**THE ALARM of fire Wednesday, about midnight, was caused by the rising
of the moon.  Our night watchman should be provided with a pair of spectacles.

**MR. And MRS. CHARLES D. PORTER departed the evening of their marriage,
for their new home at North Pacific Junction, Minnesota, followed by the
good wishes of a host of friends.

** A TRAMP sharper succeeded in extracting some eighteen dollars from
the pocket of an unsuspecting Swede, in one of saloons at Stiles, one
day last week.  Mr. Sinnegh, the grain buyer at that place, detected the
rogue, however, and made him disgorge, after which he was given
permission to leave Stiles instanter.

**WEDNESDAY was quite a day for runaways.  Con. Ragan’s team took it
into their heads to have a little exercise and ran from near Dillon’s,
past the St. Paul track, spilling out Barney Grady who had about a
quarter section of flesh removed from one of his eyebrows.  Running
against a tree west of Waggoner’s they came to a halt with sudden
quickness.  One of the horses was slightly injured.  In the afternoon,
Don Levy & Bellew’s delivery horse made things lively on Main Street,
for a short time and succeeded in smashing the sleigh and bringing up in
the wash room of the city hotel.

**DICKIE HALL, son of R. L. Hall, was seriously injured by a vicious dog
Friday afternoon, while skating on the river in the South ward.  The
dog, a large Newfoundland, without provocation attacked the little
fellow and nearly tore one of his ears from his head, drove his tushes
into the side of the nose and cheek of the lad and would have killed
him, had he not been beaten off.  Dr. Beebe was called and dressed
Dickie’s wounds, being obliged to sew the ear to the head, and the
little fellow is doing as well as could be expected.  The dog was
subsequently killed by its owner as all vicious dogs should be, even
before they injure people. 

**EMANUEL MATISON, who formerly resided in this city, but of late has
been stopping at Stiles, committed suicide Saturday, by shooting himself
in the mouth, dying almost instantly.  An inquest was held by Dr.
Oshwaldt, justice of the peace, and the fact elicited as above
chronicled.  No cause is known for the act.

**NELSON LUDINGTON, President of the N. Ludington Lumber Co. at
Marionette, died at his resident in Chicago, last Monday morning.  For
thirty-five years he had been identified with the lumbering interests in
this region and had by his foresight and business acumen accumulated a
very respectable fortune.  His funeral took place at his residence in
Chicago, Wednesday last.

** SINCE JAN. 1st, 1883, the Brooksideites have been for the greater
share of the time employed in cramming their stoves and enjoying the
warmth inside of the houses which is denied them outside.  Vennor says,
“the backbone of winter is broken,” we shall not mourn if every bone in
his body is broken.  The beautiful weather to-day is a pretty sure
indication that some of his bones are badly cracked.

**MRS. E. GREEN, who is nearing her 97th birthday had a few hours of
very severe sickness yesterday.  She thought herself to be dying, but
death had no terrors for her.  She called constantly on Jesus to come
and take her, and upon her friends to let her go.  She is now better.
Dec. 31, 1882, was the 75th anniversary of her marriage.

**A QUIET sensible wedding will take place at St. Joseph (R. C..)
church, next Wednesday afternoon.

**COMRADE NICKERSON and family are in absolute want.  It seems to us
that there ought to be charity enough in this city to see that nobody
suffers, especially a man who has done so much for his country as Mr.
Nickerson.

**JOSEPH HALL, of this city reached the 62nd year of his age one day
recently.  He is a  remarkably well preserved and sprightly old
gentleman for his age.

**FRANK HAZEN, the plucky stage driver between this city and Shawano,
froze his nose and one of his cheeks Monday, while en-route to Shawano.
Nothing less than a cyclone of fire would prevent Frank from making his
regular trips.

**WE ALWAYS believe in giving honor where honor is due.  Therefore we
take off our hat to Hons. Philetus Sawyer and Angus Cameron for their
votes in opposition to the re-enlistment in the army of Fitz John
Porter.  Philetus may be crooked, but he is a patriot.

**Justice Bailery arrested a man yesterday, and took him to the cooler.
The fellows face looked as if he had been having some fun with the
business end of a threshing machine, while it was in motion.

**THE REPORTER is in receipt of a communication from W. J. Crumm,
formerly of this city, but now engaged in business at Fontanelle, Iowa.
He says that he notes with real genuine pleasure, the boom our city is
enjoying in consequence of the construction of the new railroad and
prophecies great things for Oconto in the near future.

**HON. T. W. FERRY, United States Senator from Michigan and our popular
townsman, Huff Jones, were schoolmates and play fellows together on
Macinac Island, forty years or more ago, the parents of each at that
time residing on the Island, the senator’s father being a Presbyterian
minister and in charge of an Indian mission.
 

**THERE IS A CLASS of men in this city who are a disgrace to the city,
our civilization and humanity.  We refer to that class who persist in
selling or giving liquor to poor old demented Henry Harmser, (commonly
called Lump) every time he gets out of the county jail, by reason of
which he becomes drunk and is abused and misused.  The common council
has forbidden any one to sell or give him liquor and those who do so,
should have their licenses revoked and be prosecuted to the full extent
of the law.  It is to hoped, that those officers who have sworn to do
their duty, do their duty in the premises, and protect the weak and
demented from the rapacity of men who are destitute of honor, feeling or
conscience.

** A LARGE NUMBER of the personal friends, old acquaintances and
neighbors of Mr. And Mrs. Huff Jones assembled at their residence
Tuesday afternoon to assist in the celebration of the sixtieth
anniversary of his birthday.  A toothsome dinner was served at 6
o’clock, after which the time for several hours was most delightfully
spent in social converse, and in recounting the experiences of those who
settled at Oconto, a quarter of a century or more ago.  Mr. Jones
located here with his father early in the forties and has resided here
continuously since.  When he came where Oconto now stands was a
wilderness, the only inhabitants being aborigines.  He has witnessed the
growth and development of this county from and unbroken forest, to a
well settled and populous community, and is full of reminiscences of the
early struggles, hardship and privations of those “early times.”  He was
made the recipient of many tokens of esteem by those present and absent,
and the universal hope was expressed by all, that he shall live until
Oconto becomes the metropolis of the northern part of state and he shall
be anxious to go home.

**A FELLOW traveling under the aliases of W. T. Dickey, Fr. Chamberlain,
Frank Chamberlain and Chase, was arrested in Chicago, on the 29th ult.,
for swindling.  In this instance he registered at the Matteson House as
W. T. Dickey, of Minneapolis. And claimed to be one of the fortunate who
escaped from the Newhall House with only his life at the time of its
destruction by fire, being obliged to jump from a third story window
which accounted for his lameness, he having a slight limp in his walk.
Being a voluble talker he soon interested several commercial travelers
of a sympathetic turn and as soon as he announced that he was a member
of the firm of Hatch & Dickey, of Minneapolis, and had come down to
purchase a stock of goods for their branch of Crookston, Minn., their
interest and sympathy was greatly increased.  He was then wined and
dined, not being permitted to spend a cent, and bought goods right and
left and was presented with two splendid overcoats by a firm of whom he
had purchase a large invoice, paying for the goods purchased by checks
drawn on the First National Bank, of Crookston.  After a while the
suspicious of his dupes were aroused and they caused his arrest. Upon
being searched his entire capital was found to be three nickels, he
claiming to have lost his pocket-book containing over $200.  A
pocket-book was found however upon his person, marked, “J. W. Conniff,
Oconto, Wis.,” which he had probably stolen and the whereabouts of which
Mr. Conniff will learn when he has read this item.

O’BRIEN – NOLAN.  At St. Joseph’s church in this city, Monday, February
5th, 1883, by Rev. Fr. Sweibach, pastor of the church, Mr. P. W.
O’Brien, of Plum Creek, Neb, and Miss B. A. Nolan of Maple Grove, Wis.

ORANGE BLOSSOMS.  A quite and sensible marriage occurred at the St.
Joseph’s church last Monday afternoon, at three o’clock, the contracting
parties being Miss B. A. Nolan, of Maple Grove and Mr. P. W. O’Brien, of
Plum Creek, Neb., the marriage ceremony being preformed by the Rev.
Father Sweibach, pastor of the church.  At the appointed hour, the
bridal party entered the church from the vestibule, the bride leaning
upon the arm of her brother, Mr. John Nolan, who acted as groomsman, who
were followed by the groom accompanied by his sister Miss Nora O’Brien
who acted as bridesmaid.  As the bridal cortege passed from the
enterance to the altar, the organist played a wedding march.  Upon
reaching the alter, bride and bridesgroom passed to the center and all
knelt and remained in that position until the close of the ceremony
which was brief.  At its close the happy couple withdrew to the
vestibule where they received the congratulations of their friends.  The
bride wore a blue silk dress trimmed with white lace, white hat and six
button white kid gloves, and made a very pretty appearing bride indeed.

Mrs. O’Brien had taught school in this county several terms, and has
made a host of warm friends among our people by her gentle ways, quick
sympathies, kindly impulses and remarkable good sense.

Mr. O’Brien, the lucky man, is a young man of excellent character, fine
business qualifications and engaged in the drug trade at Plum Creek,
Nebraska, for which place Mr. And Mrs. O’Brien started the evening of
their marriage, followed by the best wishes of all their friends for
their happiness and prosperity.

**A GERMAN at Spaulding whose name we could not ascertain, while
inebriated started for a camp a few miles from that place during the
severe cold spell last week.  Three days afterwards, he was found badly
frost-bitten but still alive and taken back to the village.  The doctors
after consultation concluded that the only possible way to save his life
would to be amputate his arms and legs which they proceeded to do, but
the poor fellow did not survive the operation.  Another victim, to be
charged up to Whiskey and the man who filled him full and sent him out
to perish.

**LAST SUMMER, a German left the Fatherland and came to this country
locating in the town of How in this county, where he had a brother
residing.  On his departure from home, he left his family behind,
intending to send for them next spring.  His wife becoming lonesome,
concluded to take the children and follow him to the land of grand
opportunities and reached here last Sunday morning, with only two
dollars in her pocket and a ride of thirty miles or more, before seeing
her husband.  Being without the means with which to procure a conveyance
for herself and children, with which to go to How, the railroad employes
of the St. Paul railroad with a few others raised the means by
contribution and sent the good woman on her way rejoicing.

**DAN HANSCOMB was stricken with the palsy Friday of last week, and was
by late advice in a very precarious condition.  He went into his house
at noon and ate a hearty dinner, after which he went into a front room,
set down in an arm chair and began to read a newspaper.  In a very few
minutes he was heard to fall and the members of the household rushed
into the room and found him lying upon the floor in an unconscious
state.  He was placed upon a bed and Dr. Allan sent for who has done all
for him, that medical skill could do.

DIED
MRS. McDONALD, mother of Alex. McDonald, who is connected with the St.
Paul road died last Sunday, at 9 o’clock a.m. of the heart disease.  She
had been ailing for several days, but no apprehensions were entertained
that she was so near the end of her earthly pilgrimage.  On the morning
of her demise, she complained of feeling worse than usual and at 8
o’clock was taken with a fainting fit, which lasted until her death.

The deceased, was a very excellent woman and universally esteemed by all
who enjoyed her acquaintance.  She was a woman of quick warm sympathies,
self sacrificing in her devotion to those about her, and possessed of
Christian graces that made her character one to be admired and
emulated.  Her funeral services were held at the Presbyterian church, of
which she was a member, the pastor preaching the sermon, in which he
eulogized the deceased in befitting terms.

At the conclusion of the services, her remains were removed from the
church and taken to the “silent city of the dead,” being followed thence
by relatives, friends and neighbors.  The following named gentlemen,
friends of the departed Christian and saint:  S. H. Waggoner, E. B.
Hulbert, E. W. Gray, Ernest Rode, N. L. McCauslin and William Adams,
acted as Pall-bearers.

Mr. Alex. McDonald and the other relatives of the deceased have the
sympathy of all in their bereavement, for they have suffered a great
loss in the death of the kind and affectionate sister and the loving
Christian mother.

**DR. H. ALLAN performed a very successful operation on a man at Stiles
Wednesday.  The patient was suffering with pneumonia, and from all
appearances had but a short time to live, as one of his lungs had
refused to perform its functions.  The doctor diagnoses the case and
concluded that the lung was incased in the water, and that in order to
save his life something must be done at once, He immediately made an
incision between two of the patients ribs, and introducing a syphen drew
out the water which brought relief.  The man is doing nicely, and will,
unless he has a relapse, be out of danger in the course of a few days.

**A TEAMSTER whose name we could not learn, was killed in one of Eldred’s
lumbering camps Thursday, by a tree falling on him, which killed a yoke
of oxen at the same time.  The man who fell the tree, did not give the
teamster notice in time to escape.

**GEN. GEORGE C. GINTY, who formerly edited a paper in this city, and
who for many years has been the editor and proprietor of Chippewa
Herald, one of the best papers in the western part of the state,
contemplates abandoning journalism for railroad business.

**THERE IS but little hope for the recovery of the poor fellow who was
injured several days since in one of the lumberman camps and brought
from Stiles, to this city last week for medical treatment.  His lower
limbs are paralyzed and he is terribly injured otherwise.

**SEVERAL LADS, Sunday, without “leave or license” took the handcars
belonging to the St. Paul road and started up the line.  An effort was
made to overtake them, but they succeeded in distancing the officers,
and returned when they got a good ready.  They will have to be careful
in the future, or they will be introduced to Mr. Call (jailor) by the city marshal, or some other officer.

**IN OBEDIENCE to a message, Mrs. Gilbert Morrow, left here a week ago
Friday morning, for Daggett, Mich, to attend her father Joseph Martell,
who was dangerously ill, and who passed away from earth a short time
before her arrived.  Mr. Martell died from the effect of a cancer after
an illness of eight months duration, quietly and at peace with the
world.  He was universally respected, and left a good name as a rich
heritage for his children.  After the funeral services, Mrs. Morrow
returned to her home, and is the recipient of the sympathy of all in her
bereavement.

** PETER JOHNSON, the poor fellow who was so badly injured about three
week ago in the woods and brought to this city for treatment, died at
the residence of Mr. P. Maloney Thursday morning.  The county authority
did everything that was possible for his comfort and recovery but there
was no hope and he simply wasted away and died a stranger among
strangers.  He was a Dane and had relatives in Chicago.

**PETER JOHNSON, mentioned elsewhere, was buried Thursday afternoon.  He
left a silver watch and locket containing a picture, supposed to be his
mother.  For farther information apply to H. M. Royce, chairman of the
county board of supervisors, Oconto, WI.

**MRS. SIDNEY DAVEY was taken violently insane last Sunday morning, and
before she could be secured, destroyed considerable bed clothing with a
knife.  Dr. Moriarty was called and gave her medicines, that in a short
time restored her to her normal condition.

**JOHN MATRAVERS, of Pensaukee, and H. I. Whitcomb, of Little Suamico,
two of the substantial farmers of the county were in the city one day
last week and both favored this office with a call.

Mr. Matravers, during his visit informed us, that he had resided in the
county over thirty years, coming here when there were but three houses
in Oconto, and that he had packed many a sack of flour from the mouth of
the river to his home on an Indian trail, there being no roads in the
county at that time.

Mr. Whitcomb is opposed to the scheme to take territory from this county
until our county indebtedness has been liquidated.  He thinks our taxes
are sufficiently altitudinous at the present time and that those who
favor such a scheme are no friends of the tax payers of the county.  His
ideas are eminently sound.

**LAST MONDAY, Dr. Allan operated on Geo. C. Smith, of the Town of
Oconto, for cancer of the hip.(epithelioma)

**THOS. TUNNEY suffered a dislocation of the hip last Tuesday, by a load
of slabs falling upon him.  A surgeon was called and reduced the
dislocation.

**MARSHAL DON LEVY, was up in Florence county the later part of last
week and the earlier part of this week, looking for a man whom a girl
hereabouts had love well, but not wisely.

**WE ARE SORRY to learn that, Charley Bent, of West Pensaukee, was
injured one day last week, while at work in a lumbering camp on the
north branch.  He was taken to his father’s house where he is receiving
the best of care.  We have not learn the nature of his injuries, and
hope, that they are not of a serious character.
 

**JOHN GILBERT, the actor, whose wife was burned at the Newhall House,
and who himself was seriously injured, has sued the owners of the
building and the proprietor of the house, demanding damages in the sum
of $25,000.  It is said that others papers are being prepared for other
like suits which will amount in the aggregate to $300,000.

