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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-02-27
The Nom De Plume Of Authors.


day arc often at loss III recalling, if they
ever knew, the real names of those who
have written under nom de plume. We
therefore present the following fist:
The author of " Rutlcdgc," aud several
other crcditablc productions in fiction, was
Miss Miriam Coles. now Mrs. Harris, OF
New York. The New Gospel Of Peace.
was written by Richard Grant White, bet
ter known for his later Shakesperian la
bors. 'Orphcus G. Kerr is Robert IL.
Newell. "Artemus Ward" was Charles
+. Browne, who died in England last sum-
mcr. "Carl Benson" is Charles Bristed.
a grandson, we believe. of John Jacob AS
tor the New York millionaire. marion
IIarland" is Mrs. Virginia Terhunc lrc-
Mus" is the Rev. |. $. Prime. "Jeems
Pipes" is Stephens c. Massctt. How.
ard Glyndon" is lady-1.auraC. Redden.
"Docsticks" is snu-in-law of Fanny Fern
(Mrs Parton). Mortimer Thompson. ''Jen-
ME june the graceful critic of fashion,
and chroniclcr of fashionable New York
cotcrics, is Mrs. Jennie Croly. Miles
O'Riclly," almost everybody now knows,
was the late Gcn. Charles G.. IIalpne, of
New York. *. n. Pepper is james
W. Morris. Barry Gray" chiefly Of
the New York Home journal. is Robert
Barry Coffin. The "Lounger' Of Har-
per's is George W. Curtis. The Sparrow
grass papers originated with the genial and
gifted +. s. Cozzens. "lk Marvel" who
has lately taken to agriculture, is Donald
q. Mitchell. Occasional" of the Phila-
dclphia Press. could not be anybody but
John W. Forncy. the publisher. "Bur.
leigh is Matthew II. Smith. Pcrley'
and :. Raconteur." Major Ben Pcrlcy Poor.
Malakoff." who wrote for the New York
Times, was DR.. Johnson--not Boswell's 5
Dr. johnson. ''Macc .Sloper' is c. q.
Leland. Josh Billings \. W. Shaw.
.'Timothy Titcomb." DR.. J. q. Holland.
Gail Hamilton" Miss Abigail Il. Dodge.
Mc.\arone," George Arnold Mrs.
Partington," of the Boston papers. b. p.
Shillakcr. Ned Buntlinc," f. z. c. judi
son. Edmund Kirkc," J. Il. Gilmore.
"John Phoenix" the late Captain Derby.
4 Boston school teacher writes himself
"Olivcr Optic
Harry Franco" we believe, is Charles
+. Briggs. The misses Wetherill'
proved to be Susan and Anna Warner. and
are so regarded the "wide world over.
Henry Clapp, Jr. has at times styled him
self = Figaro" Henry Ward Bcecher no
longer IS it in the New York Independent.
John Savage has often hid himself, and
sometimes his genius, behind Exek Rich
ards" III. Wskerson, asa writer, has occa-
sionally played the part Of" Asa Trench
ard" Paul Crayton" was, in truth. j.
4. Trowbrilgc. Colonel I. B. Thorpe
turned Il Doe Hunter on several occa-
sions. Peter parlcy's son, j. G. Good
rich, ST., wrote himself down as Dick
Tnk" in the New York journals. "lon,
of the Baltimore SIN, was well known to
be f. Kinxman.
TO these We may add: "Florcncc Per-
cy" was Mrs. Elizabeth Akcrs; and" Daisy
Howard" Myra Daisy McCrum. Mrs.
e. NJ. Kirkland wrote mt times undcn the
signature Of "Mary Clavcrs." " Pctro-
lcun v. Nasty" an especial favoritc OF
the late President Lincoln, and Of a great
many others beside, is an Ohio editor. re-
ioiciny in the name Of DR.. Locke.
.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-02-27

~" In California there Is one woman to
three men; In Nevada ono to eight; in
Colorado, onc I'd twenty
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-02-27

~ To make an amusing sympathetic
ink, mix lemon aud onion juice: Writing
or pictures made with this mixture on plain
white paper, will, when dry, be invisible.
But on warming the paper, before a fire,
the lines viii appear in brown tints, Very
pretty effects may he thus produced.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-02-27

nay- 1t takes $500, 900 day to pay for
thc pork packed in Cincinnati.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-02-27

ty Tho cattle plague continues to raw
ayc Western Wisconsin
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-02-27

