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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22
ss sHE --VOL. p, NO. AZ.
Woman the Avenger.

Under the common criminal prac-
tice of this country in murder trials,
jurors are the Judges both of the law
and the facts. The law which they
are gradually settling through sue
cessive verdicJs 10 becoming little
startling, and differs widely from the
popular impressions which one would
receive from reading the published
statutes.
A uniform series Of trials and YER
diets have, step by step, established
tho foilowing propositions as par,
OF the well-settled common law Of
the land:
FIRST. A woman may shoot or
kill any man who seduces her.
Second A woman may shoot or
kill any man who has promised to
marry her and has not done so.
Third. A woman may shoot or
kill any man whom she thinks has
promised to marry her and declines
doing so.
Several Western acquittals have
gone so far as to lay down the rule
that any woman may delegate any
man she pleases to do the killing for
her, but this law as yet is local and
hardly to be considered as the estab-
lished usage and custom of the Unit
ed States.
We have been led to this brief sum
ming up ofthe American law Of muir
der from the appearance Of q
new case in Ohio, which will likely
carry the rights of woman one step
farther. In Piqua, Ohio, a young
woman who believed a young man
to have been engaged to her, and to
have broken his promise through the
influence Of another young woman,
has shot the delinquent male while
at prayer in church. The verdict
in this case will probably establish
the principle that for unfortunate
man in the nineteenth century there
is no privilege Of sanctuary or refuge
of any kind from the wrath Of Wom-
an the Avenger.-F0rneg'S Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22

IMPORTANT To HEIRS. -Under the
Internal Revenue law all property
passing by will or by intestate laws
of any State, TO heirs Of the deceased
person, and all real estate passing by
gilt or in any manner whatever,
without adequate consideration, from
one person or corporation to another,
is subject to tax ranging from one
to six per cent, and the law makes
it the duty of the executor or admin
istrator to make out and render to
the assistant assessor having charge
of such business, complete list OF
all legacies or distributive shares
held by him before the same shall be
delivered or paid to the heirs, and OF
any person succeeding to real estate
in any manner, as above stated, to
make return thereof to the assist
ant assessor in the manner prescribed
by law. Any neglect on the part OF
Il successor to make return will
subject the property to an increased
assessment and himself to a fine. 1T
is also important to persons purchas-
ing property belonging to the estate
of deceased person to SEQ that the
heirs Of deceased persons of whom
the purchase is made, have the col
lector's receipt, for the government
has lien upon such property for all
taxes due.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22
Wool Manufactures.

At the last annual meeting Of the
Northwestern Manufacturers Asso'
citation, held in Chicago, the Secre-
tary delivered an address, from
which we clip the following extract
1t is one Of the great interests of the
West, and ere long we hope to hear
the busy hum of machinery on every
side Of us our vast water powers in
vite manufacturing capital, and our
stock-raising resources are unequal.
ed 10 any country. EssEi
western made goods" has becom,
familiar sound-a household word
with the masses. 1t was not SO. O
few years ago. In fact to-day Yves.
tern made goods have the lead in the
West--no other will do--no othoi
can DO substituted. Clothes made
from the rags of European pauper,
and the scrapings of European pest
houses, do not take--no matter who
offers them. m E.
You represent one of the most i'm.
portant interests in the country
Guard it sacredly. You have passed
through the toughest part of the way
all your difficulties may not have
been surmounted. but the energy
and courage which have carried you
thus far will be enough for every fu-
ture emergency.
The present and future assure you
to put your machinery in notion
Stocks of goods in the country were
never so moderate as at the present
time and though financial pressure
has, tor some months past, been al
most unexampled. the future is bright
with promise
The Western Sta o. are becoming
denseiy populated with active and
energetic men from the Eastern cit.
ties and the nations of Europe thou.
sands OF miles of railroads are being
built that will for years TO come
call 20 our midst o vast army of la
Dorers--all of whom will need the
substantial products of yonr looms.--
The completion of railways across
this continent will speedily bring cit
les and villages into existence almost
as rapidly as by the wand of enchant
ment--the populations of which viii
be richly sustained by the inexhaus
tible mineral resources of that vast
region--all of whom must look TO you
for their supplies of heavy, substan
| tial, and honest wooleLs.
You will soon, | feel satisfied, b,
removed beyond and above the effects
of changeable and uncertain legisla
ton. Then tariffs, high or low will
no more start nor stop your mills
but, resting upon the sure basis o
supply and demand, you will have
no fears of the Accommodations o.
heavy made goods, nor of remunera
tive prices for the same.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22