**Dr. GEORGE A. LAMB, with whom many of our citizens were intimately
acquainted and who was universally respected by all, died a week ago
Thursday, at the residence of his father-in-law, Col. H. H. Eastman,
Benton Harbor, Mich., of brights disease of the kidneys.  His remains
were brought to Green Bay and the funeral services held in that city
last Sunday, under the direction of Washington Lodge No. 21 F. & A. M.,
of which he was formerly a member and Past Master.  The doctor was a
graduate of Rush Medical College Chicago; was assistant surgeon of the
48th Wis. Vols, and forty-sis years of age at the time of his demise.
He leaves a widow and several children who will miss the society of a
kind husband and affectionate father.

**A BILL relative to taking inquests of the dead has passed the
legislature and become a law.  It is as follows:  “In all cases where an
inquest of the dead is or ought to be taken, the same may be taken by
the corner of the county, who for the purpose may perform all the
duties, has all the jurisdiction and powers, and is entitled to the same
fees as a justice of the peace of said county.”  Hereafter, the coroner
should be notified when there is an occasion for an inquest.

**IT IS  generally known, that there are two or more parties in this
city selling liquor, without having first obtained a license for the
city authorities giving them that privilege.  Whose duty is it to look
after such violations of the law?  If it is the city marshal’s, he ought
to attend to it.  If it is the duty of the city treasurer, he certainly
has been derelict in the performance of his duties.  The city pays
somebody for attending to such matters, and the tax payers have a right
to expect that their interests will be watched.

**A COUPLE OF OLD PEOPLE, whose ages must have been upwards of
sixty-five years passed through this county one day last week, who had
walked every step of the way from central Missouri.  Their destination
was Peshtigo, where they have two sons residing and who will provide for
and take care of the aged couple until the end of their earthly pilgrimage.  The old gentleman was dressed in homespun, walked with a cane and carried a small bundle.  The old lady wore a dress the material which, was probably made by her delf fingers, a sun bonnet of the poke pattern and seemed as clipper as if she was just returning 
from one of the neighbors.  God bless the old couple.  May they be happy during the remainder of lives and have an abundance of all things
necessary for comfort.

**MRS. ELIZABETH McCOURT who was recently married to ex-Senator Tabor,
of Colorado, has several relatives in this city.

OBITUARY
DIED AT HIS RESIDENCE, in this city, at two o’clock on the morning of
the 12th inst., Baltaser Arnold, after a long and painful illness of
several months’duration.  His death was not unexpected, for he had been
failing very rapidly for the past few weeks, and when death came, it
case as a release from death and suffering, and was more welcomed than
dreaded.  The deceased was a native of Geiseu, Germany, and was born on
the 22nd day of June, 1823, and had he lived until the 22nd day of next
June, he would have been sixty years of age.  He came to this country
and located in this city in the year 1854, and has resided here
continuously since, being engaged for a number of years as a builder and
contractor, having built many of the business buildings in this city.
Mrs. Arnold died some three years ago, since which time his daughter,
Dora has had the supervision of his domestic affairs, and his three
sons, William, Gharies and Albert comforted him in his struggle with
disease and suffering.

The funeral services were held at the late residence of the deceased,
Tuesday afternoon, at two o’clock, and were conducted by the Rev. J. H.
Kerr, of the Presbyterian church.  At the conclusion of the services,
the remains were taken to their last resting place, being followed there
by the sorrowing relatives and a large concourse of friends and
acquaintances.

**DURING the earlier part of the week, while Mrs. P. Gurty, of Gillett,
was in the loft of her husband’s barn engaged in feeding their cattle,
she fell through a hole and sustained injuries that resulted in her
death Friday.  Her remains were brought to this  city Monday, and the
funeral services held at the St. Joseph’s church, in the forenoon.  By
her unfortunate and untimely death, a husband and four children are left
in the shadow of a great sorrow.

**THE MANY friends of the Hon. Geo. W. DeLano will learn with regret,
that he is very ill with the heart disease.  We are confident that we
express the wish of a large majority of our citizens, when we wish for
his restoration of health.

**J. LUCIA, of Little Suamico, has received his patent for his log
roller for sawmills.  Those who have seen it, and who are well posted in
regard to mill machinery, consider it the finest thing for the purpose
intended, yet invented or patented.

**ACCORDING to the report Secretary of State of the year of 1882, there
were 76 marriages in this county during the year 1881, 97 births and
only 19 deaths.  If the same ration continues for a few years, this
county will become one of the most populus in the state as well as the
most healthy.

**A LAD becoming disgusted with parental restraint left his home at
Green Bay, Monday, without going through the ceremony of bidding his
parents good-bye.  His father telephoned to Dept. Sheriff McGee, Tuesday
morning, to take the boy in and take care of him should he come this
way, then telephone and he, the father, would come and get the lad and
pay the reckoning.

**A MOST DISTRESSING accident, with fatal results, occurred in the
Bellanger settlement last Monday afternoon, in which Frank Racine was
the victim.  It appears that sometime after dinner the deceased started
for the woods to do some chopping, and, thinking that some partridges
might be around, took his gun along.  A short time after leaving the
house his family heard the report of the gun, but paid no attention to
it.  Supper time, however, having arrived and passed, and he not making
his appearance, the family became alarmed, and immediately inaugurated a
search for him.  At about a half mile from the house he was found lying
prone on the snow, with the whole front of his head blown off.  From the
position in which he was lying, it is presumed that in wading through
the deep snow he carried his gun in an upright position, nearly parallel
with his side, and that his knee struck the hammer, which caused the
piece to explode, the charge entering under the jaw and carrying away
the entire front half of the head.  The deceased was a man of middle
age, and leaves a wife and three children to mourn his untimely death.

**G. W. RUDD, justice of the peace for the town of Little River,
impaneled a jury and held an inquest on the body of Frank Racine Monday
evening.  The verdict of the jury was, that the death of the deceased
was caused by the accidental discharge of a gun in his possession.

**HON. ERNST FUNKE, left Tuesday evening for Germany to visit the place
of his birth and early manhood, and will be absent several month.  His
many friends in the city and elsewhere wish him a pleasant visit and
safe return.

**B. PERRUSEL, of Little River leaves for Kansas, about the first of
next month.  We are sorry that he is going to leave our county for we
can illy spare good citizens.

**A LITTLE GIRL about three years of age, child of Thomas Remington met
with a serious and painful accident one day last week, which resulted in
the dislocation of one of her hips.  Dr. Beebe reduced the dislocation
since which time the little one has been doing as well ad could be
expected.

**ONE DAY last week, while William McAllen was at work preparing the
foundation for the new addition to Joseph Tibbitt’s shop, he met with an
accident which we are sorry to learn, will result in the loss of the
sight of his left eye.  His right eye is considerably inflamed and we
understand that he will go to Milwaukee and place himself under the care
of Dr. Houghman, one of the most successful oculists in the west.

**COL. GEO. C. GINTY denies that he is about to abandon journalism for
railroading.  He says:  “That it is strange that he cannot loan a few
millions of dollars to Vanderbilt or Gould for the purpose of enabling
them to purchase several more railroads, without being suspected of a
desire to change his occupation.”  In concluding his article he says:
“No, we shall go on lending ducats to Bill Vanderbilt and other needy
New York speculators, so that they can gobble up rival roads, but we
shan’t part with the Chippewa Herald.

**DR. O’KEEF, assisted by Dr. Beebe operated upon Richard Johnson, at
Maple Valley, Monday for sarcocele.  The patient was injured while a
soldier in the Union army during the late rebellion and had suffered for
many years, and was at last, obliged to submit to an operation in order
to obtain relief from pain and possibly, avoid death.

**J. G. PORTERFIELD, of Oconto Falls, lost a barn, considerable hay,
quite a number of farming implements and two milch cows by fire Saturday
last.  His loss is in the neighborhood of $300, which would have been
much greater, but for the bravery of his daughter Emma, who in the
absence of her father and brother, went into the burning building while
the coals of fire were dropping around her, and succeeded in getting out
four head of cattle before the building fell in.  Our reporter failed to
learn the cause of the fire.

**A WEEK AGO Wednesday, at one of the Oconto Company’s camps 70 miles
from this city, Thomas Tracy Jr., while at work on a rollway got his
left hand and fore arm badly mashed.  He was standing in front, but to
one side of the logs, several of which started down the rollway before
he had time to escape.  Immediately after the accident, he was placed in
a sleigh and brought to this city reaching here the Friday night
following, and Dr. Beebe was at once called who dressed the wound, since
which time, Mr. Tracy has been doing finely.

**AN OCONTOITE IN NEBRASKA.

Mrs. P. W. O’Brien, who left here a few weeks since for Nebraska, writes
the REPORTER that in the part of the state in which she is residing,
near the Platte river, there has been no snow since her arrival; that
the weather has been warm and pleasant; and that she was surprised to
see ladies perambulating the streets of the village in which she lives,
with parasols to protect them from the warm rays of the sun.  She speaks
of the country as being the most delightful she ever saw, and that the
inhabitants are kind and sociable to a degree never before experienced.

At the time she wrote (March 15) the farmers were busy getting in their
crops, and she speaks of the contrast between that country and this,
which is indeed great.  In closing her interesting communication she
makes the statement, that the country is settling up very rapidly, the
tide of immigration being from the eastern states.  To use her own
words:  “It is immense, and they keep coming every day.”
 

**B. G. COWAN, whose team ranaway a couple of weeks ago, and throwing
him out off the cutter and spraining one of his ankles quite badly, is
still suffering and obliged to use crutches.  Like the old revolutionary
hero, he can shoulder his crutch and show them how they fought at
Bunker’s Hill.

** MR. & MRS MICHAEL SLATTERY were in the city Wednesday, making
arrangements for their prospective visit to their old homes in New
Brunswick.  They will leave here about the 15th day of April and be
absent two months.  That they may have a pleasant visit and safe return,
is the wish of their many friends.

**THE traffic manager of the St. Paul road has been presented with a
pair of number sixteen wooden shoes, of artistic design and elaborate
finish.  They were made by Peter J. Mollien, of Brussels, Door county,
who is a workman of rare merit.  It is Mr. Mullen’s intention to attach
the shoes to the wall in his office and use them for receptacles for the
odds and ends that accumulate around all well regulated railroad
headquarters.

**THE editor of this paper believes in according “honor to those to whom
honor is due” without regard to personal likes or dislikes.  As is well
known, an effort was made during the present session of the legislature
to detach eight townships from this county and attach the same to the
county of Marinette.  Our assemblyman, Hon. Alex Brazeau, worked early
and late against the scheme, and to him, as much as to anybody else, is
due the credit of its defeat.  And we feel that it is but fairness and
justice to recognize his services and make honorable mention thereof.

** IT IS a mighty mean man that will send a boy to a rival printing
office to steal a paper in order to ascertain the secrets of the
office.  The democratic editor in this city did it to-day.  He is
beneath contempt.  He’d steal.
 

 Pensaukee Column. 

Mr. Frank Moody of Brookside, took the train Monday evening for a visit ot the scenes of his youth, in the state of Pennsylvania 

**THE BODY of big-hearted William Copp was buried last Sunday.  His
funeral was one of the largest and most imposing ever witnessed in Green
Bay, his remains being followed to the grave by delegations Knight
Templars and Royal Arch and Master Masons from Marquette, Ishpeming,
Negaunee, Escanaba and Menominee, Mich. and Marinette, Peshtigo, Oconto,
Green Bay, Fort Howard, Depere, Appleton and Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

**ROBERT McKENNY was fatally shot at Bull Creek, a short distance above
Marinette, Monday, by a man by the name of Anderson during a quarrel
about lumber.

**A WEEK ago Saturday, a man by the name of Elliott, accompanied by his
wife, drove from Peshtigo to their home at the Sugar Bush.  With them
was an infant three months old, which they had so carefully covered up
to keep it warm, that it was found to have smothered to death upon their
arrival at home.
 

** A TERRIBLE accident occurred at the Keel Ridge mine near Iron
Mountain Tuesday afternoon, by which nine men lost their lives.  The
mine had played out and the men were engaged removing the machinery when
the surface dropped away, taking the men, two boilers, hoisting gear and
building with it.  Somebody was guilty of criminal carelessness and
should be prosecuted.

**A STABBING affair occurred Friday last, in that portion of Menominee
known as Frenchtown, in which Andrew Tyler, James Davis and a Frenchman
whose name is unknown were the participants, and which resulted fatally
to the Frenchman.  It seems that Davis and the Frenchman were engaged in
an altercation when Tyler came up behind the latter and stabbed him in
the back, the knife reaching through his body.  Soon after the
commission of the crime Tyler was arrested and is now in custody.  The
Frenchman is said to be respectably connected in Canada, his father
being the mayor of a city near Montreal.

**A BARN in the McDowell settlement belonging to a man by the name of
Herriman and containing several tons of hay and straw, farming
implements, a span of horses and four head of cattle, was struck by
lightning Tuesday evening during the storm which prevailed at that time,
and destroyed by fire, the barn and contents being entirely consumed.
Mr. Herriman is a hard working man who had just got started and his loss
is heavy, especially as he cannot replace the stock destroyed, and he
has no team with which to do his spring work.

**MRS. MINNIE DROWN, nee House, reached here from Vermont, with her
husband, Friday.  We understand it is their intention to reside here
permanently.

**MRS. H. D. BACON, of Ishpeming, Mich., has been in the city during the
week visiting her mother, who has been quite ill.

**WALTER GRUPERT left for Appleton Sunday evening, where he will locate
and work at his trade.  Walter is a young man of excellent moral
character, good habits and generous impulses, who will make and retain
friends everywhere.

**A MAN by the name of Crane was arrested Monday, for indulging in the
pastime of slapping his sister-in-law in the face.  Being taken before
justice Hart, he plead guilty, and the squire asked him to make a
deposit of $5.00 and costs, amounting in the aggregate to $12.25 as an
earnest that he would abstain from such pleasures in the future.

**THERE was to be and there was not, a wedding in the town of Oconto,
one day last week.  The bride got all ready for the ceremony and waited
at her father’s house, but the groom came not.  The wedding feast grew
cold, but he lingered and still lingers as for that matter.  No cause
can be assigned for his change of mind at the last moment.  It was
probably diffidence.

**ANOTHER operation has been performed upon Charles Fay, of Stiles, who
was twice aspirated some time ago for Pleuritic effusion.  It was
ascertained that the effusion had re-accumulated and that it was
purulent in character, accordingly last Monday, Dr. Allan assisted by
Dr. Moriarty made a free incision between the ribs into the pleural
cavity giving vent to a large collection of pus.  The sac was then
washed out and a drainage tube inserted which will ensure the free
discharge of any matter which may hereafter form.  The patient at last
accounts was progressing favorably.

**HENRY RABY, an old veteran of the war of 1861- 6 was in the city
Thursday, and dropped into our office and we built a small campfire and
talked over old times.  There is always rations in our mess chest for
those who wore the blue.

**BYRON PERRY has purchased James Cooper’s residence on First Street in
the South ward.  We understand that Mr. Cooper and family will visit the
Pacific coast, and probably, settle there permanently.

**THURSDAY afternoon James McMullen, of Peshtigo, was arrested by city
marshal Don Levy, for having stolen the sum of $375, from John Dunn, who
keeps a stopping place some ten miles west of that place.

**SHERIFF SIMPSON arrested a man by the name of Simpson James, Saturday,
for having relieved the party who made the complaint of a certain sum of
money one night during the winter, in a manner that demonstrated, that
he was a bad man.

 A YOUTH in the city, whose name shall forever remain a secret as far as
we are concerned, recently became enamored with a married lady, the
mother of a family of children, under the impression that she was an
artless, guileness maiden.  When informed to the contrary, he prayed for
a knothole to raise up and swallow him or for somebody to bid him in a
cheap as possible.

MARRIED

ROADY—GREY.  At the residence of the parents of the bride in this city
April 22, 1883, by  the Rev. Samuel Renyolds, pastor of Methodist
church, Edward F. Roady and Ida Flora Grey, both of Oconto, Wis.

If Frank and Ida experience but a part of the joy we wish them, their
domestic life will be filled with sunshine, their path strewn with
flowers, and peace and plenty abide with them.

**P. B. RICHER had the misfortune to lose a good farm horse very
suddenly.  It fell dead in the harness on the 14th inst.  “It seems as
if he has more than his share of bad luck,” is the comment of his
friends.

**FRANK PANKRATZ, one of J. Spies foremen. Was quite seriously injured
one day the earlier part of the week, by getting between logs that were
in motion.  He was brought to the city Thursday and placed under Dr.
Bold’s care and is doing as well as could be expected under the
circumstances.

