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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

BANKRUPT INSURANCE CoMPANY.-
The Milwaukee Sentinel announces
that the Milwaukee Insurance Cons
pany has gone into bankruptcy, and
says:
This company has been in exis-
tepce for years and at one time
ranked as the leading home institu>
ton, both in the city and state. 1t
was conducted as mutual in
stitution until four years ago, when
when it assumed the general" plan,
and took notes for premiums instead
OF cash. Hard times coming on, the
notes were not paid when due, and
just as the stockholders were consid-
ering the question of adding $500, 900
to the stock of the company, several
heavy losses occurred, reaching In
the neighborhood of $50, 900. These
losses occurred some two months ago.
Half of the amount was paid, and
an extension of time granted on the
balance, the company promising to
pay $4,000 down, the directors ad,
vancing the money. After agreeing
to the extension, the parties drew
for the full amount. This led to a
meeting of the directors, who re-
solved to throw the company into
bankruptcy. We understand that
the company has over $40, 900 due it
on outstanding notes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

BUSINESS OF PITTsBUGH.-Pitts-
burgh makes seven-eights of all the
chilled iron in the United States.
4 single establishment in that city,
in ten hours running time, turns out
the following products 1850, 1000
common nails, 1850, 900 tacks, $780,
600 shoe nails, 100000 GLACIERS
points. The Pittsburgh glass works
make glass 20 by 40 inches. One
Pittsburgh firm have total iron oil
tankage of 1900 barrels, their big>
gest tank holding $4,000 barrels.
One pillow factory turns out so, 900 to
$4,000 plows per year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03
Third Assembly District Convention,

A Mass Convention of the Republicans of the Third
Assembly District of Grant county is hereby called
meet Court House, in the village of Lancaster
on SATURDAY, THE 2lst DAY OF AUGUST NEXT,
at clock P. NJ to nominate two delegates to repre-
sent said District in the Republican State Convention,
be held at Madison Wednes day, Sept lst 1869
and also 10 nominate three delegates TO represent said
District in the Republican County Convention, to be
held at Lancaster on Wednesday, August 25th, 1869
JOHN Cover Chm,
THOMAS WATSON,
HENRY UTT,
August 3D. 1869. County Central Com.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

@rA Prescott (Arizona) CORES
pendent of California journal
writes: "What <his country wants
Is the Both parallel railroad. That
would open up a country equal to
California Ca big phrase, but / think
true) for this country is rich both in
mineral and agricultural lands
There ale many beautiful valleys in
this country that look as if nature
made them expressly for farms, but
at present inhabited by Indians aud
wild game only. Just imagine 300
or 1000 acres in one valley of clear
land and good soil, fine climate,
streams of water clear and sparkling,
the valley encircled by lofty pines,
intermixed with small oaks, jumpers,
etc."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03
uss At Beloit College Wiseonsil

res-At Beloit College, Wisconsin,
at the late Commencement, the grad
uating young gentlemen were allow
ed just five minutes apiece for their
"oration." The consequence was, no
doubt a great deal of compressed ell
oquence, consolidated learning, and
concentrated philosophy, with that
"soul of wit" which consists in brew
ity. This five minutes rule, as we
have already noticed, was also adopt.
ed this year at Amherst College,
Mass. We hail reforms of this kind
with indispensable delight. Eocu-
tionary elongation is one Of the cry
ing sins of the American people and
we have sometimes thought that up
on the arrival of the millennium the
most loquacious would suddenly be-
come laconic. Should the Beloit and
Amherst innovation grow general,
attendance upon Commencement ex-
ercises may become source of sat-
isfaction even to the most impatient.
N. Y. Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03
Grant County Republican Convention.