How TO CULTIVATE PoTAToEs.
Our best potato-growers now plant
one eye Oh a piece and pillow them
nine or ton inches in the drill. !
have found it unsafe TO the plants to
harrow over tho plants after thew
arc well up; but 90 soon as tho rows
can be followed they are worked
with sulky cultivator, and weekly
thereafter until blooming, when the
hills are not disturbed, but the rows
are kept free of weeds by use of tho
double shovel pillow. A good time to
apply the manure is after the fret
working, by spreading, it evenly ov-
er the surface. No doubt that com
mercial manures have made much Of
their reputation from the fact that
they are always applied to the sur
face, while those from the barnyard
have been deeply buried with tho
plow.- Correspondence Chicago Ifs6-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22

SINGULAR TENUREs-The tenures
by which estates are held in England
(says Once a Week)are occasionally
very singular. Here is an out of the
Kay place instance One Solomon
Attfeld held lands as Repland and
htterton, in Kent, upon condition,
bat, as often as the king should
ross the sea, the said Solomon and
is heirs should accompany him, in
rider that they might"hold his head, 4"
{ his gracious Majesty were unfortu-
iately visited with sea-sickness.
lake another example: In the reign
of Edward III. one John Compes
had the manor of Finchfeld given
to him as reward for his arduouous
service at the Kings coronation
which service consisted in turning
the spit in the royal kitchen. / re-
Gently met with another instance,
which is aprOpoS to the Christmas
season. At Langsett, in the parish
of Poulston, Yorkshire, there is O
farm called the Broad House, and
the tenure by which is is held is, that
it shall pay to the landlord every
year red rose at Christmas, and a
SNOWFALL at midsummer. The
Christmas rose can be readily pro-
cured but, as genuine SNOWFALL is
not easily obtainable at midsummer,
the guelder rose (which is called by
cottagers the snowbalD is allowed as
O substitute.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22
Tree Cultivation.

rhecAAstnps sAnnot be transplant
ed from the woods, but started In
the nursery and removed the second
year so AS to destroy the tap-root, or
lifted with spade in the rows, it
bears transplanting till it has reached
the height of six or eight feet. Some
care is required in planting the nut,
as very slight degree of drying
deprives it of its vitality. They
must either be committed to the
ground fresh from the tree, or kept
in damp situation during the win
ter, and planted very early in the
spring, as they begin to sprout as
soon as the frost is gone. They re-
quire peculiar soil, indicated by
the natural forest-growth.
A Locust or Chestnut plantation
once established would be permanent
and after period of Efteen or more
years would begin to yield return
that could be realized fronl no othes
equal investment of capital Az II
we'll known, the stumps OF boil
furnish a perpetual growth. Th'
demand for both these kinds of wooG
is likely TO inc ease for an indefndt'
period, and in fact will have ulti
mately to be supplied from the cul
tivated stock.
The nuts of the Black Walnu
may be picked off the ground wher
they fall, in the spring, and planted
as they are apt TO come upiwhereve
they lie, unless shrunk by drying
They will grow almost anywher
except in a swamp, but the tree find
lis f8voriie situation in the bottom
ands Of creeks and rivers. 1t eau
not be- trusted TO renew itself by
second growth.
The Yellow Locust has rot as ye
been successfully cultivated as crop
and it is important that the prope
methods Of treating it should be dis
; covered. There are undoubtedly
other trees than the three kindt
mentioned above, which are wall
able for purposes of cultivation but
these, or at least the Chestnut and
| Black Walnut, may be regardi as
: easy of culture, and sure to beery
? valuable in few years.-Cotry
r Gentleman.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22

