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Luxemburger gazette. [volume] (Dubuque, Iowa) 1871-1918, 1880-07-20
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-04
"lcee Wagon Come Nextee. i"

Some time ago the Club of the
Universe" was visited by a terrible
thunder storm, accompanied by a
well developed sample of the Kansas
tornado. Many lives were lost
amongst the shipping along the Mas
sachusetts coast, and especially in
Boston harbor. The damage to
glass in the city was very heavy
The next day after the storm, one
firm on Canal street reported the sale
of two thousand panes of glass. The
whole performance was without a
precedent in the memory of the old.
est inhabitanI.
The startling appearance of the
sky previous to the bursting of the
shower warned travellers and pedes.
triaus to seek cover. Among the
many careless ones caught out in the
storm was Geo. B, young re-
porter. He was caught by the shower
on Hanover street, and stepped into
a doorway to wait until the heaviest
was over.
He had company in the doorway.
There were two Chinese "washee-
Washes" from Howard street, and
several less queue-rious looking indi.
viduals, all of whom, it would be safe
to say, had not for long time back
had any very intimate relations with
laundry.
The rain fell in torrents, and very
soon great hail-stones struck the side
walk and rebounded a few feet in the
air. Rushing out in the storm, the
enthusiastic reporter got sew eral
specimens, drew tape-line from his
pocket, measured them carefully, and
recorded the figures in his memoran-
dun book.
Repeating this operation several
times, he attracted the attention of
some young clerks in the offices up
stairs, who troke off large chunks
from the block in the ice-cooler, and
threw them out, when the reporter
measured them carefully, as before,
and recorded the result.
Everybody in that doorway was
awe struck at the size of the hail
stones, and the Cinnamon were ex-
hibiting eyes of an unusual round
ness and prominence. One of the
chaps in the Office accidentally drop
ped the balance of the block of ice
from which the monstrous hail stones
had been Clipped, and it came down
and landed on the sidewalk witn a
great crash. 1t must have weighed
over twenty pounds, and scattered
the water right and left.
Just at this instant came that awful
crash of thunder that startled every
one who heard it, and of which the
papers spoke next day. This was
too much for John Chinaman. They
both ran yelling up the street in the
driving storm, the last one saying, as
he cleared the doorway: "Whoopee
up hellee Icee wagon come nextee
Good bye, Johnee v'- Correspondence
Detroit Free Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-04
Not to be Fooled With.

"G'wuffam heab, chile, wuffm
heah, | tole YER" was the caution
given boy vending Chinese torpe-
do-bombs on Madison street, yester-
day, by an aged negro shuffling up
from the Illinois Central depot /;
"doan' yer drop any mo dem JIM
cracks roun' dis ole hoof of mine, o.
dore'll be s fune'l outen yo' house
bsfo' sunup er.morrower, shuah !!
Ise telkin-yo'd better hoe anud,
der roe-g'wuffam heah p
GILL" said the boy, derisiveiy. i'm.
browsing the symptoms of tumor
in his left cheek, and winkiag with
offensive rapidity-" whose scare
crow re you, yer old knockemstiff-
hey ?" And with this he loaded up
again and dropped the thing as near
the venerable feet as caution and the
length of the string would allow.
"Who yer goin' to vote for ?" he
then inquired jerking the bomb back.
"Whose scar whose whose
locker heah, honey, Is sour per-
simmou from de Ysllsbam-Pse a
bull dozer from the swsmp-an' I'll
frow whole gobs of sunlight froo yer
in de cackle OBJ spring pullet, yer
doan quit dat foelin' roun' my con.
field" And with a movement as
rapid as it was unexpected, the boy
found himself in chancery between
the patrisrch's knees.
"Whoot! - he continued, laying
down his grip,sack aud splitting On
his hands IS a preliminary to active
measures. "What'll yer gimme now
eff | let yer OFF,"
In this exceedingly delicate STRAIT,
the boys judgment came exceeding.
ly into play, and his promises were
brief, but golden.
"Now,' said the ancient, lifting the
boy up, and rssuming his grip-ssck
and wonted serenity, "ne1' time yer
want ter fool roun' aud get yo'sslf
inter muss. drappin' du6ggers on
cullud toes, jes' bar in mind ter keep
well outen de reach OF dis Ei2gsh's
habees cappus-dat's all-yer hesh,
my hon'?"
And then the "sour persimmon
from the Yallabsm" moved on
Chicago Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-04
The County.

