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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20

sY% An Appleton editor was dis
posed to be angry with man who
stumbled over his feet on the street.
The man apologized by saying be
was from Green Bay, where they did
not allow dry good boxes to be on
the sidewalk hence be was not look
ing for such distractions. &c. b..
AdUocdte
That is DO worse than the story
that is told of Green Bay editor.
While standing on the platform, in
this city, waiting for the cars, he felt
something Juggling at his boot straps.
Come to find out it was the baggage
master who had mistaken one of his
Congress CATERS for trunk and was
trying to check 1t ty Oshkosh.-Ap-
plet0n Post.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20

THE PULsE.-Egery intellectual
person should know how to ascertain
the state of the pulse in health then,
by comparing it with what it is when
be is ailng, he may have some idea
of the urgency of the case. Parents
should know the healthy pulse of
each child-as now and then person
is born with a peculiarly slow or fast
pulse, and the very case in hand may
be that popularity. An infants pulse
is one hundred and forty child Of
seven, about eighty; and from twen-
ty to sixty years, it is seventy beats
a minute, declining to sixty at four
score. A healthful grown persons
pulse beats about seventy times in
minute there may be good health
down to sixty but if the pulse al
ways exceeds seventy, there is dis
ease the machine is working too
fast, it is working itself out; there is
a fever or Inflammation somewhere,
and the body is feeding on itself ; as
in consumption, when the pulse is
quick, that is over seventy, gradual
ly increasing. with decreased chances
of cure, until it reaches one hundred
or one hundred and twenty, when
death comes before many days.
When the pulse is over seventy for
months, and there is slight cough,
the lungs are affected.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20

KEPT No BocKs.-A Boston "mer-
chant" failed lately, owing over $780,
900, when a committee of creditors
waited upon him to investigate bis
affairs. In reply to their request for
his books and papers, they were po-
litely informed that be bad never
kept any books, but if they desired
list of the persons owing him, he
thought he could furnish list from.
memory, a statement which after
ward proved to be true. 1t was also
proved to the satisfaction of the COM
mittee that the debtor proved to be
a better collector than any of bis
creditors.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20
WHOLE NO. 1879.
The Finances of a Hundred Years.

The treasury department proposes
TO publish, as q contribution to the
centennial, a statement of the finan-
cial transactions of the United States
for 100 years. 1t will embrace the
present government and the CONT
mental congress. This work will show
the source of every dollar received
and how it was expended also loans
made, the reasons for borrowing the
money, and sketch of the debates
in congress. This statement will
clear up many obscure points in
American annals, and will form a
financial history of the republic for
the first century of its existence. 1t
will show that, through all the dark
hours of the past, the honor OF the
government has remained undiminish-
ed, and that, except during the
troubled days of the revolution, no
government creditor was ever oblig
ed to hold the evidences of public
debt one hour beyond the time speci>
fed on their face for payment. The
work will embrace not onl y general
account, but detailed statement of
the receipts and expenditures, render
ing it easy to draw from it not only
the facts respecting the cost of any
particular branch Of the service, but
the amount and date of each item of
expenditure. All the figures are
taken entirely from the official ac
counts and ledgers of the treasury,
while many of the historical facts are
drawn from unpublished manuscripts
stored for half century in the dusty
archives Of the department. The
correspondence of the early financiers
of the republic has been consulted,
also the annals of congress and the
American state papers. None of the
present histories of the country con-
tain anything equivalent to what this
work will show on the finances, nor
could any history contain so detailed
a statement of the figures.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20
1.-THE LOVERS.

