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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28
THE SWARMING IMMIGRANTS.

Attention has already been called TO the
nusual volume of immigrants for the
current year. The greatest years immi-
grafton in the history of the United States
was that of 1882, when 476,OS6 aliens
came as permanent settlers, 455. 450 of
whom were steerage passengers landed at
New York. From January to June of
that year 227,I47 immigrants arrived.
The arrivals for the same period of the
present year reach 5000 in round num-
bers, 135 900 of whom landed during April
and May. The largest single days con
tribUtion of new citizens was that of May
4 when 5,04S immigrants were landed,
and several shiploads detained at quar-
aptine. The largest shipload of i'm mi
grants which ever came to this country
was that of the Cachar from MarseiIles
two or three weeks ago, with 1928, al
though there have been several recently
with upwards of 1,4OO. The month of
May always brings the largest
throng of immigrants, the arrivals
for the month just closed reaching $4,000.
In May, 1887, there we7e SLIPS; for the
same month in 1881, 1891. in 1882, 81
75S, and in 1888, 69,597 OF those that
are coming now Germany and Italy
furnish the largest quotas, the immi-
grants from Germany during April and
May numbering 10000 and from Italy
10000. Ia view of the stagnation in
railway building the number of Italian
immigrants is remarkable, the arrivals
for the two months above referred to ag-
grafton for 1887, when railway building
reached the highest point ever known in
this country. What becomes of this
nearly half million of annual additions to
our population from foreign sources?
Large numbers of them come on the ad
vice of friends already here and go where
their friends have settled. One-half at
least come on tickets to New York alone
where they remain for d longer Or shorter
period, many of them permanently. Of
the other half, Pennsylvania gets about
one-third, Illinois, one-sixth, New Jersey,
Michigan. Minnesota, Massachusetts and
Ohio one-twelfth in nearly equal proper
tions, while the remainder go to Wiscon-
sin, Iowa, Connecticut. Colorado, Indiana,
Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Rhode island,
Dakota and Texas. 1t is needless to add
that the first half-those who stay in New
York and other large oities-are those
who will cause the most trouble to the
authorities. The other half being scat
tered through so many States, become
easily essimilated to the population sur
rounding them and lose their distinctive
features. It is when they congregate in
large bodies that, many of them remain
TO all intents and purposes still foreign
srs.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28
FOREIGN.

TIE Emperor of Brazil has completely
recovered from his recent illness.
DR.. j. FL. ZUKERToRT, Germany's dis
tinguished chess-player, is dead.
RoME.-The Pope will soon issue an
important encyolIcal, dealing with the
true and false in liberty.
j. H. BLAoHBURNE, the famous chess
player, will probably make tour of this
country next fall and winter.
EDITOR O'BRIEN has settled his $25 00C
libel suit against the Glasgow Herald fol
$500 and an apology.
THE coronation of Emperor William al
king of Prussia will take place at Koen
icreJ,r--ey ---si-o- ~-s-ee-llln-
DETAILED accounts of the sales which
occurred on the coast OF Iceland last
month show that 400 French fl h.
ermen drowned. Thirty vessels were
wrecked.
DUBLIN.-It is reported here that Bal
four, Chief Secretary for Ireland, in
tends to resign. Balfour however
Indignantly denies the truth of the re.
port.
BERLIN.-Dr. Leuthold has been ap-
pointed chief physician to the Emperor
DR.. Leuthold was one of the late Em-
peror Williams physicians.
IT is reported that Count Won Zedlitz
Fritzchler is not inclined 10 accept the
Interior portfolio. The Count has had an
interview with the Emperor.
The funeral of the late Emperor Fred
erick William of Germany took place at
Potsdam, near Berlin, where he was born
ard where the royal residence in which
he died is located.
BERLIN.-Princess Marie, wife of Prince
Albert, Of Saxe-Altenburg, and daughter
of the late Prince Frederick Charles OF
Germany, is dead.
NAwAB ZAIGHoH- UD-DowLAH, brother
in-law to the late king of Oudh, is in Lon
Won specially engaged to teach the prince
of Wales and Prince Albert Victor Hin
dostanee. The nawab has the degree of
"LearDed Pundit."
IT is reported that the Emperor Alex
ander Ill, recently, in fit of generosity,
presented Count Vorontzoff- Dashkoff
with no less a sum than 100000 rubies,
IN order to relieve that nobleman's pc
cuniary embarrassmenss. The gift, it is
related, was in the form of draft on the
Imperial treasury, which was handed to
his favorite inclosed in an Easter egg.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28
WASHINGTON.