Below are election figures for the
county as far as heard from. They
are nearly complete. They show
the majority in the county for Gar.
field to be 1897 with Hickory Grove
to be heard from which will add to
this about 60, making the majority
little over 1850. The majority in
1876 was 1925. Mr.. Hazelton's ma
iority will be about 200 less The
votes have surprised some of the
candidates and they will surprise
some readers. 1t is not far from
our own calculations. 1t seemed
very queer that some of the oombina.
ton candidates thought they had q
show of election. They constructed
their combination on a false theory.
They thought Jack" Lane the kind
Of man voters want to scratch. Men
like "Jack" Lane are not the kind of
men for good industrious people to
"scratch."
Let the reader study the figures.
Here they are:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-04
The Famine IN Per STA J..

From missionary's private letter.
The famine is quite bad here now.
The exporters OF carpets are EN-.
ploying men to pave the streets with
the money SAINT to them. Mr.. Ward
is having wall built around the
church graveyard, and also chapel
is in process of construction by the
poor masoss who could not find work
elsewhere. / say Mr.. Ward is having
it done, as he oversees the workmen
and pays them every evening, and
gives each two pounds and half Of
bread, Mr.. Wright gives out money
amounting to SIS day,in sums from
90 cents to so, and distributes bread
to about 400 persons. We have four
people in the house. The first we
took was boy about 10 years old,
who was just beginning to beg. Mr..
Ward told him to ask his mother if
he could come every day and open
the gate, and we would give him
bread and money to buy bread for
his mother every day. He has been
here over two months. The next one
is boy about IA years old. He was
so nearly starved that he had to be
carried here. Two days after be
came we sent him to find his father,
whom be feared was dead. He
found him in the graveyard, whittier
be had gone to die, aud brought him
here to US. Atterward the boy
brought also an older brother. They
are very devoted to us now, and are
full OF what they will do for us this
fall when they get work again
Their work 10 bringing charcoal from
the mountains. It is very unpleas.
ant going out on the streets now,
for the beggars catch hold of ones
brides and cling to ones clothing.
Yesterday | was obliged to strike a
woman hard with my whip to make
her let 60 of me. Those who are
actually starving do not act in that
way, In the streets people will run
after US calling out: "In the name
Of the holy Jesus give us bread !"
Some ask for money. Mrs. Oldfath-
sr, of O1rmiab, writes: "Women
are eating their own children. The
smell ia the city is terrible, and we
fear q plague"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-04
Crows in Caucus.

A gentleman tells US of a marvel.
Gus sight which he saw one day in
the early part of March, while he
was journeying from Harper's Ferry
to Washington. 1t was about an
hour before sunset, and looking down
the Potomac river toward the sea,
IS far as the eye could reach was a
continuous flight of crows, moving
in belt about a third of a mile wide
and finally dropping out of sight
over ridge on the north side of a
mountain lying to the eastward. A
resident of the neighborhood who
was familiar with the movement said
the crows are going to their roosting
place, and this phenomena had oc,
cured every night for years. The
flight lasted for full an hour in a
steady stream which ended in a
circIing eddy, as the birds settled
down to their roosts, resembling a
great black funnel or whirlpool. 1t
was most amazing sight, and vast
ly more engaging than flights OF
pigeons roosting, which are intermit
tent, whereas this was continuous.
The birds had doubtless scattered
for forage during the day along the
shores of the many estuaries and
tributaries of the Chesapeake, and
when darkness came, winging their
dusky flight back to their appointed
rendezvous. The last bird home
must have arrived late to bed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-04
Highly Seasoned Food and Intern
peranee.

