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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
Comment # the London Timer,

LONDON, Dec. 13--The Times, com
mentirg on tue manifesto Of Mr.. VIII
lam O Brien and his associates, SAYS
ga note of helpless wailing runs
through this remarkable document
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18

ColOred Preacher EIopes With =
Dusky Married Lady.

ELGIN, ILL.,, Dec. 13.-Colored society
here has a sensation in the elopement
Of the Rev. j. L. Munley with Mrs.
w. Garrett. 1t has been discovered
that the pair bought tickets for Kan
sas City. whittier kilograms for theii
iutercepton have been sent. Mrs
Garrett has her baby with her. The
Rev. MunleY was compelled to relin-
quish the Second Baptist church pas
torate few days ago because unable 10
dIsprove the statement that he had =
wife and two children in Ohio.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
DOUBLE STANDARD OF VALUE
The States of the Latin Union Will
Join the Efforts Of the United
States.
The Market Value of Silver Could in
This Way be Kept Up to the
Legal Standard.
The Reaction Against KOch's Treat
ment for Tuberculosis Has
Been Greatly Intensified.

PARIS, Dec. 13.-Itis believed that the
government is endeavoring to arrange an
international monetary conference. Eng
land and some of the other powers may
object on the ground of the futility of
previous conference. In such an event a
powerful influence will be brought to bear
upon the government to unite the dele
gates from the Latin union the United
States AMI the other silver countries to
discuss the silver question with view to
international regulation of the silver
value.
Outdoes the Mckinley Law.
The tariff bill as now shaped under the
hands of the committees outdoes the Nc
Kinley bill in protectionism. The Grande
Commerce league, the leading free trade
body. has issued a strong manifesto de-
nouncing it as tending to surround France
with Chinese wall, the inevitable result
of which will be the ruin of the country S
agricultural, commercial and shipping In
terests.
for the temporary profit of great manufac-
lures. 1t is believed however that if the
government can assume the safety of BoT-
deaux and make trade under reciprocity the
opposition to the league will disappear.
A New Bank Form ed.
L. Martin announces the formation of d
bank under the auspices Of the Vatican
with capital Ct 1O0,000,O00 francs, OF
which the Jesuits will subscribe ha f.
Reaction Against Kochine.
The reaction against the Koch treat
ment in France has increased in violence.
Eight patients died soon after the injec
ton of the lymph and this, combined with
the fact that there has been no verified
cure. intensified public feeling against the
experiments.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
Blaze at BelOit,

BELoIT, Dec 13.-Fire damaged ware
house and surroundings belonging to the
S. E Barrett Manufacturing company ST.,
500 this morning. 1t was probably
caused from stove.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
ROBBED OF A LARGE SUM.
The Cashier of Coal Company Meet.
High waymsn.

Fiighwaymsn.
CHICAGO, Dec. l3.-Joseph Daily,
cashier for the w. p Rend Coal COM
panV, was robbed last evening by two
men at Fortieth and Halsted stree IS.
The company has offices at the stock
yards and DAILY was taking the money
to his home on Emerson avenue. Two
men accoSted him suddenly and one Of
them sandbagged him. Daily fell to
the ground unconscious and the thieves
seized his sachel, containing 500 in
currency. They also took $35 check
from his inside pocket and then made
their escape. Daily was removed to
his home, and it is feared that his
skull is fractured. He lies In very
dangerous condition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
New York.

NEW YORK. Dec 13,-WHEAT Advanced
IA Csc, but eased to last nights prices on
dull fading; December. 104ia QL04 q;
January. 1.05 Is LOS I-2; February, sL4G;
March, sLO7 Is May. $685. IC7 3-S. C1sN
dull. freely offered; AD'ac lower; weak;
No ,. "a 65c'a; steamer mixed, Csc. OATS
Dull, steady, Western & SIC. PROvIsIO :
Beef Dull steady; gate, 500 to -;
family. 9.5OglO.5a P"i K-Quiet. steady;
mess. s C.75 10 S12 extra prime s9Ilsaln
LAnD-Quiet, weak: steam rendered .Gl2H
asked.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18

