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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08

Married in the town Of Remington by
Justice Wales, Mr.. John Bradley to
Miss Myrtel Wiley.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08

For lame back, side or chest, use
Shiloh's Porous Plaster. Price 25 cents
Sold at Woods Drug Store. S
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08

Catarrh cured, health and sweet breath
secured by Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy.
Price so cents. Nasal Injector free.
Sold at Woods Drug Store.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08

Group, whooping cough and bronchitis
Immediately relieved by Shiloh's cure
Sold at Woods Drug Store. s
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08

Mrs. A. E. Donaldson, proprietor of
the new millinery shop next door, to
the Central House, has received a fine
line of Jersies. She invites the ladies
to call in and make their selection.
She also keeps fine assortment of hats,
feathers and trimmings.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08
LEGALS.
STRAYED,

A two year old heifer came into my enclosure
some time since 1t has white spot in face and
the lower half of tail is white. The owner is
requested to prove property, pay charges and
take the same away.
Dated Sigel, Nov 5th, 1888.
JAMES GRANGER.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08

The election has been very
favorable to Republicans this fall but
that don't prevent Mr.. Prettyman f1om
selling his bankrupt stock of goods just
as cheap as ever. He invites the
general public to investigate the
qualities of his goods. No trouble to
show goods and quote prices.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08
The Fair Corner.
REMOVED.
Now that we have
removed our stock
over IN Centralia.

Thanking you for
a general patronage
in the past with in
creased accommodation
and improved lightin
our new quarters we
fill our sails and bear
away for a greatly
larger measure OF
success and business
in the clear road be-
fore us for the future.
Our greatest aim
and big efforts at the
start, will be to
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-11-08

start, will be to
REMO VE
from our stock all of
the odd and ends, or
goods that may have
got soiled in moving.
You will find an
endless variety of bar
gains in all our depart
ments, be it dry goods
clothing, hats, shoes
or groceries. Nothing
but good goods. Let
our goods as well as
our words give salu-
tatory.
Anything new9 Yes
plenty new goods and
more to come all at
winning prices. For
full value--Which
would you rather have
cream or cream di-
|luted with skim milk2
We know thorough
ly what purtains to
the best service of the
public. We know we
are seeking to gain
first place in our busi-
ness; we will see to it
that new goods and
the lowest prices keep
"a front rank in doing
it.
We invite you all
for a fair impartial
trial anG a liberal
share Of your liberal
patronage at the New
Quarters of
TIC. ST. AnnOur'S
FAIR CORNER,
Centcalia, Wis
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

scale. 1t could therefore better afford to
let the rest of the southwest enjoy some
benefit without paying for il
than to 60 on losing several
wears. The company that misery
loves is not SO amiable as the company
gained by shedding abroad the streams of
Happiness generated by a self-rehant and
stIf-helping prosperity. Hail TO the Den
yer convention. Let it put forth the need
of the southwest to a water gateway. Let
it organize all available coop ration. 1t
will show what is just and right for a
federal undertaking, and, whatever be the
immediate outcome, its work will not be
lost. This route for foreign commerce to
and from the interior thus examined will
arrest the attention of all interior business
men; trade will intelligently press toward
its most economical channel, aud when
the fact is realized that this is case of
dimes to save dollars, even the eternal
iethargy of politics, for the best OF
material improvement, will not prevail
against the awakened serious judgment
OF an entsprising. people.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19
JUDGE WALKER ENDORSED.

The San Antonio Express says: The
friends of Judge A. S. Walker seem
confident that he will receive the
nomination as enc of the Judges
OF tho supreme bench by the dem
ocratic state convention. 1t will be read.
lily conceded by those acquainted with the
merits of Judge Walker that the couyen-
ton could not make a mistake 10 con-
ferring this nomination upon hin. His
eminent abilities and spotless reputation
for integrity have already received recog-
milton at this hands of the governor, ard
while the convention might find men
equally worthy, it could easily go further
and fare worse. In the convention the
supreme and appellate iudgships at least
should be he'd aloof from trade and
speculation recognition being given only
to acknowledged worth. This would bring
Judge Walker well to the fore
That is it exactly. Trade and specula-
ton should have nothing whatever to do
with the selection of such high function
aries as our supreme and appellate judi
ciary. If this rule prevails, as it surely
should, and if the convention is wise in
establishing the excellent precedent of
not unsettling these high courts, then
Judge Walker will retain the position he
has filed so ably and acceptably. This is
n duty the convention owes the state.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19
Twelve Pages.
PASSED AWAY.

