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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-09-07

REMEMBER THIs.-Now is the time of the
year for Pneumonia, Lung Fever, Coughs,
Colds, and fatal results of predisposition to
Consumption and other Throat and Lung Dis
ease Boschees German Syrup has been
used in this neighborhood for the past two or
three years without single failure to cure
IF you have not used this medicine yourself go
to your Druggist, James A. Jones, and ask him
10 its wonderful success among his customers
Two doses will relieve the worst case. If you
have no faith in any medicine, just buy a
Sample Bottle of Boschee's German Syrup for
10 cents and try it. Regular size Bottle 10
cents. DoAt neglect cough to save 70 cents
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-09-07
Village Property for Sale,

will sell my house and lot, situstek just north
Of Henkel Wenzel's, in the village Of Lancaster.
The house Is a comfortable frame, ] u stories, z
rooms, good cellar and eistern; small fruits and
.hrubberg thu premises Terms cash.
! MARGARET CHASE.
Lancaster, Aug. I, 1870. a2vz+
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-09-07
TEETH Teeth! TELfH /!

In order to compete with travelling or itinerant
Dentist, will insert upper or lower Sets Of Teeth
on Celuoid Base for the next three months for Sl5
per Set. Over Utts store. GEO. G. NEWELL.
Lancaster, July Is 1875. l9m2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-09-07
THE MARKETS.
CHICAGO.

Chicago Sept. 5-3 P. NJ.
Wheat, No. ool
Corn tS%S
Oats . ....., .......................... 613lA
HOES ...,...,.................5 30@6 so
do Light. so9o ~
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-09-07
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway.

AT FAYETTEVILLE.
PLATTEVILLE & CALAMINE.
LEAygs ARRIVES.
piattayille - 525 a. m Piatteville........l2 Is m
warren - Oils m Warren ............. 80 a N
On Tuesday and Friday train will leave Piattevile
at 1i5p arriving at Warren at 4:i9; leave arren
at SOS arriving at Platteville at e:O5-
MARROW GAUGE TO 9ALENA.
Leave PiatteYille... Il 90 IN
Arrive at Galena............... -... 8 ~ p m
.rtvaat pIatteyiIIs. ..........l1 so m
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16
Tho Mustang Race.

The race against time, which comes off to-
day in Fleetwood Park, is trial of human
rs well as equine endurance. The thirty
horses will deserve less credit than the one
man, Francisco Peralto, who has undertaken
what is, even for Californian, a severe ride.
The wild horse of the California plains,
descended from the Arabs which Cortes and
his successors brought into Mexico, has
retained many of the features and qualities
of the Arabian horse. It is small horse
not pony, though pony-sized it has i'm
mense endurance, is very sure footed, has
good though seldom extraordinary speed,
and can live and prosper on very rough
fare. It is singular that among the native
horses of California, as among the Arabs of
Spain, the tinto, or piebald, ais favorite
color where speed and bottom both are de-
sired. A well known Southern Califor-
MAN once rode from Los Angeles to Santa
Barbara and back, distance altogether of
nearly two hundred miles, in day, using
but three horses for the ride, and stopping
two hours in Santa Barbara to transact bust
ness. The road is ON extremely rugged one,
and crosses two high mountains, and the
rider was nearly fifty years of age. This
feat shows what such horses and riders can
do. There is no doubt, however, that the
dry, pure air of California gives both horse
and rider there an advantage in such vio-
lent exercises which our moister climate
does not offer.
The mustang is usually broken at from
three to four years of age, and the process is
one which teaches him at once the superior
power Of man. The ANIMAL singled out Of
a herd, is lassoed, thrown to the ground.
blindfolded, and the saddle put on while
he lies prone. A nose strap is used in
stead of bride and bit, and the
rider mounts before taking the blind from
the creatures eyes Then begins a contest
between man and horse in which the spur
is freely used, and the object is to force the
horse to go ahead at top speed until he is
exhausted. This treatment, continued for
some weeks, is followed by more regular
training with the heavy bit used by Cali
fornians, and he is finally taught to obey the
slightest impulse of his riders leg or finger
and learns to take an intelligent and almost
human delight in the management of cattle
and in all the tricks of the rodeo or annual
cattle marking.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16

