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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27
Burdette on Commercial travellers.

What would / do without athe
boys 2" How often they have been
my friends. | 20 to new town. i
don't know one hotel from the other.
! don't know where to go. The man
with the samples gets off at the same
station. l follow him without a word
or tremor. He calls to the bus
driver by name, and orders him to
get out OF this now" as soon as we
are seated. And when / follow him
| am inevitably certain to 90 to the
best house there is in the place. He
shouts to the clerk by name, and fires
joke at the landlord as we 60 in.
de looks over my shoulder as / reg
lister after him, and hands me his
card with a shout of recognition. He
peeps at the the register again, and
watches the clerk assign me to 9s.
aNinety nothing" he shouts "who's
IN 10 I" The clerk says he is saving
10 for Judge Dryasdust. "Well, he
be bowed" says my CHEEKY friend,
"give him the attic and put this gen.
tleman in 49, And if the clerk hes.
itates. he seizes the pen and gives
me Is himself, and then he calls the
porter, orders him to carry up my
baggage and put fire in Is, and
then in the same breath adds, "What
time will you be down to supper, Mr..
Burdette ?" And he waits for me.
and, seeing that / am a stranger in
town, he sees that / am cared fol, and
that the walters do not neglect me !:
he tells me about the town, the PEG.
pie and the business. He is breezy,
CHEEKY, sociable, full Of new stories,
always good natured; he frisks with
cigars. and overfiows withathousand-
mile tickets" and he knows all the
best rooms in the hotels he always
has a key for the car seats, and turns
a seat for himself and friends with
out troubling the brakeman, but he
will ride on the woodbox or stand
outside on the platform to accommo.
date lady, or be will give his seat
to an old man. / know him pretty
well. For three years / have been
travelling with him, from Colorado to
Maine,and | have seen the worst and
the best of him, and know the bes,
far out weighs the worst. | could
hardly get along without him, and
am glad he is numerous.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27
Big Salary Laws, Etc.


EDITOR HERALD In the HERALD
of the 18th inst. you ask that the
people select representative who
will smash the Railroad Commits
sioner law. Would it not be well to
give brief history of that act, and
who favored and who opposed it?
Another thing: Sheep growing is
fast becoming, it it is not already the
most extensive and the most profita-
BILE of any one farm interest in the
State, and all that is asked and all
that Is needed. is a wolf bounty to
protect this interest. Yet the Legis-
lature, in its wisdom, repealed that
protection in the interest of those
who are more interested in raising
dogs and wolves than sheep, and
who wished to get rid of the tax for
bounties.
Now, so far as my observation
goes, wolves are not apt to trouble
lambs much if the whelps are de
stroyed. do not know that there
was single lamb killed in this vicin.
ity while there was a bounty law;
but the next spring after its repeal
there were more lambs destroyed in
this neighborhood than would have
paid all the wolf bounties in the
town, because the young wolves were
not destroyed and the old wolves
secured the country for food for
them.
The all-powerful argument in favor
OF the repeal of the law, was that
certain persons were raising wolves
for the bounty. A delegate in con-
stitutional convention in Pennsylva-
MIA wanted the time OF holding cleo.
tions changed because it came in
buckwheat harvest. About the only
difference in the power OF the argu.
ment would seem to be, that the lat.
ter was true, while the former is to
be believed or disbelieved.
w. A. GRAHAM.
Mt Ida Nav 18Th 1aan
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27
Sitter May Flowers.

The wind blows everything into bloom,
and has blown several blossoms into Sitter.
"A new warehouse is budding, and orna-
mental trees and fencing seem to be The or
der of the day. Business fourishing and every
body smiles when they enter the post Office
and behold the new patent call boxes that
the post master has placed there.
Blacksmith Fache supplies the people
with lime from ] peck to a car load
The morning of the goth we beheld over
the R. r. track three united links with I. O.
O. F. placed in them. The flag was also wav,
ing and we thought it odd. Then we remem-
bered this was Odd Fellows excursion day.
Rumors whispered it, "Ford's doings."
The 10th of next month our camp meet
ing begins and lasts several days. Come one,
come all and try camping out at a real old
fashioned camp meeting
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27
Cassville Brewery Property
for Sale at Auction.

