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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14

DIsGRAcEFUL.-The lobbying in
Congress to secure the defeat of the
county system of paying pensions
has not alone been confined to pen
sion agents. The Commissioner of
Pensions, not satisfied with writing
official communications on the SUBJ
ject, was seen from day to day and
night to night, on the floor of the
House, button-holing members and
presenting exaggerated statements as
to the expense of such a system,
when it has fairly been proven that
it would be saving to the Govern
ment of at least $500, OOO.-Soldiers
Friend.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14

t8-The Senate Committee en-
Commerce has agreed to report IA
vorably on the bill to improve the
Wisconsin and Fox rivers. II is pre-
cisely like the House bill, introduced
by Mr.. Wilkinson, April 18th. 1t
provides that the Secretary of War
shall complete the Improvement of
the Wisconsin, so as to secure four
feet for navigation Mt low water. 1t
provides that Commissioners shall
DO appointed to ascertain what sum
ought to be paid the Canal Company
for surrender OF its franchises
The agreement of the Company to
sell out TO the Government, to be
filed before any money is expended.
Congress is to accept said agreement,
&c.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14
The House Funding Bill.

The House Ways and Means Com
mlttee have, at last, agreed upon
Funding bill, which was reported to
the House, on Monday, the 9th inst,
ana OF which an outline is given in
the Congressional report. 1t is a
virtual substitute for the Senate bill.
The compulsory section of the SEN
ate bill is omitted, and the banks are
not compelled to make an exchange
of bonds. The bond agreed on is a
long four per cent. gold bond, Of
which $1,000, 900, 900 are to be issued
running thirty years, the bonds to be
free from all national, State, or mu-
nicipal taxation, except as imposed
on incomes, to be sold at par or used
in redeeming 5-20s. There is, also, a
provision allowing the Treasury to
pay three per cent, on gold deposits,
not exceeding $4,000, 900 which de-
posts are to be held subject to ten
days call, without draft interest, till
after thirty days, and shall consti-
tute funds for immediate redemption
of the 500 bonds, beginning with the
earliest, those of 1862. The PROPOSE
ton for foreign agencies is left out.
1t is said that Secretary Boutwell,
does not approve of the leading fea-
lures OF the new bill, but hopes that
satisfactory measure will be agreed
on by a Conference Committee of
both Houses.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14

TRIMMING YOUNG ORcHARDs.-Six
feet is very high for the bare trunks
of trees. 1t would be better not to
run them quite SO high, and to have
the lower limbs of the heads rather
rise or ascend as they diverge from
the stems, by removing all dropping
ones. To have good shaped heads,
their height must be determined
while they are quite young, as it
would seriously .injure them TO lop
offlarge limbs after they have become
fully grown. Trim up, therefore, to
the proper height, as fast as the stems
become stiff enough to bear it
CountrV Gentleman.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14

b@-The Western members of the
House who voted to tax all United
States bonds, were Messrs. Adams,
Beck, Benjamin, Burr, Cobb, Coburn,
Crebs, Cullom, Dickinson, Dyer,
Eldridge, Farnsworth, Fitch, Haw-
kins, Hay, Holman, Ingersoll, John
son, Kerr, Knott, Lewis, Logan,
Marshall, Mccormick, McNeely,
Moore of Illineis, Morgan, orth, Rice,
Sargent, Smith of Oregon, Stokes,
Strader, Sweeney, Trimble, Tyner,
Wells, Wilson of Minnesota, Wilson
of Ohio, and Winchester. Twenty
four Republicans were included in
the whole number of the affirmati We
votes,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14
Hon. Horatio Seymour. Pre-,

ES- Hon. Horatio Seymour, Presi-
dent of the American Dairymen's
Association, who once ran on q de-
mocratic ticket for President of the
United States, is complimented in
the Hearth and Home with portrait
Of himself and diagram of his farm.
Forney's Press kindly remarks that
Mr.. Seymour is an estimable country
gentlemen, hospitablo, intelligent, and
esteemed by his neighbors, who,
knowing him well, overlook the tenn
porary weakness which induced him
to lend his name to the use of bro
ken down political organization of
false pretences and disloyalty.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14

n~It is reported that White
more's majority for Congress from
North Carolina will be about 5000.
He will doubtless take this large ma
iority as an endorsement of his course
in the cadetship business, and those
in want of cadetships will please APP
ply to Whittemore.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14
Gleanings.


