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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05
A FAST story.

An Englishman was Dragging of the
speed on English railroads, to Yankee
traveller seated at his side, in one Of the
cars of east train" in England. The
engine bell was rung, as the cars near
ed a station. It suggested to the Yam
l<ee an opportunity Of taking down his
companion peg or two"
"What's that noise ?" innocently in.
CURED the Yankee.
eve are approaching a town." salt
the Englishman; ''they have TO Gem.
mence ringing about ten miles before
they get TO station, or else the train
would run by it before it could be heard
Wonderful isn't it? ] suppose they hav.
emit invented bells in America YET ?''
"Why yes replied the Yankee
''we've got bells, but can't use them on
our railroads. We run so tarnal fast
that the train always keeps ahead of The
sound; no use, whatever; the SOUND
never reaches the village till after The
train gets by"
'Indeed I" Exclaimed the English.
man.
Fact" said the Yankee, chad to give
up bells. Then we tried steam wills.
tles-but they wouldn't answer, either
| was on locomotive when the yvhis.
tie was tried. We were going at tre-
menduous rate-hurricanes were no.
whar, and had to hold my hair on. We
saw a two-horse wagon crossing the
track, about five miles ahead, and the
engineer let The whist lie screech like q
trooper. It screamed awlully, but il
wasn't no use. The next thing knew
| was picking myself out Of pond by
the road side, amid the fragments Of the
locomotive, dead horses, broken wagon,
and dead engineer lying beside me-
Just then the whistle came along. mixed
up with somefrightiul oaths thai heal q
the engineer use when he first saw the
horses. Poor fellow. he was dead be-
fore his voice got TO him. After that
I've tried lights, snpposing these would
travel faster than sound. We got sons
so powerful that The chickens woke up
al along the road when we came by,
supposing it to be morning. But the
locomotive kept ahead oft still, and was
in darkness, with the light close on be
hind it. The inhabitants petitioncd a
gainst it; they couldn't sleep with SO
much light in the night time. Finally
we had 10 station electric telegraplls a
long the road, with signal men TO tele-
graph when the train was in sight; ans
/ hare heard that some CT The FIST train:
beat the lightning fifteen minutes every
forty miles. But | cant say as that i
frse-the rest / know 10 be so.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05
81 tEsa Mind with
Body.


DysPRrsrA--ITs ExHAusTtoa--I rs
INFLUENCE IN PRODUCING FEAR.-An
ARE aware of the wonderful influence
exerted by the condition of the body up
On the faculties and affections Of the
soul. The following, from the essay on
indigestion, by DR.. James johnson, con-
tains some very remarkable facts:
Many happy and lucky thought has
sprung from an empty stomach Many
an important undertaking has been ruin
ed by bit of undigested pickle-many
"a well laid scheme has failed from drop
of green bile-many terrible and mer-
Iciless edict has gone forth in conse-
quence of an irridated gastric nerve
The character of mans mind has often
suffered from temporary arrangements
5of the body II; and, thus, health may
make the same man hero in The field,
whom dyspepsia may render imbecile in
the cabinet.n
DR.. j., illustrates lis subject in his
usual felicitous manner the following
are some Of his remarks:
81 lately saw gentleman of brilliant
talents and prolific genius who could sit
down and write extemporaneousIy whole
pages OF superior poetical illusions,
with scarcely an effort OF the mind,
who would yet from sudden derange-
ment of the digestive organs, be so
quickly and completely FRUSTRATED in III
tellectual power, as not TO be able 10
write three lines on the most common
subject. On late occasion, when he
had merely to communicate an official
transaction that required not more than
half dozen lines in the plainest Ian
guage, he could not put pen to paper,
though the attempt was made fifty
times in the course OF two days. Al
length he was forced 20 throw himself
into post chaise, and perform orally
what might have been done in one min
ute by the pen. In half an hour after
this ride was performed, he sat down
and wrote an ode descriptive of bis own
nervous irri liability, which would not
have done discrodit 10 the pen of a BY
ron.
"The author Of this essay has him
self been SO enervated by fit of what
is called Indigestion, as TO be utterly in
capable Of breaking the seal of letter
for twenty-four hours, though, to all APP
pearances, in good health al the time
Equally astonishing and uBaccountable
is the degree of timidity, terror, inca
pacity, or whatever other magic spell it
is, which annihilates for time the
whole energy of the mind, and renders
the victim Of dy spepsia afraid of his
own shadow-or OF things more unsub-
stantial if possible, than shadows"
Again he says:
1t is under the influence Of such par
oxyisms as these, am thoroughly con-
vinced that nine-tenths Of these inelan-
choly instances of suicide, which shock
the ears of the public, take place We
have no doubt of it. We have seen men
of the strongest minds-strongest we
mean but for their disease-so utterly
overcome by paroxysm of indigestion,
as DR.. j. says he has been; and we
have seen them on tile very brink, too,
of self-destruction. How little do man
kind know of the reciprocal influence
of mind and matter. Il Presbyterian
Advocate.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05
My Mothers Isead.