BY the death of John j. Hand, of the
Galveston News, there passed away one of
tn, links between the early journalism of
the state and the later developments which
day mark the Texas press. One of
the pioneers in the newspaper field of
Texas, Mr. Hand, with his sound judg-
mert, spirit of enterprise and thorough
knowledge of journalism, especially in its
mechanical aspect, along with Willard
Richardson laid the foundation of what is
now regarded one of the leading dailies
OF the southwest-the Galveston News.
Mr.. Hand was we'll known to all the
older newspaper men of the state, and
aside from his professional abilities, will
be remembered by them for his many
yirtues, and the traits of an unpretendiDg
but sterling character.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

The national government is getting
ready to send its exhibits to the great
Paris exposition to be held next year.
The United States should make a good
showing at that worlds fair and Texas
especially should there earn the standing
aud eclat she should have in the estima-
ton of all nations. Our fame is now fast
extending through this and foreign
countries and the opportunity is at hand
50 place Texas next year on record as the
most wonderful state in the union Her
collection of products, the fruits of her
widely diversified soil, and the riches of
her mines and forests and demonstra-
tion of her wonderful capabilities would
create genuine surprise and enthusiasm
throughout Europe. 1t would pay the
state TO send across the water for that ex-
position the very finest exhibit she could
produce. Such advertisement always
pays.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19
WHAT OF THE FUTURE:

There is much room and occasion for
thought when calm reflection calls at
teution to how the United States have
grown, how rapidly and by what means.
The following, from the pen of W. IL. s.
Aubrey, in the Fortnightly Review, points
our meaning: "What will be the national
character of America fifty or even twenty
years hence? Will these heterog eneous ele-
ments of population weld into one homoge-
neous whole? Nearly third of the people
are foreign born. How far will these af-
feet the original stock? England has
pas sed through similar process, bnt on
much smaller scale, and spread over a
thousand years. The United States have
been absorbing-havs they assimilated p
for a generation, year by year, as many
people as form an average German
principally; and these settlers have in
creased and multiplied. There are nearly
twice as many Irish in America es in
Ireland. In some states the TeutOnic
element preponderates. Wisconsin has
large Helvetian settlement, and Mime
sofia is a favorite resort of SOandi-
navians. The character of New England
has already undergone marked change.
The Puritan character no longer pre-
walls. Farms that had been owned and
titled for generations by descendants of
the original settlers are now in many
cases in the hands of Germans. The
mill hands of Massachusetts, Rhode Is
land and Maine are largely recruited by
French Canadians. Out of nearly five
hundred thousand inhabitent5 of Boston
almost Cne. fourth are Irish. Young New
England has gone west. Whether it's
historic sturdy character will be impressd
upon those nascent states remains to be
seen. The cheerful optimism that is so
characteristic of the people believes, ar
hopes, that the common school system
will adjust all such matters"
We have opened our arms to the
nations of the earth. viii it be found we
have invited IN guests who will prove our
Crusles5 enemies? Oc will not America
hundred years hence be wonderful ex-
ample of a homogeneous nation?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19
IT IS WELL THINGS ARE As THEY
ARE