The TERMS of twenty-six United States
senators-thirteen democrats and thirteen
reEublicans-wil expire next March.
TIE President has sent to the Senate
the names of James G. Jenkins, of Wis
consin, for United States District Judge
of the Eastern District of that State, and
John F. Phillips of Missouri, for United
States District Judge of the Western Dis
trict OF that state.
ONE Of the most interesting of the
elderly matrons at the national capital is
the wife of Justice Miller. Her expert
ence in the higher social sphere of the
seat of Government extends over great
er lapse of years than that of any other
lady, save two, now in public life at Wash
lngtop. She went there twenty-six years
ago, when her husband, from the bar of
Keokuk, Iowa, was raised by President
Lincoln TO the bench of the Supreme
Court.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28

THE great International boycott against
France is working like charm. The ex-
position next year at Paris gives q fine
opportunity to display the genuine boy
cottipg spirit. The memories of CEN
fury ago in France are, to be sure, not OF
a nature to warm the heart Of royalty
Austria would naturally be slow in con-
tributing to the glories of Paris in 1889,
and as Germany stood apart from the ex-
position of 1877, no one need have been
surprised Cd her refusal now to recognize
a French holiday inspired by the spirit
of republicanism. But why should Eng
land follow IN the footprints of the leu
tons? The great manufacturing centers
nf EnplanI ara disnnsad to display Their
wares at Paris, but Lord Salisbury will
not appoint a royal commission to saper-
intend an exhibit, nor will he in any
o.her way officially recognize the occasion
And now Spain cries, "me too" 1t this
continues, the republic had better meet
and adjourn sine die.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28
CRIME.

ROBBERS attacked an express train on
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad,
In Indian Territory, Friday night. They
failed TO secure much booty, but killed
one passenger.
EBERhARD THEURNER. a prosperous
farmer near Lincoln, Neb., quarelled with
his wife and then went and hanged him
self. His wife has become Craving
naniac, and will be sent to the insane
hospital.
WALTER THOMPSON, alias Cash Cooper,
a notorius horse-thief and outlaw, was
convicted at Pueblo, Col, of stealing
eighty one head Of horses from Thomas
Martinez OF HGerfano county. Colorado,
carly II April. He stole the horses and
sold them 70 others, who drove then TO
Kansas, where they were recovered. r.
A WEST BOUND train on the Northern
Pacific Railroad was stopped near Bill
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28
A TWENTY YEARS EXPERIENCE.

40 Broadway, New York, March II. 1886.
have been using ALLcooK's PoRoUs
PLAsrERs for 20 years, and found them
Sone of the best of family medicines
Brlefy summing up my experience, I say
that when placed on the small of the back
ALLoooK's PLAsTERs fill the body with
nervous energy, and thus cure fatigue,
brain exhaustion. debility and kidney
difficulties. For women and children
have found them invaluable. They never
irritate the skin or cause the slightest
pain, but cure sore throat, croupy coughs,
colds, pains in side, back or chest, ipdi-
gestion and bowel complaints.
q
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28

That burlesque on religion, the Sal
vation Army, has managed in some
mysterious way to rent fve-story
building on Reade street, New York, for
national headquarters, occupying the
whole building, and running its flagstaff
SO feet above the roof, with "The Sal
walton Army; Ill white letters on a red
flag floating from it. Whence it gets its
support in this country is 2 puzzle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28

