Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-09-12
4 Decision as is a Decision.

Justice Of the Peace in Yuba county fo,
the recovery of SIT which man had wor
tof another, or rather got possession of BY
E''blufing," while he held four Jacks. The
Marysvllle Inquirer says the court s.let her
.Iself loose" on the question, and held thai
where party coolly and deliberately"bluf
fed" by the holder of small winning
lhand, out of his money, it might well be
considered downright robbery and be pun
ished as such but the court stated thai
while it would punish the party who
would be guilty of such blutfng, it had nc
protection or mercy for the man who, like
the plaintiff in the case, permitted hihlselt
to be ''blatfed" With toars in his hand !
Such a man in the opinion of the Court
should not only loose his seventeen dollar
'pot, but receive the jeers of every good
Ipoker player in Yuba county.
Grand Customary Enterprise.
The n. Y. Negs, paper deeply ia
the negro interest and high in favor with
the democracy, says of converting the Re
publican party, that.
"The duty of enlighte ming and convert
ing these political heathens, devolves upon
the National Deiiiocracy Of the North
And fearlessly, energetically, and ably
have they applied themselves to the task.
Whether or not their efforts will prove
successful to such an extent as ultimately
to disorganize the Black Republican" par
~, remains to be seem"
| These "Missionaries Of the Cross" in
Wisconsin will have to work early and
late in order to disoryanize the Repubi-
can party The Mineral Point Mission
aries are expected soon to depart from Je-
rusalem and engage in the glorious enter
prise of preaching to the political hecttens
of Wisconsin. asH
CHICAGO INFESTED WITH RArs.-An
eastern letter writer gives a delightful
picture of Chicago, in the following para
graph: -@'
Chicago is infested with rats. The
pIanked streets afford shelter to rnyrlads
They gambo about the streets at night
and hold private parties at every doorstep,
scampering across the sidewalk at youl
approach, frequently lodging under your
feet, and it is not rare to tread upon them
One generally kicks half a dozen aside in
an evening promenade, and spends hal
the time in quieting nervous ladies.
FAGGoTs FOR HiiRET!cs.-The Aldgatc
Church in London has fund bequeathed
it in the dark days of persecution. Its
specific purpose was to purchase faggots
not to warm the cold, or TO prepare food
for the hungry poor, but to burn heretlcs
Some centuries have now passed, and the
supply has so far exceeded the demand
that there is no more room for slowing away
the abundant faggots. The trustees OF the
fund, it is said, now give away the proceeds
to keep alive the poor, and comfort ano
save the very class that different age hao
consigned to the stake.
Another BoLT The Waukesha Coun
ty Democrat says Of the Democratic State
ticket:
awe strongly endorse all the Ticket
Except the mominatiovf for Governor
| There are some things that we acish ID
haze cleared mp ard explained sdti$factor
Iay before ue heartily endorse tie head q
the ticket"
t GgThe '.National Democracy" of Wis
Iconsin would seem to have established s
new test of partisan orthodoxy, in addition
to the Nebraska act and the bred Scot
decision. In their recent State Conven
ton at Madison, Mr. Mansfield, a Postmas
ter Delegate, thus proclaimed and proved
his fervor in the Democratic cause:
i GAS Postmaster, I hare taken occasion
1 to refuse to distribute certain papers-IHH
i NEW YoRK TK1BUNE-whicn came with
out the names Of the subscribers on them hem,
/ Speaking of another, a fellow delegate
I aMr. Mansfield replied to some chargf
that Cotton had thrown out about Garrett
IG. Voorhees,, to the effect that the latter
was a Shanghai. He repealed the charge
and pronounced Voorhees, good Demo
crat who had done all IN his poaoer to des
courage the circulation Of The N, I. IRI
BUsE and other Shanghai documents"
!, We take pleasure in indorsing Mr.
Mansfeld's statements. He has done VIVA
he could to reduce the circulation OF IN
TRIBUNE; and his democracy" is not t
be disputed. We think the testimony Q
so so, sound a patriot in favor of his frlenC
voorh es ought to be decisive, though w
can pretend to no personal knowledge 81
that point New York Tribune.
Finger Rings.
!, The Springfield Nonpdr'el says tina
1.-The finger on which ring should be worn
and the Specification thereof, is perfect.
understood in England. But IN this coun
try. nothing is more common than to SCI
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