laying on of hands," He claimed,
of course, that the power of battery was
inherant in himself. The result of this
continuous passage of current through
the body has been to paralyze the quack,
as might have been predicted. It may
not be generally known that in the
infancy CT the medical application of
the current, given by reputable operators
was passed through their own bodies in
order to give them an Indication Of it's
strength. The physicians would hold
one electrode, the patient the other, and
the former, by striking the part affected
with his hand, would transmit the current
to the patient. The evil effects of this con-
slant passage of current through the body
soon became apparent, and the practice
was abandoned. To-day the medical
galvanometer supplies the physician with
the means Of Indication, without which
intelligent treatment is hardly possible.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02

than an art; but any woman NAV aspire
to putting at ease everyone who ap-
proachcs her, and diffusing an atmosphere
of bright and graceful thought around.
To bring out>the best thoughts of ones
interlocutor is perhaps the highest touch
of this dainty art; and, indeed, there is
something almost divine in it when it
reaches this stage; for, to redeem from
the common place and to inspire with
loftier mood, Is a godlike rather than
human work.
Such an art is worth cultivating, but
how? There is no textbook of converse
ton, no method of talking prescribed in
the schools. 1t is one of the things that
must be learned by. doing it. Yet we may
set it down as fundamental rule that to
converse we'll, three things are necessary;
the first is sympathy, and the second is
sympathy, and the third is sympathy. To
go out of ones self, to meet those with
whom one talks, not half way, but clear
upon their own ground to lift the veil
from their best thought-this is the
secret of good conversation. 1t is talk
ing, as Bacon tells US. which makes the
ready man; but not all talking makes the
ready conversatiOnalist. Not monologue,
nor talk in which the centre of interest is
In the talker. There must be the clash
of counter-interest, the friction of mind
and mind, the shuttlecock play of words
thrown quickly to and fro. Anthony
Irollope lays down as rule for novelists
that conversation should be broken up
into short sentences; that no one utter
ance should be allowed more than O GER
tain number of lines. The rule holds
good beyond the limits of the novel;
short sentences, unincumbered by paren-
theses or explanatory clauses, are absolu-
tely essential to true conversation. 1t is
not politeness, but the nature of things,
which forbids one speaker to monopolize
conversation. Conversation ceases the
moment talk becomes a monologue A
great man now and then, like Coleridge,
may be permitted to do all the talking;
but that is not conversation which he does,
but something quite di3erent however
valuable.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02
A Good Mans Tenderness.
Manchester Times.

Boys are sometimes tempted to think
that to be tender-hearted is to be weak
and unmanly. Yet the tendermost heart
may be associated with the strongest and
most forcible mind and will. Take for
example, the story told of him to whom
we owe our wonderful railway system.
George Stephenson went one day into an
upper room of his house and closed the
window. 1t had been left open long
time because of the great heat, but now
the weather was becoming cooler, and so
Mr.. Stephenson thought it would be
well to shut it. He little knew at the
time what he was doing. Two or three
days afterward, however, he CHANGED to
observe, bird flying against that same
window and beating against it with all
its might, again and again, as if trying
to break it. His sympathy and curiosity
were aroused. What could the little
thing want? He at once went to the
room and opened the window to see. The
window opened, the bird flew straight to
one particular spot in the room, where
Stephenson saw nest-that little birds
nest. The poor little bird looked at it,
took the sad story in at glance, and
futtered down to the floor, broken-heart-
ed, almost dead.
Stephenson, drawing nearer to look,
was filled with unspeakable sorrow. There
sat the mother bird, and under it four
tiny little young ones mother and young
ones all apparently dead. STEPHENSON
cried aloud. He tenderly lifted the ex-
hausted bird from the floor, the worm it
had so long and bravely struggled to
bring to its home and young still in its
beak, and carefully tried to revive it; but
all his efforts proved in vain. Itspeedi-
ly died, and the great man mourned for
many day. At that time the force of
George Stephenson's mind was changing
the face of the earth, yet he wept at the
sight of this dead family.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02
GENERAL NOTES.

HOG cholera is reported as frightfully
prevalent in Grant and adjacent counties
of Michigan. Individual losses of over
one hundred head have occurred in one
day. No remedy can check the disease
The Northwestern Soldiers Reunion
Association closed their reunion at Stir.
ling, Ill, They meet at Dixon, ILL.,, next
August.
EDITOR CUTTING was released from pris.
on, Monday, the supreme court of Chi
huahua having ruled that as Medina had
withdrawn his right to civil suit fol
damages the proceedings were legally
ended. 1t is anticipated that Cutting will
be ordered to quit Mexico.
The city council of Galveston has ap
propriated $4,000 for the relief of the
sufferers by the storm, and citizens have
Subscribed $4,000. It is said that only
three houses in Indianola escaped de-
struction, and nearly all the cattle and
sheep on the island were drowned.
NEAR Elkhart, Ind, Wednesday, b
Culp, farmer. found what proves to be
the fore leg of mastodon. The bone
measured fourteen feet, and is said to be
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02
hay FEVER.
What Causes 1t and the Best Remedies For
It
CongregationaliSt.

