Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1908-07-28
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ITEMS OF INTEREST WHICH WERE PUBLISHED
IN WAUSAU OVER FIFTY YEARS AGO

Local news published in Wausau
Nov. 2S, 1857: This month has beer
very cold. The thermometer has beer
down as low as IS below zero; that or
friday of this week black bear was
killed four miles east OF the village or
Mechanics Ridge road. Several "un
armed" men have the honor of freeing
him; he was afterwards shot. This is
quite early in the winter for bears tc
be killed in this vicinity, and people
travelling in the woods had better bt
prepared for the "varmints;'' that il
has been ascertained that Bill Patter
son was struck by the panic. Thus
the profound question is answered.
| Local news published in Wausau Dec
I'd, 1857: That common cord wood
and poor at that, is being sold al SO OF
cord on our streets. Rather steep
these times; that Col. Shutter, who ha.
been travelling in Europe for seyera
years returned to our forest vii
lage'' on Tuesday; that the citizens oi
Mosinee design opening road tc
Stevens Point this winter, on the west
side of the river. Many believe the
I'traveling distance between the two
places will be shortened a few miles
by the new road Be this as it may,
the new road will be of great advan-
tage to settlers along the route; that
Jacob Paff has purchased the grocery
and dry goods departments of the store
OF +. A. Hoffman and opened a new
store on the corner OF Third and Jack
son streets.
From the news columns of Dec.
1857: A Missourian slave holder has
moved to Warren county, Iowa, and
taken with him six slaves, which he
claims the right to hold and work on
the free soil of Iowa, under the Dred
Scott decision.
The number of emigrants to Cali
fornia and Oregon who have passed
what is called Devils Gate" this sea-
son, is stated as 12,500 with 1900
cattle, $500 horses and mules and TO-
600 sheep. This is besides the Mormon
emigrants, estimated at 1000
The Mormons declare that for every
saint slain by the u S. troops, ten
Gentle women shall make atonement;
that they will first exterminate the
troops from the east, then come west
in predatory bands, allied with Indians
rayage the border, rob, plunder, and
murder until they shall have replen-
ished the Lords treasury and avenged
insults put on His chosen people. The
Mormons have $4,000 men armed with
the most effective instruments of de-
struction. They also have 10000
Indian allies, who are partially in
structed in the Mormon religion,
enough to make them superstitious in
regard to the God os a superior race,
yet modifying none of their ferocity.
The Mormons have many thousands of
the finest horses; foundries making can
mons and shells; a powder mill, and a
factory where revolving rifles and
pistols are manufactured. To reach
Salt Lake from the east, it is necessary
to pass through a canon of twenty-five
miles. under hills SO steep and rocky
that dozen men could hurl down On
avalanche OF stone on an approaching
caravan and even in the event of sew
eral thousand troops reaching the val
ley, the besieged with their herds would
take to the mountains and reinforced
by the savage allies, would in turn, be-
siege their besiegers and cart off their