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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26
WHOLE NO. 1918.
Dyspepsia, Sure Cure.

A western reader gives q history
of his fght with the tiend dyspepsia
and believing it will we'll repay =
trial. We publish it He says:
In the fail of SO this dreadful dis.
ease 'mmenced coming on me by
degrees, aud at last il got a GOOD
bold on me before knew what com.
plant | bad. Ny appetite was good
| would eat hearty meal: then il
wotl sour On my stomach and after
ward pass of through nay bowels.
became very weak and fsetls.
commenced dieting by leaving Of
he use of coffee AMI hog mea,,-this
was the first sacrifice I made
: ext had 10 discontinue the use OF
butter and milk.
| applied To doctor. He gave
ne some medicine TO cleanse my
stomach, ahd also gave me this good
advice. w: that the ss medicine
took, the better it would be for m !.
then commenced tho use of Grs-
BAN or unbolted Fl Iur This was
good clean wheat, simply ground on
corn m /. | had The wheat ground
pretty coarr,; | find it makes the
best bread when II is ground coarse
used b cad made from such four
'or some two or three months, before
coil perceive That | was gaining
any. My st0ma n was very Euch
inf I'd and sour. 1 couIu taste
Il ,od freq lon l.. was very ne,-
Vous. AI.er gong TO sleep at night
my nerves wo' rk, and 40 wake
M up L. the spring OF 81 / was 40
feeble that | could not DO up the
chores about the barn, or cut lii
wood Flowing t,mo 0"'no ~
did not se' IN "a though l could do
any work, a. had inward fever sii
The time, bIt harneseed my team
and commenced blowing. | 500 q
found that The more exercise | took
the better l fell. pl,wed up IL
acres OF ground. and sowed the ssmet
% oats, aud besides | piowed up IL
acres and put II in corn, and tended
he crop La the moa,- lme my diet
consisted of Graham bread and water.
| would have the bread first into
Ugh bread then ellce Ii u and put
i IN the stove ami dry 1t To u crisp
| would cut this Ave times day. If
| went u visiting, | would always
take my bread with mr. Ikuew too
we'll that II wo not do T. obange
diet, at least il would not do for me
10 cha, ge.
In the fal of 1854 | commenced
gaining strength sud q sh, after hay
ing used. the dry bread and water
thrice month";. My digestive OIL
gans had become 40 improved that |
0ouIuruvun cnsugiDg uiet. Toe rlrst
change venlured upon was having
beef ger roasted in the fire. 1
used this sp.rinlly at meal time for
while, and for my drink | also
added little milk to the water. In
a month or so | could use milk and
butter. You cannot imagine how
proud | felt when | could cit down
and eat y meal of bread and butter
ami milk.
In r. gard to my age, / am now in
my 52i year, ana | at this time en-
j'y as good heal b as any one of my
agv. 1 is true, | do not use any coli
fee or tea, but | can enjoy myself at
the table rs we'll as any one else.
Fruits of all kinds agree with me,
and. for that matter, vegetables, too,
exospt onions.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26

FAMINE IN BENGAL. There can
now DO little dnuAt that popul sti0n
Of at least 40 000,000-a number
equal TO the population cftbe United
Stales--is in danger of perishing
from he famine IN Bengal. Well
may England vi,w with oonsterhs-
ton the consequences Of such ter
r,ble C, ] unity. M words can ado
quately express the b. rrOrs which
,mpend over country thus situated.
England has the deepest interest
not only phil 'nthropIcaIly, but pc
itlcaIly, TO avert this visitation.
She has ;harged herself with the
care OF tn 1t great, tseming peninsula
which ponrs 20 much wealth into her
ctff r.. Her comm rciai and militia.
ry aScendancy are largely due u
India, and she is responsible tor The
t. {. Of the dependent race. Ii fam
me desoIates the land. her prestige
and power IN II ndoostan will receive
u shock from which there may be nc
recovery
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26
~I,is stated that the Nations

~Itis stated that the National
Grange is making arrangement tor .
sys,em of crop reporting, with head
quar- ers at Washington. under the
direction of Col. Aiken, of South
Carolina. The subordinat Oranges
are to report to the State Oranges,
these to report BY telegraph to Wash
gton, where a general report - TO
be made up and photographed back to
the State Oranges, and by them com
mlnicated to the subordinate Oranges.
The contents of the reports are to De
male known only to the members oil
the Order.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26
nurOF the Ml..louarY religions,

