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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18
THE SEVEN-sHOOTER AND"sAND


WASHINGTON, Nov. I0.-There is
one very stale game of confidence
men in Washington tina. never an.
pears to fail in securing victims.
The rural rooster is always invited to
go over to Arlington heights to see a
monument. unveiled. When the Po-
tomac is crossed the victim is regu.
larly robbed, and naturally has no
redress, the robbery having been
committed outside of the reach of the
District authorities. Mr.. George X.
Bsgshy, of North Carolina, who ar.
rived here yesterday, although SIM
pie minded enough TO 90 on the
usual excursion, proved, yesterday
afternoon, too much for the would.
be swindlers. The gang with him
crossed the river as per usual in
sklff. They then proceeded toward
the canal, along the bank of which
taey walked, until they met a party
who claimed to be Kentucky cat.
tie driver, and who inquired the way
to Alexandra depot. This increased
the party to four. The Kentuckian
claimed he had lost money in Balti
more and showed some cards. pro.
posing to show how it was done. He
threw his coat on the ground and
went at it in a very Dangling way.
The party made some little bets, and
then proposed that Mr.. Bagsby
should try. At this point the latter
began to realize that he was in the
hands of sbarpers, but resolved to
put on a bold air, keep his suspicious
to himself and await developments.
He accordingly bet $50, laid the
money down, and, selecting the right
card, won the stakes Immediately
the alleged cattle driver knelt down,
seized the money and put it in his
pocket. Quick as thought Mr.. Bags
by stepped back, and drawing a
seven shooter from his pocket, or
dered the man TO restore the money
before be rose from his knees. As
If the scene was not dramatic enough.
another party appeared with a shot
gun, and proposed to arrest the
quartet, but the scare did not work,
and Mr., Bagsby threatened to shoot
each one in succession unless the
funds were given up. The cattle.
driver at once gave up the money
and the psrty quickly Withdrew,
leaving Mr.. Bagsby victorious. The
latter came to the city and notified
the police.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18
Medicinal Qualities of Buttermilk.

For summer beverage, there can
be nothing more healthy and
strengthening than buttermilk. 1t is
excellent for weak or delicate stom-
achs, and far better as dinner drink
than coffee, tea, or water, aud unlike
them does not retard, hut rather aids
digestion.
A celebrated physician once said
that if every one knew the value of
buttermilk as drink, it would be
more freely partaken of by persons
who drink so excessively of other
beverages and further compared its
effects upon the system to the clean
ing out of cook stove that has been
clogged up with ashes that have
sIfted through, filing up every crew
ice and crack, saying, that the human
system is like the stove, and collects
and gathers refuse matter that can in
no way be exterminated from the
system so effectually as by drinking
buttermilk. 1t is also a specific
remedy for dyspepsia and indiges-
ton, soothes and quiets the nerves.
and is very somnolent to those who
sre troubled with slseplessness
There is something strange in the
fact that persons who are fond OF
buttermilk never tire OF singing its
praises, while those who are not fond
OF it never weary Of wondering how
some people can drink it So fsr.as it
is possible, persons should overcome
their aversion 10 il, and learn to
drink it for health's sake One gen.
tleman OF our acquaintance is so ex'
tremely fond of it that we knew him
one time to drink about three glasses,
then set his glass down with thud,
exclaiming earnestly as he smacked
his lips: "That's food and raiment
both" While another buttermilk
enthusiast made the statement once
that where the liver has become life.
less from torpidity and inaction, ana
is too dead to perform its functions,
bu;termilk will cause a new one to
grow in. Whatever exaggerated
statements may have been made con-
corning buttermilk, its medicinal
properties cannot be overrated, and
it should be more freely used by all
who can get it. Every one who val.
ues good health should drink tutter-
milk every day In warm weather, and
drink as much Of it as they can COM
fortably, and let tea, coffee and water
aloHe.
For the benefit of those who are
not already aware of it, | may add,
that In the churnlng the first process
of digestion is gore through. making
1t one Of the easlsst and quickest OF
all things to digest.
1t makes gastric juice and contains
properties that readily assimilste
with it, with little or no wear upon
the digestive organs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18
A Chinese Dinner.