I'm very, very Lonely;
Alas. cannot play
| am so sad, sit and weep
Throughout the live'eag day
] miss dear mothers welcome.
Her light hand on my head,
Her look Of love, her tender word
Alas my mothers dead.
| have no heart to pay alona;
To-day thought I'D try,
And got my little hoop to roll,
But ali it made me cry;
For who will smile to see me come,
Now mother dear has gone,
and lock SO kindly in my face,
And kiss her little son !?
I'll get my blessed Bible,
And sit me down and read
My mother said that precious book
Would prove friend in need.
! seem to see dear mother now,
To hear her voice of love;
She may be looking down on me,
From her bright home above.
She said that I must come to her
She cannot come to me;
Oar Father, teach little one
How he may come 10 thee
For | am very lonely row;
And join my mother in the skies?
Aud heaven shall be our home.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05

TnE RoYAL FAMILY OF RUssrA. -
The following amrable family picture
may be interesting at this time, when
Russia is thrusiing her ursine nose into
the politics Of Europe
Peter l., the founder, as he may be
called, Of the present imperial family,
was The murderer of the two daughters
and the sons of his brother Ivan, and the
murderer, it is asserted, according to
more than one of the annalists Of his
reign, by his own hand ,ofAlexis. He was
himself murdered by Menzikolf, "a name
that has again risen up in history.) the
fayorite Of his wife Catherine, who when
united to Peter was already the wife of
a livi1g husband, and their children were
afterwards declared incapable Of reign
ing, because born in sin. Anne, the
eldest daughter Of Ivu11, PIT Ia, 600
Russians 10 death ana banished twice al
many. 4 revolution dis placed the youn-
ger Ivan TO put on the throne Elizabeth,
daughter of Peter l., and her reign was
remarkable fol her drunkenness and de-
hatchery, Peter ILL.,, her successor.
was VIGOROUSLY the offspring Of crime,
and Twas dethroned and strangled by his
wife, Catharine H., the same infamous
woman who had assassinated the de-
tl.ronea Emperor Ivan, and whose owr
son PauI-the father of the present
Emperor Nicholas-was stronglcd by
his c3uYtiers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05

RESOURCES OF W1scoNsIN.-Wm. a.
Burdett, at the request of several gen.
tlemen of this city, will repeat this e.
venine at the Methodist Episcopal church
on Spring ST., his synopsis of course
of lectures on the Resources Of Wiscon-
sin. These lectures, as our readers are
aware, comprise a course to be delivered
at the east the ensuing winter, with the
object Of inducing the emigration to this
State Of the better class Of people at the
east; the proceeds TO be devoted to the
erection of a church and public library
at Prairie du Chen. Mr.. B. has also
issued a circular, in which he proposes
TO publish the course of lectures in a
book form, the same 10 be subscribed for
by our citizens, and to be delivered in
March next. Gov. Farwell has already
subscribed for'one hundred copies. Mr..
B. has the most satisfactory credentials,
which he will exhibit to any one whose
subscription he may solicit Mil.
Wisconsin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05

