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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-10-01
GEO. WALKER,

ROTARY PUBLIC AND LICENSED CLAIM AGENT
British Hollo,o Grant County, WIS
VIII attend to perfecting all kinds of legal documents
couVcyances, &c and prosecuting Claims against the
United States for Bounty. Pensions and other dues
h9-Applications made direct with the Department.
Charges reasonable and made according law att
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-10-01

Il has 4 perpendicular fall Of about
90 feet aud a mile further on joins
the Mississippi.
Having visited the lakes and other
places Of resort in this region we en-
banked on the Steamer Key City at
StPaul for home again. Capt Laugh
toh OF Platteville, in command, is the
most popular commander on tit riv,
erjand always gives his passengers tt
pleasant ride--especialIy his friends
from Grant County The Phil. Sher
idan aud Key City are in the service
of the Northwestern Packet Com :
pany. JUNIOR
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-10-01
sx xEx Vol. 10, NO. IL.
The State University.

1t will be gratifying 10 all friends
Of education to learn that the Win
consin State University is now in a
highly prosperous condition, and af~
fords hopeful promise Of becoming
one ofihe leading educational institu.
tons Of the country.
As reorganized and under the ex-
perlenced and energetic direction of
its new President, it already
thronged witch students, and the IN
dications are that further dormitory
buildings will be required at no dist>
ant day. There are now in attendance
upon the University classes some one
hundred and forty young men. Be>
sides these there are in tho Normal
department over ninety young ladies,
who are taking the regular normal
course.
This a very suspicious beginning un-
der the now management; and if the
reasonable expectations which il
creates arc realized, the day is not
far distant when the University Of
ibis state may take rank with that
of Michigan.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-10-01
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Distance Of the Sun.

\ very able astronomical paper was
read by Professor Ncwcombe, Of the
National Observatory at Washing
ton, upon the distance Of the sun
FROM the earth Professor News
combe is Il young astronomers great
promise, and his paper exhibited pro
found exhaustive study. The dis
lance between our earth and the sun
| rs generally been assumed at 95, 00G :
600 Of miles, on the strength OF cal
cuIations made forty years ago, and
up to recent period acquesced in
by everybody Recently asfronp-
mers began to suspect that the de-
termination 81 the suns distance
found by Enckc from the transtS Of
Venus observed III l76l and 1869 was
largely in error. All the tests which
could be applied Indicated that the
distance was too great. The impor
lance Of this clement in astronomy
rendered it desirable to correct an
error OF such magnitude, and accord
ingIy considerable attention bias been
devoted 70 It Of late. Five methods
haze been tried
L. BY the observations ofthe trans
its Of Venus.
>. BY The corresponding observa-
tons OF the deciination Of Mars from
points in both hemispheres,
3. From the observed parallactic
inequality OF the moon.
J. From the lunar equator on ii re
longitude of the sun.
5. From the observed terrestrial
velocity OF light
In 1862 circulars were issued, both
in this country and in Europe. invit~
ing cooperation in a general attempt
to determine the parallaX Of Mars q t
opposition OF that year. 1t was the
most extended effort that has been
made for century, and occupied for
weeks nearly all the observatories of
the world. Last year the working
up of This great mass Of facts was
placed in the hands Of Professor
Newcombe. who has Just completed
his labor He obtains for The mean
equatorial paraIax of the sun s see
onds and $500 Of a second, with a
possible variation of one>hundredth
OF second.
The corresponding distance is %, 5
00O, 600 miles. This result can hard
" be in error more than 100000
miles. The velocity flight is thus
reduced to 1876, 500 miles per second.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-10-01

Washington Cor. Of Y. Y. Tribune.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-04
The Yankees.

