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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09
Peculiar People

Old bachelors who never smoke.
People who will suffer from chronic indiges-
ton, constipation, and torpid liver, or s'bil-
iousness," when DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery and Pleasant Purgative Pellets are
known to be reliable and speedy remedies for
these diseases.
Old maids who do not love cats.
People who have catarrh, annoying and dis
gushing every one around them, when Dr.
Sage's Catarrh Remedy is known to be po-
tent remedy for this disease
Women who do not love babies.
Women who will suffer from all those pain
full diseases to which the sex is heir, when DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription is admitted by
every lady who uses it to be an efficient rem
edy for these maladies.
People who believe their progenitors we're
apes.
People who win read about "Helen's Ba-
bies, and "That Husband of Mine" and "That
Wife of Mine," and THAT Mother-in- law of
Mine,n and "That Son in-law Of Mine,n and
yet fail to read about themselves in 'The Pee
Piles Common Sense Medical Adviser"
Christians quarreliDg with each other on
their way to Heaven.
People who will seek health at fashionable
watering places, smothering at Saratoga or
Long Branch. or sacrificing themselves to
Graham diet" at Water Cures and Health In
stitutes, when the magnificent Invalids' Hotel,
at Buffalo. offers all the elegant comforts of
the finest Hotels, combined with the best sani-
tary advantages--Russian, Turkish, and plunge
baths, gymnasium, etc.,-and is situated in
and near some of the finest natural scenery in
the Empire State.
The most peculiar of all are the people who
read these paragraphs and fail to profit by
them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09
Unols Remus and the SILVER Dollar

"W'at's dis bout dat silver bez.
ness ?" said Uncle Remus. II hear
Miss Sally reading bout it, and axed
her, but she said dat / must ak Mas
John, and den I ak Mas John, ani
Mas John say / must 60 ter desc yer
noosepsper men what kick up all de
devilment. ! b'leeve dat was de
langwidge he used"
"Oh, that's all settled, Uncle Re-
mus, everything is fixed"
"Who hilt de biggest ham in de
gamer"
"The silver men. They didn't carry
all their points, but they are tolerably
we'll satisfied"
"What's de upshot err de fracus
den ?"
"Why, we are to have the oil d fash
toned dollar, the old silver dollar
that suited so we'll"
81 motifs dat / amt got mine yit."
"Oh, it is too soon yet. They will
be put in circulation just as fast as
the mint can make them"
"Whar bouts in 'sembly you 'speck
I'm sitting, boss. How fur back fun
de man what rsshuns out de scads
duz you reckon is ?"
"Oh, the silver dollar will be cir
culsted just like other money. You
get it if you earn it."
"Hav' fer to scramble after it same
as before?
eyes"
swell, den, 10 regard ter dat silver
bill I'd bin whsr de little boy wuz
when he made mouf at de cow"
"Where was that Uncle Remus %
"On de top rail er dc feps."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09
Old Times.

The recent defalcations in Massa-
chusetts, says the State Journal, have
revived the memory Of the act by
which the Massachusetts, Bank was
incorporated in 1854, and which pro-
vides that if any president, director,
officer or servant embezzled or con
verted to his own use any of the eff
fects of the bank, he should be set
upon the gallows with rope around
his neck, or be set Ipon the pillory
for the space of two hours, should for
felt all his personal estate and the Is
sues of all his real estate during life.
He was also to be rendered infamous
and incapable of sustaining any office,
civil or military. This shows what
was thought of breaches of trust in
those honest days, when they were
fe wer than they are now
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