TINKERING WITH THE TERRITORIES
A bill has been introduced in the Q. $.
Senate and passed to second reading,
which gives to the Governors Of the Terri
tories the appointment Of probate judges,
justices ofthc peace, constablcs, &c. The
third section Of the bill makes the clerks Of
the District Court rr e6fcio county clerks,
aud abolishcs the Office Of County Auditor.
The fourth section abolishcs the Office OF
Sheriff, and gives to the U. s. Marshal
and his deputies all the authority hereto
fore conceded to that officer. Ifthis bin
becomes law it will virtually abolish
everything like self government in the
Territories, aud hand them over to tho
tender mcrcics Of officials who owe their
appointment to Executive favor. t''"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1869-02-27
Fruit and Oysters

Fruit should be eaten alive like oysters.
tE,erc is an edge to the taste Of fresh
opened oyster. which comes, I suppose,
from the surprise he feels at being sudden
ly scooped out ofhis shell. In few min
utcs, this gives place to a feeling Of alarm:
and them in an hour or two. one Of de-
spair. When hcis laid out withhis brcth-
rcn in dish, the whole brood is hopeless
and sad. They may still taste of life, but
it is oflife disappointed. But the fresh
opened oyster has no time to grow fever
i.h or melancholy. He is caught in
state of serene Inconsistencies Of sor,.
row. He has a sound mind in a sound
bod " and is therefore wholesome md nice.
Allow him to reflect before his dissolution,
and the brightness of hi, spirit is gone
But the quick operation of detach1ng him
from his shell sends srasm through his
being. which startlcs all the latent excel
lcncc he may possess into sudden anil uni
que perfection. If eaten at this crisis Of
hcalthful powers, he conveys all the graf
ifcstion which an oysters is capable of Civ
ing to the superior animal, man. So anal
ogously, l believe, is it in eating fruit. 1t
must be eaten alive, before the reaction be.
gins to set in from its severance from the
life'carrying stem. While plum, for
example, hangs upon its stalk, it is in some
kind of magnetic correspondence with all
the powers of nature; it shares the life Of
the earth aud the sky; it has sunshine in
its veins, and dew in its cells. Cut it Of.
and in time it dies, corrupt, unwholcsome;
and every moment in its progress from lifa
to death is marked by dccadencc, Of that
essence which makes fruit delicious.
Therefore, supposing that you may pick it
ripe. the sooner plum is eaten the better
for you. This, of course, applies most to
tender, thin-skinncd fruit A firm apple
dies slowly. a nut holds out long against
the dcbasing influence of separation from
its source Of life. Butplums, figs, peaches,
apricots, and Strawberries begin to suffer
directly after they are gathered. This is
the case even with pines. which are sus-
ceptible Of bruises, but they contan such
an apparent surplusagc Of flavor, that the
first stages Of their decay are not perceived
except by cunning palate. -Prexbytcyiun.'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25
Wildness.

A writer in one Of our magazines
for the current month makes an elo-
quent protest against the slaughter
of the innocents by sportsmen. He
says a Ei ~
CA wall comes up from the wo obs
and prairies, from the lakes, and riv.
|ers, and marshes, because of the wan
ton cruelty o. man. Birds, and deer,
and other game, are rapidly disap-
pearing before the wasteful footsteps
of mon, whose murderous guns, and
traps, and nets spare nothing that
ministers to their gluttonous appe>
titos and their cruel cupidity. Prai-
RE chickens are caught in nets and
carried off to market to fill the purse
of some one who does not care on
whose land he trespasses, or whose
rights he invades, so long as he can
get the market value OF the wild
fowls God designed to be distributed
to all and not to be HIonopolIzed Dy
the few. Aside from this unjust, and
mean and cruel monopoly of thofowls
of the air, and the beasts OF the field,
and the injustice which comes of it,
there is positive and wicked cruelty
to the creatures themselves. They
suffer fright ard pain; many that
are not Wantonly killed are separated
from their mates and wounded.
Parents are slain aud their offspring
starved to death. See how the poor
things tremble with fear in the press
enee of man hear their cry of pain
coming up through the listening air.
The sound of the gun strikes terror
to the heart of the unoffending bird
The truant boy, who steals the cal
low brood from the warm, round
nest, breaks the heart Of their moth
er, and she proclaims her loss with a
pathos which might move the hard
est heart. Flocks of wild fowl, en-
tangled in nets spread by men who
care not for the season nor the rela-
tions of the mother to her offspring
fidtter and scream in anguish, and
appeal 10 vain for the freedom Of the
dnchartered air, which is their right. y
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25
sSzasIEEs--VOI.. 20, NO. 81.
Street Sights in China.