**THE following named manufacturing enterprises would pay a handsome
profit on the amount invested if established in this city:
 Match factory.
 Shoe-peg Factory.
 A wooden-ware factory.  There is an abundance of birch and maple in
this county.
 A factory for the manufactory of barrel hoops and staves.  Our woods
are full of elm—enough to last for many years.
 A furniture factory to use up the bass wood, curly maple and birch to
be found everywhere throughout the county.
 A pulp mill, to convert the immense quantities of popple to be found on
the Oconto river and its tributaries—into pulp.
 A tannery to transform hides into leather and thus save the freight on
same and the hemlock bark shipped from this county to Milwaukee and
Chicago.
 A sash, door and blind factory to supply the demand to the west and
north of this city.
 A clothes pin factory.
 A wood vinegar factory.
 An pig iron furnace.
 

**AS WE GO to press, we learn the sad intelligence of the sudden death
of Mrs. John Klemp, of Gillett.  She went to bed Wed. evening,
apparently in the enjoyment of robust health.  Soon after retiring she
arose and passed from her bed room into the sitting room where she
expired in the arms of her husband who had followed her.  It is supposed
that she died of heart disease.  She was a very estimable woman,
universally loved and respected, and her sudden demise has cast a gloom
over the entire community.

**THE WIFE of George O. Spear, the well-known lumberman, of Sturgeon
Bay, with whom many of our citizens are acquainted, has been adjudged
insane, and removed to the Northern Hospital for the Insane at Oshkosh.
She is a very handsome and estimable lady, and she and her husband have
the sympathy of all their acquaintances in their misfortune.

**JAMES LYON, of How, is now the guest of the sheriff of Milwaukee
County.  James sold liquor to the aborigines that do most congregate
upon the borders of the town of How, and the U. S. Marshall invited him
in a way he could not resist, to go down to Milwaukee, and make
explanation to U. S. Commissioner Bloodgood.  His explanation it seems
was not satisfactory and he was ordered to the bastile where he will
have an opportunity to learn to read, so he will not be obliged to sleep
in the cedar swamps hereafter.

**LEVI LANE is writing a series of very interesting letters to his home
paper at Brockway Centre, Mich., relative to this city and its
advantages and the county of Oconto as a home.  We are confident that
his letters will be instrumental in inducing many to come here, purchase
property and settle.

JOHN RICHARDSON,  so well and favorably known on the river is dead.
This community was startled when the sad news reached here Monday
night.  Mr. Richardson was at Ceder River, Mich., making a personal
inspection of the mill at that place, the machinery of which he had
superintended in making, and while standing near the edger watching it
work, was struck in the left side by the flying remnant of a plank,
which in a short time thereafter caused his death.  The dreadful
accident occurred at  1 ½ o’clock P. M. He was placed upon the tug Alert
and the boat was started for this place as quickly as possible.  While
on the way he expired at about a quarter to 3 o’clock.  Mr. Richardson
had for many years been foreman of the Iron Works, and was a very
competent and thorough workman.  He was about to move west, having sold
out his property here, and his trip to Ceder River was wholly on
business for his old company.  His death caused much sadness.  He was a
noble hearted man, a good husband and had a host of friends who mourn
his untimely death.

P.S.—Since the above was in type we learned that his death so affected
his mother that the shock caused her death on Tuesday forenoon.  Her
remains will be taken to Chicago for burial, but Mr. Richardson’s
remains were interred this Wednesday afternoon by the Masonic
fraternity.  We regret that our want of space forbids further mention.
(--Menominee Herald).

**THE THIRD trial of Timothy Kelly resulted in his conviction of
participation in the murder of Cavendish and Burke, and he was sentenced
to be hanged on June 9.  When the sentence was pronounced Kelly
exclaimed  I am innocent, thank you, my Lord.

**THE following named citizens have been drawn as petit jury for the May
term of the circuit court, for this county, which will be held at the
court house in this city next Tuesday, May 14th:

(Oconto) CITY.
James McKenzie, A. McFadden, John VanAble, Ivory Mathews, Neil
McKaillop, Charles Ritter, Joseph Hoeffel, Albert Hanson, Frank Wilcox,
Warren Calligan and John Walsh.

PENSAUKEE
James Bermingham, Samuel Bibby, B.E. Minnick, Wm. Knowles, E. R.
Livermore, Joshua Snyder, C. Lince, Eugene Fitzpatrick and N. S. Chase.

STILES
L. Gravel, James McKeever and Thomas Caldy.

LITTLE RIVER
Richard Cashman, Robert Spice, Frank Pelkey, O. F. Chamberlin and E. L.
Widger

(town of) OCONTO
Thomas Simmons, Peter Rosencrans, John Caldwell and Henry L. Russell.

HOW
B. G. Armstrong and Robert Chapman.

**WE are sorry to learn that, Mrs. L. B. Noyes, of Marinette, met with a
serious accident at the roller rink in that place one day last week,
that may result in the loss of the use of her limbs.  We sincerely hope
that her injury is not as serious as reported.

**WEDNESDAY afternoon, a very perceptible earthquake was felt in this
city.  It lasted about three second, during which buildings were
considerably shaken.  The commotion was preceeded by a low rumbling
noise, something like thunder, but more like a growl.

**WM. GUTHRIE, of Logansport, Ind. has been in the city several days.
Last fall he invested in considerable land in this county and the
probabilities are, that he will settle here, as he seems to like this
country better than the Hosier State.  We have plenty of room for such
men as Mr. Guthrie.

**JAMES HUME returned last week from Muskegon, Mich., where he had been
visiting a brother who is a member of the firm of Hackley and Hume, the
owners of three hundred million feet of standing pine, a well equipped
saw mill, and are now engaged in building a railroad twelve miles in
length into their pine lands.

** TWO of the soiled doves who hold forth out on the Pensaukee road came
into the city Monday, and before their departure for home, filled their
carcasses full of benzine and got into a fight between themselves as to
who should drive the team home.  After they had scratched each others
faces for awhile, officer McGee happened along and took the worse of the
twain over to the cooler, where she remained until the following
morning, when she was taken before a police justice and fined several
dollars for being drunk and disorderly, and then discharged with a
kindly admonition to go and sin no more.

** IT IS intimated that the railroad is about to change the name of its
station now known as Maple Valley to Lucasville.  That is as it should
be.  James Lucas was one of the first, if not the first, settler in that
part of the county, built the first road to Maple Valley, a distance of
some twelve miles, and one of four miles to Leighton, and has done much
for the prosperity and development of Little River Township, and the
honor of having a station named for him would be about the right thing.
 

OBITUARY
WE record today the death of our old citizen, Nicholas Dixon.  About the
year 1853, he cast his lot among us.  Since that time he labored and
worked with our people, an honest neighbor, and a sincere friend.  Words
sometimes cannot express feelings, but we must clip from Erins native
poet:
 “It is not the tear at this moment shed,
  When the cold turf has just been laid o’er him
 That can tell how beloved was the friend that fled
  Or how deep our hearts deplore him.”
The funeral took place Friday forenoon from St. Joseph church, and was
attended by a large concourse of sympathizing friends.

**MR. And Mrs. M. J. McCourt accompanied by their daughter Mrs. George
McDonald, left Monday evening, for Oshkosh to attend the funeral of Mr.
McCourt, elder brother of our townsman.

**HARRY BLAKE and Joseph Listle, left for Waupun this morning to serve
their sentences in the state prison.  They were in charge of sheriff,
Thomas Simpson, and deputy, John McGee.

**JOHN LUBY was treed by a she bear and two cubs one day last week up on
the North branch, but eventually succeeded in getting away after having
been up the tree nearly all night, with a damaged posterior.

COURT
**BRANDENMUHL et al, infant, who appears for guardian, vs. John
Salcheider.  Continued.

**GEORGE   R. Marlott, Plff., vs. Harriet Marlott, deft.  Judgement for
divorce.

CRIMINAL CASES.
**STATE of Wisconsin vs. Samuel Cole (GOLE?) Nolle pros. Entered.

**STATE of Wisconsin vs. Daniel Donovan.   Case not called.

**STATE of Wisconsin, vs. Harvey Blake and Joseph Listle. Sentenced to
state prison; Blake for one year, and Listle for six months.

STATE NEWS,
**MRS. J. M. Bingham, of Chippewa Falls, wife of the ex-lieutenant
governor, is at the Madison insane asylum for treatment.  Mrs. B’s
reason has been wavering for a number of years, much to the regret of
her friends throughout the state.

**WE learn from the Advocate, Shawano, that James Miller of that county
has some very rich specimens of iron and silver ore found on the farm of
Abial Richman, in the town of Angelica.
 

OBITUARY
MRS. Charles Lingren who had been a great but patient sufferer for many
months, found relief in death Wednesday afternoon.  Her funeral services
were held yesterday, and her remains taken to the “silent city,” there
to remain until “the morn of the resurrection” when soul, spirit and
body will be reunited and the suffering of earth be forgotten in joy.
Mr. Lingren has been peculiarly unfortunate in the past, and in the
present affliction has the sympathy of all that know him.

AT the residence in this city of his brother-in-law Henry Lemerand,
Wednesday afternoon, May 23rd, Mitchell Burnett, of consumption.  The
deceased  was a single man and well respected by all that enjoyed his
acquaintance.  His relatives in this city consisted of a mother, a
sister (Mrs Lemerand) and a brother, all of whom did all they could to
restore him to health and make his life as comfortable as their
circumstances would permit.
His funeral took place yesterday from St. Peters church, and his body
was followed to the grave by many acquaintances and friends who
sympathized with the mourning relatives in their bereavement.

MAY 17, 1883, Elsie, infant daughter of Archie and Eliza Mott, aged six
months.
  “Safe in the arms of Jesus
   Safe on His loving breast,
  Safe from a world of trial,
   Our darling is at rest”
The funeral services were held Saturday, and the remains of the little
one laid away, being followed to their last resting place by many of the
friends of the bereaved parents.

LOVELY in life, beautiful in death.  Such was Mrs. Clara Sailor Hoeffel,
wife of Mr. Frank Hoeffel, who left the loving and loved ones at none p.
m., May 18th.  Another link in the golden chain to bind us–to draw our
thoughts from earth—to heaven.  Consumption had marked her for its
victim, and heeded not the tears of mother, brother, husband and
friends, who stood around her bedside and tried, but all in vain, to
arrest the hand of the destroyer.  He relentlessly claimed her, leaving
the casket to be carried and laid beside two brothers who had gone
before, taking the gem to the God who gave it.  As she had lived, so she
died, with faith in her Savior’s love.  Though life was beautiful to
her, death had no terrors, and she was resigned to God’s will, “who
doeth all things well.”  But little more than twenty-one years of
age—but fifteen weeks a bride—it was hard to look the last on earth and
speak that sad, sad word:  farewell.  Conscious to the last, and with
loving words for the dear ones far away, and for those present, “she
drew the drapery of her couch about her, and lay down to pleasant
dreams.”

ON the morning of the 23rd inst., at the residence of his daughter, Mrs.
Charles Cook, the spirit and body of Mr. Fredrick Steward parted
company, the former returning to Him that gave it, and the latter
remaining to be laid away by kind hands and loving hearts.
The deceased was born at Scarbough, Maine, than a part of the province
of Massachusetts, on the 17th day of December 1798, which made him 84
years and six months old at the time of his death, he being the second
oldest man in our city.
The departed came to this city nine years ago, but being a quiet and
unobstrusive man of simple tastes and habits, did not make an extensive
acquaintances hence, his actual merit and genuine worth was known to but
a few, comparatively speaking, of our citizens, but those who enjoyed
his acquaintance and friendship, appreciated his worth and many kindly
qualities of both head and heart.
Beside the wife of his early manhood whose union covered a period of
fifty-eight years, he leaves three daughters to mourn his absence, Mrs.
Charles Cook, of this city; Mrs. Flood, of New Jersey and Mrs. Spears,
of California.  The aged widow who is totally blind, misses the
companion of over a half century and patiently waits the summons that
will reunite them in the summer land.
The funeral services were held yesterday, the Rev. J. H. Kerr
officiating, who pointed the heart of those who mourn, to the Comforter
for strength and consolation in their affliction

TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.  Last Monday, while Louis Gilman a brakeman on the
freight train going north and which reaches this city at 3:57 p.m., was
running on the top of the train between Little Suamico and Brookside
Station, he lost his balance and being unable to recover fell between
the cars upon the track, and greater part of the train passed  over his
body cutting in twain just above his hips.  The train was stopped and
the poor fellow was placed in the caboose where he died a few minutes
after the accident, retaining consciousness to the last.  The body was
taken to Escanaba, his home and delivered to his friends.

THE black robed angel of death has again visited our vicinity, and has
taken from our number Mrs. R. Cleveland, one of our most beloved and
esteemed friends, she was a kind mother and affectionate wife, and
leaves to mourn her absence a husband and three children.   Also a host
of friends.
   “We meet no more” her sighing words,
    And seeming true the words she spoke,
   For one bright day, from weary bed,
    To streets of shining gold she woke.
   She has gone and we dwell here,
    Till by and by, we meet her there.

ONE of our oldest citizens in the town, Mr. Nick Dixon, has passed from
this earth of Sorrow.  We shall miss the familiar face of Mr. Dixon.  He
was a kind-hearted man, and liked by everybody.

**DENNIS FITZGERALD who had an operation performed last week for the
dropsy, died Monday.  He had been sick a long time and had suffered
intensely, and death came to him as a relief and was welcomed instead of
feared.  The remains were sent outside for interment.

MARRIED
CHRISTENSON—HANSON.  By Edwin Hart justice of the peace, at his office
in this city May 21, 1883, Niel Christenson, of Maple Valley, and Kavin
Hanson, of Norway.  The happy bride arrived in this city direct from her
home across the ocean the morning of her marriage, the bridegroom being
here to receive her and to make her his wife.  After they were made one,
their happiness was complete and as they left the office of the justice,
their happiness found expression in many ways that were just the same in
Norwegian as in English.  We wish them a life of unalloyed happiness.

**JOSEPH LISTLE who was sentenced at the last term of our circuit court
to the state prison for six months for larceny, was not the immaculate
individual that he assumed to be.  He had already served two terms in
that institution for larceny, being sent a term each from Shawano and
Waupaca counties.

**MRS. N. Shew is growing weaker day by day, and it is thought by all
that her time is short.  The friends have the sympathy of all.

**ONE of the sons of W. W. DeLano was playing with cartridge and powder,
on the 12th inst., and had his face and eyes badly scorched, but
fortunately did not do any permanent harm.

MARRIED

**ORANGE BLOSSOMS.  One of the most important social events which has
occurred in this city for several months took place Sunday afternoon at
the residence of John Day Davis when Mr. Edward Hornibrook, of Marinette
and Miss Andrewline Gordon, of this city, were united in holy
matrimony.  The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Samuel Renyolds,
pastor of the M. E. church.  There were quite a large number of invited
guests present to do honor to the nuptials.  After the ceremony, the
guests were treated to a bountiful supply of cake, ice cream and a good
time indulged in by all.  Among those present from abroad were, Mr. And
Mrs. James Hornibrook and Miss Bertha Congdon, of Iron Mountain, Mich.,
Mr. Thomas Hornibrook of Quinnesee, Mich., Mrs. J. J. Casson, of
Marinette, and Mrs. G. Wells, of Menominee, Mich.
In the evening the happy couple took the south-bound train for the east,
and left, followed by the best wishes of all their friends.

** FRANK Hoeffel returned from Allegan, Mich., where he went with the
remains of his beloved wife for the purpose of interment, Sunday
morning.

**ALMOST FATAL.  Last Monday forenoon, N. W. Goodell, a young, unmarried
man from Sheboygan Falls, while at work on the pile driver belonging to
the Green Bay Dredge Co., which was driving piles on the south bank of
the river nearly opposite Spies’mill, was seriously injured by the
falling of a piece of iron one and a half inches in diameter and seven
inches long, broken from the shaft of the upper pulley, which struck him
upon the top of his head, fracturing the skull quite badly.  He was
immediately taken to the Roth House, and his father, Mr. N. S. Goodell,
who is deputy sheriff of Sheboygan county, informed by telegraph of his
son’s misfortune.  In the meantime, Dr. Beebe was summoned and dressed
the wound, and everything possible done for the comfort of the patient.
On the evening of the accident his father reached his bedside and has
remained with him since.  Under the care of his father and the attending
physician he is doing well and will, it is thought, recover.  Mr.
Charles Berner, one of the owners of the pile driver is untiring in his
attentions, and bears all the expense attending his injury.  The poor
fellow reached here the night before the accident and at the time of its
occurrence had only been at work a couple of hours.
Just before going to press, Mr. Goodell informed us, that his son had so
far recovered that he would remove him to-day to his home, at Sheboygan
Falls.