OLD LADIES AND THEIR DREss.-
The very dress Of old ladies is itself
study and revelation of character.
There are the beautiful old women.
who make themselves like old pic
lures by a profusion of soft lace and
tender grays; and the stately old la
dies, who affect rich rustling silks
and somber velvet; and there are
the original and individual old ladies.
who dress themselves after their own
kind, like Mrs. Basil Montagu and
Miss Jane Porter, and have a chachet
of their own, with which fashion has
nothing to do. And there are the
old women who wear rusty black
stuffs and ugly helmet-like caps and
those who affect uniformity and go
ing with the stream, when the fash
ion has become national and these
have been much exercised oflate with
the chignons, and the new bonnets.
But Providence is liberal, and the
milliners are fertile in resources. In
fact, in this as in all other sections
of humanity, there are those who are
beautiful and wise, and those who ere
foolish and unlovely those who
make the best Of things as they are.
and those who make the worst, by
treating them as something they ere
not; those who extract honey, and
those who find only poison.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22
Georgia Reconstructed.
4 Washington Tribune, dispat,

A Washington Tribune, dispatch
says: sr.fb1F trs
"The Georgia question is settled,
50 tar as the House is concerned
The struggle among Republicans vas
over the idea embodied in BiDgham's
amendment. Governor Bullock and
his friends bad set up and argued be-
fore the Judiciary Committee and the
Reconstruction Committee that the
terms of Office to which persons
were elected in the fall Of 1868 would
not begin until the present bill. or
one of a similar tenor, became a law I;
or, in other words, that no service In
any Office mp to this time, should be
counted. Binghan's amendment
WAS denial of this claim, and pre-
vided that there should be no extern
/ 2. On of the term of Office beyond the
period fixed in tho constitution, and
that a new Legislature should be
chosen at the proper date next fall.
General Butler and the Reconstruc-
ti0n Committee were beaten on this
issue, and the House, by a vote of
Ia to ~, sustained Bingham's posi-
ton, the affirmative being made up
by 81 Democrats and 63 Republicans.
The bill was then passed by u party
division. Bullock and his friends at
Washington are n good deal disgust
ed at the adoption Of Bingham's pro-
position, and will probably try to de-
feat il in tie Senate but their chan
ces for success there are not favora
ble."
The Amendment carries with it
the defeat of the Bullock BlOdgett
party. Bullock will have small
show for reelection, and new Leg
islature coming in with the first of
the year 1871, it will devolve on that
Legislature, of course, to fill the new
Senatorial term beginning in 1879
Tor which Blodgett was lately chosen.
All the Democrats voted for Bin
gham's amendment, and among Re
publcans are Messrs. Allison,
Banks, Beaman, Buchard, Cock, Cul-
lom, Dawes, Fransworth, Garfield,
Hawley, Hay, Ingersoll, Jackson,
Judd, Logan, McCreery, Moore Of IL
linois, Orth, Schenck Washburn OF
Wisconsin, Wilkinson, &c. The me-
gative was made up of all the South
ern and some Northern, Republicans.
The votes of Messrs. Atwood, Cobb,
Paine and Sawyer, OF Wisconsin, are
recorded against it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22
LIBERTY AND LIBERAMTIEs.-

LIBERTY AND LIBERAL1TIFs.--A
Christian woman writes:
Shirley Dare" whom yougquote
talks very sensibly and truly about
maiden modesty in young girls, and
cites, "good Mrs. Farrar's' sensible
advice to some purpose "Allow no
personal freedoms from gentlemen OF
your acquaintance" and SO on. But
what's the use of that in these days,
when the girl is almost the marked
exception, who does not at every
party allow any man to put his arm
about her waist, while one of her
hands is held in his, and the other
rests on his shoulder? The faces are
brought closely in contact, the hot
breath upon the cheeks, az they pant
through the whirling mazes Of the
dance And "motbsrs and guardian-"
(nobody talks If fathers in these days
for some reason) TcaImly look on and
see no harm
That seems to be the utmost adve.
cacy that is allowed for most things
in these days Il see no harm in it."
But is it right 2 is it duty?
81 don't know, | don't see any
harm"
Well heaven does.-Adpance.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22

EARLY PEAs.-Get a few paps OF
the very earliest kind, say extrsar-
ly May. Select the warmest d; in
February or March you can, SIDE
up as much ground, in shelted
spot, as you desire to plants a
south side fence row or wall-Int
your peas thick, three inches DIP ;
cover with warm, dry leaf molor
chip manure, and on each side one
row lay corn stalks, piling them a
foot on each side SO they will Do,ll
over on the row. Scatter sw
lightly over the row SO as not tal-
ly exclude the sunlight. If y
rough weather sets in (Which wDe
the case, in all probability, Ger
over the rows with plank or bols
until the rough weather is over. >
move when the sun shines war;.
In this way you can have y
"Messes" a month or more in 7
vance of those planted at the ul
time. The pea is quite hardy. |
have had them covered with 81
when two inches high, without.
jury, when protected as above dir.
| ed.-Rurdl Nep Yorker.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22