The undersigned will sell at public auetisn for
cash IA hsna On me sLh day OF July, A. D.. 1880.
the premises hereinafter described the entire prom.
erty, both real and personal known as and apper.
tanning TO the Csssyie Brewery, situated in The
village Of oassviiie county Of Grant and state OF
Wisconsin, and now owned and operated by W IN.
Schmitz and Hugo Grimm under the firm name Of
schrnitz & Grimm, consisting Of, and comprising the
following described realty viz Lots No ! aud l0
In block AZ on lot number is partly brick and
partly frame dwelling. story. I6x32 feet, with
good cellar also on the same lot Is an iee houss
20x32 feet, 10 feet high and containing at pfesent
100 tons of Ice. On lot number 10 ia situated com.
Portable two story frame Dwelling, 32x32 feet With
stone basement under u and good we'll and cstsTn
| besides other out buildings.
Also lots Nos. !, 6.7,s,9 aud 10 in block fftf.
one t5ll, all In the village Of Cassvls Aforesaid aid
all OF said lots ia blocks 40 and 81 are known "a fhs
Brewery property. On lots 4. and 10 are situated
the Brewery bnldng,l 1856 feet long and 20 feet wId
rock basement and tive story brick; in Il is con.
tanned malt cellar and Kiln. and an abundance Of
storage room for barley. malt. &C. To TITS Is adted
one stery. lSx20. stone addition. used FOR ofFea
Back of the aforesaid Brewery building IL situated
the lager beer cellar running at right angles ~,
the bluff. 1890 feet and mainly blasted out Of the
rocks. The above Brewery contains A good a,.ut,,a
new boiler safIieiescy Of casEs, ttbs, hose 1sgs,
a. patent beer cooler and numerous other axtuTes
not here enumerated, all ia order for breri,,s hsr
q which parties who desire 10 purchase can a. INV
the Jay OF sale before sale, -
The above win be offered all togsther in ona II,
viii also offer for sale the following meadow
land to- wit; The undivided half OF lot IN seetn
81, and Of lot In section IS, town g. rangs 80.
and between 400 and 500 butheis of malt 100 n. a.
hops about % eords Of wood and lot Of other brew.
ers stock such as corks, pitch. shsYings DC to be
sesn on schedule On the day Of sale.
Also the following stock and utensils be.onylng
70 said firm to-wit Three work iorses I've ssles
two set OF double harness. one heavy and one iyhi
peer wagon, one set Of bob-sleighs, one new hsy
racE nine hogs six cows, eleven bead Of s,oci
inc luding four sucking calves. 1865 9+1eN
Also one iron safe, one set of scales, ons Mccor
m.cs mower, one snlsy hay rake, and Numerous
MneI afncies not here enumerated These latter
articles inclacfag the meadow land win be on red
IN separate parcels
me aoeye property Is all In the beet Of order the
larger portion fixtures nearly or a. rooi a. mas,
Title perfect.
% inrther Information inquire Of the undsrseasd
cais 70 commence az ten O'Clock a. m on fae day
above stated and continue TIL all fs sod
Dated cassvilIs, May 10th, 1880.
WILLIAM, scnarTz.
AUG0 GRIMM,
By JOHN u. @. sNECLoDE, their Atty. ia t.ct
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27


ETERNAL VIGILANCE will be need.
ed at Chicago. We have been hop
ing, almost thinking, that Gen. Grant
had no intention of holding to the
candidacy. If he should be nominated
at Chicago. So hoping, we were
willing the convention should give
him the compliment of a nomination,
and we doubt not some delegates
haYe intended thus to give their
votes for him, feeling sure that he
was too wise as we'll as too good
man to accept q candidacy under
present circumstances. But the Ga
lena Gazette has spoiled this pro-
gramme. 1t says: ga very large
class of the American people haYe
chosen to make him their candidate,
and if the Republican National Con.
vention at Chicago sees fit to tender
him the nomination, he will not de-
cline. This we know to be fact. :"
As this comes from Grants home,
where he now is, we have to take it
as authoritative. The probability is
that Grants friends, like Babcock
did, are keeping from him the facts
as to how they have bulldozed the
party to get majorities for him.
Maybe he thinks everything is lovely
in the party because everything is
lovely around him, as, by seeing only
personal friends while he was down
South, he was led to say of them:
"We have no reason to doubt that
those who wore the gray will fulfill
all that they have promised in loyalty
to the flag of the nation" So it will
not do tor any friend of Republican
principles and Republican suprema.
cy to throw away complimentary
votes on Gen. Grant. AS we have
said all along, the past and the PIANO.
rama before us now, promise certain
disaster to the Republican party if
Gen. Grant is nominated.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27
Late Colonel of the 5oth Wis. Va

