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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16
II. CPS Manuscript.

Horace Greeley's manuscript is no.
toriously bad, and it is said to require
a printer of no ordinary skill to set
up his copy if he happens to write it
in hurry. The recent newspaper
anecdote of an article headed "Wm
III. Seward" which Mr. Greeley had
returned to him set up Richard Ill !"
is fresh in the minds of all but an
occurrence still more funny is relat-
ed which happened in the Tribune
office, some years since.
A compositor had made many err
rors in setting "the philosophers copy
that 1T iritated him to such degree
that he wrote the typo a letter, dis
charging him from farther duty
The compositor, being unable to de-
cipher the contents of the note on
receiving il, took it to the foreman,
who explained to him that it ex.
pressed that he was "not a careful
man, and Mr.. Greeley dispensed with
his services" The man laid down
his stick, put on his coat and left
The next day he applied for a situa>
tion as assistant foreman in large
printing Office in the same street.
The proprietor inquired if he could
bring q recommendation from his
last employer.
"All [ have is this letter from Mr.
Greeley" said the young man, bold
ly producing the document.
The worthy job printer scanned it
some moments with perplexed air.
"H-m-m careful man-services-
signed, Il. Greeley-yes, that will do
we will engage you" And he did
never learned till two years after
ward that the s'letter from Mr.. Gree
ley" was one of discredit instead OF
commenda' ion, as he had supposed
Boston Commercial Bulletin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

SECRETARY BoRIE.-A Washington
dispatch to the Tribune has the fol-
lowing in regard to the new Secre.
tary of War;
"Mr. Borie is o retired Philadel>
phia merchant, man of ability, OF
the strictest integrity, of high stand.
ing, of wealth and culture, and has
been for some time ce>President of
the famous Union League of Phila-
delphia. While not an active politi-
clan, be has Away taken a lively in
terest in questions of the day. He is
a pronounced Republican, and has
given large sums to further the in
terests Of the party in Pennsylvania
Politicians from his State are far from
pleased, though each division of .he
Republican party there is glad The
other has not furnished a Cabine
minister. Leading men, who are no
politicians, say the appointment is on
of the best that could have been mad
from that State"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16
Mysterious Murder in Iowa County.

An extra of the Dodgeville Chron-
tcte brings an account of the murder
at Ridgeway, Iowa county, on the
evening of the 4th, of man named
Richard Yapp, sJr., about % years
old. 1t appears that an hour or
two after he returned home, he was
standing by the stove in his house, q
small, one story log house, his wife
sitrng in the room darning stock,
ings, when the report Of gun was
heard he exclaimed ooh I'm shot. !"
and fell, dying in a very short time.
An examination of the body showed
a large hole over his heart and five
smaller ones in different parts of his
body, one of the balls passing
through his body. The evidence at
the coroner's inquest showing that
Mr.. Yapp had been shot through the
window by some one outside the
house, and that the murder was pres
meditated, as some panes of glass
had been removed from the window.
The testimony was not sufficient TO
lmphcate any one, but q brother Of
the wife is reported as "acting queer
on the night Of toe murder and Mrs.
Yapp's evidence was contradictory.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16
Healthfulness Of Apples.

There is scarcely an article of veg
etable food more widely useful and
more universally liked than the APP
pie. Why every farmer has not an
apple orchard, where the trees will
grow at all is one of the mysteries.
Let every housekeeper lay in good
supply Of apples, and it will be the
economical investment in the whole
range Of culinaries. A raw mellow
apple is digested in an hour and a
half, while boiled cabbages reqnire
five hours. The most healthful DIES
sert that can be placed on the table
is baked apple. Ii eaten frequen,
Iy at break last, with coarse bread
and butter, without fl ash OF any kind
1t has an admirable etfect,on the gen
eral system, often removing consti
patton, correcting acidities, and cool
ing febril conditions M re etfoctuaiiv
than the most approved medicines
Ii families could be induced TO sub
stitute ripe, sound apples for pies,
cakes and sweetmeats, with which
their children are too frequently
stuffed, there would be dimunition
in the sum total of doctors bills. in a
single year, sufficient to lay in good
stock of this wholesome fruit
Northern Farmer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

