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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-21

s%Hon. Matt IL. Carpenter has
written q letter reviewing Curtis and
Grants opinion of the Wisconsin
railroad law, and pronouncing the
measure constitutional. We will be
pleased to place the article before
our readers in the next issue of the
Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-21

eB Miss Nellie Grant, daughter
of U. S. Grant, formerly of Galens,
will be married to-day to young
Englishman named Sartoris who is
reported to be of responsibility and
stamps. For Nellie's sake we hope
he has plenty of responsibility, be-
cause with which, if he is industrious,
he can earn good living for the
family anyhow.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-21
AN ORDINANCE.

An ordinance amending an ordina nee entitled IAN
ordinance restrain horses mules, cattle sheep and
swine from running at large within the corporation
limits Of the village of Lancaster within certain pc
RODS OF time and TO provide for the dis ranng and
sale thereof" adopted the 9th day Of December, s7l,
and published on the 18th day of December, 1871.
The President and Trustees Of the village OF Ian
caster do ordain follows:
That section Of said ordinance is hereby amend
ed by striking out the words two dollars where
they occur in said section and in place thereof in
sertiug the words ope dollar, and by striving out
the words zone dolsr where they occur in said sec
ton and inserting in phase sheTeof the words fifty
cents."
Passed and adopted this 18th day Of May la74. the
President ana three Of the Trustees OF said village be-
ing present and voting thereon by ayes aud nees.
X. Il. Mccoy,
Clerk Of said Village Of Lancaster.
Attest: ADDISON BURR,
10wl President Of said Village
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-21

eN- When the Democratic leaders
met recently at New York, Augustus
Sehell, in his peech of Welcome,
said that he was satisfied that the
next President will be Democrat of
virtue and ability He hadn't word
of promise or encouragement for
Anti-Monop Republicans. That is
the condition of the Democratic mind
in Wisconsin also.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-21

sarThe Orangemen in New York
have concluded at last to celebrate
their 10Th of July anniversary in
way not likely to provoke difficulty.
They propose to dispense with street
parades, and 60 TO church and hear ad
dresses aud poems. All celebrations
intended to perpetuate in this country,
old world feuds and clanishness, ought
to be frowned down.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-21

.W The Southwestern inundstion
bids fair to become as disastrous in the
State of Mississippi as it is already in
Louisiana and Southern Arkansas,
where the greater portion of the coun-
try is under water. Additional Gre
vases are reported along the east
bank of the Mississippi, and the coun-
try in portions of the State of Missls-
sippi is being rapidly submerged.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-21
NOTICE

All persons now knowing themselves to be indebted
to the subscriber requested to pay the same to
son, who is authorized to settle up all my affairs
VIM. H. FOSTER
Lancaster May q, 1874. lott
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-21
TIMBER LAND FOR. SALE

The sndersg ned will sell 20 acres Of timber land IN
the town Of Ciifton-being the n 4 of the ne4 o.
neN section ), in aid town There Is a very thrifty
yeung growth and considerable large timber on the
land, Terms-$l5 per acre; one.third down; balance
In two annual payms nts. Apply 10 me at Aontfort
MoHtfort May Il 9m2s JAS. r. CASTOR
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-21
NOTICE.

The Bloomington Farmers Fire Insurance Company
will be ready for business about the goth instant
Those wishing to insure will please notify the Score
tary by letter Otherwise al Bloomington, where no
will be on weinesiays aud Saturdays of each week
to attend to any bus ess of the company. Once Ia
Greers, 9w4 L. X b1NdHAh Gee.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-21

~ Sheboygan will invite the Wis
consin editors to phil the latch string
in july
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-21
BRODTVILLE CEMETERY.