THERE are more silver dollars
coined than the Government has
storage for, and the Secretary Of the
Treasury asks $4,000 appropriation
to build vaults. There are over 500
tons of those dollars now. Why not
hire trains of cars to haul them back
to the Colorado mountains and bury
them. again to be hunted by miners +?
Why will not Congress stop that IDIOT
ic blunder of coming over two mil,
hon silver dollars per month to be
stored away?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27

out of seats to which they had been
elected. The Inter Ocean. which is
the organ of the bulldozers, admits
they did their work without major
ity when it says "The victory was
won against great Odds" 1t speaks
OF 1t as triumph of "the Grant par.
ty"-not of Republicanism mind you
and says the triumph was due
(not to majority,(ibut to "marvel-
GUS political management" This it
says to give the honor(? of the
marvellous" machine work to that
natural born bulldozer, John A. Lo-
gan.
Now, what will be the fruit of this
despicable work !? 1t will be Just
what it was during Grants admins
tration. 1t will be a vast reduction
of Republican votes. Logan worked
four or FIVE resolutions through his
convention. Each one of them will
cut its thousand off the Republican
vote of Illinois. If Grant is nomi-
mated he cannot carry his own state
unless it is done by bulldozing-the
pure Humbag Butler and Yazoo ar.
ticle. Logan is capable of this for he
is evidently that sort of beast, but
we doubt whether Illinois is good
soil for him. And Illinois is not the
only state affected. Republicans who
are so for principle, not for spoils,
and they are still the mass of voters
in the party, will revolt everywhere.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27

In a carriage attached to train
on one of the branches of the North
Eastern railway lately the converse.
ton turned on the various modes de.
vised for defrauding railway compa-
MES, and the difficulty that attended
their successful accomplishment. "Oh,
begor, but "a tyeuk them in last fort.
meet !" said an old miner with a
chuckle. "Hoo wis that, Jack %
asked his mate. "Wey," Jack re.
piled, "aa tyeuk reform fra Wild
drington Co.Iiery to Morpeth, an aa
walked back hyem an kept the tick
et."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27
CENSUS INFORMATION.
Glance At the Inquiries That VIII Be Put
to the People Next Month.

On the 1st of June the actual
work of enumeration for the tenth
census of the United States will be-
gin. The details are now nearly
perfected. The pay of enumerators
IS TO be from 2 to q cents a head
for each name reported, according
to the size of the district, 5 cents
for each death reported, 12a cents
tor each farm, Is cents for each es.
tablishmsnt of general industry re-
turned on the general schedule of
manufactures, and % cents for each
establishment returned on the spe.
cial schedule of manufactures. These
rates will, however, be subject to the
provision of law that no enumerator
shall receive in excess of 81 per day.
Suggestions and facts of interest to
the enumerated as well as the enum-
orators are appended: 1t is entirely
possible for the enumerator to be
prompt, rapid and decisive in an.
nouncing his object and his author
ity, and in going through the whole
list OF questions to be proposed, and
at the same time not to arouse any
antagonism or give any offense. 1t
ls not within the choice of any in.
habitant of the United States wheth-
er ne shall or shall not communicate
the information required by the GEN.
sus law. BY the 14th section of the
act approved March 3, 1879, it is
provided that
Each and every person more than 90 years
of age, belonging to any family residing in
any enumeration district and in case of the
absence of the heads and other members of
such family, then any agent Of such family
snail be, and each Of them hereby is,reuuired
i thereto requested by tie Superintendent.
supervisor or enumerator, to render a true
account, to the best of his or her KNOWLEDGE
OF every person belonging to such family Il
the various particulars required by law. and
whoever shall wilfnlly fail or refuse shan he
guilty of misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof shall forfeit and pay snm no. 81
ceeding 500.
The enumerator is cot required to
accept answers which be knows or
has reason to believe are false. He
has right to true statement on
every matter respecting which he is
bound to inquire, and be is not con-
Guided by false statement. Should
any person persist in making state.
ments which sre obviously errone-
Gus, the enumerator should enter
upon the schedule the facts as nearly
IS he can ascertain them by bis own
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27
A Gem Worth $l6,OOO,OOO.

