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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24
"TWO-P0UND-TEN."
How Some of our Citizens Bought Mere-s sham
Pipes for SIS each.
Virginia New Enterprise.

lfHShht kANSf.J i+utcA pine.
On Thursday last seedy and sick
Iy looking Gus omer entered the
brokers' office Of Ralston & Brazell,
and, after preliminary cough, which
was full Of the Lone Mountain tone,
presented to the gaze Of the handsome
Brazell magnificent meerschaum
pipe, and in voice full of lamenta-
ton, said: Sir, l gave two poond.
ten for this in Lunnun. | was offered
three poonds for it in Chicago, but l
would not then have looked at ten
poonds: but | am sick and starving,
and would gladly take one poond for
it now" In haste, lest he should be
outbid by some chance conner, Brazell
produced S. gold piece and procur-
ed the Incompatible pipe, upon which
the needy man stretched out his hand,
shook the hand of Brazell warmly,
and, with a voice full OF tears, called
him his savior. He next encountered
Congressman Woodburn, and present
ed just such another extraordinary
pipe, with nearly the same story. Mr..
Woodburn has the finest dog in town,
and wanted the finest pipe; so, before
any of the by-standers could interfere,
he found the S. and received the pipe,
the hand.clasp and the fearful thanks
of the mendicant, John Egan, Nc
Nevin and half-dozen others pocket
ing their regret at not securing the
prize by saying that Woodburn al
WAYS was lucky. Mr.. Waters was the
next fortunate man. The story was
the same, except that the pipe was an
heirloom and the gift of mother
long since gone to the land where
meerschaums are not smoked. Mr..
Smith was the next citizen who
thought it splendid to purchase for
So pipe which cost "two pound-ten.
SO the thing went on. We hear that
to Packsher, the tobacco merchant,
who has been selling meerschaums
ever since the first cabin was reared
in Downiville, California, the weary
and feeble man raised the price to
one pound-ten $3.50, at which Pack
sher fastened to close the bargain.
Yesterday morning Waters called
upon Mr., Brazell, and seeing the twin
of his own pipe, q suspicion crossed
his mud, and he said: "Brazell, did
that pipe cost 'two-poond-ten in Lun-
nun p" st IS the very pipe" said
Brazell, and then an investigation
showed that the pipes cost thirty cents
each at retail. 1t is believed that the
rogue sold fifty choice pipes in town,
which, considering the times, is good.
The pipe-vender was too sick to be
out yesterday.
p. S -BrazelI and Woodburn both
smoke cigars now.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

WHAT will not a man give for his
life =? 1t was January last, aud a
Roumanian living on the pruth start
ed in his sledge for the market town.
His wife and four children were with
him. A pack of hungry wolves start
ed on his track. The horse was
dashed into gallop, but the load was
heavy and the way hard. The wolves
were almost upon the party when the
father threw them one of the children
The respite gained by this sacrifice
was briet. Again the wolves were
upon them Again human life was
sacrificed. The four children persisted.
Assistance came in time to save the
parents. In her grief and despair the
poor mother denounced her husband
to the authorities as the murderer of
her children. He was thrown into
prison. Lingering there for months
he has Just been tried and acquitted.
To feed the ravenous wolves with his
own flesh and blood was an awful
sacrifice, but the Court held that the
prisoners course had saved two lives.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

