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The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-04-09

A Sister of Mercy, of Nazareth house
Hammersmith, London, was charged re-
Gently with having driven a barrow on the
public footway. 1t was explained that the
vehicle under the defendants care was q
perambulator, and that it was used for the
collection of food for the inmates of Naza-
reth-house. The magistrate held that if
perambulator was used for the conveyance
of goods, it came under the description of
an ordinary barrow. The Sister was fined
Is. and 2s. costs. On this the Pail Mall
Gazette remarks as follows:
"We have at last punished some one for
furious driving, and what makes tho affair
all the more satisfactory is that we have
been able to infiict the punishment on an
offender who will probably feel it far more
severely than the joyous butcher whose
employer is ever ready to pay the penalty
incurred by his servant for such trifing
offence as driving a light cart over heavy :
old man or woman who will not get out OF
the way. A nun with a perambulator will
| do very we'll az an example; and at Ham
mersmith Police-cour on Tuesday Hannah
| Devere, of Nazareth-house, Hammersmith,
who wore the dress of Sister of Mercy,
was brought up on warrant charged with
driving barrow on the footway. The re-
| port does not state whether handouts wele
/ necessary as we'll as warrant for this des-
perate offender, but the evidence left no
doubt that she had actually committed the
| crime with which she was charged. A po-
lice sergeant swore that the defendant,
who was accompanied by another Sister OF
Mercy, actually drove the barrow in the
Portobello-road, Noting hill, causing per-
sons to go into the road.' be told her il
was not allowed, but~she still continued
driving the barrow along the footway
For the defence it was argued that it was
not barrow but only perambulator usec
by the Sisters for the collection of foot
from various parts of the Metropolis TO
the poor In their house; and the police OF
being questioned admitted that that bar
row or perambulator, whichever the dan
gerous vehicle was, really did contain tw'
cans. Of course this defence was useless
, Justice, as we well know, is blind, and ma,
: itself be tripped up any day on the pave
ment by a reckless Sister of Mercy, SO tn
3 worthy magistrate, after pointing out tina
: footways were for the use of the public t
= walk upon, fined Sister Hannah one shil
b ling and two shillings costs-letting her o
e cheaply as there had been "a mistake i
a the name' Considering all the nuisance
: we swallow in the streets, some of Us woul
r not strain at u Sister of Mercy with a bar
4 row employed for charitable purposes
Il but it must be remembered that these Sit
q tiers actually have the audacity not only
n feed the poor but also to nurse small-pu
If patients, and take ont of our hands oth'
: good but disagreeable works we are a
V painting to perform. A few penalties WI
:. perhaps bring them to their senses al
l. make them more like other peOple."d
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

The ALABAMA CLAIMs.-It is graf
flying to oil peoples that the settle
ment of the Alabama claims and the
Canadian fisheries question now prom
Use to receive the early attention of
both governments of Great Britain
and the United States.
Both Governments have appointed
Commissioners to negotiate treaty
the members Of the American Com.
mission being Mr. Fish, Secretary OF
State, General Schenck, the newly
appointed Minister to England, Judge
Nelson, of the United States Supreme
Court, Judge Hoar, of Massach usetts,
aud United States Senator Williams.
Of Oregon and that of Great Britain
consisting of Earl De Grey, Sir Ed
ward Thornton, the British Minister
at Washington, Sir John Macdonald,
Professor Bernard, and Sir John
Rose.
The joint Commission will meet at
Washington as soon as the British
Commissioners, who have already
sailed, shall reach this country.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
Personal Debate in the Senate.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.-The debate
IN the executive session of the SEN
ate on Saturday on the nomination
of Mr.. J. Cramer, as Minister to
De nmark, was one of the most Bit
terly personal on record. Mr.. Cram.
er, who is brotherjnlaw of Presi-
dent Grant, was originally an timer
ant Methodist preacher in Kentucky :,
from which State he was appointed
Consul to Leipsic by President john
son abont the time General Grant
became Secretary of war, and at the
latter's request. At the beginning Of
the present session, the Copenhagen
mission being vacant, the President
sent IN Cramer's name for the Office.
1t has been before the Committee
on Foreign Relations until last
Thursday, when it was taken up in
the Senate. The debate took an in
tenscly personal turn, those opposed
TO the confirmation, led, il is said,
by Messrs Sumner, Schurz aud Pat
terson, argued that Cramer was not
of the class eft men who should rep
resent the United States at European
Courts-that his career as Consul at
Leipsic had proved him unfit for the
position, and it was not an appoint
ment which would reflect credit on
the Administration. The nomina.
ton was supported by Chandler, Car
penter, and others, aud the first is
reported to have been very severe in
his remarks. Some Of those opposed
to the confirmation left the Senat {
chamber before the debate closed
and finally it was voted to discharge
the committee from the further con.
sideration Of the nomination. and
Cramer was confirmed, only two OF
three Republicans present voting in
the negative.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