Collier, Robertson s. Hamilton. Whole
sale Grocers, Fail for &175,OOO

KEoKUK, Iowa, Dec. 13.-Collier.
Robertson & Hamilton, wholesale
grocers Of Keokuk, have failed. They
executed a first mortgage to local
banks of about $4,000 and a second
mortgage for 500, O0D 10 Keokuk and
St Louis capitalists The total liza
bilities are between s. -, 900 and $780,
600, while the assets will not be much
over $40, 600. Individual investments
in Western mining stock by mem bers
of the firm precipitated the crash
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
THREE Hun RED MEN QUE

he Works Of the briggs Iron and Tool
Company at Findiay Closed
FINDLAY, Ohio, Dec. 13.-The Briggs
Iron and Tool company and the Briggs
rolling mill, employing about 800 hands,
shut down this morning on account OF
the gas trustees shutting off the supply
of gas to the plants because the compa-
ny refused to pay the Increased rates
of gas recently established by the trus-
tees for anufacturing institutions.
The Briggs people are drilling two gas
wells on their property, which are ex-
pected TO yield 4 supply next week,
when they will resume operations.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
DE FORD'S CASE TO BE DROPPED
The United States Court Will Take the
Evidence of the Lower TribuLeI.

MILWAUKEE, Dec. 13.-While the COM
mitment of the Rev. A. M. De Ford to the
Northern Insane Asylum at Oshkosh does
not necessarily end the criminal money-rais-
ing case against him in the United States
court yet there is every likelihood of the
prosecution being discontinued.
The reverend gentleman was not COM
mitted by order of the federal court but
by the Oshkosh court upon the recon-
mendation Of the experts who examined
him as to his insanity. Unles thes United
States distric3 attorney takes the res jnsi
biIity of entering nole on the assnmp-
ton that De Ford was insane whenshe com
mitted the acts for which he was arrested,
his case will have to be disposed of when
it comes mp at the next term of the court.
1t is more than likely, however, that the
Order of the Oshkosh court will be taken as
conclusive evidence of his insanity, and
that nolle will be entered.
Editor Tom Reid, of Appleton, who in
terested himself in the Case of the young
minister, is in the city. "De Ford has
been an inmate of the Oshkosh Insane
Asylum for about a month" said Mr.
Reid, land was sent there after being ex-
amined by three physicians in our part of
the state. The physicians had him before
them two or three times before he was
committed. do not suppose he will be
prosecuted any further, under the circum
stances. Mrs. De Ford and her child are
still living In Hortonvile.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
A BIG LUMBER SALE.
Henry Sherry of Neenah Disposes of a Vast
Tract.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich Dec 19.-Henry
Sherry, of Neenah and Jas. w. Cameron,
of Vesper, sold to John, E. J. and E. P
.Arpin, of this city, two-thirds interest
in the 6,OO0-acre tract of timbered land in
this county. The consideration was $780,,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
Heavy Failure In London,

LONDON, Dec. IA broker who was
a large trader in American securities
failed here to-day. His liabilities were
heavy.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
BAD FREIGHT TRAIN WRECK.
The Engineer and a Brakeman are Miss

PEORIA, H., Dec. ia misplaced
switch on the Toledo. Peoria & WARSAW
road at Mapleton this evening. caused a
bad freight wreck. 1t is reported that
the engineer and one brakemen of the
wrecked train are gone.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
BANKERS ON INANCES.
Secretary Window Goes to New York TO
See About the Situation.

Secretary Window Goes to New York TO
See About the Situation.
WASHINGTON, Dec 13.-Secretary
Wisdom, who arrived in New York this
morning, held a conference with mem
Der of bankers on the finance situation.
The full expressions of the views of inan-
csers on the finance situation, is to the
effect that additional service legislations
and other matters was obtained. The
only statement the secretary would
make was that he was graf
fled at the views of the
movement of gold from Europe and that
the government would do all in its power
to give relief to the financial and mercan-
tile communities. He refused absolutely
to be interviewed, but parties close to him
state that he will not take any immediate
action as the result of the conference.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Dec, IA Birm-
ingham special says: There are in
dications OF an early settlement OF the
coal III inerS' strike. Mea at Blue Creek
mines. it is said. have ASKED per-
mission OF the miners union
to return to work at the old
rates. and will go back Monday. A
few men have gone to work at some OF
the smaller mines and many of the
strikers are much discouraged. If the
strikers return to work it will be at ths
old prices
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
GRINNELL NOT GUILTY.
The Released Man Institutes Proceedings
for a Divorce.