taking care Of his estate. A merchant
was found dead in the basement OF
his store on Broadway, leaving q note
stating that his trade had left him,
and he saw no hopes of revival, and
young man cut his throat, because
he could not get an appointment in
the post office. All these, with a
dozen others who stepped out without
giving a reason, in week. Is there
anything in heat that drives people TO
the madness that must precede sui
eide?
The War in Europe-Business
The effect OF the war in Europe
| upon Now York is mixed. While it
does not materially improve business
at present, it has had the effect of put.
ting up the price of everything the
people live on, and so it bears hard
upon those who are doing nothing,
and those who are working for low
wages. The farmers who have grain
are rejoiced, as well they may be, at
the advance it has caused, but the
poor laborer, the underpaid clerk, and
the half starved seamstress don't like
it so well, for while il has doubled
the cost of their livirg, it has not in.
creased their wages. The merchants
hope to profit by it, for they reason
that if it puts up the price of produce
the farmers will not only buy more
freely. but they will pay for what
they have already bought, and make
the wheels run more smoothly. The
trade in arms is getting to be a big
thing. American arms have always
been favorites in Europe, and this
war has given a fresh impetus to the
business. The Colt and Remington
armories are now running both night
and day, on Russian and Turkish or
ders, and shiploads are sailing daily.
A vessel loaded with arms and am
munition for Russia sailed yesterday,
and as they were paid for before they
left the port, as well as the vessel that
carried them, the whole concern is
Russian property. The vessel and
cargo is valued at 81 900, 900, making
it tempting prize Accordingly
party of spectators, acting in concert
with the Turkish representative here,
have bought fleet steamer, and put
into her an armament, and propose to
follow her and capture her on the
high seas. 1t will be q splendid
speculation, as the Turkish Govern
ment will Immediately buy the steam.
err, to be used in similar ventures, as
both governments are compelled to
get their arms from this country, to
very considerable extent. There will
be great deal of this kind of thing
done, which will employ great many
adventurous spirits, who are not
ayerse TO making a great deal Of
money, but who prefer the excite
ment to the profit. The Remingtons,
it is said have contracts for over a
million Of rifles, as both governments
have to have inspectors on the ground,
there will be curious state of affairs
at lion. 1t will puzzle the manufac-
turers there to keep the Russian and
Turkish officers from cutting each
others threats. But they have done
it before They used to have Span
ish and Cuban officers inspecting arms
at the same time, and they will prob.
ably manage the Turk and Russian
with equal skill.
The Weather.
The weather is frlghtfully hot, the
thermometer having stood at IS for
three days. AS it came without any
preliminary skirmishing, it pulls .us
down.
PIETRO.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

APPEALs were made to Secretary
Sherman to compromise the claims
against Hessing, Powell, Rush and
other revenue thieves. Secretary
Sherman answered that the claims
care partially for taxes due to the
people of the United States, the re-
mission of which operates as an in
jury to every taxpayer, and as pre-
MUM for fraud" For this and other
reasons he refused to compromise.
This is right but he agrees with them
to delay and give them chance to
get relief from Congress. In this he
is wrong and weak. Congress be-
means itself whenever it takes notice
of such cases 1t makes the laws by
which the executive officers act. 1t
should expect its officers to enforce
those laws and should not aiterward
tamper with them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24
The mississippi Butchery.

Ga the outside pages of this paper
will be- found extracts from other
papers on the subject of the late Mis-
sissip,i butchery OF human beings.
10 these we add the following from
the Madison Democrat.
Just at a time when the Democratic party
of the North, and the Administration, with
respectable element of the Republican party
have united in an attempt to restore those re-
6sllious hityeas to respectable places in the
Union and assisting them to build up their
deeaSted states, this outrage IS too black and
c0Li-6looded for endur0tce Such lever as
this, put in the hands of his enemies must be
exceedingly encouraging TO Hayes, who, we
believe, has been earnestly striving to iniusc a
little Christian decency into the black hearted,
taulqlerous UalianS, who hold forth in Mississip-
nj. Tie blood stained murderer Stone, who
claims to be Governor of Mississippi, and the
feysds IN human form, who claim to be Sheriff
and Deputies of kemper county, had timely
warning of this outrage, and could have pres
vented it if they desired to do so ); but instead
of doing so, they lent it countenance and en-
enlargement.
Such opinions are now universal
among respectable journalists. Our
back door neighbor "returns to his
vomt" and charges the trouble upon
the former Republican rulers. We
here append also Mrs. Chrisholm's
appeal to the Mississippi Governor
To Hon. j. " Stone, Gopsrnor Of Mississippi :
SIR Believing YOU to be humane, AMI de-
sirous Of preventing needless effuslon OF blood,
| most humbly and respectfully appeal to you
for aid in protecting the life OF my husband
and children, until such time as | am able,
with those whom God, in his mercy may spare
to me- 20 leave the country and their home.
If YOU can aid me in behalf of my wounded
and diving husband and daughter, would ask
that Capt NJ Shaughnessy, Of Jackson, be
authorized to organize a body of men sufic>
iently large to protect and remove us to some
plr~a.of safety Respectfully
Mas w W. Chisholm.
Gov. Stone paid no attention to
this appeal The moral to be deduc-
ed is this: 1t is not safe to leave civ
ilized people to the mercy of the nat
nral born cut-throats of the South.
The excitement created against the
South by this butchery may for the
present prevent others but whenever
the whole power of the States and
Nation is in their hands, that becomes
their universal method OF dealing
with those they do not like.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24
Will CARLETON. the author

Will CARLETON, the author Of
"Betsey and | Are Out" and other
poems in q similar vein, is said to
have become very rich man from
the sale of his poetical productions
His home is Hilisdale, Michigan. He
is bachelor, but dwels in cottage
Of his own. His case is one OF the
many illustrations in literary history
that the works Of the highest pooti,
cal genius do not pay tho best.
Carleton,in his poems, struck a strain
which caught the ear OF all classes -
one which all could appreciate, and
hence bis popularity and pecuniary
prosperity.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