SHALL WE HAVE THE MAINE LAW !?
The News says no /; or at least with
out re-submission of the question, in
the form Of the Law itself, to a vote Of
the people.
The Sentinel says yes, and "as simple
and as practical in lis details as may
be-" for the majority in its favor is de-
cisive-some three or four thousand
and would have been much larger had
the weather been fair on election day
In cities and villages, where the strong
majorities were given against Prohi-
bitory Law, people attend Tie polls in
foul weather. while in the country ,thou-
sands are detained at home by a storm.
We think there would have been 5000
more votes for the Law had it been
pleasant weather on the day of cleo
ton.
The people have aCiiIed the Law, and
they will have it. It is only question
of time. If the present Legislature re-
fuses 10 pass the Law, the people will
carry ont their wishes. - Mil. Free Dem.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05

parchment ~ cried Jones, pulling The
document ont before her. "IIere's the
law, which says that Jacob Jones and
Ann Carolina Jones are two Look al
lis -
Putting her plump gloved hand on his
shoulder, she did look at it.
sob dear u she said, with her rose
bud lips, and sunk back; half fainting on
the sofa.
ooh, blazes I, cried Jones', and sank
beside her, rumpling the fatal parch-
lnent in his hand. Here's lois Of lappi-
ness and champagne gone to ruin
1t was hard case. Instead Of being
divorced and at liberty 10 marry the
widow, Jacob Jones was simply, by the
Legislature of New Jersey, incorpora-
TED into a turnpike company and what
ImaGe it worse, authorized with bis
brother directors-to construct a turn
pike from Burlington TO Bristol. When
you reflect that Burlington and Bristol
ARE located just mile apart, on appo-
site sides Of the Delaware river, YOU
will preceiye the extreme hopelessness
Iof Jones case.
"It's all the fault of that turnpike
man, who gave EN- the champagne sup
per, or was it breakfast ?" cried Jones
in agony. eff they'd only chartered
me to be tornpike from Pigs Run TO
Ferrapin Hollow, | could have borne it,
but the very idea of building turn
pike from Burlington TO Bristol bears
an absurdity on the face of it,
So it did.
"And you amt divorced ?" said Eli
"a, tear rolling down each cheek.
emo" Numbered Jones, crushing his
hat between his knees, ''and what is
worse the legislature is adjourned, and
gone home drunk, and won't be back TO
Trenton till next year p
It was hard case: The mistake
had Occurred on the last day Of the ses-
sion when the legislators and transcri-
bing clerks were laborng under the ei-
feet Of a champagne supper, followed by
a champagne breakfast. Smiths name
was put where Jones' ought to have
been, and '',risey scer8ey," as the Latin
poet has il.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05
Tpr Buslvrss OF an Ocroe nsAR.ss

TIE BUSINESS OF AN OcrocnsARl1v
AT q meeting lately held in Faneuil
Hall, Boston, Hon. Joseph Quincy was.
present. Ihirty.fUe years had elapsed
since his last preceding address before
a body of citizens in old. Faneuil. In
the course of his speech, he said: '.Sir, I
was invited here by men of all parties
because, as suppose. | belong 10 no par
t.. A man eighty years Of age has no
business 10 belong TO any party or tc
have anything TO do with this world, 9th
CT than 70 be looking ont for bis place in
another.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05
AES the Time

You ask me, love, how many times
think Of you day.
frankly answer, only once,
And mean just what say.
You seem perrleXed, and somewhat hurt,
But wait and hear The rhyme
Pray, how can one do more than once,
What one does all the time?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05

AN OPINION OF CAL1FoRNrA-Ratheg
Morp.-A former resident of Wisconsin
writing 10 Shullsburgh, thus curries
down California products. We find the
letter in the Pick s. Cad. Il says that
''the writer is man Of no ordinary mind
and Intelligence. The ambitious and as
piring-the enterprising and the fortune
hunting should read it before leaving
the beautiful and productive prairies oil
Wisconsin,"
MAY all the devils in he'll take ans
have this accursed country. My God,
how loathe it, and the vile, corrupt
and datnnab!e pestilential carcasses that
make il their home. There is now con
grcgated within this State more vileness
corrul ton and villainy than was eve,
known within the same area Of country
on the face Of the globe. Sodon and
Gomorrah would be model reform, mo.
raj community, in comparison to it.
"If the California gold had remained
undiscovered short time, say one year
longer, The penitentiaries Of the different
States would now hold the majority d
the public officers Of this State"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05

PRESIDENTS MEssAGE.-Notice has
been given, that the Presidents Mes
sage viii be sent in advance to the prin-
cipal cities, to be given TO the newspa-
pers the moment it IS pres snted to Con-
gress. We hope The Government will
extend the favor TO the printers here,
and we will give them the credit of do
ing better thing in this line than any
of their predecessors Galena ADV.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05
TEnaIs FOR ADVERTISING.