"DIxie. When in 1851 Camp
bells Minstrels were at Mobile, Dan
Emmett, one of the members of the
company, heard the negroes sing an
air and chorus while rolling cotton on
the levee. He thought it good; so
by little alteration he arranged il:
into "Walk Around" which always
winds up the entertainment of an
Ethiopian entertainment. 1t was a
success. In the spring of 1861 when
the war broke out, Mrs. John Wood
went to New Orleans to play an en-
gagement at the old Varieties thea
tire. She produced Pocahontas.
Near the close of the second act there
is Zouave march by the ladies of
the corps de ballet. At the rehearsal
of the piece the leader OF the orches.
ira was in a quandary as to what mu
sic they would have. Carlo Patti,the
leader, could not select anything that
would suit the stage manager, T. B.
McDonough, and the consequence
was that the rehearsal came to a
stand-still. At length Patti struck
up Dixie. 1t suited and was adopted,
and was played with chorus to the
same air. Dixie took the town by
storm; the pianos rang with it, the
boys sang with it and the negroes
whistied it. A musician by
the name Of Romeo Minera arranged
for a march for the Washington Ar
tillery battery, and from that hour till
now all Southern men and women
hail it, with delight. Cold must be
the Southern heart that does not glow
with delight at the sound of Dixie.
But the composer, Dan Emmett, what
of hum? Why, he can. be found in a
common variety saloon at Chicago,
now playing oa his fiddle for a mere
pittance, eking out miserable exis-
tence playing Dixie to an admiring
crowd of newspaper boys and beer
jerkers.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09
A Kansas Land Man Coming.
EDITOR HERALD /:

EDITOR HERALD:
l expect there are many of your
readers that desire to go away from
Grant County and seek for them
selves homes 10 some section of coun.
try where lands are cheaper than
there. Seven years ago it was that
way with the writer, and l then se-
iected the valley of the Arkansas riv-
er in Kansas, as my location, not
even dreaming that seven short years
would or could bring about the great
development Of the country that has
taken place. / did not then believe
the country to be such desirable
one as time has proved i. to be.
expect to be in your city about the
10, or IL, of May, and devote little
ime to stating fess facts in regard
20 the resources of Kansas, and the
advantages to be had here, to those
who want to "Go West"
l shall not ddpise any one to 90
l9eSt, at that time, but simply tell
what has been done aud is still be-
ing done Dy people who have chosen
his country for their Homes, and if
People will go west." I want them
70 have the best there is, for Prom
eering at best is hard enough. shall
try and bring with mo samples of
grain and fruit showing its condition
ut this time. 1t will serve IS COM
parison if nothing more.
Please give this some little corner
in the HERALD. And would now
extend to all, a civil invitation to at
tend, at such place as may hereafter
be announced, and hear, not leo
ture but some plain honest facts in
regard to the country of which
Pierrepont said, .God, doubtless
might have made better Country,
bat it is doubtful il be ever did"
0. 3. HILDRETH.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09


lena, Illinois, was put in charge of
bis duties uutii the appointment in
June, 1874, of Joha G. Floyd, of
rerre Haute, Indiana, as Snperin-
,sndeni. James Mitchell, of Rock
ford. Illinois, was appointed to su.
persede John G Floyd, in January
1916.
By act Of Congress of July II, 1916
60 Stat. Large, 37) the sale OF the
lead mine lands in Illinois, Arkan-
saa, Wisconsin and Iowa was direct-
ed. The day fixed by proclamation
for the sale OF the lands in Nortnern
Illinois Was April 5. 1847. On the
3lst of August, 1S47 Mr. Mitcbells
appointment as superintendent
ceased and his office at Galena was
closed on that day Galena Gasette.l
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

people would starve in order to
awake them to these facts. He said
If these things could not be got by
the ballot. box then he favored get
ting them by the cartridge box. He
would make it States prison Of
tense for any man to hold more real
estate than was necessary to support
him. The laborer wants wealth, and
it should belong to him.
Similar addresses were made by
others.
At the evening session Mrs. Anna
NJ. Middlebrook, of Connecticut, spoke
on woman's'rights, labor, and popula.
ton. Other addresses were also
made.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09
RAVING COMMUNISTS.
A meeting at New York with all Sorts OF In
cendiary speech. es--A states Prison ORense
to Hold More Property Than Will Support
You.