To the English guest at Chinese
table it seems odd TO begin dinner
with the dessert, aud end il with the
soup TO drink the wine smoking
hot, ont OF little china cups, aud have
your food brought TO you ready cut
up into small pieces, and TO be pre-
sented with a couple of sticks, in
stead OF knife and fork, TO eat il
with /; to have. instead of napkins,
a provision of little bits of silk paper
by the side of your plate, which, as
you use them, the Attendants carry
off; to leave your place between the
courses, 10 smoke or amuse yourself,
and to raise your chop sticks 10 your
forehead, and then place them hori-
zontally upon your cup. to signify
that you have finished your dinner
On the other hand, the Chinese can
never get over their surprise at our
way OF dining They ask how we
can like to drink cold fiuids,a and what
can have put il into our heads To
maze use ui trident 10 carry food
to our mouths, at the risk of picking
our lips or poking cur eyes out They
think it very droll 10 see nuts put on
the table in their shells. and ask why
our servants cannot take the trouble
TO peel the fruit, and take the bones
out OF the meat. They are them.
selves certainly not very difficult IN
the nature of their food, and like
such things as dried silk worms and
preserved laIy9, but they cannot un-
derstsnd the prediction OF our cpl
cures for high game, nor for cheese
that appears TO belong to the class of
animated beings. So there is some.
thing TO be said on both sides Of the
question.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18
TERMS ,s2.oO PERYEAR
WHOLE NO. 1862.
A Crowd of a Thousand.

| The other morning two gentle
men were looking out of the win.
dow of house on Market street
when they observed q csbbage roll
off market wagon that was pass.
ing. Instantly over a dozen well
dressed and apparently sane per-
sons began yelling after the wagon
as though the vegetable had been 9
gold wa'ch or tbousand dollar
bill. The driver stopped about
half square off, looked back at the
cabbage, yawned end drove on.
What an absurd fuss people in
the street make over trivial occur
renoes," sri id one of the gentlemen.
NOW, I'll bet a silk hst that 4
could get crowd OF 500 persons
around that csbbsge inside of thirty
minutes, and yet not leave this
room."
81 take the bet," said his friend,
pulling out his watch. "Are you
ready ?"
YES; give the word"
cit is now 1880. COP
The proposer of the wager lied
his friend to the window, threw up
the sash, and, taking cane, pointed
directly at the mud. covered cabbage
with terrified expression. Pres,
emily hack driver noticed the &c.
ton and began to stare ct the vege-
table from curbstone. then boot.
black stopped /; then a bill-poster,
messenger boy and q merchant.
"Whats the matter ?" inquired
German. approaching the innocent
base of his national dish.
Don't touch IL ! Look out there
Stand back 7" shouted the gentle.
man st the window. At his horror.
stricken tones the crowd fell back
precipitstely and formed dense
circle around the innocent cabbage.
Hundreds came running up and the
excitement increased rapitly.
"Look out there !" irantically
screamed the better, waving his
cane. "Tske that dog away, quick y
Several stones were thrown at
cur that was shifting around the
cabbage.
Take care +" said a car driver TO
a policeman, who was shonldering
his way through the mass. "It's
an iofernal machine, nitro gly cerine
or something"
Meanwhile the sidewalk was
blocked, the street became impassa.
BILE, women screamed and rushed
into shops, and storekeeper under
meath the better's room began TO
tie buckle on the end eff long
pole with which to pour water on
the devilish invention. The crowd |
by this time numbered over thou.
sand, the two gentlemen moved /
away from the window and sat
down. In few moments there
was hurried tap at the door, and
there appeared man who had been
sent as delegate from the mass-
meeting outside.
81 should like TO know, gentle
men," he said, "what the facts are ?"
"What facts ?"
why, what is there peculiar
about that cabbage out there p
Nothing 10 the world" was the
soft reply, Except that it seems to
be surrounded by abcnt thousand |
of the biggest fools in town. Do |
anything else for you p
The man reflected q moment, said |
he guessed not" and retired. Be. I
fore be handed in his report, how
ever, Captain Shorts watch bad |
the mob and clubtsi I'll |
separate persons for creating a dis.
turbapoe,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18
A Good Sermon TO Small Audience.