Per annum, s25,0ofl column, per an, $40
soosamh per aEau,n, 1891 square. per an, s
oavert'semsnts, u lines orless. ST
floa. BUSINESS Cards ofRines or under per an. as
-Aaversisements sent in without the number or
insertions indicated, win be continued till oth arwisa
ordered.
Those who advertise By the year, win be alloy.
ed four changes.
Legal advertisements inserted at statue prices
Notices of stays published four weeks, II. rs
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05

Mrs. Swisshelm went 10 The Theatre
on Saturday evening, SO the Chronicle
tells us, and appeared the next day with
formidable criticism. 1t seems she
was sold slightly by little j. II. Foster,
who is by the way, pretty old stager.
Mrs. S. has paid him very high come
pliment in The following:
Little Miss Foster is a beautiful
child, and did the part of Eva beauti-
fully. She would do much to convince
the skeptical Of the existence Of such
children as Eva. She is so sweet! Her
soft, inianiile tones were most refresh
ing after the sqnealing Of Ophelia and
the ranting Of most others, and clearly
showed the folly of roaring ranting or
believing, as actors generally do"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05

AMERICAN SHRUBS IN EURoFE.-In
1901 American plants and shrubs COM
manded exorbitantly high prices in Eu-
rope, England especially, and there
sprung up as brisk an expectation. In
those times the Duke Of Marlborough,
as one instance, frequently paid Mr..
Lee, Of Hsmmersmiih, England, from
500 to $3.50 for single American plants
such as magnolias, rho3odenrons, azal-
cas-, Sc. In 1906, one single lot Of
plants was carried over from this conn
try TO England, by John Lyod, the cat
alogue Of which filed thirty-fuur close
ly printed pages; the auction sale oce'i-
pying four entire days.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05

PRoposALs. ron An INLAND SEA-
The interior of Australia barren san-
'dy desert-has been found TO be consid-
erably below the level of the sea. Il is
now proposed to employ British convicts
lin cutting narrow canal from the ocean
to the desert. distance Of about $50
miles, when ii is expected that the rush
of water would be SO great as to widen
the canal and cause the formation OF an
INLAND sea almost as large as the NIedi-
terranean, TO the incalculable benefit of
"a vast extent Of territory at present
wholly useless.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05

TIRE ERIossoN Eae1NE.-There has
been but little said recently about this
grand experiment in motive power, but
il appears not TO have been abandoned.
a New York paper says: that during
the past seven months numerous modif-
cations and Improvements have been in
progress in the caloric ship Fries son. =
The alterations are now nearly compile
ted, and the fullest confidence is enter
tanned on The part of those Immediately
interested, of their complete success. 1t
is expected that in the course Of three
weeks or so, The ship viii be in perfect
sailing trim. The new engines are to
be worked under condensed pressure,
and The ship will consequently have q
much greater motive power than she
could ever have attained under the low
pressure system employed on her first
trip.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05

MUT1LAT1oN or THE PRAYER.-A
CORES pondent Of the Philadelphia Reg
lister says:
can Episcopal prayer book, publish
ed in that city, has beautiful fronts
piece engraving, Representing Christ
blessing the sons of men, striking off
their letters, and giving liberty, as well
as peace, to the world. Il is beautiful
plate, and one Of the most spirited heads
in the picture is that Of negro. He,
too, is lifting his hands in supplication,
and the chains are falling from his
wrists" This edition, is for the North.
Another edition, containing the picture
but ,rih the negro md has chains left out
lis for the South. Why don't such pub
fishers and pro-slaeery churchmen, both
North and South, boldly assert, what
their practice implies, that the white
mans Savior didn't die on the cross to
save ''niggers ?''
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05