Il.
CongregationalSt
The disease seems to he growing eacf
year more common. 1t is an OutgroWth
of modern civilization, and occurs only
IN persons who possess certain suscep-
tlbility of the nervous system, either her
edltary or acquired. It is more common
In men than in women, and prevails large
ly among men of letters and intellectual
culture. The direct exciting cause is now
well ascertained to be the pollen of GER
tain plants, such as grasses, rye, wheat
oats, ragweed and Roman NORWOOD
The pollen of different plants excites ii
in different persons, but whatever cause
produces it once, will produce it again in
the same person. Hence it appears of
ten..times with strict regularity year after
year, at seasons varying from May to Oc-
tober. The first symptoms are those of
itching of eyeids and nasal passages, fol
lowed by frequent sneezing and the dis
charge of a Serious fluid. Henry Ward
Beecher, himself sufferer, says:
You never before even suspected what
1t was to sneeze. If a pane of glass is
gone you sneeze. If you look into the
sunshine you sneeze. If you sneeze once
you sneeze twenty times. It is riot of
SheoHeS. E1fSG "a single one ike a leader
in flock of shl ep, bolts over; then, and
in spite of what you can do, the whole
flock comes dashing over in twos, in ffves
in punches of twenty"
Next there is redness and watering of
the eyes, swelling of mucous membrane
Of the nose and general terrible symptoms.
Sometimes the nose is entirely closed by
the swelling. Coagh follows more or less
frequent and violent, generally with but
little expectoration. In a certain proper
ton of cases there are paroxysms of
asthma, more or less severe. After var
liable duration the sneezing ceases, the
discharge becomes thick and less album
dant, the swelling subsidies and all the
symptoms abate. The only method of
preventing the disease in suscept bile per-
sons is to avoid exposure to the exciting
cause. Certain localities have gained
wide notoriety from the immunity which
they afford from this disease. Bethle-
hem, n. H., is one of the mos5 famous of
these. Others are found among the
mountains, at the seaside and on the is
lands. A voyage at sea always gives re-
lief
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02
MADISON SEPT. 13 TO IS.
lday-General Reception Dav,

Monday General Reception Day.
Tuesday-12 M, Trial of Speed by
Steam Engines. 2 P. M, Tom Morgan
stakes, trotting best 3 in 5, purse $3.50.
Also Fess Hotel stakes for three-year-olds
purse $3.50. Entries closed July L, with
7 entries, colts representing five states.
Wednesday = National Day = Hon.
Sam. j. Randall, p. NJ. Gen. Villas, Hon.
Robt. NJ. LaFollette, and other we'll
known men will be present. At ? D. m.
Capital House stake, trottiug, best 8 in
5, purse $500; also Bankers stakes for
4-year-olds, closed July 1 with four en-
tries, purse $3.50.
Thursday Governors Day. Hon. J.
M. Rusk, of Wis, Hon. Larabee, of Iowa,
Hon. L. F. Hubbard, of Mimi, Hon,
Richard Oglesbie, of ILL.,, and others. At
2 p. m. Capitol City Railway stake, Green
Race, purse $240. Also double team
race. Veteran soldiers Of the 11th and
23d Regiments parade this day.
Friday-11 a. M, Grand Fox Hunt.
Il NJ, Grand Cavalcade of Live Stock;
o. N. Ladies' Equestrian. Also Park
Hotel stake, free for all trotters, purse
$500, and Gentlemen's Roadster contest
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02

On Wednesday at a water-cure at Ell
mira, n. Y, where he was seeking physi-
cal recuperation Rev. James c., the
youngest brother of Henry Ward Beecher,
committed suicide by shooting into his
mouth with a rifle. He had become de-
spondent because of his failing health.
Mr.. Beecher was about 50 years Of age.
He was graduated from Dartmouth col
lege and Andover theological seminary.
Ee was chaplain of The Seamen's Bethel
in China, chaplain of the Brooklyn regi-
ment during the war of the rebellion, be-
came a colonel and was mustered out as a
brevet brigadier general; was pastor of
Congregational Churches at Oswego and
Poughkeepsie, and also had charge of the
Bethel mission in Brooklyn. Of late
years he had lived on a farm in Ulster
county. He was man of brilliant at
tainments.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02

MINISTER JACKSON has sent despatch
to Washington confirming the report of
Cuttings release. The release will not
affect Sedgwick's mission, which is to
learn all the facts in the case. The gov
eminent does not at present concern it
self with any question of damages due
Cutting, but will use the information it
may gather through Sedgwick in the fur
therance of its negotiations for change
of the Mexican laws, insofar as they are
held to give the right to try Americans
for acts committed within American ter
ritory.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02
The Art of Conversation.
table, .