of some Southern Congressman like Ben
Hill afford color for the charge that the
malignants are as rabid as they were in the
the truth as it may, it is certain that
the republicans will give that turn to the
canvass, and, so far as they act on the ag-
gressive, it will be against the threatened
reorganization of our politics on the old
basis OF a united Southern dictation assisted
by the Northern democrats. All the stress
and emphasis of the Cincinnati platform will
be laid on this point. Now, if this is to be
the chosen battle ground of the republicans
they are not likely to select a candidate like
MIR. Bristow, who would merely represent
reform and not the leading issue Of the
party. The spirit of this conference, SO far
as it has been developed, indicates a de-
cided preference for Bristow; but he is not
publicly identified with the questions which
connect the republican party with its his
tory and its triumphs. Instead of him the
Cincinnati Convention will select q candi-
date whose record makes him a representa-
tive of the past struggles of the party
and of the issue on which it will
mainly rely in the present canvass.
The Cincinnati nominee will have to be
man of unassailable integrity, but he must
also satisfy the demand for an aggressive
campaign directed against party which the
united South will control rs soon MS it is
once in power. We are not stating our own
view, but that which will prevail at Cincin-
"a = Al
to Southern domination as the chief issue
Mr. Bristow will have no chance for the
nomination. The attempt of the Fifth ave-
nue. conference to give him boost will be
cloves labor lost"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16
Tho oomptrollership Question.

Public sentiment will indorse Comptroller
Green's action if he decides to resist by all
legal means at his command the consum-
nation of the bargain by which the Finance
Department of the city government is sought
to be again turned over to the control of
Tammany. Lawyers, who have examined
the charter, express the opinion that, in con-
sequence of the peculiar wording Of the
section relating to the appointing power, the
authority of the Mayor to nominate and the
Aldermen to confirm Comptroller is at
least doubtful, while some insist that the
appointment of that officer is positively
prohibited. The official acts Of Comp
troller illegally appointed would be null
and void. and any bonds and stock of the
city issued by him would be worthless.
Hence an injunction should be granted in
the public interests restraining the Mayor
from nominating and the Board of Aldermen
from confirming successor to Mr.. Green
until the legal point involved shall have re-
ceived judicial decision. Under the law
duly appointed and qualified, and his off,
cial acts performed after Q expiration of
his term would, therefore, be legal
If the courts should decide that the
Mayor and Aldermen have the appointing
power no injury would be inflicted on the
city and no wrong done to anybody by the
delay pending the decision. The people of
New York desired that Mayor Wickham
should be prevented by legislation from APP
pointing a Comptroller for four years within
a few weeks of the expiration of his own
term Of Office The bill for that purpose
was defeated at Albany by corrupt combi-
nation. If the contemplated legal proceed
ings accomplish the same result ms would
have followed the enactment of the proposed
law, by postponing the appointment Of Mr..
Green's successor until the next Mayor
comes into Office, the respectable portion Of
the community will be well satisfied.
TRINITY COLLEGE, Four on the Schuyl-
kill ID the best Cambridge University can do
toward our Centennial regattas. We shall
be glad to greet the English oarsmen in
whatever guise they come, but it is too bad
they cannot send us representative univer-
sity crews for the contest on Saratoga Lake.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16
PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE.