INTEMPERANCE. More and NOR
must this question he agitated.
There viii. always be a chief evil
among men to which holy men will
conseerate their energies, seeking
its removal. 1t may be priestcraft,
it may De idolarry, or slavery, or in
temperance. In the days just gone,
slavery was the dragon IN our land,
and God. in the person. If holy men,
brought it TO the dust. Intern.
pcrance now comes to the front, and
against it holy men will combine.
! This vast incoming tide Of ruin and
destruction must be stayed. Look
at the cost of the retail trade in this
State fer one year The sworn
statements of the dealers themselves
are forty three millions and eight
hundred thousand dollars. This fact
is perfectly astounding. BY looking
at the cold figures no one compre>
| bends it,
Let US put these figures in the
form of an illustration. 1t would
build 900 Churches, ten for each OF
the sixty counties of the State, cost
ing $40, 900 90 each, and so Colleges,
costing each 800, 900 90, and endow
each College with s250,0oO 90, with
an endowment for each of$l00, 900 90
and erected sixty Banking houses,
each one costing 100000 90.
Do men complain of bard times
WREN such an enormous drain is la
king from the State its financial
strength E? The wonder is that we
are not bankrupted by it. Then.
does any man think that the above
expresses half the cost? But this is
only single glance OF the financial
argument, the lowest of all the pos
sible arguments that should induce
men to Misunderstanding drinks away
The MI,0dukee Inder.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

The ONO PENITENTIARY.-The
report of the Directors and Warden
of the Ohio Penitentiary for the year
ending November l, 1868, has just
been received. From the report of
Rev. A. G. Byers, Chaplain, we learn
that there are 10 prisoners under the
age Of sixteen years 95 under twen-
ty-one years, and 269 over the latter
age. OF these, are women, 1876
white and % colored 121 are natives
of Ohio, 155 of other States, and SO
foreign born BAT are ga their first
conviction, Ia on the second, on
the third and 3 on the fourth. OF
this total, 104 convicts are orphans,
and 80 of them never had home ;
134 of them are temperate 108 in
temperate, and 1872 moderate drink
ers; SO have children 1874 are mar.
ried 217 are single and IL widowed;
43 have no education AZ can barely
read and write, and 8 have a good
education, 1913 of the prisoners have
served in the Federal army, and in
the rebel army, I91 claim honorable
discharges, and Z admit having des~
erted. The total number of prison.
ers received during the year is 374
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

s@-Thc Savannah (Ga) Republi>
can says: "Our hotels are crowded
with strangers from the North and
Southern States, and every steam
ship and railroad apparently increases
the number. Many take the route to
Florida, while the majority are travel
ing with view to business. These
are emphatically busy times in our
city. Our wharves are jammed with
vessels and our docks covered with
merchandise, foreign and dom ostic, OF
every description.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

U.s. The Richland County Repub-
licam says Barnes Touring and saw
mills were burned on the night of the
1st. The postoffice was kept in the
Touring mill, and all papers belong
ing to it were lost. The loss is not
known, but is supposed to be pretty
heavy. The fire is supposed to be
the work Of an incendiarv, and q
young man named Mike Brotherick
has been arrested on that charge RI
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

49, The Vernon County. Censor
gives an account of the capture Of d
man who gives his anne as james
Ditton, and who has for u week been
proving about Viroq1a, entering
several houses and stealing what be
could lay his hands on. He was ex-
alnined and bound over to answer
the charge Of burglary at the next
term of the Circuit Court.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16
sSa The number of eattle in Tex,

rA- The number of cattle in Texas,
according to the assessment, is about
5000 600 and in the whole United
States, only about 100000. The
natural increase OF 5000, 900 is about
one and quarter million per annum
"a rate of increase that would in a
very few years Exhaust the pastur-
age of these beautiful prairies were
there not some extraordinary deple.
ton aside from the sales, which
amount to about 100000 per annum
What becomes of the other $50, 900
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