CHAP. 1.-THE LOVERS.
A period oftwenty years has elapsed)
A beautiful maiden sat roasting
peanuts by a corner vineyard 1t
was in America. 1t was Geral
dine Alexandrovnia. But she was
known as Fansette the Fawn.
The mysterious Frigida was with
her. She still wore the MORE an
tque 1t became more and more anti
que every day. When Frigida abduc-
ted Geraldine Alexandrovnia, she
conveyed her to the deepest
reeesses Of the H2rtz Mountains.
There were no cows in those days.
and 80 Geraldine was nursed by o
fawn. Hence her name. FaLsette
was loved and beloved again. He
drove engine No. 49, His name it
was BIoodsuck, christened Jen. He
softly told his love as be cracked her
frcsh-roasted peanuts. 1t was beau
tlful, the fresh young love of those
two gushing souls One night two
solitary horsemen halted their weary
steeds by the peanut stall They
snatched the beautiful Fansette bald
headed from her James arms, and
bore her shriekiug through the beau
tiful snow to their fiery, untamed
steeds 1t was the long lost CHASE
teIard de Sparkkasse and the Baron
HiGmoverdercupmitabrickstein The
faithful goblin page shreked aloud
for the police, Frigida tore the mus
tache from that hated Chastelard de
Spark while Jem Bloodsuck lay
welteriDg in his own gore. The Bar
on emptied his revolver into the
fainting Frigids, who also fell welter-
ing in her gore over the still and life
less body OF the gallant engine driver.
Nor was this al laying the fainting
Fansettc over the saddle of his foam
ing charger, the Baron applied a
match to the grocery, and in an
instant the palatial abode was in 5
mass offorked and fiery flame. Hor-
ror ! The bodies Frigida and Jem
Bloodsuck were in the path of fire.
Fansette awoke. She saw her lovers
cremating form, and in al instant
was by his side. The Baron tore
her away, aud, taking bottle from
his coat-tail-, he poured the benzine
contents over the inanimate fern of
the hapless lover, and the moire anti
que of the mysterious Frigida
cha, ha, ha,' yelled the Baron;
thus perish the enemies of the Baron
neutrality-suspicious. of
tho Wacht on der Rhine; and the
flames blew up, and, when the day
broke the next morning, the city lay
in mound of smouldering ashes, and
there was none living to tell the tale.
CHAPTER. III.-woMAN's LOVE.
(Twentyfve years have elapsed.)
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20

CHAP. 1 THE ABDUCTED HEIREss.
Tho sileery moon glittered on the
peagreen waves of the Rhine as it
Iashed the Castle de Hitimoverder.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES and the tadpoles
murmured tenderly amid the bushes
of the lofty persimmons. The Castle
was bathed in light, from the donjo
keep to the inky moat beside the
fiowery portcullis, and the Baron's
banditti blew their brains out of
bugle-horns. 1t was proud day for
the Baron de acknowledgements
rickstein and his beautiful but youth
ful bride. The Baron was keeping
noisy wassail in the haronial ball, and
the young but lovely bride was in the
holy solitude of her chamber gazing
with a fon mothers pride on the
exquisite form Of cherubimioal babe,
the joint production of two souls with
but q single thought, two hearts that
beat az one. La an hour the angelic
Geraldine Aleyandrovna was to be
christenod TheEe was loud ring
at the caslle-bell. Every cheek
bIanched with fear. Suppose the god
mother with the silver cup should
have slipped upon piece of orange
peel or fallen down a cellar. A page
who suggested this was Immediately
led out by the oollar and torn to
death by the wild mules in the back
garden. The warden hoisted the
portcullis, and long train of noble
chivalry entered led by the gallant
ChasteIard de Spark kasse, who
scattered largesse from his saddle-bow
as be rode by the side OF the widowed
Baroness Won Sweitzer. The castle
chapel was brilliant with thousand
burning tapers. The christening
party were waiting for the cherubim-
ic Geraldine Aexo udrovia, when a
long and CHASTITY shrek pierced
through the ancient building and
caused every stone to totter within
its mortary bed The chapel doors
were flung open. The Countess de
neutrality-suspicious., dish
veeled, and shr:eked, "My chee-ild !
She has stolen my chce-ild !"
"Who dares thus to abduct my
beautiful, my own ~ exclaimed the
appalled, but exasperated Baron.
"Thy paramour. villain y exclaim-
cd an ancient figure robed in MORE
antique. "Haha ha Now, false
slave, | laugh thee to scorn. LA!
hi habel Adieu Remember me
Thy deserted Frigada =
Follow her," cried the Baron.
"a million to him who catches her
Death to him who dOn'i -
As the christening party gained the
larboard postern, the mysterious fe-
male had stabbed the warden to the
heart and tore his cory scalp wreak-
from his fiery breast She raised
ing the portcuilis with superbuman
strength. A goblin page, mounted
on 9 mule of raven plumage, led a
mlk-white jack, upon whose back
the mysterious female vaulted light
ly. She held the youthful Geraldine
to her frantic bosom.
A few steps more and the Baron
would regain his child. O, Evens it
was a moment of agony. He gained
the portculis, when suddenly the
milk9w White jack reached out his vel
vet paw, and the Baron fell. The
mysterious female and her goblin
page dashed over the draw-bridge,
they let the portculis fall, and they
were free. Ha ha ha they were
free, and the Countess Hitimoverder-
upmitabrickstein was chee>ildless
and alone.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20

