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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
sa DIR. Nichols of

sA-Dr. Nichols of the Boston
Journal Qf Commerce, is inclined to
believe that the cool temperature OF
the summer past is due to the pres
ence Of spots in the sun. During
June and August, unusually large
spots are represented as being visible
on that luminary, and both these
months were cooler than the average.
What is the nature of the spot, or
dark patches on tho sun, even scien-
titic men arc IN complete ignorance
but they are known to be of immense
area. Scientific men assert that dur
ing certain years the whole equator
ial region of the sun has been crowd
ed with these spots, several of them
covering a space of two or three
times the diameter of the earth, and
it is certainly quite reasonable to sup
pose that they sensibly diminish the
amount of heat rays coming from
the sun to the earth. Secchl, the
Italian astronomer, has carefully
studied these spots, and thinks ne
has discovered at least this much
about them, that their variation
is confined to period which is all
but triennial. If this is so, law
may yet be discovered which will
enable US to foreteu these spots and
the variations in temperature which
they occasion, if we cannot explain
them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
United States Revenue Stamps, and
How to Use Them.

Though we have for some time
been living under the rule of stamps
the question is of every day asking,
Chow much Of stsmp does this re-
quire n The following embraces,
We think, The most general use OF
stamps, rs applied to manufacturers
and particular classes Of business
that pay special tax
All notes and evidences Of debt,
five cents on each 800; if under
800, five cents; if over 500, FIVE
cents on each 500 or part thereof.
All receipts for any amount, without
limit, over $50, two cents if under
$40, nothing, Checks OF any amount
two cente. All deeds and deeds of
trust. fifty cents on each $500 in
value OF the property conveyed or
the amount secured when u deed
c. trust is fully stamped the note
need not be but they should be en-
dorsed to show the reason. Mortgage
bonds need not be stamped if stamps
are affixed to the mortgage All the
ppralsements. estates, or estrays.
five cents on each paper. Affidavits
OF every description are exempt
from stamp duty. Acknowledg-
ments to deeds, etc, are also exempt.
Contracts and agreements, five cts
for each sheet or piece of paper,
except for rents or when for rent,
fifty cents for each $500 OF rent or
less; if over $500, fifty cents for
each additional 5000, or fractional
part thereof in excess of $500. ANY
person interested can affix and cancel
stamps.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21

Observation-Disclosures Tilton is
described by Eugene Benson as fol-
lows: "Everything about him is
crude and rank. The force of his
youth never seems to have found a
natural outlet but, kept by prema>
ture professions OF remuneration OF
it's legitimate objects, has stagnated,
and then spread only 10 teeo he rank
and prolific growths Of the religious
and secular life NJ Tilton is q
modernized puritan, with enough OF
Aovelaee in him TO make him love
flowers and women, and, now and
then, to exaggerate his foral and
feminine fancies. His il the hard>
pushing and flare-up sly le of writing
but it is always firmly expressive OF
the progressive and living ideas
which lose to-day aud ge to,moro
row, He has certain moral
sagacity which determines his re-
lation to party questions. But Mr.
Tilton has not q critical mind he has
not q philosophers mind be has o
fanatical and stimuiative mind"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21

A-Associate with our trade or
profession the ideas of duty, beauty,
social welfare, the service of God, as
well as the idea Of utility, and our
toll will no longer be stale and repul-
sive, but will become inspiring, and
remain fresh. Some element of rec
reation inspiration and delight mix
ed pith the business Of every hour is
the desideratum, not days Of dissipa.
ton thrust into months Of drudgery
No one excess balanced by an oppo-
site excess, bat healthy harmony
is what we want. Recreation and
amusement outside he regular line
of life may be needfui, but they are
not half SO important SO enjoyment,
freedom and progress inside of it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
Long Life.