TRIAL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO Fry
ING MACHINE.-The newly invented
Flying machine" was put into oper-
alton yesterday, with considerable
success. When everything was tight
ened and got in good running order,
and the propeller arranged to cause
elevation, it was just 1915 o'clock.
The fire for raising steam was then
kindled, and in one minute and a
quarter steam was opened AT 12:47
p. m, the machine was cut loose. and
the propellers started. She then
rose most gracefully in the air, amid
the cheers of the crowd who had
gathered to witness the occasion.
The machine was guided by cords
attached to both ends of the balloon,
and in the hands of persons on the
ground. She assembled about fifty
feet and sailed along about block,
when she was pulled down to have
her boiler replenished Again she
arose, this time to a height of about
200 feet. All the machinery connect
ed with it worked to the perfect sat
isfaction of the inventor, who intends
to place it on public exhibition at
some place, of which notice will be
given. The name given her is
America San Francisco Bulletin.
Jan. 7th.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
State Items.

The Halliday House at Kenosha
Several of the inmates were burn
ed to death, among them a mother
and four children. Many more es-
capped in their night clothes, while
some in jumping out Of the windows
to the ground received permanent
and fatal injuries. 1t was substan-
tial, four story brick edifice, built by
the Hon. Chas. Durkee.
The Dodgeville Chronicle says
chalk beds have been discovered
near Reese's mill, Z miles north of
Dodgeville. Some of the finest quail
ity of white chalk has already been
taken out, and the extent of the
stratum appears to be very large.
The average yield of wheat per
acre in Wisconsin for 1870, was 10
bushels and the average price per
bushel on the LIST day Of January,
1871, was 80 cents. The average
yield OF corn was 38 bushels, and the
average price, so cts.
The fat men of Richland, Sank
and Iowa counties will hold festi-
val at the Sheridan House, Lone
Rock, on the 22nd of February. All
weighing two hundred pounds and
upward are cordially invited to take
part.
The report Of the Visiting Com.
mittee sets down the cost of keeping
the $50 patients at the State Asylum
at S94 1853 This amounts to S261
yearly, or trifle over SIS week
each of the State insane.
Tho bids for the construction of
the Insane Asylum at Oshkosh were
opened on Wednesday of last week,
and the contract was awarded to
James Reynolds, of Milwaukee, for
S1465Sl.
On Monday night of last week
the stores of Kyle, and Gait & Co
at Racine were destroyed by fire
loss S35 900 which is nearly covered
by insurance.
"A suit was tried before Justice
BaiIy. of Oshkosh, last week, in ref
erence to the ownership of a hog.
The hog was brought into court as a
with TESS.
A Beloit boy carelessly shot his
sister last week-he was cracking
caps on pistol that he thought had
no load in it.
-Hoop-poles are largely in demand
in Richland county. $50 900 have
been handled at one mill this season.
The 1st Wis Infantry Regiment
is to have reunion, in Milwaukee.
on the 22nd inst
Daring the past year Crawford
county has supported twenty pau
pers at the cost of $4,000.
Scarlet fever j. raging among
children in the vicinity of Dodgeville
The insane at he Madison Asy-
lum have dance every week.
Monroe is to have a high school
building to cost 500, 900.
Oshkosh is going to have a hard
times party.
Scarlet fever prevails at Rich
land Center.
Coal has been discovered near
La Crosse.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
Sumner as a Plagiarist