Five hundred Indians live In Florida
ohio's capital sends delegates for Thurman
The Eastern fine cut tobacco manufacturers try
ing to foil the westcrners.
Edward Everett Hale Is in Texas, near Mexico. but
he is still man with country.
The Louisville Courier Journal says that "Grant usca
gIasscsn Does this mean goggles or eurglcsf
The Columbus tGa) Enquirer says that Columbus 10
prosperous because It's women wear common cothss
manufactured in its own mills
Tho country newspapers are pictorial with CRATES
looking over palm trees and OF ion-tnmers putting
little rings around big Iona Tho circus - coming
Said man in a yesterday :-"Whas 10 the use Of
taking washngtons false teeth the Centennial when
they can go to Mount Vernon and got tho real onesf
Fox was like Pitt extremely fond Of partridge shoot<
inc bus he used 10 grow SO excited when the birds lag
well that he often put the shot into his gun before The
powder
Is i, any sign or the times that Brissow tho only
candidate in whose name political clubs arc being
formeds what is tho essential meaning Of clubs il
poiicss
An Eastern writer in San Francisco says that the
Ch,naman il cleaner, stepping afser white man has
loft. and doing tho small but valuable work that
white man would scorn 70 do
The Chicago Tribune praises Bristow because in I
Zinc Of republican dcadncss and corruption no intro
iuccd system wncn gave 70 the party all the lie o.
worth Of life that Il now possesses.
The Cincinnati Gasefs, touching the subject or the
products OF the soil commanding higher price than
those OF skilled labor, advises mon who are idling
around cities to 80 to the Western fields
so great Is the superstition OF the Southern negro
and strong his faith in the power Of wtchcra that
Georgia colorcd believes that an Atlanta woman
charmed and tricked him. and that no has fortys
nine live snakes In his leg.
Ex-senator William u. Stewart, OF Nevada and Of
Emma mine fame, In California, and Is fond OF re-.
teratng that conkng has tho inside chances for tho
Presidential nomination. He found growing Conk-
ling sentiment in Nevada.
The fai Nal Budget says:--"Nothing could be moro
spteul or moro ignorant than Tho harnngues In which
men like Mr. Webster, Mr.. Seward and Mr.. Charles
Sumner cultivated the favor OF the Irish born ELECTORS
holding up England TO yrant suthlcssly
tramp'pr the lives and liberties Of the Irish people "
the dustn
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16

MrsFoRrUxEs OF POLITICIAN
Speaker Blaine is an unfortunate man.
Politically, the Fates seem bent on working
him mischief. He has brother. like the
farmer in the play of 'Toodles." and this
brothers name being j. E. Blaine, in sound
SO similar to J. G. Blaine, the stock TRANSACT
tions of the one. who is unknown to fame,
are naturally attributed to the other, with
whom the world is familiar. Then again,
the ex-Speaker has q cousin, General
Thomas Ewing, Jr., who SO closely resem-
bles him that they are frequently mistaken
the one for the other. Thus Speaker Blaine
is supposed to have held private interview
with J. B. Stewart and received from him. .
transfer of twenty-four thousand dollars
worth of Kansas Pacific bonds, when 10 it is
discovered that Stewards visitor was Blaine'a
cousin and not Blaine himself. All this il
unfortunate, especially as il will take Mr..
Blaine SO long to explain that he is likely to-
be left behind in the race for the Presidential
nomination.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16

SPANISH FINANCES in Cuba seem to be ad-
ministered in q strangely empirical way.
No sooner is new style Of tax devised and
decreed than it is changed for some other
more or less odious tax. The philosophers
have there fine opportunity for studying
how high the percentagei is to which q people
may be made to pay taxes. The Cuban
fnanciers make no senseless distinctions
between taxes which are unjust or oppres-
sive, but they are continually stopped in
their bold tests by inability to collect be-
yond certain point. The latest expert
ment seems to prove that thirty per cent on
incomes is too high.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16