w Vast quantities of dead grass
hoppers are found on the masses OF
of snow lying on the sides of the
Blue mountains of Colorado, where
bears seek them for food. 1t is
thought they become chilled in at
tempting to fly over the range, and
falling upon the sno ". perish.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20
r<a A man was seen coming out o

s@-A man was seen coming out of
a Texas newspaper office with one
eye gouged out, his nose spread all
over his face like piece of raw beef,
and one of bis ears chawed off. To a
police, who interviewed him, be re
piled II didn't like an article that
'peared in the paper last week, an
went in ter see the man that writ 1t.
He war thar, stranger"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20
Saw Mill for Sale at Glen Ha-
ven Wis

hereby offer for sale tbs New cam Saw Mill at
Glen Haven. Wis The Viii costSlns one double 70
fary and gang edser. Trimmer, Slab saw, Shingis
mill with jointer and kuotsaw aud single packerl
Gang Lath mill aud boIting saw. aiming mill and
Siding IaiIl. The whole is driven by new Steam
Euzine 81 IL inch cylinder aud two boilers Z2x42-
This the best mill ever buit In this county and IS
capable cutting - 100 feet Of Lumber 10000 Shin
giles ana Is 600 Lafh per Gay, aud Is perfect run
ming order andis situated at coed point TO sell
lumber and 20 procure logs. will also sellone or
two million feet logs reasonable terms Time
will be given upon portion Of the purchase money,
would prefer to seila half interest TO some good
business man who would take charge OF the mill and
ward. For further particulars enquire OF the sub
| soriher By uAilor personally at Glen Haven, Wis
| 9stf CIV. KING.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20

c>-The Government Secret Ser
vice officials have seized several dis
tilIeries and rectifying establishments
in ST. Louis and Milwaukee, as well
as in Chicago, for violations of the
revenue law.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20

coffin lid, and had made a partially
successful effort to raise himself up.
He was entirely unconscious when
they got him out, but it was evident
that the effort to extricate himself had
been made but short time before.
He was carried to hospital near by,
where the physicians, after a time,
SUCCEEDED IN REsUscTTATING HIM.
/ He stated that for an hour before
his last swoon he was fully conscious
of the awful situation he was in. The
grave had fortunately been very
hastily and lightly filled with clay,
and here and there the continuity of
the mass had been broken by large
stones, which allowed the air to pene.
trate as far down as the coffin. He
had tried in vain to make his .cries
heard, and finally, partly in conse-
quence of having an insufficient sup
ply of air, and partly in consequence
of the mental agony he suffered, he
had fallen into the unconscious state
in which he was found.
Another Englishman describes what
he experienced, while lying in a coffin
in perfectly conscious state, in the
following words: cit would be i'm
possible to find words that would ex
press the agony and despair that |
suffered Every blow of the hammer
with which they nailed down my
coffin-lid went through my brain like
the echo of death-knell. | would
never have believed that the human
heart could endure such terrible
agonv and not burst into pieces
When they let me slowly down into
the ground, | distinctly heard the
noise the coffin made every time it
rubbed against the sides of the grave"
This man also awoke under the knife
of a doctor. He, like Stapleton, had
been stolen, and carried to the dissect-
ing room of a medical school. At
the moment the professor made
slight incision down the abdomen the
spell was broken, and he sprang to
his feet
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20

CALIFORNIA STYLE Not long since
a German was riding along SAMSON
street, near Sacramento, when be
heard a pistol shot behind him !;
heard the whizzing of a ball near
him, and felt his hat shaken. He
turned and saw man with revolvs
er 10 his hand, and took off his hat
and found fresh bullet hole in it.
"Did you shoot at me ?" asked the
German.
eyes," replied the other party ;
"that's my horse; it was stolen from
me recently"
"You must be mistaken" said the
German, 81 have owned the horse
for three years"
"Well," said the other, "when |
come to look at him, | believe | am
mistaken. Excuse me, sir; won't
you take drink r.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20

a1-There are two ways OF seeing
the world as you travel; or, rather,
there is one way OF seeing it, and one
way of not seeing it. If you really
wish to see country and the people
of a country, you must go down
among the middle classes, and even
among the poor, and make your home
there. As for the upper classes, you
can sit down in your hotel in New
York and see the wealthy and trav,
eled Venetian, Chinaman, or Hindoo,
without the trouble of going abroad.
You can also go to first class hotel
in Venice, or China, or India, and
keeping all the time in first class ho.
tels-kept half the time by your own
country men, and sl as nearly alike
as two peas-and you will see the
same faces and meet the same man
ners you have with you in your first
class hotel at home.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20
The American Centennial Thrown in
the Shade,