Professor araday adopts Flourin's
theory that the natural duration of
mans life is hundred years. This
theory is founded on observation of
facts as periods in the time of growth.
Its thus stated: When once the bones
and epiphpsis are united, the body
grows no more, and at twenty years
this union is Effected in man. In the
camel it takes place at eight in the
horse at five, and in the RABBIT at one.
The natural termination of life is FIVE
removes from these several points
Man being twenty years in growing
lives five times twenty years, that is
one hundred. The camel is eight
years growing, and he lives five times
eight years, that is to say forty years;
the horse is five years in CROWN o,
and be lives twenty-fivo years. and
so with other animals. The man who
does not die of sickness, battles, bull
lets, railroad Observation-Disclosures
excepted-hyes everywhere from
eigty to one hundred years.
Providence has given to man a
century of life, but he dose not attain
it because he inherits diseass, eats
unwholesome fruits, gives license to
passions, and permits vexations to
disturb his healthy equipoise. He
does not die he kills himself The
learned professor divides life into
equal halves, growth and decline and
the halves into infancy, youth, yirili-
ty and az }. Infancy extends to the
twentieth year youth to the fiftieth
because it is during this period that
the tissues become firm virility from
fifty to seventy-fve, during which
tue organism remains complete. anc
at seventy-fve old age commences
to last longer or shorter time az
the diminution of reserved forces is
fastened or retarded.
There is no reason to doubt that i
a man inherits a good constitution
and isn't brought up by his CRANE
parents, and don't attend Sunda,
schools and learn his catechism to,
regular, and begins falling desperate
ly in love at the age of fifteen, an,
settles In a healthy country, and for
bids any physician crossing hi
threshold, and goes to bed early, an
, never rides on a railroad car or
steamboat or visits Buffalo, and OBJ
vsrves all the hints on health tina
> he finds among the paragraphs c
. of newspapers, he may live to .th
i age of one hundred. But most of U
prefer to run the risk of halt col
. umn obituary rather than bear
mind these simple rules.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
The Coming Chinese.

An able New York daily paper
says: THAT 1900 Cinnamon enter
ed the port of San Francisco the 9TH
er day packed in one ship; that you
may find them by hundreds in SIM
gle hotels on the Pacific coast, and
by thousands in Chinese quarters :
that they are working their way
Eastward through the vast desolate
gap now lying between Atlantic and
Pacific civllization-a gap soon to
be, perchance, the busiest and thick )
est hive of humanity on the globe
that Chinese hands already work in
crowds on the Central Pacific Rail-
road as $50 a month in gold; that
their yellow faces are to be seen in
all sthe large cities.of America that
no less than 10000 of them are al
ready in the United States that the
breaking down of pref lice
against emigration, built up through
many thousands OF years, will soon
make the outward rush from China
enormous; that the American labor
market and the American gold mine
will bend four itths of this stream
to our shores that the new means of
cheaper and better than Pacific navi-
CATION will foster this teddency-all
these facts are showing, not only how
large the Chinese problem is. but
how rapidly it grows, and how soon
it will demand definite solution"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
Death of William PITT Fesser len.

Senator Fessenden died Sept. 8th
1869. He was born 10 BoscaweL,
Merrimack County, New Hampshire,
October Is, 1906. He graduated at
Bowdoin College when be was II
years of age, and was admitted to
the bar at the age of 81. He re-
moved to Portland. Maine, forty
years ago, when he was twenty three
years OF age, and has practiced law
there ever since, when not engaged
in public affairs. He was many
times elected to the Legislature. In
1910 he was elected to Congress.
At the expiration of his term he
returned to the practice Of his pro-
tession He was afterwards elected
TO the Legislature aud was always
an uncompromising Wing while that
party was in existence, and conse-
quently did not gst into the u. S.
Senate, although he was the candi-
date OF his party. Ia 1854, however
when the tree .soil element got con-
troll of affairs, he was selected U. S.
senator, ana on the night OF March
3, 1854, delivered in the L. S. SEN
ate, one of the greatest speeches of
his life, and one OF the best speeches
made against the infamous Nebraska
bill. This speech established his
reputation as one Of the ablest men,
bers of the Senate. lie has been u.
5. Senator.ever since, with the ex-
ception of the time be was in the
Cabinet as Secretary Of tho Treas
ury.
He was called the ablest debater
IN the Senate. His features are
made familiar to oil by the picture of
him which appears on the twenty
five cent fractional currency. He
was a statesman Of great ability,
and his death will be c great loss to
the country.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
The Trade Prospect.