/ All packages. OF every kind OF
merchandise are, carried on the
| shoulders OF the men; the Chinese
have no wheel vehicles at all A
long elastic pole over the left shout
Ider or sometimes a yoke over both,
with q, bamboo basket suspended from
both ends, is used for carrying alike
boxes of tea or buckets of water.
The on'p mode of progression for
foreigner through the streets of q
Chinese town is to be carried in
sedan chair by two men ordinarily,
but in very hot weather., or in going
up a steep hill, or if you are heavier
than the average weight, it is GUS
tomary to have four.
I Quarrels in the street rarely end
in blows or bloodshed, as among the
Malay races. When two persons fall
out on any subject, after a great
variety of gesture and vociferation
OF opporbrinm, they viii blow off
their wrath and separate. almost
without touching one another.
The Chinese are very fond of pros
cessions, andif marriages and funerals
be included, they have certainly more
than any other people. The streets
of "a Chinese town, which are rarely
more than four or five feet wide, are
often entirely blocked up with these
shows.
The different trades 20 to an enor.
nous expense III getting up pageants
in honor of their patron saint, and
his image is carried through the
streets, attended by members of the
guild dressed in their richest robes,
carry banners heavy with embroidery |
and gorgeous lanterns, to the sound |
Of gong and fire-crackers.
Kite flying is the diversion of all |
the male population in a Chinese town
and is often very amusing. The
kites of every conceivable variety
and shape, from a junk under full
sail, to quarter moon with a. huge
mouth that opens and shuts with the
action of the wind.
The theatres also claim attention.
Like everything else, they are in
the open, street, generally in some
square. They are booths, raised
about four feet from the street and
open on all sides. The plays are
very long, sometimes taking several
to complete them
Women, ] believe, never appear,
only young men dressed in women's
,lothes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25
ESTABLISHED IN 1913.


A temperance friend of onrs, and q
man OF excellent Judgement, is now,
IN his arguments against Intoxicating
liquors, making an assault on that class
OF people who are slaves to the pipe,
claiming that the habit is productive
of great evil in the moral world, and
that it is a sin which in no way should
be tolerated. Hold there, friend
Despite your reasons, dyspepsia,
hypochondria, indigestion, burned
cloths, feled breath, yellow cuticle,
and thousand other evils which
flow from smoking, a pipe has its
uses but what those uses are, an ex-
perience of years in the business is
not able to inform as. We know
this much, that when the habit is
once formed it is as difficult to SUBJ
due as Rebellion. 1t is an imperi-
Gus master. You may form a noble
resolution to quit, and it will proba-
bly, last until you eat your dinner.
A fullness Of stomach will bring back
your Old craving for a smoke. You
resist that feeling until resistance be-
comes misery You wander about
like ghost IN the halls of some bar
onial shanty, In your extremity,
yon may swear by the Tomb OF
Mahomet that you are forever divor.
oed from the filthy weed and fifteen
minutes from the time you take this
selt-administered oath, you will be
found with pipestem dangling be-
tween your teeth, and the smoke
will curl proudly from your mouth,
rolling in fantastic circles round the
room Resolution Is thing of
straw in the hands of overmastering
appetite. The only safety therefore
is in novcr forming the habit.
Happy is the youn man who re-
solves, and successfully carries out
that resolution, to keep tobacco, CT
gars and pipesteIns out of his mouth
He will save himself from q world of
expense, trouble and physical calam>
tiles. He will never know how hope
less is the task, to correc. habit
which is as despotic as the Gar Of all
Russians. Boys while aping the ex>
amples Of men, know little about the
harvest OF bitterness, which they are
sure 10 reap'as consequence Of their
folly and inexperiente - IFdukeShd
Freeman.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25