CHRIST A STRANGER ~ RoME.-L,
Independence Beige of Brussels, the
leading newspaper of the Continent,
has letter from Rome describing
the. Christmas festivities, The wri~
ter says: "Jesus Christ is not a
popular hero at Rome people do not
illuminate in His honor as they do
for the Madonna his worship is not
celebrated except pc enlightened
worshipers, who are very rare in this
country, and the Son Of God is hard
" known to the ignorant multitude"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

sa-In our Congressional report
will be found list Of the committees
of the Senate Our Wisconsin Sena-
tors are assigned honorable positions
Mr.. Carpenter is on the committees
on judiciary, patents and revision
of laws. Mr., Howe is chairman OF
the very important committee on
claims, and is on the committee on
the library.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

sea. The death Of John Minor Bolts
is announced. This event is one OF
historical Importance, as Bolts was
one of the few brave and true men
of the south whom neither the social
seductions Of the rebel adversary,
nor all the terrors OF a gigantic re-
bellion couldsswervo from loyal al>
Iegiance to the national flag. Long
may his memory live in every loyal
heart.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

In France there are 10, 900 judges
and $4,000 lawyers. The official bar
disciplined like an army, and the
members rise in successive grades to
the higher positions. There is such
mob of Supreme Court Judges that
the highest salary paid is So, 900.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

s9 The prices of villas on the
banks of the Rhine have recently
risen considerably, owing to the
purchase by many wealthy Ameri-
cans of that kind of property. Some
real estate agent in Rhenish cities
have only English and American Gus
TONERS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16
wNew Orleans nnlikn anr

RNew Orleans, unlike any 9TH
er great city in the world, is sur
rounded by wild animals. Deer are
shot within five miles Of the City
Hall, and alligators abound in neigh
boring swamps. Old residents, in
deed, remember when young aliga,
tors were caughtin the street cutters.
The last news is that an American
spotted tiger has completely devour-
ed a little girl in parish not far
from the city. These ANIMALS, it is
said, are increasing in that part Of
Louisiana.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

ss7 The Republican State Conven-
ton Of Kentucky will meet in Lex,
ington May q, to nominate candi-
date for State Treasurer. Ia eight
years, the Republican party in that
State has grown fiom 300 to 10,
600 votors.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

COUNTY GovERNMENr.-The bill
which has consumed more time in
discussion in our State Legislature,
than perhaps any Other, proposing to
change our present system of coun-
ty government back to the town
Supervisor system, was disposed of
on Wednesday last. The Assembly
refused to order the bill to a third
reading by very close vote Of 70 to
so.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

DE George NJ. Chase of Freedom,
has just slaughtered a hog twenty
months old, which weighed twenty
six hundred and sixty pounds. 1t
was OF the Chester White breed, with
slight sprinkling Of Suflolk.-Daho-
Ia Union.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

sa- The President has signifed his
intention of putting the political
guillotine Immediately in motion,
and the Senate will be kept busy for
some time, considering and confirm
ing or rejecting nominations.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

Gas General Sheridan IS replaced
~ bis old command at Aew Orleans.
We will now see whather American
citizens an be deprived E 10 PRIV
'iege IF the ballot 10 tina ely IS b
intimidation OF a mob.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16
sS 2aR VOL. rs, NO. 81.
POETRY
A Little Boys Pocket.

10 you know what's in my pottetl
Such lot Of treasures in il
Listen now white bedin il;
Such lot of sings ii hold,
And all there is, you sail ba told;
Every sin dat in my pOttet,
And when, and where, and how / dot IT,
First Of all, here's in my pottet
beauty sheli--I pick sd 1t up;
And heros the handle OF tup
That somebody has broke at tea
That shells hole in it you see:
Nobody knows that have dot Il,
keep it safe here in my pottst.
And here's my ball, too. in my pottet,
And here's my pennies, oRe two, fire.,
That Aunt Mary gave to me:
TO-morrowday II buy a spade,
When Ia oHit walking with the maid;
can put DIT here in my pottet,
But l can use it when I've dot il.
Here's some more sings in my pottet
Here my lead, ana here my string,
And once had an iron ring,
but through a hole II lost ne day;
Aud this is what always say
A hois the wort sin in a pottet
Have i mended hen YOU se dot it.
II Hearth ard Home
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

81 Ben Wade, on consultatiou
with Mrs Wade, has decided not to
accept foreign mission. That to
s.. Petersburg is understood to have
been offered 70 him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16
Tree Culture.