THE Southern correspondent Of
the New York Times, writing from
Montgomery, Ala, says: cit may be
stated that within the past three
years the Democrats of Alabama
have enacted laws which will forever
prevent the success of the Republic
can party. To keep up and increase
their own majorities they have
adopted certain methods which can
be divided under heads. In the first
place, by lawful and unlawful means.
they prevent the Republicans from
voting; then if notwithstanding this
the Radicals have been successful,
they quietly count them ou'; and it,
in spite Of all their efforts, Repub
icAn happens to be elected to office,
they find some means of preventing
him from taking his seat, or by leg
islation abolish the office TO which
be has been ch osen. These state
ments are IT made wildly or at ran
dom; but every one of them can be
proved" The correspondent states,
that no matter what President
Hayes may do ne can never do
enough to satisfy an Alabama Demo-
crat
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

A CoL0RED man was fatally
stabbed at BAlesVIlle on last Friday
ulght-the difficulty arising 10
abau. this manner: A yoaog man
by the mans of Hsnry Troy, late OF
Texas, inquired Of the colored man
something IA regard to dance. at
which the latter made an indignant
reply, using some profane language
st lrby, which so earaged him that
he drew ais knife and made such an
incision in his abdomen that his en-
trails fell TO the ground. He was
not dead when last heard from, but
no hopes were entertained of his re-
covery. irby Immediately left and
came up to Mt Olive, where he tell
what be had done. Ha was
followed by Sheriff Rob II.
Case of Batesville and Thes. J.
Williams of Dry Town, who arrested
and took him back to that place. =
Mountain Home, MO- QaidhGnf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24
THE NEW PARTY.

Some
Que
Has lately begun
To starta
New party
Which when it is done,
Is going to smash
Into eternal crash
All other parties under the sun
Wings,
NigS,
Fire-eating Rebs
Tramps.
Seamps.
Reconstructed Confeds,
Hot Abolishnists,
Raw Prohibitionsts,
Labor Reforms, frantic Pro'ectionists
A pair of
High-tariff.
Old Wing Resurrectionisis,
All the old Federalist,
Butter aud breadaiis:s.
Wild annexati0nists,
Emancipatonists,
Texas rangers,
Suspicious strangers,
Illinois Changers.
Ralid Secessionists, Nulllfcatlohists,
Temperance sgitators,
Soft voiced concliatofs,
Bruisers
SnOoZer5,
Republican broiiers,
Barnburners,
Coatt turner's,
Tories Free sellers,
Communists deslructiohists.
Constitution revisioniss,
Dred-Scott decisionsts,
Loco
F0co,
Baltimore knucks,
Georgia Ku-klux,
Blue Lights" disse ntionsts,
Hartford conventionists,
Fogy old timers.
Modern White-Liners,
Monopolists,
Bloatcd metropoiists,
Bondholders, hulIy 'uns,
Border Ruffians.
Balot-bOx stuffy inns
free Traders, Greenbackers,
Bulldozers, back.trackers.
Free niggers,
White. LeaUgers,
Know-nothing advisers,
Ku-klux corpromisers,
Temperance Liberals,
License wine bibberais
Snuers and pu6lieans,
Private and public ones,
Tiltappers.
Mouth-slappers.
Hickory Democrats, three card. monte men,
Angels, devils, slouchy and jaurty men,
Nobody. every one. sickly and hearty, =
Stanley Mathews has got new party.
Naur IA
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

Our back door neighbor calls at
tention to a statement that the Mil
waukee Commercial Times says that
"the fact that the Grant County
HERALD opposes Ludington is of
small consequence" Well, now, let
us see: is the Milwaukee Commercial
Times theater circular or a Sunday
school tract 4? We want to know its
'sconseauence."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

WHEN the foreman Of a patent
publisher cslliopes down the tin tel
ephoue Tor more copy the editor
calmly blows the foam back from
the edge Of half galcn measure
and replies in unvuf1i d tones. !" Ham
mcr another Black SEA on inc war
map and give it 70 EN- again"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

AN Indian mound mas oeen OF ened
near Milwaukee, aud 10 i were
found kegs Of seer and barrels Ct
whisky. THIS proves beyond doubt
the. Antiquity Of these nn"eds, as
the kegs and barrels contained no
United States revenue stamps.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

