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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18
Remarkable Mental Precocity.

The members Of small but highly
cultivated world in Paris are at pres
ent much occupied with great mar
vel. This is pretty girl Of twelve
or fourteen, who has received a good
but not extraordinary education, but
who 10 the amazement OF every one,
speaks number Of languages with
extraordinary ease, and has rapidly
developed within a few months, a
depth and extent of knowledge of
every kind which is, really mracu-
lous. Her parents and friends, who
have been with her constantly, de-
clare that her reading has been limi-
ted, and her knowledge of the world
next TO nothing; yet there is scarcely
al event in history, a great work Of
art, distinguished man of letters or
monarch, artist, statesman unknown
TO her.
Of all Of these she speaks as ifthey
were known to ner BY experience
a distinguished jurist and philosop-
her who had heard of this living
'hAt oNiN3 OCII4ttt ts, ditSI ScNtldi HOuES
conversation, that there was not
Judge in Europe more profoundly IA.
miliar with every phase Of crime,
every caprice Of the alterations OF
passion, Of every theory of reform
and punishment, thai this infant. 1t
has been observed that her mind
darts like lightning i conversation
from hint to conjecture, and that she
surmises and draws forth facts and
truths with strange power like
divination. "She learned from me
ten times more than | know myself,
on subject which had studied for
years, " said a well-knowu Saran who
lad conversed with her in order to
fathom her secret ofacquiring knows
edge. There is no claim 10 snperna-
tural or mystical influences, and the
power, whatever it may be, is all
purely mental.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18
.s Sss Vol. 20, NO. II.

tore down, nearly breakin nv leg,
tor wich | wuz insuffishently remuns
eratid by the handkerchers | borror-
ed from the PROSTATE combatants
under cover Nv assistin nv EN- to rise.
After the scrimmage wuz over Poll
lock and Bigler came, with three nig>
gers, into Bascom's whore we wuz re-
pairin damages, wich remarkt that
they held meetin, and he'd passed
resolooshens thankin the Lord de-
voutly for hevin relieved the repub-
lican party Nv the Bare family, and
sympathisin with the dimocrasy witch
he'd received EN- and also acknowl-
edgin the..obligahsun the colored men
Nv the nashen were under 10 the dim>
ocrasy for The handsome manner in
witch they led treated Joe Williams,
the Afrikin delegate to the Moo York
Coovenshun, ez the selectin Nv a MIG
ger ez delegate and assoshatin with
him on terms NV ekal.ty, wuz a step
in the direction NV yooniversal
Brotherhood witch wuz cheerin. This
insultin message. delivered to men
witch wuz patchen up their faces and
washin OFF the blood av politikle
confiick, wuz the reverse Nv soothin.
The ratificashun wuzn't altogether
a success, but we shell try it agin aft.
er time hez softened the asperities en-
gendered by the recent confiick, and
the candidates hev he'd time to fit
themselves and their records to the
platform. The Corners kin be count,
ed on.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY p. NJ,
is atr,,aat TO-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18

UNFEELING.-JuGge Chase com
plains to western gentleman that
"the republican party is exceedingly
uncharitable in treating him with SO
much GOODNESS and distrust" But in
what light does the Chief Justice
think his own conduct Of late ought
to be regarded in view of the fact
that he owes ali his emoluments, all
that he is to-day, to the republican
party The Cincinnati Gazette, his
recognized organ until his apostasy,
sarcastically asks How can the re
publicans treat him SO? Has not the
Chief Justice been doing all be could
to aid them ever since the Goth of
February Have they no compass
sion for a handsome Judge in long
silk gown, who has lost his breath
running after the democratic coach,
and now wants to take back seat in
the republican vehicle ?"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18