**MICHAEL Ryan and James Gleason left Tuesday morning, for Ottawa,
Canada, for the purpose of visiting relatives.  It is intimated that
they went for another purpose, which if true, will be known when they
return.

**WILLIAM McDONALD was arrested Sunday, for being drunk and disorderly
and taken over the river to become the associate of other lunatics.
Monday morning, justice Hart assessed him $10.50 for the trouble he had
made, which he paid and went his way to get more liquor with which to
make a fool of himself.

**D. W. BLOSSOM was paralyzed Saturday, and officer Smith took him down
to the “cooler” to recover the use of his limbs.  Monday morning he was
taken into the awful presence of justice Bailey, who lectured him upon
his fondness for that which not only cheers but inebriates, and
discharged him with an admonition.

**J.W. Leigh was in town Tuesday, bidding his many friends good-bye, as
he is soon to start west.

***REV. AND MRS. WILLIAM DAFTER, Mr. And Mrs. Huff Jones, Mr. And Mrs.
T. B. Goodrich, Mrs. A. P. Call, Miss Julia A. Magee and Cleveland
Keith, went to Marinette Wednesday to assist in the consecrating
services of the new Episcopal church at that place.  In the evening, a
reception was given at the residence of Dr. Marin, which was an elegant
affair and enjoyed by all who attended.

***LAST Tuesday, James Henningsen who is the circular sawyer in Holt &
Balcom’s mill, cut 519 logs which scaled 48,000 feet.  It is the largest
cut ever made in that mill in one day, and we very much doubt, if in any
other.  Mr. Henningsen understands his business thoroughly, and we
anticipate that before the close of the season, he will even do better
than he did Tuesday.

***G.A.R.  The undersigned soldiers of the U.S. Vol., service are
desirous to re-establish the G.A.R. Post of this city and would
anxiously meet all comrades on the 7th day of June, at Engine House No.
1, at 7:30 p.m. for that purpose.  The sole object of the post is one of
benevolence, and to help the fostering of the kindly feelings that
should warm the hearts of old soldiers.  Let the ashes of the old
campfire be stirred up, and the thought of our past dangers awaken us to
the necessity of avoiding many that may come.  P. H. Swift, L. S.
Bailey, D. P. Moriarty, Robert Spice, M. Cunningham, B. Wiedner, Geo.
Beyer, Fred Ellman, Chas. Bagley, E. L. Widger, W. H. Young, Chas. Hall,
Homer DonLevy Jos. Tibbitts.

***H. L. Farr, of Madison, an old schoolmate of the editor, and a
comrade with him in the 33rd Wis. Inft. Vol., was in the city
Wednesday.  It was a joyful meeting and the next time he comes, Peter
Jamison will be sent for.

MARRIED
STELLER—BRECKL. In this city June 2nd, 1883, by Frank Deimer, justice of
the peace, Mr. Anton Steller and Miss Anna Breckl, both of Oconto.

Brookside 
Mr. Frank Moody arrived home safely from his visit in Pennsylvania

**OF MAJOR E. W. Smith, recently deceased, the New York Times has this
record:  He was born in Vermont and entered the army from Illinois on
May 14, 1861.  He was made captain Feb. 1, 1863, and on Sept 21, 1866,
was transferred to the Twenty-fourth Infantry.  On March 4, 1870, he was
assigned to the eighteenth Infantry, and Feb. 20, 1882, to the
Twenty-second Infantry.  When mustered out of the volunteers in 1866, he
held the rank of Brevet Brigadier-general.  He participated in the
assault on Fort Wagner, South Caralina and was made lieutenant-colonel
April 2, 1865, for gallant and meritorious services in front of
Petersburg, Va.
The deceased was an older brother of our popular banker, W. K. Smith.

**HERBERT, son of John Noonan, met with a painful accident Wednesday
while at play with his brother, by which one of his eyes was injured.
Dr. Beebe was called and dressed the wound, which is doing well.  It was
a lucky escape from the total loss of the sight of the eye.

**JAMES B. ARCHIBOLD’S children refused to recognize him when he
returned home last week from the cruise.  We were not surprised, when we
learned of the fact, for we passed him on the street and did not know
him from Adam.  The loss of his whiskers and mustache made the change.

**LAST Saturday, two men in the employ of Holt & Balcom at their mill in
this city met with a peculiar accident, which very fortunately for them
was no worse.  They had pushed a car load of edgings over the river to
the “fire bank” and having dumped the same were on their return to the
mill, when all at once the car and themselves were precipitated into the
river, falling a distance of some twelve or fifteen feet.  While they
were at the “fire bank” in the smoke, the bridge over which the track
passes had been hoisted in order to let a tug pass up the river and had
not been lowered, and it being smoky they did not discover the fact,
hence pushed the car into the river and followed it.  They were rescued
with considerable difficulty and taken care of.

**LAST Sunday, John Timm a palm of the hand fortune teller from
somewhere, probably Green Bay, was in the city, and while wandering
around, visited several saloons, the keepers of which are good law
abiding citizens, filled his hide with “bug juice” and made a nuisance
of himself.  The city marshal coming along invited him over to Call’s
house, where he was provided with quarters until Monday morning, when he
was taken before squire hart who asked him as to his occupation.  Being
informed it was that of a fortune teller He looked at his hand a few
seconds and remarked; about ten days.  The justice informed him; that
was the number perzacly and ordered the marshal to give the prisoner the
benefit of his company over to the place called a jail by those who do
not know any better.

**NATHANIEL Shew had the misfortune to have an ear taken off while at
work in the mill for E. R. Chesley, one day last week, and went to Green
Bay for treatment.  His mother still continues very ill.  We feel very
sorry for him and his.

**MAXIMILLIAN RAUNER, one of the first settlers of Marinette township,
died last Friday night under very melancholy circumstances.  He had
worked during the day for Mr. Charles Lenz, and left there about 6:15
p.m. for the purpose of finding and driving home his cows.  He was seen
about 8 o’clock driving the cows on the new Peshtigo road.  Not
returning that night, search was made, and on Sunday morning his dead
body was found about a mile from the city of Marinette.  His dog was
with him, standing faithful guard over the corpse.  Yesterday, a large
concourse of sympathising neighbors testified their esteem by
accompanying the remains to their last resting place.

** LAST Saturday night, there was a dance at George Branshaw’s saloon in
Frenchtown.  Among those in attendance at the dance was an individual
bearing the cognomen of Camello Ogiar who for some reason was simple
known as “Camel.” a recent importation from Ottawa, Canada.  Thinking
that he was in high-toned society he got full of “budge” and danced so
hard that he broke one of his legs.  Mr. Branshaw instead of taking care
of him hustled him out and he was taken to the Roth House, where the
fracture was reduced by Dr. Bold and where he remained until Tuesday
when he was taken to Elliott’s to become a county charge, he having
spent all his winter earnings for whiskey.

**SOME time since, a man in this city won and wed a young damsel against
whom, the tongues of scandal had never wagged.  In the course of time,
they went elsewhere in the county to reside and after a few months of
happiness, there was a change.  The green eyed monster took possession
of the husband and he insisted that the wife should go before a priest
and swear on bended knee that she always been chaste previous to their
marriage.  Like a sensible woman, she refused to do anything of the
kind, whereupon the husband came to this city, squared up accounts, sent
them and had his wife taken to her fathers house and then he left for
Manitoba.  While there he wrote a letter to a lady friend, which by some
means fell into the hands of his wife, who took it to the priest and
told the father of her troubles.  It seems that quite a number of
individuals had told the husband stories about his wife, which had
poisoned his mind against her and the reverend father informed them from
the altar that unless they made reparation to the injured wife, they
would be censured from the pulpit.  Fearing the wrath to come, they sent
for the husband who reached here last week, and sought his wife who
informed him, that if it would be any satisfaction to him she would
swear that she had always been chaste, but that he must also swear that
he had lied most grievously respecting her character.  Neither have
sworn and they remain apart, but it is to be hoped that they will soon
be living together again, and that the husband will annihilate the man
or woman who speaks ill of his wife.

SAD DEATH.  A most distressing death occurred at the jail in this city
on Tuesday last.  On the Saturday evening previous, one Edward Laffin,
who had been temporarily stopping at the Dillon House, was seized with
delirium tremens, and was removed to the jail, where it was supposed he
would be safer from doing harm.  On Monday morning, his condition not
having improved, Dr. Allan was summoned, and did all in his power to
relieve the sufferer, but without avail.  His condition continued
delirious and calm by turns until about five o’clock Tuesday evening,
when death mercifully interfered and put an end to his agonizing
struggles.
The deceased had been on the drive this spring, and through exposure,
contracted a cold which had settled on his lungs, and this, aggravated
by copious draughts of adulterated and inferior whiskey, had the effect
of terminating his earthly career and adding another to the list of King
Alcohol’s victims.
Ed. Laffin was a native of Ellsworth, Maine, and was a comparatively
young man, being only about 28 or 30 years of age; was recognized as a
good worker, and through his genial ways and kind-heartedness was a
general favorite among his fellow workmen, who manifested their sympathy
for the departed by generously and promptly contributing the funds
necessary to defray the burial expenses.  The funeral took place at St.
Joseph’s church on Wednesday afternoon, and the remains were followed to
their last resting place by quite a train of sympathetic friends.

BROOKSIDE, June 18, 1883.  Passed to the higher life, June 18, 1883,
Mertis, beloved daughter of Cornelius and Elizabeth Lince.
The deceased was a beautiful child of thirteen years and it can be truly
said:  “None knew her but to love her—none named her but to praised.”
The pet of the family and of the whole neighborhood, she leaves many
sorrowing hearts, and the stricken parents and sisters have the sympathy
of the whole community.  He illness, diphtheria, was of only six days’
duration, and all that medical skills and loving kindness could devise
was done for her, but in vain.  He who gave the sweet life but to
brighten our earthly home has transplanted it to fairer fields, there to
blossom into full and glorious beauty ‘neath the care of Angels.
  “Out from the depths of human pain,
   Out from all woe and sadness,
  Up from the strifes of a mortal life,
   The soul has soared in gladness.

  “That soul unto this mortal earth
   By laws of life was given
  But through the change of its spirit-birth
   Its earthly bands are riven.

  “Out from the depths of human pain,
   Out from its lowly prison,
  Up from the strifes of a mortal life
   The ascended soul has risen.

  “Out from all sorrow, out from night,
   To a world of love supernal,
  Out from all darkness into light;
   To a home of life eternal.

  “A beautiful home of peace and love,
   To the new born soul is given;
  Up from the strifes of a mortal life,
   Unto the highest heaven”   MAE

**TOO BAD.  Last Friday night, between the hours of eleven and twelve,
the residence of Patrick Digan in the town of Gillett, about three miles
west of the Falls, was with its contents destroyed by fire.  The fire
caught between the chimney and partition from a defect in the chimney
and before being discovered was under such headway that but little or
nothing could be saved.  The entire family would probably have perished
in the flames, had it not been for Mrs. Digan, who was suffering with a
nervous headache, and had not gone to sleep.  The loss is in the
neighborhood of $2,500 covered by an insurance of $700.  Mr. Digan is a
hard working man and his loss is great, as it is the earnings of many
years of toil, which he had put into comforts for the years to come when
labor will be out of the question.  His friends in the city are glad
that it is no worse, seeing that it has happened.

**FRANK Pelliessiers starts for Switzerland next Monday, to re-visit the
land of his nativity and bring back his sister, whose husband lately
died.

**THE many friends of Hon. Geo. W. DeLano will be sorry to learn that he
is seriously ill.

**MR. Chesley is the happy father of another son.

**WILLIE Shew started for Iowa, last Friday, to attend the funeral of
his mother, Mrs. Henry Morrison, who died very suddenly on Friday
morning.  Mrs. M. was formerly a resident of this place, and had many
friends who deeply sympathize with the bereaved family.

**A GENTLEMAN from Pensaukee called on us one day this week inquiring
for a lost boy.  We had seen him, but only a glimpse as he flew by.
Anybody finding a stray boy of blonde complexion, with a felon on his
finger, will be suitably rewarded by returning the same to his bereaved
parents at Pensaukee.

MARRIED
** A PLEASANT WEDDING.  A happy wedding was solemnized at the residence
of the brides parents in this city Wednesday afternoon, June 28, 1883,
the contracting parties being Miss Bert Adams and Mr. David Doty.  A
large company of relation and friends were present to witness the
ceremony which occurred at 5 o’clock, the Rev. J. H. Kerr of the
Presbyterian church officiating.  Miss Mollie Slattery acting ad
bridesmaid and Mr. Irving Pendleton as best man, and with the happy
couple looked very nice indeed. The bride was handsomely attired for the
occasion and with the man of her choice received the best wishes of all
those who were present and all that enjoy their acquaintance, none more
hearty and sincere than those of the writer.  The present were very
appropriate, and were useful and ornamental, and testified of the esteem
in which the happy couple are held by their friends and acquaintances
here and elsewhere.  A reception and supper followed the ceremony.  In
the evening, Mr. And Mrs. Doty left for the outside on a short visit
among friends.

DUKET—SMITH. At the residence of the brides parents in the town of
Oconto, by the Ref. Wm. Rowbotham, Mr. Eber E. Duket, of Peshtigo, and
Miss Kate Smith, of Oconto.
The happy couple have our best wishes for their domestic felicity and
financial prosperity.
 

MRS. SARAH A. LEWIS, wife of E. B. Lewis of Marinette, died in that
village on Tuesday, June 19th, at the age of thirty-three years.  She
was a highly respected and much beloved lady.

** MRS. P. W. Freeze who went to Brooklyn N. Y., during the winter to
attend a sick daughter who finally died, came back Tuesday morning.

**MR. AND MRS. W. T. Ullman who formerly resided here and have many
friends in this city, are at present the guests of Mr. And Mrs. O. A.
Ellis.  Their home is in Colorado, but they have been spending the
winter at Clifton Springs on account of Mr. Ullman’s bad health, which
has been quite poor for some time past and which has improved somewhat
under the treatment received at the sanitarium at that place.

**WE ARE sorry to learn that Richard Johnson of Maple Valley, is very
ill and that his friends despair of his recovery.  “Dick” was a federal
soldier in the rebellion brave and well liked, and contracted the
disease which is about to take him from his family and friends.

** MRS. JAMES McCurdy was arrested Monday, at her home in the town of
Oconto, and brought to this city to answer to the charge of selling
liquor without having first obtained a license from the proper
authorities.  She plead guilty and poverty, and the justice let her off
by the payment of the costs, she promising to take out a license.