A highly imaginative trans Atlantic
geographer has lately informed the world
that America is, or shortly will be coun-
try bounded on the north by the Arctic
Circle on the south by eternity, on the
east by the rising sun, and on the west by
the day of judgment" There are a set
Ct better and bilious gentlemen chiefly of
the tory persuasion, to whom this kind
of patriotic imagery is gall and worm
wood. They are miserable because
America is big, and because she uses
these laughable big expressions. The
real reason why they hate her is because
her government is so free, and the sue
cess of it is so wonderful but, since it
does not do to confess these facts, thew
are always railing At her faults of man
ner and style-a practice which is about
as useful as to rail at the Allegheny
Mountains for being huge and craggy.
For our part, we experience no more
surprise or ve1ation at the hYperbolics of
our descendants beyond the Atlantic.
than we should at seeing a likely lad
split his trowsers in growing, or fine
healthy baby reach his plump palms out
for the moon. The thing is natural and
even satisfactory with the young giant that
we have bred and England the mother
of empires ought TO he heartily pleased
and amused At IL gu a, onades Of
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-04

her mighty child. Is she to be an elder
ly ooquette, and vex herself because her
sons outride her, and her daughters shoot
up with a beauty and vigor that remind
her how she ages 2 She ought, if she
We're honest and hearty, to be glad and
proud of youngsters-the like of whom
history never knew --- to knit them to
herself in bonds of firm love, and aim at
making out of them an Anglo Saxon
family of empires, which should girdle
the world with the language of Shakes
peare, and the happy influence of the
little matron islands We like to read
these ridiculous sublimites, wherein our
imperial cockerds crow themselves well
nigh off their legs with lustiness round
the old Britanic hen. What bird the
American chicken will be when all the
feathers come, if it can scratch and crow,
and flourish its spurs like this in an epoch
when it is going through the barbarism of
a new civilization, and has the best part
of its heckles to shoot. And if bigness
jushties big words, we should like to know
who is to blame those inventive and
dowry patriots ? Has any other nation
mountain Of solid iron to MAKE the
plows of, Pilot Knob in Missouri, or seas
of oil under the ground, and shares of
solid copper along the lakes Dos any
other nation double its population every
twenty years, and snck in the emigration
of Europe without counting il or carry
cargoes 1900 miles along one rive; or
venture on the impudence of Monroe
doctrine; or hight war with one million
soldiers, and have them all home again,
like boys after school, within a year? Or
what other people collects a revenue Of
ll8,000,000 sterling, and with f2O,-
100000 in gold at time in its exchequer
laughs at a debt of E500,000,OO0 and
engages to wipsit out in ten years. Mr..
Ward says, he never knew a
Yankee who didn't talk about the Rocky
except one, and he was deaf |
and dumb; but even he wrote book |
about them. Who is stupid enough to |
laugh at that ? 1t is in the nature If the I
people :; the young giants must have 81 |
gantic topics, words, policies, schemes |
and sayings and we laugh, let it be |
with hearty good nature, and as the old |
folks do at the brag and buncombe Of the |
young oXes, whose strength and health |
are so beautiful, and full Of the promise of |
noble days and works.--Loadon Tsle- |
yrapb.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-04

hast also consumed, amounting 10 the
whole to two hours, and seven-eighths OF
1t was not thine own property"
1T should never be forgotten that
the happier child Is the cleverer he
will he. This is not only because, In
state Of happiness the mind Is free, and
at liberty for the exercises of its facul.
ties, instead of spending It's thoughts
and energies in brooding over troubles,
but also because the action OF the brain
is stronger when the frame is In state
of hilarity, the ideas are more clear, i'm.
pressions of outward objects are more
vivid, aud the memory will not let them
slip, This is reason enough for the
mother to take some care that she is the
cheerful guide and comforter of her
child. If she Is anxious or fatigued,
she will exercise some control ever her.
self, and speak cheerfully, and try to en-
ter freely into the subject Of the mo-
ment, TO meet the chlld's mind in short,
revive, instead of making him sink for
want OF companionship,-Miss Mart2,sau.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-04
MEANS OF TILE COMPANY.