A Magazine writer speaks as fol-
lows of boys:
"Boys pitch and tune themselves
according to dads financial platform.
If the old man be very rich Charley
soon finds it out and sets himself at
once about going to the ID across
lots over beer barrels, cards and 9th.
er fancy device-his first outfit being
fine suit of clothes, some tobacco
and cigars and few trinkets of Jew.
elry he sets about forging his faiths
er's name to money order and then
running away from the draft, after
while struggling home dead broke,
ragged, and with tales Of robbery,
pick pockets, and a spell of sickness.
The old man is incredulous, but con.
cludes to reform Charley if possible !;
so gets him place in a store where
he reforms for time, but soon grows
tricky again. He is spoiled, but re-
solves to cover up his tracks from
the old man. The old fellow feels
sick and the doctor says such anoth>
err attack will be the last of him,
which encourages Charley to perse>
we're in his external reforms. The
lawyer has been roomed up With the
old man full day, and rumors OF u
will are afoat, SO Charley awaits
hopefully for speedy deliverance
and purse to carry him through at
once.
But, if the old man be only moder-
ately we'll off. Charley is willing TO
do something towards his own sup
port; and thus he acquires at least a
partial habit of industry ard a feel
ing of some responsibility. Still,
Charley goes it strong by times, and
often wishes for his portion of the old
mans estate to help him along on a
more direct way to his own ruin.
Though if the old man have to dig
for life, and Charley, and all the fam,
lily dig and sweat to make an honest
living-the entire family accumula-
tions hardly worth thought, in such
case you may count upon Charley
making first class man, industrious.
saving, truthful and by middle life is
we'll off, happy and a gentleman.
Fine estates are indeed eagerly and
patiently sought after. But as inner
itances they melt away as snow be-
fore a morning sun. Our boys are
far better off when the like are never
handed over to them. 1t may be
safely affirmed that it would be vast
ly better, nine times in ten, were
there never a dollar of such thing
as prospective fortune by inheritance
That fortune may often be used with
profit and fine effect upon sons and
daughters for their schooling or men
tai discipline, care being taken tt
give them physical discipline to cor
respond, there can be no question
But the residue of an estate had vast
~ better be applied in some Other
way, than the practice-is say il
building up schools or in schooling
the poor and raising them up SO thai
in time they will not, by evil habits
resulting from their ignorance, de-
moralize those in youth having better
advantages"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18
The Mormons.

Lieut.. Gen. Sherman is reported
as characterizing the Mormons as u
set OF religious fanatics. He asserts
that what they have accomplished in
Utah, settling in the most wretched
OF deserts. on the shores of a salt
lake, in the distant interior of a vast
and almost trackless Continent-and
there, by the sheer force of will, in
dustry, sagacity, temperance, admir-
able regulation, and indomitable per>
severance, making a garden of the
desert and fertile fields of the will
dernbss- could have been achieved
by no other earthly power but relig
ious fanaticism. Then, the fact that
they were led to use this tremendous
force In creating aregion of fertility in
the precise spot where the advancing
course of Chritianity and civilization
would need it, and is now about to
benefit by it, he cannot help regards
ing as a direct act Of Divine Provi.
dence, bringing His good out of
mans evil doings. This being grant,
ed it seems TO him the best thing to
do with the Mormons is to treat them
like other people-not encouraging
their intitutions by admitting Utah
as q State, but governing their Ter,
ritory and ignoring their peculari>
ties. PERSECUTION always intensifies
lana icisms. Why should this be an
exception Let them alone push
on the Pacific railroad fill their Ter
ritory with active young GentiIes,
and polygamy will die a natural
death, while their civil theocracy
will be overwhelmed and outvoted
by the swarming incomers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18
eea There is q new tonic

eea-There is new topic for dis
cussion in the religious papers. Some
one asks if rhubarb wine is fit for
communion purposes. The reply is:
"Just as fit a. the juice of onion tops,
turnip tops, cabbage leaves, or any
other vegetable would be, mixed
with certain quantity of sugar, and
no more so. In the juice Of the rhu~
bark plant there is not a particle of
sugar which is necessary in all fruits
suitable for wine making. The So
called wine made from the rhubarb
plant is an abortion, and wholly I'M
fit for any purpose or use whatever,
and we believe its manufacture has
nearly ceased"
The writer is entirely mistaken
when he asserts that the manufac>
ture of the so>called rhubarb wine
has nearly ceased. On the contrary,
nine-tcnths, if not a greater proper ,
ton, of the liquor sold as sherry is
nothing else than sweetened rhubarb
juice. A great deal of it is manufac~
tured and recommended by certif-
Gates, assumed to be furnished by
physicians, for medicinal purposes -
Chicago Republican.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18
Better Times Coming.

