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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-07-06
Efoal Motifs.



Petition for order directing the conveyance Of
tain real estate pursuant TO contract.
On the presentation of petition to this court by
Isaac w. Dexter claiming that he is entitled 20 a
Conveyance from Samuel l.. Borah, administrator of
the estate of Cyrus Ransom, deceased OF the follow
ing described lands and premises, situate in Grant
County Wisconsin, viz: The west half of lot five (5)
In block seventeen LII in the village OF Woodman;
by contract in writing, under SEAL dated the 10th
day of October, 1871, TO convey the same to one
James Taylor his assigns, by good and sufficient
deed. upon the payment to him. the said deceased or
order Of the sum OF Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars
az specified in two promissory notes of the same
date one for 500 90 and the other for $3.50 90,
given by said Taylor and payablei in one and two
years respectively with ton per cent interest; that
said contract has been duly assigned by said Taylor
to said petitioner for value; that said petitioner
has fully paid said notes and is now entitled to
the conveyance agreed to be made said deceased
and praying that the said Samuel Il. Borah admin
stratcr as aforesaid, be, byhe order and Judgment
Of this court, authorized and directed to make such
conveyance of said lands and premises unto him
the said Isaac W. Dexter pursuant 10 the statute IN
such case made and provided.
Ordered that Monday the 9th day of July, 1876, Mt
one O'Clock in the afternoon, at my office in the viii
lage OF Lancaster be, and the same hereby are, APP
pointed as the time and place, for the hearing of
said petition and that notice OF the tendency there
of and of the time and place of such hearing be
given by the publication of this order six successive
weeks before such hearing, in the Grant County
Herald. VIM. McG0NIGAL,
Judge of Co. Court of Grant Co. Wis.
Dated June 7th.l 1876, l5wo
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-07-06

The above goods were bought since the great decline
in prices of May 5th, and are all retailed at less
prices than they could have been bought for at
Wholesale previous 70 that time. We also have in
stock 200 doz. American and imported
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-07-06
THE CELEBRATED HApeOOD GANG PLoW |
TESTIMONIALS.

The respectfully called to few
worth the OF
any ther combined machine:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11
The social Evil.

Property owners on Washington street,
near Second, complain that they are IN.
able to rent their vacant houses to de-
cent people because the police authori-
ties permit dens Of infsmy to exist in the
vicinity. This has the effect of depre-
ciating the value of property and forcing
property owners to rent houses to people
who keep dens Of vice. The police gu
thorities should settle this vexed ques-
ton by either protecting virtue and re-
speciality and suppressing these houses
of ill-fame just as they did that house on
Jefferson street, near Third, or declare
Washington street (which ia the best
paved street in the city, the location for
vice; then decent people will be forced
to leave their homes aud move away, and
vice will be triumphant. The Indian
has to give way to the white mans civil.
cation; SC should vice be compelled tC
give way to the advancing step Of re
speciality and virtue. 1t is time thil
matter was settled forever.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11

spicuous place upon which the hats can
be hung and the names of the owners
prominently appearing underneath on
a card. This would be a reform indeed.
On the Louisville road, yesterday
morning. a passenger train going north
ran of the track at Bells Station, north
of Brownsville. The engine was turned
across the track and wrecked, The bag.
gage and sleeper we're hurled some dis.
lance and turned over, in fact the entire
train became a wreck. A lady passen.
ger and one Of the sleeping car official:
we're severely injured. In consequence
Of the accident the incoming trains yes.
terday we're detained at the scene oil the
run-of.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11
first singing of she ''MarseiIIaiae.',

London Illustrated Newspaper
What q marvellous power that
strange chant has exercised in
France during the greater part Of
a century. What wild vicissitudes
have accompanied its defamation
by men and women who used it
alike as a patriotic and a revolu-
tionary call to arms. Rouget de
LIsle was himself but a common
place young mana poetical lieu
tenant in the army of Strasburg-
but for once he mounted to a PIN
nacle Of genius without knowing
it; for the "Marseillaise was sim
ply a chant de bataille, and never
intended to be a revolutionary song.
Dietrich, who was Mayor of Stras-
burg in 1892, asked the Young
soldier to compose a new marching
song for a volunteer company going
on foreign service, He finished the
composition in one night, and the
next morning was heard to rehearse
it before the Mayor and some of the
artistes of the theater. At midday
it was sung in the market place,
and so great was its effect that
three hundred recruits Joined the
six hundred who were ready to 90
out. That chant was to have a
history unprecedented by any BAT
tie song in the wOrld-to survive
its author, and to take new mean
ing and a new name. Rouget de
LIsle, himself prescribed as a roy
alist, heard it in the Swiss NOM
tains as a menace of death, and
recognizing the well-known sound,
asked his guide what it was called.
1t had then been named the " Mar
seillaise Hymn, and was 80 called
till hymns went out of fashion,
and then it still retained the name
of Marseillaise." Whether it has
played out its part in the history of
France it would be rash to endeavor
to determine.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11
Suicide Of "a WeiI-nnown clerk.