The Japanese have just been cele-
brating the 2,535th anniversary of
the foundation of the Empire Of the
Rising Sun in grand style. Jimmu
Tenno. the first Emperor, was fifth
in descent from the SUM- goddess Ten
Sho Dia jim, and the present Makado
claims unbroken descent from him.
The national celebration was hight
ened in interest from the fact that
dnring the previous year Japan had
emerged so gloriously in success and
honor from the Formosan affair.
Then an imperial Princess had
been born, thus preserving the line
oftwenty-fve centuries. Finally the
day marked the seventh year of the
restoration of the Mikado to ancient
power after the military usurpation
of go years, and the fact that the
country could now boast at once of a
true nationality, united purpose, q
settled government and amicable for
eIgn relations. To cap the climax of
their JOY, the English and French sol
diers that had been stationed on the
soil of Japan since 1868 were to be
removed FEBRUARY Is
Even the Tycoon, from his exile IN
Shidzuoka, comes forth to help on
the national joy and prosperity. For
Keiki, as the last Tycoon is called,
though politically the quondam head
of a hoary usurpation, is personally
an accomplished and benevolent gen.
tleman, who rejoices at his country's
welfare, and, to prove it, has presen-
ted to one of the public libraries at
Toxic 1000 works, many of them
rare and very vale able, comprising
many thousand volumes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20

=. He laid down tie basket of
chips he had pilfered. and looking
hard at tie urchin who had been
making target of him with ''nig-
ger-killer," said +: "Whar wus You
raised chile?" "Shucargo." said the
young hoodlum. 40 de norf?" 'Yeth,
thur" 81 tort so. Suddern white
children wuddent do like dat. Lem
me cell you, honey, manners gwine to
carry you furder den money. You
heard meI"-Dalas (1eras) Herald.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20

CHAPTER. III.-woMAN's LOVE.
twenty-five years have elapsedl
Fansette lay wiping her beautiful
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20
BUSIT ass DIRECTORY
Al rRACFe.
AG:ENT

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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-20
81 AN ALIVE "

A somewhat similar experience was
that of an English artillery officer
who, in a fall from his horse, had
fractured his skull, and was tre-
panned. He was in a fair way to re.
cover, when one day he fell into a
lethargy SO profound that he was
thought to be dead, and, in due time,
was buried. The following day, be-
side the grave in which he had been
inferred, another citizen of London
was buried, and at least one of the
assistants CHANGED to stand on il.
Suddenly the man cried out that he
felt the ground move under his feet,
as though the occupant of the grave
would find his way to the surface.
At first the man was thought to be
the victim OF an halluciuatioB but the
earnestness with which he persisted
attracted the attention of constable,
who caused the grave to be opened.
They found the officer had forced the
The daily gazette., 1875-11-04
FITS CURED FREE!!

FITS CURED FREES!
ANY person suffering from the aboye dis
ease Is requested to address DB: PRICE. and
a trial bottle of medicine will bo forwarded
by express.
Tho only costlbeing the Express charges,
hicn owing r. NV large business. are small
MS Or EPILBrSI
a's.u iy for yeara, and ne willswsrrsnt cur
by ths use of his remedy.
Do not fail to send to him for trial bottle
itlcosts nothing. and ho
WILL CURE f0C,
M matter how long standing your case may
hs. or how many other remedies may have
failed. xw;tht
JREF TRIAL BOTTLE.
Be particular to give your kxpress.sas we'll
AZ your Post Once direction. anu
Address DIR. CHAs. 7. T.PRIoR..
;.u,A-,vakiv 81 William St. New
The daily gazette., 1875-11-04
R0iyudy Notes

The Eric passenger trains between
New York and Chicago, with Pull
mans palace and hotel cars. began
running yesterday. The trains run
over the Erie to Salamanca; thence
over the Atlantic and Great Western
to Cleveland; thence to Shelby juno
tion, Ohio, over the c. {. and |. c.,
and thence over the Baltimore and
Ohio to Chicago. Hereafter passen.
gers may go through without getting
out of the cars even for meals.
The New \ ork Tribune says it is
stated on Wall street that the Michigan
southern, Michigan Central and Fort
Wayne Railroad Companies had agreed
to "pool!' their earnings on the basis
of the traffic of 1878 1874, aid that the
Baltimore and Ohio and Erie railroads
had commenced with such of these OF
the three roads named as were ncces.
sary to form. in conjunction with the
Union Pacific railroad, through line
from New ork to the Pacific.
The daily gazette., 1875-11-04
Gr0IeS of Corn.

