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INSURANCE.

g TATEMENT OF THE
LONDON AND LANCASHIRE FIRE IL
SURANCE COMPANY.
ON WEDNESDAY, 2eth APRIL, 1874.
1873. 1871 1871. 1o7a
Gross Premiums R25l $50 22l0072 ETA lol aflxoge,
Net Premiums. 203,5A 172665 1891 I2,g18
Fire Claims. nls7s 1Gs25s s2s6o ne
The proportions of Fire Claims to Net Pr
miums is favorable, being IS per cent. against
500 per cent. for 1872, and against IN average Q4
81 for the last six years.
The surplus Of income over expenditures for.
the year, including interest on investmeutn.
amounts to ESQ, 119 19s. ID, to which has 10 hor4
added f7sS les. 3d., brought forward from lAsk
account, making altogether fS2, 903 les. "A.
From the amount thus at their disposal, Tie
Directors propose to place 5000 to the credik
OF Reserve Fund, to apply $1,000 in reduction u
the cost at which the London building stands h
the books, to pay dividend for the year 1873 ~
Be. cd. per share, free of Income Tsx, being -.
the rate OF per cent per ahnum, and to carry
forward the balance to the next account.
By order of the Board:
JAS. E. GALE,
Manager and SeCrptsrH
E. B. MUSGROvE, Genl Agt.
81 Baronne street.
LIVERPOOL, 23d April, 1874. je4-im
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DORK. 49,. BACON. -. DRY SALT MEATS.
800 bbls. Mess PORK.
100 bbls. Rump PORK.
100 half bbls. Pig PORK.
100 half bbls. Mess BEEF.
50 cases Bacon Clear Sides.
40 casks Bacon Clear Rib Sides.
40 casks Bacon Shoulders
20 casks Plain Bacon HAMS.
rs tierces Sugar-cur HAMS various brands.
50 boxes BREAKFAST BACON, choice brands.
15O, 600 lbs. Dry Salt Shoulders, summer and
winter cure.
10000 lbs. Dry Salt Sides.
1000 tierces Choice Refined LARD.
800 kegs Choice Refined and Kettle LARD.
200 cases Fairbank, Peck i Co.'S 8, s, 6 and 10
b CADDIES.
50 frkins Choice Goshen and Western
BUTTER.
IS kegs Choice Goshen BUTTER.
BYRNEs s BRO.
e28 81 81 poyarAs suee..
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RLADON SPRINGS. ALA-THIS FAMOUS
- Watering Place is open for the season
Boats leave Mobile every TUESDAY and SATUR-
DAY EVENING, arriving at Bladon next day.
Board per day 81 so; week SIS month $50 Children
and colored servants half price. Isaacson Seixas L.
Co., grOcers 66 and 65 Common street. agents for
the sale of the Bladon Water in barrels and
thorized to make arrangements with families for the
season, and will furnish further information
my31 I'm NAE j. CONNER & CO., Proprietors.
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.... advertisement
THE FIRE INSURANCE QUESTION.