Special to the Cincinnati Enquirsr.l
NASHVILLE, KY, July IA
distressing suicide occurred here
this afternoon between four and
five o'clock. George W. Raeder,
aged twenty-five years, grandson Of
George Cox, one Of our Oldest and
best known citizens, killed himself
in the White Hall saloon, on Mar
ket street, by shooting a ball from
a revolver into his heart. lie had
been indulging very freelyin liquor
for several days before the rash act
was committed, and was at the time
under its influence. This morning
he told one of his acquaintance he
intended to kill himself before
night, but no attention was paid to
the threat, This evening, in COM
pany with several young men, he
was behind the counter of the sa-
loon, and remarked suddenly that
he was going to kill himself, and at
the same time he opened a drawer
back of him, and, taking up a re-
volyer, placed it against his heart
and fired. His friends turned at
the report and observed him trying
to close the drawer in which he had
replaced the pistol. A few seconds
later he threw up his hands, fell
forward upon his face and died in
stantlY.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11
A PRESIDENTS HANDIWORK.
Presentation of a Coat, Made by the
Late Senator johnson, 20 the His.
tOrfenI aOefafV.

Presentation of a Coat, Made by the
Late Senator johnson, 10 the His.
tOrical society.
The venerable and revered President
Of the Historical Society of Tennessee,
residing at Mecklinberg Place, Knox
vile, in a letter to the Society, a few
days ago, states that he has received for
the archives Of the institution the follow
ing;
l. An account Of the dangerous ad-
venture, 1856, Of William Rankin and
- Bradshaw, then Of Greene county,
State of Franklin, made by water from
Chucky, down the French Broad and
Helston and up the little Tennessee
river, to the Indian villages Chota, Tel
leo, etc, etc. in search Of lori TO re-
lieve a furnishing frontier from an appre-
hended famine. 1t was successfully &C
complished, and was afterwards repeated
by the same parties and by Jeremiah
Jack, Esq formerly Of Knox county
This journal is written most graphically
By w. Rankin, a son Of the adventurer
and an educator of great prominence
late OF Mendham, New Jersey.
2 The military coat or uniform of thl
former Brigade Major Robert Henri!
Hynds, in a good state Of preservation
The coat, in all its make up and append
ages, is DOW antique and curious, bu.
shows the mechanical skill, taste and ex
%cellent workmanship of its maker, tn,
late Andrew johnson, President OF th,
United States. 1t is presented to tn,
Society through DR.. Ramsey, by Msjot
Hynds, son Of Alexander Hynds, of Dan
bridge, Tenn, who informs DIR. r. tina
Mr.. johnson afterwards, while GoverDoI
of the State, commissioned his formeI
customer, Major Hynds, as Circuit Judgl
in his Judicial Circuit. He also received
his commission as Brigade Major from
the same source.
Other contributions are promised Il
DR.. Ramsey by psrtiesi in East and Yves
Tepnessee.-AmericdR
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11
whose FauI,r
Chicago Times.1

Chicago Times.l Il
Sheridan. two thousand miles
away, talks bravely. He has sent
twelve companies out to Terry, and
the redskins will soon feel the
weight of the nations iron hand.
This is encouraging and soldierly.
But where were these twelve COM
panies before Clusters slaughter?
Does General Sherman, the CON-
mander of the division, mean 70
admit that the troops were sent out
in insufficient squadrons, trusting
to luck to brighten the Indians? Is
it not the primal axiom of war to
concentrate every available man
when you attack an ~uncert0in
enemy, dOubly imperative if Oh his
own chosen position? Did General
Sheridan inform himself Of the
number of Indians Terry's various
columns would encounter? If so,
why were the columns inadequate,
as every line thus far received shows
them to have been? Guilty
as Sheridan is in the afro
cOus business, Sherman is evenmore
culpable. Upon his soul rests the
responsibility for the butchery of
every man slain in the Rosebud
river and Bighorn encounter. He
is the General-in- Chief Of the ar
mics Of the United States. These
armies consist of forces in the ag-
gregate of 10000 strong. Where
are these 10000 scattered, when a
nation so ferOcious, well armed, and
superbly led as the Sioux are to be
encountered Was it impossible
to foresee a desperate stand among
the PERCEPTIONS wastes of the Black
Hills and Bighorn country? And
isn't it the duty of a provident COM
mander to prepare for the worst,
instead of trusting to the chapter of
chances for the best that may hap
pen? Was it not possible to with
draw 10000 Of the veterans in the
South and put them in rank with
their battling brethren on the from
tier? Why should such a contest
be left for a moment in doubt?
Why are not the Indians confront
: ed with equal numbers? 1t would
save precious lives and end the con-
test.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11
The Homipr or Cartier pigeon

