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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15

THREE WISCONSIN GIRLS MAKE A
SENSATION IN MUSICAL CIRCLES IN
NEW YORK There recently arrived
in this city from the West, three re-
markably prepossessing young ladies,
who have set out in the true Western
spirit to seek their fortunes. They
are sisters, and left Racine, Wiscon-
sin, together to go to Chicago, that
eminent seat of learning and art for
they had made up their minds to DO
artists--that is vocal artists. Some
stray glimpses were caught of them
afterward as they sang their way
slowly eastward aud delighted tho
towns that lay in their way with pure
breezy voices and free buoyant style
Finally they reached New York, and
here they propose to keep advancing
in heir studies unaided and unman.
aged. Their spirit and independence
are commemorate. Unlike so many
of their sex, they do not talk about
opportunities and gifts, but gathering
their skirts about them, they set out
to seek the opportunity and develop
the gift. The three prairie Graces
deserve all the success they can win
in city crowded with imported
singers and teeming with tolerable
talent. They are brought to notice
by several semi private concerts al
ready given, at which they sang to-
gether, and appear to have attracted
the attention of influential amateurs.
We admire the spirit which induces
these Western girls to undertake
their own education and manage
ment, and if their talents correspond
we predict for them the ultimate
success which always attends deter
mination. Why they should call
themselves the Vescelius Sisters we
cannot understand, when johnson or
Jones is just as good, and would be
more characteristic of their independ-
ence of our foolish conven tionalisms,
and especially as all three of them
are ruddy with Western health and
animated with Western 'cutsness.-
". Y. World.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15
A Neat Compliment for Charley
Williams.

Hon Cbas. G. Williams, Repu blicau
candidate for Congress in the First
District of this State, spoke at st.
Paul, Minnesota, last Thursday to an
immense audience. The Press OF
that city refers to his speech in the
70 lowing terms
Mr.. Williams was q stranger in
name and reputation to tie people of
St. Paul, except as he has been re.
ferred to in the past few days by the
Press, until he made his appearance
on the platform last night. 1t is suf-
fcient to say that be took his au-
dience by surprise, and that his
speech is regarded by mon of critic
al judgment as the best specimen of
campaign oratory ever delivered ia
this city, and himself as the most
eloquent and effective political speak
er who ever addressed a ST. Paul
audince. Certainly no speaker who
has visited this city in our recollec-
ton ever so entertained an audience
or so moved its enthusiasm. From
the beginning to the end of bis speech
the audience swayed to bis move as
the forest is swayed to the winds
From beginning to end it was
scene of tumultuous and wild enthu-
siasm If any body wanted proof
that all the heart of the people was
in this business of electing Ulysses
S. Grant, they had it then in the
bounding pulse of sympathetic earn
eetness which showed itself in all the
phases of this great and popular
demonstration.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15

EFCharles Francis Adams, Jr., in
his Quincy speech, gave the follows
ers of Greeley the following capital
hit:
If Mr.. Greeley is elected, our
friends, the managers, Will assuredly
hereafter claim in triumph that they
knew "the people," and that there's
nothing like hard cider, unless it be
white hats. Under such a dispense
ton, it will be apparent that even
a decent outward respect for the re-
forms we advocated is, for the pres.
ent at least, unnecessary, and that
political managers can indeed transfer
maiorities as drovers do herds of
cattle. The defeat of Mr.. Greeley,
on the other hand, will go far to
convince the "men inside politics"
that things utterly homogeneous can
not as yet be successful Jumped to-
gether, that the rise of"tidal wave"
and "prarie fires" has some connect
ion with real undertaking sense
that the people, of whom they pirate
so much and think so little, are not
mere children to be pleased with a
rattle and tickle with q straw, and,
finally, that the east-off garments
of the eminent editor are, after all,
but a poor substitute for cardinal
principles.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15
False Hair.