AMERICA IS asked to unite with England
in raising the funds for the memorial to
Dinah Mullock Craik, which is to be
placed in Tewkesbury abbey. A marble
medallion is proposed, and So has been
fixed as the maximum of individual sub
scriptions Ia this country, Joseph "
Harper of Harper & Bros. viii receive
snbscriptiOns.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28

7 ings, NJ. T., Saturday night by eight
masked highmen, who broke in the ex-
press-car and secured packages contain
ing $500. The male passengers were rob-
bed, but only $500 was secured. The
robbers told the passengers that they
did not want their watches or je9elry.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28
At His Post Day and Night,

At Bis Post Day and Night,
The vigilant imp, indigestion, goads Us with his
many-laShed scourge. Each lash is a diabolic
symptom. No comfort il eating, misery after
wards little broken rest at night visitations of
the nightmare during fitfUi intervals of sleep an
uprising unrefreshed and without appetite sleep
mess and yawning during the day, nervousness
extreme cases. Hard to bear, al this. Neces-
S2ry! MOI a thousand times no, so long as Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, the nations specific for
Indigestion, acute or chronic, is procurable The
commencement of course Of this medicine is
the commencement of a cure. Prompt relief
first, absolute eradication subsequently. The
truth OF this statement, backed up by irrefrag.
able testimony, is well known TO the American
pcope. So are others, viz: that the Bitters
siNeStS and cures fever and ague and bilious re-
mittent and removes nervousness, biliousness,
constipation and kidney and bladder troubles. .
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28

DETAILLE, the famous French painter,
has won the medal of honor at the Paris
Salon, with his striking picture sic
Reve," representing a detachment lying
down in a cornfield.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28
@. d. TREDRICKs

Mother ''And do youreally feel so
very bad, Bobby" Bobby-"Yes, ma. J
amt quite sick enough to need any medi-
cine, bot I'm little too sick to go TO
SCHOOL,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28
The Nominating Sneeches.

The nominating speeches row began
and the most of them were thrilling and
very excellent. Hon. Leonard Swett, Of
Chicago, nominated General Gresham.
Governor Porter, of Indiana, nominated
General Harrison. Mr.. Hepburn. of Iowa,
nominated Mr.. Allison. Mr.. Frager, Of
Mich, nominated General Alger. Sen
ator Hiscock. OF New York, nominated
Mr.. Ds2ew. General Hastings, OF Penn
syIyania, nominated John Sherman.
Mr.. Seth. Of Pennsylvania, nominated
Mayor Futeri. OF Philadelphia, and Sen
ator Spooaer nominated Governor
Rusk.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28

LOOK YOUNG, prevent tendency TO wrinkle
or ageing of the skin by using LEAUREI.LE OIL
PRESERVES youthful, plump, fresh condition of
the features. A transparent. alabaSter skin 81 90
DRUGGISTS or exp. 8. S. Wells. Jersey City. 4. ]
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28

Pretty Creature Yesterday was my birthday,
dear; ana my Charlie gave me a string Of sucl
beautiful pearl@-one for every year
Second ditto (who failed TO secure Charlie >
How sweet dearest. What an expensive presei Il
--Sllch lanr- Srrile- dear
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28
subscriptions

Mrs. STANTON, Miss Anthony, Mrs Liver
more and Mrs. Antoinette Blackwell say
unpleasant things about Mrs. Bolva
Iockwood's convention and repudiate ii
in the name of woman suffrage. The
worst of it is they are right. Belva is a
trife too much for patience, when one
reflects what chance she gives the cheap
wits.
THE refusal of leading Eur opear
powers, including England, Germany,
Austria and Spain, to participate in the
centennial exposition OF the French Re.
public will strike Americans as an IN
worthy display Of political intolerance
It is true that none of the countries
mentioned are republics, and equally
true that the ruling powers in each are
not disposed to be partial to republics
1t is likewise true that each of the powers
named has some old sores charged aga1ns
the French people, but grudgos are no
good things to keep. The French Re
public is, at least, a present fact. The
other European nations must neighbc1
with it on some sort of terms and they
might as well do it gracefully.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28

