Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-02-05
LOOKING BACKWARD
Some Very Interesting Excerpts
from the Wood County Reporter
Published in the Year 1858.
Editor-JoHN \. BRUNDAGE.
Cor. Editor-E. II. HAINEs.


Editor-JoHN N BRUSDAGE.
Cor. Editor-E. 81. HAINE,.
Six stages arrive here three times a
week and four every day. Whew.
what a dust.
More than twenty runaway slaves
past three weeks.
Lemuel Kroner has been appointed
postmaster in this village in place of
r LaVigne, resigned.
Secretary Cobb refuses his assent to
scheme on foot, substantially to
reopen the slave trade.
We neglected to mention that
strawberries are being gathered from
the commons in this town.
Chas. NJ. Webb, Esq, has been
appointed district attorney for Wood
county, vice S. II. AlbaD. resigned.
A new post office has been established
at Centralia, q town across the river.
Fl. W. Jackson has been appointed
postmaster.
The Wisconsin stage company have
recently placed f2ur-horSe coaches to
run daily each way between Kilbourn
City and this place.
We are now happy to announce to
our readers that their efforts have
succeeded in making the REPORTER
a fixed institution in Wood county.
We have been unanimously ap-
pointed notary public for Wood county.
If any of our friends are unable to
swear enough, we are ready to assist
them.
gardening the past week, we have
given but little attention to the paper.
The wife is engaged in the nursery
| business.
Mrs. Fanny Kemble, Mrs. Jenny
Lind Godschmidt. Mrs. Ellen Tree
| Kean and Mrs. Julia Dean Hagen.
are all regular communicates of the
| Episcopal church.
More building is now going on in
this town than ever before. Many
tirst-class residences are being erected.
| Picket fences seem to have become a
mania with cur citizens.
Money is easier, provisions plenty
and cheap, improvements extensive
and rapid, and everybody cheerful and
happy in Grand Rapids. Who would
live Off the Wisconsin river?
Alonzo J. Marsh, of this village. ran
a raft down the Ohio river this spring
1t contained 100000 feet of boards,
and carried 100000 of shingles. 1t
| n1c nd e i'll
| Bayliss. the captain of the schooner
Keziah, on board of which some run
away slaves were found, was sentenced
| to forty years imprisonment in the
| Virginia penitentiary. In less time
| than that not a single BaStile of
slavery will be left in the land.
We hope the day is not far distant
when we shall see railway running
up the valley of the Wisconsin, and
thence across to Lake Superior This
will hasten the development of the
rich resources which have so long lain
dormant upon our northern border.
| For the want of other excitement
on Independence Day, some of the
boys purpose to have a game of base
ball, and suggest that sixteen or
twenty men meet at the office of G..
| NJ. Webb, Esq, to form the match
and make other preliminary arrange
| mentS
The last issue of the Wausau Wis
cOnSin contains minute exposure of
| the Wild Cat Banking institutions in
| Marathon county, of church there now
appears to be less than six, and this
too in one of the most thinly settled
counties in the state, large portion
| of which being dense wilderness.
''The Great Wisconsin Swindle. u
Under this caption the eastern papers
are treating their readers to the
prominent details of the facts disclosed
| by the report of the Land Grant
| Investigating committee. 1t must
be confessed that the disclosures
| indicate a degree of public demoraliza-
| tion hardly conceivable. Our state
has acquired an unenviable reputation
in this respect; and the etching palms
of her ''scurvy politicians, are already
a byword and reproach throughout
the land.
A disciple of the prophet Miller has
arrived at the conclusion that the
present year is to witness the end of
world. The result is reached by a
mathematical process. The square
root OF the cost of Ezekiels chariot
was 1858. From this, extract ''pro-
phetic value" of scarlet lady of
Babylon" 1882, and we have 1921
Take from this the cube ram,
mentioned by the prophet as pushing
| Westward" 4,754 and we have the
remainder ,, 524. Deduct the number
of beasts" mentioned in the Apocalypse
666 and we get the result, 1858, the
year in which the end of the world is
to take place.
Gov. Chase, of Ohio, issued his
Thanksgiving proclamation last year.
To make sure of being right on the
subject, the governor composed his
proclamation almost exclusively of
passages from the Bible, which he