New York, May 5.-The eighth
annual convention of the American
Labor Reform League was com
menced to-day. K. I'll. Haywood
presided, and made the opening ad.
dress, saying that the league seeks
liberty; to assert the natural rights
of all people to do their best at their
own risk; and TO repeal all laws rec.
ognizing property, and to abolish all
monopolies which give property spe-
cial advantages against labor. The
following resolutions were adopted :
RESOLVED, That the chief mission of the sill.
yer bill and greenback movement is to hasten
reputation, when debts paid once in the form
of interest will be paid forever, ard we hail
the growing irresistible tendencies of the
South and West to second the purposes of the
New England labor reformers by abolishing all
power to get pay for loans, stocks, or other
valuables more than once, to make it Illegal,
disgraceful, and impossible 10 prey on other
peoples earnings.
Resolyed, That since capitalists take life and
destroy property to retain their power to steal,
the Kearney men who invoked the halter in
California, the Mollie Maguires reported to
have killed coal bosses, and the railway strik-
ers, are morally lawful beligerents, justly ex-
ercising the same rights of defensive warfare
applauded in the tipping of British tea into
Boston harbor, in John Browns march on
Harper's Ferry, and the killing of ro-slayery
Southerners by Northern Unionists
Resolved, That the National and working
mems parties, like their older brethren in sin,
the Republicans and Democrats. by sustaining
made usarpation enslaye, defrand, and despoil
woman; that demanding for her equal pay for
equal work with man, we seek industrial
equity to erase the sex lines as well as the
race and color lines from labor reform.
At the afternoon session Nj. Hey
wood made an address on the labor,
greenback, and free-love questions.
Geo w. Maddox said New York
ought to issue its money, build mar
kets, docks, and other improvements,
and he hoped, "by the Eternal" that
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

The o,her day Cox bad lecture
upon waste forces, and j. B. Walker
a friend of Edison, laughingIy asked
Edison to invent machine TO ntil.
lze Sam Cox's waste force when he
is talking. Walker thus relates 10
his Sunday Republic how Edison
caught the idea and called for pen
Gil and paper. Said Edison:
Its shame that the vitality Of a talker
like Sam Cox should be wasted. am going
to make machine by which he can talk hole
through two inch plank at single sitting
Talk about members of congress being bored /
Why, with my invention he can bore like a
diamond drill and never feel the slightest
symptoms of over exertion." The pencil and
piece OF paper were produced and in a
twinkling Edison had sketched mouthpiece
and plate similar to that used in the phono-
graph. In place of the ordinary pin. "a delicate
lever led out to wheel whose periphery was
indented with series of tiny ratchets. The
ratchet wheel turned a screw, the screw cog
wheel, the cogwheel larger one and this in
turn larger wheel, until finally a last wheel
| turned an auger which was placed against a
board. In this machine the pin fastened to
the diaphagram was pawl operating in the
rachel wheel. Every word spoken, instead of
| causing the pin or pawl to penetrate piece
Of tin foil, caused it to push forward the rach-
ct wheel the distance of one tiny tooth. Two
hundred words spoken would cause the rachel
wheel to make one revolution. The revolu-
ton of the rachel would make one revolution
OF the first cogwheel Ten revolutions of the
first cogwheel would give one revolution Of
the second cogwheel, ten of the second, one
of the third, and so on until the auger would
be turned once for every one hundred thou
sand revolutions of the rachel wheel, or every
| twenty millions of words spoken.
The benefit caused by this inven
ton is great. 1t will utilize the
waste forces of Congress, so that in
the future enough power may be
evolved to run Touring mill, or q
popular distillery to satisfy the
thirsty needs of members.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

TIE bulletin OF the American Iron
and Steel Associations says that the
total production of pig iron in the
United States for the year 1877 was
2,314,585 tons, against 2,093. 236 tons
10 1876 being q gain of 22l $40 tons,
or an increase OF 10 per cent. The
year OF 1876 was the year Of lowest
depression 10 the trade. In 1874
the production was 2689 4l3 tons;
in ISIS, 2,868. 27s--the largest pro.
duction reached. Anthracite and
charcoal iron have fallen of; blum.
mons has increased. There was an
increase of thirty.four active blast
furnaces over the number of the pre-
viops year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09
A COMPLICATED CASE,