eeS~ OF the MISSIONARY religions,
Pei. Mu err say:
Blu idhism rules supreme in Central
Nor hern, K lsteTn a I'd s uthern A 10,
AID it gradually ahsorbs whatever
there is left of aboriginal hes henism
10 that vast and popuIous ares.
Mphammedanism claims as i's own
AraUia, Persia. great parts OF Lodi,
ASIA Minor. Turkey and Egypt; I'd
its greatest C 'nqncsts by missionary
eff ,rt are made among the heathe n
population Of Aries.
Christianity re'gos in Europe and
America, and it !" COT qnering the ~ :
i've races OF z nesis and M itnesia.
while it's missionary out posts are
scattered all over he world.
B.tween these three p'wer-, then,
the religious battles OF the future, the
Holy War of mankind, will have to
be fought.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26
psa- The IL ,n,i. dive, co Law b,

sa-T The IL ,n,is dive Ga law bas
been changed. II 'retofore, evidence
might be taken privat' ly before
VI ,sters in Cbancert NV it must
be given in open court. TIE ! revi J.
ence OF divorces brought about with
ut the kfowi ledge OF the defendant
until he divorce was gr ,nted. snd 10
some cases the divorce" married
sgap, induced his change in the law.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26
my~ Mr.. Reecher savs wh an he va

a young man. md thoroughly i'm bued
with CaIvanism. he thought mas :
kind were so desperately wicked
tbst about one in a million woul be
elected for Heaven; later in life he
had raised the average 20 soout ten
il hundred, and at ffty be bad
concluded that abont one 10 q thou.
., al ought to go TO bell, if there is
.such o place.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26
GRANGE PRICES
FOR CASH BUYERS.
TEACHERS EXAMINATIONS.
In tsVaut Comfy for Tho spring Of 1871

Will he held a. follows:
Al Georgetown March 9th and 25th for the TOW ns
Smelser, EaZ Green and jame-town
At P4'teVile, March 9Th and 70 h. for the towns
Plsttevflle. Harris Lima and ElenbnrO
At M0ufort March 3lst and April l-t for the towns
OF Liberty, Clifton Fennimore aud Wingville.
AT Nuscoda April Sd and 4th for the towns of Musco
dA, Blue River, Hickory Grove and WAtsrstown.
At BOscObet. April 9th and eth tor the towns OF
Boscooel. Marion. WOoimAu aud Melville
At Patch Grove, pril 9th and 10Th the towns
Patch Or we. Bloomington. st Hope and W abusing
At POtosI, April 10th aud I7th for the Of POto
81 Paris ami Waterioo.
At 0key S"hOol House, April Goth and 2lst, for tn,
towns Of Csssville and Glen Haven.
At Lancaster. ApIil sd End Gath Tor the towns o
Lancaster, Bsetown and little Grant.
Teachers can atte ad the examination wherover mss
conve lent Thy viii plesse be prompt Rnd
supplied with pens. ink and fOolscap paper
The examination will commence at each of the
places named ~ 10 O'Clock A NJ of the fret day.
0EU. u. 0UERaSEY,
Supt Of schools Grant Co.
PlAtteviIle, Wis. Feb %. 1874.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26

SUMNER AND THE SoUrH.- The
Loui.yille Courier journal, in an edi
,orial OH the death of Sumner says:
Fifteen years ago the news that
Charles sumner was dead would have
been rejoicing by the people OF the
South. FEN years ago they won Il
have hailed it as message from
heaven telling them that an enemy
was removed from the face OF the
earth. To-day they will read it re-
grettull,, and their comment will be:
"He was great man, he was an hon
est man. and ~ he forgave. us. so have
we long ago forgiven him"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26
tiny When ,he ii nd9o priest bsp

kB W UF'U 1T II HU'JV Ut FbNN UHp-
tiz 8 infant he ntters the following
au it'll sentiment Lutte babe.
thou enteredst The world weeping
wbie I'll r .und thee smiled Z ~
rive 8, II ligs tn tn ~ mayest
depsrt n sm les, wnl b around tn,
Weep"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26
Perils or q Patent Inside.

The Louisville Courier -Journrl says:
The editor of newspaper which
wears a patent inside should be very
careful about writing sarcasm for his
outside. A, Nashville there is an es
tablishment which prints the insides
of great number OF the weekly jour
nails of Tennessee, and the editor of
the sprlghtly Lebanon Herald, DIR. K.
l.. T.. White, receives his insides from
the Nashville concern DIR White
having seen in the daily Union and
American, Of Nashville, the poem call
ed "All Quiet along the Potomac"
sat down and wrote for his outside a
very sarcastic paragraph upon the fol-
y OF the Nashville daily in publishing
such verses. Mr. Bill, of the Union
and American read DR.. Whites sar-
ca-m. Instead of snatching up a pen
aud writing down Dr. White a howl
ing idiot and midnight assassin, Mr..
Bell quietly picked up pair scissors
and cut".All Quiet Along the Potomac"
from the Union aud American con-
tanning it, then leisureiy walked down
to the estab ishment where DR. Whites
inside WAS printed and gave the poem
To the editor OF the patent insides, re-
qne>tlng it's publication. The verses
were accepted, and when DIR. White
got his next inside from Nashville it
had "All Quiet Along the Potomac"
in as conspicuous position as his
worst enemy could have wished TO zee
it after reading his sarcasm. II news
comes from Tennessee that DR.. White
has resumed the control of his own
inside, his friends in other parts OF the
country will understand the change.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26
Mr. FL mors's death recalls on.