1T IS WE'LL THINGS ARE As THEY
ARE.
The New Orleans Pioayuue lately said,
president Cleveland in his clever
speech made few days ago at the alumnl
dinner at the University of Yirs inia,
spoke in terms at once humorous aud
patriotic about the worthy ambition of
every American boy to become president
of tho United States, because the CON
stitution had at least not made it i'm
possible to him. Probably there is not
an American, who is now or ever has been a
boy, that has not heard that trite senti-
ment proposed as spur to his efforts.
Theoretically 1t is true, but practically it
is so no longer. The fact of the matter
Is, the president, must az general pro-
position come from one Of the doubtful
states. The electoral vote by which a
president must be chosen is SO nicely
balanced that it can only be decided by
the suffrages of two or three states which
are usually denominated as doubtful"
There are certain states that are so solidly
republican that their vote is always
calculated on with certainty, while there
are Others quite as thoroughly democratic.
III h6 hiluS up buo vi u dIuDAlRn
no attention need be paid to these The
grand object, then, is to carry the doubt
full states, and in order to do so it is usual
and almost an imperative necessity that
the presidential candidates shall be sell
ected from the doubtful states, SO as to
arouse the local pride of the people. Just
now the doubtful states are New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana, to
which some add Ohio. 1t is plain that the
candidates must come from some of these.
and as a matter of fact they do, Cleveland
and Morton, one on each ticket, hailinp
from New York, with Harrison from In.
diana and Thurman from Ohio. Az for
Louisiana, its boys can never hone TO be
named on presidential ticket until IL
shall become doubtful state. The con-
stitution does not ordain this, but the nm
written law of expediency, stronger than
the constitution, does. The boys of most
of the states of the union may as well give
up this traditional ambition.
In the nature of things and in the best
interest of the nation it is well for this al
ways TO be so. As our fed ,ral constitution
was drafted with the idea of checks anC
balances, of one power being restraining
Influence upon another, so it is essential
that there she'll always be two, at lesst
great political parties in the nation. Til,
one oompels the other to perform good
honest and faithful work and thus help;
conserve the nations interests. For thi
reason also it is well for these parties t.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

GENERAL HARRISON is not success as a
shrewj politician. He desired the repub-
lican national committee to elect Mr..
John G. New, who edits an Indianapolis
journal and runs "ratn Office, its chair
man. This the committee positively re-
fused to do. Thus the general received
quite snub and his choice has made him
thousands of enemies among the printers
of the union, who hate "rats" worse than
the fallen angel hates holy water, and who
exert no little influence throughout the
country. The printers are solid against
Mr. Harrison.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19
The Figure Sever.

The world has had many wonderful $
sns to wrestle with, and now the bless
part of it all during the heated term a
Jar into the autumn days will worry W
jhe following seven:
DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
For president, Grover Cleveland.
Vice president, Allen G. Thurman.
REPUBLICAN PARTY.
For president, Benjamin Harrison.
Nice-president, Levi p. Morton.
PROHIBITION PARTY.
For president, Clinton B. Fisk.
Vice-president, John A. Brooks.
UNION LABOR PARTY.
For president, Alison j. Streeter.
Vice president, G. E. Cunningham.
UNITED LABOR PARTY.
For president, Robert H. Cowdrey.
ce-president, W. H. I. Wakefield.
INDUSTRIAL PARTY.
For preuident, Albert E. Redstone.
Vice president, John GOWN.
EQUAL RIGHTS PARTY.
For president, Belva A. Lockwood.
ice-president, Alfred II. Love-.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19
The Coming Convention at Den

yer.
From the Galveston News.
The deep water movement has been ad-
vanced stage by the result of the Fort
Worth convention. 1t has been quite a
task to lift the question above the plane
of those local advantages incident to the
location OF deep water harbor. The
same conflicts and prejudices which were
Inevitable in Texas were, to some extent,
inevitable as between the Texas interest
locally and the southwest generally.
With the adjournment of the successful
convention just held, harmonizing the
forces there assembled, the movement
goes on another step with only a few
weeks delay. The convention which will
be held in Denver will put the agitation
for deep water in its proper light if
there is still any doubt about it. How
the funds to get deep water are
to be provided is a question not alb
solutely tied to the preliminary and posi-
lively necessary education of public
opinion to view the work as one equally
In the interest of Kansas, Colorado and
other portions of the southwest as it is in
the interest of Texas. Should the issue
come to state aid as means which it may
II the antagonistic interests block the way
too seriously in congress, there will be
only one narrow prejudice to be overcome
IN Texas. 1t will be said, of course that
Texas should not be at all the cost of
making a deep water improvement to
benefit Kansas and other states as well as
herself. This, however, is not the
soundest business reasoning. The state
loses annually, by the lack of deep water,
enough money to get 1t on a magnificent
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