The unprecedented crops Of this
country and failure in Europe in
conjunction with the ability Of the
South to now pay for al she wants,
should render the trade OF this fall
active and healthy. The foreign
balance should be in our favor
Much will depend upon our railway
connections between the " est and
the seaboard. Should the managers
OF our great through lines wisely
appreciate the SITUATION both for the
good of their roads AMI Of the coun-
try, they will adopt liberal scale
of rates both on local aud through
freights.
1t IS believed the Sonth will trade
as heavily as in 1859, or any previ-
Gus year. Let us have the benefit
of liberal railway policy. The
corn crop will come IN mnch more
to the satisfaction Of farmers than
was apprehended three weeks since.
The late rains viii add largely to
the size of the ears and the amount
OF ripe corn on the ear. Late po-
tatoes, though shortened will rot be
a failure. There is, therefore, good
reason to cherish "a lively nope for
the general prosperity of the whole
country during the coming year
Cincinnati Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21

s2~ DR.. Franklin's fund of $1,000,
which he willed to Boston in 1871.
and expected to increase 9131, 900
in a hundred years, amounted to
only $133, 1896 on the first of Jan
uary last, and at this rate ofincrease
will not reach that amount at the
appointed time. DR.. Franklin di-
rected that it should be loaned in
small sums to young married artitic-
ers that 9100, 900 should be expend-
ed for public works in 1891, and the
remainder continue on interest an
other hundred years, when a portion
was to go to the city, and some e.
900, 900 to the State.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
sEz s.--VOL. q, NO. IS.

Takes p returned McPelter, mi
isinly, eve hev assessed tax ont
our bonds Nv eight cents onto th
dollar, wich, it happens, is just wha
yoor interest is. We skorn repudia
tion-we saei pay principal and in
torest-yet we hev the rite to ia,
bonds, and tax EN- we WILL"
sis the tax eight cents on the dol
lar on all bonds Nv the corporashen p
asked Pollock.
sTrooly it is, sed McPelter.
81 hold also the bond ishood yeel
before these for buildin o lookup
but witch only bear six per cent
The tax pays the interest and two
per cent. over-what will you dc
with that two per cent p
''Do with it p exclaimed McPelter
"Why, we shell apply it to the pay
ment Nv the principal, Nv course
The entire revenoe Nv the corpora,
ton is pledged to the extinguishment
Nv its debt, and we shel not be
recreant to our trust"
Pollock went away, but McPelter
he'd new idea. He immeiitly called
the Council together, and seiested
that the tax on the bonds ought to
be II instead Nv per cent, ez that
tax would not only pay the interest
on the 8 per cent. bonds but would
extinguish the bonds theirselves.-
The per cent. bonds wood not only
be eaten up, but wood leave Pollock
IN debt to the corporashen long be-
fore they wuz doc. The way Nv es-
cape from our troubles wuz so very
plain that the Council to-wunst
acceded to it and notis wuz given
Pollock Nv the new ackshen.
Imejitly the craven wretch wantid
to sell the bonds to the city at half
Their face, but the proposition wuz
rejected with skorn. The Council
passed resolooshn rebookin him for
intimatin that the Corners wood not
live up to its obligations.
"Ez much ez we loathe yoo," re,
marked Elder Pennibacker, the Mum
icipal President, "we shall pay yoor
bonds, dollar for dollar, principle and
interest-requirin 700, however, to
bear SIGH taxation ez may be levied
onto yoo."
"But ez the tax eats up both in
terest and principal, what do l get
for my money!" askt the stiff,neckt
man.
"The protection Nv our laws '
Numbered Pennibacker.
The people wuz SO indignant at
this Ablishnist meddler for his OBJ
jectin to SO ekitsble a proceedin that
they mobbed his store and wood hev
hung him, but for the interference Nv
Joe Bigler, who is alluz where be
ANT wantid. Ez it wuz he wuz ar
rcstid for breedin disturbances, and
fined $50. He rendered, in payment
Nv his fine, corporashun bond, but
the Justis refoozed, very properly, to
take it, and held him tell he shelIed
out greenback from his ill-gotten
boards.
Pollock feels sore, but we don't
Relieved from these bonds, the Corr
ners will hev no taxes to pay, and we
confidently expect a return Nv the
prosperity to witch we hev bin so
long stranger.
Yours with affeckshun,
ELIGER PoGRAM.
T. S.-Ef you get into a good
thing, and kin spare it, do remit a
porshen at least Nv wat you owe me.
Times is tite here. E. p.
Ez | fnisht his movin epistle,
Good not help thankin the Lord that
10 one spot at least, the Dimocracy
practis wat they preaca. Thank
heaven for Kentucky.
PETROLEUM Y. Nasty
WITCH wuZ Postmaste-:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21

s9 A prominent physician OF
Portage county, Ohio, relates case
within his knowledge where a boy,
now some fifteen years old, has used
tobacco since the age of five months.
When five months old, being q
nervous and fretful child, plug OF
tobacco was placed i1 his mouth, and
produced a soothing effect. The
remedy was often used during in
fancy, and through tue teething
period, and before the child could
talk plainly it was confirmed
tobacco chewer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
- Power. ike the diamond. da,