lac prospects are now very fats
tering that food will be much cheap.
er throughout the civilized world.
during the coming year, than it has
been for several years past, the N. Y.
Chronicle says:
Information received from all parts
of the United States, as we'll as Eu.
rope, seems to render it certain that
the crop OF cereals for the coming
year will be uncommonly large, and
breadstutfs and provisions of all
kinds will be abundant Should this
be SO what is to be the price of our
great staples when the crops are well
secured and ready market? Should
the surplus in this country, over all
needed for home consumption, be as
is probable, at least equal to 5,0O0,-
900 bushels Of wheat, and 150, O00,>
600 bushels of corn, that quantity,
OF course, must be kept in a market
abroad. 1t cannot be held here. 1t
must be exported, and for that pur>
pose it can be worth only the cur
rent price in Liverpool, plus expen>
ses OF shipment &C., and that price
will govern the value of the en-
tire crop. Should the supply abroad
be large, as appears now quite cer>
tain, so that the wheat Of this coun,
try is brought into sharp competition
in the markets of Europe with the
wheat Of Egypt, Poland, and other
wheat growing districts we shall GER
tainly be obliged TO sell at much
lower prices than have been obtained
for several years past, especially for
the last year, and our agricultural
interests will begin for the first time,
to feel the full effects ola deprecated
ourranny
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18
Loyalty to the South.

The following we cut from an Arkan-
sas paper. 1t is red hot Seymour
and Blair supporter of course:
= Another loyal man was lately
killed in Bradley county, and we have
information that such will continue
until the last Of that hateful class is
entirely eradicated. Among the vir-
tues of the deceased, we notice that
he expressed great love for the glo>
rious Union during the late struggle,
by robbing and numbering rebels.-
Such being the case, we wish that all
of his kind were so far in perdition
that .Satan's shrewdest detective
could not find them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18
Curious Swindling Dodge in Canada.

A bold and decidedly original swim
ding dodge has just developed itself
IN the rural districts west Of here,
and been successful in deluding sev>
eral farmers, as far as heard from, out
OF considerable sums of money. Two
sharpers were lately started out, pre-.
tending to be engineers engaged in
the survey of new railway line
These scientific gents were first heard
ofin the township OF West Elamboro',
and We're pushing their enterprise
vigorously. Their mode was to APP
pear suddenly in the vicinity of a
farmers residence and commence
their engineering operations with as
much uproar as convenient, one of
the rascals carrying guide pole, and
the other some hundred yards off,
with bogus apparatus, pretending to
strike the line. The party whose
premises were thus invested without
leave or explanation, made bold to
inquire the object Of the movement,
and was Informed that the right OF
way was all secured, and that his
dwelling would have to be removed
just twenty feet one side, and that
very shortly, to clear the line of the
new railway. This startling piece
Of intelligence led to some argument,
resulting in the accommodating engi-
neers proposing to run the line a few
yards one side, by going back mile
or so to make the deviation, provided
the farmer would consent to pay a
small consideration for the trouble
and delay about twenty five dollars
being the demand. The trick was
successfully practised on three par
ties in the township named, on Wed
nesday, the imaginary railway line
making some astonishing curves to
"take in" the different Victims
Hamilton (Oat.) Times. ,JuZU 81.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18

g~The Meridian (Miss.) Mercury,
with the Seymour and Blair colors at
the head of its columns, in a fam
ing article in their behalf, thus ex-
claims:
"With the skull and cross-b bones of
the "lost cause before us, we will
swear that this is white mans gov
eminent. IVe must make the negro
understand 'Ce are the men zoe tOere when
zoe had him in object bondage, and make
him feel that when forbearance ceas-
es to DO virtue, he has aroused o
power that will control him or des-
troy him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18

