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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13
Reform in England.

The discussion of the Reform meas
ures during the late radical rade up
on the conservatives in England un-
earthed and exposed many things
which all parties have hitherto tried
to conceal-among these, the fact
that the masses Of the English people
have no confidence in and most un-
willingly support the established re-
ligion.
Said Lord SALISBURY, one of the
church advocates 1T has occurred
to ne tor long time, and | am cer>
tain 1t Is true, that zoe haze IN a great
measure oatgrorn or Institutions
There is an expansive force among
the people. The advance of wealth,
the increase of education, the capac.
ity, or at least the ambitioa, that ev-
cry man now feels to occupy higher
station than that in width he has
been placed by Provideuce-all these
things tend to make men dissatisfied
with the institutions OF The country,
because they feel themselves cribbed.
cabined, and confined by the restrc-
tons which those institutions inns
pose"
Further along he says, in event of
the reform bill becoming u law, ''the
House Of Lords must become extinct.
The governing power will be trans
terred from hereditary legislators to
the people. The Church Of England
will lose its aseendancy,, for it has no
hold upon the objections Of the mass
cs of the population An agrarian rev.
oiution may be expected, because
there IS now an irreconciiabIe antag-
onism Of interests between the labor
ing multitudes who arc about acquir
ing political preponderance and the
handful OF great landowners and caps
italists who are fast losing it. There
will arise, and speedily too, u revival
OF the great fcud between the House
Of Want and the House OF Plenty !;
and out of all these changes England
will come forth great and powerful
still, but not so great, aud not so
powerful as she was before"
The church party in England, bet
ter known rs tory or conservative to
distinguish it from the reform or rad>
ical party much like the conservative
party Of America. has long been used
to enslave and impoverish the people
by taxing them for the support of II
religious establishment which they
felt no respect for, but rather despis-
ed to loathing. That party exactly
corresponds with the conservative or
tory party ofthe United States which
chung to slavery as its national
church or establishment This party
was born of the democratic party
under Polk and Pierce, but unlike
the British conservative party it al
ways desired and now desires disun-
ion by means of rebellion to arrest
radical progress whereas, in Britain
the tory conservatives gracefully
yield the point rather than assist in
disunion and rebellion. The British
conservatives are not traitors to their
country like the American consorva>
tives.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13

EGg- Ex-Gov Perry OF South Caro-
lima has published series of elabo-
rate measurements of the skulls OF
the chimpanzee, the gorilla, the ne
gro, and the white man, by which he
discovers that the REIMBURSEMENT
of the negro is grevious wrong to
the monkeys and himself The pros
fundity Of his argument will com :
mand the respect of the world, but
before accepting its conclusion we
would like Mr.. Perry to furnish the
exact measurement of his own head.
We want an absolute standard of
comparison. Will Mr.. Perry furnish
ito
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13
Fire Blight.

The dead limbs and foliage to be
seen in the tops Of apple trees of near
~ every orchard is called sire flight"
perhaps from the supposed resem-
blance to the effects offire-such parts
appearing as if burned. It is said,
and we think properly, that the cause
is small triangular shaped bug. re-
sembling the lady bug often seen Oh
potato vines-tbe latter said by en-,
tomologists TO be the only known en-.
envy and destroyer Of the potato bugs.
These IRE bljght' bugs fly about the
tops Of trees puncturing and deposit
ing their eggs in the limbs: the immo-
date effect is to poison the ends of
limbs, from which the part drops at
once and dries as if burned by fire
This would not be so hurtful, were it
not that the downward circulation Of
fluid carries with it the poison which
diseases and speedily kills one or two
feet Of the limbs, and now and then
even three feet. Some varieties of
trees will receive much more injury
than others The wild crab appears
to suffer even more than tho domes-
tic apple.
This 'fre biight,' commences early
in June and continues till the middle
OF August. The eggs probably hatch
their grubs which fall to the ground
and the next year roappear as before.
The blight has been noticed in the
orchards Of this coun ~ for Mt least
twenty years.
The only known remedy is 10 cut
off the blightod limbs and burn them;
and to provide against a possibility Of
there being two or more crops of
these insects each year, it is safe to
go through your orchard and cat out
all bllghtcd limbs at least once each
week, which insures your orchard
against serious injury another season.
Such has been our practice for three
years, and this year our trees exhibit
but little blight. We have been Wig
liant, however
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13
The MusOaluge dining Company.