1t seems that Mr.. Summers theat-
rical by-play during his address on
the San Domingo resolution, when
he told Senator Morton to HE him to
Grant and tell him so, was all Dor
rowed from Henry Clay. The Wash
ington Daily Patriot, referring to the
subject, says: 'If the curious read
er will turn to the Senatorial debates
of 1884, on the 10th page of the first
volume of Mr.. Benton's Thirty
Years. be will find precisely the same
coup de theatre in almost the same
words, the actors being Mr.. Clay
and Mr.. Van Buren,. Il call upon
you to repair Immediately to the
Executive Mansion said Mr.. Clay
accidently using Mr. Summers very
words, and prevail on him to retrace
his steps and abandon his fatal ex-
pertinent Go to him and tell him
the actual condition of this bleeding
country. Tell him how much true
glory can be won by retracing false
steps. Entreat him TO pause etc.
And so throughout and the anna
list tells US that Mr.. Van Buren, look
ed all the while 'innocently' at the
imprisoned orator, and, when he
was through, asked for pinch OF
snuff.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
News From All Quarters.

~ ATlS ucbpAlCu, uditu inc sLn
inst. says: Intense suffering pre-
walls here, and hundreds are dying
daily ofsiarva,ion. The food receiv-
ed is wholly inadequate" A London
dispatch says: "a complete rupture
has taken place between The Paris
Government aud Gambetta. The
restoration of the Empire ia most
probable. 1t is reported that the
Pope has undertaken to assis, in the
restoration.
Governor Alcorn of Mississippi,
says in his message that reconstruc-
ton is going toward u the sure con-
sumation of morei and material tri-
umph, and thai among the $4,000 of
eight counties which he mentions,
8, AL accumulated wealth to the en-
ormous amount of $685., 242.
The Germans in America are do
ing nobly for the relief of their
brethern in the old fatherland, who
have been wounded, disabled or rem
dered destitute by the war. Thus
far they have contributed and for
warded TO the old country about
s75O,OOO, since the opening of the
war.
Horace Greedy, in the Tribune,
estimates the prospects of the next
presidential campaign. He denies,
if the elections of 1872 should copy
those of 1870, that Democrat would
DO chosen. He shows, on the con-
trary, that the republican electoral
vote would be l79 against 147:
The greatest gain the Women
Suffrage cause bias made in a twelve
month is the appearance of Mr.. Dan.
iel Mcfarland as lecturer against
them. They should encourage the
man, pay his expenses, and keep
him going.
The German troops are to be
permitted to make triumpha! march
through Paris. They have not SC
far shown q disposition to despoi
the city, or unnecessarily triumph
over their foes.
-Four hundred women of the Ill
inois Normal School have sent re.
remonstrance TO Washington against
woman suffrage. The petitions
against women Suffrage are just
now more numerous than those in
its favor.
"A Paris dispatch expresses the
opinion that neither the extreme
lmperialists nor the extreme Repub.
licans will secure majority in the
assembly.
Gen. Frank J. Heron of New
Orleans, formerly of Dubuque, is put
IN nomination for sergent-at-arms Of
the neSt Congress.
The Debafs states that the Re
public is q failure, and that the Or.
leans family is the only hope OF
France.
Americans are in higher favor
than ever in Russia. The Gar
seems to have a particular prejudice
in their favor.
NO NiiaSe Vi IloSa, In NORTH
ern Pennsylvania. was almost en-.
tirely destroyed by fire on Friday,
Boutwell, estimates that the
revenue from the tax on incomes
this year will reach $4,000 600.
1t is said that Theodore Tilton
is about to establish g morning Re
publican paper in Chicago.
A London dispatch says that
Queen Victoria was never so unpopu
lar as at present.
The repeal Of the income tax by
Congress is still in uncertainty.
-JHarez viii be reelected Presi.
dent of Mexico
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

