Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-02-08

systematic stealing; that the state
ments have been cooked; that assets
that never existed have been put 10;
that liabilities that did exist have
been left out, and the whole frald
has been sworn to, and that the Off
GERS created by the state are rot
shrewd enough to detect the swindie
it ia calculated to uproot things in a
rasEer uncomfortable manner. Tue
Continental was mass of corruption
all through, and the Security
Heaven sasse the mark--was still
worse. The good companies feel it
sorely. For cut in Minnesota, The
difference between the solvent and
the insolveHt does not appear. And
the result is all Life Insurance is dis
credited. There have been three
failures of this class within few
weeks, and The effect is an almost en-
tire stoppage Of receipts from this
source. The persuasive agent finds
himself blocked in the middle of his
dicourse upon the benefits of Life In
surance, by the terrible word "Secur-
ity," and If he survives that, some
one throws "Continental' into his
face, which finishes him. All this is
wrong. There are perfectly sound
companies, and, life Insurance is q
necessity. There is no more reason
fer denouncing life insurance because
of three scoundrelly companies than
there is denouncing christianity be-
cause an occasional clergyman makes
a slip.
A Case of Serious Trouble.
A very curious Incident occurred,
| eliminated last week. A yonng
swell belonging to one of the rich
families was engaged to DO married
to young lady who possesses moro
| beauty and brains than money. The
| young fellow is q fool, as is the case
with the most of the young fellows
who have money in the city, but the
girl accepted him, all the same, be-
cause he was reputed to have an in
como of $35, 900 per annum. 1t was
rather comfortable thing to have a
rich fool for a husband, for while he
could pay the bills, and keep her in
diamonds and all sorts Of things
pleasant to the feminine mind, he
would not be in the way of her en-
Ijoying herself as she chose. The
wedding was to have taken place last
week, but it was unaccountably post
poned. Finally the cause TRANSFERRED;
the young mans income came en-
tirely from real estate, mostly on
Broadway, and the young lady had
very prudently been making inqui-
ries. One store which had rented
for $4,000. was empty, and there
was no prospect of it's being occu-
pied for some time; another was oc-
cupied at q reduction of seventy five
per cent, and to sum il all up, the
income of $35, 600 had shrunk to less
than $4,000. She promptly declined
to enter into the marriage state on
any such money, and notified the
groom in expectation, that the nup>
tials would be postponed till the odd
$25 900 could be made up. The
young man was in despair. There
was no use of trying to do anything
with real estate, for that is drug,
and SO between desperation and
brandy, be raised money by mort
gage, aud went into Wall street.
Need detail the result? He came
out of that place plncked clean as a
pigeon, for De bought on falling
ms Il nd unld a nj
all such fellows do, and from an in
come of $4,000 he was a young man
a0ont town With no income what
ever to speak of. He threw himself
upon her mercy but he Jared worse
with the adamantine Young woman
Of the world than he did in Wall
street She declined to see him, and
forth with engaged herself to another
fool whose father was smart enough
TO put bis money into gas stocks,
which never can depreciate, having a
city to swinde Aud the discarded
lover is wandering about the city ac-
coping invitations to drink from
those who knew him 10 his better
days. Moral--for the benefit Of
your sons invest 10 gas stocks
Business
is, as usual, as dull as possible.
There was faint show of revival
when the passage of the Electoral
Bill was announced, but it died out
in day. The political complication
did not make the hard times, nor can
the settlement thereof unmake them.
There will be nothing done for two
months, PIETRo.