The fine art of conversation is little
cultivated. Yet how much of positive
value it lends to life! Of all the means
by which one can give pleasure to another,
this is the very best; yet although if
would seem to be within the reach OF
everyone, there are few of US, indeed, who
have ever taken part in really good con
versation This realm of conversation
would seem to be pre-eminently the
woman's kingdom; and history tells of
women who, by means of this rare art,
have Influenced whole periods and social
states. Such wide power is not &C
corded to every woman; In its highest ex-
preston, conversation is gift rather
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02

among the largest ever found. Mr.. Culp
will continue his excavations, in hope of
finding other bones.
To settle wager of $4,000, William J.
Kendall, of Boston, swan the whirlpool
rapids of Niagara, protected only by a
cork vest. He received $1,000 for the
feat, and declares that he would not
again make the attempt for all the money
in the world. His assistants were half an
hour in reviving him. He went from the
railroad bridge to the whirl in three min
uteS
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02

APEoULIAR case of drowning occurred
recently at Salt Lake, Thomas Jackson
and Sam Newton entered into dispute
as to who could swim the fartherest, and
finally deposited stakes in the hands of
third party and plunged into the water.
Jackson swan about thirty yards, when
he was taken with cramp, and sank.
Boys on the bank shouted to Newton and
told him of the accident, but he refused
to offer any aid, although he was within
a few feet OF, the drowning man, and
swan to his destination. Jackson's body
was recovered the next day, nearly mile
from where he went down. There is talk
of arresting Newton on a charge of being
guilty of Jackson's death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02

The celebrated DR.. Tanner, who made
such stir several years ago by his pro-
longed fast of forty days, is now mem
Der of the community of Faithists, at
New Salem, n. NJ. In recent letter ne
lays down the broad proposition that
nine-tenths of all the crime and disease
of this world is due to the human stom-
ach Keep the stomach undefiled with
meat, especially free from the flesh of
the swine, and there is hope that man
may live up to his highest aspirations
This is the doctrine which the Faithists
are trying to enforce practically in their
colony, but the result thus far has not
been encouraging. The community is
rent with iealousies and dissensions
which go far to show that purely vege-
table diet will not eliminate the minor
passions, whatever effect it may have on
the great ones.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02
Trains for The Interstate Fair.

In addition to the numerous, passen-
ger and accommodation trains ON G. &
n. w. and the G. i ST. P. railroads, there
will be run special trains from Elroy,
Beloit, Lancaster, Waukesha, Roekford i,
Prairie du Chine and Milton Junction to
Madison, arriving about 1920 a. NJ, and
return at reasonable hour in the even
ing, thus giving all who wish to go home
each night an opportunity to do so. The
rates will be a fare and one-fifth for round
trips.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02
More Than He Expected.
lid Bits.

Bus.
Friend-You have taken unto yourself
a life-partner, I understand, since we last
met?
Husband Oh yes-marrled l
s'pose.
Friend-Found your wife all that you
expected, of course!
Husband-Yes, Oh yes-much more, in
fact married belle and have found her
q Jazebel.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02

MILWAUKEE miners and manufacturers
are leasing the natural gas well property
of Wisconsin with view of utilizing the
gas for manufacturing purposes, in even
it is found in unlimited qualities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02
Interstate Fair Races.

The liberal premiums offered by the
management has attracted the attention
of some of the foremost patrons of the
American turf, who are making liberal
entries in the different classes. And from
the well known speed of many of the
horses entered, the best record yet made
on Wisconsin track will surely be low
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02
WHY HE WAS MISSING.

Bold Conspiracy to Throttle an Independent
Newspaper the Base Rival of Dakota
Editor Attempted to Hurt the Latter's Feel
ing-A Futile Effort to Secure Part of the
County Printing.
Last weeks Harvey Hooter did not
reach the Bell. We clip the following ac-
count of its failure to appear from the is
sue for this week:
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02

THE next meeting of the farmers con-
gress will be held in Chicago the first
Tuesday before the opening of the stock
show of 1887.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02

A japanese gentleman who heard the
"Mikado" sung in Harrisburg recently,
says that the song which is sung in the
second act on the arrival of the Mikado,"
is real Japanese song, which was very
popular during the great revolution of
1866. A Japanese would be punished for
singing it now.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02

To make orange jelly, cut holes in the
stem side, take out the pulp, steep the
skins two hours in cold water, drain and
scrape carefully; range them on broken
ice and fill with the French jelly. When
cold cut in halves
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-09-02

Disobliging Mrs. Milton-You ought
to go to Europe this summer, you know.
Mr.. Milton-Impossible. I can't leave
the factory. Mrs. Milton-Such gumps
of men as you have; they never strike.