Heavens! Let all ladies who
wear deceitful locks read what the
British Medical Journal tells us about
false hair There ia NJ. Lindeman
W BIO has given bis mind TO this sub
ject, and who announce that every
hair in false plat ends with "a mo-
dosity..;" each nodocity contains If
ty "psorosperms )" and each psoros-
perm throws off minute spheres
which become "pseudo-navicellse."
But this is by 10 means the end OF
bad matter. The pseudo-navicsll@
in ballroom containing fifty ladies,
all with the spurious tendrils,a amount
to AS, 900 900, which, when inhaled,
make their way into the circulation
and bring on cardiac affections |
This is too bad but then doesn't
real hair sometimes produce cardiac
affections ?-Nev York Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15
New Post Office Regulations.

The following statement of new
Post Office regui ations will be OF
general interest:
Section Isl provides "That all
mail matters deposited for mailing,
on which at least one full rate OF
postage has been paid as required by
law shall be forwarded to It's destina-
ton, charged with the unpaid rate,
to be collected on delivery"
Section 152 provides "That if any
mail matter on which by law the
postage is required to be prepaid at
the mailing office shall by inadver-
tence reach its destination without
such prepayment double the prepaid
rate shall be charged and collected
on delivery"
In the United States Mail for Sep
TENDER the following rulings by the
Post Office Department are publish
ed for the Information of Postmast-
ers and the public
No. 81. Letters in a Post Office
prepaid one full rate (three cents),
but requiring two or more rates,
should be forwarded with the unpaid
postage charged at double the pre-
paid rate, to be collected on delivery
Nc. 81. The unpaid postage on all
matter on which prepayment is rec
quired by law should be doubled and
collected on delivery.
No. 81. Any writing or memoran-
DUN other than address subjects any
printed or other mail matter to let
ter postage.
10. SO. A letter deposited for mail
ing weighing over half an ounce, but
less than an one ounce, prepaid by a
three cent stamp, should be forward
cd, mark cd educ six cents"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15
Where A. Stephens Stands.

The Greeleyites have been circu-
lating a story .hat Alexander IL.
Stephens, of Georgia, has ceased to
oppose the election of the Baltimore
nominee. The following, written by
Mr.. Stephens under date of the 25th
inst, and published in his paper, the
Atlanta San, disprovcs the canard
whether we be wise or foolish
we have profound conviction that
the election of Mr.. Greeley to the
Presidency of the United States by
the Democrats, with an Endorsement
bv them of his ideas of constitution
aiism. would be among the worst,
if not the worst political calamity
that could befall this country; and
this judgement we shall continue to
proclaim, Notwithstanding all the
ratings of the Temanites, Noamatb-
ties, Shubites and Bugites ofthe day,
combined together against either
our sense, our integrity, or both.
We submit our Judgment on this
subject, as we have always hereto
fore done on similar questions, to the
test of the future"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15

ADVERTISING sCALE:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15
ROMANCE OF THE WAR.
An Ohio Soldiers Kindness TO a Tennesseean
accompanied wife a Fortune.
CFrOm the Cleveland Plaindealer


Our neigbboring city of Tiifin is
just now deeply interested in the Sc
quel of war episode, which shows
how romance sometimes creeps into
the events of real life. Early in the
war Tiffin and vicinity had ssrt of
itinerant Albright preacher named
Downey Upon the outbreak of tue
war Downey entered the service as
a Captain in one of the Seneca regi-
ments, and when the government de-
cided upon employing negro
troops, he became Colonel of
another regiment. During the cam
paign in Tennessee, his regiment
CHANGED to be encamped upon the
estate of Colonel Washington, near
Nashville. The regiment seems not
TO have been under the best disci-
pine; and it's soldiers were rather
disposed to give free rein to their
brutal instincts. They seized Colo
mel Washington and threatened him
with instant death, and also set
about Destroying the elegant family
mansion. Colonel Downey, by great
exertions, and at the imminent risk
of his own life, succeeded in rescuing
Colonel Washington from death, and
in saving the mansion and other
property from destruction. Colonel
Washington felt profoundly grateful
at the time tor Colonel Downey's
brave exertions in his behalf, and
promised never to forget them.
There the matter rested, and the
wild scenes with which Downey was
surrounded soon drove it out of his
mind He remained at the head of
his regiment till the war was over
and then returned to Tiffin and set
tied down into quiet domestic life.
Not long ago he died, leaving his
family in Strengthened circumstances.
Mrs. D0wney driven to her needle
for support. She and her children
lived in their humble way, was little
thought that a great change was
soon TO be wrought in their condition.
Recently Col. Washington died, when
/ it was found that he had wiled bis
/ property, consisting of $4,000 in
bonds aud greenbacks, and three hun
dred acres of improved land situated
mile and half from ashville-the
whole valued at 500 600 III least
tn the heirs of Col. Downey. Israel
J Downey q SOD of the deceased
Colonel, has just returned from
Nashville, whittier he went TO see
\ about the bequest. He found every
thing concerning the will, as stated
above. The executor of the estate
was in Tifin on Monday, arranging
details Of the transfer.
The history of the rebellion con-
tsins few more romantic episodes
| than this.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15
Life In @ Rolling MIL.