Hon. ]. M. Edmonds, late Com
missioner of the General Land Office,
has contributed to the Agricultural
Department valuable paper, urg-
ing the importance of devoting a
lively attention to tree culture. UNI
less the ravages of the woodman s
ak are soon arrested, ho predicts that
great evils will result to the country.
Except in the mountain regions.
nearly the whole vast surface from
the Atlantic tc the Mississippi has
been despoiled of its primeval forest
growth. The inviting fertility of
the soil the great length of time for
forest reproduction, the avarice Of
the people, and raidlyincreasing
population have all combined in the
appropriation of the land to such
uses as promise immediate returns !;
and such is the policy still prevail
ing throughout the whole of the lateo
ly timbered region. Three-fourths
of the original store of timber, be
asserts, has already been consumed,
and simple mathematical calcula-
tion'is only necessary to determine
the proportion which the demand
and supply will bear to each other
at the close as compared with the
commencement ofthis century. The
untimbered surface of the plains be-
tween the Mississippi and the Pacific
amounts to- fourteen hundred thou-
sand square miles. By little arti-
fetal effort forests may be gradually
extended over this large area. Ex-
perinents thus far made prove i'm
mensely successful. Trees to the
number of millions have been pro-
duced from the seed of almost every
forest species by the unaided efforts
of single association in Nebraska.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

s@The La Fayette Union reports
that the religious excitement still
continues at Darlington. Nearly
200 have resolved to lead christian
lives in the future.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

Such Of the South Carolina ne
groes as are called upon 10 pay taxes
receive the collector with surprise and
indignation, and ask him, Don't you
know that We elected you ?"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

4 LITTLE Gums PRAYER. Dear
Saviour, | come u Tie, ,ooa. to.t
sinner; though am hut chi'd. /
know | sm very wicked ! bave
sever loved Taee havoc som .ig.
thought loved Ihee. tatnoa | fear
| have u, e. Go 80 u0W ui-h
g love Thee. Tho4 hast loved me
lar more than any friend on earth
ever loved me- Show me. O God.
that because Thy dear Son has ed
for dners | may be saved, ana be
made fl for Heaven. Holy Spirit
help me 10 cling to Jesus -
May see that it Is because lie has
died, The just for The unjust, that ]
can be treated by God as if | had
never sinned. Help me to have true
faith in Jesus, 50 that | can say. BE.
ing justified freely by faith, we have
peace with God, through our Lord
Jesus Christ, ia whose name | Pray.
Amen
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

Representative James 4. Wilson,
Of Iowa, was rendered the Attorney
Generalship, but declined to go tito
the Cabinet. He aspifes to the
Senate.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

sA-A writer in the Anti Slavery
Standard says that one Innis, a col
ored barber in Jersey City, has dem
onstrated the fact that hair may be
grated into prematurely bald head
aud made to grow. He takes hair
from the head of another person, and
examines it with q microscope, to
ascertain whether it is perfect and
healthy. This hair he inserts into
the cavities of the scalp and secures
it to its place by bandages, which are
allowed to remain few days, until
the hair takes root.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

U.s. Putnam county, Ind, offers
100000 and forty acres of land 70
secure the location Of the State Ag,
rieulturaI College in that county.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

The Legislature has passed an
act authorizing town supervisors to
levy highway tax Of from one to
seven mills on dollar.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16

a New York paper notices the
fact that smallpox is "ravaging
that city mildly"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16
NOTARlES PUBLIC.
W. B. CLARK,

NOTARY PUBLIC
Deeds and oshcr land couveyaHoes drawn and &C
knowledgeu Prompt attention given TO the prepare
ion Of Mortgages, Bonds, ana all legal instruments.
20-31tf PATCH GROVE WIS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-16
POST NO. 81, G. Ar. JAMESTOWN,

u Meets every alternate Wednesday Of each month,
Jar 20, 1859. A. d. S COLLINS,
j. W LASaFoRD. Post Adj 32n6@ Pest Com.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-06

Illustrative Teaching.