A story is told of Lyman Beecher
that is worth recording, as illustrat.
ing the truth that we can never tell
what may result from an apparently
Insignificant action The doctor once
engaged to preach for country min
lister, on exchange, and the Sabbath
proved to be excessively stormy cold
and uncomfortable II was in md.
winter, and the snow was piled in
heaps all along the road. so as to
make passage very difficult. Still the
minister urged bis horse through the
drifts till he reached the church, put
the animal into shed, and went in.
As yet there was no person in the
house, and after looking about, the
old gentleman, then sonng, took his
seat in the pulpit Soon the door
opened, and a single individual
walked up the aisle, looked about,
and took seat. The hour came for
commencing service, out no more
hearers. Whether to preach to such
an audience or not was now the
question; and it was one that Lyman
Beecher was not long in deciding.
lie felt that he had a duty to per.
form, and he had no right to refuse
to do it, because only one man could
reap the benefit of it; and accord
ingIy he went through all the servi-
ces-praying, singing, preaching and
the benedictioD-with only one hear.
err And when all was over, he has.
tened down from the desk to speak
to his Congregation" but he had
departed.
a circumstance so rare was re.
ferred to occasionally, but twenty
years after it was brought to the
doctors mind quite strangely. Trav-
cling somewhere in Ohio, the doctor
alIghted from the stage one day in
pleasant village, when a gentleman
stepped up and spoke to him, famil-
iarly calling him by name.
81 do not remember you," ssidsthe
doctor.
81 suppose not" said the stranger;
but we spent two hours together in |
house alone once, in a storm"
Il do not recall it, SIR" added the |
old man; spray, when was it ?'
"Do you not remember preaching
twenty years ago, in such a place, to
a single person ?''
"Yes, sir" said the doctor, grasp.
ing his hand, 81 do indeed and if |
you are the man,l have been wishing
to see you ever since"
81 am the man, sir; and that SER
mon saved my soul, made a minister
Of me, and yonder is my church. The
converts of that sermon, sir, are AL
over Ohio"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18
Thanksgiving Proclamation.

AT no period in their history since
the United States became q nation
has this people had so abundant and
so universal reasons for JOY aud graf
itude at the favor of the Almighty
God or been subject to so profound
an obligation to give thanks for His
loving kindness and humbly to inn
plore His continued care and protec-
ton. Health, wealth and prosperity
throughout all our borders; peace,
honor and friendship with all the
world; firm aud faithful adherence
by the great body of our population
to the principles of liberty and jas
tice which have made our greatness
as Nation, and to the wise institu-
lions and strong frame of govern.
meDt and society which will perpet-
uate it. For all these let the thanks
of happy and united people, as
with one voice, ascend in devout
homage to the Giver of all good.
I therefore recommend that on
Thursday, the 25th day of November
next, the people meet in their respec-
tive places of worship to make the
acknowledgement TO Almighty God
for His bounties and His protection
and TO offer 10 Him prayer tor their
In witness whereof | have hereun.
% set my hand and caused the seal
,f the United States 70 he affixed.
Done at the city of Washington
his LIST day of November, in the
year of our Lord 1850. and of the
Independence of the United States
he l05th. II Il. HAYES
By the President:
WILLIAM NJ. EvARTs, Secretary OF
State.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18
LANCASTER WISCONSIN, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 1s 1880.

rag, while Eta ground the coffee
and. according TO directions, put i,
into coarse, white flannel bag. al
lowing it plenty of loom. The
allowance in maklng it was this 0
heaping tablespoonful of the ground
ccffse for every pint that was to be
made, and one spoonful for the pot.
That is the usual allowance 10 max.
ing good coffee. Auutie said they
would drink a pint apiece on 60
average, that is, two cupfuls each.
The tea-kettle was to be hung on a
stout bit of a stick, one end on q
stump and the other end on any
convenient Continuance that came
handy. The coffee to be left in il,
in the wooden bag when boiled, to
prevent boiling over and wasting,
and 30 save the clearing of it. Good
cola water to be obtained from a
brock or spring.
Now they permitted Aunt Hester
to have her own way, and Eta
obeyed her directions TO the very
letter. And such coffee and such
praisel You never heard the like
The girl said afterward she was glad
the chickens did get out of the bar
rel.
The iron tea.kettle was no trouble
after it was wrapped up in heavy
brown paper and tucked under the
seat IN the Carriage. The cream
was put into flask, and the sugar
in paper sack, aud the teacUps.
without handles, with piece of pa.
per between them, were very cas-
lily carried
Coffee made thus in a tea.kettle
can be cleared by pouring some out
of the spout, returning and adding
a teacupful OF cold water. This
will clear it quite well.
Ooly yesterday, when we said we
needed a new tin basin, auntie
piped ont: "Wby don't y.4 sell
them broken taller cakes to the
peddlers and take your pay in no.
;ions 2"
We replied that we had tried so
often TO put that tsllow iD shape
for sale, but every time the cakes
adhered 10 tho bottom of the kettle
ani came out broken.
She asked 10 shape them ready
for sale, and she accomplished it
nicely by filling the kettle half full
of boiling water 10 with the tallow.
When cold knifo was circled round
the edge of the cake. the kettle
tipped sidewise on the clean grass,
and the shapely cake of tallow
came out with the water, nice and
hard and yellow. ready to exchange
for shiny tin.ware or any Yankee
notions" we chose to purchase Oh,
| wish there were cute, wise, OBJ
serving, loving aunties like Hetty
in all your homes i-Arthur'S MaQa-
zine
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18
Flowers and the Sick.