| To the Editor of the n O. Bulletin:
with no desire to prolong controversy, but
sions," as San Old Merchant says, beg leave
to say that the sixty day clause he refers to is to
| the following effect:
Payment Of loss to be made ,cittin GO days
after presentation of claim and proof Of loss"
Now ,cittin sixty DAYS is one day after the fire,
as much so as tifty-nine. II the latter time is
taken, then insurance is not as it has been con-
sidered, indemnity for loss" unless interest Is
added to the claim for the period OF delay.
Any deduction of 2 per cent. for cash, as has
been made time and again, is paying SO cents on
the dollar instead of 100.
As to the case now pending, "Old Merchant
falsifies his statement that no claim III proper
form sustained by the books has been presented,
when he afterwards states that an investigation
is in progress to ascertain if it the claim pre-
sented) is sustained by the books"
The claim i'll proper form has not only been
presented and the books offered as vouchers, but
the claim, as made out in form and manner, has
been Endorsed by nearly every leading house in
the same line Of trade. If sold Merchant" or
the insurance officers know more about this trade
than those in it, it will be the only line OF busl-
ness he and some Of said officers have been found
perfectly familiar with, unless it be "Mat OF
taking ready cash aud. paying ~ ndttgM out
.ctshes, hopes and promises, the currency OF
idiOts.'
With reference to the mode of investigation
adopted by the board now in progress, to ascertain
which investigation seems to be under the super
vision OF ''Old Merchant" the Board, and
MANY Old Business Men," said mode requiring
many weeks, or several months time, l submit
the following document
We hereby certify that it would be impossible
to ascertain the stock in a wholesale grocery es-
tablisment, by taking the inventory Of any period
and adding to its items of goods and money the
purchases for series Of months, item by item,
and then deduct the sales for the same period
item by item.
When large packages are emptled into small
ones goods are rebranded and repacked, liquors
and other goods compounded by some grOcers
and nearly everything sold by quality and grade
and 80 entered, and not by brands, it being I'M
possible to identify goods sold with goods pur
chased, except in such instances when original
packages and brands are turned out and the in
voice to which that package belonged is men-
toned and entered, which is scarcely ever done,
and We believe that any result in pounds, packages,
or measurements would in almost every item
be toally unreliable as to quantities and values
[Signed.] FLASH LEWIS Il Co.
HARTwELL & CHAMBERS.
IsAAcsoN, SEIxAs & Co.
MYERS LEVY.
PEEL & READ.
SCHERCK Il BERKsON.
BRIGGs PAYNE Co.
SCHMIDT 4 ZIEGI.ER.
JOHN 1. ADAMS l. Co.
THos. SIMMs 4 LEVY.
SMITH l. MKKENNA.
l. N. MARKS & Co.
ID. H. MARKS 4 Son.
THos. NJ. CONVERSE,
% years a Grocer in N. O.
l. w. ARTHUR.
GEO. w. MANSON.
I Rv " NJ
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CRESCENT HOUSE, PASS CHRISTIAN
~ Better known as the Cassidy Hotel)
This delightful and popular summer resort situated
on the beach within and half squares of the main
station, with large grounds and shades. All the fur
niture entirely and Of the latest modern style
complete sets in every ROOM. Persons desiring the
comforts Of home with the best OF fare at the
reasonable terms would do well to apply Immediately
to r. ID. Gill; or to Mrs S. E. Carr, Pass Christian.
jel9 I'm
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KEONEY-NONEYLM ONEYL
Advanced on liberal terms. Watches Diamonda
Jewelry and SilverwEe taken, and N collateral
security.
We guarantee rates Of interest = NV = those
u any other loan instituton In The oit1 An peRfies
in want q READY cASa WIN d wsa u cslf = IA
Il 0Tc zoe stree. st1E1na &
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BUSINESS CARDS.

M J. Brennan, COMMISSION MERCHANT,
III. Old Warehouse, Natchez street, New Or.
leans je2S 3m
DICHARD MILLIKEN, SUGAR BROKER,
IL 142 Gravier street, New Orleans, La.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28
Genius and Labor.

Alexander Hamilton once said to
an Intimate friend: "Men give me
some credit for genus. All the
genius that [ have left lies just in
this. When l have a subject in hand
| study it profoundly. Day and
night it is before me. 1 explore it
in all it's bearings. My mind becomes
perveded with it. Then the effort
which | make is what people are
pleased to call the fruit of genius.
1t is the fruit of labor and thought"
Mr. Webster once replied to a
gentleman who wished him to speak
on a subject of great Importance {:
"rho subject interests me deeply,
but have not time. There, sir"
pointing to huge pile of letters on
his table, sis pile of unanswed let
tiers, to which | must reply before
the close of the session (Which was
then three days Off. 81 have not
time to master tho subject so as to
do it justice" "But, Mr.. Webster,
q few words from you would do SO
much to awaken puelic attention to
it," aft there be such weight in my
words as you represent, it is because
| do not allow myself to speak on
and subject till have imbued my
mind with it"
Demosthenes was once urged to
speak on great and sudden emer-
genoy. II am not prepared" said
he, and ob5tinately refused.
The law of labor is equally bind
ing on genius and mediocrisy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28
THEH ER AID.
A sane Man in Lunat1c Asylum
for Twelve Years.