Notice is hereby given that a meeting will be held
at the aforesaid cemetery Saturday, the 3oth inst
Decoration Day., at o'c ock p for the purpose
of laying out the said cemetery into lets, and to
transact any other business that may be brought be-
fore the meeting All interested are invited to attend
BY order of the committee, JOHN JONES,
Ior0 Secretary
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-21
MEN WANTED.
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

Four men to sell and deliver county maps,
HARRISON Il WARNER,
1otf Clinton, Iowa
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-21
Evergreens 10000 White
Pines

From to 2 feet high; price S per I0o select and
dig them yourselves Also lot If red cedars fer ale
cheap. Call owner on Pine Hill Farm, near An
nation, Grant county, Wis.
IVA PETER CLAYTON
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-21
NEW MILLINERY GOODS


AT CASSVILLE
The undersigned would respectfully call the atten-
ton of her old customers and the public generally
to the fact that she has received choice assortment
of millinery goods sach hats, bonnets, ribbons,
lacss pumes and ladies' furnishing goods in general
Also large assortment of Jewery. such as ladies'
watch chains, breast pins ear and finger rings,
lockets etc. gold and imitation all of which will lie
sold cheap for cash.
GERTRUDE KUECHENBERG.
CassyiIle May2t *l0mS
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-02-21
Notes on SleeD.

To literary men, preachers, teachers,
lawyers, doctors, journalists, and brain
workers in general, the following hints
are exceedingly worth attention
The fact is, that as life becomes con-
centrated, and its pursuits more eager,
short sleep and ear y rising become i'm
possible. We take more sleep than our
ancestors, and we take more because we
want more. Six hours sleep will do
very well for plowman or bricklayer,
or any other man who has no exhaus-
ton but that produced by manual labor,
and the sooner he takes it after the
labor the better. But for man whose
labor is mental, the stress of work is on
his brainIand nervous system, and for him
who is tired in the evening with day
of mental application, neither early to
bed nor early to rise is wholcsom. He
needs letting down to the level of re-
pose. The longer the interval between
the active use of the brain and the re-
tirement to bed, the better his chance
of sleep and refreshment To him an
hour after midnight is probably as good
as two hours before it, and even then
his sleep will not so completely and
quickly restore him as it will his neigh
Dor who is physically tired. He must
not only go to bed later, but lie longer.
His best sleep probably lies in the early
morning hours, when all the nervous
excitement has passed away, and he is
in sbsolute rest.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-02-21
Elevated Railway.

Mr.. e. G.. Blatherwick, of Chicago,
has recently patented a device for
street railway, dependent upon gravity
for the motive power. After four years
of trial and study, he has obtained a
result which promises to be completely
successful. The railway itself consists
of series of inclined tracts, elevated
upon framework of heavy pillars and
trestles, upon which the wheels which
carry the car travel. The central posts
are heavy timbers, twelve inches
square, into which are set the cross
joists which support the double tracks
on each side. The inner track is set one
eighteen inches from the inner. The
tracks are set on beds, two by fourteen
inches, and are braced to the trestle-
work and to each other. The cars do
not run on the tracks, but set of four
wheels with groovcd edges travel on the
half-round rails, and the car is sus-
pended from the axles of these wheels
by wire rope. On starting ut the high
est point of the first section of track,
the car is hung about one foot clear of
the ground, and, as the sections are one
mile long or more, and the grade is
about twenty-five feet to the mile, 1t is
evident that the car would strike the
ground within a very short distance. To
obviatc this, IL large wheel, 5 feet in
diameter, is placed at the front end of
the car, on the side. This wheel is
turned by spokes, like ships wheel,
and the bold pilot of the car occupies II
little platform where he can keep look
out for passengers and work the ma
chine. AS the wheels descend the in
cline, the operator winds up the car
distance corresponding to the vertical
fall, by means of his large wheel, and a
series of pinion wheels which turn the
shaft to which the supporting rope is at
tached. The car is thus kept constant
ly at the same distance from the ground
at which it started, and the exertion
necessary is not great, owing to the
lghtness of the ear and the leverage OBJ
tanned by the gearing. The tracks are
arranged with opposite inclination on
opposite sides of the posts, SO that the
cars travel in opposite directions on each
side.
AS above stated, the average length
of the inclined sections is one mile, but
the road can be extended indefinitely by
Il simple contrivance. On reaching the
lowest point, the wheels run upon n
piece of track which slides vertically in
grooveways to the height of the origi-
nal starting point. The trestle-work
here is again high up, the wheels start
on their descent once more, and the
journey continues.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-02-21
"SOciety" Requisites.