Different countries have different
methods Of dealing with their young
The Greenland baby is dressed in
fnrs and carried in sort Of pocket
in the back Of his mothers cloak.
When she is very bnsy ard does not
want to be bothered with him, she
digs hols IN the snow and covers
him ell up but his face, and leaves
him there until she is ready to take
care of him again. The Hndoo
baby hangs ia a basket from the
roof.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

LAST week, it is said, Secretary
Sherman rendered the appointment
of Soiciter of the Treasury TO Gov
ernor Cham berlain, at the instance
OF the President, who also urged its
acceptance. The Governor declined
however, on account of professional
engagements regarded more advan-
tageous professionally and pecuniaf-
ily.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

A GREAT deal is said about the
position of Mr. Blaine, which is
much ado about little thing He
hopes the PRESIDENT policy at the
South will have the desired effect,
bat he is very much afraid it will
not. That is ali there j. of i.
CHICAGO Journal,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

THE Darlington Republican, referr-
ing to the fact that our back door
neighbor favors the nomination of
Governor Ludington, says; "When
such parties favor a candidate; good
Republicans had 'bedder look fiddle
.ond,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

AT the old-fasbi>ned log-roling
napr Danville, Indiana, Gov. Blue
Jeans Williams, Of thai State, is to
be an oz-tecms.er ami Gov. Lud-
ington, Of this State. will drive g
woke of irisky steera.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

THE candidates for the Democrat
ic nomination for Governor multiply
a pace. The list now numbers about
a-dozen, foremost among which are
said to be Mayor Butler and Lieu.
Gov Parker
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

1t is so yto love child. Wha
can one not pardon in a child One
forgves him for being lord, prince,
a king The innocence of his age
makes one forget the crime of the
race: the feebleness of the creature
causes one to overlook the exaggera.
ton of rank. He is so little that one
forgives him for being great. The
slave forgives him for being his mas
ter. The old negro idolizes the white
nursing. Victor Hugo.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24

In the Cironit Court at Davenport,
Mollie Morrio was acquitted of
keeping honse Of i'll fame On q
technical point that no woman liv-
inc alone could be convicted of that
offensa.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24
L HE 81 ERALD.
LANCASTER:
Thursday. May IA. 1877.

"SPIDER WEB is what the Recon
ciled call the Hayes policy, down
South.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24
PIETRO.

FULLER adVices give an almost
revolutionary character TO the letter
of President MacMahon to M. Jules
Simon, which resulted in the resig-
nation of the latter and all his asso-
ciates in tho French Cabinet. The
terms of the Councils General and
the Municipal Council, upon which
the duty devolved Of electing sena-
tors, were about to expire, and the
Conservatives were unwilling that
the Republican Cabinet of NJ. Simon
should reconstruct thnse bodies.
Hence, though the Ministers were
in accord with the majority of the
Chamber Of Deputies, they induced
MacMahon to sign tho letter, snp>
posed to have been written by the
Duke DE- BrogIis, containing an un-
mistaEatle affcont to the Premier,
and, i'm pliedly, TO ali of bis colleagues
The purpose was to force their res
igna;ior; and the scheme succeeded.
The new cabinet is selected from
the Right, and is clearly reactionary
The Duko de Broglia President Ct
the Council and Minister of Justice,
has been conspicuous Gs champion
Of the papal authority. Fourton is
said to be partisan Of yaung Bona,
parte. 1t is quite certain that the
new Ministry cannot command a
majority ia the chamber of Deputies;
for resolution declaring that the
Chamber will only place confidence
in cabinet free to govern in accord
ance with Republican principles, was
adopted by vote of 355 to l54. 1t
is on this account, doubtless, that
the President has prorogued the
Chamber for thirty days. 1t is
scarcely probable that the indigna-
ton will subside in that time.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1877-03-08

not laid upoa all our skeletons, by any
means, for there are many which remain
always hidden in their closets, and are
never revealed to prying eyes. Nearly
every household possesses one, and
while some are more hideous In aspect
than others, any Of them are sufficiently
frightful to demand secresy. Eternal
vigilance and any amount Of tact are
necessary for their concealment, for
many of them are as stubborn in their
uprisings as Banquo's ghost.
When we consider our universal af1lc-
tion in this respect, a bond of sympathy
should unite us in an earnest effort to
assist in hiding the domestic skeletons
of one another. rather than to drag them
from their lurking places, as seems to be
the general tendency. Charity would
suggest not only that "they who dwell
in glass houses should not throw
stones" but that they who have skele-
tons in their own closets should have
some regard tor those which torment
their neighbors. Then would calumny
become one OF our lost vices, and slam
der with her many tongues be forced to
cry aloud that her occupation Is gone.
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The Dividing Line.

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