This company, lately organized aud
composed of Milwaukee capitalists.
with A.sC. May as chief manager, has
commenced work atBeetown, on the
Muscalunge stream, about one mile
rom the dwelling OF John ID. Combs.
and upon the lands lately bought al
William Cole. One or two build,
ings are to be erected for lodging and
camping, but the hands are to board
for the present with Esq. Combs.
The adit or open drift is to run a
considerable distance through the
bottom and is TO discharge the waste
waters into the Muscalunge. The
depth OF works from stream to bro "
Of bill will be Is to 20 feet.
Conductors Of pJtter's ware are to
be laid down TO- he water TO pass
away, and the ditch cut is TO be Gov
cred up AS the workmen move for
ward.
The adit is TO run the direction OF
what is, we'll known as the SHETLAND
q Evens Range, The west mouth OF
which is to be followed in view OF
reaching under openings and quar>
tering side crevices. Near the brow
Of the hill was one OF the SHETLAND
4 Evens mineral discoveries, worked
into the water and abandoned. The
remains of this Will be worked out,
aud perhaps new discoveries be made
in lateral eroyices.
Next, the second SHETLAND &
Evens perpendicular shaft will be
reached by undermining, the bottom
punctured. and that also worked out.
At this point appears the quartorina
north east,south west crcgice, which
il believed to not only bear mineral,
but to communicate with numerous
parallel east and west ranges, the ex,
istencc of which is known. but all Of
them improved on account of the
water. Said quartering crevice is
known to run in the direction Of ]
H. Browns, which section ofcountry
is very elevated. The drifting will be
| two or three hundred feet below the
surface, and $50 TO 200 below where
the miners have been able to reach
1t is not alittle singular that the en-.
tire lay of ground and ranges, quar-,
terings, aims and intents OF the Mus
calunge Company seem an almost ex,
act copy OF the works IN jamestown
by the Fairplay Mining Company
almost as much so as if both had beer
cast in the same mould and the plans
Of both copied from the same dia,
gram. And the discovery Of both up.
pear so near the same that the stock
cannot be of unequal value-at leas
until more is known.
The Milwaukee Company is en-,
trusting its work to men inexperien
ced as miners, but lift be true as eve
affirmed, that green hands are th'
| the luckiest miners" this company
will come out ahead. The Fairplay
Company is being managed AM
worked entirely by experienced
hands.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13

gS-There is fair prospect that
we shall soon have a tin-fever in
Missouri as bad as the OIL fever that
lately ragged in Pennsylvania. A
valuable tin mine-the only valuable
one ever found in this country-has
been discovered near the Iron Noun
tain, and all the State is going wild
about it. Every man has a lump of
ore in one pocket and a blow-pipe in
the other. Spectators are buying
up tue farms, and stock ,jobbing is
fast usurping the place of honest La
Dor. For one man who gets rich
through the mines we venture to say
that ten will be ruined by mining
companies.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13
Foreign Postage Reform The Facts.

The fist of January nexta new law
positively goes into etfect-substan
stantia1y as follows:
A reduction ofletter postage to II
cts. psr halfounce or fraction, instead
Of 25sts. on letters going to Britain
O, Ireland.
Similar reductions also on newspa
pers, books, prints, photographs,
seeds, grains. patterns, samples, &c
The newspapers have for a time
been misleading the public as to the
time when the law was to 90 into cf>
ect; also the rates, one report saying
the rate Of paper postage was fixed at
Gets for 40 ounces.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13

sssy On The morning Of the assas-
sination of Mr.. Lincoln there was a
Cabinet meeting, The members Of
the Administration wore joyous over
the surrender Of lee Mr. Lincoln
expressed anxiety about sherman,
and when Grant assured him that
Sherman was all right he replied 10y
detailing dream which he had PIE
vious to characteristics, Stone Riy-
er, and other defeats. The rccur-
renee Of the dream led him to dread
The recurrence of disaster. 1t came !;
but, instead of calamity to our armies,
it was his own assassination. The
supernatural warnings that came to
Saul, and Pompey, and Caesar, seem
to have also come to Lincoln. Tru
ly, there are more things in heaven
and earth than are dreamt Of in our
philosophy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13

nea.. The Sierra Nevada Mountains
have been tunneled, and in a few days
We may have the cars running under
that magnificent range Of mountains.
The Pacific Railroad is advancing
with a rapidity that we do not reads
lily conceive. How long will it be
before we SEQ under our advertising
columns, From San Francisco 70
New York in ten dayslp ''Throuuh
line to China, by rail and steam, with
no change OF cars Z
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13