Persons who complain of the heat,
would do we'll to contrast their lot
with that of men employed in roll
ing mills and iounderies. The labor
OF most OF the rolling men, who work
by the ton, commences In the morn
ing. Viewed in the light of other
peoples hours, however, it commend.
es in the night. At four o'clock
they must be up and doing, for OF
nve, one-half of the world being vet
In bed, sharp whistles will be calling
the rollers to their tongs and hooks,
and the iron must be hot before that
During the early part of the day the
heat, though intense, is patiently
borne with the body clothed, but be-
tween twelve and three o'clock,
when rolls, furnaces and the iron are
all Kissing hot, the endurance of the
men is taxed to the utmost. BY the
time the Grst named hour is struck,
all metal substances have become too
hot for the unaccustomed to handle,
and the air about the furnaces and
rolls is sitting. Ninetyrfive degrees
in shady Office is a terrible infiic-
ton to man, but here the thermome-
ter marks from 125 to 1876 degrees of
heat. Shirts dripping:with perspira-
tion are discarded, and muscular de-
velopment may be studied to good
advantage. Pants are wet and
steaming hotly, and even shoes must
occasionally be emptied of the sweat
that runs into them. Countenanoes
began to wear q distressed appear
ance, as if the physical strain was
telling severely upon the toughest.
One look at the dozen stout men
that will be Frustrated, in the last
round or two, will con,ice any one
that the largest wages they may re-
ceive is we'll earned.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15
The Treatment of the South.

In his speech at Xenis, Ohio, Hon.
Benjamin +. Wade said: 81 say to
you, nay friends, that in the history
of mankind, from the earliest period
until now, no nation has ever dealt
so leniently with those who endeav>
ored to overturn the Government, as
has this nation, as have the Republic
an Party, with the people of the
South. 1t lies well in the mouths of
these Democrats 10 talk to us in that
way about hardheartedness to the
South. Why, gentlemen, don't you
remember that soon after the war
was over we passed bill for the re-
lief of the poor people of the South,
and We appropriated some millions
for them t. subsist upon until some-
thing else could be done. Every
Democrat vote 10 both branches of
Congress were against this measure.
In passing it we had saved thouss Ids
from a misera BILE death of restitution,
but we had to take all the opprobri-
un their orators could heap upon us
for doing these generous acts. Re-
member that, my Democratic friends.
Now don't charge US with hardheart-
edness when you have reviled and
vilifed US because we are generous"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15

CHICAGO. Oct. $3.50 p. NJ.

ChdS. II. Br0Ss, Madison
Indiana is still in some doubt, with
the chances in favor of the Republic
cans. ANDREW SHUMAN,
Chicago Journal.
NEBRASKA.
CAIoAGo, Oct. 9.
Returns from Nebraska show the
Republicans have carried the State
by 5000 majority.
WHAT GREELEY'S PAPER SAYS
New YORK, Oct. 8.
The Tribune says: eve have been
cheated out of Pennsylvania, have
made great gains in Ohio, not enough
to carry the State, aud have nothing
discouraging from Indiana"
CONNECTICUT.
HARTFORD, Oct. 8.
One hundred and twenty of 168
towns in this State have been heard
from So elect the entire Republican
ticket, and in "a the officers are di-
vided between the two parties. The
Democrats have gained 8 towns
which were Republican last year, and
the Republicans have gained 8 towns
which were Democratic last year.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8.
At the election in the District of
Columbia there were but few dis
turbances. Gen. N. p. Chapman Re-
publican and present Delegate TO
Congress, is reelected by $500 ma
.ority. The Republicans have also
elected 10 of the % members of the
Legislature.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15