Gentlemen My case is briefly as follows Thavc had
Catarrh for ten years, each year with increasing
verify For nine years | had not nreathed tarareh
one noStrll. had droppings in the threat ~ fy h
cough asthma bad as TO be obliged to take rencey
for 1t at night before being able 10 lie down ana leR
and a constant dull pain In my head. Dir head
at times 50 ia Of catarrhal matter as e innre my
in the night To clear il and my thioa. before ccua
sleep Every of these distressing symptoms has els
appeared under the of quite three bottles IL
S4SFoRD's RADICAL CURE My hearing IS fulyrestore-
have no asthmatic symptoms. cough. no mi
In the throat, headache, ard IN every way hetsr
than have been for years. could feel The elects Of
the CURE on appetite, my kidneys, and in fact
every part of my system. What has been in ms
case is wholly the effect OF the RADICAL arRE.
Very respectfully, {. II. LAWRENCE.
ETrCHRIrRG
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

Mr.. EDWIN E. WooDMAN has pur-
chased the interest in the Baraboo
Republic lately owned by Jos. I. Wei
rich, deceased. Mr.. Woodman is a
sound reasoner, right upon all great
questions and a ready writer. We
always look to see what the Republic
has to say on new questions that
come into public view.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

MINISTERS and others authorized
to administer the marriage Ger emony
should make themselves acquainted
with the lately enacted l.w, chapter
3l2 published in the HERALD 1T April
25th. 1t makes marrying pers ms I'M
der age, under certain eli cnmstan oes
punishable by imprisonm AIT.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

THE judgments against VIM. NJ
Tweed amount to 800, $50, $50 ~.
adding to this the amount OF interest
which has accrued since the entries
were made, grand total of over S22-
000. 900 is had. This is believed to be
the greatest amount CT judgments
eyea on record against any one man.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09
Ne Road-No Pay.

To the Editor OF the HERALD
There is one point that should set
tie all objections to the proposed aid
for the Chicago & Tomsn Railroad,
namely: II the Lancaster people do
not get the road they do rot have to
pay the $42, 100000 r r. MAN.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

THE war cloud in Europe is not so
portentous as last week. The indica-
tons are that 1t is passing away. The
Lion and the Bear are thinking of
taking q nap together.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

the dead, near to the well known
monument OF Abelard and Heloise, in
an unpretending marble tomb, with
ner name, age and date of death upon
~ ana her epltaph, written by herself,
IN the words,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

The man that won the prize at the
state oratorical contest three years
ago, is driving street car on State
street, Chicago. His elocutionary
powers are terror to the motive
power of the car.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

The bankrupt law il about to be
repealed. Many are making applica-
tions under the law 30 as not to lose
opportunity for benefits of its pro.
visions.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

Coles BAsHyoRD, famous in the
great contest 1t the Bar for the
Governorship of this State in 1854
died recently 10 Arizona.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

A CHINAMAN in California applied
for naturalization papers. They were
refused. The matter was taken to
court and q decision made against the
Chinaman. 1t will now go to the U.
8. Supreme Court. We do not see
how a Chinaman or man of any
other nationality can constitutionally
be denied citizenship, but if all the
surplus population of China should
come over here and become voters
what wonld become Of us? If Chi.
namen are likely to ask for naturali.
cation it will be necessary either to
change the constitution or deny them
q landing on this continent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

Now comes one McLin, of Florida, who
asks the world to accept him as one of its
champion perjurers and liars on general prin-
ciples, whose utterances arc wholly unworthy
Of belief. His opinion of himself is shared with
avalanche. Poor McLinl Having confessed"
that he played the part of villain once, nobody
will believe that he is not playing the villain
now, or that he is not villain by nature
Chicago Journal
Is there not another way to look at
this question with as much candor as
either Of the above? McLin's acts
gave Florida to Hayes and made him
President. The Presidents cots
turned MoLin over to the vindictive-
ness of enemies. They lodged in.
diotments against him for making
Hayes President. Tried by them CON.
viotion was certain. Hayes could not
relieve him. They offered him relief
for confession. The man who will
not save himself from the penitentiary
even by falsely confessing crime, ls
more than an ordinary man. True,
we look with reverence upon those
who burned at the inquisitorial stake
rather than confess what they thought
wrong, but they would have showed
better sense by contessing-in their
sleeves.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09
IT CAN Be CURED.