80 Mr. FL more's death recalls one
OF those strange freaks Of fortune
which seemed to carry him forward to
success in spite of himself. When
he was planning for the Presidency,
the Seward wing of the Republican
party raised fund Of $4,000 TO be
used in defeating Fillmore. This fund
was gwen in trust TO a Mr.. Mcintosh.
of Albany, who deposited il in his
own name, TO be checked out on the
order OF the Seward Committee. BE
tore q y portion Of the money had
been used as contemplated, Mcintosh
died. The gentlemen who contributed
it, knowing it would no, be easy for
them To- prove their claim TO 1t and
under the circumstances not anxious
To make any claim 10 it, let the matter
rest, and the money became the pro-
perty Of Mrs. Mcintosh. Afterwards
Mr.. Fillmore married Mrs. Mcintosh,
including 'he $4,000 that had been
raised 10 defeat him for the Pres'den
cy. And aiterward he attained to the
Presidency also. After such freaks
Of fortune at this, 10 it not allowable
to repeat the old rroverb, that 1t rs
better TO be born lucky than rich!
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26

Mr.. Stanton does not take
stock 10 the " mans war on the rum
seller. She regards praying band
as only q little better than a mob
and thinks this movement is sad
waste OF enth siaam.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26

60 II is getting into the churches.
The sexton Of q Baptist church III
Troy has W. lsed off with two thoue-
and dollars Of the pew rent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26

a n To = -
| tirs-ral B4nxing Au1 Exchange Business; oHN aud
soII .4old silver and ao.ernmrut bonds Discount
y tee -, i've Drpu.ts, and transact al OnHiness en-
tra.t-d L. IT, car UrAfts snd Letters OF Credit fur
ut,n 4 o. Il the principal Btnk- aud BAnk'rs % Eu
rs ia at tn, 0r at Agency tor the National Inc p
81 ,nl4hip. + and from europe Through tic rts
r., m trrrpaoi Queenstown aud Iond 10 BOzc, bel
Ntscob-iu f5l ~. ttum tlsuburk, Antwerp AMI HaS
rt 10 8 -c,i,t d -, from Bremeu, Not Nay Psrts.
ss4t.u tp H4sc-be. $oU ~ Cnildreu under u years
: I'll Tar. Int4ots under one yea s. For further
.t.srpati ia Apply TO :. dcSPADEN. Agent, @l-t-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26
OTHER PENSION BILLS.

The House passed, to-day, mum
oer OF bills that are of interest TO
| rye classes of pensioners, but they
ire yet TO pass through the ordeal OF
me Senate. The provisions of these
al are in substance as fellows:
/. Pensioners who have lost both
yes, both hands, both feet, or are
.therwi.e so disabled as 10 be hell
less and TO req1re regular person'
tendance, are TO receive $50 per
Month, instead of $3l %, as heret@-
ore.
2 The loss Of an arm at or above
he ,l)0w is to cor stitute a disaoi =
2 OF the src9nd class, and entlt!ed
monthly poneion of S24.
3. When the widow or min r Chi
rem of deceased soldier or 50 r
10. or The widow remarries The Il
IcDdeDt father, mother, or Otner re &"
.tive, who would have been entitled
pension from the date OF the
itath OF such widow or chlldreL, or
he rtmArriage Of the wid"w.
4. AL increases Of pensions are to
~ gin ut the date OF the examining
.nrgeon's certificate, that f s. sho@
he increase OF disability instead of
b date when the application IL
trantrd.
5. Pansi 1ners who have lost an
We are to receive S3l a enable them
purch sac n ar iii 4 nnr.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26
DENrA,
HOTELS.

