Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-12-27
New York Dec. 10, 1877

surance Presidents-The trouble with the Lie
uor dealers.
New York Dec. 10. 1877.
The money that men leave.
Money isn't worth much after the
man who made it lets it pass out of
his control. Vanderbilt's estate is
now a foot ball in the courts, and
where it will finally go, and to whom,
is question. 1t is so immense an
affair that if it is divided each of the
heirs will have ten times as much as
any one ought to have, but by the
time the lawyers and the courts get
through with 1t, the shares will be so
pared down as to make difference in
the showing. And now comes anoth-
er money trouble. Moses Fl. Grinnell
died recently, leaving a fortune of
several millions, and he made a will,
also. He left half million TO each
of his children, except daughter,
Fanny, to whom he bequeathed only
$4,000, the reason for the discrimi-
nation being that she had married a
Boston millionaire, and was rich al
ready. 1t is question whether Fanny
and her husband will concur in the
propriety Of this distribution, and the
chances are that there will be a
squabble over this estate. Why don't
these men distribute their millions be.
fore they die, and save all this trouble ?
That is what | am going to do. l
never will have my children fighting
over a hundred millions and dragging
my bones out of the grave for the in
spection of the public. The Wander
bilt case is dragging its slow length
along, and the lawyers are making a
bitter fight over it. The children
have succeeded in establishing the
fact that the old man was fearful old
wretch, and that he never deserved
the success he met with. But as Will
liam is as selfish as his father, and is
entrenched behind a hundred millions,
it is yet to be decided whether he
will be compelled to relinquish any
part of it or not. The only point in
the matter is whether the contestants
can establish the fact that the commo-
dore W as under undue influence when
he made his will. And to that end
the contestants are bending their en-
tire energies. They are raking up all
the old mans departures from the
paths of strict life, and it must be
confessed that they have got together
a very nauseating pile of them. They
have shown that he was cruel, sensual
and altogether wicked, if not weak as
we'll. There is no question as to the
control INSCRIPTIONS women had over
him, and it will be proven that he
was a confessed spiritualist, but it
may be shown that he could make a
will for all that.
Political.
Senator Conkling has declared war,
and has locked horns with the presi-
dent. 1t is now war to the knife,
and knife to the hilt. There can be
no compromise nor settlement. The
president has determined upon the re-
moyal of the officials at New York,
for the reason that he wants men in
office with whom he can work in the
direction of reform, and for the reason
that the reforms already instituted
were not, as he claims carried out in
good faith. It is true that several
hundred employees of the custom house
were removed by collector Arthur, in
accordance with the orders Of the
treasury. But it is claimed that the
men intended to be removed were the
ones retained. That is, the political
strikers and the ward politicians were
kept, and the really effective workers
who were without political influence
were dismissed. Senator Conkling
on the other hand claims the right to
control the patronage himself, and
denies the right of the president to
NEEDLE with it: The city is divided on
the question The active politicians
side with Conkling, and the conserva-
tive element with the president. The
papers of the city are very careful in
discussing the question, and are by
no means pronounced. There should
be an expression of the people on
this question, in every county in the
State, for the people will have to
settle it. 1t is matter of no small
Importance. The question goes q
long way down. 1t is not simply
who shall fill the offices il is the eff
feet of the patronage upon the poll
tics of the State.
The Colored Baby Show.
will be opened next week,and 1t will
be big thing. There will be two thou
sand Ethiopian babies, of all ages
under ten, and their mothers. Every
state east of the Mississippi will be
represented and they will be CLASH
fed properly. Ii will draw more
people than anything of the kind
ever held 1t is to be hoped that
there will be plenty of bath rooms in
the building, and that due attention
will be paid to ventilation.
Another Defalcation.
Two collecting lawyers, both men,
bers of fashionable churches, and
very prominent in them, abscondeG
this week with something like q
quarter of million of money belong
ing to their Giants. 1t is the old
story-high living and speculation in
Wall street. They had the conf
o1I fhar Hid