Tit is one of the most difficult
things in the world to divest great men
of their greatness. Who can credit the
statement, that Goliah was once a little
boy, that Methusaleh wore jackets and
Itrowsers, or that St. Paul played leap
frog ? Washington, doubtless at some
period Of his lie made dirt pies, in sand
heap, and played store, with scales made
of clam shells, and weights fashioned
out of broken cI ina: he was once, no
doubt, "some'' on ailey-tore, and un-
questionably seen the day when he has
cried by the hour 10 stay home from
school, or begged like spaniel, for a
piece of ginger bread, or cents worth
of hard bake these things are doubt
less true, and yet what mind ,can Gre
dit them They seem as much out Of
character as marine hornpipe would in
"a quaker meeting house.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05

According to the New York Tri-
bune. there vas triumph in favor of a
prohibitory liquor law at The last cleo
ION, in the State Of New York. II says,
by correct figuring, it appears that 20
of the Seniors OF the State, and 90 of
The Assembiymen are in favor Of the
law.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05

What are The revolutions which
occur in a community, but The efforts Of
. people who seek by madness 70 recov-
er what they haze lost by blindness,
Simms.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05

"A lunatic in The Chicago Jail, who
calls himself Lord Frazer, sent ont for
a bottle of wine the other day TO treat
his fellow prisoners. On being fur
nished with a bottle of pop, he declared
it to be the best wine he had ever drank
and in grandiloquent manner exclaim-
ed
aNow. gentlemen. for toast--rnay
we ever steal, swear and cheat STEAL a.
way from bad company, swear to tire
truth, and cheat he devil Of his pray
Verify there was q method IN that man s
madness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-12-05

Il GaAse Of Chess north seeing 1t is
said that the English and French chess
clubs have made a novel match to be
played shortly at the Hippodrome in Pa
ris. A gigantic chess board viii be
marked out upon the turf. The castles
will be carried on the backs Of real ele-
plants, and every other piece will be
represented by an equestrian performer
dressed in character. The kings and
queens will be in gorgeous robes, the
knights in full armor, and the bishops
will represent the ''true church. mill
tant. -
The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1853-04-16
Loss Of the Tennessee.


The particulars of the loss of the mail
steamer Tennessee. on her voyage from Pan
ANA to san Francisco, are given at length in
the San Francisco papers.
The Tennessee left Panama the 10th Of
January, was at Acapulco February the 9Th.
and went ashore on the same mornin" at 9
o'clock. four miles northward of the North
Head.
The moment the danger was deserted orders
were given to back the ship. and though run
nnr slowly at the time it was too late. As
soon as it was found that she would not back
from the >hoal water hcalwav was again CIV
en- to try. if possible, to clear ii. hut all to no
purpose. the sea having almost entire control
of her; a second ana third attempt was made
to back her.
Daring this critical time the Captain ;
presence of mind never iorsook him.
The ship struck several times. and so hcav-
ily the first time, that dishes were thrown
from the table and broken. Almost as soon
As She had struck, the first officer threw him
self into The >ra with a line, and swan for
tie shore; after reaching it he returned, il {,
nearly cN'laH>:cd condition. to render that As
>;>tancc Which lis position dcm2nlrd
Shortly after She had stopped She SWIM.
hroat!>il. on.wiIh her stern nearest the shore.
which was higl and dry at low water. The
confusion x excitement when She first struck
was "rctt. Int order was promptly restored.
Daring the forenoon signal guns were heard
supposed to be fired by vessel in Distress
some tanrn.ilcs distant. 1t was supposed 81
hr the Pacific.
As soon rs the passengers were landed
sails, &C.. for tents, were brought from the
ship. and the passengers. with the exception
OF about one hundred, who had left Tor san
celtic, among whom were four ladies', were
maxim" preparations to adopt for short time"
camp life on the shore Provisions, bed,
and bedding, were also furnished in abrn-
Dance
After the mails, &c. had been landed. the
passengers held a meeting on shore. At which
resolutions, expressive of their h"h esteem
for the Captain, their regret at the occurrence
which, in 'ii'ir opinion was purely accidental
and attributable TO 10 negligence OF his, were
adopted.
The last accounts from the ship were. that
she was going to pieces fast on accoun, Of ;hC
heavy surf.
The Tcnnr>sc hal on board six hundred
passengers, orr hnulrr,! %! whom we're ia,;ir:
and children-all saved.
The steamer Independence had not arrivc'
~ san Francisco the 10th She had bee,
Overdue 20 DAYS. Ii is supposed She may
have put in to Mazatlan for repairs