Putting sane men into lunatic asy-
lums, our readers have undoubtedly
thought, is an outrage which could
only be perpetrated in the old world,
and there very rarely in these days
of civilization and humanity. But
veritable case of this sort has just
been developed at Covington, Neb.,
Just across the Missouri from Sioux
City. The Sioux City Journal of
May I'd says:
For six years Covington has num-
bered among her residents a man
named Thos. Carter and woman
named Mrs. Dracott, the twain as it
is alleged, bearing relations to each
other which it is incumbent upon
couples in similar circumstances to
have ratified according to law.
Twelve years ago they were resi-
dents of Oregon, the woman being
the wife of a man by the name OF
Dracott, who was worth at that time
the very comfortable sum of 800, 0OO.
BY conspiring with q couple OF the
physicians connected with the Ter
ritorial Insane Asylum, Carter and
his paramour succeeded in kidnap-
ping Dracott, and having him wrong
fully iDcarceratod in the institution
on a charge of insanity, thereby
gaining possession of bis fortune
For twelve long years this villainous
fraud upon Dracott had been kept
up, depriving him of his liberty, and
compelling him to associate with Ia.
natics and madmen. By some means
he succeeded in conveying know
edge of his deplorable condition to
persons outside, and an investigation
of the matter was instituted. The
efforts at ferreting out the iniquity
finally led to the prime actor in the
monstrous imposition. A United
States detective was instructed to
proceed to Covington and procure
the arrest of Carter and Mrs. ORA
colt. Upon arriving at Omaha, the
officer learned that Carter had start
ed for Salt Lake City. He tele-
graphed to Ogden, and succeeded in
securing the arrest of his man at
that place on last Wednesday. He
then came up to Covington and ar
rested Mrs Dracott on Thursday.
Yesterday he went to Dakota City
to examine the county records for
he purpose Of discovering what
property the pair had, in order that
proceedings may be instituted for
transferring the title of it to Mr..
Dracott, as partial restitution for
what be has been deprived of by the
machinations of the guilty parties.
Carter has invested some money in
Covington and Dakota county, and
was one of the principal capitalists
who gave that town the impetus it
had three or four years ago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28
A Ton of Dead Cinnamon.

The average American contem-
plates in stupid bewilderment the te-
nacious faith of the disciples of Con-
fucius in the religious necessity that
W h erever, death may overtake them
their dust must be sent back to the
Flowery Kingdom to rest in the
bosom of Mother Earth. Possibly,
it is silly superstition, but our
"Heathen Chineo" fellow-beings live
up to it ever so much more consis-
tently than we live up to our super
stitions. The Orihamme, from Port
land, a few days ago, brought down
over l ton of the mortal remains of
Mongolians who had shuffied off their
coils in Oregon. This queer cargo is
to be re-shipped from this port to
China. The fact that so thrifty a
people as the Chinese should incur
the great expens they do for such a
purpose proves the stronghold which
the custom has upon them. The
mere preparation of the bodies to be
shipped costs S25 each +; and when
the expenses of packing, freight, re-
shipment, etc.. is added, it must
amount to about as much as an in
dustrious Chinamam, living upon
the most economical principles, can
save in year San Francisco
Chronicle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28

sN-A new style of farmer swim
dlers are perambulating the country.
They represent themselves to be
agents of wholesale Grange gro
Gerry establishment in Chicago. Their
plan of operations is to sell to farm
ers a barrel of sugar or sack Of
coffee; or both, at very low figures,
provided they buy five or six pounds
of spices of different kinds. For the
sake of getting the sugar and coffee
at such low figures, many farmers
will swallow the bait, and the result
is they pay more profit on the spices
than they would have to pay on
twice that amou Mt of sugar and cof-
fee, bought at retail from home deal
ers
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28

State of Wisconsin. County of Grant--ss In Circnft
Court. A. D. Carroll & Co, The American Whip % i,
The Union Hide d Leather Co., Kuehn Brotheis,
Benz Young, G. Pfster, VIM, Flaceus d Son., Her
man Zohrland Seigel Geisler Co., John b. Young,
Schmdge 4 Sherman ii. Booth h Sons, and D..
Bachman, Moses Bachman David kistler, part
ners doing business under the firm name of Bach
man Bros DC Kstler. defendants
By virtue AID in pursuance OF a judgment aau
order of foreclosure and sale rendered in the above
entitled action by said court at the September term
1878 thereof on the 25th day of September, 1878,
shall on Saturday. the 9th day Of june A. d. 1874
at one o'clock p M, the premises at the Tannery
in Boscobe said county eer for sale and sell at pub
lie auction the highest bidder for cash the follow
ing described mortgaged premises or so much thereof
may be necessary and as may be sold separately
without prejudice to the interest of the owners
thereof tog The north half of southwest quarter Of
section thirty in town eight north of range two west
also the west half of northwest quarter and the
northeast quarter of northwest quarter and north
west quarter of northeast of section thrtysix and
the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter 9f
section thrtyve less 14-10O acres thereof hereto
fore decided to N Brainerd by deed record in Regis
ters Office Vol 49, page o2l and the northwest quar-
ter of southeast quarter of section twenty-five less
that part thereof heretofore decided to HANNAH II.
Morehouse by deed recorded in said Registers ofcs,
Vol g. page 4O3, all in Town eight north of range
three west also the west half of lot four and all 81
lots Ave. SIX seven, eight and nine, and ten feet OF
the west side OF 10 ten all in Block twenty seven in
the village Of Boscobel wisconsin, also lot No. four,
in Block &C. in said village of Boscobe according go
the recorded plat thereof, lying and being in the
county of Grant and State Of Wisconsin;
Dated at the Sheri's Office in the village OF Lan-
caster, Wisconsin, this I'd day of May, 1874.
T. CARRIER, Sheriff Grant Co.
GEO. @. HAZELroN, Plaintiffs Attorney. Swo
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28
A New Bounty BILL.

