Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-02-01
PROM CHICAGO.
Snow and sleigh Beils-A Menagerie Of wild
Animals Loose In the Streets The Migratory
Observation-Disclosures Gentleman in Gray.
Special correspondence Of the HERALD.

kyangeiists-Biz-The Gentleman In Gray.
Special correspondence of the HERALD.
Since the beginning of the new
year the HERALD comes to US SO full
of home news and articles from COR
respondents, that we are stimulated
to send you small "bit of intel
ligence" from the metropolis. 1t
may worry the printers somewhat to
transfer our MS. to type, as we have
some notoriety for poor penmanship
among them, but our desire TO have
orr ideas photographed in news
paper columns, once 10 while Is
equal to seeing Hayes made Presi.
deaf, and so our vanity must be in
dulged, and the printer may swear if
he wants to, Che is ever in the habit
Of it,
Have you any snow up there ? If
not. we can lend you cart loads of 1t,
and plenty of cold weather along
with it-so that it will keep" too.
1t is so plentiful that people down
hero stop Off their houses with it,
fill up unsightly bitches, pile it in
the streets, trample on it, aud "rlde
over it, generally; the vessels, ice
bound in the river look like mongrel
ice.bergs--half sleet and half snow
with their towering asia and
cooled cordage clasped with such icy
bands. Ugh! Itmakes chills run up
ones back TO think one might have
been born mast to a vessel and made
| TO have Jack Frost for bed fellow
part of the year. Yes. we have enough
snow now-but it looks soiled and
stained to what it did few days
ago, when it first fell. 1t almost calls
up a tender sentiment of pity that
anything so fresh from Heaven
should lose it's purity so quick and
become tainted with the dross OF
earth. But like most adventures
that fall in the clutches of the "wick-
ed city," the fsecy snow fakes are
soon robbed Of all their beauty and
saintliness by contact with the sinful
| elements of earth-which 10 this case
are 1Ety ltfsR eett 10 ssu.,mentallzo anvuU
the snow but they treat it as they do
any other tramp" that doesn't come
to stay-they kick it out of the way.
Perhaps we have snow balled you
enough this time, and so we will
change our method of assault. After
the usual interrogatory of, elbows
the weather ?" the next remark is,
"How's business?" Regarding the
reader as the interested interlocqua-
tor, and having spoken of the wealth
err, we will proceed to "biz."
Chicago in its business "appear>
ances" strangely resembles a large
menagerie in the feature of growing,
There are angry splits and snarls
about hard times there are frequent
clutches in the air, through the bars
of the law, at creditors who are safe
ia their helmet of impecuniosity;
and there are o, rfecJ bowls about the
country going to ruin The city has
probably nevor been 50 ''stirrod up
| nor SO low in the dumpa since the
panic Of '73, and like a Il OF blues
that sometimes attack person with.
out warning, there is no clear ex-
PLANTATION for it. Sometimes day of
| foul wet weather brings the blues
to an individual May not the dark,
foggy atmosphere which seems to
veil the future, like all ominous
shroud, bewilder men as to how they
should act, and check speculation
and business activity? Whatever the
causes that conspire to stagnate bus.
mess, all men someway taeitly admit
that the unsettled condition of the
country, politically, and the future
uncertainties in the same respect, are
the chief ones. Surely, the Desire
of Gain, which is the steam engine
that runs the machinery of trade, is
as evidently manifest now as ever,
and so this cannot be considered an
element in the depression OF the
tinans Tho nhard times might ia 3tly
be called an accident of politics, but
such break-doUns in the national life,
though far reaching 10 their disaso
trous effeots, do not necessarily be
tide death to the Republic, for do
they not come in the ordinary expe-
rience of other nations as surely as
human flesh must perforce be at
tackled with the ills, some or all to
which it is heir
America only an infant, 100 years
old-is healthy youngster yet. 1t
has lively powers of recuperation,
and will probably get over the pres
ent "bruise" very we'll Consider
ing how many times it has had sim
ternal connections, Stomach ache)
and had its fingers burnt for playing
with foreign fire, and bow it has
come out of it all soandIy and we'll
even getting falter ad stronger over
the experience-we say, God bless
the infant
They say down here that Moody
well, you have probably read all
about him in the dr,ly reports of his
services at tho tabernacle. IF you
haven't you ought u, and been con.
verted too-so | don't know that
will give you much gratuitious inf n.
nation about him now. But was
going to remark as an item of fact, |
not as an item oil news, that Dir |
Moody went to Boston week aga,
leaving in the city seven lhonsand |
glad hearts now o5esred by the hope |
of Heaven, that bef re saw only hap
pi1ess in the fieeiit ( pleasures of he
world. Many goien hour has is
Evangelist brough TO the lives Of
men. aud ministea i 10 many
mind diseased" The world, good