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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09
The Business Outlook.

The New York Commercial Bulle-
tin, which is most excellent authority
reports a healthy activity in all
branches of trade in New York. The
Philadelphia and Baltimore papers
give equally encouraging assurances,
while the iron industries of Pitts
burg, so long silent, are again alive
and active. In Cincinnati the Com
mercial reports that "the tide OF BUSH
ness has turned" In the West and
Northwest the movement of grain
to the seaboard is giving the rail-
roads profitable employment and
putting money into the pockets of
the farmers. st. Louis, Chicago,
Milwaukee, and other Western cities
are feeling the effect of the improved
turn of affairs, and report greater
activity than has been realized in q
long time. And in New Orleans and
other cities of the South the heavy
arrivals of cotton have had stimu-
lating effect upon business. Money
is abundant, though lenders are
more cautious as to security than in
former times but approved paper
can always secure enough for every
legitimate use.
There is prospect that the long
continued season of "hard times" is
at on end. Most heartily do we con-
graduate the working people on the
opening pr, spect. They have been
the greatest sufferers, for what to
the manufacturers, trader, and capit>
alist ment only suspension of pros
perity, meant to them priVation,
want, and starvation. Wages are
somewhat lower than they were,
| but prices of all articles of eonsump-
ton will speedy adjust themselves
to the laws of trade. The man who
works for wages may not be able to
put as much money in his pocket
as in the days following the war, but
if he has learned valuable lesson
from his recent hard experience, and
improves it, he may soon realize a
prosperity of which he has not yet
dreamed. Not what q man earns
but what he saves is that which
guarantees prosperity and exemption
from want. Let him learn, no mat
ter how poorly paid, to put aside a
little for rainy day"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09
The Public Credit-The Great Peril.

True it is, as urged by August
Belmont and the New York Herald,
our bonds III value are second only
to England's, but that is not the
issue. 1t is What will be their
value, what the public credit, under
the Democracy All know that
the integrity and incorruptible faith
of the Republicans in promptly hon
oring all the obligations of the nation
have steadily advanced our credit to
its present high standard among the
securities of the world. The acts Of
the financial world acknowledged
that The Republican financial re
cord is the glory of the Republic, and
to fiuanciers, at home and abroad, is
an absolute guarantee under them of
the national honor
But dare they trust the Democra-
cy? Dare they trust the party
whose financial record for years is
one of persistent hostility to the cur
rency and credit to the nation; of
a furious war of denunciation and
libel upon the "bloated bondholder )"
the notorious mal-administration and
bad faith, which, in 1861, at their
exodus from office to the bloody
fields of rebellion and treason, had
sunk the national securities to Is
per cent. discount the wild cat
greenback scheme, which from Pen
dletons door have lily concealed their
design of ultimate reputation of
men, who, in every state south, but
one, under their control, in Alabama,
Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina,
Tennessee and Virginia, have prac-
tically repudiated the State debt :?
Dare the fnanciers of the world trust
such party :? That is a grand issue !!
Tho answer of the London Syndicate
is exhaustive. AS "solid South"
and the initiation victory in Indiana,
render the election of Tilden posi-
BILE, so we dare not invest further in
your ~ per cent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09
The Crop Report.
ashiD gton,

asniDgtoD, NOV. ..
The digest of the crop report for
October, as prepared at the Depart
ment of Agriculture, indicates re-
duction in the yield of the wheat
crop of nearly one-sixth. While the
quality is some what superior in
every section of the Union, it indi-
Gates reduced product, except IN
the Middle States. Figures point 0
yield of about 245, 600, 600. bushels
Rye is reported TO be 4 per cent less
than in 1875, but it's quality is better.
Barley is six per cent less than last
year. Buekwheat is full average.
Oats show g falling off of % per
cent Every section of the Union is
deficient. The corn crop is dfcient,
but figures are not yet obtained.
The cotton crop will DO large and
likely approach the heavy yield OF
1875. Sweet potatoes yield full
average crop. Sorghum is full
production. The tobacco reports
STOW an verage production
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09

LAST week we published list of
States which were expected to vote
the Republican ticket, and showed
that if New York and Connecticut
should vote for Tilden there still
would be 1S5 electoral votes left,
which are enough to make Hayes the
President. 1t now seems that these
two States have voted for Tilden. Of
the others not one is yet conclusively
for Tilden. Wisconsin, Louisiana,
Oregon, South Carolina and Florida
are declared by dispatches to be in
doubt. II they are all for Hayes,
then he is elected. If any one OF
them is for Tilden, then TildGn is
elected.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09
Labor and Prosperity.

