Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-02-08
WHOLE NO. 1863.

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THIS prince OF medicine meH is poor
iunatic in the streets, without dol
lar, aud subsisting on the charity o
those who knew him in bis prosper
Gus days. This man WAS at one TIM
worth million-his annual incom,
was over q quarter of million, ane
be had the best horses, the most ex
pensive carriages, and the finest ret.
inue of servants in the city. He
lived eytravagantly, got in debt
dropped out to Europe, and there bis
insanity developed 10 series of the
most extravagant freaks. His wife,
q most beautiful woman, returned,
and was compelled to get divorce,
and I'll sImopli, after being confined
in several lunatic asy lums, was given
his liberty, and be roams the city a.
will, mere wreck of what wa
never very large pattern of u man
His career was curious one. NOT
a dollar is left OF his once great
wealth, and he has become the terror
of his former friends. It is curious
that SO many of the men who have
grown rich out of patent medicines
have gone insane. Aver, the great
pill man, who owns some of the most
valuable real estate in this city, is
insane, and yesterday an application
was made for a guardian.
The Suffering Poor
are likely TO be allowed TO suffer, for
Charity moves very slowly this win-
ter. ST. Johns Guild, the noblest of
them ell, is without funds, and dis.
tributes from day to day what it re-
ceives. 1t has not means for one
tenth the calls that are made upon it. 1t
gathers about enc thousand dollars
day, but that is a mere nothing.
The other Charities are just as poor
IL provided for the calls that are
made upon them, and the city is
doing very little work. Last Sum-
day q thousand men were given
twenty-four hours work cleaning
the ice from portion of the streets.
Ten thousand could be so employed,
and it would be mercy could it be
done. The suffering this year is
among the honest class of people
the laborers who have been thrown
out of work by the stagnation in all
departments of business. | have seen
clerks and statesmen, who year ago
were in receipt Of good salaries, TAX
ing relief from charities because they
could do nothing else. They would
roll barrels on the dock, bat there
are no barrels to roll-they would
work on the streets, but there is no
work for them. 1t is terrible. God
bless the poor this Winter.
Hunting For Gold.
There are great many places
about New York where, according to
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one has succeeded in finding it. The
last effort is being made in Mon
mouth Co., New Jersey, and good
many New Workers. have got the
craze, aud have invested money in
the search. There is an old legend
that two hundred years ago an In
dian saw four white men ascend
Shark River, and bury there an inn
mense amount of treasure. This
tradition was communicated to
settler, who, for some unexplained
reason did not dig for 1.-THE Jer-
seymen of to-day would not have let
it slumber so long-and the story
has been handed down from father
to son. Some time since a company
was organized to search for the
treasure, and last week operations
were begun. The beliefs that Kidd's
treasure is in money HiIl,' as the
place is called, and the company
will never stop till they have gone
through the entire locality, and they
have abundant capital to do it.
There are three hundred men at
work, but up to date nothing has
been found. Their faith is so well
grounded that the men at work were
offered very good sum per day for
their services in lieu of the share In
the spoil originally promised them,
and every one Of them declired.
The works being done oy regular
ly organized company. The race of
fools is not entirely extinct.
Business
is still as dull as it can be, with no
prospect of improvement. The peo-
pie are now waiting for spring, hop
inc that warm weather will bring the
change.
The snow fall on the coast has
been the largest for fifty years, and
as it has been general, New York
suffers from it terribly. The roads
are now we'll nigh cleared, and
freight is pouring in in immense vol
umes. Ten thousand men, two days,
would have kept the Central track
clear, but Vanderbilt would not do
it. He is chip of the old block.
PIETRo.