30 Power, like the diamond, dax-
zles the benolder, and also the wear
er it dignifies meanness it magni-
fIes httleness to what is contempti-
bic, it gives authority; to what is
low, 1t gives exaltation. To acquire
it appears not more difficult than to
be dispossessed of it when acquired,
since it enables the holder to shift
his OWL errors on dependents, and to
take their merits to himself. But
the miracle Of losing it vanishes
when we reflect that we are as liable
to fall as to rise, by the treachery Of
others ; and that to say 81 am" i.
language that has been appropriated
exclusively to God.-CoLton.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21

IMPORTANT TO PENsIoNERs.-Th This
Is the biennial year or the year in
which all invalid pensioners, not
specially exempted, are required to
be examined before they can he paid.
1t is important to prevent delay in
payments, that all pensioners send
ing their vouchers by mail or ex-
press, send with them their certif-
Gates of Biennial Examinations
These examinations must be made
on or after the 4th day of September
and their vouchers executed on or
after that date.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21

Prince Arthur is described as
tall and slender, with fine and fault,
lessly combed head of brown hair,
and his youthful face ornamented
with an English pattern of whiskers
moustache, highly creditable to the
physical development of a young
man OF nineteen. When he landed
at Halifax he wore black silk coat,
closely buttoned, pants of light drab
nue., s''choker" collar of enormous
size, and a black silk "tiIe."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
~Lost wealth NAV be restore

sL Lost wealth may be restored
by industry the wreck of health re,
gained by temperance; forgotten
knowledge restored by study alien
mated friendship soothed into for
getfulness even forfeited reputation
won by penitence and virture; but
whoever again looked upon his van.
ished hours, recalled his sighted
years, stamped them with wisdom
or effaced from Heavens record, the
tear>blot of wasted time.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21

In every battle tor reform, re-
ligious or otherwise, re find men
good, true, jealous, hearted
ever at the front. bat VINO can say
that they ever won a race in their
lives They are skirmishers by ma
ture-good to help bring on battle
but if compelled to go and lend hand
where whip or get whipped comes
ia, they almost always get demon
allied.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21

sar The Chinese fashions have not
altered for fifteen hundred years
Women must have small feet or they
cannot get a husband Large feet
are looked upon as curious spectacles
aud such a sight is sure to attract 8
crowd. Children when they first see
foreign woman look at them with as
tonishment-their small waists being
regarded with especial wonder.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21

The champion horse tradist"
resides in Mancha' ter, n. Il. He has
owned during the past fve years, 3, 600
horses, worth, ell an average, s15
apiece.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21

80 It Is estimated that the wheat
crop in Ohio this year will amount
to about thirty millions OF bushels,
or about double what it was last
year. Corn will be about one-third
OF a crop, or about thirty millions of
bushels. The heaviest corn crop ev.
er grown in the state measured
ninety>three millions of bushels
The oats crop is double what it was
last year, and the hay crop is excel,
lent, and reaches the market in first
rate order. Potatoes are uniformly
good, although it il jared that the
present dry weather will injure the
late crop little.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21

s~Still another telegraph cable
company has been formed in En-
gland. This last is the West India
and Panama Company, with capital
of $4,000, and its purpose is to ex
tend telegraphic communication
throughout the West India Islands,
and TO form the central link Of the
Geographic communications of Bra
I'll, Peru, Chill. Buenos Ayres, and
the other States of South America.
with New York, London, and the
European continent. The lines of
this company, consisting of 1850
miles Of submarine cable and $50
miles OF land wire, will commence
in Cuba, which is now connected
with the United States by the two
cables of the International Ocean
Telegraph Company, and be contin~
ued through the West India Islands
to the continent of South America.
with branch cable to Panama.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21