. The selection of Mr.. Walter Tips for
chairman of the democratic executive
committee of the county for the ensuing
two years was, without doubt, one of the
best possible that could have been made.
No man in this county Is better known or
stands higher in the estimation of the
public than Mr.. Tipps, and the present
honor is one well earned and well be-
slowed.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

CONGRESSMAN SAVERS will be renomi-
mated by reclamation at Austin August II,
the date for the assembling of the con
gressional convention for this, the Tenth,
district, and he viii be re elected in No
vem5er by an overwhelming majority.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

Daniel Lee, one of the hermit Lee
brothers, who for thirty years have lived
in tumble-down shauty few miles east
of Plainfeld, n. j., died on ednesday
last. Although living in abiect poverty,
the brothers were worth over 100000.
Frazee Lee, the remaining brother, is in
feeble health, and will not long survive.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

As the annual local consumption in
France of brandy is 100000 gallons
and the yearly product only 100000
gallons, American lovers of eau de vie are
wondering what the suff is which comes
across the Atlantic labeled as French
brandy. Scientific experts say that most
of it is cheap German spirits, favored
with cunnipgly devised extracts and cor
dials
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

Portable electric lights, arranged to
hang on the button of ones coat, and
with psrabolic reflector to concentrate
the light, with storage batteries weighing
one and half pounds each, are made to
enable persons to read in railroad cars
by night.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

N. S. Perkins, who lives on the bay near
New Smyrna, Fla, has sub-irrigation
garden which has produced crops con
tinuously ever since last winter, when it
was built. As soon as one crop ripens
another is put in its place, and in this way
there is a constant supply of vegetables
for the table. The cost of making it was
yery small.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

BY the time the Chicago courts of
Justice have handled few more cases of
dynamite worshipers, the parties using
it will just sort of wish they hadn't.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

WHAT does it profit man to go north
to sweat himself to death when he can
stay at home in Texas and do it very sat
isfaotOrllYY
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

The house committee of the whole yes
terday refused to strike wool from the
free list by vote of 12O TO 1O2.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19
The Nashville American deals ia sor

The Nashville American deals in some
statistics.
In 1876 Rutherford B. Hayes received
1893, 295 votes; Samuel j. Tilden received
4,294,265.
In 1880 James A. Garfield received
4,450,921, while Winfield S. Hancock re-
ceived 4,447SS8.
In 1884 Grover Cleveland received
1874 1856, and James G. Blaine received
1851 ,9SI.
This might be called neck and neck.
Running over these three elections will
show the leaders on both sides that work,
work, work is the watCh-word.
These facts can but excite hopes and
fears on both sides.
But by all odds tire balance of hope is
on the side of tho democrats this year. II
will not be "necE and neck this time. A
prediction and a threat
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

lnE many newspaper friends Of Mr.
Charles Hedge, associate press ggent at
Galveston, will DO glad TO learn Of his
promotion TO the important position of
reporting Indianapolis during the cam
paign. Mr.. Hedges, although a repubi-
can in southern territory, has generally
given impartial accounts of matters poIiti-
cal, and no doubt will do so in his new
field.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

VIII You suffer with dyspepsia and liver
complaints Shiloh's Yitalizer is guaran-
Iced to cure You. Sold by Oscar Samostz.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19
1t is Absurd