The best nominating speech Of the oc-
cesion was made by Governor Foraker, of
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28
LET Us READ ITS LESSONS RICHLY
and he'd its precepts dear

| pI5Ctpts- uear-
When Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, lay upon
his dying bed he requested his heart should be
taken from his inaniTnate body and borne By
knightly hands TO the Saviours sepulchre. After
his death, ia mes, Earl Of Douglas, undertook the
sacred mission and with the heart encased in a
golden c3sket set out upon his pilgrimage for the
holy land.
On their way thither. himfelf and comrades
Though they foJ ght with all the vaIor of mortal
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1888-06-28

as soon as The work OF nominating the
presidential candidate had been com
pleted the convention proceeded TO the
nomination of 4 vice presidential candi-
date. Denby, OF Kentucky, nominated
VIM E. Bradley, of that state, and the
nomination was seconded by Kansas,
Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Michi-
gan. Sewell Of New Jersey, nominated
VIM. Walter Phelps and Senator Miller,
of New York, nominated L. p. Morton, OF
New York. Morton was nominated on
the first ballot and his nomination raade
unanimous,
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-09-01

open-r,ced man, from San Francisco
who from the number of wild adven
ures he related we called ''the scal
per-" Uncle Sam don't care dime fo,
you and me being robbed, but its CHS
sedly different thing, touching tn,
mails. You bet! they'll be nabbed
l asked him whether if they had com,
to our car, there would have been an,
resistance.
"Guess," he said, taking out of hi,
pocket neat little pistol, there 'ut
be some shootin' goin' on around
wouldn't give them my money without
pulling on them"
Then followed some California warns
well worthy of Mayne Reid, how :
train had lately been stopped at Kan
sas, how the guard shot four robbers
and the rest fled. The State gave him
one thousand dollars and the company
two thousand.
"He has now changed his trade. !,
added the narrator.
"What for?" inquired.
30, he has been on the drunk ever
since" was the reply, given as gravely
as if "being on the drunk" was we'll.
known and honorable profession.
Then the drummer" told how al
Eucharist, he had walked one night
and found man at work on the lock
of his trunk, and getting out his pistol
had shot him through the arp. and
disabled him. And ranchemas,sef.
West, from near Los Angeles, had q
curious story, how the only tme he
was ever out without his pisto he had
been robbed. After seriesf similar
tales, a grave man, who Aad been
silently smoking his cigar, sruck in.
"Well boys" he said, 4 am glad
them robbers got none of ur plumber
but dor t you go, any of yu, and take
the blood of fellow-cEtur. Its an
awful thing to do surely There was
a friend of mine onst shG man. He
saw him put his hand belind his back,
and thought he was ping to draw,
and pulled on him. he sheriff was
after him, and he came Up to my rancho,
and 1 kept him dark,I did. But he
was miserable. He said he could
always hear the groans of the dying
man. He saw him staring at him
awful with all his eyes when he lay
down in bed. He didn't live long after
that. It's my opinion that business
killed him. Don't you boys, go and
take the life of tellow-crittur if you
can help itr'
So ended my adventure in the Rocky
Mountains. l may add that | never
heard while in America whether the
robbers were captured. l do not know
yet whether they are still at large.
saw, however, in a telegram lately
that train on the same line had been
"held up" and that the robbers had
got off with a rich booty" Possibly
they were my old friends of the Rockies
still pursuing their calling.-J. Cam
eron Lees, D. D., in Good Words.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-09-01
SONG OF THE SCYTHE.