The uncertainty of wealth is pro-
verbal - the decendents of the rich
of one generation being the poor of
the next. The cause is too often APP
parent in the enervatioD, want of
economy, enterprise and forethought,
in the inheritors of wealth, when
com pared with their less fortunate
neighbors. Has it ever suggested it.
self to you how sure is the reward of
honest toll when properly directed ?
The wealthy rising men of to-day,
as body, are almost without ex-
ceptiop seIf-made. The secret of
their success, sought after by many,
is as plain as mondays sun. They
do not float INCREASINGLY with the
stream Of humanity, but in their
separate callings struggle hard
against the stream. When times are
hard they are not seen on the street
corners complaining of their lot, but
reading the future by the
unerring light Of the past, know
that the dark clouds on the horizon
but foretell the coming sunshine.
Their little savings are scrupulously
cared for and judiciously invested,
while the croaker comforts himself
with dismal prophecies-and the re-
suit is an abundant and golden har-
vest. Such an occasion is the pres
ent. For three years enterprise has
been paralyzed, and the most dismal
prophecies have been apparently
well nigh realized /; but the busy
marts of commerce, now deserted,
shall be thronged again the cheer
full buzz of the factory, now dismal
in their quietude, shall resound with
honest industry. Then what will be
tho result ? The dollar judiciously
invested shall be doubled and
trebled and the poor man, un-
known and unbeard of, who takes
stock in the prosperity of his town
and Nation, shall be extolled and
honored. To all we say keep not
your means idle, pay your debts.
take advantage of the profitable in~
vestments now offered, whether it
be in houses, lands or business enter
prise, and our word for it, you will
not regret it. The cry of ovor-pro-
duction is farce and @ deiusion.
There is room enough in this broad
land of ours for every honest son of
. VOL. =" WORK faithfully followed
will bring success every time. The
more discouraging the times of to-
day, the greater the revival when it
comes and the sooner it will arrive.
american Manufacturer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09

row. There is room in it for all
can ever hope to do. | do not know
how it is with those who, like Dari-
us Green, do no. care to stick to
their sphere, but should remind item
to take care where they light. Let
us be- content. Our rights we have,
If we will but use them our wrongs
are mostly of our own making. GOD
has seen fit to make Us women: he
meant us to be like his chosen forces
for greatest good; quiet, and working
unobtrusively. He has given US I'll
we can do we'll if We live 10 be three
score and ten. Whatsoever Ger
hands find to do, let us do with all
our might.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09
A Ricn Old Maiden.

A spiuster named Emma Corn
wall died recently at Towner's Sta
ton, N. Y. Upon examination it was
found that the deceased had $4,000
in bank stocks and United States
bonds, and the farm valued at $780,
600 made up her wealth. The bonds
and stocks were found hid away in
old franks, in dress pockets, stuffed in
rolls of carpeting, in bedding, and, IN
fact. the search fer her possessions
were one surprise. Thousands of dol
lars would be found in the most incon-
oeivable places, and it is rot positively
known but that q snug little fortune
ia now somewhere concealed in the
house. Hudson { ". VI Republican.
CHICAGO sells s5,OOO,0 900 worth of
iewelry every year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09
A Logical Letter.
our nigt