Fstirootipo tba 5istorra 70 ha hpilt by +bs
Union Pacific to be 1855 miles, the United
States Government issues Its six per cent.
IhIrty,ycar Bonds to the Company as the road
Is finished atthe average rate OF about 81, 25O
per mile, amounting to 4,.O3I0Q'
me Company Is also permitted 10 issue ITS
own FIRST Mortgage Bonds 10 an equal amount.
and at the same Time which by special ACT OF
Cons ress are made hrst mortgage on the en-
tre line, the Donds oil the united states Delhg
SUBORDINATE TO them 1880.
The government made donation OF l2,SuO
acres OF land tDthe miIeaMountlng to 2O,O32,OD
acres estimated to be worth S3O,O0O ON making
the total resources, exclusive OF the capital,
Sll8,4lB,0OO; but the full value of the lands can
not now be realized.
The authorized capital stock OF the Company
Is one hundred million dollars, OF which hye
millions have already been paid ln and OF
which it ts not supposed that more than TWEEN
ty five millions at most will be required.
The most of the road Is estimated by cOmpe-
tent engineers to be about one hundred million
dollars, exclusive of equipment.
pposppcrs rop pr,srspss
- '-'
The railroad connection between Omaha and
the East is now complete and the earnings of
the Union Pacific on the sections already fin.
lshed tor the first two weeks in May were $ll3.
900. These sect Onal earnings as the road pro-
crosses Will much more than pay the interest
on the COmpany's bonds, and the through
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-04
VHEUNION PACIFIC RAIL ROAD

Il Co. are now cOnstrnCtinsa railroad from
Omaha, Nebraska, Westward towards the Pa.
unbrOken line across the continent. TRe Com
pany now Offers limited amount of the first
Mortgage Bonds having thirty years to run,
and bearing annual interest, payable on the
first day of January and July, in the city Of
New York. at the rate Of six per cent. in gold,
at ninety cents on the dollar
This road is completed 10 Julesburgh, 376
mites west Of Omaha, and Ia fully equipped,
anE trains are regularly RAINING over It. The
Company has now on hand sufficient iron ties,
SC, to finish the remaining portion to the east
afa base of the Rocky Mountains 2l2 miles,
which is under contract to be done in Septemboc
Of this year, and it is expected that the entire
road will be in running order from Omaha, to
i5s western connection with the Central Pacific,
now being rapidly built eastward from Sacra-
mento, Cal, during 1870.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-04
From the Little Corporal.l
Charley of Malvern Hill.
ny JULIA c,H. poRR,


war-worn soldier bronzed and scanned
by weary march and battle stroke;
Twas thus, while leaning on his cIuteh,
The wounded veteran spoke
THE blue.eyed boy of Malvern Hilll
A hero every inch was he,
Enough scarcely larger than the child
You hold, sir, on your knee.
some mothers darling on that field
ne seemed 80 strangely out of place,
WIN his purr brow, his shining hair,
His sweet, unconscious grace,
But not bearded warrior there
Watched with more undaunted eye
The bAckness OF the battle cloud,
As the fierce storm rose high.
That morn-ah ! what morn was that I
We thought to send him TO the rear
We loved the lad-and love, you know,
lsRear akin 10 fear,
Ave knew that many gallant soul
Must pass away in one long sigh.
Ere nightfall. On that bloody field,
Twas not for boys to die
"But he-could yen have seen him then,
As, with his blue eyes full OF fire,
He poured forth tears and pleadings, half
or shame ana half of ire
oh do not bid me 90 = he cried:
i love yon flag as well as You
/ did not join your ranks TO run
When there is work to do
! did not come to beat my drum
Only upon some gala day
The colonel shnGE bis bpu6 but aaiJ
well, Charley you may stay
"Ah then his tears were quickly dried;
A few glad words he strove to cay
But there was little time to talk,
And hardly time to pray.
For bitter, bitter was the strife
That ragged that day on Malvern Hill;
Blue coats and gray in great heaps lay,
Ere that wild storm grew still.
AT length we charged. My very heart
Sank down within me, cold and dumb,
When TO the front, and far ahead,
Rushed Charley with his drum
"Above the cannons laundering boom,
The din and shrek of shot and shell,
We heard its clear peal rolling out
Right CALAMITY and well.
"A moments awful waiting Then
Ihere came sullen, angry roar
y God An empty void remained
Where Charley stood before,
what did we then With souls on fire
We swept upon the advancing foe,
And babe good angels guard the dust
Ger which no tears might floW!'
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-04