Far up on the mountains side,
Where swiftly, like phantoms, glide
The cloud-lard shadows,
I hear mowers scythe,
With busy sound aud blithe,
In the rocky meadows.
Hark l-on the breeze conveyed
The rhythmic rush OF the blade,
BY strong arms whirledl
1t sings, in murmurous tone,
OF work to be bravely done
In this busy world.
Sometimes, With iangling tone.
The bright blade strikes stone,
But seems to cry: II
''Tis naughtl Let the worries pass.
There needs must be stones in the grass
For all who try"
Thus wind-borne all day long,
You may hear the scythes brave song
On the mountain farms.
But the mower little knows
OF the song that comes and goes
AS he swings his arms.
Hrs. II. W. Blacker, in Good Housekeeping.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-09-01
PURITAN WRITINGS.
What the Earliest American Literature
Teaches Its Students.

What the Earliest American Literature
Teaches Its Students.
The writings of all those early New.
Englanders have an Elizabethal1 ssEs'
ness of dictation which one tastes alike
in the quaintness of Bradford's and
Winslow's records of Plymouth, in the
seriousness, sincerity and credulity OF
Higginson, and in the ribaldry of the
ungodly and unruly Thomas Morton, of
Merry Mount. One fond of tracing the
origin of national traits and customs
will find pleasure in following to its
far source in some of the New England
and Virginia Englishmen of the seven
teenth century the modern American
fashion OF booming new country. The
Rev. Francis Higginson does this in
pleasing prose, and the good William
Morrell in deadly verse, for Massaehu-
sets Bay; John Smith blows the
trumpet for jamestown, and for all
Virginia Colonel Norwood, in his voy-
ages, sounds repeated blasts, while
Master r. Rich praises the new land in
as woful ballad as any made to mis-
tress' eyebrow. Norwood has more
than CLEANS of gayety, if one may not
quite call it humor; his work has un-
questionably literary quality, and we
wish we could say as much for John
Roles wordy and scattering apology
for marrying Pocahontas; but that has
chiefly the quality of a very disagreea-
BILE self-righteousness.
The most valuable fact about the
earliest American literature, which is
not yet American of course, is that 1t so
fully reflects the life of the time and
place-the objective life of daring and
adventure and hardship, and the sub
jective life tormented and naddened
by abominable beliefs, with its struggles
to escape from them. In Virginia these
are not felt; there is a delightful free
dom from them, but for this very rea-
son the literature of that colony has a
more superficial character; it lacks the
depth as well as the gloom which char.
acterizes the sermons and memoirs Of
New England.
Whether life more influences liter
atnre, or literature life, is a question
we need not stop to dispute about
here; they probably have a perfect
balance of interaction at all times; hut
what one might certainly infer from
this anthology of the Puritan litera-
ture is the Puritan life. If there were
no other records OF the state of thu
civilization which produced these
writings, the general complexion Of
that life might be inferred here
and this gives an historical import
ance to the compilation which mieht
be easily moderated. 1t would be a
mistake to suppose that tho Puritan
life in New England was all psalms
and sermons; enough is given to show
that it had it's reliefs, and to let tbe
reader perceive that these were soma
thing of the nature and the general
pleasurable effect Of dancing in chains
W d. HotUeliS, IN Hdrper'S Ma0azfne
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-09-01

The Youths Companion has much
admiration for girls and women who
learn to swim. 1t says: 'Those of our
readers who frequent the seaside re-
sorts do not need to be told that many
of the accomplished swimmers are
Young ladies'. This is but natural. AS
their bones are generally lighter than
those of men, and their flesh more
buoyant, they have less difficulty to
overcome in acquiring the art"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-09-01

will practice total abstinence both at,
home and abroad, both for his own
sake and the sake of others. Julia;
Coleman, IN National Temperance Ad.-
q,Ocate
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-09-01

"A German chemist has found that
chloroform may be detected in the
lungs ofanimals four weeks after death
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1888-09-01

Self-interest should lead us to prac-
tice the strictest total abstinence. In
Daniels case it seems to have made all
the difference between success and
failure in life.
Permanent success in Temperance
work would lead us to give freely the
most thorough teaching of the princi-
pies of total abstinence. 1t is those
people who most intelligently under
stand the action of alcohol that hate it
the most intensely and devise the most
effective measures against it.
If the conscientious convictions of
tho individual be secured he will help.
to make and enforce right laws; he