In the report of conversation with Mr..
Strakosch we yesterday laid before the pub
lie some news that was certainly read with
great pleasure Both the tenors whose i'll
ness interrupted the season of Italian opera
are nearly recovered, and the performances
will shortly be resumed, when the people
will be able to appreciate fully the quality
of Mile. de Belocca, of whose talents they
have formed already good opinion. But
Mr.. Strakosch, full as he is of pleasant prom
Uses for the immediate future, holds up to
our eyes a more tantalizing vision of what he
may possibly present next winter. He has
conditional agreements with some Of the
most eminent and celebrated artists in Eu-
rope;' he would support these artists with
"a good company, good orchestra and fine
scenery in this spirit of management he
believes the opera could be made perma-
nently remunerative here, and he would evil
IDENTIFY like to make the Academy of Music
the scene of an experiment to test the posi-
bility of sustaining here regularly year in
and year out this noble entertainment.
1t is one of those bits of cross purpose
from which the public SO often suffers that
while one man seems to have all the am
bition, and ample resources in the way Of
artists, another man has possession of the
Academy. Possibly Mr.. Mapleson has at his
command, in addition to Titiens artists Of
whom we do not hear, and who in talent
and number will, in the hands of so expert
enced o manager, leave us no reason to re-
gret that the Academy has fallen into his
hands. But what he may be able to do is in
doubt, while the campaign sketched by Mr..
Strakosch is definite, and the public has nc
quired the habit of depending upon this
gentlcmans promises. Without the slight
est disposition to make invidious distinc-
ton, it may be said that Mr.. Strakosch is
an old acquaintance, associated with very
pleasant parts of such musical history rs we
have; almost New Yorker, in fact, though
since the great triumphs achieved with Patti,
which were initiated by him in the Academy
of Music, he has spent less time with us
than formerly. This regard for old acquaint-
ances never goes with the public to the ex-
treme Of establishing camerddcrie in the in
terest of any manager but it is commonly
guarantee that the manager thus dis tin
cuished has thorough intimacy with tho
tastes of the musical public and has catered
to them successfully.
There is one point happily touched by Mr..
Strakosch. He promises a good company.
We may concede his view as to the necessity
of star, or two or three stars; but we would
carry it just step further and wish to see
every part in tho hands of an artist of star
like quality in his way. Our most success
full theatre is conducted on that principle.
Lately the city has laughed at a tragic buff
foon who played Hamlet with IAN imaginary
company" and apparently he thought it a
new idea; but in fact it is plagiarized from
the star system, where one actor or artist
stalks to and fro amidst figures that are i'm
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16
! Good R...o. ses . 3Sssss. -


The Territory of New Nd 77xico, with an
area almost three times that oA Y the State OF
New York, has populationfy of less than
one hundred thousand soujtls of whom
only about two thousand are Ameri-
cans, the remainder bein,s Mexicans,
Indians and half breeds 1T has been
settled by Europeans. as Mr.. ,nStevenson, Of
Illinois, remarked the other day in the
House of Representatives, for stwo hundred
and fifty years it has been IA Territory Of
the United States over o quar- Tier Of GEN.
fury; it has mines of gold, silvekf and other
minerals to attract population !; Nand yet o.
such small general attractivenesa is it that
after all these years, it contains II SIS popula-
ton than some wards in New Yorl and fewer
Americans than are found in mar ~ villages
in the interior In 1878, in the hole Ter
ritory, there were only one hun dred and
sixty-four schools of all kinds, an ID in only
ten of these was the English language
taught. Mr.. Stevenson showed thaty la single
county in Illinois produced more q ain and
has nearly as large a population as New
Mexico, and has two hundred and fifty -four
free schools besides academies and olleges.
1t seems absurd to make State Of wild
and nnimproving region, which, aft being
for nearly thirty years under our bg, has
to-day no more than two thousand Ameri-
cans among its scant population, an( which
produces less than many single couf ties in
other States. In fact, there is hit one
reason for making New Mexico 4 State.
That reason is named Elkins. Mr.. Slkins
is the Territorial Representative in Congress
from New Mexico. If you ask anyb6>iy in
Washington about him you will Learn that
"Rlkins is good fellow-a very good fell
low" During the last session of Congress
the House nearly voted to make New Mexico
a State, and the reason which was given
by many Representatives was that they
couldn't resist Elkins-he was such good
fellow"
It is hard to oppose in such Ca Nanda We
will not doubt Mr. Elkins' goodness pf every
kind. But this is too serious. .stter for
trifing. 1t is not Elkins that congress is
asked to erect into State, but New Mexico.
and New Mexico Ms a State would be
rotten borough. We have enough Of these
already. We hope the House will resist the
Establishments of Mr.. Elkins and leave New
Mexico what sho is for the present
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16