Buy-A Comanche Indian few days
ago brought his squaw to pioneer
artist TO have her picture taken.-
The artist got the squaw in position,
when the old Comanche thought he
would investigate the MYSTERY OF
making squaws' pictures. He accord
ingly raised the cloth and looked in
to the camera, when he was astonlsh-
ed to see his wife standing on her
head, At this he grew indignant
and even beat her for assuming such
90 undignifed attitued before the
soldiers, but as she stoutly denied
the offense, he continued his expert
ments, and at last came to the con.
clusion that q machine that coulC
stand squaw on her head in half {
second, without her knowing any
thing about it, was exceedingly baC
medicine.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22

THREE PES PICTURES. - Senator
Carpenter has face like corpulent
eagle. The head declined, the sub
dued face, the iron gray crest give
the idea Of an eagle resting on his
perch but there is light in his eye
like smouldering Goals, and 8 Napo-
leonic touch OF expression which re-
veals an intensely ambitious, strong
willed, fiery-hearted man. | see by
the list that his term of Office expires
in 1875. The date might a. well be
moved some years farther on. The
man is in the Senate, and be will
stay there, OF his heart will be under
the pavement, not aboveis. He will
not be President. He is too strong
character for that. But while
Presidents hold their office four years
and Senators almost indefinitely, q
man of just ambition in the latter
position has no need to sigh for the
other.
Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, has
a face like that q nice old schooIboy,
gentle, kind and open. The sight Of
that benevolent pale face and the sill
very hair is pleasantest in theSenate
He seems sort of Senatorial Mel
ancton. His neighbor in the arm
chair is man of equally unchallenged
character but opposite spirit. Indeed
it seems as if due regard for proper
ties had placed Mr.. Howe and Lamar
Trumbull next to each other. The
compressed fiery natury of Senator
Trumbull is relies ed by the molten
sive friendliness of Howe. By the
way, Mr. Trumbull has the air retain
ed from bis early experience as
pedagogue Of an old style schoolmas-
ter looking up and down for his pu-
pills. 1t is legal face-somothing
sallow-with gray close cut hair, firm
moth and steel gray eyes with
suspicious CLEAN of fire in them that
betokeas the keen darts he is ready
to surl at bis opponents, when called
tor He is an endless worker, rarely
idle. - Washington Correspondence
= World.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22
esa MIR Snufgeon wr,,as ,h.,ho

B-Mr Sturgeon writes that be is
no longer member Of the Evangeli-
cal Alliance, having withdrawn, at
the request of the Secretary in Eng
land, IN consequence of sermon on
Baptismal Regeneration, iIirwhioh he
denounced the evangelical clergy of
the Established Church.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22
wA notary publ

DORA notary public has been de-
prived of his commission, at Ioka,
Keokuk county, Iowa, who is charg-
ed with forging the name Of a soldiers
widow to receipt for bounty mon
cyl flo collected the amount, forged
receipt for it, aud then denied that
the money over came into his hands.
OF this sum he deprived the widow
for two years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22

AHEcDoTE OF FREDERICK l. OF
PaumA, Que evening, peiug too Ut
VII - read his usual devotions, he
he called upon his pGlet de chdmbre t.
read prayers. In il occurred the
word. Ny God bless thee" The
serya tot deemiug 1t respectful 70
nee lice in reference TO the king
took the liberty - change the phrase
AN rcad Il, May God bless you =
The king oxasperat, d hurled som
thine at The head OF the speaker, OK
claiming, "Itis not SO readit again
The terrified servant, not conceiving
in what he had done wrong read
again. MAY God bless you" The
irIascible monarch, having nothing
else he could grasp, took oil BIZ
night-cap and threw it into the mans
face, enchanting. 1T is not so reac
il again" The servant frightened
almost out of his senses, read for th'
third time, MAY God bless you.
"THee rogue" shouted the king
NAV God bless thee Dost thou no
know, rascal, that in the eyes OF God
am only a miserable rascal like thy
selfY"-From Frederick the Great,
in Harper's Magazine for March.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22
-
a~The Methodist Recor

s~The Methodist Recorder, of
Springfield, Ohio. thinks there will
not be a general union of Methodists
because the Methodist Episcopal
Church does not admit laymen to an
equality of rights
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22