The following grades of corn under
the new grading rules have been estab-
lished by the committee on grain of
the New \ ork Produce Exchange;
/, white corn; >, yellow corn; 3,
mixed corn; 4, low mixed corn; 5,
steamer corn; &, no grade corn. White
corn must be sound, dry, plump, and
well cleaned; an occasional colored
grain shall not deprive it of this grade.
Yellow corn must be sound, dry, plump
and well cleaned an occasional white
or red grain shall not deprive it of
this grade. Mixed corn must be sound,
dry and reasonably clean. Low mixed
corn must be sound dry and reasonably
clean, but in color unsuitable to grade
"mixed corn" Steamer corn will in
clude corn of the first four grades in
quality; in condition it may be slightly
soft or damp, but must be cool. All
soft, damp corn, warm or inferior to
quality. described as steamer corn,
shall be called mo grade.
The daily gazette., 1875-11-04
Production of High Uines.

A New York firm has issued circu-
lar containing some interesting facts
respecting the production and excise
on spirits. 1t notes that the production
has again increased at the West, the
further decline in corn having induced
some distillers to extend their opera
tions, and adds:
"The total production of distilled
spirits from grain in the United States
on the 1st instant was 1S3, ,34S gallons
per day illinois alone producing 45
per cent. of this) and on the lst of Oc-
tober, 1874, 1872, 900 gallons, showing a
slight decrease this year. With the
present tax of 90 cents per gallon, the
daily revenue from this source alone is
S165, ,013.20. The following States
produce per day 49, 1852 gallons: Hi
nois, lpdiana, Ohio and New York,
more than one ha f of which Is made in
Illinois"
The daily gazette., 1875-11-04
From . New York Letter.
Iceed's Faithful WIFE.

They were married when the man
was chairmaker, and they might
have had Il happy career had the for
mer remained honest. They lived in a
plain manner, mingled with mechanics
society, and were the parents of two
boys and two girls, good-looking and
healthy children. The era of mere.
tricious splendor had come and gone
like dream. The girls are married.
Each had diamond wedding and each
has sunk into obscu,ity and poverty.
The two sons once held fine appoint
rents in the service of the ring, but
they are now only lounging around the
City Hall. Ths mother is in widow 8
desolation. The ill.gotten wealth is
almost all gone. A million and half
has passed into the hands of her law
yers, and her husband is still prisoner.
A seedy and corpulent old man, inhab-
ting q pair of rooms in Ludlow Street
Jail, is all that is left of one who has
been alderman, Congressman, chair.
maker ard lawyer, commissioner Of
parks, public buildings and docks,
State Senator, and for seven years the
artocrat of this city. The only re.
deeming feature is the faithful wife,
who is reducing herself to poverty in
the hope Of obtaining her husbands S
release
The daily gazette., 1875-11-04

A MAMMOTH HoTEL.-Ground has
been purchased in ST. Louis upon
which the largest hotel in the world is
to be erected. II will cover four acres
of ground, and will be called the
"Hotel Graude" The space covered
by the building will will be 1000
square feet, $4,000 more than the
Palace Hotel, of San Francisco, and it
will contain 1000 rooms The erection
of the hotel will be commenced in the
spring, and it Is expected to have it
completed so as to be opened for
guests by September 4, 1877. The
cost of the hotel, independent of the
furniture, will be nearly two million
dollars.
The daily gazette., 1875-11-04
\ YOUNG LADY SHOT AT A
BALL.

BALTIMORE, Nov. miss Lille
Stoy, about twenty three years old,
was accidentally shot in the right leg,
above the knee, about IL 80 o'clock
last night, while at u ball held at Nor-
warts Hall, on Faycttc street. The
girl was dancing with man at the
time, when pistol fell from his pocl,-
ct and went off, the bali entering the
leg of the girl. She was able to walk
to her home. The shooting created
considerable excitement in the ball
room.