Michigan State debt is $3.50, 0O0.
Franco has 10, 900 schoolmasters
Wheat in Mississippi is now ripe.
Chicago has adebt ofS1l, 900. 00o.
Bamboo is cultivated in Califor-
MIA.
philadelphia has $50 public
schools.
Illinois claims to have 100000
dogs.
The debt of Virginia is 1882
600.
The Maine coast has 43 light hous-
es.
Maine has 335 lunatics in her
asylum.
"A favorite Chinese medicine is
baked clay dust.
New potatoes in Savannah are
worth 81 per bushel.
-Murderous assaults are now call
ed insane attacks.
Holland has $4,000 windmills in
operation for drainage.
New York has raised about &c.
600 for the Richmond sufferers.
Bangor, Me-, had three shocks
of an earthquake the other day.
The late hail storm in Philadel-
phia destroyed 1900 street lamps.
There are now moro than q mil
lion paupers in England and Wales.
England is excited over rumors
of Fenian plot in and near London.
The peppermint crop of Michigan
is represented to be an entire failure.
Millions of grasshOppers have
made their appearance at Corinne,
Kansas.
Tho machine power Of England
and Wales can do the work of 6O0,-
600, 900 men.
Severe frosts have committed
much injury in the wine-growing dis
tricts Of France.
England is getting excited over
DR.. Livingston again. and party is
going out to find him.
The lace trade in Europe is &C
tive this spring on account Of large
orders from the United States.
California has now GAO miles of
railroad, and confidently expects to
build at least $50 more this year.
"A fearful confagration at Con-
stantinople destroyed fifty buildings
in wealthy quarter of the city.
-"Gently the dews are DER me
stealing" the man said, when he had
five due bills presented at one time.
The purest iron ores in the world
are said to be those found in the
Huronian rocks of Northern Michi-
gan.
AT one shipyard, in Glasgow,
Scotland, there are eight ocean steam.
ers on the stocks, and two more con
tracted for.
"A New Hampshire man, living
near Dover, reports: that he has q
view of forty towns from the roof of
his house.
There are one hundred and SOW
enty-nine miles of street railway in
Philadelphia, and six hundred and
lightweight cars.
The Londoners are much pleas
cd with their new horse railroads,
though the cars have to them
transatlantic" look.
of the $40, 900, 900 taxes collect
ed off New York city, the, Tribune
says that at least So, 900, 900 are stol-
en- by the officials.
There are 100000 acres devot-
ed to turnips each year in England.
They are fed to cattle. Sensible Eng
ishmen.
The number of employees in the
Treasury Department since Bout
we'll came into Office has decreased
ia.
The Chicago Post says If O'Neil
lad been smart, he'd have been ont
IF Burlington Jail before now, on q
plea of temporary insanity.
s@- Prussia, Great Britain. and the
United States have formed an alliance
or the suppression of privacy in the
jhlnese waters. It is certainlv
leeded as much as the suppression Of
'rlgandage in Greece,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14
~A vigorous war is onen;no, \

s@-A vigorous war is opening be-
tween the New York Central Rail-
road on the one side and the Erie
and Pennsylvania Central Railroads
On the other. The two latter will
probably form an alliance offensive
and defensive, to fight Commodore
Vanderbilt eff it takes oil summer"
Reduced freight and passenger rates
will be the result.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14

ReA- The Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, Eli S. Parker, has communi-
Gated to Congress an enumeration of
the Indians within the United States.
The enumeration, he states, is the re-
salt of an actual census in some ca
SEES, and of estimates in others. He
makes the whole number 378,577.-
Of these there are located in Wiscon-
sin 9,811, belonging to the following
tribes Chippewas, Ottawas and Pot
towatomies, 5,693; Menomonees, l.
500; Oneidas, 1918; Winnebagoes,
1000; Stockbridges, 400.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14