DUBUQUE, Ia, Dec. 13.-The jury in
the Grinnell murder trial at Elkader, re-
turned verdict of not guilty after being
out twenty-five minutes. Grinnell today
commenced divorce proceedings against
his wife on the charge of adultery commit
ted with Council whom he shot.
CRuSuEn NNIru A GROW BAR
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18

600. Estimates of the timber was 50,0O0,-
900 feet of white pine and 10000, 900 feet
of hardwood,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
ASSAULTED AT NEENA
William Tyers Has Narrow Escape From
Robbers.

NEENAH, Dec 13-William Tyers, Of
Clemensvile, was assaulted by two men
last evening about o'clock while walking
on a dark street and seriously injured
about the head. He managed to get
away from his assailants, however, and
took refuge in neighboring store. He
had over $500 on his person, and robbery
was supposed to be the motive for the as
SAINT Both men eScaped
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
Genrre C. TaxIor Fails.

George c. Taylor FANS.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13.-Ge orge c. Tay
lor has announced his suspension on
the consolidated stock exchange.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1890-12-18
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DRY.
The Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicants
szs~nn yA to be Prohibited

WASHINGTON. Dec 13.-The house COM
mittee on the liquor traffic today agreed to
report favorably bill 70 prohibit the
manufacture and sale of spirituous and in
toxicating liquors in the District of Column
bia except for medical and scienti fc pur-
pOseS.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-07-30

Cayenne or Surinam Cherry (Eugenia
MitchellD, which is hardy all over South
Florida, being one of the instances of a
plant from the heart of the tropics being
capable of standing several degrees of
freezing unframed. The Chinese Tallow
Tree (Excmcaria sebifera) with seeds COW
cred with fatty coating from which
vegetable tallow is separated by steam
ing; the poisonous Upas Tree (Antiaris
toxicaria) Of Java, of which the most
fanciful and absurd tales have long been
rife; the Jamaica Indian Sorrel Hibiscus
Sabdariffa) furnishing the "Roselle hemp"
of the Madras territories, and from the
feshy calyXes of which an excellent Jelly
and cooling drinks are prepared; the
bookii from New Caledonia, A. Cunning
ham, the MOreton Bay Pine, from Eas-
tern Australia and New Guinea, and A.
excelsa, the Norfolk Island Pine, all at
tanning the height OF 200 feet, or more;
the Palms in variety, including Florida's
newly discovered Palm, Pseudoph@nix
SARGENT, unknown elsewhere; Cactuses,
Agaves and allied plants i'll variety the
Caucasian blackberry (Celtis Caucasica)
a handsome and hardy tree from South
Asia; the French Physic-Nut (Jatropha
Curcas) of the West Indies and S. Amer
lea, producing oily nuts OF which $50, 900
bushels are annually eXl orted from the
Cape de Verde Islands, for the oppression
OF the oil the beautiful Chinese Rice pa
per tree (Araliapapyrifera) with it's mag
nifcent leaves, and the various plant
houses filled with d greater variety of
tropical growth, palms, ferns, orchids,
air-plants in variety, exquisite Selagin-
elias Or club MOSES, etc, all help to make
up collection of tropical, semi-tropical
and hardy plants seldom seen on one
spot.
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July Flowers.

Looking over the supply this month
wish that he had them where he could
turn them into dollars instead of watch
ing them wither and die by the basket
full.
The assortment is large and varied
enough in color for all kinds of work
what a gorgeous dinner piece could be
made with the Hibiscus and AlIamanda
bloOmer. few Royal Palms and some
friends Of the variegated Ptius ferns, then
for favOrs we could use our little native
Orchids, Epidendrum VenOsum, with del
icate spray of Maiden hair fern. Bridal
bouquets could be turned out by the
dozen for the bride of sweet sixteen with
rosy cheeks, we could make up something
in pure white. LaMarque rose buds, the
beautiful Hidychum Coronanium and
Laela albida, with bit of Asparagus
plumOsus.
Should our bride have passed the
spring time of youth and require q little
more color in the combination, we might
venture to use some of the new French
Cannas, and tone them down little with
a few LaFrance or Mermet roses.
For general bouquet and basket work
there is a good selection. Roses of every
shade. Cardinals, Jessamines, Criniums,
Pancratiums, Thivitias, Antigonon, Cler-
Odendrons and the beautiful lilac-like
flowers OF Melia foribunda.
Not included in this list are many
greenhouse flowers, among them some
very good Orchids, but Of these better
selection can be had later on.
Every one who has good flower gar
den should have some shady. moist nook
where they can have plenty Of ferns, AS
paragus and Selaginellas, as these are
all invaluable in the makeup of all cut
flower work, and they are SO easily grown
that they will amply repay for the little
care which they require.
r. d. HOYT
Bay View Fla.
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CATARRH.
Catarrhal Deafness = Hay Fever a
New Home Treatment.