The Globe: The Berlin Borsen-
Zeitung says that the Prussian CAPT.
tai has contained a jewel of quite
fabulous value, the news Of whose
existence was first made kno wn to
the general public by the reports of
the last session of the Polytechnic
Society. This noble stone is a sap.
phire, and is the property of one of
the members of that learned body.
1t weighs "12s loth'-a. little more
than six ounces. The jury of the
Polytechnic Society, on grounds
stated in full at their discussion, have
settled its value at the frightful sum
of sixty-four millions Of marks, or
three millions two hundred thousand
pounds Of English money. 1t need
hardly be said that such treasure is
not very likely to find a purchaser at
such price.
1t is contended by some of the
adopts that the stone is no perfectly
pure, SO that its price may, perhaps,
be reduced but it can never be SO
far lowered as to tempt the richest
and most eccentric collector in the
world to give anything like the sum
which must be asked for it. In the
year 1879 Berlin mineralogist of.
fered to 60 as far as 67.30o marks,
but in vain, as the unique jewel had
already been refused IN 1860 to a
German Prince who had offered a
far larger price. Its present posses
sor has placed his treasure in State
custody for the sake of his heir, as
the Borsen. Zeitung says, though we
imagine that its future owner will
not find it easy to rcalizs anything
more solid than distinction out of his
very exceptional piece of property.
All the experts who have scrutinized
the sapphire agree that it is a genu-
inc conundrum. The sssappir" Of the
books of Exodus and Ezekiel, like
the "sapphires" of Pliny, were prob
ably our lapHs lazuli.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27
To the Soldiers Of the Late War, and
TO My Comrades of the 9Th and
5Oth Wisconsin Regiments
in Particular.

A grand re.union Of all the soldiers
OF the State of Wisconsin, is to be
held at Milwaukee during the week
beginning June I, 1880.
Preparations are being made by
the Reunion Association on large
scale for your reception and enter.
tainment. 1t will furnish quarters
free, and subsistence to all in quar-.
tiers at cost. Each soldier is to pro.
vide his own blanket.
Those who are not acquainted in
the city, who are to be accompanied
by their families, can arrange for
board by writing to Henry Fink at
Milwaukee.
Railroad fare one and one-half
cents per mile on all roads leading
to Milwaukee and on the G. 81 I.
Trains will leave Lancaster, Liv-
ingstone and Montfort about p. M,
June Z, 1880, and will arrive at
Woodman in time for the evening
train on the M. 81 st. P. r. r. for
Milwaukee.
Let those who expect to go over
the G. 81 I. r. r. report to me at
Lancaster, and arrangements will be
made for cars.
1t will be pleasant to renew the
acquaintance and friendships Of the
war--to recall the past and revive
the associations of the march, of the
camp and the campaign-the memo
ries of which are fast fading away.
Then let us improve the opportu-
nifty, and meet together one and all,
and hold communion with each 9TH
er and with that great army Of our
nations defenders who will honor
the occasion by their presence.
JOHN G. CLARK,
A.. sntI
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27
Kansas Letter.
CLAY CENTER, Kansas, May 81. 1880.

CLAY CENTER. Kansas, May q. 1880.
Mr.. EDITOR.
DEAR SIR: Many of my friends
in western Grant county, who are
all subscribers of the HERALD wished
me to tell them what / thought oil
Kansas.
Lave just returned from Z
weeks ride through the Yves tern
part of the state and can say IN.
hesitatipgly that | have seen some
very fine country.
Some OF the western counties are
quite dry, still the newspaper re.
ports are without any truth.
saw no families starving or go.
ing nude. In fact IL is a fair sam-
pie of all frontier life in the United
States.
Crops look we'll Winter. W heat
short, but we'll headed.
| believe Kansas to BIO the coun-
try for man of limited means.
Stock is kept here with one
fourth the care and feed that is re-.
CURED there.
| would say to those who are
anticipating change to come to
Kansas. Yours truly,
/. j, CURTIS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27
GOOD FARMS FOR SALE

Ten minutes walk from Court-house or
main roads leading north and north east from
the city, one containing about 1876 and the
other about So acres. Convenient TO high
and graded school. Good buildings. album
dance of water, timber, fruit, etc viii be
sold separately or together, or in fractional
parts of either. Also if desired, farm ma>
ehinery, teams, etc, sufficient for uses Of
farms, very low.
For terms, etc, enquire of the subscriber
on the premises. TN. BARBER.
Lancaster. Oct. 10th. 1915.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27