NEW YoRK, Aug. Cotton Iuiet
at CSC Flour 15a 25c better Chiefly
on old, al 800f11125 for EA State;
aud Q 500 1890 for Round II Ohio;
Wheat 3}a5c bettor, at 200 FIR No.
2 Milwaukee; 2.l5 for No / 10, 2.39
for new amber Michigan; Cornis dull
aud 1(a2c lower, at 107(a 100 for
new, l 044 1.07 for unsound, md 1.25
foc white southern, Oats ar, frmer
at 82(aS4o Tor Western; Pol& frmer,
at % 25(a23 IS for Mess; La q steady
at l2l@13lc; Wool more aciye with
prices declining.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13

Low WAGES AND FoLLY.-The AL
banv.. Rnickerbocher says truly enough
that the great cause Of al the misery
in this world is not taat men earn
too little, but that they spend thor
earning unwisely. Almost every
man spends as much FOR clears, juleps
and other nonsense as would pay his
board ard keep him half the year ID
idleness; and what is true Of indiyid>
ual folly is equally true Of national.
We arc spending a million u week u
hunting down the Indians, that a
pack of sccdndleIs on the frontier
may make fortunes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13
aHr While France and England

een- While France and England
have been entertaining the Sultan
with a splendid hospitality, rul rs
and people vieing with each other in
doing him honor, the little Kingdom
Of Greece, moved by a profound
sympathy for the Crctans, horoieal
~ struggling against the iron des-
potism of the Turk, is making prepa
rations for war with the Sublime
Porte in the cause of the suffering
Christians. The contrast is eminent
ly-inay it not be said painfully p
sugges tive.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13

ges The kentucky election took
place or Monday. Tic majority
Tor The rebel Democracy will bo
about 1000. They estimated bat
they woul carry the State by about
50, 600 The vote, however, was light,
and they did not do az well as they
expected. 1.-THE colored population
OF the State, numbering 236, 600 IN
1850 all loyal aud all DISTINGUISHED,
were given equal privileges with
the disloyal whites, the result would
have been somewhat different.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13
GW When a connterfeit is presented

GS When a counterfeit is presented
at the Bank of England, the gold is
instantly paid for it. If it comes
from some known person he is only
asked where be got it. If from a
stranger the cashier signals to his de-
tective, always in waiting, and the
officer follows secretly. Before many
hours the bank is in possession OF
the strangers biography. The offend.
CIR once arrested is likely to be tried,
convicted and sentenced within two
days; wherefore Great Britain is not
an inviting field for this branch of
industry.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13

aea-It is said that most of the fe>
male postmasters so numerous at
the South, are mere dummies hired
for small sum to give the use OF
their names and take the iron~clad
oath. while their deputies do the bus
mess and draw the salary, bat can
not take the oath; and these depu>
ties are, in many cases, the antiwar
postmaster.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13

Ray~The Prairie du Chien Covtcr,
edited by mcmber ofthc Democrat.
ic State Committee, quotes from an
exchange that all the candidates on
fine Republican tickets IN Iowa are
temperate and bell, sc in the Chris
ton religion. Thereupon it cx-
claims
"And thus You can see the proof
of Radical fanaticism, and their re-
ligious prescription in every instance.
These Puritanical Roundheads hate
all that tends towards Iiberality."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13

CHICAGO, Aug 10.-Floa. is nom
iuai and unchanged: Wheat Is steady,
at 1.S0; Corn is dali at &c. Ia &c; Oats
arc quiet at 53d54c; Rye istirm, at
Loo; Barley is weak and nominal;
Pork is steady, with $500 Id; Shout
ders are at l0i(al1c; Lard is dull at
12Ae
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13
gg The jackson Democrat. Mississ