E'ELLOWS' WORM LOZENCLu
l. Are without exception, the most sxtrro,
binary Medicine OF the age COMPRISING =.
'ney DO, remarkable power in oxpenine worm.
win pleasant taste and perfect safety: the,
contain no Mercury, no Mineral, no Turpentins
no on ~ Wormseed, no Poison, NOTHING in
furious They are entirely Vegetable.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.
Itching Of the nose, feyerishness. t,vitrbin,
or starting suddenly during sleep, pain in III,
stomach loes of flesh, paleness with hectic an
petite sometimes voracious at Others feeble q
daIlness OF the eyes, drowsiness, a sweiled up.
per lip, tongue whitley furred, and studded with
red spots, fetd or garlic breath, grinding or
teeth during sleep, sensation of lodgment in
the throat, an unnatural craving for dirt chalk
or clay, freSralness and rritability Of temper
choiic, fts and psisy.
INTESTINAL WORMS
Are among the nrst to undermine the conshtn.
ton, in the liz! OF diseases. They often coca.
sion severe disease, ending sometimes fatally
particularly when they ascend to the stomach
Their presence in their most ordinary situation
is attended VITA uufsvorabe effects upon the
general health
EMINENT MEN ASSERT
That all are more or less troubled with wo,ms
and that many die annually from this cause
who, by the timely administration OF proDar
remedy, would be saved. As FELLOWS,
WORM LOZENGFS may be taken without any
unpleasant result, and as most children are
fond Of them, their use is recommended to
those apparently healthy, and thus dispel the
cause Of what would produce suffering
BE Careful WHAT YOU USE.
Various remedies have, from time to time
been recommended, such as Calomel Oil of
Wormsced, Turpentine, &c, So that dangerous
and even fatal consequences are produced. The
necessity of a safe and sure remedy has caused
much research and study by the proprietors OF
FELLOWS WORM LOZENGES. They are
positively safe, pleasant and efectual They do
not Kill the worms. hit act by making their
dweIling.places disagreeable to them. In order
however, TO guard consumers against deception
by base compound, the analysis Of DR.. A. A.
Hayes, State Ass2yer, proving the above state
ments, ia annexed;
Il have analysed the WORM LOZENGES
prepared by Messrs. Fellows & Co. and find
that they are free from mercury and other me
tallc or mineral matter These Lozcnges are
skilfully compounded pleasant to the taste, safe,
yet sure and effective in their action.
Respectfully, A A. HAYES, N. D,
Assayer to the State of Mass
PLEASE REMEMBER
That FELLOWS WORM LOZENGES are pre-
pared with great care from the concentrated ey,
tracts Of two plants They do not act as
purgativc or emetic, will not deblitate the pa
tient, are so simple an infant may devour
whole box without harm, and will at the same
time expe the worms in an extraordinary man
ner.
- FELLOWS WORM LOZENGES is the
only Worm remedy in existence, combining
harmless qualities with delicious taste and
amazing power.
TESTIMONIALS
FROM PERSONS OF THE FIRST REsPBCTABHITY IN
NEW BRUNswICK, CONCERNING
FELLOWS WORM LOZENGRS.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-04
/ IFE AND ACCIDENT

/ IFE AND ACCIDENT
INSURANCE.
THE ORIGINAL TRAVELLERS LIFE AC-
ord, Capital and Surplus over $sOO,OOO 900.
This company Issues policies insurng against
LOSS OF LEPE FROM ANY CAUSE.
whether disease or accident, with weekly
COMPENSATION FOR DISABLING ACCl
DENT.
The combined Life and Accident policy, it is
confidently believed affords the
Best Insurance for the Least Money,
which is the great object in life insurance
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-04

DEST SODA WATER IN TOWN,
ID so they all say, at -
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-04

DOCKET FLASKS, Drinking Cups,
Travelling Bags, Baskets, Thermometers,
Pines, at POND 81 MORSE'S.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-04
FIRST MORTGAGE BONDS
of the
CENTRAL PACIFIC r. R. co.

This Company is constructing under the pa
troDage of the United States Government, the
Western end of the
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-04

ST. JOHN, N. B., March, 1856.
MEssRs. FELLOWS " CO.-This is to certify
that my little boy, aged six years, having been
much troubled with worms of late. | admins
tered four of Your WORM LOZENGES, a. per
directions, and in nine hours after he passed
several large worms. These Lozenges are par
tiCulary valuable. az the children are fond OF
them. You are at liberty to use this for the
benefit of others.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-04

CARLETON, ST. JOHN, N. B.. Nov II, 1856.
Mr. EDIToR-I was ndnCed to try FELLOWS
LOZENGES, having had number of children
under NV care whose stomachs were so irrit.
able the ordinary medicine could not be retained
a moment and the success that followed their
use was SO complete that l can recommend
them as one of the most pleasant and safe mcdi-
Cines that can be administered
EDWIN CLAY NJ D.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-07-04