HATRED OF GRANT.-One OF the
tranSparenoice carried by tho ~
son Association, Monday night, bore
this motto: 'sWe'll elevate Grant
higher than ice did Hannah p This
motto, coupled with the vociferous
cheers for Jeff. Davis. in the City
Hall, shows that the rebel hatred for
the man who conquered the rebellion
is as rank as ever. The Jackson AS
ISOLATION was always nest of cop
perheads and rebels, and their desire
to hang Grant and do homage to jeff.
Davis is quite natural, and is to be
expected. Such is modern ."Dem>
ocracy. Rochester (Ne,0 York; Er-
press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18
nasAt a recent political meetil

s9-At recent political meeting
in London, a Mrs. Law delivered a
speech. She said she stood there as
the representative of 100000 seams
stresses of the city of London, who
earned one shilling per day, and of
another $4,000 who earned sixpenoe
per diem.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

post Office address, Lancaster, Wiz
Judge of Circuit Court. I. MILLS.
Judge of Probate C0urt--WM. McGoNIGAL,
Treasurer-V. F. KINNEY.
Sheriff.. p. Cox
Re gster of Deeds-JosRPH BocK.
Clerk Of Circuit Court. w. BLANDING
Clerk of Board of Supervisors L. IL. PARs0Ns
CHM of Board of SupervisOrs-ApDIsoN BURR.
superintendent of Schools. Z. HuBBARp.
County Surveyor-JoEL BARBER.
District Attorney-G. C. HAzELToN (P o. Roscobei.)
Coroner-CHAs DICKEy, Up. o. Dckeyville.)
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18

ssa. The largest man in Kentucky,
William G. Willis, has just died at his
residence in Boone county, in that
State, Of apoplexy. He was sick but
/. few hours. His age was forty
eight. He was without doubt the
largest man in the State, weighing
five hundred pounds on the day Of
his death. His height was about six
feet. He kept toll-gate. and the
passeIs by had to go to aim to pay
their toll in place of him going to
them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18

s@ The Natchez Mss Democrat
thus blurts Quits profanity "Ifwe
have either to fight, or to forget that
there ever was a Runneynede, ct or
Sidney, or a Jeanne d. Arc, or
Madame Roland, for Gods sake. for
the country's sake, and to show that
Christ did not die in vain for the hu>
man race, let us prepare torit. Even
if we must die, let us die game =
Thousands of our young men are too
PROUD to work. Let them not be too
proud to die, if need be, for their
county"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18
res-J Judge Ebert Herring, of Ne,

aA-Judge Ebert Herring. of New
York city, is now on visit to his
friend Gerritt Smith, at Peterboro.-
Though in the ninety second year of
his age, he performed the long jour-
ney from New York entirely alone.
Hc jumped out of the stage, and came
as nimbly up the piazza as if be had
been forty years of age. Ae was an
able lawyer, and one of the shining
lights Of Tammany fifty years ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18

sn-One of Gen. Hancock's princi-
pal staff officers, when asked, after
the Democratic National Conven>
ton, how he liked the ticket, res
pended "What uniform do you
suppose wear :? DO you think
have begun to wear grey"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18
kay BENJAMIN Franklin. left by will

Sag- Benjamin Franklin, left by will,
e1,000 to the young married artifi-
GERS of the town of Philadelphia, and
a like amount to those OF Boston
both on the same terms, the rate of
interest being FIVE per cent. Some
what curiousIy, the Boston fund has
accumulated 1925, 1865 while that of
Philadelphia has only reached s65,
4e7
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18

GE Howell Cobb is making speech.
es at the South to stir up the old reb-
ell fire, and be sustains Seymour by
appeals of this sort:
"Come one and all, and let us snatch
the old banner from the dust, give it
again to the breeze, and, if needs be,
to the God of battles, and strike one
more honest blow for constitutional
liberty" prolonged and enthusias
tic applause I
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18

sA-A New York publishing house
advertises Pollard's Lost Cause" as
"The Only Democratic History of the
War" That house has proper APP
probation Of the fitness of things.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18

sm-JoDaviess County Fair at Ga
lena, Sep. 29th to Oct. I'd.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18
BLOOMINGTON HOTEL.

bloomington Wis.
SINE WO0pH0USE, PROPRlEIOR
Successor 20 nargcr)
Good stallng attached and the rooms ia good order
wolff
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18
Nasty.
Futile Attempt to Ratify the Nominations at
the Corners

from the Toledo Blade.l
PosT oFFIs, CoSFFpERIr X ROADS,
witch is in tho State nv Kentacky,)l
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18
Boys Measured.