Convention representing the Republicans of Grant
county hereby called assemb at the Court House
in the village of Lancaster. on bEDNESDA n IHE
25h DAP OF A UGUST, 1869, at one o'clock, r. NJ
Of said day for the purpose Of eectng delegates 10 rep
resent the Sixteenth Senatorial District composed Of
the County of Grant in the State Convention to be held
At Madison on the LIST day Of September next
Each Assembly District will be entitled TO three
delegates In said County Convention.
In the absence of call from the committee of any
Assembly District the electors Of such District are
recommended to meet in at their usual places of
holding conventions, Saturday the 2lst day of Au-
gust, 1862 at o'clock, and appoint delegates 10
represent thea in the County aud State Conventions
JOHN P. Lewis, Chm, JNo. G. CLARK,
JAS " HOLMAN. d. 7. PARKER,
WARDEN ANDERSON, IL. I. YOUNG,
August I'd, 1869. County Central Com.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03
~ T. Eco d. Italia savs . nItal,

R EEco DHalid says: "1taly is
no more q mere geographical oppression
as Prince Metternich called that class
steal land at the Congress of Vienna,
nor the land of the dead, as proclaim-
cd by the French poet Lamartine.-
Modern Italy is the land of progress,
OF commercial enterprise, of indurtry
in all its, branches, of railways, of
public education, and OF civil as we'll
as of religious liberty; few years
more of peace and internal harmony
and our country will be inferior to
no other among the most favored ma
tons of Europe.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03
aas~The Dubuque Herald SAYS that

The Dubuque Herald says that
"two miles from Floyd a man and
his wife by the name of Conyngham
were killed by the Lighting" They
were in bed, sleeping with their
heads next to the chimney, when the
lighting struck the house and killed
them instantly. Their eorpses were
perfectly black from the effects of
the lighting. Their bodies were not
found until about II o'clock the next
day, The mans mother, sleeping
up stairs in the same house, was rem
dered insane by the shock, and had
not recovered at last accounts.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

Cruelty to animals is shown in
other ways than by beating them,
and we know of no more brutal way
than bringing horses to town, hitch
ing them on the street aud leaving
them to stand under the hot sun from
morning till night without anything
to eat or drink.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

RA re-assesment of the income
list of the citizens of Washington has
been ordered by the Revenue Bureau
occasioned by numerous complaints
of false returns, and numbers of char
ges that wealthy people have made
no returns at all. 1t is not improba-
BILE that similar orders will be issued
to the Assessors of the principal cit
les Of the country.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03
Republican Union State Convention.

Attention is called to the fact each
Senate and Assembly District is al
lowed tlCO delegates to the State Con
vention instead of three as was err
roneously published in the call last
week.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

s0 Fortytwo "roughs"-Mississi-
ppi river raftsmen, who violently
assaulted the off GERS and crew of the
steamer Dubuque. above Rock Island
lately, causing terrible fight,
are now prisoners in jail at Rock
Island, Illinois. They killed five
of the steamers crew and lost one
of their own number. It was q
bloody affair, for which the raftsmen,
apparently, had no excuse, and they
deserve the severest punishment.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

EXECUTE THE LAws.-Complaints
of lawlessness from Georgia at last
take such definite shape that the
government can no longer overlook
them. 1t is formally reported that
the assessment and collection of rev.
enue in one of the districts are en-
tirely prevented, and the assessor
has gone to Washington for assist
ance. 1t is high time to let these
malcontents at the South understand
that the administration has sword
as we'll as an olive branch, and that
it means to have peace by submission
to the laws everywhere. If the
Georgians will not accept the olive
branch then they must submit to the
vigorous use of the sword. A little
of the same sort of discipline which
Governor Clayton gave to rebels in
Arkansas will do good in Georgia.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