A New BOUNTY BILL. late
Washington dispatch says:
"a bill for the equalization of boun-
ties has been substantially agreed
upon by the house committe on mill
tary affairs. The bill allowed to
every soldier, sailor and marine, $3.50
for the time of service, and TO the
widows and heirs of those who were
killed, and to those who were dis
charged for wounds to the end of the
time of enlistment. The amount of
all local bounties and prize money to
be deducted in making the calcula-
tlons No allowance of bounty is
made to substitutes, nor to persons
discharged at the request of parents
or guardians. The amount to be
paid in certificates of Indebtedness
bearing interest. receivable at any
land office, entitlIng the soldier or
his assignee to locate the same and
receive patent therefor, if more
than 800, with or without settle-
ment."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28
A Better Outlook for Business.
From the Boston Globe.J


Appearances Indicate that the
turning point has been reached in
the commercial depression that has
existed during the past six months,
and that, should the crops sustain no
serious disaster, prosperous and
an early autumn trade may be looked
for. The universal economy that
has been observed during the depres-
sion has proved healthful, although
falling heavily upon business men
and the laboring classes. The ma
chinerY of trade, in the meantime,
has been carefully adjusted not, in
long series of years, has the ex-
port and import trade had so good a
basis as the present, while our home
Industries and commerce give ovidenc
of a revival. No doubt this is in part
due to the defeat of the theories OF
infationists in Congress. All that
now remains to be done is strength
ening of the public credit and q diff
fusion of confidence through all cir
Giles. In this connection it is graft
flying to know that the panic last fall
did not so affect our credit abroad as
to cut off the export of our public
securities, nor lead to drain upon the
gold of the country. Aside from the
expectation of already issued secur-
tiles, we are negotiating new loans
abroad to the extent of $3.50, 100000
in gold per annum, which is fully
equal to what may be considered the
average annual requirements for set
Ting our balances with foreign ooun-
tries For the last half of 1773, athe
imports for the whole country were
over $2O,0O0,000 below the value of
the exports, and, Judging from the
present movements, the trade bal
ance during the first half of the cur
rent year seems likely to rule SINH.
larIy in our favor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28
Eeaa1 Notices.
INSTALLATIONS.

In the matter of the Estate of Thomas W Howes, de-
ceased. In Probate-Grant County Court.
On readiag and fling the petition of Jane Howss.
of the County of Grant, representing among other
things thas Thomas w. Howss, late of the County of
Grant, the oath day of April, A. d. 1874, at At.
Hope, Grant County, died intestate leaving goods,
chattes ardestate within this State and County, aud
that the said petitioner is the widow of said de-
ceased and praying that administration ofsad estate
be to Rufus NJ. Day, granted,
1t is ordered that said petition be heard before TIE
Judge of this Court Monday the LIST day of June.
A. D. 1874, at o'clock P. NJ. at Lancaster in said
County.
Ordered further that notice thereof be given to the
heirs of said deceased and to all persons interested
by publishing copy of this order for three success
sve weeks prior to said day of hearing in the Grsnt
County Herald. weekly newspaper printed and pub
iished at Lancaster in said County.
BY the Court,
VIM McGONIGAL, County Judges
Dated at Lancaster, Wis., the 5th day of May, AID;
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28
SUMMONS-WADE ct al.