A prominent gentleman in Michigan
wrote to an official in Washington to
know the probable result of the Pres
idential campaign. The following is
copy of the reply:
OCTOBER GOTH,
"DEAR SIR:-Your letter of the
oath inst has been received. There is
as much danger of the election of Til
den as there was of the success of the
rebellion, and no more, The election
of Tilden means the success of the
Democratic party, and the success of
the Democratic party means the con-
troll of the national affairs by ex-rebals,
as the strength of the Democratic
party is in the South. 1t is not the
northern Democrats, but the Southern
Democrats, who will control the
action of that party in national affairs,
because maiorities rule and they will
have the majority. The patriots out
numbered the rebels and the Copper
heads combined during the war, and
the Republicans outnumber their COM
bined forces to-day. Have no fears
as to the result. As long as God is
God and right is right, so long will
this grand, growing, noble young Re
public, in which are centered the
hopes of the advocates of human
rights the world over, be saved from
the rule of those who endeavored to
destroy it. The only possible hope
that leading Democrats have of sue
cess for their ticket is through fraud
in New York, and other large cities,
and intimidation and fraud combined,
throughout the South. Measures have
been taken to prevent the success of
their proposed frauds in New York,
and to repress violence towards Re-
publican voters in the South. We
shall succeed because our cause is
just, because the success of the Dem
ocracy would imperil the. rational
honor and integrity, and cause the
fruits OF the war of the rebellion to
burn to ashes on the lips of dying
Republic.
Very trnly yours,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09
The biennial report on the progress

The biennial report on the progress
of Oregon gives the white pop1la-
ton of the State in 1875, as about
1885, 900, against $1,000 in 1870, but
though the growth OF population is
slow, a prodigious amount of wealth
is produced. Nearly 100000 acres
of land are under cultivation, $780,
900 bushels of wheat were raised,
over 1000. 900 bushels of other grain
1893, 900 pounds of wool, l,555. 900
pounds of butter, besides 1900 bar
rels of salmon and $4,000 cases of
canned salmon, the salmon fishery
alone being valued at $4,000, 600 a
year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09

The Tilden organs reiterate the
falsehood that the last Democratic
Congress reduced the number Of its
employees. The truth is, that while
that body was engaged in Gripping
the departments of the Government
by cutting down necessary appropria-
tons, it was engaged in increasing
the number of soft places for its par.
tisans. The Republican Congress of
ls74-75 had eighty-one officers,
clerks and other employees, while the
Democratic Congress of 1876 had
lis. the following particulars show
the extravaganza of the "reformers.
The places under the Speakership
are:
Republican, 1875. Reform 1879.
Speaker. Speaker.
Speakers Secretary. Speakers Secretary
Clerk. Clerk
Totals. Special Messenger for
Speaker.
Total.
In the Doorkeeper's Office we find:
Republican, 1875. Reform" 1876.
2 Doorkeepers. 2 Doorkeepers.
Supt Folding room. Sup't Foldng-room.
Sup'ts Doe.-room Supts Doc.-room.
File Clerk. File Clerk.
Clerk to Doorkeeper. Clerk to Doorkeeper.
10 Messengers Clerks Folding room.
Total-23. % Messengers.
Totals.
There was no reason whatever for
this increase of clerks and messengers,
except to give place to hungry Dem
ocrats.
Again in the Postmaster's office we
find:
Republican, 1875. reform. 1876.
Postmasters 2 Postmasters.
5 Messengers. IA Messengers.
Total-l0. Total-l6.
The sole ann of the Democratic
Congress seemed to be to provide
places for its pets. 1t cut down only
where it had no control or patronage.
Once install Democracy at Washing
ton and the number of offices will be
multiplied as amazingly as the number
of voters was in the recent Indiana
election.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09
MOSBY ON TILDEN.
He Gives the Sham RefOrmer and Rebel Sym
pathizer a Severe Overhauling.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov.