AS long as the American people
consume such quantities of stitnulat-
ing and highly seasoned food as they
do, they will want to imbibe stimu-
lating drinks. Stimulating food and
stimulating drinks go nee asarily to-
gsther. The one is the cYncomitant
of the other. Many q man who sea.
sons his dinner literally with the
contents of the castor excites in his
system thirst for something strong
err than cold water. Not that cold
water would not be the best thing
with which to quench the fire he has
klndled within the vital domain by
the use Of such hot, stimulating con-
diments bat that is too insipid.
Having partaken of such highly-sea-
soned food he Graves a drink equally
stimulating Now, it 10 not
true that every one who eats inordi
nately and Of stimulating and highly
seasoned food is a drunkard, but |
hold that such one, By his manner
of living, supplies 3 very important
condition for becoming a drunkard
That he does not become one is, per-
haps, because Of moral principle,
acting in conjunction with q great
! will power to restrain the appetite
for diffuslble stimulants for we hold
that in such a case this aspstite, to
greater or less extent, exists. The
converse Of this proposition, however,
is true mel who are fond of stimu-
lating drinks are also fond of stimu.
latlng aud highly.seasoned food. Ga
the other hand it was the opinion of
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-04
.UCCESSY
A Republican President
Republican Senate
Republican
Congress.

Wednesday, October &c.
Dispatches from Boston, Hartford,
New York, Philadelphia, Cincinnati,
indianapolis, Chicago, Milwaukee,
st. Paul, San Francisco and the
South. received at the HERALD Office
from 10 o'clock last night until this
morning are laden with encouraging
news.
Maine is carried by the Republ;
cans by 5000 majority.
Connecticut by 5000.
New York by a reliable majority.
Pennsylvania by thirty to forty
thousand.
Ohio by about 10000.
Indiana by about the same as IN
October.
California by 5000.
Illinois by 10000.
And so on through-every north
ern state supposed to have been taken
by the Republicans except New Jer-
sey and the Republicans have proba-
bly, carried the Legislature of New
Jersey, for our victory would be in
complete without it.
The returns are scattering and
necessarily incomplete but they all
point to this conclusion and to the
certainty of Garfeld's election, with
out any by arrangement.
The majority in Wisconsin is large.
All the present Republican Congress-
men are reelected and we gain one
in the 9th District.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-04
Shark Fishing at Nantucket.

This is the way Springfield man
describes his shark fishing experience
at Nantucket, after the Burlington
HawIeye mans fashion: I wish
you had been here a few days ago
and gone out "sharking" with US.
Eight went in a whale.boat, and
caught nine in about two hours.
We have great iron hooks covered
with small fish; eight feet of chain
are attached to the hook, and then
sixty feet of rope strong enough to
hold horse. We let the bait sink
to the bottom and wait in tranquility
for a bite: By-apd-by there is a
tug at the hook, or sensation" as
some of our party called it: easy
slow-you are not quite certain
whether he is there-you hold your
0reath-whisper to your oonpan.
ions "Hush-I've got one !" The
shark starts off with the bait, you
let him run about yard, then with
one mighty jerk fasten the hook in
his mouth, and haul in. This is
where the fun begins. If you ever
lived on farm, and tried to lead a
COW in the road that was bound she
wouldn't go at all one minute, and
then bound to go both sides of the
road at once, then to go backward,
and then to climb trees--you can
imagine what it is to haul in a shark
You yell all the time-you must
yell; you can't help it. You feel
that if you don't yell you wont get
the shark. Your companions begin
to yell. Hand over hand you tug in
the line. You stop yelling for a
minute, and inch by inch the shark
takes the line out, he brings your
hands clean down to the gunwsle.
You rally, brace your feet-give
another yell. The crew help you
pull-they yell-tbey speak encour-
aging words to u You puff and
yell, and pant and howl and strain
hand over hand while the crew
shout "Hang to him ~ Whack 90
your knuokles against the gunwalea,
but you still hang and yell. just
when you feel as if you couldn't poll
another pound, his great ugly head
comes in sight. Then you give a
big yell, and right in the midst of it
the shark gives a founce and pours
bucket of salt water into your face
and breast. You grab the cham
with both hands, lift his head clean
out of the water, and then the brute
plays he is sn anger, and turns him.
self over and over, you think at the
rate of forty times minute. Then
you yell in right down earnest ssHit
him hit him hit him !" Meantime
the crew are not idle. Armed with
clubs three feet long. they pound
frst his nose (his brains lie in his
nose), then the gunwale, then the
chain within four inches Of your
hand, then his nose again. Tbs
shark stops lodging for moment
"A few more wells on his nose and
he is a "deader." We get him
aboard with hooks and levera. Then
yeu sit down and try to draw long
breath-perhaps you will, bat l
didn't. I concluded one was enough
for me, and in the future l would
help yell. In the evening | went to
teachers meeting, where the ques
ton came up of the divine care for
animals. l asked if it was right to
take the life of an animal just for the
pleasure OF it, and it was voted NO.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-04
Wisconsin Congressman