***REPORTER ABROAD.   The rapid and substantial growth of this county in
settlement and material wealth is wonderful.  But a few years ago, most
of the territory west and northwest of this city was a wilderness with a
clearing here and there made by these engaged in logging.  Now the
county is well settled and large and well cultivated farms indicate the
prosperity of the settlers.  Our reporter left the city a week ago
Tuesday morning for a run through the western portion of the county and
upon his return a week later, expressed himself as being happily
surprised at what he saw during his absence.  His journey took him
through a part of the town of Oconto, passing many fine farms on his way
as he also did in Little River.  At Maple Valley, the new station on the
Wisconsin & Michigan railroad, he found a wide awake thrifty little
village containing two first class hotels, the Hale and Payant houses, a
store, doing a cash business of $60, per day with John Scanlin as head
salesman and deputy postmaster, blacksmith shop, steam saw mill owned
and operated by Chesley & Hale and several residences completed and in
course of erection.  From the railroad, his journey took him through a
country that lass than two years ago, was an almost unbroken forest, but
now openings, good and substantial buildings, school houses and
evidences of civilization and comfort, greets the traveler upon every
side.  After entering the town of Maple Valley, the landscape changes,
the dull monotony of burnt timber giving place to a live forest rich in
foliage which is a relief to the eye and the senses.  The town can well
be called the garden of the county for here are found many farms that
will compare favorably with any in the state.  From the north branch of
the Little river into the Trecartin settlement, the road passes by the
farms of John Rasmussen, Henry Brooks, James Gillighan and many other
the names of the owners of which were unknown to the reporter.  On the
road is located the mill of the Mill’s Bros. Who are doing well and
making money as they deserve, and will soon make more as they are about
to add a shingle mill to their establishment.  From here the attention
of the reporter was drawn to the splendid farms of Mr. Clark, Thomas
McMahon, Joseph McMahon, Joseph Haine’s, Wm. Smith, George Trecartin,
Patrick Kelly, Charles Post, W. H. Gilkey, Thomas Mills, Lorenzo Lord,
Harrison Cooley, W. Cooley, and Peter Jamison.  At Frostville our
reporter made the acquaintance of A. C. Frost who is a multitude in
himself, being a merchant, farmer, hotel keeper, postmaster, justice of
the peace and member of the township board of supervisors.  Frostville
is named in honor of the postmaster, contains a hotel, store,
post-office, school house, black-smith shop and residence.  Henry
Anderson is the smithy and a more genial generous and accommodating man
it would be hard to find.  To the south of the above named village live
the Hansons, Andersons, and Magnus Iverson, who has one of the best
farms in the township, keeps a stopping place, is making money and
happy.  After leaving Mr. Frost’s cheer, our reporter in company with
friends started for the wilderness, passing Chris Johnson’s boss farm,
Holt & Balcom’s Maple Valley homestead, which is in charge of Paul
McDonald, one of the salt of the earth.  For the next fifteen miles or
more the road was through an uninhabited forest and the first evidence
of civilization that blessed their vision was Patrick Delaney’s
cheerful, convenient and hospital “stopping place” near the mouth of the
Waupee.  Here the weary travelers met with a hearty welcome, tarried
rested.  During the logging and driving season Mr. Delaney’s place is
the scene of activity and life it being the distributing point for
Sargent’s & Jennings who have a supply depot there and who must do an
immense business as there is stored at present time goods to the value
of over $2,000.  Between Maple Valley settlement and the Waupee there is
much good agricultural land which will at no distant day be cultivated
and the desolate places be made to blossom like the rose.  Our reporter
continued his journey to Thunder river and may at some future time give
a description of the country traverse.  He is under many obligations for
favors received during his wanderings and desires us to give thanks to
each and all.
 

**DESIRE DEION who had one of his leg broken at the Oconto company’s
mill two weeks ago Wednesday night, died early Sunday morning and was
buried Monday.  O. A. Ellis, superintendent of the company, did
everything possible for the relief of the sufferer, but it seems that
the unfortunate did not possess sufficient vitality to recover from the
shock to his nervous and system.

**IT IS reported that a man was poisoned at Pensaukee last week.  We
have been unable to learn the facts, hence infer, that he was poisoned
as many in this city are every day, by drinking poor whiskey.

**GEORGE BUTTERFIELD, after an absence of twenty-two years, left for
Ottawa, Canada his former home, Tuesday evening.  Upon his arrival in
this country he at once enlisted in the 16th Reg’t Wis., Inftry Vols.,
and served his term of enlistment receiving an honorable discharge at
the close of the war.  He is a good and quite citizen and we hope that
his visit will be pleasant and that he will return safely.

**SING YAN, an almond-eyed celestial from Fond du Lac, is about to
engaged in the laundry business in this city.  He was here Monday and
rented the lower story of the Porter building on Section street, just
north of P. Maloney’s saloon and store, and expects to have his laundry
in operation within the next two weeks.  Sing Yan speaks the English
language quite fluently, is quite gentlemanly and will, we hope, do a
successful business.

**MRS. MARIA WARDWELL, of Minneapolis, Minn., is with her son, Cyrus
Wardwell with whom she will reside permanently.  She is seventy-nine
years of age and a lively as a cricket.  More so, than most women twenty
years younger.  She came with her niece, Mrs. Elnora Merrill, who is
also the guest of Mr. Wardwell, her uncle.

**MR. AND MRS. SEYMOUR SMITH, who had been visiting Mrs. Smith Parent,
Mr. And Mrs. T. F. Snover, the past few weeks, left for their home at
Waterloo, New Jersey, the evening of the 4th.

**POOR old George Chamberlin was arrested on the Fourth, for singing
smutty songs on the streets and being disorderly generally.  He was
taken “over the river” where he remain until the next day, when squire
Hart assessed him $5, and costs for being that kind of a minstrel, which
he paid, and went his way feeling that he had paid well for his
indulgence in the symphonies.

**A STORM which came very near being a cyclone, passed over this county
Monday morning, between one and two o’clock.  In portions of the county
trees were uprooted, fences blown down and houses badly shaken.  At
Stiles the warehouse near the depot on the Wisconsin and Michigan
railroad was taken from its foundation and placed crosswise of the
switch.  As far as it has been able to ascertain no person was injured
and no very serious damage done.
 

**JOHN B. SALSCHEIDER, of Big Suamico, was killed by lightening during
the rain storm of Tuesday of last week.  He was lying upon the floor in
one of the rooms of his house at the time, and the lightening struck the
chimney and passed through the roof, then jumping several feet dropped
through the ceiling of the room in which he was lying, falling upon one
of his legs and tearing up the floor for a space of about two feet
square, throwing splinters in all directions.  His wife, who was sitting
in the room, just after he was struck, asked him if he was hurt.  He
replied “yes, and I am going to die,” and expired at once.  He had been
married only thirteen days.

**LATE  Friday afternoon of last week, Mr. M. J. McCourt received a
telegram from Fort Pierre saying:  “Dolly is dying—come.”  In the
evening, Mrs. McCourt left for the bedside of her sick daughter, who
with her husband, Charley Tinney, have been residents of Dakota but a
short time.  The message cast a shadow of sadness over the hearts of all
who knew “Dolly.”  And when a later telegram was received announcing
that she was out of danger and there were hope of her recovery, there
was gladness in the hearts of many of our citizens.

**FIRE AT STILES.  Two buildings at Stiles, one owned by Joseph
McCloskey and occupied by himself as a butcher shop and tenement, and
the other owned by Archie McNair who used the lower part as a grocery
store and occupied the upper story as a tenement, were destroyed by fire
Tuesday morning, between one and two o’clock.  The fire started in
McNair’s part of the building and was under such headway when discovered
that nothing could be saved.  Mr. And Mrs. McNair were absent at the
time, and it is a wonder how the fire ignited as they had been gone
several hours when the fire broke out.  McCloskey saved nearly all of
his household effects, but his loss is quite heavy as he had little or
no insurance on his building.  McNair’s loss will be light, it being
nearly covered by insurance.

**GEORGE COOMBS, of Chicago, who left here as a member of H. Co. 4th
Wis. Inftry on the 27th day of June  1863, was in the city Tuesday, the
guest of A. P. Call.  It is the first time that he has visited the city
since his departure for the south, twenty-two years ago.  Upon his
return to his home, he took along one of the pevees carried by the
company while they were in rendezvous.

DIED.  On Saturday, July 14th, Mrs. Peter Schufelt  departed this life
after months of lingering illness.  Her demise was not unexpected by her
large circle of friends who constantly tendered to her all the
consolation that friendship could afford.  She was long a resident of
our place, and by her many kind acts won the general affection of our
people.  Her remains were followed to their last resting place by a
large concourse of sympathizing friends.
The bereaved family have our utmost sympathy.
She has only left us for a little moment, left us on earth to visit her
Maker in Heaven.
        Oh! T’was enough, poor wanderer of an hour
                 To touch times verge, and breath its very sigh!
          To make the pass death’s vale, whose darkening lower
                   Must open up the petals of the  sky.

**FRANK BURBY and bride arrived here on Saturday.  May they live long
and happily in their union.  We extend to them our congratulations and
best wishes.

**THE FOLLOWING we clip from a Chicago paper:  “ A farmer at Oconto,
Wis., reports that the hailstorm last Friday, was so severe as to knock
the horns off a yearling steer in his pasture.”  We do not know the name
of the farmer who made the statement, but we do know that he would make
a superb correspondent or editorial writer for a democratic paper.  His
imagination would be of invaluable service in instructing the
“unterrified” as to their political duties.  And as they implicitly
believe everything that emanates from democratic sources, they could be
filled to overflowing with truthless trash and think all the time that
they were wise.

**A YOUNG MAN, a resident of this city insulted the colored chamber maid
on the Welcome Sunday, during the excursion.  She smote him hip and
thigh. And would have broke his neck, had his friends not got him out of
the reach of the irate woman of color and virtue.
 

A QUIET wedding was solemnized at the residence of John Runkel, the
bride’s father, Wednesday evening, July 25, 1883, the contracting
parties being Miss Etta Runkel and Mr. Rowland P. Smith, the marriage
ceremony being performed by the Rev. J. H. Kerr, pastor of the
Presbyterian church.
The marriage was witnessed by the relatives of the bride and a few
invited guests, who after the ceremony sat down to a sumptuous repast
provided by the mother of the bride.  The happy couple were the
recipients of many tokens of regard from their friend and acquaintances,
and if they are as happy through life as their friends wish, life will
indeed be a joy.
The bride has lived here but a short time comparatively speaking, and
has made a host of friends by her industry, quiet and lady like demeanor
and gentle winsome ways.  Mr. Smith, the lucky man, as resided in our
midst nearly two years during which time he has been foreman of the
REPORTER office.  He is a young man of excellent habits and thorough
printer and gentleman, who has by his upright and manly deportment made
a multitude of friends in this city.  The REPORTER wishes the young
couple all the joy imaginable.

MADE HAPPY. Ed. Maher, of Bay City, Mich., and Maria Fitzsimmons, of
this city, were united in marriage at St. Joseph’s church in this city
on Tuesday, July 17, 1883, Rev. Father Swiebach officiating.  After the
ceremony a bountiful repast was served at the residence of the brides
family.  The happy couple left on the evening train for the home of the
groom.  They were followed by the best wishes of their many friends in
this city.

**FRANK DON LEVY and bride returned Tuesday evening from their wedding
tour.

**N. S. CHASE has gone to Maine, accompanied by his aunt, who resides
there, but who has been making an extended visit among her many friends
and acquaintances in Wisconsin.  We hope Mr. Chase will enjoy his visit
to the scenes of his childhood.

**THE STORM which was so distinctly seen and heard in the city Thursday
evening, caused great damage and destruction of the property in the
towns of Oconto, Stiles and Maple Valley.  Houses and barns were
unroofed, blown down and quite a number of head of cattle killed.  The
loss cannot be estimated at this time, but it is heavy.

**TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.  Last Wednesday afternoon, while Geo. Smith Jr.,
was at work on his father’s farm near the city mowing grass with a
mower, the team he was driving became frightened and ran away, throwing
George from his seat and in front of the sickle.  Before the team was
stopped his right arm was terribly cut and lacerated and both of the
bones in the forearm broken.  He was brought to the city with all
possible haste and Drs. Allan, Beebe and Moriarty summoned, who upon
consulting decided that the arm must be amputated and the operation was
performed at once.  George passing through the operation with heroism
that was surprising, considering his weakened condition resulting from
loss of blood.  There is probably no young man in the city more popular,
and who has a greater number of friends than the unfortunate young
gentleman, who has the universal sympathy of all our citizens in his
misfortune.
 

DIED.  Monday afternoon, H. F. McCarty, popular known as “Chub.”  He had
been sick a year or more wasting away with the consumption.  His death
was easy and peaceful, passing away so quietly that the departure of the
spirit was not noticed.  The deceased lost his wife and child by death,
about a year ago, after which he seemed to have lost all interest in
life.  “Chub” was mortal and like all men had his good and bad
qualities, the former greatly outnumbering the latter however.  He was
kind-hearted and companionable and did fully as well as those whose
opportunities were better and made greater pretenses.  His funeral took
place at the M. E. church Tuesday afternoon and the audience room being
will filled with the relatives, friends and acquaintances of the
departed, and his remains were followed to their last resting place by a
large concourse of people.  The funeral services were conducted by the
Rev. S. Renyolds, who preached an excellent and appropriate discourse,
and the music for the mournful occasion which was furnished by the
Presbyterian choir, was very appropriate indeed.

**MONDAY last, Drs. O’Keef and Moriarty examined Frank Adams as to his
mental condition and pronounced him insane.  He will be sent to the
Asylum for the Insane at Oshkosh, where it is sincerely hoped, he will
recover his reason.

**A SCANDAL culminated in a shooting affray at Marinette, on the 31st
ult.  The parties interested are, S. Terrien, a boot and shoe dealer,
and Azra Picard, a tailor, both residents of that place.  Neither of the
parties are hurt, although Terrien had a close call, a bullet passing
through his hat.  Picard was arrested and bound over in the sum of $500
to appear at the next term of the circuit court.

**SUNDAY morning, between the hours of one and two, the large barn
belonging to A. D. Washburn, near his residence in the North ward was
totally destroyed by fire, with considerable other property that could
not be saved from the flames.  Mr. Washburn estimates his loss at $1,
200 and thinks the fire must have been the work of an incendiary, as
neither he nor any of his family had been near the barn before the fire.

**WEDNESDAY night, there was trouble in Casper Stieger’s household.
When it became time to retire for the night, Georgie their little
toddler was missed.  Search was made in almost every conceivable place
without avail, which thoroughly alarmed the parents and the older
brothers and sisters who cried singly and in concert.  An hour or so
after the little fellows absence was discovered he was found fast asleep
under one of the counters in the store.  It is quite unnecessary to
remark that there was great rejoicing when the lost was found.

**TUESDAY  evening, John Mulligan was arrested for threatening the life
of the city marshal and spent the night at the Lunatic’s Retreat, once
in a while alluded to as the county jail.  The next morning he was tied
loose, and told to go and sin no more.  Mr. Mulligan is said to be a
very pleasant and inoffensive man, and if he made any such threats, he
must have been talking for fun.

**LAST MONDAY night, while John Mulligan the bruiser was sitting in
front of a saloon on Main street partially asleep three men approached
him and without a word of warning dealt him several blows on the head
with either a club or slung-shot.  Thinking that his assailants were
about to kill him, he cried murder and they fled, not however, before
going through his pockets in search for  “a gun” as they claimed and
taking his silver mounted cane.  After the assault Mulligan in a dazed
condition wander up Main street a block or two and meeting a gentleman,
told him of his misfortune.  The gentleman took him to a doctor who
dressed his wounds and then took him to a hotel.  The assault was brutal
in the extreme and seems to have been entirely unprovoked.  Mulligan may
be a prizefighter and a bad man generally, but that gives nobody an
excuse for taking advantage of him and doing him great bodily injury,
when he is not in a condition to defend himself.

**NOTICE  My wife, Mrs. Ricky Ansorge, having left my bed and board
without just cause or provocation, I forbid anybody harboring her or
trusting her on my account, as I will pay none of her bills.  She having
left a number of small children uncared for, I take this opportunity to
request their respective fathers to call and identify their own and take
them away, as I feel that I  have supported them long enough.  GUSTAVUS
ANSORGE.

***EDWARD LABOUSSIERE a lad thirteen years of age, living with his
parents in the town of Oconto, met with a painful and serious accident
last Monday afternoon, while engaged in mowing hay with a span of horses
in his fathers field.
 

**FATAL ACCIDENT.  On Monday morning, shortly after A. Eldred & Son’s
mill at Stiles, started up, a most distressing and painful accident
occurred, which resulted in the loss of a life.  It seems that for some
reason the shingle mill shut down temporarily and after a few moments
had elapsed one of the known sawyers proceeded up stairs to ascertain the
cause; but while on his way the mill started up again.  Willie Daily, a
young lad of fourteen, who was employed to clear the waste from the knot
saws, stepped out to call his attention to the fact and in doing so
leaned over a shaft which was revolving at the rate of 300 revolutions
per minute.  The boy’s clothing became entangled on the shaft and
carried him around at a tremendous speed, his feet striking the floor
and the waste elevator, which runs a few feet from the shaft, at each
revolution.  As soon as it became known the mill was shut down and the
boy was disengaged from the shaft and taken home.  Dr. Ohswaldt and Dr.
O’Keef were sent for, but it was soon found that the boy was injured
beyond recovery.  His right foot was terribly mangled, the bones of the
ankle and foot being scattered some distance.  The right knee was
dislocated and severely bruised.  There was a double fracture of the
left thigh and a compound fracture of the leg.  The left arm was broken
in three places and the forearm in two places, the skin and muscles
being stripped off almost the entire length.  But with all this
mutilation the little fellow bore the pains with remarkable fortitude,
until the merciful messenger of death relieved him of his suffering,
three hours after the accident.
Mr. Cowen, the superintendent of the mill interests here, did all that
lay in human power to afford every means of relief to the sufferer, and
to comfort the afflicted parents.