STATE PRIsoN.-If a State Prison
Commissioner, with 217 able-bodied
convicts to labor for nothing, can get
the State to give, annually 500, 900,
additional, be probably will. The
Reform School at Waukesha, with
nearly 300 "pupils" cost S32, 1890
to keep up, and then ran behind
S6,228. The Governor advises the
purchase of farm adjoining the
School, at an expense of $4,000, and
inferentiaIly the erection of another
family building at an expense of
$4,000. We will agree TO find re-
sponsible parties who will take eth
er the States Prison, or the Reform
School. or both, in charge for 1871,
and guarantee that they shall not
cost the State dollar for the main
tenance of the prisoners.-.Stnte Ga
<ette
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

ryThe Democrats now call edu-
cation poisoning tho minds of the
young" The following is an ex-
tract from the Democratic party or
gan of Washington, with reference
to some Congressional proceedings
"Mr Hoar, of Massachusetts, then
advocated the great scheme for ma
tioual education which is to be SUBJ
stituted for the Freedmen's bureau,
by furnishing mammoth machine
to poison the minds of the rising gen.
GRAFTON. This is one of the most in
siduous and dangerous of plans for
perpetuating radical rule yet con-
ceived by the inventive genius of
New England, and is, therefore, the
one that ought to be most firmly re-
sisted"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

UTAH KNOCKING AT THE Door,
Brigham Young is trying to offset
the revolution in Utah by getting up
a countermovement in Washington.
He abandons his pet scheme Of the
State of Deseret, and will1consent 10
being admitted into the Union as the
State of Utah. His scheme is to
have Congress authorize a conven-
ton, to assemble in Salt Lake City
in the first week in July, to formu-
late constitution in which polyga-
my is to be prohibited, and in Sep
TENDER the election is to take place,
and on the assembling of Congress
in December, Brigham would be Gov
ernor, and two Senators and a Rep
resentative would take their seats in
the National Legislature No one
believes in the sincerity of Brigham
abandoning polygamy, and the meas
ure before Congress is regarded with
distrust One of his influential bsh-
ops, and the husband Of five wives,
arrivedin Washington on Wednesday
morning from Utah, and was intro
duced TO several Of the congressman
by Mr. Hooper, so that Brigham
sends a fulI-dedged polygamist TO
that city to lobby through his bill.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
nra Thn NVnnIrnahn wv;

t@-The Waukesha { Wis., papers
tell of u magistrate in that region,
who, being called upon to perform
the marriage ceremony, found, on
arriving at the house, that it was
situated in the adjoining county, and
consequently beyond his jurisdiction.
Two youthful souls, however, posses
sed at that moment but o single
thought between them, and it took
the shape of q fiery and untamed
ambition to surmount all obstacles
in the way of instant consumation of
their cherished hopes; and they did it,
The party crossed the road into Wau-
kesha county, sloshed around in the
snow, and there, to use the fervid
language Of the local chronicler, ain
the starlight, and in the light of loves
shining orb, were joined in marriage,
Charles Sanders, only "a years of
age. to the sprightly Mrs. Deborah
Van Nortrick, who has just turned
the blooming age of So" Let us
hope that ague and rheumatism are
not shaking the bones of the antique
pair, in revenge for their youthful
frolic.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

The INCOME Taxa resolution
was lately put through the .. S.
Senate, by one majority, repeating
the tax on incomes. The resolution
was sent to the House for coucur.
renee which body very politely in
formed the venerable Senate that, by
constitutional provision, all laws
must have their origin in the House.
The proposition, however, will likely
take shape in the House. Its repeal
is urged by Gen. Pleasanton, Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, and
by tremendous lobby, but is op
posed by Mr.. Boutwell,, Secretary OF
the Treasury, and we believe by
nine-tenths of the voting population
of the country. We have yet to see
o single sound reason for the support
of the tax. What end is to be &C
complished by its repeal Does any
one contend that those persons whose
Incomes are over $4,000, together
with numerous exemptions, are un-
able to meet the requirements of the
tax or that it is burden to them
no-but that its collection is an in
ducement to widespread perjury
which reason, if valid, bears equally
upon all laws for the listing of prop
erty and collection of taxes-and all
should be repealed. Gen. Pleasan-
ton AYERS that the cost of collection
equals the income derived from that
source. Mr.. Boutwell,, who has been
Secretary of the Treasury mere
years than Peasantoh has held his
Office months, AYERS to the contrary,
ard that We can i'll spare revenue
which bears so lightly upon the in
dustrial interests of the country.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES very impor-