Mr.. Tegetmeier, q gentleman who has
devoted a great deal of time and study
to the habit aud uses OF the pigeon, de.
livered a.lecture recently at the London
Geological Garden on the "Homing or
Carrier Variety, its Natural History,
Training and Exploits" He gave some
particulars Of the pigeon concours OF
Belgium, in one of which a carrier had
come home from Rome to Belgium, a
distance of 900 miles. His most imme-
date object was, however, TO show hoy
the carrier pigeon might be used in war
and diplomacy, and more especially for
the prevention of shipWreck. He de-
scribed the collodion letters which we're
carried to aud fro by the pigeons during
the siege Of Paris, which the Prussians
could not intercept, but after many vain
trials finished by adopting the system
themselves.
Mr.. Tegetmeier strongly urged the ex-
pediency of keeping carriers on board
the light-ships all along the coast, and
showed by means of a map and diagram
that every soul on board the Deutsch-
land might have been saved had the
crew of the lightship only had a carrier
pigeon, under whose wing news Of the
ships perilous position might have been
sent into Harwich. Minute details were
given OF the manner in which the Bel
gians manage their annual pigeon con
ccurs, and by a course of gradual selec
ton obtain the best carriers. Specimen
of the blue rock dove, the wild parent o
the whole pigeon family, we're compare,
with the cultivated and selected bird
and examples were cited to show that il
a great many cases a pigeon service
might be made to supersede the electri
telegraph. The employment of pigeon
in this way would be merely the teviya
! of the practice of the great stoekbreker
at the commencement Of the century.
Those gentlemen kept, during the war
relays Of pigeons all along the road iron
Paris to London, and it was by means O
( a pigeon express that the late Barol
| Rothschild was able to inform the Births
government of the occurrence and resul
of the battle OF Waterloo. The pigeoI
had ever since been enlisted in the mill
tary service by the watchful Germans
Every German fortress had now its stoc.
OF carrier pigeons, and so much had tn
demand raised the price that a goo
/ %traveler could not now be obtained i
Belgium for less than six or seven pounds
The lecturer finished with 40 announce
: ment that experiments we're being mad
to test the prscticability of conveyin
navs of wrecked vessels from light ship
2 or lighthouses to the shore by means {
carrier n%iyeons.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11

The Printers Register tells of a unique
almanac for 1877, published in Austria,
The date of the day occupied the centre
Of each Leaf, and is s~urmoUnted on the
left by the name of the saint to whom
the day is dedicated, and on the right by
a maxim. The lower part of each leaf
is divided INTO two columns. From Jan
uary to June the left hand column con
tains q course of lessons in six modern
languages, and the other contains Schil
ler's poems. For the other half of the
year one column is devoted to a romano
by Jules Verne, and the other by a Ger
man vocabulary. At the back OF the
leaves are notes on mythology, cooking
law, household recipes aud arithmetic
The leaves are so prepared hat during
the summer months they can be STEPPED
in water as fly killers, and October t.
April can be made into cigarettes.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11

Two very peculiar marriages in low
life were performed the other day in the
chapel OF the prison of st. Lazare, Paris.
A short time ago two men, Maillard and
Vrignault, we're sentenced to twenty
years hard labor, while two women, theil
partners in crime, were condemned to &
short term. AS MaiilarG loved Eugeni,
Plat and Vrignault loved Hortense Cou
t%urier, they were deeply afflicted at thu
prospect of a long separation, and there
fore confessed to have committed sixteer
other robberies in addition to those fol
which they had been found guilty. This
necessitsted a new trial, and, as Mail
lard and Vrignault ioresaw, both Eu'
genie Plat and Hortense Couturier, i'm.
plicated with their lovers, and their pen
alties increased from Imprisonment into
transportation. Msillard and Vrignault
got twenty years more-but what are
twenty years more or less when the heart
is concerned2
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11
western Customs.