R Don Piatt writes to the Gin
cinnati Commercial his impressions of
Commodore Vanderbilt, as follows !:
Among others, | saw for the first
time the famous Commodore Van
derbiIt. Dressed in plain black, with
white choker, one would have tax
en- his tall, portly person for that of
a respectable Episcopal Minister, had
not look at his face cleared him of
that suspicion. His small, sharp eyes
glitter like a snakes. His nose is
the cruel beak of a hawk, while his
lips are the personi6cation of sensu-
atty. Heaven help the man or wo-
man who has to approach that face
for mercy"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25
s@r Persons about 10 travel among

say- Persons about 10 travel among
tho Chinese, Japanese, etc, should
know something about the mon a
use among those people. Ii Japan
the coins in use are itziboos, cobaugs
and tempos. The itziboo is an OBJ
long silver coin, worth about thirty
cents, but its value varies with the
rate of exchange. 1t has been alloy
ed, and the japanese do not hesitate
to pass the counterfeit upon foreign
ers, The cobang is gold coin, but
not much used except in large trans>
actions. The tempo is Of copper, OBJ
long, with a hole in it, and equivalent
to about two cents. A string of these
weighing several pounds, is often
given to traveller for change by a
shopkeeper. In China the currency
is Mexican dollars and copper cash
ten cash being equevalent to one
cent. The Hong Kong Government
established a mint and coined dollars,
but they are alleged, and not SO cur
rent as Spanish or Mexican silver,
which the Chinese peter to any other
currency.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25

s@The Bishops of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, are quits
right in refusing to come back into
fellowship with the Northern branch
of the same church. They assert
that fraternal relations must be res
stored before, if at all, such pro-
position can be entertained. True,
slavery, the root of the schism, has
passed away, but every branch of
the Church at the South stands
charged with its criminality. Its
cloak covered the master while he
robbed and murdered and violated.
While the shrieks of the oppressed
cried to heaven, these sons of the
devil, CARRIED in priestly robes,
shouted their hallelnjahs and amens,
as if to divert Divine attention by
by their abominable hypocrisies,-
Such men are utterly unfit to fellows
ship with the good and true men
who compose the Methodist Church
at the North. Bishops Simpson and
James deserved to be snabbed for
making brotherly overtures. Slavery
wiped out does not absolve those
responsible for it from their guilt,
especially when they tried their ut
most to prevent its abolition. The
churches which christcned slavery a
divine institution are no more fit for
holy communion than the crucifcrs
of Chicago Journal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25
Mr. Cough and His Mother,
In one of his touching addresses id
Exeter Hall Mr. Cough said:

In one of his touching addresses in
Exeter Hall Mr. Cough said:
"After agspeech in Bostonsa ,shortp
time ago, q lady came to me aud said,
My father is dead, but he was al
ways collecting curiosities, and he has
npaa t light on your mothers
Diole' IN BristoLh had resided
there twenty fiveyears a0o and much
pleased was | to hear the Rihle was
found. | bad il scnb to me Nv 80, -
press train. i There weret the ngn go,
Sane Gilbert, that was my mother'ss
name before marriage, born August
Eth l479,-John ,B. Cough, born
August 22d, 1917 / held the bible
IN my hand. i remembered how /
had seen thai mother with her fipsr'
white with hunger, and | reoolIect
how sheatook heroiron- trimmed spec.
tacles from her eyes to wipe away the
tears as she. turned page after page.
| saw her marks-'W hon the poor
and needy seek water and there is
none and their, tongue .faileth for,
thirst, then ! tho. Lord will help
them. | the God OF Israel will not
lorsake them, with hundreds of pas.
sages more like that, all blessed prom
Ises marked IN that book. That mo.
theirs Bible brought her history hes
tore me. There remains no token to
mark her last resting place, no hearse
md no mourners followed her to the
grave: she was followed by myself
md sister alone, and without pray
II she was consigned to the dust
nut she left her children the legacy
i a mothers prayers, and the Lord
fodAlmighty as the Executor of her
asst will and testament; and though
hat poor little body Of schoollais-
ress has gone before, and her spirit
las taken its flight to its eternal
ome, | stand before you to declare
hat if | ever have done aught of II
ood, what am and what have
one, by the grace Of God, has beon Y
trough theinfluence of that mother
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25

the encouragement Of anything that
is good, or the advancement of any.
thing that viii add to the peace, pros
perity and happiness of the nation,
We wonld sec, none but sober men in
office. And, while we would bar no
man from the proposed editorial cons
vention, for Drunkenness, we should
prefer to sec those who meet on that
occasion come and go sober, thus
proving themselves entitled to the
respect Of the public, regardless of
such political or religious differences
as may exist.-La Crosse Dem5crat
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25

sSg- William Thomson, the newly
appointed Consul at Southampton,
occupied the same position under
Buchanan, and acted as turnkey to
the rebel commissioners, Rost and
Yancey, when they arrived in Eng
land President Grant should inform
the public what United States Sena-
tors recommended Mr.. Thomson.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25