The House has refused to throw open the
doors of the investigating committees,
mainly by democratic vote; and now we
see that the republicans in the Senate follow
the mistaken example of the democratic
House, and are investigating the condition
of Mississippi with closed doors and in
secret This is oil wrong and blunder
besides. Nothing is gained and much time
is lost by secret investigations. Not only
this, but committees are likely, when they
work in secret, to lose many important wit
nesses. An open inquiry attracts the atten-
ton of the country; everybody reads or
hears about the evidence, and new and vol
untary witnesses turn up from unexpected
quarters. This has been the experience of
all the committees which have sat with open
doors.
We hope the investigating committees in
both houses will abandon the un-American
and useless practice of working in secret.
If it is continued much longer it will make
all these inquiries odious or partisan, or
both, in the public esteem; and thus the
ends of justice and the public good
will be more injured than they
could possibly be by the utmost publicity.
There is no greater mistake than that which
petty and partisan men make in thinking
that secrecy increases the importance of their
proceedings. The contrary is true. 1t
oftenest defeats the very object of the in
quiry. There can be no doubt that if the
Committee on War Expenditures had made
the Belknap investigation with open doors
they would have been saved some mortify-
ing blunders, and would have brought Mr..
Belknap's offence to light just as surely for
it is well known that all the persons impli-
Gated knew of the inquiry going on-only
the public was kept in the dark. There is
little doubt that several important investi-
cations begun in the present Congress
have failed of results mainly because the
committees closed their doors and kept their
work from the public. We trust there is
common sense and public spirit enough in
both houses of Congress to order the doors
of all investigating committees thrown open
at once.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16

aginarily artistsnlso. This has been carried
to even greater extremes in opera than in the
drama, and it is the bane of the entertain
ment. 1t reduces the opera to concert.
There is no art but when the principle per-
former comes on. Let Mr.. Strakosch reform
this for us, give us a we'll balanced, capable
company, and he will have no difficulty in
the project of making an opera season per-
manent feature of our city life.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16

No WONDER THEY CHANGED THE SuBJEc1
in tho Methodist ministers meeting al
Newark yesterday, when Rev. Mr.. Gravea
made the remarkable statement that hG
would play with fire to snatch brand from
the burning, even to the extent of scorching
his moral fingers 80 little"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16

WALL STREET YESTERDAY. Stocks were
heavy and the market dull. Gold opened
Md closed at 112 H. with sales meanwhile
Mt 112 So. Money on call loaned ut 2 and
21-2 per cent Government and railway
bonds were quiet and steady
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16

PLoN PLoN has been elected at last TO the
French Chamber of Deputies from Ajaccio,
which looks as though the Corsican tiger
was changing its stripes, but is by no means
. proof that he has lost his claws. Prince
Napoleon carries out the old Napoleonic
legend of making love to the Republic as
the way to power. Rouher represents the
idea TINT the people want the Empire.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16

CREEpMooR seems dangerous place for
burglars to practise at since the rifle range
has been in operation there. August Bauer
thinks So Mt any rate
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16

HAITI is putting mp nine-pin govern
ment which is announced as provisional"
with superiority of expression doubtless
born of late exciting events. They are to
have FIVE black pins of one sort and four
black pins of another sort set up, and it is all
arranged how they are to be bowled out I'M
less some unforeseen episode sets the balls
rolling before the appointed time. They
appear to want honesty down there in pub
lie Office, but views differ so as to tho
amount Of stealing which really constitutes
honesty that we have no hope they will
know an honest man there until they find
him turning the customs duties in steady
stream into his private Golfers. To provide
against all miscalculations the last clause in
the new constitution is Long live revolu-
ton"
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16

NOTICE TO COUNTRY NEwsDEAI.ERs. For
prompt and regular delivery Of the HERALD
ty fast mail trains orders must be sent direct to
This office POSTAGE free
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16

The CUBAN INSURGENTS are determined on
war to the knife with the Spaniards, and
denounce oil as traitors who in the name of
the Cuban Republic offer any terms to Spain,
save those Of independence, for closing the
instruction.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16

The WAR OF THE POLICE BOARD upon the
Board of Health is one of the most unseemly
exhibitions of official arrogance, petty jeal-
ousy and narrow mindedness conceivable.
We had great many extraordinary episodes
in the days of Matsell and Disbecker, but
nothing more Philistian has been seen in po-
lice affairs since the days of Dogberry than
the attempt to Gust the Board of Health from
its quarters, which Judge Speir, of the Supe-
rior Court, stayed by his decision yesterday.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-05-16
TRIPLE S HEE 7.
new YORK. TUESDAY. MAY l6, 1875.

From our reports this morning the probabilities
ore that the ,oeather today uM be cooler
and cloudy, ,riH, possibly, rain