I1f r sD1HEs DIN 81. HJS UHEL. Is =
II once over sawyer FaVors store Can be iouuc
lutinx hours from A. VI titi5 y. u 5O-l
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26

DRIrI5Hd1sL) UNION HJrEL. JOHN X STk'
ID vrns ~ Britfsh uniioa having now purchased,
led sud newly furnished the above hotel, now pre-
pared - accom N ,dats guests with well furnished
rooms Ks3d aired beds. AID = table we'll provldeo.
~hich cannot be surpassed. SV-S
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26
PENSION LAWS.
Z Bill Passed By the Heass Exisssiag the
Provisions sfshs aw Peasionias rsidisrs "i
the ~ ar Of gsts-ssversi Othes Psassos
Bliis aiso Passed.

WASHINGTON, March IA bill
i,.rgelv extending the provisions OF
he law pensioning the soldiers of the
var of 1912 and their widows, pass
d the House t. lay. Although i.
Fill add M Hon or LwD to the AT.
nal appropriations for pensions. not
ne { tbs memb ers who make such
ado about economy OH 'c'ed To iis
Tbs l,adIng features of the II are as
.lInws:
L. removes the limitation of thirty
avs service. and entities every man
no served at aIl, if-iL were hut a
'ngle day. to pension of 50 per
lpnth. The widow of any such
ol'ier, If mari d TO him PRIOR TO
1850. il to be entill I'd TIA lie PEI {.
,on, and on motion OF Mr.. Speer, lh
-uaI provision, found 10 ail pensio,
Avs. cutting off widows who have
emarr'ed, was s'rlcken out, 50 that
he 1912 widows wi. have righ'
rot gwen To those of the soldiers OF
ny other war. A persons whose
lanes were rlcken from the p"-
lOn-rolls during the rebellion On u
cunt OF disloyalty or of residence IN
ne in-urrectiunary s aies, are to
ave their pensions restored and To
,e emit ] d to the amount Of arrears
Withheld, and the law OF February,
1862. prohibiting the payment of
ensions To any persons not known
have been opposed TO the rebel
ION, il modified so ss TO allow Tho
,ay ment of claimants under the bill
Che fact that land warrant has
'een granted TO q claimant for SER
ice in the war of 1912, is made pri-
ma facie proof that he is entitled to
4 pension.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-26
OFFICIAL HCr1RY.
BUSINESS DIRECTORY
Ar SrRACCa.

s aScRACT OFFICE POE GRANT COUNTY. JOS
! +ph fo:k Lancaster Once over the Bank 30-s
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-30
A Moving Tale.

WE moved the other day For two
years back | have been telling the land
lord that the house needed new roof,
painting, papering, new doors, new steps
and the like, and his apathy made me
mad. You may have noticed this apathy
on the part of landlords; it's disease
which runs among 'em.
We commenced at night to get ready
for the vans which were to come in the
morning. After the children were abed
l took down the stove-pipe. It's the
easiest thing in the world to take down a
stove-pipe. Just give one yank and every
section will fall apart, and each one
will skip around and bang up and down,
and sling SCOT from floor to roof. Then !
got the stove out. 1t landed bottom side
up at the door, owing to some slight mis-
understanding, but when one is moving
it makes little difference which side of
the stove is uppermost. Then I lugged
in the tub with the three red hoops, and
the One-eared tub, and the tub with the
two blue handles, and while my wife
packed dishes | took down the beds and
brought down the bedding. 1t isn't one
man in a hundred who can pick up a
mattress and pass through two doors,
down stairs. through the hall and two
rooms and fling it down on top of dish
pan full of soft-soap without doing any
damage l could carry mattresses all
day long. The bedsteads went down
stairs slick as grease; so did |. As lay
at the foot of the stairs, rail across my
throat, my head on panel and my peck.
cts full of Stats, my wife ambled in and
softly inquired:
You fell, didn't you?"
She is a very observing woman; some
wives wouldn't even have suspected a
fall, but would have supposed the hus
band lying down there to rest.
She said I hadn't better try to get the
frontroom bureau down alone, but want
ed to call Watkins to aid me. l told her
| could ease that bureau down as softly
as cat going to sleep on husk mat
and [ went at it. When | got it to the
head of the stairs l had my doubts, but
that bureau couldn't bluff me. 1t lowered
| away as honest as could be until it struck
the second step, and then we started. ]
strained every nerve to outrun that bureau
down stairs, but it was an even thing
until We brought up in the lower hall
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-30
Put Bargains in Writing.