can be cured. There is no doubt about it. The i'm
1 mediate relief aitorsied by SANFoED's RADICAL
CURE FOR CAfAKRH is but Slight evidence of sw4tas
may follow persistent of this remedy The hard,
ncrusted matter that has lodged in the nasal
Is removed with few applications; the liberation
Inflammation gnbdued and healed: the entire me r.
nous Innings OF the head cleansed and purified Con
stitutionay its action is that powerful nurift
agent destroying in its course through the systei
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

THROUGH the efforts of DR.. ]. II.
Vivian, assisted by others, Iowa
County has its troublesome debt put
into comfortable shape.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

The President has nominated ex-
Gov. Fairchild to be Consul General
At Paris.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

ENVY is fixed only on merit, and.
like sore eye, is offended with every
thing that is bright.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09
AR r
IS 1T DURABLE

TyH0SE ho have suffered from the various ard cora-
pltcated forms OF disease assumed by Catarrh. and
have tried many physicians remedies without relief
await the answer this question with
able anxiety. And well they may disease tlaf
can be mentioned Is so universally prevalent and
destructive 10 health as catarrh Bronchitis, Asihna.
Coughs and serious and frequently affections
the lungs follow, in many instances q case of smp
but neglected Gatarrh Other sympathetic aaectiots
snch as deafness, impaired eyesghf, and loss OF sens
OF SMELL may be referred TO minor but nevertheless
serious results OF neglected Catarrh bad enough in
themselves, but nothing compared with the DANGER
affnctions the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

Hon. w. L. LINCOLN of Avoca has
been appointed an Indian Agent in
Montana.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09

Each package contains Dr. Sanford's Improved IN
hang Tube and uli directions for its in all cases
Price, 81. Forsale by all wholesale and retail druggists
and dealers throughout the United States and Cannas
WEEKS d POTTER, General Agents and Wholesale
Druggists, Boston, Mass.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-05-09
Endorsed By a Prominent DRUGGIST.

| hereby certify that Mr.. Lawrence purchased the
RADICAL CURE of me, and from time TO time made me
familiar with his Ibelevc his statement be
In every particular. JAS. p. DERBY.
EITCHBURG. Oct II.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-05-11
SITTING BULL DESPERATE.
Fifteen Hundred Red Warriors
(.OinX N nA

NEW YORK, May ll.-AdviceS from Sioux
City, TO May :, state that Chas. Louis, better
known as Mountain Charley, well-known
Indian scout, has just returned from Sitting
Bulls camp. He reports 5000 warriors
chiefly Spotted Tail and Red Cloud Indians i'm
camp, who are tired of this peaceful life.
Louis says that Sitting Bull 'SWears up and
down that as soon as the proper season
arrives, which is about the 18th of the present
month, he will return TO his former haunts
and regain his former possessions and hunting
grounds or die in the attempt. He expressed
his intention TO strike the Tongue river by the
most expeditions route from his present loca-
tlOn, and then operate through the country in
which he became famous during the Custer
expedition of 1916. He has an abundance oI
ammunition, and his entire force is supplied
with the best and most approved patterns OF
guns. He obtained these supplies from Cana
dian half-breedS and traders i'm the British
possessions. Sitting Bull has unbounded faith
in the Sk i'll and powers OF his warriors, and
expresses his confidence in his ability 10 van
quish any force which the government may
send against him. He is fully posted in regard
10 the movements and strength of the United
States troops, with whom he expects To come
in contact, and affects to regard with con-
tempt the resistance they will be able To make
TO his movements.