Sufferers are not generally aware that
these diseases are contagious, orthat they
are due to the presence of living para
sites in the lining membrane of the nose
and eustachian tubes. Microscopic re-
search, however, has proved this to be
fact. and the result of this discovery is
that simple remedy has been formula
ted whereby catarrh, catarrhal deafness
and hay fever are permanently cured in
from one to three simple applications
made at home by the patient once i'll
wo weeks.
N. B.-This treatment is not snuf
or an ointment; both have been discard
ed by reputable physicians as injurious.
A pamphlet explaining this new treat
ment is sent on receipt of three cents i'll
stamps to pay postage by A. Ell. Dixon
& Son, 337 and $50 West King Street,
Toronto, Canada.-Christian Advocate.
Sufferers from Catarrh troubles should
carefully read the above.
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On the Wing.-III.

Manatee where, by appointment, we we're
to meet Mr.. E. N. Reasoner of The we'll
known firm of Reasoner Brothers. A de-
lightful breeze Was blowing and our little
boat slipping through the dark waters
of the Manatee like thing of life, we
were soon landed on the long pier and
waving a farewell to the other occupants
of the boat as they sped On toward
Braidentown, farther down the river We
did not have long to wait before Mr.. R.
appeared, smiling as the morning, and
as full Of life and good spirits as his
sturdy frame would indicate, and we were
soon jogging over the palmetto roots to-
wards the Royal Palm Nurseries four
miles distant. The distance seemed short,
owing, doubtless, to the incessant chat
naturally INDUCED in by two who had
long known each other through their
write-hands but had never before met
face to face A blaze of Grape Myrtle
blooms and a wilderness of waving foil
age, both familiar and strange, pro-
OIIC GU HCIlAUi CIllO VIC
drew rein at the entrance gate, shaded
on one side by a large oak and on the
other side by good clump of Bambusa
vulgaris, the large unarmed Bamboo OF
Bengal. A wide drive, several rods in
length, and bordered on either side by
many rare and beautiful forms Of vegC-
tation and nursery rows of various stock,
leads to the dwelling which is so COM
pletey embowered among the trees as to
be nearly, if not quite, invisible from the
public road The house and nurseries
are situated OH hammock land, which in
it's natural statesuppOrts the most dense
growth of any hammock We have ever
seen. 1t is actually almost impcnctrable,
and costs, so Mr.. ReasOner informed us,
$75 per acre to clear it, All around the
house the large oaks and cabbage palms
of all sizes have been left, other palms,
shrubs and trees added here and there,
and sOdded down with St. Augustine
grass. 1t is all delightfully."- natural,
which constitutes one OF it's greatest
charms, and would be hard to successful
ly initiate. The palms are OF all sizes,
from tall specimens which have long since
shed their leaf stalks down to young
plants with but few leaves TRUST up
through the sod, and stand about in lit
tie colonies as nature planted them. The
heavy nature of the soil seems to suit
the st. Augustine grass perfectly, for it
was most luXuriant and SO cheerfully
green. One of its valuable points as a
lawn grass is that it grows equally well
under the shade of trees, and close up
around the trunks, leaving no bare
patches. The house is built in the one
story, bungalow style as it's name-Sab-
alcroft Observation-Disclosures A very
wide piazza runs it's entire length and
along one end to the entrance ofMr. Rea-
sOner's ''den, "a coy little room fitted
up with table, chairs and writing para
phernalia. The walls are lined with let
ter cases and book shelves containing q
collection ofbOtanical works of no mean
proportions. Many of the volumes are
very rare-old works long since out
OF print and very difficult, or quite i'm
possible to obtain. The collection was
began, and MANY of the rarer works
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stay was limited from one morning until
the next, and we could only make q hur-
ried survey of the wealth of vegetable
forms covering an extended space. We
shall describe those only which impressed
us as particularly striking, interesting
or valuable
The clump of Bamboo already men,
toned was sending up numerous strong