IT will paw every one abundantlv, in
satisfaction f not in dollars and cents. TO
reduce every agreement between employer
and emplove, between buyer and seller,
and between one neighbor and another. to
writing. and let the names of both parties
be affixed to the document. Honest men
will sometimes forget certain particulars
in an agreement: but if the main points
are reduced to writing all chance for dis
pute, and in numerous instances litigation.
will be avoided.
Let one procure a small account hook
a pocket diary would be excellent and
convenient for sucha pUrpOse-and under
the proper date write out every PROPOSE
ton briefly, and let both parties sign il.
1t IS not legally necessary to observe the
long phraseOlOgv and the numerous re-
dundant terms employed by legal attor-
neys. Only few words will render an
agreement as legal as 500 words. For ex-
ample:
work for John Jones ten months for SEQ per
month, commencing this day, Jan. /, 1874
JOHN SMITH.
JOHN JONES
In the same account book let every man
write a receipt for every dollar received
and affix his signature, thus:
Received of John Paul $40 for wagoning ten
loads of sand, in full of all accounts.
PETER SQUASH.
If a carpenter renders one days service
or more, no matter who he may be, when
he receives his pay let him write a receipt
for the amount, thus:
Received of John Jump four dollars for two
days carpenter work in shingling barn.
Jan. 10, 1874. PAT. Quick.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-30

My wife came in again, saw the bureau
on my head and chest, and she inquired:
What made you hurry so? There's
plenty of time"
Some wives would let their husbands
kill themselves working and never say q
word
felt good deal better after kicking
the bureau down the front steps, and then
tore up the carpets, knocked the head of
of bust of Henry Clay, put my foot
through chrome and smashed mirror
while packing it into a box with the
coffee-mill and stove covers.
My wife said we'd wake up middIing
early, and we did. She called me at three
O'Clock to eat lunch before she packed
the last dishes, and when l sat down on a
tack and fell off the box and skinned my
nose on the dust pan she begged me not
to say anything which would make the
children weep tears of shame in after
years. Before daylight Small Plea got
hung in the refrigerator, Long Primer sat
down.in the soap, and the cat overturned
the kerosene can into the flour barrel, but
we bore up wonderfully well.
The vans were to be there at seven, but
they didn't come until nine, and when
informed one of the drivers that he ought
to be kicked to death by cross eyed rab-
bits he raised his price two shillings
load. | enjOined him to be careful of the
furniture, but he replied that he "knew
his business, +" and proved it by smashing
three legs off the stove. I sat on the step
for while and watched them as they
tossed the tubs of dishes around, and
pitched the wood-box, the refrigerator,
the lace curtains and the clock into
a heap, and then the goods of the
family who were to move in began to
arrive. 1tlooked like rain and they pitched
their goods into the house over mine and
began to scrub out. We got. over to the
other house just as the family were NOV
ing out, and we pitched our goods in over
theirs and scrubbed out.
We have Just got settled, or, rather, the
carpets are down, the curtains up, and we
are piling up the broken chairs, dishes
and pictures in the backward, hunting for
the handle of the coffee mill, the pendulum
to the clock, the drawers of the bureaus,
the legs Of the sofa, the pegs of the hall
tree, the sections of stove pipe, and the
handles to the pitchers and coffee cups.
The stove had lost three legs, and is
perched on brickbats, the refrigerator is
piled into sad heap, and my wife rolls
out the biscuit on a map OF Delaware,
with stomach bitters bottle for rolling
pin. Next week we are going to com
mence papering, painting, whitewashing,
cleaning out the yard, putting in new
paGes of glass, and stopping up yawning
crevices, and after that the parties named
IN my will can gather and divide up
what's left.-M. Quad, IN Detroit Free
Press.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-04-30
Josh Billings Says:

THOZE who never have had ennything
at home, when they do travel, seem to do
it on purpose to find fault.
We are all Ov US too apt to Judge ov the
cloth in a mans coat bi the fashion it IL
kut in.
Trieing to pIeaze everybody il like
trieing to apologize to lot ov hornets for
running aginst their nest.
Morality IL the bread of literary rep
utashun, but braneS mkt with morality il
the bread and butter ov it.
The man who eXpekts to git ahead here
belO by pulling others bak amt going to
git CRATE ways from WHARF he started.
Thare IL no kind ov vittles that will
phatt a man so fast az clear conshiense
Gravity IL generally a kind ov koun-
terfit which man cheats himself with and
tries to cheat others With. too.
Envy IL the bitterest pashun ov the
harte; 1t IL even more subtle than re
venge.
hav made cluss kalkerlashun on it
and find that, with whisky at six cents a
glass, man will drink up good farm
and fetch up in the poor hous in just thir
teen years and four months.
Yu kant liv and di happy. nv yune
friend, bi serving the devil; this haz bin
tried by az smart men az the world haz
ever produced, and proved to be a pro
found failure
Wize men are just az apt to oyershoot
the mark az phools are, but / hav alwusS
sed that 1t IL respectable miss for eithel
ov them to make
If man kan stand sudden prosperity