Il y. PHELPS, pr0pr Tor, Lancaster, W.. Having
II furnished TIE new tLrcs story brick hotol al
.ho CID hotel corner, I prepared to accommodate
guests reasonably. Rooms veal furnished snd table
Ntli provided Ample stable a~rommodstiqrs. ET45
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22

Nor YET CoNvERTED.-Aw woman
signing herself "One of themajority,'
writes to the Tribune as follows ain
such a nation as this, where in most
of the States the laws are absurdly,
and unjustly almost, in favor of wo-
men, this movement seems to me the
height of folly and uselessness. For
one, would quite as willingly be
admitted to the rights of the bullet
as to the rights of tho ballot. we
have right to vote has nothing to
do with it, so far as | eau see. Per-
baps we have, SO far as man is con-
cerIed, but we certainly hare not, ST
far as our own nature goes. Don'C
for one moment suppose that we are
not capable OF it | think with Dr.
Bushnell, the most knighty champion
we women could have. that we arc
made for finer uses.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22

a. > HYDE. proprietor, Lancaster, Wis corner Of
" Main nni Spring sts. Having bought the above
HJl,r I'D. rehtied and rtiurnished II, rep 'red
90 Wve every attention 90 the accommodation OF guests
ai4 Nt IgY..1e lpot fable AMI q. beds. good
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22

and | took the liberty to tell the men
responsible for it that it was too
much, GApplause.1
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22

nv CARRIER proprietor, Boacohol. VIE. Meals pro-
Fil,d before time. and patrons assisted with
bR~gsE, promptness, and delays a. Che Carrier
Houan. Rtabhns attached.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22

@rOliver Dyer says the outcast
children of New York would make,
double file, a procession eleven miles
long.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22
Arguments for Woman Suffrage.

by Addson Brown in tho Vermont Fhosnizl
/. Man and woman compose the
human race constitute the sum total
of humanity. Woman is q part Of
the"man which God created male end
female"
2. Woman, like man, is social,
rational, accountable being; that is,
has all the essential attributes Of hui
m anity.
3. Man and woman constitute hu-
man society, each being an indispen-
sable part thereof.
4. The character and conditions Of
human society make some kind of
government necessary to regulate
the intercourse and transactions of
members with each other.
8. To-day that government is con-
-idered the nearest perfection which
rests on the consent of the governed
and whose will Is expressed in con-
situations and laws.
& Women, equally with men, COR
sutate tho governed" and, there
fore equally with men, should their
consent be given to and their will
embodied in in the constitution and
laws OF the government under which
thsy i've.
z As the ballot is the only instru-
ment by which the will of the gov
erned can be directly and effectually
expressed, women and men have
equal right TO the use of it.
s. Therefore, whatever right man
has to the ballot, natural or other
wise, woman has the same.
8. And therefore, again, under our
government "of the people, for the
people, by the people," the ballot
should be secure TO woman as her I'M
doubted right.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-03-22

The Albany Post thus sensibly re-
plies to q statement made in the N
Y. Herald that during tho last TWEEN
ty years William b. Aster has SO
managed q fortune of twenty millions
as to roll it into sixty millions:
Suppose he has, what theD2 What
has he made by the operation, ex-
cept increased worriment to keep the
run of his increased wealth? Astor,
with sixty millions, eats no more
oysters. quail, woodcock and boned
turkey, than he did when he was
worth ten millions. He dresses no
better and has q thousand times less
fun. 4a
If mems happiness increased with
their money, everybody shonld be
justified in worshipping the Golden
Calf. The happiness increases with
their earnings up TO certain point
the point necessary TO secure them
the comforts of life, say 81, 900 q year.
ALI beyond this is superhuous. Be-
ing superfuous, it is productive of no
good whatever. The richer the man
the greater is the probility that his
sons will live on billiards and die in
the inebriate asylum. With content
ment and $4,000 year a man may
be as happy as prince, Without
contentment you will be miserable,
even if your wealth equal the rent
rolls of Cr9sus."