**PETER CHRISTIAN lost a babe by death last week.

**HUFF JONES, (as strange as it may seem) and Rev. William Dafter went
to the Peshtigo river on a trout expedition Tuesday and Wednesday.

**A. B. LAWRENCE  (Banty) was in the city Tuesday.  The little old man
with grey hair and a black goatee, now hails from Green Bush, Sheboygan
county.

**FRANK ADAMS was taken to the Asylum for the Insane at Oshkosh
Wednesday evening, where it is hoped that he will regain his reason and
be restored to health at an early date.

**J. D. RHODES, a former resident of this city proposes to undertake the
foolhardy attempt to swim Niagara Rapids, the same where Capt. Webb
recently lost his life.  Should he succeed, it will amount to nothing,
and if he fails and loses his life, nobody will be the loser—provided he
is an unmarried man.

**A ROCK containing silver with traces of gold, which assays from $50 to
$60 to the ton, has been found in the town of How.

**INTEREST in the mysterious disappearance of little Willie Dickinson,
of Florence, during the month of November, 1881, has been revived by the
statement of a little boy named Dunn, living at Commonwealth, to the
effect that while picking blackberries one day recently he was horrified
by the discovery of a heap of boys clothing and a small human skeleton.

**SEVERAL weeks since, a celestial by the name of Sing Yan, who is a
naturalized American citizen, came here and rented a building for the
purpose of engaging in the laundry business.  While here, he was met on
the street by a party of naturalized citizens, who informed him that if
he located here they would cut his throat as they did not want any
Chinese here.  Sing Yan is a quiet, gentlemanly fellow, speaks the
English language fluently, and would be a far more valuable citizen than
any of those who objected to his coming.  He paid four months rent in
advance which he will lose in case he does not return of which amount,
they might as well have robbed him.  They profess to be Christians, and
liberty-loving Democrats—further comments are unnecessary.

**PERSONAL MENTION.  Hon Geo. H. Buckstaff and Major A.A. Bunting, of
Oshkosh, spent several days last week in this city, the guests of Thomas
and Samuel Simpson, with whom they grew up away back in the East, and
whom they had not seen for many years.  Buckstaff and Bunting were
members of the gallant 1st Wis. Inft. Volunteers, both were wounded
during the rebellion, and both are men in the fullest and broadest
acceptation of the term.  Their hearts is the largest part of them.
 

McDONALD—CHEFFINGS.  A quiet wedding was solemnized at the residence of
Mr. Frazier McDonald Monday evening, August 20, 1883, the contracting
parties being, Miss Hannah Cheffings, of Maple Valley, and Melville
McDonald of this city, the marriage ceremony being performed by the Rev.
Wm. Dafter rector of St. Marks, Episcopal church.  The marriage was
witnessed by many of the relatives of the happy couple and a few invited
guests who after the ceremony, sat down to a most sumptuous repast which
was all the heart could wish.
The bride who recently came from England, is a most estimable lady,
endowed with good judgment and will make a grand and noble wife.
Mr. McDonald has resided in this city many years and is universally
respected.  He is a gentleman of excellent habits, quiet and unassuming,
and has a host of friends who wish him and his wife all the joy that the
most enthusiastic could desire.
That they may be happy and prosperous is the earnest wish of all
connected with the REPORTER.

**UNDER SHERIFF McGee took Mrs. Margaret Burke, of Pensaukee, to the
asylum for the insane at Oshkosh Tuesday.  She was violently insane, so
much so, that he experienced considerable trouble with her while enroute
to that place.

**A LITTLE four year old boy, the child of J. H. Driscoll, while at play
with a number of other children on the bank of the river in front of his
parents residence Saturday afternoon, fell into the river and would
probably have drowned had it not been for Mr. John Foley who hearing the
shouts of the children went to the rescue and saved the little fellows
life.
 

**A FEW weeks since, C. E. Anderson while at work had the misfortune to
meet with an accident by which his left eye was badly injured.  He went
to Chicago and placed himself under the care of an oculist in that city
who insisted that there was a foreign substance in the eye and began a
treatment calculated to remove it.  Feeling that the oculist was
mistaken, Mr. Anderson went to Milwaukee, and placed himself under Dr.
Charles Houghman’s care, who after examining the eye informed him that
the sight was entirely gone and never could be restored, but that he
could save the eye ball so as to prevent disfigurement.  Mr. Anderson
has returned and should a person not be informed to the contrary, would
never mistrust that he was totally blind in the left eye.  He speaks in
the highest terms of Dr. Houghman who is undoubtedly the most successful
oculist in this country, as many in this county can testify who have
received great benefit from his skill and treatment.

**WE learn as we go to press, that the planning mill and lumber yard at
Fort Howard belonging to A. Eldred & Son, were destroyed by fire,
yesterday morning.  The loss is heavy.

**ARRANGEMENTS are being made for an excursion from this city to
Appleton on the 27 inst., the day that Barnum’s mammoth show and circus
visits that city.  The train will be run over the St. Paul Eastern and
Milwaukee Northern roads, leaving here in the morning and returning in
the evening.  Tickets entitling the holders to railway fair, dinner and
admission to the circus, will be sold at the lowest possible figure.

**THE REPORTER learns from reliable resources, that the insane belonging
to this county and kept at the Waupaca poor house, are not receiving
such care treatment as they should. Whose duty is it to see that they
receive good care?

**AT the present time, this county is supporting three insane persons in
Waupaca county, at an annual expense of something like $785.  They could
be supported at home just as cheaply and more comfortably than they are
over there and the money paid at home instead of being sent away to
benefit another community.  The REPORTER would suggest to the county
officer whose duty it is to look after such matters, that it would be
for the best interests of the patients and this county to have them
brought home.
 

PLEASANT EVENT.  A pleasant wedding occurred at the Presbyterian church
in this city, Tuesday afternoon, September 4th, 1883, the contracting
parties being Mr. William Alexander and Miss Sophia K. Good, Rev. J. H.
Kerr, pastor of the church performing the ceremony.  The happy couple
were attended by Charles Good a cousin of the bride and Miss Jessie
Parker, the bride entering the church which was well filled by the
friends to the party, leaning upon the arm of her cousin followed by the
bridegroom escorting the bridesmaid, in the meantime, Doctor Wilcox  the
organist playing a wedding march.
Mr. Alexander is a very excellent young man, and the bride a very
estimable lady, who have many friends here and elsewhere, that wish them
all the happiness imaginable.

**W. F. JOHNS, of Gillett, the happiest man in the county, is becoming a
very extravagant.  He now wears wooden shoes about the size of Chinese
junks.  Charley McKenzie who is envious of William’s prosperity,
threatens to split them open with an axe the first opportunity he has.

** CHAUNCY W. Barnett, of Pensaukee, was in the city Tuesday.  Being an
old soldier he called at the REPORTER office to commune with the editor
who is always glad to make the acquaintance of those who stood by their
country in time of need.  Mr. Barnett was a member of the 5th New
Hampshire Infantry Vols. Was shot through the left lung at Fair Oaks,
VA., the bullet entering just above the heart and passing through his
body leaving between the eighth and ninth ribs, on and one half inch
from the vertebra; he hovered between life and death for months, but
lived to suffer until the end of life.  The country owes such men an
eternal debt of gratitude which will be paid in full when patriotism is
more highly valued by the people.

**THE following is a list of the jurors drawn to serve at the term of
the circuit court to be held at the court house in this city Monday,
September 17th:
T.G. Gilkey, Jno Kuhapt, W.M. Underhill, Chas. Hall, James Kent, E. S.
McKinney, B. Barker, W.W. DeLano, Con.Morrell, R. E. Bowman, N.S. Chase,
S. A. Knowles, L. W. Milbury, Frank Moody, John Petty, William Grade,
Nicholas Loring, Antone Conrad, David Lenneville, Ernst Surprise, Ruben
Treadwell, Wm. Kuger, James Wall, Michael O’Neil, James Hall, Michael
Exford, R. Watters, Joseph Nails, Chas. Vallier, J. F. Mathews, O. L.
Edwards, James Heath, Levi Sargent, Con Keifert, Alex. Urquhart, John
Struck.

**ON Aug. 30th, as August Keneger was running a slab car to the fire
bank at Eldred’s mill at Stiles, he slipped and fell under the car.  One
wheel of the car ran over his face fracturing the lower jaw, and the car
was only stopped by the hind wheel striking the boys neck.  The boy is
doing well and has continued to work in the mill.

**J. CHASE who recently came to this city from Logansport, Ind., while
out examining land last week in the town of Maple Valley with Mr.
William Guthrie, got separated from him and straying away became lost.
The settlers were notified and parties at once began search for him
going in all directions where it was supposed he would be found.  He
became lost Thursday and was not discovered until Saturday, he having
been in the woods 48 hours.  He was found by John Kelley and a companion
in an almost exhausted condition from travel and the want of rest and
food.  Since Mr. Chase settled here, he has made many friends who are
glad, that his experience was no worse.

**THE OCONTO REPORTER published last week a short article telling of the
impudent and ungentlemanly treatment received at the hands of one of the
puke promoters at the Oshkosh Insane Asylum by a local official who took
a patient there.  The statement confirms exactly with the story told by
several of our county officers of the manner in which they were treated
when business called them thither.  If the papers of the state do their
duty, the people will soon learn that while they have contributed
liberally towards the erection and maintenance of this great benevolent
institution, that it is made a sort of soft political infirmary for the
especial benefit and pleasure of an assortment of snobbish medical
dudes, who, if reports are true, evidently lack the very first elements
of gentlemen.  But unless Divine Providence graciously interposes there
is small grounds for any reasonable hopes of a reformation through the
Board of Supervision so long as the very existence of the Board, and the
tenure of office of the alleged medical assistants rest upon the same
basis.  If Dr. Kempster when he occasionally visits the Asylum to draw
his salary could possible spare the time to discharge “me too” Burchard,
and to give his so-called assistants a hypodermic injection of equal
parts of common sense and ordinary decency diluted with a weak tincture
of brains, the people might be induced to overlook the accident of their
birth and lack of medical knowledge.—Telephone, Juneau
 

OBITUARY
Died at her residence in the town of Gillett, near the village of
Pulcifer, Tuesday night, Mrs. Eliza Tibbitts, wife of Hillman Tibbitts,
aged 34 years, 9 months and 15 days.  The remains were brought to this
city Wednesday night, and the funeral obsequies were held at the
Methodist church Thursday afternoon, the services being conducted by the
Rev. J.H. Kerr, pastor of the Presbyterian church, the pastor of the M.
E. church being absent.  The music for the sad occasion was furnished by
members from both choirs and the following gentlemen, members of the Odd
Fellow’s Lodge in this city with which the bereaved husband is
connected:  George Beyer, George D. Knapp, J. F. Renyolds, Al. Parker,
H. Thiele, and Felix Johnson acted as pall bearers.  The church was
crowded by the friends of the deceased, who with her husband resided in
this city many years and was universally beloved and respected by all
who enjoyed her acquaintance.  She was an earnest temperance worker and
advocate, and while not a communicant of any church was in sympathy with
every good word and work., and encouraged by her words and action every
effort tending to the up lifting of men and the making of society purer
and better.  The deceased was a daughter of Cyrus and Maranda Folsom of
this city and was born at East Mathias, Me., from which place her
parents moved about 17 years ago.  By her death her parents lose a
dutiful and affectionate daughter, the husband a loving and devoted
wife, the children (seven) a fond and tender mother, and society one who
was kind hearted, sympathetic and a warm friend.  The aged parents, the
heart broken husband and the little ones left without a mother’s care,
have the sympathy of all in their bereavement.  The remains were
interred in the Oconto Cemetery, being followed there by a large
concourse of people as a last sad token of respect for one they had
loved in life.

**LAST Saturday afternoon, Claus Vollmer who had been doing chores for
the past two years for George Beyer died suddenly of the heart disease
at the residence of the latter.  The deceased was a native of Germany,
in the 70th year of his age, somewhat peculiar in his tastes and manners
and without relatives in this country.  His funeral took place Tuesday,
the sermon being preached by the Rev. J. H. Kerr of the Presbyterian
church.

**MR AND MRS. E. C. WHITNEY lost their babe by death, last Monday
evening after an illness of short duration.  The funeral took place from
their residence Wednesday afternoon, the services being conducted by
Rev. J. H. Kerr, pastor of the Presbyterian church.  The remains were
interred in the cemetery near Brookside, beside the body of their oldest
daughter who died abut two years ago.  The bereaved parents have the
sympathy of all in their bereavement and love.

**DAN ROSA carries one of his feet in a sling and get around with the
aid of a crutch and cane.  In a few days he will be able to shoulder his
crutch and show them how they fought at Bunker Hill—and will not scuffle
any more.

**FRANK BIDWELL, of Brookside, met a big black bear on the road near the
town hall.  He emptied the contents of his gun into his bearship and
they then parted company. Bruin is probably going, wondering what
tickled him so.

**ONE DAY last week, J.J. Porter shot a skunk in his yard that weighed
54 pounds and stunk a ton.  Since then, Mr. P. has been obliged to carry
chlorate of lime home by the pailful to sweeten the atmosphere in the
vicinity of his residence.

**A COLORED individual answering to the historical name of Jefferson,
but commonly called Jim, was arrested at the Smith farm in the town of
Oconto Tuesday morning, by city marshal Don Levy, upon a warrant
charging him with threatening to annihilate the several members of the
Smith family, but more especially George Sr., who he averred, he would
convert into a strainer by puncturing his corpus with bullets from an
arsenal which he carries around upon his person for just such
amusement.  After his arrest, the officer brought him to the city and
introduced him to jailer Call, who granted him breakfast, after which,
he was escorted before Squire Hart who granted him an adjournment until
Friday, after he had plead “not guilty” to the charge contained in the
complaint.  No one appearing to go his bail he was again accompanied to
the bastile, there to remain until the day of trial, which occurred
Friday, and was permitted to “skip” out to save the county cost.
 

MR. AND MRS. ISAAC Dickey have the sympathy of the community in the
death of their son aged 15 months, which occurred last Thursday
afternoon.  The child was running around and was finally missed.  Search
was instituted and in about half an hour it was found in a vault where
it had accidentally fallen.  All efforts to resuscitate it proved in
vain.  The funeral took place from the residence on Saturday.

**BELLE ROBARGE vs  John Robarge, case from Florence county.  Degree of
divorce granted.

**LAST Wednesday evening between the hours of eight and nine, while
James Alder, of Escanaba, was returning from Frenchtown where he had
been on business, he was attacked by four ruffians as he was passing
along that portion of Oregon street, which passes through the Oconto
Company’s lumber yard.  As soon as he discovered that his assailants
were about to “hold him up,” he pulled his revolver and told them to git
and they got, as they wanted to preserve their worthless lives a while
longer.  It is reported that several parties have been robbed of late in
that part of the city.  There is an officer hired by the city
authorities expressly for the purpose of protecting citizens, but it
seems that he is never around when his services would be of value.  The
city marshal should go up there and gather up a few toughs, among them,
one Smith, and escort them outside the city limits and set them adrift
with the cheering information if they ever return, they will be shot on
sight.

**CIRCUIT COURT
D. CORNISH vs. Ellen E. Cornish.  Decree of divorce granted.
FRANK RICE vs. Rose L. Rice. Decree of divorce granted.
 

MARRIED.
LINDER—AHLBORG.  A pleasant wedding occurred at the Lutheran church in
Marinette, Friday evening, at 8 o’clock September 21st 1883, the
contracting parties being Rev. F. A. Linder of Marinette and Miss Alma
C. Ahlborg, of Oconto, Rev. M. Frykman, pastor of the church performing
the ceremony.  The happy couple were attended by A. F. Esson, of Oconto,
a cousin of the bride, and Miss Minnie Glynn of Oconto, the bride
entering the church which was well filled by the friends of the party,
leaning upon the arm of her cousin followed by the bridegroom escorting
the bridesmaid, in the meantime Miss Amanda Olson the organist playing a
wedding march.
Rev. F. A. Linder is a very excellent young man, and the bride a very
estimable lady, who have many friends here and elsewhere that wish them
all the happiness imaginable.