RrThe Rev. DIR. Cuyler is quite
severe, in the New York Evangelist,
upon the woman suffrage question:
He says thai chose who claim that
elections will be more honest, digni-
fed and pure when all sorts of wo-
men come to the polls, have some
things yet to learn. Woman's
participation in politics, to a very
partial extent, has never vet wrought
this revolution. When an election
was held in Essex county, N. Y, at
which women voted, some of the
sharPest tricks were played by the
fair sex" For example, certain
Mary Jones came and voted a fe "
hours afterward, she changed her
dress and offered a second vote
When asked her name by the inspec-
tor, she replied, Il am Mary Still. .
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21

There are pear trees in garden
IN the town Of Elliot, Maine, from
which fruit was taken 40 years ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
j. II. SNECLODE.
NOTARY PuRrrc

N oPAR z PU BLIG,
viii make out Deeds, Mortgages, and others papers
conAeyancing lands bounty claims back pay and PEN
slons applied for nndsr Z. ). Laws
2o3l cAssVILLE WIS
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
THE BANK OF RoscoBEL
Is pr epareJ to do a general
BANKING AND EXCHANGE

Business; buy and sell Gold and Silver and Govern
ment Bonds; discount Notes receive Deposits and
transact all business entrusted TO its Drafts and
Lett Of Credit furnished all the principal Banks
and Bankers of Europe and the Orient. agency sor
the ALA v LINE o. STEA NPSHLFS 70 and from
Europe. Through Tickets from
Liverpool OF Londonderry TO Boscobel Wis $50 IS
Antwerp 62 Is
Hamburg, Amsterdam Rotterdam g. 90
Christians and stavanger " 90 90
liberal dscouL. from the above rates will be allow
ID when family tickets purchased.
us # 2. McSPADEN.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
w. B. CLARK,

Deeds and other land conveyasces drawn and ac-
knowledged. Prompt attention given 20 the prepare
on Of Mortgages, onds ana all legal instruments.
20-3ltf PATCH GROVE, WIS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
NOTARlES PUBLIC.
ALEXANDER lVEY,
NOTARY PUBLIC.

Deeds, Mortgages and other Land Conveyancing and
Pension papers executed according to law Blanks Of
all kinds kept hand. 4sH
BRITISH HOLLOW, WIS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
J. ALLEN BARB.
WARDEN ANDERSON.

ATTORNEY s COUNSELOR AT LAW,
All claims placed in his hants for collection Will be
promptly attended 20.
l9-40tf JAMESTOWN, WIS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
BLOOMINGTON HOTEL

Bloomington Wis.
SINE wOODHOUSE PROPRIETOR
(successsr 10 Harger.)
Good bling attached and the in good order
wolff
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
LANCASTER HOUSE..

(Corus- Of Min AMI Spring Streets)
Lancaster, Wis.
c. JEHIEL HYDE PROPRIETOR.
Having bought the above House and r-htted and re-
furnished IT, prepared give every attention
the accommodaton OF guests, and viii provide good
table and clean beds. good hostler always hand
1s-27tf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21

August z, Is0s.
The followin epistle reached me
yesterday. | received it with min
gled omoshuns. Ez l gazed ct the
familyer stamp onto the envelope,
witch | he'd yoozed so many times,
kissed it in extacy-ez | thot it wuz
inflicted onto the paper by the hand
nv q niger, indignashen seezed me.
But passin this [ opened the envelope
and read ez as follows:
Coxvpnp.rr " Pans
The New York herald., 1869-06-14
LEGAL NOTICES.

TN HER MAJEsTY's COURT or PROBATE, IRELAND
To Qwsn otherwise Eugene k:ene. soldier 10 hsr NJ
bourne, in Austrsa 10 Mary Higgps OF New York and 20
william Hennessv In North America ond the mart OF kin
o John negns late Of rsow In the county Of Waterford
timber merchant dcrer.ed--
Take notice that citation has spa OF her
Majortye Court Of Probate In Ireland dated the sh day of
March, $50 whersby you cited 20 accept or refuse ct,s
administration 10 the said dcce-sei, show cause Why
should not be granted TO Richard Farrell Of louneha
the county OF Cork with an ntimaton that 10 defsu OF
your appearance, the said eefs OF Standardization viii be
granted the said Richard Farrell Dated his ,h day Of
Nay, 1862 wM. WILEY, Register,
no, 20 Lover prmond quar-, Dublin,
The New York herald., 1869-06-14

A ADVERTISEMENTS FOR THE HERALD
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BRANCH OFFlCE. l<5 FULTON STREET.