IL The Jackson Democrat, Mississ-
ippi, publishes, in the biggest kind of
type its limited printing office can
supply, this alarming decree "The
Negroes must be Deported or Elk
TERMINATED! All the devil be
gotten imps Of darkness, whether
black or brown, whether n EGROES
or Indians, whether Mongols or mu-
lattoes, should at once be dismissed,
and that foreUer, FROM TIE CARE.
FROM THE SIGHT, AND EVEN
FROM TILE THOUGHTS OF THE
HEAYEN-BORN WHITES" With
out the aid of the negroes the editor
Of the Democrat would probably be
begging his bread, and we are quite
sure that if he executes his dire
and dreadful threat, he viii find that
he has deported and exterminated
his dinner.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13

HAIL.-On Wednesday afternoon
of last week there was something Of
a hail storm at Lancaster, but we are
unable to hear that any damage was
done, except to Mr.. Kuhn S vineyard.
The falling hail destroyed about a
fourth of bis grapes. The bail, sone
of them the size of hickory nuts, fell
in a narrow streak, direction north
east and south west. But little rain
fell at the time.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13
azr Of the new monastery 70 be

nzs~ Ut the new monastery to be
built at Dubuque, the Herald says:
The building is to be of stone, now
being quarricd, and when finished
will be the most magnificent and i'm
posing building in the State. LIS
dimensions will be equal to block Of
buildings in the city, with side waits
forty feet high, and on the church a
towel 200 feet high In the centre
Of the huilding viii be court square
Of i0G feet The designs, if carried
out, will give Dubuque u u mastery
something like the grand old strnct-
urcs OF Italy"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13

sa-A report to the Freedmeas
Bureau from the Inspector of Schools
in Mississippi, notices very thorough
earnestness on the part of the white
people of Mississippi to see the freed
men educated, and schools are being
organized and established in most
every part of the State.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13

Ca The Commissioner Of Patents
will issue two hundred and twenty
seven certificates of patents for the
week ending August -.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13
Bigotry and Liberality in Mexico.

Jaurez, a native Mexican Indian.
is the Liberal candidate for President
Of that Republic. He favors general
suffrage free emigration from all
countries, and equal protection 10 all,
Protestant and Catholic alike, equal
taxation, army subordinate to the
military, and the putting of the
priests on an equal footing with otis
erpeople, but the church property he
would nationalize or have it the pub,
lie property - much thereof to be
used for religious purposes as whole.
some welfare Of the church may re-
quire, and no more.
On the other hand, Escobedo is the
favorite of the church party for press
ident. tie is malignant Mexican
know-nothing and would hang every
foreigner; he would return the church
property to the priests, which is virs
tually giving them all of Mexico
they having gobbled it under various
religious pretenses in early times Of
Mexican darkness He says; $50
long rs one foreigner remains on our
soil our liberty is in danger; and as
all the property of foreigners was
made by Mexican misiortunes. We
should take it, now that we have the
power, and hunt them from the coun .
try. My MOTTO is, death to all for.
cignersl'
The latest we hear is that Jaurez,
who holds the temporary military
control, has forbidden the lottery bust.
ness, from which the church has de-
rived great revenue; inasmuch rs the
people voluntarily pay but little foi
npardoning, the loss OF this revenue.
which Jaurez say is extremely de-
moralising, will be a great blow upon
the church party.
Jaurez has already arranged for a
national system Of edncation; he ex-
poets TO use. the confiscated church.
es for schools, and to import teachers
from other republics to instruct the
youths in the arts Of civil life-to all
which the church party of course dis
sents. He will doubtless be elected
the people supporting him against
the priests for Escobedo.
/
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13

IE-The Madison Journal learns
that Prof j. G. Pickard. late of the
State University, has accepted a cell
to the Principalship of the BeIoit
High School, East Side.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13

ia A lady who recently wrote to
Boston publishing house for q copy
Of "Geliert, or Trust in God, " rocelv-
ed the sad reply, "Ihere IS no Trust
IN G0d to 5etound IN Rost0n- =
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13

DR.. CAMERoN-The Lacrosse Re-
pvbiicda announces the death Of Dr..
Dugald D. Cameron, of that city,
the cause supposed suicide BY drown.
irg On the 9th inst, tall man.
dressed in black, resembling at a dis
tauet Or. Cameron, was seen to rise
and walk into the river, the rapid cur
rent carrying him beneath. Gircum-
stances make it almost certein that he
was the man.
Dir. Cameron was a native Of Caledo>
MIA, Livingston Co., \. Y. He sets
tied in La Crosse in 81 or 50. He
served in the Legislature IN 1856. lie
was one Of the most prominent citi~
zens Of that city and Of the state. OF
late be drank too freely.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13
A Legal Anomaly.