PETROLEUM V. Massey p. NJ,
(Which is Postmaster. }
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-06-24
layer Beer.
BY JOSH Billings.

/ hay finally cum tew the conclusin
that lager beer as Il beverage is not in
toXicating.
| hav been told SO by a german who
said he had drunk it all mite long, just
to try the experiment, and was obliged
III 90 home entirely sober in the morn
ing. | have seen this same man drink
sixteen glasses, and if he was drunk he
was drunk in german and nobody could
understand it. 1t isproper enuff to state
that this man kept lager beer saloon,
and could have no object i'll Stain what
was not strictly thus.
| believed him to the full extent of
my ability. | never drunk but three
glasses ov lager in my life, and that
made mi he'd ontwist as tho it was hung
on the end OF string, but | was told
that it was OWN to my bile bein out
ov place and | guess that it was so, for
| never billed over wuss than did when
| got hum that mite. My wife thot
was gain tew die, and / wuss afraid
shouldn't, for it did seem as tho every
thing had ever eaten i'll my life wuz
cummin tew the surface and do real
ly believe that if my wife hadn't pulled
off my boots jest as she did they would
haV cum thunderin up too.
o! how sick | wuz! IA years ago, and
| can taste III now.
never had 50 much experience i'm so
short time.
If emmy man shud tell me that lager
beer wuz not Intoxicating, L should be-
lieve him but if he shud tell me that
l wuZn't drunk that mite but that my
stummick was out of order, l shud ask
him to state over few words, Jest how
man felt and acted when he was well
set up.
If | wasn't drunk that mite, | had
some oV the most material simptums that
man ever had and kept sober
In the first place it was about so rod
from where | drunk the Lager beer to
mi house, and | was thus over hours
on the road, and had a hole busted
through each one of my pantaloons
neez, and didn't have my hat, and tried
to open the door by the bell-pull, and
hickupped awfully, and saw every
ting in the room to trying get round on
the back side ov me; and in settin down
in chair, l didn't wait long enough
for it to get exactly under fire, when ii
was going round, and l set down lit
til to soon and missed the chair about
II inches, and couldn't get up soon
enough to take the next one that cum
along and that amt awl; my wife sed
| wuz az drunk az a beest, and az / sed
before, begun to spin up things freely.
If lager beer is not Intoxicating, il
used me most almighty mean, that
know.
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-06-24
Vermont Daily Transcript
ycm i,ticics of Impeachment.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE a, 1865.

The irrepressiblc Thad. stevens hoo
content with the result OF the recent
impeachment trial, has prepared new
articles of Impeachment which he THINKS
will Chang fire." They are four innum-
her and are of course deliberately drawn
M. The first article impeaches Prcsi-
dent Johnson for high misdomeanoi
in violating the constitution OF The
United States by making provisiona
governments in the Southern 9''''N'
without the consent of the Noaii ,,r,o.
The second impeaches nm r4, :, tle
ton Of the pardoning PC" rom
cases of Rehols and OF desertel2
the Union army, whom he ,''''' ','' -
sor the special purpose OF en- nIontion
to east their votes ut Il pe '''''5 '.;,'
ina loyal State. The -" ihlpoac'e' hiiii
for - bioh crime il, Using the patronage
of his Office to r'9'iu'' 'i'V ''" ~ Oo',
press in the eouthern States. The attn
and last ,npeachcs him for corrupt
,,so or nc patronage of his office iii the
.oIo,dons which hayctakcn place within
me last three years in lhevarious States
of the Union.
The Tribmc's spondent says that
Mr.. Stevens has spent great deal of his
time and labor in the preparation fol-
this new attempt at impeachment, has
gone all over the investigations which
were made in the first attempt at inn
parchment, and over those of The late
trial a. well, and from them he has
formed new indictment. 1t is not OK
pectcd that a vote can be secured OF
these articles during the session, bu
they will be brought up carly next SEES
sion by Mr.. Stevens
impeachment it seems to us has abou
'played out, " and Mr.. stevens had bet
ter not attempt to revive the subjec
again. There are thousands who woul'
rejoice at the conviction and removal o
Mr.. Johnson, but they do not wan
another trial, for they fear it will enc
as the first did, in u, miserablc failure