PHILADELPHIA, Nov. q.
Democrats nave been making, in
the South particularly, constant and
virulent attacks on Col. Mosby. They
represent him as hired agent of the
administration, and endeavor to ex-
cite hostility against him as deserter
from the Confederacy. He has writ
ten in reply to one of these charges
the following letter, which needs no
further explanation
WARRENToN, Va, Nov. 2.
Col. James B. ONeal:
DEAR Sir: II have just received your letter
of the 30th ult informing me that q Demo-
cratic orator in Philadelphia had stated that
General Grant had appointed me to some
Office | am glad that you denounce the
statement as a lie. 1t originated with the
1uuen bureau, and was pronounced by me
to be false in letter published several weeks
ago They still continue to circulate this and
other lies about me- | have never received
in any shape the slightest favor or benefit of
any kind from Gen Grants Administration,
although was his cordial supporter. The few
Ccnfederates he had appointed to office in
the South were as loyal to the Government
during the war as Tilden, and are much more
so now. l am unable to account for the fe-
rocty with which l have been pursued by
the Tilden organs, unless it be that they think
their candidate has a claim upon me for my
support on account of the message Of sympathy
and cheer receiusd from him during that an-
happy period vheu ,oas fighting to ooerttro'c
the Government of the Union. But for the adj
vice of such men in the North as Tilden the
South never would have plunged into disas>
trous war, and
Launched her fortunes on that perfdous bark,
Built in the eclipse and rugged with curses dark.
In haste, very truly, john S. MosBY.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09
A Healthy Sign.

1t is healthy sign that our ex-
ports largely exceed our imports.
In 1876 the first eight months were
imported, in value. s374, 988,511, and
exported $500, S32,5SS, an excess in
our favor of SIS. S43,077.
In 1876, same months, cur imports
amounted to 1905, 905. 1872, and our
exports to 4O7 .6S3,573, or an excess
of experts over imports of S101,777,-
SAL.
This is healthy indication, and
promises busy times before long.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09

WHEN England turned the wheel
of Revolution backwards and re-
placed her old monarchy on Crom-
wells ruin, it took her fifty years to
recover her onward course. How
shall it be with America il che has
given the sceptre into the hands of
the enemies
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09

DIR. a. G BARRY, long the leading
minister of the Universalist Church
in Wisconsin, publicaly renowned
his doctrine ia the Congre gational
church at Fond du Lac on Sunday,
the 29th, and preached two sermons
that day in defense OF his couree.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09
here were
1852 -J46I-lO1.-rhe chara

IOOA tOI IOI' TO N"est 0N :
ter of Tilden as reformer continues
to develop. lie was elected to the
Legislature of New York, aud DUR
ing the session the votes were taken
fifteen hundred and sixty-two times,
and Tilden was absent or lodged
fourteen hundred and sixty-one
times. He served his constituents
with the same fidelity that be paid
his income tax. And Charles Francis
Adams still admires him rs reform
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09

The good Book says THE ma
ton that sinueth, it shall die. :" What
will become of the nation that per-
mits Tilden to go into the Presiden-
tial chair By the means that have
been used by him
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09

Nebraska has Eore than doubled
her population since 1879. The State
now contsios 257, 747 inhabitants as
compared with 1898 in 1870, and
4 494 in 1855.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09

NEVER was q cincere word utterly
lost, never a msgnanimity fell to the
ground; there is some heart always
to greet and accept it unexpected
10
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-11-09
Population of Wisconsin.

A friend haa compiled for us the fol-
lowing facts relative to the nativity
of the inhabitants of Wisconsin. The
total population is 1926, 729, of which
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-04-29
Subscribers out of County, $1.2O

