Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-10-04
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Thanks Where Due-The State Convention
Book sAles-Rtver Accidents-The Clair
mont Bank--Low Prices-supplies-Fashio ns'

New York, Sept. 30, 1877.
Thanks Where Due.
1t is Justly held stupid to open con-
versation with speaking of the wealth.
err, but the rule doesn't apply to such
weather as we have now. To-day
completes week of perfect, sunny,
cool, delicious days that are the charm
of the Hudson river country in Sep
TENDER. Farmers begin to talk OF a
drouth. but the country needs few
weeks of such dry days to dry out
healthily after the soaking rains OF
Summer.
The State Convention.
The New York State Convention
opened yesterday with what sanguine
Republicans are pleased to term q
slap at the administration. The
adoption of most moderate and just
platform, advising resumption, de-
nouncing subsidies, insisting on the
rights of labor and capital to an
equal hearing, and expressing no
opinion on the administration policy,
while hoping it will result in peace at
the South, and promising that no act
OF the republicans of New York shall
be withheld for its success. 1t can
hardly fail of approval from all men
not pledged to the support of meas
ures and men rather than of princi-
Piles. Ex-congressman Ward made
the strongest possible answer to all
fault finding in the pithy declaration
that if the announcement OF Republic
can principles be the condemnation
of the administration, let that con-
domination fall. The good republic
cans of the State do not derive great
encouragement from the sight of a
president escorted and fattered by
ex.rebels who have never shown any
convincing proofs of a change of
heart. They do not relish the mod.
est demand to appoint Herschal v.
Johnson to the vacancy on the Su-
preme Bench. The late news from
Mississippi which reads as if it dated
before the war, with the sight OF
"reconciled" democrats surrounding
republican speakers with shot-guns in
good old southern fashion is not the
exact style of harmony preferred here
and sound republicans who protested
their faith before the battle of Antie-
tam desire to have it distinctly UNI
derstood that the harmony has not
got to be entirely on their side. The
administration, say these republicans,
talks too much in the vein of the man
who believed in unanimity in families
and complained that he was always
unanimous but his wife wasn't. AT
least the New York Convention has
the courage to express its opinions.
And nobody has any difficulty in
knowing what its acts and words
mean.
Book Sales.
The trade sale of books held last
week and this has exceeded the hopes
of dealers, and a million dollars
worth of books will be upon the mar
ket in the next ten days. That means
that people have money once more,
and begin to buy books and surround
themselves with comforts and indul-
gences again. A bookseller who at
tended the sale from Illinois said the
great harvest was no sooner gathered
| in August than he began to sell more
books than he had done before for
| year. Books will be cheaper than
they have been since the war, as auc-
ton prices ruled twenty per cent. be-
| low the usual wholesale rates.
River Accidents.
The sunny afternoons tempt small
crafts out on the river, and one of the
worst forms of town savagery is the
recklessness with which larger
vessels wreck those that come in
their way. Hardly day passes
without an account of a rowboat run
down and her crew sunk by tug or
lighter, out of pure wantonness. The
river pilots are utterly careless of
human life, and laugh at it as fine
sport to run down pleasure boat
with two or three boys and girls
aboard. Two weeks ago party of
boys and girls in their teens, living
| in the same tenement house, went out
from the foot of Canal street about
sunset for a row and found a small
steamer bearing down on them.
They changed their course, when the
boat changed hers so as to bring
exactly in her path, ran them down,
and kept on her way, never paying
attention to the screams of the crea-
lures struggling in the water. A
girl of sixteen was drowned one of
the boys succeeded in swimming
ashore with the other, though his
own leg was broken in two places
and his shoulder crushed. The Off
GERS of the flagship Minnesota have
| made complaint to the pilot COM
missioners that one of their boats
going ashore made signal of danger
| to tug coming its way, to.which no
| attention was paid, and an appren.
tice boy from the ship was drowned
| 10 the collision. They said it was no
uncommon thing for the steam-tugs
to deliberatively run down small
boats. Peoples lives are literally IN
the hands of the coarse and demoniac
set who iii the posts of car drivers
and river pilots.
The Ciairmont Bank.
The Clairmont Savings Bank fall
ed for only 100000. but the history
of its defaIcations reads very much
like the practice of many simiIar in-
situations outside the city, where ru.
raj virtue is supposed to flourish.
How many country banks are there
which refuse to lend their funds to
friends of the officers, or which do
not have little outside affairs in which
the help of the bank comes handy.