It is supposed that many flowers
should be carefully kept away from
sick people, that they exhaust the air
or communicate to it some harmful
quality. This may, in a degree, be
true of such strong fragrant blossoms
as lilacs or garden lilies, but of the
more deliestely.scented ones no such
effect need be apprehended. A well.
aired room viii never be made close
or unwholesome by q nosegay OF
roses, mignonnette or violets, and the
subtle cheer which they bring 10
with them is infinitely reviying to
weary eyes and depressed spirits.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18
Notice to Debtors.

hereby give notice to all persons indebt.
ed to the late firm of WoolsteDholme & Ma,
than, that the death of John Woolstenholme
requires a settlement of the firm business and
that accounts due said firm must be paid im-
mediatey.
HENRIETTA WOOLSTENHOLME.
Executrix of the last will and
testament of John Wool
stenholme, deceased.
Lancaster, Wis, October 10, 1880.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18
To Cure q Cold.

A bad cold, like measles or mumps,
or other ailments, will run its course
in about ten days, in spite Of what
may be done for it, unless remedial
means are employed within forty.
eight hours of its conception Many
a usetul life may be spared to be in
creasiDgly useful, by cutting cold
short off, in the following safe and
simple manner: On the first day of
taking cold, there is a very IN.
pleasant sensation Of chilliness. The
moment you observe this, GO to your
room and stay there-keep il at such
temperature as will entirely pre-
vent this chilly feeling, even if II re.
qulres 1907 of Fahrenheit. In add
ton, put your feet in water, half leg
deep, as hot IS you can bear it, add
ing hot water from time to time, for
fifteen minutes, so that the water
shall be hotter when you take your
feet ont than when you put them 10 !;
then dry them thoroughly, and put
on warm, thick wooden stockings,
even il it be summer, for summer
colds are the most dangerous, end
for twenty-four hours eat not an atom
OF food, but drink as largely as you
desire of any kind of warm teas, and
at the end OF that time, if not sooner,
the cold will be sffectuaily broken,
without any medicine whatever. Ef-
hcient as the above measures are, not
one in a thousand will attend to
them, led on as men are by the hope
that cold will pass off itself never
theless this article will now and then
pass under the eye of a wise man,
who does not choose to run the
double risk of taking physic and dy.
inp too.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18
Varnlsh on the Church Pews.

There was the quserest scene at
one OF tie churches last Sunday. It
seems that during the vacation the
seats had been newly vanished and
somehow the vsrpish was not right
as it was terrible sticky. You know
when you pull anything off OF
sticky varnish that it cracks. Well,
the audience bad ell got seated,
when the minister got up to give
out the hymn, gni as the basement
of bis trousers let loose OF the var
nish of bis chair there wss a noise
like killing fly on tho wall with a
pa.m.leaf fsn. The minister looked
around at ne chair to see if be was
all present. and that no guilty mans
pants had escaped, and read the
hymn. The choir rose with a
sound of revelry, and after the ten
or had swallowed o lozsn:e and
the baes had cougbed up pisce of
a frog and the alto had hemmed
and the scprano had shook out her
poloDaise 10 see if the varuish
showed on the south side, the audi
ence began 10 rise.
One or two dsscops got up first,
with sounds like picket firing in the
distance on the eve OF battle, and
then few more got up. aDd the
rafting of the uDyielding varnish
sounded as though the fight WAS
becoming more animated, and then
the whole audience got on its feet
1T once with sound of rafting
musketry The choir sang Hold
the Fort" When the orchestrs
mad concluded the people sat down
gingerly, the services were short,
and all went home praying for the
man that painted the seats Picks
,Suu
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18