A correspondent says: "The counter
signs required for admission into good
society are enthusiastically demanded
by the several cities. Boston draws her
self up severely, and, while raising her
eye-glass to scan the cerebral develop
ment of the importunate one, coldly
asks, What do you know?' New York,
vulgarly displaying her silks and dia-
monds, looks at the costliness which the
applicants apparel denotes, and pertly
says, What are you worth?' Philadel-
phia, proudly drawing around her her
covering of pampered aristocracy, de-
mands, blue-book in hand, and lips
pursed into prunes, persimmons and
prisms, Who was your grandfather 2
While Washington stops a moment in
the gliding German, and, while trying
to obtain sly glimpse of your pedal
extremities, with glowing cheeks and
heaving breast inquiries, Can you
dance ?''
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-02-21
Mrs. Williams.

A lady correspondent of the Cincin-
natl gazette, writes from Washington,
concerning Mrs. Attorney General Will
Jams, as follows:
Her early history is as full of ro-
nance as one of Dumas novels, and |
dare Rhoda Broughton to produce a
story to eclipse it. At 16, she married,
against her parents wishes, man
whose subsequent treatment OF her vim
dicated the family's disapproval and her
application for divorce. These were
the days when her headstrong, impetu-
Gus nature was strong within her, and
her own will her only law Following
its dictates. she drifted westward, per-
chance for adventure, peradventure, in
hopes of fortune. There, girl-woman
as she was, with the waves of self still
surging unsubdued, after teaching music
for awhile, she consented to bow her
neck a second time to an unhappy matri-
monial yoke. Her second husband,
Mr.. George, was n driver on one of the
lines of stages crossing the plains, and
proved to be a good-for-nothing fellow,
who frequently abused her, and had
nothing to recommend him but sort
of devil-may-care, handsome face. A
pretty picture his wife often afforded
the tourist as, standing before their
log cabin, she stood with her white arms,
bright face, and simple dress, hanging
out the family linen. Her husbands
treatment became ut last SO unendura-
BILE, that friends procured for her the
services of Judge Williams, then quiet
Western lawyer, who loosed her from
her unhaDpy thralldom throunh the
medium of divorce. Mrs. George
still westward pushed her way to Cali
fornia, and taught school in San Fran
cisco, where, many years afterward,
Judge Williams met and married the
woman, the memory of whose peculiar
beauty had never left him. When she
heard her husband, Mr.. George, was
sick, she travelled miles to watch over
him in his last hours, and was with him
when he died The woman has mar
yelous adaptability, and spirit, and
nerve, and ambition enough for Agrip-
pima herself.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-02-21
IS lin Nya ,,

Ex-senator Nye, of Nevada, s visit
ing Washington. AS plain " Jim Nye"
he is Familiarity known to us. He is
one of the brightest, handsomest, most
popular men who has ever been in
Congress. Nothing or nobody was out
of the range of his wit. Even the
stately Sumner, whose pomposity in
spires awe in the most thoughtless, was
a target for his neighbours repartee.
Nye is a native of New York State,
but emigrated to Nevada while Nevada
was quite young, and figured there as
Governor (of Virginia City, during
that remarkable gold excitement, so
graphically described in Roughing
It." Mark Twain seems to have a
great admiration for Nye, and has given
us Il characteristic sketch of him in his
" Presidents Reception Many and
many is the time, writes the inimitable
Mark, GIVE seen him stand up and
beam and smile on his children
(Washoes and Pi-Utes), as he called
them in his motherly way; beam on
them by hours out of his splendid eyes
face, and comfort them with his per-
suasive tongue seen him stand up
there and tell them anecdotes and
lies, and quote Watts hymns to them,
till he just took all the war-spirit right
out of them and send them away be-
wildered with his inspired mendacity.
Most remarkable man, Jim Nye a! He
can tell a lie with that purity of accent,
that grace of utterance, that convincing
emotion / do reckon he is the hand
lest creature about making the most
of his chances that ever found an all
sufficient substitute for mothers milk
in politics and sin p
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-02-21
Marrying for Money.