In Circuit Court for Grant County. INSTRUMENTATION
to foreclose a mOrtgage.--Nslson Dewey, plaintiff
vs.. Jacob ID. Wade, Philip Bennett, Lewis u Fuller
and Richard Eustace, defendants.
The affidavit eff George Clementson, an attorney CT
the plaintiff. made in behalf of the said paintia
having been filed in the Office of the clerk OF said
court, by which affidavit 1t appears that the defsn
dant Jacob O. Wade, died in said county on the lst
day of March, 1874 interstate, that james Davis Esq
of Patch Grove, in said county. has been duly an
pointed the administrator of his estate, that the
heirs of said deceased his brothers. Loren
Wade John Wade, l.. X. Wade and b. Wade, and
that this action far il has abated by the death al
said Jacob D. Wade, should be revived against the
said administrator and the said heirs-at- law, NhG
should be substituted defendants herein in place OF
said deceased.
Now, therefore, upon motion of Barber Clement
son. attorneys of the plaintiff the said administrator
and the said heirs ataw hereby required to show
cause, If any they have, within twenty days aftef
service of this rule upon them, why this action
should not be revived against them defendants In
the stead of the said Jacob d. Wade, deceased.
Dated May 7th, 1874.
ID a. ENfENTG0N
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28

The ORIGIN OF BUCK BEER.-In
the former German Kingdom of
Hanover there is a town named
Eimb beck, where, as early as the 18th
century because of its most excel
lent water suitable for brewing beer),
there were 300 breweries, exporting
their products at a time when In the
whole Of Germany you could hardly
find a glass of tasteful beer. The
expectation was especially made to
Bavaria, and above all to its Capital,
Munich, where, OF course, that beer,
to distinguish it from domestic beer,
was call ed Eimbecker beer, then
Becker beer, then Beck beer, and at
last Buck beer, buck. Since the
brewing business has been eminently
improved, the number of breweries
at Eimbeck has so much decreased
that now there are at that town but
sixty breweries.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28

s@-It is pretty generally under
stood that, in case the railways COM
bine and refuse to run trains, be-
cause of the new laws regulating
transportation, that the United
States authorities will compel the
running on all those roads having
mail contracts, to the extent at least
of an engine and a postal car.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28

sg General Sherman assigns, as
the leading reason for his desire to
remove the army headquarter to ST.
Louis, the fact that he would thus be
much nearer the Indian country,
which is the principal seat of mill
tary operations. In no event will
the removal be effected before Octo-
Der
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28

"A German, who was asked if
lager beer was Intoxicating, replied
"Vell, thinks frome seventy to eigh-
ty glasses day und feels all straight
in mine upper story for any kind of
beesness, but | can't tell vat itivould
nit man vat makes 8 swill-tub of
himself.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28

S~The means pledged for the
celebration of the one hundredth
birthday of American Independence,
amounts to s4,300,00O, of this
amount the city of Philadelphia has
appropriated $1,000, 900; subscrip-
tons to stock $500, 900. Congress
has been asked to appropriate So
900, 900, which, if done, will make
the total amount $1,000, 900, which
will be 100000 more than was
used for the Paris exposition of 1857.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28

sR-The Royal Acadamy of Science
at Amsterdam has awarded its gold
medal to the poet E. Esseiva, for the
best Latin elegy. This is the fourth
time that he has carried off the prize
in the same department of competitive
contest.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28

The daughters-in-laws of Queen
Victoria are almost ready topull hair
because of the relative positions as
signed them at dinner. The royal
young men missed it in not marrying
American girls. All the average
daughters of the Western Republic
demands is a seat within easy reach
of mashed potatoes and cold turkey.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28

sA-The New York World expends
a column in calculating that it costs
$4,000 to raise boy to the age Of
16 years. 1t strikes us that at these
figures the boy crop Is not profita-
BILE one, on the average. We know
of hundreds about that age that
wouldn't bring sixteen cents a dozen
in q booming market.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28
CUMMONS-RICHARDs.

Circuit Court in md for Grant County Wisconsin In
vacation after March term, 1874. Elizabeth j.
Richards, of age, and Alkaline E. Richards, johnson
Richards, and Elizabeth A. Richards Infants by
Addison Burr, their guardian. ad Item, plaintiffs
Henry Richards and the unknown heir OF
heirs, and the unknown legal representatives Vi
Henry Richards, deceased, whose last place of abode
when living Australia.
The State of Wisconsin to the Defendant here
named:
You are hereby summoned and required to answer
the complaint in this action which is filed in the office
of the Clerk of said Court in the village of Lancaster
in said county, and to copy OF answer to
said complaint the subscribers at their ofice, in
the village of Lancaster, Wisconsin, within twenty
days after the service hereof exclusive of the day
such service and if you fail to answer the said CON-
plant within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff will
apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the
complaint.
Dated April %, 1874.
BARBER 4 CLEMENTS0N,
RUR Plaintiff AttorneVa.