shoots, and in proof of the remarkable
rapidity of growth accredited to this
species, we were informed that last sea-
son some of the canes grew twenty-one
feet in twenty-one days This is the spe-
cies of which Won Mueller states: cit
rises to the height of seventy feet, and the
stems may attain a length even OF forty
feet in one season, though the growth is
slower in cooler chimes. 1t has proved to
be capable OF resisting occasional night
frost. 1t is the best for building Bamboo
houses" ION the Fourth Mr.. Perkins in
formed us that the March cold, which
killed outright some OF his young orange
trees, only denuded his Bamboo of it's
foliage which was quickly replaced and
some Of the canes are already thirty-five
feet high.)
We noticed several clumps of thepretty
Bambusa argenta strata, which is best
described in the words of Mr.. E. H. Hart:
GA clump Of this is graceful andpictur-
esque object; at first the canes are short
and slender, but each crop Of new ones
are larger than the preceding, until they
are as thick as corn stalks Of the largest
size, some of them with the foliage beau
tifully striped with green and silver. The
stalks are fifteen Or twenty feet long,
spreading out like a fan, SO that the top
must be twenty-five or thirty feet across.
1t has never been injured in the ightest
degree by FROST
Long rows of the two variegated
grasses Eulalia Japonica Hebrina and E.
Jap. Variegata presented q beautiful ap-
pearance. They seem to be equally as
! we'll at home here as in the North where
they are very popular and highly priced,
being, in addition to their highly Orna-
mental character perfectly hardy. The
former grows from five to seven feet high
and unlike nearly all variegated plants
has it's stripping Or marking across the
leaf, instead Of lengthwise. The other
grows from four to six feet tall, with
leaves striped lengthwise with white and
green. Both form dense clumps and pro-
duce beautiful Ostrich-like plumes, which,
when dried last for years. Another grass,
and new to us, pleased us very much
the Palm Grass (Panicum excurrens) of
Natal. 1t forms q low, dense clump, con-
sisting Of a large number of leaves all
curving from the centre outward. The
leaves are bOrneOn slender stems and are
exactly like the seed-leaves of most spe-
cies of palms before they show character
istic foliage.
The Tropical Soap-Berry (Sapindus
saponaria) is strong growing tree with
very ornamental leaves and seed.vessels
known as soap-berries which are largely
employed for washing purposes. VIII
stand sharp frosts.
Aleurites triloba, the Candle-Nut Trees
from the tropics of both hemispheres,
producing edible nuts from which large
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Sufferers from Catarrh troubles should
carefully read the above.
Morning journal and courier., 1890-03-26
TELKGRAPHIo JOTrINcs.

Henry M Stanley has finished his new book.
 Emin Pasha will probably leave Zanzibar for Egypt on April 3. He does not intend to visit Europe.
 Gross earnings of the New York and New England railroad for February, $399, ,OO5; in- crease. $13, ,292.
 The ford-Cambridge bost race will take place to day. The latest betting is eleven to eight on the Cambridge crew. Ground has been broken and work will be pushed on the Chsmela railroad in Mexico under the Esteva concession. A large part of Tianguistengo, Mexico. in cluding the town hall, containing valuable old archives, were burned. Four lives were lost.
 Alice Townsend, the burlesque actress and wife of Sam T. Jack, the manager, died at the Hamilton hotel, Pittsburg, last evening of nervous prostration. Charles Criss of Grand Manan, Me-. was fatally injured at Sorren yesterday morning | by falling twenty-five feet into the hold of a l vessel loading witki ce.
 The Ulster tories approve the land purchase bill, regarding the security as sound. Sir Charles Lewis, member of parliament for Antrim, is greatly pleased with the measure. William Welch, laborer. employed in the Eastern railroad yards at East Boston, while loading spars on car was crushed to death by one falling on him yesterday. Auditor Pavay has declared that the Order of Tonti has no authority for doing business in Illinois, and has instituted proceedings t. close up the various lodges there.
 The United States passenger agents wer'