For the benefit OF those who con.
tend that the Chicago bolter's con.
vention should have had any .au.
thority to choose delegates we give
Robert Lincoln's testimony. He was
himself one of the boilers, and a
bull-dczer at the State Convention.
But when called upon to testify he
had to admit that there were 191
delegates in the original convention;
that SO of these boiled and then
filed the vacancies with people who
were not elected delegates.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27
Notice is Hereby Given

That all stock caught in pasture on the
81 of section Z. section 1s, and NJ of section
10, town 8, range 8, west, and on 81 of Sec
ton IL, fractional section l3 and IA, town
3, range 6, and also on the 81 of sectionsa 4.
town 8. range 5, west, without permission
first obtained of the undersigned will be tax.
en- up and their owners sued for trespass. re.
CARELESS of who of them breaks the fences.
Persons caught breaking down fences or pill
fering on said premises will be made to suiyer
the extreme penalty of the law.
Dated May l7,h, 1880.
JOHN II. C. SNECLODE.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27
Republican Bulldozing.

The Illinois Convention racket is
through with and all the mischief
was done that could be done. 1t
was to the Republican party what
the acts of the "extra session" and
the Garcelon Legislature was to the
Democratic party. 1t was killing
blast. 1t damaged the Republican
party many thousands of votes. If
Grant should be nominated at Chi
cage and stand on the ticket he will
lose his own State ct the election
and John A, Logan and his fellow
bull.dozers in the Illinois Republi-
can Convention are the cause. Let
us see what has been done Cook
county, in which Chicago is situat-
ed, held primary elections to choose
delegates to the Republican county
Convention. Polls were opened
and oil Republicans allowed TO vote.
The result was that the Grant men
were beaten NEARLY two to one.
That is, there were nearly twice as
many delegates chosen who are for
Washburne and Blaine for President
rather than Grant. When the Con.
vention of these delegates assembled
the chairman of the County Com.
mittee undertook to foist upon them
q chairman and other officers die.
tated by the minority. The ma
jority refused thus to be imposed
upon and nominated and elected
their officers. Then, because the
minority, the one third could not
rule the ttoo.thirds, tho third
withdrew and held another conven-
tion. Both conventions then elect
ed full sets of delegates to the State
Convention. The original oonven-
ton chose 80 delegates opposed to
Grants candidacy and the boilers
chose 90 Grant men. If one mans
vote is worth another's, If there is
any virtue in majorities, if either
democracy or republioanism is
worthy of respect, then the dele.
gates chosen by the original eonven-
ton should have been the admitted
delegates to the State Convention.
But the boilers were permitted to
accomplish their purpose. Their
delegates appeared as contestants.
Another county that sent eight dele
gates also contested. The 90 from
Cook and the from the other
county make an even hundred anti.
Grant men who had to stand aside
and let the remainder of ths State,
which had majority for Grant,
say who should be admitted. Green
L. Raum is the U. S. Commissioner
of Internal Revenue. He was q
delegate. Jones, chairman of the
State Central Committee, and q
Grant machine man, nominsted
Rsum for chairman. Raum was
elected and made speech. He
said to the delegates who were to
decide upon the contest: "You will
be incapable of doing an act of ius
justice to gain a partisan end"
That was fattery. 1t is syllogistic
fact that they did do injustice. One
or the other of the Conventions Of
Cook county bad the right to choose
the delegates to the State Conven-
ton. Cook county could not have
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27

The Grant men it appears tried
to do in Louisiana as they did in
Illinois. There were in the State
Convention 1853 delegates. Of these
SO were for Grant and because they
could not get control and run the
convention they seeded and ran
convention of their own awhile.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27
Thirty-two Indian Chiefs Going to
Washington.

YANKToN, May "a -Thirty-two
Indian chiefs of the Sioux nation,
from For. Berthold, Standing Rock,
Cheyenne river, Grow creek, the
Lower Brule, Rosebud, Pine Ridge,
Yankton and Santee agencies, ar
rived yesterday on the steamer Butts,
and left on this mornings train for
the east. Spotted Tail and Red
Cloud are with the party. A portion
of the chiefs are going to Washing
ton to sign the treaty permitting rail.
roads to run through the Sioux reser-
walton, and the balance are on visit
to the Carlisle Indian school, where
their children are being educated.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1880-05-27
Special Notices.

INVENTORS who desire TO procure Patents =
the United States and else where for their In
ventiens, as well as others interested h
Patents already granted, will, on application
to the publisher of this paper be furnished
with pamphlet of reliable information in ~
alton thereto free of charge.