Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-03-25
Correspondence OF the HERALDJ
LETTER FROM THE SHORE.
Love ana the Seasons The GubernatoFisI EIec
tIOn In Characterization 10 be on Good
Terns with all Orthodox Churches
Deaf and Dumb ArIicuis.
ton aud LIP Heading.
"In the Spring a young mans fancy
Lightly turns TO thoughts Of LoVeO

uon and LIP heading.
"In the Spring young mans fancy
Lightly turns to thoughts Of Love"
That line from Tennyson suggests
soft airs, Spring flowers, and songs
of early birds. 1t suggests bursting
buds and sprouting germ s aud tide
of life in animal and plant creation.
Spring" young. man" and "love"
are the important ideas, but as Spring
is the most important idea, it being
the one first mentioned ard the es-
sentiai condition upon which the last
idea depends. Who would associate
love with torrid Summer, or frosty
Autumn, or frozen winter? The po-
cts always have laid down the rule
OF Spring and love. This being the
rule | merely wish to remark that at
present there seems to be a small
probability that young mems fancies
VIII turn. We are frozen in, the
snow is piled up under the walls, they
are packing up the ice in the streets
Of the cities, voters were prevented
from getting to the polls in New
Hampshire this week by snow drifts
Where is Spring and where are
m fn T..
bound. received letter from PORE
and, Oregon, the latter part OF jan.
uary which speaks Of flowers bloom
ing in the door yards aud snow visit
bic only on NJ. Hood 1t reads like
an oriental tale in the midst of ice
bergs Today the sunshine is yellow
and the clouds are flying. but the
Thermometers stands only 42o above
zero at noon TO day.
Politics are very dull in Connect
cut. Henry p Haven, of New Lon.
don, whaling merchant, il the nom
nee of the Republican party, ADD
Charles lngersuit OF n W Haven, b,
nominee OF Ihe d mocra,s aud Lib
erals Mr.. Iugersoil is lawyer; th,
member of an old an Influential fam
lily in New Haven. Whichever gets
the election will get it by default,
nobody cares whether Haven or L..
gersoll is elected, Both are good for
gubernatorial figure heads. The Re
publican party of this State includes
more OF the moral and religious class.
es than the other, but since the add.
ton Of Liberals" the balance Is now
nearly level. The Prohibition party
will poll 10 the neighborhood ofthree
thousand votes.
There is much religious interest IN
this State just now. and all the de.
nominations of Christians are ~
work. When the harvest is over i,
Will prove that some have been made
into Methodist Christians. some into
Baptist and some into Congregation.
al. The most numerous, the most
wealthy, and the most powerful de-.
domination in the State is the latter.
1t seems TO be easier for all denomi-
nations to affiliate with the ConQre-
gationalists than with any other. /
know n man whose father was al
Episcopalian, his mother a Motho-
dist, his brothers Bapiists and his
sisters Presby terians. H. desired to
be on good terms with them all so be
joined the Congregationalists and is
now q preacher in that denomination.
1t is unnecessary to say that he Is
the favorite with his family. We
hear of many Methodists in our vii.
lagos in this State when they are not
numerous to form a church and they
invariably join the Congregational
denomination.
L have spoken, in my letters two
years ago, Of the art of teaching the
deaf and dumb the art Of articulation
and lip reading jonathan Whipple,
Of Mystic, about six miles from New
London, is the author of that system
in America. He and his grand son,
Zerah O. WhippIe, have a school for
Deaf Mutes which is working won Z
ders among that class of I nfortu-
mates. The last session of the Con.
necticut legislature voted to pay the
Messrs Whippe the same tuition for
pupils entered in their school as The
State gives for those entered in 9th
err institutions in this or other States.
Zeran Whipple has recently invent
ed an alphabet for representing ar
ticulate sounds to the deaf By this
new system pupils can be taught in
classes. Before they were compelled
to instruct them separately, which
made the work very laborious and
slow. Could some one now invent
sight for the bind, az J Jonathan
Wh,pple has speech Tor 'ho dumb
the accidents III bIth would no long
err be of any account. Jonathan
Whipple is an apostle of Peace He
has always IiveI quiet, peaceable
life and been an advocate of kind
ness as remedy for all evils. In
1872 he refused 10 do military duty
and at that early day declared that
the time would come when nations
would learn war no more, and their
disputes would be settled by an APP
peal to reason. He was the friend of
the slave and the Indian, and now in
bis 18th year he rejoices to see his
prior peace principles triu mphant at
Geneva and on the Western plains
Surely they do not protest in vain
who protest in the name of Christ.
ALLANN.
Groton, Conn, March 14th. 1878
Suicide Attempted by Foster.