An extremely sharp and intelligen4
American gentleman from the West
once walked into the office of DIR. G. T.
jackson, the chemist.
"Dr. Jackson, / presume ?" said he
Yes, sir"
care you alone?'
Yes, SIR"
MAY l lock the door?"
And he did so; then, having looked
behind the sofa, and satisfied himself
that no one else was in the room, he
placed large bundle, done up in yell
low handkerchief, on the table, and
opened it.
"There, doctor, look at that"
"Well," said the doctor, I" see it. y
What do you call that, doctor ?"
81 call it iron pyrites."
WHAT said the man; isn't that
stuff gold?"
mo-" said the doctor, it's good for
nothing: it's pyrites."
And putting some over the fire in a
shovel, it soon evaporated up the CHM
ney.
Well" said the gentlemanly man,
with a Woe begone look, there's wild
der up in our town has n whole hill full
of that, and I've been and married her. "
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-02-21
A Lesson Learned in Berrien County,
Mich

Some time ago, Mrs. Buckelby, who
lives over in Berrien county, directed
her son Samuel, lad Of IA years to take
a turn at the churn. Now, as Samuel
had set his heart on going fishing at
that very time, he "got his back up,
and fatty refused to agitate the cream.
The curvature was promptly taken out
of his spine by slipper, and with
" tears in his eyes," he went on duty
with the dasher. In about half an hour,
and during the brief absence of his
mother, his eyes fell upon plate of
fy-poison, and bright, smart thought
struck him. just before Mrs. B. came
in, Samuel lifted the fatal platter to his
face, and as she entered he put the
poison from his lips with the drama
tic exclamation "There, mother, |
guess you won't lick me no more !"
Now what did this Spartan dame do?
Did she shrek for doctor and fall into
Mysteries =? Not much. She simply
took Samuel by the nape of the neck,
lifted him deity into the pantry, beat
the white of six eggs together, and told
him to engulf the same instanter E; he.
refusing, she called the hired girl, and
in twinklng Sam found himself out
side the albumcn. Then Mrs. b. be-
gan preparing mustard emetic. Sec
ing this, Sans pluck dissolved. and he
commenced begging, crying, 81 was
only tryin' to skeer ye.' But the stern
mother was not to be softened, and
Samuel had to swallow the mustard.
He was then forced to take dose of
pain-killer, and had his back rubbed
with the "Nigor of Life and his
stomach with the con of Gladness. :"
Then he vomited up everything but his
boots and socks. This being over, he
took seven Ayers pills, two spoonfuls
of castor oil, a teaspoonful of salts, and
a blue pill. And now, if you want to
behold the maddest boy in Michigan,
just say fly poison" to Sam Buckleby
-LapOrtc Heraid.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-02-21
About Thumbs.

We suppose that all our readers
know that man would not be what he
is without the thumb. This little fact
has been so impressed upon us from
ollr school days that we are not likely
to forget it. Without the thumb for !.
lever, we would be unable to hold any
thing tightly, and most of the inven-
tons of our era would be useless, not
to speak of the enormous general
power that would be lost Let us ac-
cept the fact of having thumbs, then,
and be thankful and rejoice over our
Darwinian friends, the apes. We did
not know, however, until we saw it in
print lately, that the thumb
represented intelligence and affection.
Born idiots frequently come into the
world without thumbs. Infants, until
they arrive at an age when intellect
dawns, constantly keep their fingers
folded above their thumbs. but they
soon know better, and, as the mind de-
velops, recognize the dignity and use
fulness of the despised digit. At the
approach of death the thumbs of the
dying, as if impelled by some vague
fear, seek refuge under the fingers, and
when thus found are almost certain an
nouncement of the end So, i'll leaving
this world, it would seem that our
hands, in their last desire for move
ment, assume, with our growing I'M
consciousness, the same suggestive
position in which the hands of the new
born babe, with faculties all dormant,
first shape themselves. Small thumbs
denote an affectionate disposition long
thumbs go with long heads; short,
thick, stumpy thumbs mark cruel
man, and much more is told us of the
same kind. -BaitimOre Gazette.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-02-21
The Marshals of France-A Dark
Record.