For people to expect cure for Indi,o.
ton, unless they refrain from eat;r
what is unwholesome but il anvtb;nss
will sharpen the appetite and give t0ns
to the digestive organs, it is Ayers So- '
sapariIIa. Thousands all over the Ia,
testify to the merits of this medicine
Mrs. Sarah Burroughs, of 24S Fich.,
street, South Boston, writes: "NTv H.
band has taken Ayers SarsaparilIa ~
Dyspepsia and torpid liver, and no.
been greatly benefited"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

be pretty evenly divided that the element
of uncertainty in all political contests
may inject more care and attention into
the selection of party representatives and
the performance of active work. With
the contending parties thus evenly
matched it is natural that every oppOr.
ture chance be avaied of, and if the
selection of champion from any par
ticular state constitutes an ele-
ment of success, then party wis
dom dictates that selection. Thus
what are called "uncertain" states are the
battle grounds of great political enconut-
ers, and the leaders of those states
become the commanders in national con
tests. This may cut short the budding
hopes OF citizens of certain" states, but
as in every state men are found capable
of wisely administering national affairs,
it works no harm to the general govern.
ment. And, after ell, when these ambitious
ones alone are considered, is it not God
send, wise dispensation that they are, in
the great majority of cases circumscribed
by these facts so unpropitious for their
hopes, so overwhelmingly destructive of
their lilliputian efforts?
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19
A Confirmed Dyspeptic.

C. Canterbury, OF III Franklin .,
Boston, Mass, writes, that, sufrar;rn
for years from Indigestion, he was %
last induced to try Ayers Sarsanar;na
and, by its use, was entirely cured
Mrs. Joseph Aubin, of High stroo,
Holyoke, Mass, suffered for over a voo.
from Dyspepsia, so that she could No.
eat substantial food, became verv wool.
and was unable to care for her fam;r
Neither the medicines prescribed h.
physicians, nor any of the remed;o.
advertised for the cure of Dyspensio
helped her, until she commenced tho
use of Ayers Sarsaparilla. "Tbres
bottles of this medicine" she writes
"cured me-"
Ayers SarsapariIIa,
PREPARED BY
DR.. ]. c. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass
Price 81; six bottles, S.. Worth IS a bottl.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

RUsTICUs in the Occident, of San Fran.
cisco, handles Colonel Bob IngersolI with
ont gloves. The following extract is full
of truths, and is a piece of logic the
doughty Bob cannot encounter:
"Oolonel Ingersoll knows that on the
Bible, which he attacks, millions of the
human race are to-day piilowing their
heads and sleeping the sweet sleep of
trust and hope. Suppose that he can sue
coed, by artful innuer does, in changing
that pillow of peace to bundle of briars
end thorns, what has he gained by that!
If disbelieved as Colonel Ingersoll does
l would not tell even my wife and chill
dren. l would let them cherish as long as
they could the sweet delusion of faith in
God. Such a book IS Colonel Ingersoll
claims the. Bible to be could not
have such history and such
an influence as the Bible has. This
book started obscurely among a people
whom the rest of the world despised. The
scholarship of the race did not commend
it. The rulers of tEe world did not COM
mand their subjects to read it. These
who professed TO believe it divine tried
for centuries to keep the people from
possessing it. Yet, in spite of all this,
the Bible is to- day the book of the civil
LIKED world. More comics are printed of
it than of any other hundred books. It
is translated into nearly all the languages
of earth, and wherever it goes it roots
itself, in tropic sands or polar SHOWS, re-
volutionizing the thoughts and institu-
tions of men. 1t has been Endorsed as
manifestly superhuman by the ripest
scholarship of sixty generations. How
absurd for such a man to start up and
hurl the javelirs of his police court
rhetoric against such book!
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

me call for the Tenth congre: sional
district convention 30 meet at Taylor has
been rescinded by the chairman of the
committee, Hon. Oscar BerQstrom. He
now wants Austin as the place of meeting,
and fixes the date for Mordly, August IS.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19
ANNOUNCBM ENTS

JITEae authorized to announce Judge Jas. ii
w Burts a. a candidate for county judge at
The ensuing election in NOvember.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19

JloR DISTRICT ATTORNEY am a demo.
II craft; candidate for district attorney.
JOE ii STEWART.