Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-08-09
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Crop Prospect-The Labor Trouble-P0lit.
icai--Jay Gould Pounded-The Charter Oak
-Beer-The Weather.

porters know more about the crops
than do the men who grow them.
Dun, Barlow 81 Co. report that the
wheat crop in the west will make an
average of twenty-five bushels to the
acre, and that the other corps prom
Use an equally large yield. If this be
the case, and they know, the yield
will be simply enormous, and there is
no reason why the west should not be
enormously rich, this season. And il
will not be big crop with no price
to it. The granaries in this country
are bare, and the Crimea, the great
competitor of America in gram pro.
ducing, is, this season, practically
barred out The Turkish war has
shut that off, and America has this
year, to feed the world. Hence there
cannot be that dminution in price
that otherwise would follow crop sc
immense we have our twenty five
bushels to the acre with the price
the same that it would be were il
only the average of nine or ten. The
west will be made rich this year, and
there cannot but be general pros.
perity.
the Labor Trouble
is entirely over. The demagogues
who attempted to excite the tramps
and thieves to riot failed signally,
and the city is as quiet as a mill pond.
The credit for this is due, entirely, to
the mayor and police. Twenty-six
hundred men, thoroughly armed, were
on duty all of last week as policemen,
and all the militia regiments of the
city were at their posts. AT the first
intimation of riot the mob would
have had this enormous force to meet,
and every rifle and revolver was load
ed with ball cartridge. The instruc
lions were definite to shoot at the
rioters first and over their heads the
second volley. There was to be kill
ing if riot was provoked. The COM
munists understood this, and they
were very careful to give no occasion
for military interference. The com
fhunists are very shady now, and
claim that they did not intend any
trouble. But it is well known that
they did intend to raise a riot and
sack the city. They had their prepa-
rations all made. They expected the
railroad people to strike, and then all
the communists would join them, and
the thieves and tramps falling in, there
would be force enough to take pos
session of the city. Then buildings
would have been fired, and the city
would have been plundered. But no
mob dare face an organized military
force, and as soon as the conspirators
knew that the authorities were pre-
pared for them, it all died out. May
or Ely is entitled to a great deal OF
credit for nipping in the bud what
was intended to be very dangerous
affair.
Political.
The action of the Ohio State con.
vention in giving an honest and de-
cent endorsement to the President
meets with decided approval here.
No one can know how much the
money and business centre of the
country is interested in the settlement
of the troubles that have so long pros
trated business. Hayes policy, as it
is called has recently given the South
peace, and has restored confidence IN
the future of the South. Southern
merchants are here buying goods,
which is enough for the business man.
He comes with smiling face and a
look of confidence that he has not
worn since the war. Speak to him
about his affairs and he says, 81
know now what we are going to get, "
and he buys and trades accordingly.
Hence the business men are all en-
thusiastic supporters oft the Presidents
policy, for they see in it an escape
from the terrors of the past years.
The Exodus.
If you read tho daily papers you
will suppose that everybody is out
of town during the summer months.
Nominally every body is,-practie-
ally a great many are not. You
shal! see in the society papers a
great many names reported as
at Swampscott, the White Noun.
taius, and all over the cool spots,
who are safely ensconced in their
own houses. To keep up the i'm
preston that they have followed .he
fashion and gono to summer resort
they keep their front blinds closed,
and go in and out the area door.
The fact is, the moderately wealthy
HAUNT had tho money TO go away
for three years, and many OF them
have discovered that the air is about
as good in welI-appointed house in
the city as il is anywhere. The sum-
mer resorts are all losing money this
year. The farmers down on Long
Island who can set fairly good ia
bic are making great deal Of moLey
by taking summer boaders at seven
dollars a week, the same people who
used TO live at Long Branch and Sar-
atoga at ten dollars day. The
hard times has blighted the summer
resorts.
Jay Gould Pounded.
The city wss astonished, and de-
lighted as well, on Thursday by the
intelligence that stock broker
named Selover had beaten Jay
Gould. 1t appeared that Gould was
carrying q great deal more of Allan
tic and Pacific telegraph stock than
he wanted, and he did not have as
much Western Union as he needed
TO control that gigantic concern.
Selover, Keene, the Californian, and
other operators were in a tight place
with various stocks that they had,
and they appealed to Gould to help
them, Gould agreed to do this, for
he was short of the stocks they were
overloaded with, and he Joined the
confederacy upon an agreement that
would let him have 10000 shares OF
their stock, just enough to save him
from loss, and that they should as a
matter of safety unload their Western
Union. They did so, = Gould s
brokers bought every share Of West