a rap at the door. Come in i'' cried
the sire, and in bounced the boy in
sailor jacket and tarpaulin hat just
home from whaling voyage.
Such rejoicing us there was in that
house. How his father shook both his
hands, and how his mother wept over
him and embraced him, and how all the
brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins
hung around his neck and tugged at
his sailor jacket.
II was worth braving the dangers of
| the sea to meet with such welcome
| on his return. lie sat at the feast in
| the chair that mothers deathless love,
and hope and recollection had always
placed for him, and never was there a
happier THANKSGIVING since that cher
ished anniversary was invented.
Crabapple's boy wept over that story
every time he read it, and he got to
wondering whether such fuss would
be made over him should he run away
from home and then turn up again some
Thanksgiving day.
He thought about it so much that he
finally determined to test the business,
anyhow. He would see how the peo-
pie would act when he played the pro-
digal's return. So about week be-
fore Thanksgiving he ran away from
home. He didn't go to sea be-
cause the sea was too far off, and he
couldn't make much of voyage in one
week, anyhow. He got a job in a tan
yard, grinding bark, which answered
all the purpose, for he could imagine
his bark was on the sea-" as he rode
the old horse around the circle. He
called the mill the world, and imagined
himself sailing around the world at
every revolution.
With beating heart he approached
the paternal mansion. He looked In at
the window and saw the folks just sit>
ting down to the Thanksgiving supper.
A chill of disappointment crept over
him as he saw there was no vacant
chair and there wasn't any idle plate on
the table. He listened at the door as
the blessing was asked, but although
several prophets were honored with
f1attering notice, his name wasn't men,
toned. This was little hard on the
boy who had run away from home and
was liable to turn up on that or any
succeeding Thanksgiving day.
Recollections Of him didn't seem to
cluster around the hearthstone to any
very great extent.
Repressing chilling foreboding that
arose in his breast, he flung open the
door, rushed into their midst and ex-
claimed" Father mother tits T,
Sammy Crabapplel-home again! homel
home - and then threw himself on his
fathers breast, sobbing convulsively.
What did that father do? Did he
hug him and sob tears over him, and
call him his long lost bo-bo-bOy 2"
Not much. He took him by the collar,
led him into the woodshed and worked
over him more than an hour with bar
rel stave. his brothers and sisters
dancing aroupd on the back stoop in an
ecstacy of delight, while his mother
screamed, I" That's right, Ambus give
it to him Learn him better'n to run
away from home again !"
Then he was sent to bed without any
Thanksgiving supper at all, and
threatened with being deprived of both
Christmas and New Years dinner.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-04-29
Plotts' Star Organs

Arc as perfect parlOr organs as are manufactu
red. Correspondence solicited with Organists-
musicians and the trade. Address, EDWARD
PLOTTS. Washington. N. j.
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-04-29
New Advertisements.
TREASURER'S SALE
Unseated Lands !
NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, that

NOCS HhHEbh GlNEN, mat
AN agreeably 10 the Act Of Assembly of the Com
monwealth of Pennsylvania directing the mode
Of Selling the Unseated Lands for Taxes. the fol
lowing Tracts aud Parts Of Tracts Of Unspated
Lands will be sold, at Public Sale on JUNE 18th,
II being the Third Monday OF June next, at the
Court House. in the Borough of Mauch Chunk.
for the arrearages Of Taxes due. and the cnsts ac
crued on each. respectively, unless the same be
paid before the day of sale Sale to commence at
TEN O'Clock A. NJ
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-04-29
A DIsCOURAGED BOY.

Crabapple's boy had read that touch
ing Thanksgiving story about the chap
who ran away from home When boy
and went TO sea and was not heard of
for years and years and how on every
Thanksgiving day the mother set a
plate for the wanderer, and kept seat
for him at the table, and how the gray
haired sire, when he offered a blessing,
prayed for his wayward son-prayed
that he might return In safety to the
paternal Roof. a i"
And then one Thangiving day, when
they had about given him up for dead,
although the plate and vacant chair
told the story OF a mothers undying
hopes, just as the family had sat down
TO Thanksgiving dinner. there came
The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1876-04-29
WAKING UP THE WRONG PASSEN.
GER,

One day last week the three-car monte
thieves met with little surprise over at
Battle Nj untain. and from among the
passengers on the West bound train
who alighted they selected the wrong
one for a victim. The story is thus told
by the Virginia Enterprise
"The other day, at Battle Mountain,
they, (the monte sharps) ailured Ger
man from the east, who exhibited q
large roll of greenbacks on the plat
form, into the spiders net. The
drunken man was on a big spree
when the expected victim entered, and
was losing money on every bet. The
German declined to bet, and to get him
in the notion one of the cappers gave
him twenty dollar piece on which to
try his luck. He placed it on a card
and won. Pocketing the $40 he re-
fused to bet again, and walked out of
house, followed Dy the cappers who in
sisted on getting the money back. The
German drew a large seized revolver
from his pocket, and assuming a de-
fant attitude, said
You speak to ma put you SO tam
full OF holes you don't know what you
am. l am an old Californian, and
know all about your tam tricks. You
take me for an emigrant you make
fools init yourselves.
I" The three.carders discovered that
tLey had caught Tartar, as they saw
their would be- victim board train as
the conductor shouted all aboard and
leave them lamenting."