The Sunday-school teacher has far higher
example Of an illustrative style than any fur
nished by merely human educators. He who
''spake as man never spake' was, in the strict
est sense of the word, illustrative teacher
Abstract doctrines and general principles rarely
flowed from his lips, except as embodied in
illustrative facts and incidents. He presented to
the minds of his hearers no dry skeletons of
theology; all was living, moving, breathing
truth. The gorgeous blossoms of the scarlet
lily, and the glossy plumage of the well-fed
ravens, were by him made to teach his disciples
lessons of moderation in their care for the
future. The sower scattering the precious
grain, and the mustard tree with its feathered
inhabitants, furnished emblems of the nature
and progress of Messiah's kingdom. The waters
of Jacobs well called the attention of the woman
of sychar to the living water, 'of which, if a
man drink, he shall live forever" And the
golden vine, which glittered over the doors of
Hcrods temple, was made to typify, in a touch
ing manner, the union subsisting between Christ
and his people.
So largely, indeed, did our Lord employ one
form OF Illustration, in his addresses to the null
titudes who thronged to hear him, that the
Evangelist emphatically remarks:-"Without a
parable spake he not unto them - -Groser.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-06
Sturgeon on Win Di,plsv.

Avoid all pedantry. AS general rule it may
be observed that those gentlemen who know the
least Greek are the most sure to air their rags
of learning in the pulpit; they miss no chance of
saying, "The Greek is so and So" 1t makes a
man an inch and half taller by a foolometer,
if he everlastingly lets fall bits of Greek and
Hebrew and even tells the people the tense of
the verb, and the case of the noun, as / have
known somo to do. Those who have no learn
ing usually make point Of displaying the pegs
on which learning ought to hang. The whole
process of Interpretation is to be carried on in
your study; you are not to show your congrega-
tion the process, but to give them the result;
like good cook, who would never think of
bringing up dishes, and pans, and rolling-pin,
and spice-box into the dining-hall, but, without
ostentation sends up the feast.
Do not needlessly amend our authorized ver-
sion. 1t is faulty in many places, but still it is
grand work, taking it for all in all; and it is
unwise to be making every old lady distrust the
only Bible she can get-or what is more likely,
distrust you for falling out with her cherished
treasure. Correct where correction must be for
truths sake, but never for the vanglorious dis
play of your critical ability.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-11-06
CLERKS OFFICE SELECT AND COMMON
COUNCILS.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 8, 1869.
This is to certify that the above ordinance (en-
titled 'An ordinance to regulate the execution Of
leases of the Girard estate) returned by his
Honor the Mayor to the Select Council on the fourth
day of November "a. D.. 1862, Ammo Domini eighteen
hundred and siXty-nine, without his approval; and
said bill having been reconsdered, was passed by
the Select Council on said fourth day OF November,
A. ID. 1862 agreeably to the seventh section OF the
act Of Assembly, approved Feb. 2, one thousand
eight hundred and ffty-fOur, entitled "a further
supplement- to the act to incorporate the city OF
Philadelphia" by the following vote: yeas 10, nays
o. and the said ordinance, together with the objec-
tions of his Honor the Mayor, having been sent to
Common Council for their consideration, was
passed by that body on said fourth day of Novem-
ber A. d. 1862 agreeably to the seventh section OF
the act of Assembly, approved February second, A.
1854, entitled "a further supplement to an act to
incorporate the city of Philadelphia" by the follow
ing vote: yeas 49, nays 4.
Whereupon the said ordinance having been passed
agreeaby to the provision OF the act of Assembly In
such cases made and provided, Is now law in full
force and virtue.
JOHN ECKSTEIN,
Clerk of Common Council.
BENJAMIN III. HAINES,
1t Clerk OF Select Council.