K. L DRAKE, who drilled the first
oil well at Titusvils. Pa, and thus
became the founder OF the petroleum
interest of Pennsylvania, died on the
9Th inst, at New Bethlehem, in that
State. He has been the recipient of
pension from his State for some
years in recognition of his services
and the benefit derived from his dis
coyery. A statue to bis memory will
be erected at Titusville.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18
A Good Farm For Sale.

viii sell my farm, of mile northeast of
the village of Mt. Hope, consisting of leo
acres, 95 acres under cultivation of which 20
acres is meadow, IS acres is pasture and SEQ.
ond growth timber There is a good pasture
with plenty Of stock water in it, on the prem-
ises is good frame house 26xS2, with eight
rooms and good cellar under the whole !:
also good barn Sox50, good well los feet
deep,a cistern al the door, "a thrifty orchard of
three acres and plenty of outbuildings The
undersigned wishing to move vest in the
spring, viii sell cheap. Apply to the under.
signed on the premises
DANIEL TAYLOR
Mt, Hope, Grant county, Wis. 27mS*
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18

The thought that "no one cares
and no one knows" bligh,a meny
bud of promise. Whether i. be the
young arts, ct his easel, tns young
preacher 10 MS pulpit the workman
at his bepc5, tne boy at bis rnsihe-
matiesl problems. or your lit'le girl
at Der piano, give what praise you
en-, fer many ono has fallen by
the wy for the want cf that word
OF encouragement which would have
"est2blished their feet"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18

WILLIAM, do you know why you
are like donkey ?" Like a don
key" echoed William, opening his
eyes wide. "No, don't" "Do you
give 1t up ?" eyes" because your
better half is s:ubbornness itself"
That's not bad. Hal ha! III give
that TO my wife when | get home.
MY dear" no asked, AZ he sat down
70 supper, do you know why ! am
like donkey ?" He waited a mo.
ment, expecting his wife to give j:
NJ, but she didn't She looked at
him somewhat commiseratingly, as
she answered 81 suppose because
you were born 40.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18
LIMITATIONS meerschanm nil

IMITATION meerschaum pipes are
manufactured from potatoes in
France. A peeled potato is placed
in sulphur:c acid and water, in the
proportion Of eight parts OF the
former TO one hundred Of the latter.
1t remains in this liquid thirty six
hours, TO blacken, is then dried with
blotting paper, and submitted to q
certain pressure, when it becomes
material tha' can be readily carved.
The counterfeit is said to be excel.
lent. An imitation ivory, sufficiently
hard for billiard balls, can be made
bv still greater pressure. An imita-
ton OF coral is obtained by treating
carrots the same way.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18

Judge David S. Terry, the slayer
OF Senator c. Broderick, over TWEEN
ty-hVe years ago, was q Candidate
on the California Democratic tleo,o.
raj ;icket at The recent election, is
withont doubt defeat, d, 90 matter
what the general result in the State
may be otherwise. Californians
have long memories, ana they have
not yet forgotten the murderous
taking { ff Of the gifted Brocerick,
as is shown by tae extensive
"scraiohiDg" to which they subjects
ed the bloody handed Terry.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18

THERE are now 20 starch factories
in full blast in Aroostook county Me.
Each one of these factories requires
from 1900 to 1000 bushels of pota.
toes day, and as they intend to run
90 days this season, the total quantity
OF potatoes used will reach about g..
100000 bushels. The factories have
been paying 20 cents a bushel for the
potatoes, an unusually low figure, but
even at this price the farmers OF that
section would receive a revenue of
100000 from this one source. Some
have fields of 40 acres devoted ex.
clusively to potatoes, and the crop
has been known to yield as high as
400 bushels to the acre. The factor.
les take bo.n large and small, but the
farmers plant the large variety prin-
eipally, and potatoes weighing one
pound aud three quarters are fire..
quently seen in the bins.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-18
Mt. Hope High School

The winter term of the Mt. Hope High
School will commence on Monday, November
29th, inst, and continue fourteen weeks I'M
der the instruction of Walter B. Phillips.
Tuition, 80 cents per week, monthly in sd,
vance.
Books furnished by school board at cost.
Good rooms for rent, and board reascaa-
bic.
Apply to either Of tie members Of the
board. WIN. WHITE,
|. B. FOX,
W. E. sLoAT,
ssws School board, Dist. No. {.