19-There is lively canvass for
the Presidency of the University of
Michigan, made vacant by the resig-
nation of ID. Haven. Among the
prominent candidates are Prof.
Chadbourne, late of the Wisconsin
University Col. I. W. Higginson,
the Row. DR.. Hedge; Prof. julius Fl.
Seelye. of Amherst; President An
derson, of Rochester University;
Judge Campbell formerly of Michi-
gan and DR.. Tappan, formerly Pres
ident of the institution.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

sA-The New York Herald saws
"Fhe fight in Pennsylvania for Gov
ernor is between money and glory.
Packer has the money, and Geary
has the glory and the inside track
but, with the money on the side OF
Packer, it will be hard fight"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

ga~ It is reported that Senator
Anthony, of Rhode Island, has late
ly requested from the War Depart
ment copies of Iall letter written by
Senator Sprague, containing charges
against officers in Rhode Island re-
giments during the recent war,
whereby many of them wee unjust
ly suspended, and will next winter
open vigorous fight on Sprague in
the Senate.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

@ During our many years of
editorial experience, we have never
ksown a more kind and considerable
expression between editors, than is
now apparent in the courtesies of
the Wisconsin press. This is due, in
degree, to the good influences of
our Editorial Association.-OS Oshkosh
Times
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

sA-In letter to the Collector at
New Orleans, Secretary Boutwell,
says the involuntary immigration of
Coolies into this country is only a
"new modification of the slave trade, :"
and directs the Collector to use all
vigilance in its suppression.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

LONDON, July, z9.-The Times, to-
day, has an article on the Chinese
question in the United States. 1t
thinks the conflict of races in Cali
fornia cannot be solved by heavy
duties on immigration, or by street
outrages. 1t is impossible to sup
pose the Chinese can be kept out of
America. lnheriting an ancient civ
ilization and perfect economic meth.
DDS, but destitute of the strength
and toughness, or moral fibre, which
support authority, the Chinese may
be welcome as assistants in colonies
tion-not feared as a race likely to
dominate in the future.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

GONE TO DAvY JONES LOCKER
Hon. Isac Toucey, of Connectic u t,
who was Secretary of the Navy in
Buchanan's Cabinet, died at Hart
ford Friday morning.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03
Republican Union State Convention.

A State Convention of delegates, representing the
Republican Union party of Wisconsin is hereby called
to meet at the Capitol in Madison, at II o'clock, NJ
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER lsT, 1869,
for the purpose fnom mating candidates for the State
officers to be elected at the next general election and
to transact such other business may be deemed ap
propriate,
Each Senate and Assembly district Of the State viii
be entitled to three delegates.
]. r. Brigham, @. W. Hazelton,
j. X. Bennett, Allen Warden,
w. II. Ramsey, A. w Starks,
A. Scott Sloan, A. Guesnler,
A. Haight, John I. Kingston,
Lutte A. Taylor.
Milwaukee July II, 1869.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

Iowa can boast ola larger school
fund than any other State in the
Union having the magnificent amount
OF S3,OOO,OOO set aside for that pur-
pose.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

n9. Hon. Harlow S. Orion has
been quite extensively spoken Of in
private circles, as the democratic
candidate for attorney General on
the State ticket, this fall
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03
fay-The London Times saws that

a@ The London Times says that
centuries of misrule have planted
perverse views in the breasts of the
Irish peasantry, which would dis
appear under such measures of JUS
tice as are contained in the Irish
Church bill, and adds that "heavy
indeed is the responsibility of those
who have the power to rescue the
measure from any further delay"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

sG Major Haggerty, our Consul to
Glasgow is refused his exequstur be,
cause he was a Fenian in America,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

RoTTED TO THE CoRE.-The Rich
mond Enquirer and Examiner, the
oracle of the late Virginia Democra
cy and the administrator of the es>
tate of the said Democracy, deceased
in its issue of the 18th inst, in COM
commenting on the election of Gov
ernor Walker, of Virginia, says:
"The Democratic papers at the
North have committed very grave
error in ascribing this great victory
to the Virginia Democracy There
has been no such party in this State
for eight years, and its uery bones hare
rotted, and now cruna6le at the touch.
No resurrectiorary process could,
bring that party to life, and it's
ashes lie mingled with, and undis-
tinguished from, that of the old Wing
party"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