rA-The State of Nebraska has
done a very handsome thing in the
appointment of a new holiday, "Ar-
Dor Day" Besides the enjoyment
of the occasion, the people will ac-
com plish q right vigorous progress
in forest tree planting. II will be
observed yearly upon the 10th Of
April. 1t is an agricultural festival
purely, and is devoted to the plant.
ing of fruit and forest trees
The State Agricultural Society
has offered q premium of 800 to the
farmers society of the country
which plants the largest number OF
trees on the 10th instant, and $50 to
the man who individually plants the
most.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15
HThe Missouri Democrat says

IA The MISSOURI UemocTdt says:
1T is a good time now for some of
the talented journalists of the coua-
try who have endesvored to per-
suade our people that England OUT
witted our Government ID the Wash
ington treaty and the Geneva srbi-
tration, to persuade Chief Justice
Cockburn that he is all wrong 10 his
views of the subject. The Chief
Justice has written and published
a pamphlet of $50 pages to convince
the people of England that the
award Of SIS 900, 900 to the United
States is an outrage upon Her MAJ
esty's Government"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15
The Harvest Song of Wisconsin.
From the Aenasha Press. ]

From the henasha Press.
The harvest song of Wisconsin
should be one of joy and thanksgiv-
ing. The Towering clouds of spring
time dissolved in due season, and now
the state ''laughs with a rich har-
vest" The husbandmen of our COM
monwealth are blessed in basket and
store. Every one of our exchanges
comes to US bearing the good tidings
of great plenty, and we might quote
columns of their cheering words had
we room. Wisconsin is still Wiscon-
sin-the land where the yeoman new
er "drives his team afield" without
an abundant reward for his toll.
Here, drouth never parches, no clouds
drown out the crops; but the seed is
sown and the harvest surely smiles.
The geographical location of our
state, and its peculiar composition OF
soil, make it in these two respects,
superior to any other state in the fed
Grafton. H. ppy are they who have
a home in rich, beautiful, and blessed
Wisconsin. Upon no state has ma.
tnre so generously out turned her
blessings. Its magnificent stretches
of prairie, the treasure troves of min
eral wealth UNDERTAKING the larger
portion of its surface, the fertility of
its soil, the healthfulness of climate,
the cheapness of lands, the admira-
bleness of it's location in the great
field of trade, the astonishing in-
crease Of its railroads, the rapid null
tiplication of figures on its census
books-are the Inducements which
are drawing the attention of the
world to Wisconsin, and in their in.
conference.-the arguments will be
found the reason why our state can
claim the glory of being the most
prosperous one in the circle of the
West.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15

EF General Cook has given the
Apaches q piece of his mind in the
shape Of leaden bullets. Four hun
dred of them fred upon his troops
killing soldier. The boys in blue
returned the compliment, killing
thirty of the red men, and chasing
the rest to the mountains. The
Quaker kind Of persuation is played
out with the APacbes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15
THE ISSUE.