ST.. PAUL RAILWAY ELEcTIos.-The
annual election of the Milwaukee g.
St. Paul railroad, Saturday, at Mil
waukee, resulted in the reelection of
Alexander Mitchell, President Rus
sell Sage, Vice President. Four d.
rectors were elected to take the place
of the four who retire, as follows +;
d. P. Morton, James G. Garner,
Isaac Sherman and Frederick De-
Vile, all of New York.
S. S. Merrill, one of the Directors,
continues as General Manager, of
course, and all the other officers are
retained.-iState Journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14
~The Fan Claire - D.oss

gThe Eau Claire Free Press is
in favor of the election of Gen. C. c..
Washburn and Hon. Philitus Sawyer
for Representatives in Congress from
the State at large, should the bill au-
thorizing additional Representatives
become law. The Oshkosh North
'oeStern says that probably two bet
ter men could not be found in the
State for the position.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14

CoNGREssIoNAL.-The Milwaukee
Wisconsin, of recent date refers to
the coming contests for Congressional
succession in the several districts of
the State, and opines as follows on
the probabilities in this district:
"In the third district, General Cobb
having declined denomination, there
is hot contest for the succession.
The two gentlemen most prominent
before the public are j. Allen Barber
and G. G. Hazelton, the former an
ex-speaker of the assembly, and the
latter a member of the state senate.
Several other gentlemen have been
mentioned, but those whose names
we have given seem TO have it be-
tween them so far though it is by
no means certain that either Of them
will get the nomination, as there is
yet a long time until the convention
meets, and new mau may arise ere
then and carry off the prize. The
district being so decidedly republican,
the democrats appear to take little
interest IN the matter"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14

EXHIBITION OF THE STATE HoRTI-
CULTURAL SOCIETY AT OsHKosH.-We
learn from o. S. Wiley, Esq, Secre-
tary Of the State Horticultural Soci-
ETY., that the summer exhibition of
the Society, to be held in Oshkosh on
Wednesday and Thursday, the 22d
and 23d, promises to be o great sue
cess. The railroads, both the st,
Paul and the Northwestern, will sell
excursion tickets. Geo. Fl. Morrow,
of the Western Farmer, will deliver
an address in the Hall on Wednesday
evening, after which there will be
discussion upon small fruits, varieties,
culture, soil, &c. Mr.. Wiley reports
that much interest is being shown in
the exhibition by the citizens in tho
northwestern part of the state. This
will be a fine opportunity for our
citizens to visit Oshkosh.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14

s@.Among the many theories ac-
counting for the origin of gold, and
it's location imbedded in quartz,
writer in the Overland Monthly gives
the following: zone asserts it TO be
caused by an igneous injection from
the bowels of the earth; another,
that it is merely an aqueous deposit
from the ocean into the assures in
the earth's crust, formed during its
upheaval by volcanic action another
that it originated from solids convert
ed into vapor by heat, and subsequent
ly condensed another argues that it
has been formed by electricity, while
still another believes it to be the
bounding rock in state Of decompo-
sition." Opinions vary quite as wide
ly as to the manner in which gold
found its way into the quartz, but the
prevalent theory is that quartz is SIM
ply decomposed rock, and the gold
an aggregation Of the mineral parti-
Giles contained naturally in the rock
itself. 1t would seem difficult, how
ever, to establish the truth of this
hypothesis until some new Faraday
shall succeed in resolving the gold
bearing rock into still simpler ele-
ments than has yet been done.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14

nA.We understand that the James
Vile Daily Gazette office has been
sold to Gen. James Bintliff, of Monroe,
formerly editor and proprietor of the
Monroe Sentinel, and Mr.. Colvin, a
well-known GAINESVILLE dry goods
merchant. --MiiodUkee NeicS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14