sas>The Scientific american says
that there are produced annually
throughout the world 1914, OOO0 900
cwt. of coal, l91, 100000 of iron
1851, 600 of copper, 4,926,3O0 of lead
1880, 900 Of zinc, beside 459, 883
pounds of gold, and 1858, 900 pounds
of silver. Great Britain produces
more than half the coal, nearly half
the iron, and more than one third
the lead. Austria produces one third
of the copper, and America nearly
third. Half the zinc is from Prus-
STA, and most Of the rest from Belgi-
um. North and South America pro-
duce six seventies Of the silver, and
Australia and America each produce
nearly half the gold.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03
EEAn Arkansas Repu hlican mar

cyan Arkansas Republican pap
er thus refers to the conservative
groans over the recent ruin of the
South: ga few months of radical
reign, and alas for the evidences of
gross misrule. Several hundred free
schools in operation and buildings
for several hundred more in process
reconstruction. What an imposition
upon the people. One railroad rap
rapidly building, and several more
actually under contract. Immigra.
rapidly setting in, too, and, horrors.
all of the radical type ~
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

THE IRISH CHURCH BILL.-Des.
patches by the cable.bring the news
that the lords have receded from the
position they had taken on the Irish
church bill, and it's passage assured
in the same form in which it passed
the house of Commons. This bill
guarantees that the Irish people will
no longer be made to contribute to
the support of the church of the
state, as disestablishment carries with
it also disendowment. The ministry
and the commons have won victory
over the lords in this matter, and
back of all, the people of England
have made their power felt to such
an extent that it gives assurance
they will be able to dissolve the con-
nection between the church and state
in England at no distant day. The
passage of this bill, especially as the
lords were forced to make concess-
ions to prevent revolution, marks
an era in the progress of religious
liberty, and will give encouragement
to those earnest reformers thorough
out the world who are laboring for
the freedom and elevation of man
charlottesville Gazette.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

CONNECTION IN THE OLD WoRLD.-
The cable brings warlike rumors
from Europe. Spain is again in a
disturbed state. The Carlist party,
whose origin dates back to 1925,
when old Don Carlos, brother of
King Ferdinand VII, conspired
against the reigning Sovereign, and
whose object is to place Don Carlos
en- the throne, are armlng, and q
general rising is anticipated. The
first battle was fought on Saturday,
in which the Government troops
defeated the Carlists. The Spanish
government has issued decree re-
viving ard putting in force the mar
tial law of April, 1921. 1t is rumor-
ed that treaty has been concluded
between France, Austria and Italy,
the latter in case of war, to support
France with contingent of $4,000
men and occupy Viterbo; also that
the King of Prussia offers the Pope
$4,000 troops if the French will
evacuate Rome. Furthermore, adj
vices from Constantinople state that
Egypt is arming extensively.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

nA-Ex Governor Grape died at his
residence at Flint, Mich, on the 23rd
ult.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

The decision of the judges was
given to the Eureka"
Mr.. Amherst Barber, in Lancaster,
lately cut 6 acres in 81 hours with a
5 #. Eureka, without any extra eff
fort.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03
ne The Savannah Mans

sG-The Savannah NewS (rebel1
says that new opposition Repubz
lican party is forming, under the
leadership of Seward, Chase, Charles
Francis Adams, ex-senator Morgan
Thurlow Weed and Charles A. Dana.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

sa- Mr., Brigham Young told Judge
Trumbull during a late interview,
that the Mormons would not obey
the laws of Congress prohibiting
polygamy. The logic which Brig
ham uses to defend his determin.
alton hardly strikes us irresis.lbly.
at is much BETTER" said he, "for a
man to have several wives to sup
port, to honor and cherish, than it is
for q man to deceive one, and cast
off, disewn and refuse to support
her." This is very much as if the
prophet should say: 1T is much
better to steal than to tell lies, to
kick man than to punch his head,
to sell poor beef rather than bad po
tatoes." Young's averment that
plurality of wives has been ordained
by "a special revelation" helps mat
ters very little. Divine commands
to do diabolical things are exceed
ingly suspicious.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