There is an anomaly in the juris-
prudence of Louisiana unknown, we
venture to say, to ninety nine ones
hundredths Of the legal profession
the tacit mortgage. This legal anon
ally Louisiana has Inherited from It's
Spanish and French antecedents, and
is grated into the Louisiana code
which we sappose means the Napo~
leon. That code defines tacit mort,
cages as those which, "although not
expressed, are understood from the
nature OF the thing or from the pros
visions of the law" Minors and alb
sentees have tacit mortgage on the
estate Of surviving parents; the wife
has tacit mortgage on the property
of her husband as security tor her
marital rights as prescribed by law.
OF the number of this funny kind Of
unseen incumbrance the New Orleans
Republican says not even the profess
ional student can give a synopsis, or
can fully comprehend them. Profess
ional men decline to venture an opin-
ion upon title to real estate, and ca
ses are frequently arising, in which a
tacit mortgage, that had escaped the
closest scrutiny, 81 eeps off the props
erty. Tacit mortgages are the bane
of land titles in Louisiana, and capt.
talists will not risk their money in
Louisiana lands, An attempt is to be
made to free that state from this UNI
seen egaIincnbus- CLerelond HeraLd.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-08-13
Women as Doctors.


Mackenzie writes ia the PAliadel-
phia STURDY NIGHT
IL w.- the fashion ID England to
ridiculo lie American idea Of women
boiil. allowed 10 practice medicine,
bu5 ittrans pred that Elizabeth Black
well was an English lady. wc don't
hke to say how Old Il lady she really
is, BAT sue was born ~ Bristol ~
Ea1aui, on February 81, ISL
Commercial losses compelled her faith
CT to briGg MS family to this country,
where he died when his daughter
Elizabeth was only seventeen years
old. 1t would be a long story TO re-
late how she struggled to help her
mother and orphaned brothers and
sisters, until, atslast, AT the age OF
twenty-six, she went through pr,
waite course of dissection and midwife
ry, under Drs Allen aud arlington,
Philadelphia, (honored be their
namesD, while applying for admis>
sion to various medical colleges
twelve of these refused Der, but she
was admitted in 1S47, to the Medical
College OF the University OF Geneva,
New York where she went through
the whole course of medical study,
and graduated in lS49-being the
| first woman who ever received the
degree OF Doctor Of Medicine. After
pursuing her studies in the hospitals
Of Philadelphia, London and Paris,
she established herself in New York
IN 1851, as physician to women and
| children, published book on the
! physical education Of children, and
opened, III 1857, hospital for wo-
men, over which she presides, assls-
ted by her younger sister, Dir. Emily
Blackwell, who graduated NJ. d. in
1884, and also went through u series
of clinical studies in Europe, Both
sisters have a very large and lucra
tive pratice. There is a regular fe-
male NJ. D. in Philadelphia, happily
married and highly esteemed by all
who know her. wi ose annual income
from her profession cannot DC less
than 20, 900 There appears no good
] reason, albelt luoif is mucn prejudice,
why properly instructed female NJ.
DIS should not look after the health
of other women aud that Of their
own children.
A friend from the country on tell
ing Fotte Of an expensive funeral OF
an attorney the wit replied
do you bury your attorneys y
eyes, to be sure we do-how else p
"Oh we never do that in Lon
don"
"No !'said the other much surpris
ed; 'how do you manage p
"When the patient happens 70 die
we lay him out IN room over nigh
by himself, lock The door, throw opci
the sash. and in the morning he is on
tirely Off
"Indeed, said the other, il amaze
, mont, "what becomes Of bim ?"
"Why, that we can not tell; al
we know il, there lstrong smell 0
birthstone in the room the mex
) morning