snr Good Heath has an article on
tat people which should be of great
interest to that very respectable por-
uon OF the community. From this
1t appears that an exclusive animal
diet, freed as much az possible from
fatty matter, cannot produce corpu-
lence, or even increase the weight,
while small amount of fatty food
often produces marked increase
experiments on dogs have fully
proved This. Nervous or mental in
activity tends to increase the depos-
it of adipose tissue, which corre-
spends with the popular belief and
general observation that nervous or
excitable persons are usually lean in
flesh. Another remarkable fact in
this connection is that deafness has
sometimes been found TO be due en-
tlrely TO obesity. William Harvey, f.
r, G. s., England, gives a very full
account of some observations on this
subject, in which occurs the follow
ing: "a dispensary patient, who
consulted me for deafness, and who
was enormously corpulent, | found
to have no distinguishable disease of
the ear. therefore suspected that
his deafness arose from the great de-
velopement of adipose matter in the
throat, pressing upon and stopping
up the eustachian tubes. | subject
ed MIN to strict non-farinaceC us
and non-saccharine diet, and treated
him with volatile alkali, and occa-
sional aperients, and in about seven
months he was reduced to almost
normal proportions, his hearing re-
stored, and his general health i'm
mensely improved. This case SEEM
ed to give substance and reality to
my conjectures, which further expe-
rience has confirmed"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14

r9~The Commissioner of Agricul-
ture estimates that there is an annu-
al loss of t'Oo millions of dollars in
sheep killed by dogs, and near mil
lion from injuries and still it is said
that dog-law is one of the most of
fensive to the people and hardest to
enforce. The loss is equivalent to
the value of six million pounds of
wool--a tax of two per cent. upon
the sum invested in sheep.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14
Fox and Wisconsin River Improvement
Hon. J. Allen Barber's Views.

We are requested to publish the
following letter Of Mr.. Barber in re-
ply to several letters inquiring his
position on the Fox and Wisconsin
River Improvement
Lancaster, Wis, June H. 1870
Hon, G. X. DEAN-Dear SIR:
In reply TO your letter of the 10th inst. and
several others upon the same subject re-
questing me TO state my position in regard TO
the contemplated improvement by the national
government, of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers,
have to state that / consider it of great inn
portance TO the nation to open highway 10
vessels of moderate draught from the lakes
TO the Mississippi river; that such highway
can be made with least expenditure through
those rivers, as appears from reports of sur
veys and that in merely commercial and
economic view the making such improvement
would be judicious expenditure.
RespectfuIs Yours,
J. ALLEN BARBER.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14
s@The Chicago Tribune says !:


The Democracy of Ohio are divid-
ed on the question of repudiating the
national debt. Two years ago they
went for paying it off in green backs,
and, as they didn't win, they pro-
pose now to pay it in nothing. The
difference between the two plans is
only difference of name Gas Vallan-
digham himself showed in one of his
speeches in 1869. The latter plan
has the merit Of frankness aud hon.
esty, and as the Pagan Democracy
OF Ohio meant reputation when
they said greenbacks, we should not
wonder if they now insisted upon
putting it in the platform, in plain
black letters. Is not Mungen a fair
representative of the "bone and sin
ner" OF his party?
The Post closes an article on the
subject as follows;
The only distinct declaration made
in the platform is that Democrats
have always been in favor of those
liberal principles which make ours
the land of liberty and the asylum of
the oppressed"-which is probably
sarcasm, referring obliquely to the
mobbing of Garrison, the shooting of
Lovejoy at Alton, and the prosecu-
ton of men in every State who were
guilty of the crime of sheltering the
oppressed, and giving bread to the
hungry and coat to the back Of
nakedness.
On the whole, the Buckeye lead-off
may be called fzzle. 1t denounces
vigorously enough, but how can a
man live and grow fat on such emp
tiness? Yet there is probably an
excuse for their saying nothing in
the fact that, like the well-remem-
bered youth, they had nothing to
say.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14
STRAY cow.


