Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-02-05
Special HERALD Correspondence.

WIG iet'ef Win eoTt u hpOiogy, tue
burden of which is this: The mind
OF newspaper man 10 not royal
mint, with patent machinery to
work it's metal into current coin.
Sometimes ittbrows it out in strange
forms, not easily recognized as coin
at all. But it is sterling gold. 1t
has at least that merit. i. is sterl
Ing gold. If this De "cheek" make
the most of it, but do me the favor,
please, to read what follows With
due diligence and Intelligent atten-
ton.
The river is again frozen over,
after fashion, but better would 1t
have been tor young Gus. Ebling, of
McGregor, if it was otherwise. He
came across yesterday with four
companions, and had good time
with some of the good boys of this
city. They remained all day, START
ing for home about 8 o'clock in the
evening. Just below the elevator
the merry party "struck" the river
and made q direct lins for the
southern extremity of the island
near the farther shore. Of a sudden
the ice gave way and Gus. was
laundering and struggling in the
cold. dark, sulen waters. His COM
panions, half scared to death, rushed
to the rescue, but they could not
get near enough TO render any as
sistsnce. Presently the poor boy
disappeared under the ice and was
by tho swift cold current carried
away into she wsveless ocean of
Eternal peace" To day the body
was found some distance below, and
now the windows Of one more hap
by household are darkeDed and
many mourners go about the streets
of bluff bound McGregor. Gus. had
recently returned from Heidelberg
University, aud was youth OF
mere than ordinary brightness and
promise. lie was a handsome, hap.
py. generous hearted boy With
h SITS of tried and faithful friends,
and not an enemy in the wide,
vide world. Aud to think that
such life should come to sucL q
melancholy end Imagine that last
terrible voyage under the solid ice,
the remorseless current rushing re.
sistIessly along, the dreadful lappirg
of the waters in his frightened care !
The Bailie case has awakened the
interest and enlisted the attention
of many people even here. None of
them. though, seem TO think that
there is even the phantom Of case
against Miss Farrell Thoss "detec.
uves" have freed the wrong coon
this time, sure. We'll, it is one thing
to make accusations, qaite another
to prove them, and eight hundred
dollars ia rather q robust reward.
That fine moral primrose, Rey.
holds, can't get out OF Jail in conse
quence of his bail being raised to
$4,000. Now his lawyers talk about
taking the sweet scented shrub over
to Lancaster, but what they expect
to do with him there isn't quite clear
to the unaided, unlegal visage Of
your correspondent. If anybody
thinks Lancaster is that kind of
community he deceiyes himself and
the truth is not in him. | am told
that tender hearted Esquire Hobbs.
champion of the cause of the sun.
natrel PARENT affirms that his (R's)
trouble Is all owing to his having a
greenbacker like A. S. Clark for a
son-in-law. Now mind that, will
ye?
Jones-Jenk. l.. Jones--lectured
here last Friday evening. l did not
go, not because hold Friday to be
devilish unlucky day, but because
| was otherwise engaged. But every
body else went aud everybody says
that the lecture was immense. Even
Mr.. Beach says it was good and
MIR. Beach knows. (There isn't a
clearer, stronger intellect any where
than the intellect Of this same Hor.
ace Beach } Jones is a unitarian
preacher and he has two "boss" sis.
tiers, both OF whom know we'll at
Lancaster, ten long eventful years
ago. They were good girls, believe
me, and as teachers they had no gu.
periors anywhere. was employed
on the HERALD in those days, going
roundabout the country writing it up
by towns and villages, and working
in the office off and on, writing local
items and learning the mysterie, of
the cart preservative" through the
medium of the case and well. worn
long primer. Tiel was foreman then,
and we went to press Tuesday even.
lngs. This was an event for MANY
OF the young people in town, and the
HERALD sanctum and press rooms
were usually filed by gay and happy
throng of pretty girls, some with and
some without "tellers." One evening
the Misses Jones came in, accompa.
MED by just the sweetest little dame,
aged thirteen or Whereabouts, that |
had ever seen. | looked in her 1.-The
little one's) eyes, and, as my friend,
Prof Chamberlin, afterward wrote,
Saw her heart there" | did, upon
my soul did, and don't you forget
1t. The trio came to where stood
leaning against my "frame" ike a
sort of journalistic Colossus OF
Rhodes, with coat off and sleeves
rolled up. They wanted to know
about the "boxes," and the informa.
ton gave them, with the air of an
old New York Tribune typo, must
make them smile, when they recall.
1t, even now. What l didn't know
about the printing business at that
time wouldn't have made more than
line OF plea, single measure. Did.
ut | give the dear girls "taff,,"
though ? We'll, hardly.
Some time afterward President
Allen, of the Platteville Normal, came
up, and he | arranged to 60 to pic
mic somewhere below Potosi. So we
chartered Billy Powers big carriage.
engaged the Misses Jones aud sailed
away, call in the gay and golden
weather of June morning. At our
journeys end We were iliued by
about fifty Normal students, and il
was great day for all hanis, espec
tally the festive fellows who went in