LEdIsLATURE.-Some very impor-
tant bills were introduced in the leg.
islature last week. An Assembly bill
by Mr.. Cousin looks to radical
change in the law concerning testi-
mony. 1t provides that no person
shall be disqualified to testify as a
witness in any civil action by reason
of his or her being the husband or
wife of party to such action.
Another very important Assembly
bill is one requiring bond to be
given by all persons applying for Ii
cense to sell intoxicating drinks, in
the sum of SO 900, before any license
shall be issued. 1t also fixes the
amount to be paid for license to retail
dealers at from 500 to 5000, at the
discretion of the town or city authori-
ties. 1t further provides that any
saloon keeper or other person engage
cd in selling intoxicating liquors who
shall sell or give to any habitual
drunkard any Intoxicating drinks
shall have his license cancelled.
A resolution has been offered in
the Legislature, looking towards mi
nority representation. 1t provides
for IL senate districts and 80 assem-
bly, districts in the state-each to
elect 3 members.
Mr.. Magoon, an active member OF
the Senate, has introduced bill to
repeal the law extending the juris-
dition of Justice of the Peace to 5000
and creating attorney fees in justices
court. He has also introduced bill
authorizing court commissioners to
solemnize marriages, and to legslize
marriages heretofore solemnized by
them.
A joint resolution has been adopt
ed by the Legislature to adjourn on
the lst of March, and to take up no
new business after the 18th inst.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

ray The proposition to raise the
German mission to first-class is only
a just recognition of the place Ger
many now holds in the family of ma
tions. Our Minister at Berlin is not
merely our representative at the
Court Of the Prnssian King but of
the German Emperor. The new
Empire, or, rather the old Empire re-
stored, is the most potent and the
most intelligent in the world.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
FRIGHTFUL r. r. DISASTER New

FRIGHTFUL r. r. DISASTER New
York. Feb. THE train leaving
New York at s o'clock last evening
ran into an oil train on the New
Hamburg drawbridge. The oil
train jumped the track and broke in
two an oil car tipped over on to
the passenger train and set it on fire,
and the locomotive, cars and bridge
were all burned up. Three sleeping
cars are amoug those destroyed -
Eighteen persons were killed out
right, and many more are injured
who will not recover. The names
have not yet been obtained,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

sa- Mark Twain threatens TO cease
writing periodically. He says try
ing to think how he shall be funny
at a certain date, is very melancholy;
keeps him awake at night prompts
him to commit suicide, run for Con-
gress, or describe in print his remin-
iscences of distinguished men whose
funerals he has had the pleasure of
attending. With the April number
of The GALAXY it is therefore under
stood that he will make his bow, and
retire from this field of his triumphs.
He will still, however, contribute to
its further glories, as occasion and
may allow.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
81. Through division of opini.

g. Through division of opinion
in the Supreme Court, the decision
of the Court of Claims in favor of
Lieut. James W. Price. for trans
portation pay from the place Of his
discharge at his own request, on a
surgeons certificate to his place Of
enlistment, is confirmed and remains
the law on this subject. The drain
on the Treasury in Consequence will
be immense, as the Attorney General
has conceded, in an argument, that
it applies as well to private soldiers
as TO Ulcers Of volunteers. MANY
millions will be required to meet the
drain.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14
sea- The JanesviIle Gazette :

na-The GAINESVILLE Gazette saws =.
Judge Conger, has decided IN tho
Circuit conrt, that under the amen.
ded law OF 1870, a Justice has ao iur-
isdiction over action on bills. notea
&c, given for more than one bun.
drod dollars, and not reduced by pay.
ments or credits given within that
sum. This has long been a mooted
question with our Justice, and we are
glad that it is finally decided.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-02-14

n3-A horrible disaster occurred on
the Hudson River Railioa on We'd
nesday night of last week. An oil
train took fire while standing on q
bridge, which was ulso set on fire.
The Night Passenger and Express
came up and ran into the burning oil
train on the bridge, and the latter
structure giving way, portion of
the passenger train went down into
the stream below, in terrible mass.
Several persons were killed, burned
to death, or drowned.