AT REST
FARLEY.—Passed to a higher life, September 21st 1883, Owen Farley, aged
71 years.
Mr. Farley came to Pensaukee, Oconto county, Wis., in 1853, and has
resided here ever since.  He engaged extensively in the lumber trade, in
which he was very successful.  He also purchased a tract of wild land,
which he cleared, and upon which he erected buildings that were second
to none in the county.  He was a kind husband, a fond father, and an
accommodating and obliging neighbor.  During his long residence here he
was known to almost every one in county, and was universally liked for
his genial disposition and affable manners, which won him friends
wherever he went.
The funeral obsequies were held at Brookside, the sermon being preached
by the Rev. J. h. Kerr, of Oconto.  The large concourse of people who
came to pay their last respects to the departed and drop a tear of
sympathy with the bereaved, attested the respect of the community for
him who had laid down life’s burden and entered in at the pearly gates
to enjoy life in a higher and more exalted state.
Mrs. Farley, wife of the deceased, says words are inadequate to express
her thanks to the many friends for the kindness and sympathy manifested
during the sickness, death, and the last rites for the departed husband
and father.  M. SUTTON.  Brookside, Sept. 25, 1883.

**THE funeral of Owen Farley, on Sunday last, was the largest ever held
at this place, and attested the high esteem in which he was held by all.

**A FATAL accident occurred in the Peshtigo Co.’s mill, at Peshtigo, on
Monday forenoon, a German by the name of August Schroeder while
operating a butting saw, being struck from behind by a heavy slab and
knocked over into the saw, severing his left fore arm and cutting an
opening eight or ten inches long into the abdominal cavity, from the
left side, from which his bowels protruded.  The bowels and the hip bone
of the left side were frightfully lacerated by the saw.  Death relieved
the unfortunate man from his sufferings in three hours after the
accident.

**ON MONDAY afternoon, a German named Aug. Bubletz, in the Peshtigo
Harbor mill,  was caught between two cog-wheels in such a manner as to
relieve him of a patch of skin and superficial fat, four or five inches
in diameter from the left leg just behind the knee joint.  The accident
is not serious.  The man is doing well and will recover.

**THREE or more insane persons, who are quiet, are to be returned from
the Asylum at Oshkosh to this county, on account of this county having
more than its quota in that institution. They will be kept at the county
jail.

**LAST Saturday morning while Clarence Halbert was at work in the Oconto
company’s box factory, his right hand came in contact with a buzz saw
and his thumb was severed and fingers considerably mangled.  The wounds
were dressed and though painful,
 are doing as well as could be expected.

**PETER CONNACHER, of Canada, has settled in this city with his family.
He is a hardworking, industrious man, just the kind we need.  They will
live on Section street south.

**WE learn through a gentleman who has seen the individual, that there
is a man living the life of a hermit near Death’s Door or Kewaunee
point, whose vertebra is so right that he cannot turn his body either to
the right or left, nor bend forward or backward.  During the summer the
poor fellow subsists on roots and berries, and in the winter upon fish
which he manages to catch through the ice.  It was impossible to
ascertain the man’s name or nationality as he does not seem to have the
least comprehension of anything that is said to him in a half dozen
different languages.  He lives quite a distance from any neighbor or
settlement, and is an object of charity that should be looked after by
the proper authorities of Door county.

**THE REPORTER learns from a communication from St. Nathans (Chase), that squire
Ed. Lane, of that place is losing his eye sight, the sight of one eye
being entirely gone.  Having rented his farm, he started Tuesday for
Michigan, where he will place himself under the care of  a skillful
Oculist, who thinks that he can save the sight of one eye, if not
restore the vision of the other.  It is to be earnestly hoped that he
will be successful and that friend Lane will return with his eyesight
fully restored.  It is also learned from the same communication, that
there has been quite a revival of religion in that vicinity, under the
ministration of the Rev. Mr. Dickey, of the Methodist Episcopal church.
Many have accepted of the overtures of mercy, and many are inquiring the
way to light and life. And that the crops in that part of the county
have been seriously injured by the frost, so much so, that the farmers
do anticipate more than a half crop of corn and vegetables.

**SOME WEEKS since one of the Oconto papers made some damaging charges,
if true, against the Northern Hospital, which it printed editorially.  A
few days after a citizen of Oconto called on the Advocate, stating that
he was the author of the article, that he had been an inmate or patient
in both the State Asylum, &c.  After talking quite rationally for a
while, this man suddenly became “wild as a hawk” and we as suddenly
parted company with him, feeling that he was not a safe man to be at
large, much less to furnish editorials for newspapers.  We now learn
that he has been again returned by the Oconto authorities to Asylum,
being considered dangerous.
Most of the charges against the Northern Asylum have been traced to
insane people, either inmates of the Asylum or those who have been
inmates and returned to the counties from which they were sent, as
uncurable, to make room for more recent cases, and the papers that give
currency to their crazy statements show a great want of self respect and
a reckless disregard for truth.
 

**SHERRIF Thomas Simpson went to the Northern Asylum for the Insane
Monday, and returned on Tuesday with Theodore Prohl, Chris Meyer and
William McDowell, the quota in the Asylum from this county being more
than full.  The patients are quite and peaceable disposed and it is just
as well that they should be kept at home as at the Asylum.

**TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. Wednesday last, John Bureby who lives near the
Maple Valley Station on the Wis. & Mich. Railroad, met with a terrible
accident that may prove fatal.  He was engaged in chopping off the top
of a large maple tree that had blown down and when he severed the top
the trunk flew up throwing him quite a distance, and in falling he
fractured the vertebrae between the base of the skull and the shoulders
and injured the spinal cord.  His limbs are paralyzed and he lays upon
his back unable to be help himself in the least.  He is about forty
years of age, married, and the father of several children who depend
entirely upon his labor for support.

NOT THE END.
DIED at the residence in this city of her daughter, Mrs. J. S. McKenzie,
October 5, 1883, at 11 o'clock a. m. Mrs. Laura A. Purse, aged 43 years,
10 months and 5 days.
The deceased was born at Poltop, Vt., where she resided with her parents
until 1849, when they moved to this state settling at Oshkosh, where she
resided until her marriage.  Her husband died at Springfield, Ill., in
1860, leaving her with two children, a son and daughter at the early age
of 21, who she provided for until they were able to care for her.  In
1874 she came to this city and made her home with her daughter Mrs.
McKenzie until her death with a cancer, and bore her sufferings with
fortitude and Christian resignation and died calmly and peacefully,
trusting that all would be well.
The funeral services were held at the M. E. church Sunday afternoon, the
Rev. Mr. Yarwood officiating in the absence of a regular pastor and her
remains were followed to their last resting place by many who know her
and appreciated her social and Christian worth.

**JAMES ELLIOTT, who had run camps for the Oconto Company for many
years, but who for the past few months had conducted the Lafayette House
in Frenchtown, died last Monday, after a short illness of a fever.

**SHERIFF Thomas Simpson returned Thursday afternoon from the Northern
Hospital for the Insane with the following named incurables:  Charles
Sorenson, Nelson Birmingham and Herman Signitz who were sent back on
account of the crowded condition of the hospital.  There are now nine
insane persons confined in the county jail who will probably remain
there, until they die or are removed to other quarters to be provided
for them by the county, which should be done at the earliest possible
moment.
 

MARRIED
BERRY—POUSE.  At the residence of the bride's parents in the city of
Marinette, on the 17th day of October, 1883, by the Rev. J. D. Cole,
pastor of the M.E. Church in that place.  Mr. Ed Berry and Miss Ella
Pouse, both of Marinette.
Mr. Berry resided in this city for many years, in fact spent his boyhood
here.  He is a young man of sterling principles, fine morals and
business acumen, and has a host of friends here who will wish him joy
and prosperity in his new departure.  The bride is a most excellent
young lady, accomplished and popular.  Both are fortunate and both have
the kindest wishes of the REPORTER for their success in life.  Mrs. L.
F. Berry, the grooms mother, and Miss Henrietta Lamkey, were in
attendance at the wedding.

OBITUARY
DIED, at her residence in this city, Oct. 9th, 1883, Mrs. Archie Mott,
aged 32 years.  She was born at Armstrong’s Brook, N. B., where she
resided until 1869, when she moved to this city which was her home until
her death.  She was a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal church, and
had so lived that when called to “pass through the dark valley” it was
without fear or misgiving, her trust being in One Mighty to save.  Mrs.
Mott was a kind neighbor, a sympathetic friend, devoted mother and an
affectionate wife.  By her death a happy home circle is broken and five
children, two boys and three girls, all of tender years, lost the care
of a thoughtful and self-sacrificing mother, and a husband the counsel
and affection of a true wife and woman, who in their bereavement and
grief, have the sympathy of all who know them. (transcriber’s note: N.
B. is what was printed in the newspaper)

**MR. AND MRS. JOHN FOLLETT lost their babe by death, Saturday morning
of last week.  It was buried Sunday afternoon, the funeral services
being held at their residence on Court Street.

**C.B. KNOWLTON, formerly a resident of this city and of the range, but
now of the new and thriving town of Crivitz, on the junction of the
Wisconsin and Michigan railroad, received a telegram one day this week
announcing the death of his wife sister living in Maine, at the hands of
a man who in vain sought her hand in marriage.  Her refusal to wed him
turned his head and in a wild moment he shot and killed her, afterward
killing himself.  The lady was highly respected and well known and her
violent death has called forth many expressions of sympathy.
(From the EAGLE)

**VIC SCHONFIELD has been appointed local agent in this city for the
State Steamship company, whose vessels ply between Glasgow and New York,
and is prepared to sell tickets to those going to or returning from
Europe.

**A YEAR ago last November little Willie Dickinson was stolen from his
parents at Florence, since which time every effort possible has been
made to discover his whereabouts, but without avail.  Recently, a clue
was discovered that led his parents to believe that their child was
taken to Cornwall, England, and Captain Dickinson has offered a reward
in that country of 500 pounds sterling for the recovery of their lost
child.

**Leroy Bennyhoff who resided in this city a number of years ago, but
now a resident of Logoodtee, Ill., is here visiting his sister, Mrs. A.
D. Washburn.

**ON WEDNESDAY evening last, while Wm. Thielena, a juryman, was driving
out to his home in Humboldt from this city, he fell from his wagon and
sustained such injuries to his back as to paralyze the lower portion of
his body.  Dr. Rhode was called.  The case is a desperate one.

**WE LEARN that the young people of Marinette are considerably exercised
over the reported marriage, soon, of the second daughter of Hon. Isaac
Stephenson.  It will undoubtedly be a brilliant affair.

**CHARLES (WILSON) LINGREN and August Johnson were arrested Wednesday
afternoon by Sheriff Simpson, upon a complaint charging them with
stealing and butchering a cow, the property of Henry Sherer.  Upon their
arrest they were taken to the county jail, where they remained until
Thursday forenoon, when they were taken before Justice Bailey, who,
after an examination bound them over to the circuit court, fixing bail
at $500 each.

**COMMUNICATION.  LOWELL, WIS., Oct. 25, 1883.
EDITOR REPORTER:--Our only son (very dear to us) being partially insane,
was sent to the northern hospital for the insane, for calm and medical
treatment.  We intrusted him, our dearest earthly treasure, to the
officers of that institution, thinking that he would be well cared for,
but, for some reason, he was so neglected as to admit of his escape from
the asylum, and two weeks have elapsed since he went away, yet no
effort, as far as we have been able to learn, has been made for his
capture and return to the asylum.  We have written to the officers of
the hospital and have made a visit there in person, but all the
satisfaction we could obtain was, “As soon as he is found we will let
you know.”  Such a cold, mechanical answer is enough to almost break our
hearts, which are already bowed to the earth with sorrow because of the
terrible affliction that has fallen upon our only son, upon whom we
expected to lean in our declining years.  Now this terrible suspense
seems more than we can bear, and what makes it more painful is that he
escaped through the neglect of those to whom we intrusted him.
We feel, that as this is the case, that as little as they can do is to
make every effort in their power to find him, and we ask all to aid us
in the recovery of our son.  His name is O. A. Runyan. He is rather
above medium height, dark hair and eyebrows, dark grey eyes, with fair
complexion.  He is very slim and 29 years of age.  When he left the
asylum he wore a dark, mixed suit.  Any information as to his
whereabouts will be liberally rewarded by
Yours, &c,
M. A. RUNYAN,
S. RUNYAN
 

A SAD ENDING.  Last Wednesday night George Daniels, who had worked in
this city as a tinsmith for the past three years, retired to rest at the
City hotel, in good health.  The next morning, he not appearing for
breakfast, his room was visited and the discovery made that during the
night he had died, either a natural death or by his own hand.
The county corner, Carl Bentz, empaneled a jury, and an inquest was held
which resulted in a verdict to the effect that the deceased came to his
death by a draught of laudanum administered by his own hand with
suicidal intent.  The evidence adduced before the jury established the
fact that he had purchased an ounce and a half of laudanum which he had
taken, the bottle which contained the same being found in his room.
The deceased was very intemperate and had, through his fondness for
intoxicants, lost several situations of late, which evidently influenced
him to take his life.
He was a native of Kalamazoo, Mich., where his parents reside, who are
very respectable people, and George, when sober, was a man of
considerable intelligence and a gentleman in his deportment.  Liquor was
the cause of his downfall and indirectly the cause of his death.
His remains were buried Thursday afternoon with unseeming haste and
without the rites of Christian burial, although in a Christian
community.  It was probably as well as could have been done under the
circumstances.
George, although a young man comparatively speaking, had seen
considerable trouble, which may have influenced him to drink.  Had his
“lines been cast in pleasant places” it is very probable that he would
have been a good citizen and member of society.  Will E. Barlow, for
whom he had labored in the past, generously bore a part of the expenses
of his burial, and followed his remains to their last resting place in
the “silent city of the dead.”

**A PARTY of deer hunters from Chicago, while hunting on the Menominee
river one day last week, left their camp unprotected, and upon their
return discovered nothing but ashes, the camp having been destroyed by
fire during their absence.  The fire is supposed to have been set by
Indians.  Loss $1,000 in arms, clothes and camp equipage.

**THE REPORT of A. O. Wright, secretary of the state board of charities
and reform for the year ending September 30th last, will contain the
following in regard to Oconto and its jail:
“Oconto county is still satisfied with its fire-trap of a jail and keeps
eleven insane men constantly, together with forty-four different
prisoners during the past year, in a jail constructed wholly of wood,
with a single narrow staircase and heated by wood-stoves.  The insane
men are well treated by the jailor.”

**SUNDAY morning the 8:30 passenger train going east from Iron Mountain,
Mich., ran over the body of a Swede by the name of John Peterson, about
a mile east of that place, who had previously been murdered and placed
there to carry the impression that he had been killed by the train.  His
cousin, Frank Peterson, who was with him the night previous, has been
arrested on suspicion of having murdered him for his money, he being a
timberman at the Chapin mine and possessed of considerable money.

**CHAS. S. McKENZIE, the leanest man, and Will F. Johns, the fattest man
in Gillett, were in the city Wednesday.  They are a jolly pair, and it
takes threes to beat them for fun, good nature, good sense and worth as
citizens.

**MRS. THOMAS SCRIPTURE, of Stiles, has been seriously ill during the
week, and no hopes are entertained for her recovery.

**THOMAS TUNNAY, who was injured last February while at work at the
Oconto Company’s mill, still walks with the aid of crutches.

**SEVEN deer hounds belonging to N. L. McCauslin and his son Henry, were
burnt to death recently in a hovel on the farm of Holt & Balcom on
McCauslin Brook.  It seems that a party of Indians came to the farm
during the day and were ordered away and left, but returned during the
night and set fire to the hovel in which the dogs were confined and it
and they were burned up.

**THE following is a list of new inventions for which patents were
recently granted to Wisconsin inventors, reported by Erwin & Benedict,
patent attorneys, 304 East Water street, Milwaukee, Wis.: Sand band for
vehicles, W.Cole, Menomonee; seed-bar tooth, G.D. Rowell, Appleton;
reversible cultivator tooth, G.D. Rowell, Appleton; Crank-plate for
bolster springs, J. Smith, Caldwell Prairie.

**C.L. WARNER caught a silver eel in the bay last Monday morning.  It
was two feet and seven inches in length and weighed four pounds, and was
the first ever caught in the bay or any of its tributaries.

**THE REPORTER is in receipt of a communication from a gentleman
residing in the town of Pensaukee in which he desires that the attention
of the County Board he called to the fact that he will take Nelson
Birmingham, an insane person now supported by this county and keep him
as long as he shall live, in consideration of the county giving him a
clear title to the farm in Pensaukee owned by said insane person.
Probably Mr. Birmingham has relatives who would be willing to do the
same thing for the same consideration.

**CHARLES ELLNER and S. C. Orr have located permanently in Oregon.  Mrs.
Ellner will leave for her new home in the far west on or about the 1st
of December next.

**MRS. O. F. TRUDELL visited friends at Green Bay, the early part of the
week, and will in a few days leave for the southern part of the state
where she and Eva will tarry during the winter.
 