In this District Hazelton is re-
elected by somewhere between 1000
and 5000 majority. Republicans
are returned also in the other dis
tricts now held by Republicans.
10 the Oshkosh district our gallant
State Treasurer, Rich'd Guenther
was elected over Bouck, making q
Republican gain.
In the Milwaukee district Duester,
Democrat, is e-clected. Sois Bragg,
Democrat. in his district.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-04
A Boy on q Farm.

Say what you will about the gen.
eral usefulness of boys, it is my i'm
preston that farm without a boy
would very soon come to grief
What a boy does is the life of the
farm. He is the factotum, always in
demand, always expected to do the
thousand and one things that nobody
else will do. Upon him falls the
odds and ends, the most difficult
things. After everybody else is
through, he is to finish up. His work
is like a woman's-perpetually wait.
ing on others. Everybody knows
how much easier it is to cook a good
dinner than to wash the dishes after
wards. Consider what a boy on a
farm is required to do-things that
must be done, or life would actually
stop. 1t is understood, in the first
place, that he is to do all the errands,
to go to the store, to the postoffice,
and to carry all sorts of messages.
If he had as many legs as the cent?
pede, they would tire before night.
His two short limbs seem to him en-.
tlrely inadequate to the task. He
would like to have as many legs as
a wheel has spokes, and rotate about
IN the same way. This he tries TO
do, and the people who have seen
him turning cart-wheels" along thu
side OF the road, supposed that he
was amusing himself and idling his
time; he was only trying to invent a
new mode of locomotion, so that he
could economize his legs, and do his
errands with greater dispatch. He
practices standing on his head, in
order to accustom himself to any
position. Leapf frog is one of his
methods of getting over the ground
quickly. He would willingly 90 on
an errand any distance, if he could
leap'frog it with a few boys. He
has a natural genius for combining
pleasure with business this is the
reason why, when he is sent to the
spring for pitcher of water, he is
absent so long; for he stops to poke
the frog that sits on the stone, or If
there is a pen spout, to put his hand
over the spout, and squirt the water
lutte while. He is the one who
spreads the grass when the men cut
it; he mows it away in the barn; he
rides the horse to cultivate the corn,
up aud down the hot, weary rows
he picks up the potatoes when they
are dug he brings wood and water
and splits kindling; be gets up the
horse and turns out the horse
Whether be is in the house or out OF
the house, there is always something
to do. Just before school in the
winter, he shoyels paths; in the
summer he turns the grlndstone. He
knows where there are lots Of winter.
green's and sweetfags, but instead Of
gong for them, he is to stay indoors
and pare apples and stone raisins
and pound something in a mortar
And yet, with his mind full oil
schemes of what he would like to do,
and his hands full of occupations, he
is an idle boy who has nothing to
busy himself with but school
and chores. He would gladly
do all the work if somebody else
would do the chores, he thinks and
yet I doubt if any boy ever amount.
ed to anything in the world, or was
OF much use as man, who did not
enjoy the advantages of liberal
education in the way of chores
Charles Dudley Warner.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-04

Liebig, founded upon observation,
that persons who live mostly upon
fsrinaceoas and amylaceous food
cannot take wine; all kinds of al.
cohollc drinks seem to be repugnsnt
to them. 1t is only those whose daily
diet consists largely OF animal food
who can relish spirituous liquors.
Savage nations living in tropical re-
gions, where they subsist mostly up.
on fruits and vegetables, the sponta-
neous productions of mother earth,
have rarely, upon coming in contact
with the white man and his fre.wat-
er, fallen victims to intemperance
like the North American Indian, who,
living by the chase, has subsisted al
most wholly upon animal food.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-04

A SIMPLE and usually successful
mode of extracting a needle or any
piece OF steel or iron that has broken
off in the flesh is by applying com
mon pocket magnet. Iron filings
have way of imbedding them
selves in the eve which defies ale
most every ordinary means for their
extracting. For their removal of a
small, blunt pointed bar of steel,
well magnesized, will be found eff
fectuCi
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-04
appearances as Developed by We'd
nesday Afternoon Reports.
joloredc-Rs Republican gains