~ TATE OF WIsCoNsIN,1
~ County of Grant, Sss In Justice,s C,,,-t
Town of Lancaster.
70 JAMES c. WADDLE:
fon are hereby notified that warrant Of attach.
nent has beon issued against you and your proper,
attached 70 satisfy the demand of George Howe
N o u ing TO Fifty-seyen Dollars Now
unless you shall appear befsre Addison Burr Justice
OF the Peace in and for said county at his oce in ss
townt on tue 9Th day Of July, A. ID. 1870, at
O'Clock IN tho afternoon, judgment win DO rendered
against you and your property sold 70 pay the deb
GEORGE HOWE, Plaintiff.
Dated this 18th day Of June 1870 2w3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14

The Crops in England are suffer
ing from drouth.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-06-14

The Milwaukee & st. Paul rail-
road company operate ST. miles of
road, and earned last year 81, $50, 600.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-17
CONTRAST.

The Mobile Register takes the Nathan
murder for text, and upon it breaches a
pertinent and searching sermon, which
must go home TO the COnsciences of
thoughtful men at the North with terrible
power. Says the Register ''The muir
der of the rich banker, Mr.. Nathan, in
his own house, in the city of New York,
was a horrible and daring crime, and has
alarmed and startled the people and the
press of that city. The press cries out
loudly for the protection of the law and
against the inadequacy of the police force,
and the authorities are called upon to in
crease the body of the police to four thou
sandssmen. This crime was a personal
affair, and there are doubts whether it
was committed by professional thieves
and burglars, or by what is termed a
'Fsncak- thief"-that is, novice and
amateur in crime. 1t is deplor-
able event in q large and well-goyerned
city, and no wonder that it has alarmed
the citizens for their safety, when an
eminent person like Mr.. Nathan is not
safe from the violence of the assassin IN
his own bed-chamber and mansion, stu
ated in the most aristoeratic quarter of
the city. Further down South, to-wit ::
in North Carolina, violent Outrages of
equal enormity, and upon larger scale,
are being perpetrated, not by professional
thieves and outlaws, but by men wearing
the uniform of the United States govern
ment, and backed by authority derived
from the same government. In the coun-
ties where these outrages are committed,
no citizen, however eminent in social
standing, hewever innocent of offenses
against the laws, and the peace and good
order of society, is safe. They are arrested
by brutal militia, under the command OF
a scoundrel. They are beaten if they ask
for the warrant of their arrest. They are
hung up by their necks to force confes-
sion of Ku-Kluxism to criminate either
themselves or their neighbors. Carried
off to prison, their families are left IN
protected and a prey to deadly terror of
violence from the licentious wretches who
compose the black and white militia. In
short, in two counties of this State we
have the fullest example of shell organ
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-17

The Radicals were very mu Oh opposed
to Chinese immigration when the subject
was first preached, and stringent law
was passed by Congress to prevent such
immigration. But the Radicals are now
in favor of such immigration, in the hope
of increasing their voting strength. And
mark how they get around their own law
1t is gravely announced now that after due
examination it has been found that moth
ing in the United States laws can be con-
srued to interfere with the importation of
Chinese labor. Only contracts for term
of service are forbidden to be made in
China. The Chinese, however, can avail
themselves of free emigration, and upon
arrival in thir country make any contracts
they please. 1t takes the Radicals to
'tfagelate old Mr.. Nicholas around the
remnant of a tree.n
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-17
The Philadelphia Press says

president Grants Administration, in
the sixteen months of service (from
March 4, 1869, to July 1S70,) collected
$32, 006,7 35 more internal revenue than
was collected in the last sixteen months of
Andrew Johnson's service (from Nov. l,
1867, to March 4, 1859, and yet no taxes
have been increased, and the collections
have been made under the same law.
This is Republican economy compared
with Democratic extravaganza.
1t is well known that President johnson
could appoint no revenue officers without
the consent of the Senate and that body
was very careful that he should appoint
no Democrats. The internal revenue
collections were just as much under the
control of the Radicals then as now.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-08-17

A FEW days ago the P Philadelphia Press,
one of Forney's ''two papers, both daily, "
made a frantic appeal to its Radical
friends in New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio, to save the next Congress. The
Press reverts to the subject in its issue of
the 18th inst, and says: According to
inmemorial political tradition, the party
controlling the last Congress preceding a
Presidential canvass will be successful in
electing their candidate. The Democracy
are straining every nerve to gain the next
Congress, and so not be ruled out of thu
next Presidency"