AN OLD MAN by the name of Trudell who had lived in the north-eastern
portion of this state for many years, but who for the past few years had
been a resident of Green Bay from which place he made begging
expeditions to neighboring villages and cities will visit this city no
more, unless he comes in the spirit form to plague those who sold him
villainous whiskey and then turned him out of doors on a cold, wet,
dismal night to die in the street.  Last Thursday morning, he was found
lying in one of the streets in Frenchtown in an unconscious condition
and died soon after being removed to a house near where he had lain
during the night.  His death was undeniably caused by excessive
dissipation and adds another victim to the long list of deaths for which
liquor is responsible.  The deceased has sons residing in Green Bay and
Marinette and many relatives living in this part of the state who occupy
good positions in society, and who are in comfortable financial
circumstances who would have been glad to have taken care of the old man
had he consented to have remained with them.  But he preferred a nomadic
life the better to satisfy his appetite for intoxicants which caused his
death.

**A MISTAKE was made last week in stating that the silver eel mentioned
was caught by C. L. Warner.  The eel was caught in a net belonging to K.
G. House and lifted by men in his employ, among whom was Mr. Warner.

**THE GREEN BAY ADVOCATE corrects us in regard to the statement that the
silver eel caught last week was the first ever caught in the bay or any
of its tributaries.  It says that one was recently taken in the Fox
river, and at the time when the Wisconsin river overflowed into the Fox,
a couple of years ago, several varieties of Mississippi river fish
evidently came over with the flood and have been caught there since.  We
stand corrected, Frank, but want more eels.

**DR. BOLD amputated the end of his left thumb Monday morning, while
attempting to decapitate a chicken.  The fowl wiggled at the wrong time,
and the hatchet fell upon the Dr’s. thumb instead of its neck, much to
the medicine mans disgust.
 

ORANGE BLOSSOMS
OLIVER—LINKS.  At the Presbyterian church in this city Wednesday, Nov.
14, 1883, by the Rev. J. H. Kerr pastor, Mr. W. G. Oliver and Miss
Carrie Links, both of this city.
The bridal party entered the church a quarter to 12 m. in the following
order:  Mr. Joseph Ford and Miss Alma Links, the bride’s sister, Mr.
Edward Links, the bride’s brother and Miss Dora Arnold, Mr. Will Links,
the bride’s brother and the bride, W. G. Oliver the bridegroom and Mrs.
Links, the brides mother and Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Gilkey, of Green Bay,
uncle and aunt of the bride.  As the party entered the auditorium of the
church, Doctor Wilcox the organist played a wedding march during which
the bridal cortege passed up the central aisle to the alter where they
were met by the officiating clergyman who married them according to the
short simple and beautiful service of the Presbyterian church.  At the
close of the ceremony the happy couple retired from the church, and were
at once driven to the depot of the St. Paul Eastern railroad where they
took the 12:35 train for Chicago, where they will visit until the
earlier part of next week.
The bride wore a traveling suit which was very becoming indeed, and
looked exceedingly pretty as she stood at the alter.
Mrs. Oliver has resided in this city nearly all her life and has a
multitude of friends who wish her every joy imaginable in her new
relation.
Dr. Oliver has resided in this city a number of years, and has been
successful in making many friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver were the recipient of many elegant presents.
The REPORTER extends to the happy couple its blessing.

**ON THE 6th inst. Harry J. Brown and Miss Chippie, second daughter of
Hon. Isaac Stephenson, were united in the holy bonds of matrimony at the
elegant residence of the bride’s father.  Harry is lucky, Chippie is
fortunate and both should be happy as long as life shall last.  The
REPORTER pronounces its benediction “May the Lord bless you and cause
His face to shine upon you.”

**FRED KIRCHMAN, chief of the engineer corps of the St. Paul Eastern
railroad slipped away very quietly one day last week and went to
Milwaukee where he was married to a most estimable lady, a resident of
that city.  After the happy and auspicious event, Mr. Kirchman and bride
tarried with friends a few days and then came to this city, reaching
here last Sunday morning.  They occupy a delightful suite of rooms in
the Watterich block and are at home to their friends.

**W. N. GRAY, who eloped from Marinette with a pretty school-marm, has
returned and has been forgiven by his wife.  The school-marm, who left
her school and character, has returned to the home of her parents, where
she will be shunned as were the lepers of old.  The public may draw the
mantle of charity over the action of the man in leaving a devoted wife
in delicate health without means among strangers, but will it be equally
as charitable toward the misguided girl? We hope so.

**LATE TUESDAY NIGHT, WHILE Charles E. Weidner was returning home from
the business portion of the city, he was met on Superior street bridge
by two footpads, who held him up and after robbing him threw him off the
bridge into the river.  He would have drowned, had it not been for his
overcoat, which kept him afloat until he reached Hold and Balcom’s draw
bridge, where he managed to crawl out.

**ON THE 11th inst., Jack Parish a well known young man of Green Bay,
while drunk, entered the apartments of a Mr. Ingersoll, saying that he
wanted to see a disreputable woman who had formerly lived in the house.
Ingersoll told him that the woman did not live there and ordered him
out.  Parish drew a knife and attempted to assault Ingersoll who drew a
revolver and shot him, the ball making a flesh wound only.  Ingersoll
surrendered himself to the police and he and Parish were lodged in the
county jail.

**THE LAST NUMBER of the Green Bay Advocate contains an account of the
death at Marinette a week ago Friday of Mrs. Elizabeth A. Follett, with
whom many of the old residents of this city were acquainted, she having
resided at Green Bay upwards of forty years.  It says:  A few months ago
she submitted to a surgical operation for the removal of a cancer and
had never fully recovered.  She died peacefully and calmly while sitting
in her chair.  She was a lady most known in the domestic circle, quiet
and unobtrusive, of good mental endowments, patient in the extreme,
kindly, charitable and self-reliant.

**AUGUST JOHNSON, one of the parties confined in the county jail for
stealing and butchering a cow, the property of Henry Sherer, escaped
Wednesday morning, since which time he has been at liberty  He is
probably in haste to leave as much distance between this city and
himself as he can in the shortest period of time.

**ANTONE LAZHONSKY (?) while hunting on the Peshtigo river, Wednesday,
was accidentally shot by a Mr. Holmes of Green Bay.  He was shot in the
face, shoulder and chest, an entire load of buckshot entering his
person.  His face was badly lacerated, but none of the wounds are
dangerous, which was a miracle, as one of the shots struck in the
forehead and passed around his head to the nape of the neck, and another
struck just in front of a jugular vein.
 

DIED.  Last Saturday forenoon, John H. Goddard, Sr., of Brookside, died
very suddenly of heart disease on the road while returning from
Pensaukee, where he had been for the mail.  It seems that he had
purchased a fractious horse a few weeks ago and the morning of his
death, drove the animal over to Pensaukee and had experienced
considerable trouble.  On returning, it would appear from circumstances,
that the horse had become unmanageable.  Mr. G. not feeling well had
stopped to tie the animal to a telegraph pole and had fallen down while
engaged in doing so.
The deceased was 62 years old, thirty years of which he had passed in
this county, except the three years he spent in the army during the
rebellion as a soldier in the 12th Wis. Infty, Vols.  He was a good man
and universally liked by his neighbors and acquaintances, and stood high
in the estimation of the leading men in the county.
His funeral obsequies took place Monday in the school house, at
Brookside, the Rev. S. H. Couch, of the M. E. church officiating.
The house was crowded with the relatives and friends of the departed and
a procession of 60 teams followed his remains to the grave.
In the death of Mr. Goddard the community loses a kind neighbor, society
a worthy member and the state a valuable citizen.

**THE SAD NEWS was brought to the city Tuesday afternoon that Hunter
Orr, of West Pensaukee, had been instantly killed on the forenoon of
that day by reason of his team running away and throwing him from his
buggy upon his head and breaking his neck.  It affords us pleasure to be
able to inform our readers and the many friends of Mr. Hunter here and
elsewhere, that he is in the land of the living, in the enjoyment of
good health and that the prospects are favorable for his living a good
many years to come.

**NELSON CHRISTIANSON, a Norwegian about 40 years old, fell from the
platform leading to the cupalo in Delaney’s foundry at Fort Howard, one
day last week, and broke his neck.

**IN VIEW OF THE FACT that he has become quite infirm, being in his 78th
year, and the further fact that he may be absent from the city the most
of the winter, Mr. Edwin Hart has concluded to resign as justice of the
peace for the East ward.  His resignation, we understand, has been
placed in the hands of the city clerk, and is to take effect
immediately.  Mr. Hart has held the office twenty years or more, and has
given general satisfaction, and administered the law with justice to
all.
 

A VERY QUIET WEDDING was celebrated in Abrams on Tuesday, Nov. 27.  The
parties most interested were Miss Carrie Delano and Mr. Lawrence Bell.
The marriage ceremony was performed by Hunter Orr, justice of the
peace.  The bride was the recipient of many handsome presents.  Mr. and
Mrs. Bell will take a short trip to Milwaukee, where Mr. Bell’s parents
reside.

**COMPLAINTS HAVE BEEN MADE to Justice Orr, against E. Signor and his
wife, for cruelty to Mr. Signor’s children.  It has long been known to
many that these children are half clothed, half starved and cruelly
beaten, especially by Mrs. Signor, who is step-mother to the children;
still it has been allowed to go on, unnoticed until scarcely a day
passes that the little girl does not come to school with fresh marks of
violence on her person.  It is to be hoped that something may be done to
ameliorate the condition of these children.  The vicious effects of
neglect and ill treatment are plainly visible, both in the face and
manner of the little girl, who is naturally bright and good tempered.

**N. C. GILKEY, met with a painful accident one day last week, while in
the woods on an exploring expedition, cutting one of his limbs quite
badly with hand axe, which he was using.  He came to the city and sent
for Dr. Beebe who dressed the wound which will keep N. C. in the house
for a few days.

**LAST MONDAY  EVENING John Daly of Gillett, left this city about dark
to return to his home.  When just outside of the city limits on the main
river road, he overtook a traveler who asked him for a ride and he took
him in.  A mile or so further on he overtook two more travelers whom he
also took into his wagon.  After passing the Comstock farm one of the
party struck him upon the head with some blunt instrument which rendered
him insensible, and robbed him of what valuables he had upon his person
and then threw him out of the wagon upon the ground.  After throwing Mr.
Daly out of the wagon, they unhitched the horses from the wagon and tied
them to the rear end of the same, not before however, throwing the
whiffletree over the fence into a field.  Mr. Daly remained where he was
until the next morning when he was discovered and taken to the residence
of Mr. Johnson, who came to the city after medical aid.  Mr. Daly’s
hands and feet being considerably frost bitten, Monday night being as
all will remember terribly cold.  Dr. Beebe visited the unfortunate man
and applied such lotions and remedies as was necessary to remove the
frost from his limbs.  He had recovered sufficiently to admit of his
removal to his home Thursday, but it will be a long time before he will
be able to perform any labor.  It being dark,  he did not recognize the
parties whom he so kindly gave rides and the probabilities are that they
will escape all punishment but more especially the punishment they
deserve—hanging.

**JOSEPH PECOR, who was reported dead about a year ago, was in the city
Sunday visiting his family.  He looks as if he would live always, being
fat healthy and jolly.

**A LITTLE SON of Samuel Talmedge came very near getting drowned
Thursday. While skating on the river, he broke through the ice and was
rescued by Rudolph Grunert.

**A LITTLE SON of David Wedgewood, of Little Suamico, Saturday last, was
kicked on the left side of the head by vicious colt, making a bad and
painful wound.  Drs. Brett and Beck, of Green Bay, were sent for and
dressed the wound and are now attending the little fellow.
 

**GEO. F. KELLY, of Florence, was a passenger to Oconto Monday, where
Mrs. K. has been residing for several weeks with her parents.  He was in
a great hurry, and had but time to express the wish that he hoped it
would be a boy.  Mr. Kelly has dissolved partnership with R. B. Webb at
Florence, and will go into business for himself.—Star, Marinette.

**PETER DON LEVY our wide awake city marshal was called to Milwaukee the
earlier part of last week by the death of a relative; and tarried in
that city until Saturday.

**WE HAVE TAKEN pains to ascertain the facts in regard to the matter of
the Signor children in the town of Pensaukee, and find that our
correspondent labored under a misapprehension of the facts, and that
there has been little or no cause of complaint in regard to the
treatment of the children by their parents.

**WE ARE IN RECEIPT of a circular letter from the Secretary of the State
Board of Health in which lumbermen are urged in the interest of humanity
and economy, to insist that all their employees be protected by
efficient vaccination from all risks of the small pox, which is more
prevalent in lumbering camps than in other places.

**SOMETIME since, a man giving the name of Gus. Johnson was arrested for
being implicated in stealing and butchering a cow, the property of Henry
Scherer.  His right name was G. A. Oliver and our townsman August
Johnson who is one of our best citizens has been considerable annoyed by
the confounding of his name with that of the criminal, he having
received several letters asking him about the matter.
 

**EDWIN HART ESQ., who for the past few weeks has been visiting at
LeMars, Iowa, has been quite ill of late, but has recovered sufficiently
to admit of his going to Pennsylvania, to attend to important affairs in
the interest of his brother.  Upon his return March 1st next, he will
come direct to this city and answer all charges against him, and at the
same time vindicate his character and attend to those who have maligned
him during his absence.

**PATRICK FLINN, of this city and Mrs. John Driscoll, of Gillett, were
taken to the Northern Hospital for the Insane Monday morning.

**MR. CALL who has charge of the county jail, has experienced
considerable trouble with the insane under his care, arising from
excitement on their part, caused by conversing with outsiders while
outside the jail.  If people knew what trouble they occasioned they
would refrain from talking with the unfortunates.
 

**MRS. CHARLES ELLNER, of Brookside has left for Echo, Oregon, with her
children, where she will join her husband who has purchased a thousand
acre farm near that place.

**ACCORDING TO THE REPORT made to the Secretary of State, there were in
this county during the year of 1883, 104 marriages, 103 births and 27
deaths as against 76 marriages, 97 births and 19 deaths in 1882.

**MRS. STEWART,  Mrs. Charles Cook’s mother, lingers between life and
death, but bears up with a Christian fortitude and resignation that
demonstrates that there is a reality and power in the Christian
religion.

**A WEEK AGO Tuesday night, a man by the name of Alexander H. Crooke,
committed suicide by hanging himself in a grove of small pines near the
north end of the road bridge between Marinette and Menominee.  He was a
hard drinker, and it is suppose that despairing of conquering his
appetite and being a man among men, he made his exit from this world by
his own hand.

**ON  CHRISTMAS MORNING Dr. and Mrs. G. W. Oliver awoke to find
themselves almost powerless to move.  Their condition was caused by gas
escaping from a coal stove in the room in which they slept.  After
several efforts the doctor succeeded in reaching the stove and opening
the cut-off, and in opening a door leading into a hall, which allowed
the gas to escape and admitted fresh air.

**JAMES A. HINES whose home is in New London, but who is now living at
St. Nathan (Chase)  in this county, was in the city Thursday and being an old
soldier and a member of the G.A.R., dropped in and made us a friendly
and fraternal call.  Mr. Hines entered the army when but nine years of
age and served until the close of the war being one of the youngest to
wear the blue.

**ONE OF THE INSANE men confined at the county jail, but who is
permitted to roam around at pleasure, went to Stiles the earlier part of
last week where he got drunk, in which condition he was shipped back to
this city and in which condition he remained until Thursday night, when
he was taken back to the jail.  Such conduct should not be allowed, and
the man that sold him the liquor should be prosecuted to the full extent
of the law.

**MR. JOHN OLESON, of the Bay Shore, has moved.  He now lives 1 ½ miles
east of the switch to take charge of a gang of men for Mr. R. B. Taylor
his wife does the cooking for them.

**MISS ELLA BENT, met with quite a serious accident Friday evening.
While trying the short cut from the depot to the store, she fell on the
railroad track and dislocated her shoulder.  Doctor Oshwaldt was called
and reduced the dislocation, and she is doing nicely.  Her Abrams
friends made her a Christmas present of a receipted doctors bill.  By
the way, the doctor is winning golden opinions in this community.

**THE MANY FRIENDS in this city of Miss Lillie Reinhart are pained to
learn of her continued illness and the further fact that her improvement
is very slow.

**MR. AND MRS. L. COLEMAN of Waukesha Wis. Spent Christmas with Mr. and
Mrs. H. G. Morgan, returning home Thursday morning.