Out West a man who puts his
hands in his pockets while quarrel
ing is regarded as intending to draw
a pistol or a knife. A row was in
progress in a Denver saloon, and q
clergyman, intending to quell the
disturbance with remonstrance, in
a~dvertently pocketed one hand as
he placed the other on a rowdy's
shoulder. The rowdy applied the
customary reasoning to the gesture,
and believed hat he was in instant
danger Of being assailed with a
deadly weapon. The Clergyman
soon looked, says the report, as if
he had gone through a threshing
machine and afterward rolled of a
thTee-story house pile Of rocks.''
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11
Six Parties I'm Pursuit OF the Rail-,
rOhh RObberg.

ST.. LOUIS, July 9.-No tidings are YET
received of the capture of any Of the
men who robbed the railway train neal
Otteryille night before last, There are
now six parties out scouting for the rob
beers, all taking a southerly or southwest.
ern direction, but by different routes.
and there are great hopes that some o
them will be successful in running the
outlaws down. 1t is suspected that somt
of the robbers were employees of the Pa
cifc or the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
railroad, or both of them, and arrests
may be looked for very soon.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11

-
tng-Has Been Carrying on n SyEs
ten of Iufamy fer Twenty Years
I'm MISUNDERSTANDING disclosure.
Some twenty or more years ago a ne.
gro woman came here from South Caro-
lima, and at once commenced a course
Of crime by keeping an designation
house. She called herself Frances
Thompson and was known as "Crutchy,"
on account of using crutches. Since
that time she has kept up the infamous
traffic as q procuress and keeper of one
of the vilest dens in the city. She for
merly kept her establishment on Msdi.
son street, near the bayou, but of late
has kept an designation house near the
county Jail. Her trade and traffic was
with both whites and blacks, who fire.
quented the den. She has been arrested
several times on suspicion Of being
a man, and for notorious lewdness, but
always managed to elude the clutches
Of the law. 1t will be remembered that
when the Congressional Committee in
vestigated the Memphis riots, Frances
Thompson swore that she had been out
ragged thirteen times by an Irish mob,
aud this was used by the Radical party
as part Of the campaign thunder to ex
cite the negroes and keep them in the
ranks Of RAdicalism. A few days since,
at the instigation of a wellknow physi-
CT IN, Frances Thompson was arrested by
Sergeant McElroy on the charge of being
q man and wearing women's clothing
This morning, at the station-house, {
thorough medical examination o.
Frances Thompson was made by Drs
Wise, Nuttall, A. V. Taylor and Richard
Taylor, and the result of the examina
ton was that Frances was a mar
and not a woman in any respect
He is a coarse, ~rufianly snC
burly.looking negro, and has committed
numberless vile crimes while passing I'm
t der the garb of a woman and keeping
infamous establishments of the mos
horrible character-of a character i'm
b. possible to describe in print. 1t is
most revolving chapter of vice an,
/ crime. He always asserted that he wa
/ Of double SEX, known as the hermaphro
e dite, but he is not a human monstrosit.
a or monster except in crime. TIE physi
clans testified before Recorder Daft thi
i forenoon, and hat official fined the vii
8 lain fifty dollars for a misdemeanor, tn
highest penalty that could be imposed
The Attorney General is now looking u
G the law with reference to the case 10 tn
a light of a State ofense, Hereaite
d Frances will have to veal male appare
and will probably serve out a term {
o one hundred days on the chain-ganl
The affair is of a startling and sensI
!, tional character, aud will surprise nun
10 dreds Of citizens.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11

Mr.. Black, the English novelist, con.
templates a tour in America. Mr.. Con,
way says Of him that "he is not only q
brilliant novelist, as all the world knows
but, as it may not know, does the fine art
criticism for the London Daily News,
with which journal he has, l believe,
been connected ever since he came to
this region as a poor Scotch lad"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11
The Pennsylvania Railroad,
THE GREAT TRUNK LINE
Fast Mail Route of the United States