Colorsdc-Rspublicsn gains.
Connecticut gives three Republic
can and ore Democratic Congress
men.
Delaware goes about 1000 strong
for Hancock.
Florida carried by the Democrats.
Chance that ore Republican Con-
gresham is elected there.
Georgia qives solid Democratic
representation in Congress.
Illinois-Latest ia that Republic
cans have about 10000 over the
Democrats and gain Republican
C5ngressn an in the 18Th District.
Iowa has her usual large Republic.
can majority and the two districts
now represented by Greenbackers
were carried by Republicans, giving
the State full Republican represen-
tation.
Indiana gives about 5000 Republic
can majority.
Louisiana looks "solid," probably
full Democratic representation in
Congress.
Kentucky is Democratic intensely.
Maine stands about same as yes
terday's dispatches.
Maryland is Democratic but shows
Republican gains. Garfield had 49,
354 votes and Hancock 32,677 in
Baltimore.
Massachusetts $4,000 Republican.
Tho Republicans have ten Congress
men and the Democrats one. The
Republicans however, claim they
have also elected the eleventh by 5
majority.
In Minnesota, especially St. Paul,
Republicans make large gains.
10 Mississippi the Republicans DO
good voting at Vicksburg and Holly
Springs, but of course the State is
"solid South"
New York is right. The Demo-
Gratis got the city by 10000 but the
country brings the State $4,000 OF
10000 Republican. 1t is doubtful
whether the Republicans have
gained Congressman in the State.
New Hampshire is Republican by
certain majority. One Congress
sional district is in doubt. If Demo
crats got it il will be to them a gain.
New Jersey is close. Democrats
claim it but Republicans say there
is still chance for them, No light
on result on Congressman.
Nebraska big Republioan-prac-
tieally unanimous.
Ohio gives large gains for Repub-
lloans. Majority may 60 up above
10000.
In Pennsylvania the majority for
Garfield is estimated at 10000 to
10000. Reports on Congressman
Gro too meagre to Judge of results
South Carolina il very largely
peopled With "black" Il publicans
unless the "blaekb" have turned tC
be "black" Democrats. Democrats
have it all their own way.
10 Texas the result in one Con
gressional district is in doubt. The
Democrats have the others
Tennessee goes Democratic 40,
600 Congressional delegation APP
pears TO be unchanged but two dis.
triets arc in doubt. The Democrats
now have them and if Republicans
got them it 10 so much gain.
In Virginia the Republicans have
gained a Congressman. Another
district is close.
Rhejo Island ia solid as Vermont
Nevada IS in doubt.
Wisoonsin-No report since Wed.
nosday morning.
Oregon is no doubt Republican.
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ABOUT 10 Greenback votes wert
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-04

THE China Inland Mission, an IN.
denomlnational English society, is
sending European women into the
Western Provinces which foreign
missionaries have scarcely visited as
yet. They are received very cordial
IL By the native women, who crowd
aroand them every time they appear
on the streets and buy books Of
them. The people OF the We.tern
Provinces are said to be more az
eessible than those Of the coast
Provinces.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-04
Notice-Don't Credit

ALI persons are hereby notified aa3 for.
hidden to trust or sell on my account any.
thing TO my siepson. William Fiedemaa bet
ter known hereabouts BY the name of u iliam
Dechow, az have given him BIZ tine ard
win not be responsible for any o. his acts or
debts. Ard in the above notice / include
my wife, Sopbi. Dechow, and forbid Al per.
sons to trast her or sell to her on my ere.ii..
unless in my presence, as otherwise iii
pay no debts Of her contracting from md
after this date.
Dated Waterloo, October %, 1850.
34w4* JOHN DECHoT,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-11-04
Notice to Debtors.

thereby give notice to all persons iadebs
ed to the late frm Of Woolstenbolme & IA
than, that the death Of John Woolstenholne
requires settlement Of the firm businc.- ,sld
that accounts due said firm must be paid Ia
mediaieiy.
HENRIETTA W00LSTENHOLgF
Execulrix Of the last viii and
testament of John Wpai-
stenholme, deceased.
via Ocsnb.-