Roll back to-day the tide OF years of years but half
Draw back the veil Of memory and read in thought
once more,
The fearful history Of those years. with dreadful ter
fraught
And tell me then, Colunbias sons was this all done
for naughtf
Each page in history Of those years dyed with GRIM
gore.
The life blood Of kindred-yea the our moth
ers bore
And prison pens, where soldiers graves ike forest
leaves lie strewn,
Stand witnesses of darkest deeds America has known
The ranking jealousy and hate Is burning now, as
And they who drenched our land with blood now sue
for power again,
Not boldly-no, the fraud were neat could they but
But know ye not that wolves have donned the ha M
less Sleeps disguisef
''Ye must forget the pasta voice so smoothly,
Wheye the tears of widowhood, undried, lie on our
cheeks
"FoRerr rae PAST y While orphan. hands for bread
"FORorT PAsr !" while human bones lie bleached
on Southern soil.
"FoRoEr PAST! when crippled men by SC ores are
daily met
"FoRsEr TIE PAsri" OH stricken Ones say when will
yeforgets
Jehovah pardoneth orR sins WHEN VIZ REPENT, and
Wen do. Do not demand seater thing Ofus
The die is cast; the line is drawn to-day two armies
stand
With purposes dis tnct as when the war cloud sweeps
land
oh frsemen Of the nation, speak, Will ye give up
your trustg
Shall freedoms temple reared in blood nov crumbe
IN the dustl
Have lives Of brave men, freely given been sacrificed
in vain
Did blood and not erase rebellions darker
stain
Or shall there rise to-day from ont the issue OF the
hour.
The edct that our foes be clothed with legislative
powerss
That these raves. who rose in might aud dealt
the crushing blow,
Should yield the aurels they have won, to deck
beon's brow.
Must we, who gave our fathers sons and brothers to
the fray
Stand back to-day upon their graves and bow while
foes Lear sway
The meadows Of the Sunny South bear mounds TX e
waves
For in their ur clad bosom lie three hundred ous
and graves.
Three hundred Thousand men whose cry, could IL be
hard, would be-
The price paid not in vain it nat not, shall
not be y
Then. brothers, raise your good right arm, renew
your sacred vow,
That they who fought to our land shall be
leaders
That men who sit at helm Of state shall be the
and tried
That loyalty shall be TIE test that God shall be
guide.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15
RIOT OF COLUMBIA.
WASHINGTON Oct
LATEST NEWS.
OHIO.

COLUMBUS, Oct. 8.
The State Republican Committee
claim they have carried Ohio by
from $4,000 to $4,000. The Demo-
cratic committee concede between
10000 and Is, 900 to the Republicans.
The Committee also claim to have
elected IL Congressman certain, with
more than fair probability of two
more. This is the first time the Re-
publicans have carried Ohio without
the aid of Hamilton county.
The Democratic State Committee
concede the election of Republican
Congressman in all the representa-
live districts, except Hamilton coun-
ty and 1000 Republican majority on
State ticket.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15

n A. YATES, proprietor, Patteville Wis This
N. new hotel Ia situated on lst or Oak ST. doors
south " Main Il Rewiy furnished and fitted MP I'm
hrst elias, STYLE. Good sample Room and Stabng at
tached. five minutes walk from the depot. $3.50
per day. 22-23
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15

physician aud SURGEON. Lancaster, Grant Co
| Wis. May be found A. his residence 200 yard
vest % Jones nrng Store. $3.50
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15
PENNSYLVANIA.
PENNSYLVANIA, Oct. 9

fENNS1LNANlA, Oct. y.
Hartranft's total majority in Phil,
adelphia is 1928, with two wards to
hear from which last year gave lO4
Democratic majority.
Forney's Press heads the returns,
"Greeley's doom is sealed" and says
it would be folly TO allege that Hart
ranft's majority is an offspring OF
fraud. We believe it be a legiti-
mate majority. General Grant has
pulled the ticket through. 10 any
ordinary contest the ticket would
have been beaten out of sight, but
that the fear that defeat would dam
age him in November, rallied thou
sands to his support, as he has al
ways been the strongest ia pis par
". Having fully challenged such
acts Of administration as we believ-
I'D deserved challenge. we shall do
what becomes US to support his re.
election as President.
The Congressional delegate will
embrace Is Republicans and 8 Dem
ocrats, and Is Republicans and B
Democrats are lected 10 the lower
branch.
The Evening Telegraph says the
Congressional Delegation will be
% Republicans, aud 4 Democrats
Republicans being elected in the
9th. 16.h, 18th, 12tb, 10th, 2lst and
24th districts,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-10-15

~ II PHELPS, proprietor Lancaster, Wis Having
furnished the new three story brick hotel on the
old hotel corner am prepared to accommodate guests
reasonably. Rooms well furnished and table we'll
provided. Ample stable accommodations. 22-30