The Pal Mall Gazette says "Of
the nine Marshals of France who have
been condemned to death since GILES
de Laval, Marshal de Retz, was hung
at Nantes in 1440, Marshal Bazaine is
the only one who has not suffered capt.
tai punishment Louis de Luxembourg,
. constable of France, was beheaded
q upon the Place de Greve, in 1745, for
conspiracy and rebellion against Charles
8 VII. and Louis XI. Charles de Gontaut,
. created Duke de Biron by Henry w.,
was a son of the great soldier whom that
monarch declared to be the right hand
of his throne, and ancestor of the Mar
quis de Gontaut- Biron, now French am
bassador at Berlin. The Due de BIZ
ron. after covering himself with glory
mt Ivry and Argues was discontinued
with the treatment he received from
the king, and, though he was made Gov
ernor of Burgundy, he several times
conspired against Henry w., who par
doned him again and again. His last
crime was to propose to Spain and Sa-
voy that France should be dismembered;
and, as a reward of his treason, the
Duke of Savoy, was to bestow upon him
the hand of his daughter, and he was to
be created the reigning prince of Bur-
gundy and Perigord. The plot was
discovered, and Henri ~, who enter
tanned deep affection for his old COM
panion i'll arms, was ready to forgive
even this act of trcachery if the Due de
Biron would have acknowledged his mis-
deeds. But he would not, and he was
beheaded within the walls of the Bas-
tile in 1902. Henri H., Due de Mont
morency, was taken prisoner at the bat
tie of Castenarulry by the royal troops,
and beheaded in the courtyard of the
capitol ut Toulouse in 1852. and in the
same year Marshal de Marillac, arrested
while ut the head of his army, for plot
ting againt Cardinal Richelieu was be-
b headed upon the Place de Greve. Bar
ON de Luckner, who had served under
Frederick III. in Prussia, entered the
French army just before the revolution.
and rallying to the Republican cause,
was created Marshal of France and APP
pointed to the command of the Army of
the North. After achieving some insig
niticant triumphs over the Austrians at
Courtrai and Nalenciennes, he was sus-
pected of traificking with the enemy,
and being brought before the revolu-
tionary taibunal in 1894, was condemned
to death and guillotined. PHILIPPE de
Noailles, Due de Mcuchy, who attempt
ed to defend Louis XVI from the pop
ular fury was also victim of the rev.
olution, for both he and his wife were
sent to the scaffold during the same year,
and the list of French marshals brought
to violent end terminates with Mar
shall Ney, who was shot upon the It'll of
December, 1915.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-02-21
The Rebel Forces.

In the November numbers of the
Eclectic and the Land We Love, 1869,
an interesting and important CORE
spondence was published between Dr.
Joseph Jones, Secretary of the Histori-
cal Society, and Gen. S. Cooper, ex-
Adjutant- General of the Confederate
States. From that source we CLEAN the
following facts for the benefit of those
who are not 50 fortunate as to have pre-
served a file of the magazines. Such
facts are startling even te those who
participated in the Southern struggle:
First-The available force of the Con-
federate army did not, during the war,
exceed 10000 men.
Second-The Confederate States never
had in THAR defense more than 200, 900
men in the field at one time.
Third-From 1861 to 1865 the Con-
federate forces actively engaged were
only 100000.
Fourth-The total number of deaths
during that time We're 100000.
Fifth-Losses of prisoners counted as
total losses, on account of the United
States policy of exchange, 100000.
Sixth-The loss of the Confederate
States army by discharge, disability,
and desertion, amounted to 100000.
Seventh-At the close of the war, the
force of the Confederate army was less
than 100000.
Eighth-Out of 600, 900 men, 100000
were lost to the service.
These facts are taken from calcula-
tions made with great care by DIR. JOS
eph Jones, submitted to and approved
by Gen. S. Cooper, Adjutant- General
of the Confederate army .-Mo6ile( Ala.)
ReOisfer
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1874-02-21
Good Interest Rules.

The answer in each case being in
cents, separate the two right-hand fig
ures of answer to express in dollars and
cents
Four per cent. Multiply the princi-
pal by the number of days to run, sep
arate right-hand figure from product,
and divide by9.
Five per cent.-Multiply by number
of days, and divide by 70.
Six per cent Multiply by number of
days, separate right-hand figure, and
divide by 6.
Eight per Multiply by number
of days, and divide by As.
Nine per cent.-Multiply by number
of days, separate right-hand figure,
and divide by 4.
Ten per Multiply by number of
days, and divide by SO.
Twelve per cept,-Muitiply by mum,
hes of days, separate risht-hand figure,
ard divide by 8.