The NEWSPAPER CASH SYSTEM
The Wisconsin editors have been
holding a convention at which the
proposition was preached for estab>
fishing general newspaper syste m
out there of cash payments. Why
not every here 1t is the only prop,
er way. Most Of our country news
papers live half starved on the cred.
il system. Our war correspondence,
for instance, during the late rebellion,
cost US over half a million in cash.
We could afford it with our cash
system but where would we have
been under the old credit system
Nowhere. OF all things in the world
newspapers cali for the cash system,
and it is always the best for buyer
and seller. "Mr. speaker, once said
John Randolph, / have found the
philosophers stone. 1t is pay IS you
60 and be paid as you go."-N r
Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

The CONSUL TO HALIFAx.-The
Halifax Citizen Of July 9Th. says:
Judge Jackson, the United States
Consul at Halifax, yesterday enter
tanned large number of his friends
at the Consulate, in honor Of Ameri-
can independence. Mr.. Jackson is
deservedly very popular, not only
with his own countrymen, but with
every one who has the pleasure of
his acquaintance. We wish him ev-
cry happiness, and many returns of
the suspicious day, so justly kept in
ememberance."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

IW The projected reunion of the
officers of both the Union and Con-
federate armies who fought the bat
tie of Gettysburg, is to be held on
the battlefield on Wednesday, Aug.
4th. This meeting is called by the
Gettysburg Memorial society for
the purpose of permanently locating
the position of the two armies during
the various stages of that battle
A large number of officers will attend
and Colonel Batchelder, the histori.
an of Gettysburg, accompanied by
Messrs' Chappet and Walker. the
well-known artists, will also be pres
ent. The occasion will be one OF con.
siderable interest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03
The Eureka Mower-An Acre of. Grass
Cut in Twenty-Six Minutes.

A Poughkeepsie paper tells Of an
exciting time at a Moving match in
that vicinity: "There was aspirited
contest between the Buckeye, Wood
and Eureka machines. The Eureka
differs from all others by having the
sickle exactly behind the team
From the following summary Of the
match it will be seen that some very
rapid work was done. Each machine
cut one acre, which was 1000 feet in
length. Their time was az follows
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

s@-Senator Brownlow has pub
lished long address to the Tenn>
essee negroes, urging them to supp>
ort Mr.. Senter for Governor, and
closing thus: Gas highly as 1 es-
TEEN the friendship of Tennessee
Republicans, / do not want the good
opinion of such as deem me capable
of selling out the Republicans of
Tennessee TO rebels, or Of forming
an alliance offensive and defensive
with Andrew Johnson. | have and
can have no sympathy, alliance or
cooperation with the rebel Demo-
cratic party. Their record is written
in characters of blood and fire in the
history of this country, and their
ascendency is an impossibility so
long as memory retains her place
and the people remain patriotic"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

BEG The question OF now many INV
migrants we can absorb, agitated the
late Memphis Convention. In an
address to that Convention, Mr.. J.
w. Clapp, of Tennessee, showed that
assuming that the South could sup
port proportionately as large pop
ulation as China, Mississippi would
not be overcrowded with 100000
of inhabitants, or Arkansas with H..
100000, or Texas with the enormous
number of 100000. The eleven
Southern States, if as densely popu-
lated as China, could sustain 1870, 000,-
900 of people or, if England is taken
as basis, 262, 242, 900 or France, $780,
313,616 !; or Holland, 1e3,780,00O.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-03

nA-Next year is the last year
under the Internal Revenue
law as it now stands, in which
the tax on incomes is to be collected.
The amendment passed in 1867 to
the 119th section of the law reads
thus:
THAT the taxes On incomes here
in imposed shall be levied on the
first day of March and be duo and
payable on or before the thirtieth
day of April, in each year, until and
including the year eighteen hundred
and seventy, and no longer"
Unless, therefore, Congress ex-
tends the operation of this tax, It's
existence has nearly come to an end.