MEssRs. FELLOWS & Co., st. John, Gentle
men; have examined your WORM LOZEN-
GES and have become acquainted with their
effects as an dnhelUlintic, and have much plea
sure in recommending their use as a safe and Ell
feCtual remedy for wurms and l fully believe
that their employment as such will give salts
faction. Yours, respectfully,
W s. FOSHAE, NJ. D.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-08-26
THE GAZETTE.
MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 26.
He Nj AILS

For the information of the public, generally,
we publish the hours for the arrival and for the
closing of the mails at the Post Office in this
city, also, Office hours:
Northern, Eastern and Western close at ';3o
and p NJ; arrive at 7:l5 a, m and ?. ~
Southern. via Potomac route, closes At p ''''
arrives at 6 p. m.
Lynchburg and South wostern closes st9p.m.;
arrives at S p. m.
Winchester Via Middleburg closes on Mon
days, Wednesdays and Fridays. at : p. No. ar
6ecoquan and Dumfries close on SUNDAYS,
Tuesdays and TharsdsySs At F M asrGes
Theological Seminary closes, daily, except
Sunday at 3 p. M, arrives at p. in.
OFFICE HOURS.
The Post Office opens at 1880 a. m. and closes
at 1875 p. m The Office will be closed from =
to ! p. m.
SuNDAYs-From S.45 to 945 a. m
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-08-26

UANO-We have made arrangements to
U purchase from the agent of the Peruvian
Government large quantity of No. PERU
Wan GUANO, to arrive during the months
Of August and September, which we propose to
sell at the lowest market price
NJ erchsnts and farmers will do we'll to cive
us call before purchasing elsewhere. Orders
for Guano, accompanied by the cash, will be
promptly attended to.
We are also sole agents for this section for the
sale of "SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO," so
widely and favorably known as fertilizer
Price of this guano S68 per ton.
KNOX u WATTLES, Com. Merch'ts.
au lin No. II, King st, Alexandria.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-08-26

MORE POLAR ExPEDITIoNs.-Mr. Lambert
an enterprising French gentleman, "a former
pupil of the Polytechnique School and dis
tinguished photographer, has suggested new
and untried route by which he hopes to reach
the Pole itself through the open Polar Sea,
which is still confidently believed to exist "
His plan is to pass through Behrlng's Straits,
and instead of pushing eastward, as all former
rarigators have done, to make directly north.
Although the proposed route has been put Ut
tie explored, sufficient is known to render the
plan at least plausible The captain OF trans
port attached to McClure's expedition, who
happened to sail northward from Behring's
Straits was firmly convinced, after landing
on little island. that he saw the open Sea
before him But whether practicable or not,
The scheme is to be tried. Fifty of the most
ilustrious names in France are appended to a
recommendation of it, Private subscriptions
have teen called for, and the Government being
a, pealed to for assistance, the Emperor Napo-
leon has placed at the disposal of the chairman
OF the Expedition Committee the sum OF fifty
thousand francs 1t is quite possible that IT
the private subscriptions tall short the French
Admiralty will consent to lessen still further
the cost of the expedition by furnishing and
fitting out such vessel as MIR. Lambert re-
quires At all events, the matter has been
taken up energetically, and if the enterprise
should prove success, France--to quote the
language of one OF the London journals "will
revive in the nineteenth century the glorious
tradition of past time, when such men as
Cartier sailed in tiny craft up the st. Lawrence
to Quebec; and such men as Lasalle, guided
only by che stories told by Indians, struck away
from the Great Lakes, came upon the Missis:
sippi and followed its course in their trail
canoes from the frozen North down to the sa-
vannahs of the South"
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-08-26
FERTILIZERS, &C.
WAN 6 y y N 0

An Peruvian Guano received bv me comes
direct from the ships in which it is imported,
or from the warehouses OF the Peruvian Gov
eminent, which grants no special privileges 70
any one have on hand and will always keep
an abundant supply of No, of the best quality,
and sell rs low as any house in this State.
WM II. IRWIN.
au : No. 5. S. Union st, AleXa., Va.