u;l be most direct, convenient and economi-
cal Wsy IF reaching Philadelphia and this
great ExbibitiOn from all sections of the
country, Its trains to and from Phlladelphla
will pass through a GRAND CENTENNlAL
DEPOT, which the Company have erected az
he Main Entrance to the Exhibition Grounds
or fine accommodation of passengers who
wish to stop at or start from the numerous
large hotels contiguous to this station and the
Exhibition-a convenience OF the greatest
value to visitors, and Afforded exclusively ~
ONLY LINE RUNNING DIRECT TO THE
CENTENNIAL BUILDINGS. Excursion
trains will also stop at the EHcampment Of
The Patrons of Hasbandry, at Elm Station, on
this road.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad is the grandest
ro;'Way organization in the world. 1t con-
tpoIs NeVen thousand miles Of roadway, form
Nm nm . ~ukinuous lines to philadelphia, New
Wy co p gilmore and Washington, over which
I hvrn nS day and night cars are run from
,rLioann e. Louis, Louisville, CINCINNATI, In,
SSihniDOssSoiS' ''1tumbus, Toledo, Cleveland and
Erie, without O. Wpse'
Tts main iine ia laid with double and third
tracls ~ heavy ste, u rails upon a deep bed OF
broken stone ballast. and It's bridges are All ol
iron or stone. Its passenger Trains a fS
equipped with every k. Wy are run at faster
SUaaS for sreossr Sistapc.S than the trains OF
nHoCu hASoNSA Hhn 0nmnanU has
any line on the continent. Ing OonipdnS no 10
largely increased its equipme Us IoI M ~ H.
travel, and will be prepared 70 ouIlu - = az
own shops locomotives and patsenser q T.
short notice sufficient to fully acgona
any extra demand. The unequaled IesouIvoS
at the command Of the Company guHIHMn ~
the most perfect Accommodations iot al ''
patrons during the Centennial Exhipltloh'
THE MAGNIFICENT SCENERY for which
the Pennsylvania Railroad is so justly eele
brated presents to the traveller over lts peilec'
roadway an ever-changing panorama OF river,
mountain, and landscape views unequaleo III
America.
THE MANIFESTATIONS on this. line arr
unsurpassed. Meals will be furnished ~
suitable hours and ample time allowed 10
enjoying them.
EXCURSION-TICKETS. at reduced rates
will be sold at all principal Railroad IlcKe
Offices in the West, Northwest. Southwest
Be sure that your ticket reads VII
the Great Pennsylvania Route to TIL
Centennial.
FRANK THOMSON, D. NJ. BOYD, JR.,
General Manager. Genl Passr Agent
10 35d&W
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11

The type. material and workmen Of
the LEDGER job Office are as good as the
best, and hence we guarantee frstc class
work and full satisfaction to our patrons.
1881
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11
100000.
Thos. P, Porter. ex-Gov. KY, Gen. Manager
positively No POstpOnement.
100000
Total, IL, 1855 Gifts, Iall Cash ..,.,-..
PRICE OF TICKETS;

Total. III. 1855 Gifts. .all Cash .,-r..S8OO, OOO
PRICE OF TICKETS;
Wholo Tickets. S12; Halves, So; Quarters, .S3i
oTickefs, 500; 27% Tickets, $500; 464 Tick
ets' $500 954 Tickets, $1,000. 100000 Tickets
Bemittances can be made by Express, Draft,
Postofice Money order or Registered Letter,
made payable to Kentucky Oesh niS
IribuIaOn company.
All communications connected with the
distribution and orders for Tickets, and APP
plications of Agents TO sell Tickets, should be
HON. THOS. P. PORTER,
General Manager, Frankfort, Ky.
ppS
e5-llSdkW
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11
ANOTHER LOT.

Just received another lot of those nice
straw hats with black and blue bands, at
Cohen's, 2l9 Main street. ia
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11
RAILROADS.
CENTENNIAL EXK IBITION,
Philadelphia, Penn.

NHIs GREAT INTERNATIONAL EXHI-
i bition, designed to commemorate the one
hundredth anniversary Of American indie
pendence, will open May. 10th and close No,
yember 10, 1876. All the Nations OF the world
and ali the States and Territories Of the Union
will participate, bringing together the most
comprehensive collection Of art, treasures,
mechanical inventions, scientific discoveries,
manufacturing achievements, mineral speoi-
mems, and agricultural products ever exhib-
tied. The grounds devoted to the exhlbltlon
Railroad, and embrace four hundred and fifty
acres of Paramount Park, all highly improved
and or%namented, on which are erected the
largest buildings ever constructed i've Of
these GOV ering an area Of fifty acres and cost
ing IS, 900. 900. The total number OF building
erected for the purposeC of the Exhibition il
over one hundred.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1876-07-11

Prices reduced to suit the
times. VIM. Floyd is selling
his celebrated New Orleans
Mead and cream Soda for
only a nickel a glass. ll4.t