Twelve students have been sus-
pended and two expelled from the
Institute at Fair fax, Vt, for violat-
ing the bylaw which prohibits, the
students from walking or talking
with young ladies in public places.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25

sa- A cowardly fellow having
kicked newsboy the other day for
Fostering him to buy an evening pa
per, the lad waited till another boy
accosted the gentleman" and then
shouted in the hearing of all by
ISLANDERS, cts no use to try him,
jim; he can't read"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25

RfoTs IN IRELAND.-ltish papers
contain accounts OF a riot in Derry
on the occasion OF q visit of the
Prince of Wales. Reviewers, clubs
and bricks were used freely, two
men were killed. Several attempts
have been made to burn the British
barracks at Milmount, but none were
successful
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25

The Spanish Cortes have reject
ed the amendment TO the Constitu-
ton in favor of making Spain Fed
eral Republic, by vote Of OF lo2 to
g.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25

MAKING A CLEAN SwEEP-A Dem
ocretic paper in Maryland complains
that the Postmaster General is
thorough CLEANER of Conservative
officials IN that State. 1t says:
~MeCormick's reaper, which is
covered all over with medals and
stars, wound leave twenty heads
standing where Cresweil leaves one"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25

sg- In printing office at Gosport,
Ind. is blind compohor His
average days work is 5000 ems, and
on several occasions he has set from
1000 to 5000. His letter is distri-
buted for him and his copy is read
by his partner, his memory being so
perfect that be can retain from four
to six lines.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25

ga The English Government is
having q busy time IL Ireland with
the Fenians. Forsom time past the
latter have been prohibited from pur>
chasing fire. arms, and now, accord.
ing to the cable dispatches, they have
gone into the wholesale business Of
stealing them. Paddy seems deter-
mined to have musket. no matter
how
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25
THE BANK OF EOsCOHEL
Is prepared TO 10 general
BANKING AND EXCHANGE

Business buy and sell Geld and Silver and Govern
ment Bouds, discount Notes. receive Deposits and
transact all business entrusted care Drafts and
Lett re OF Credit furnished All the principal Banks
and Bankers OF Europe snd the Orient agency tor
tht ALL4N LINE OF STEA MpSpII'S to and from
Europe Through Tickets from
Liverpool or Londonderry 70 Bosoobel Wis So rs
Antwerp g. 25
Hamburg. Amsterdam, Rotterdam s. 90
Christians and stsvanger 60 90
liberal discount f. III the above rates will be allow
ed when family tickets are purchased.
- 49tf = MeSPADGN.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25
CONTII1 UAT1oN-

The Banking business heretofore conducted by the
hrm OF NeSpaden Walker, Bankers, will be merged
into THE BANK or B0SCoBEL on and after MAY 10
1869 Any pnsness entrusted TO the care Of the above
Bank will be faithfully attended to.
Refer by permission to
DUNCAN, SHERMAN 4 Co New York
SECOND NATIoNAL BANK, Chicago.
MARSHALL ILslEY, Bankers. Milwaukee.
f. McsPADEN President.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25

Z r. 8 IS
REoRGANIzATloN OF THE. SPECIAL
MAIL SERvICE.-zPostmaster General
Creswell has reorganized the whole
special mail service Of the country.
A previous appropriation for the pur,
pose has been $18O,0O0; this year it
is only 500, 600, which has required
a reductions of the number of agents.
Applications for these positions have
been almostinnumerable. The coun.
try is divided into six divisions
Each division is divided into three
districts, except the the first, which
has but two, and the sixth, which has
six. Each division has principal
officer styled Assistant Superintend,.
ent of the Railway Mail Service,
who is responsible for the Post Office
affairs of the whole division, and re-
ports direct to the Postmaster, gems.
eral. Each district has Post Office
Inspector, each division special
agent 10 investigate mail depreda-
tons: There are, IN addition, three
special agents at large.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25
Bankiltp & Gxfbange.
BANK OF BOSCOBEL.
DISSOLUTION

The Arm of McSpaden Walker Bankers of Bogco-
bel Wis, Will dissolve its copartnershp by limitation
and mutual consent on the 10th day of May 1869 The
responsibilities of the above firm will be assumed by
McSpaden, who is hereby authorized to settle ali
claims Ia favor of and against the co partnership
f. McSPADEN
Boscobsl. Wis. May l., 80 }. N. WALKER