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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03
Garibaldi's COurtship,

The Personal History of Garibaldi,"
by Mrs. Blanchard, is feature of the
Midsummer Holiday number of the Cen
tury. His romantic courtship is des-
cribed as follows:
disappointed in his hopes of accom-
plishing great things for liberty in South
America, saddened by the death and
imprisonment of his companions, and
weary with his personal sutferings.
Garibaldi was standing one day on the
deck of his ship, when, among the
women who came to the shore for water,
one suddenly attracted his notice. II
gave order" says he, to be put on the
shore, and approached the house
pointed ont to me as her dwelling, with
a beating heart, but with that determi-
ned will which never fails to command
success. A man her husband invited
me to enter | should have done so
without his invitation. | had seen him
previously. And to the young woman
said: ''Thou must be mile by bond
which only death can dissolve" / had
found treasure, forbidden, indeed, but
of what virtue! If there was blame it
was wholly mine. And blame there
was! Two souls were indissolubly bound
together, and the heart of an innocent
man was broken! But she is dead. He
is avenged avenged indeed! And |
acknowledged my sin on that day when
striving still to detain her with me, |
felt her failing pulse and sought to catch
her feeble breathing; but pressed the
hand and kissed the lips of the dead,
and wept the tears of despair"
From this peculiar description of his
courtship, if so that could ne called
which proceeded IN such summary fash
ion. it may be inferred that Garibaldi's
way of love was very similar to his way
of warfare. ''He took Anita Rivieras,
says Ricciard, " in pretty much the same
manner that he did Palermo, and how
ever little it might have been expected
from such commencement. to the end
of poor Anita's life she was faithful to
her hero. She bore him three children:
Menotti, born in 1913; Teresita. in 1916;
and Ricciotti, in 1917
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

The Deseret Home selects its mirth
from London Punch and is, therefore,
well supplied with class of kiln-dried
humor which stands our mountain eli
mate and never season cracks or checks
or chips off in handling. You can take
joke of the London Punch and stand
it up against a house for years without
loss. 1t is just as good and fresh when
you open the can fifty years from now
as when you put it up. Then the sim
plicity of the Punch joke endears it to
every household. With the directions
that go with each one child can han
die it. 1t is perfectly docile and never
does any harm.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

Jim Webster, colored, Austin voter,
returned the other day from an absence
of week in the country. After he got
back he was asking Uncle Nose how
his negro acquaintance were coming on
and among others was Tom Knott, who
was celebrated for his lack of sociability
and stiffness. Didn't yer meet flu
neral as yer was comm into townPn
Eyes, did, Uncle Nose" dem was
his obsequious, dcy was" "Well, /
mout hab guessed it. Dat amt de fust
time he has passed me on dc street wild
out lettin' on dat he knowed me. y
TeTdS ,Sffttu1s.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

Oh, the flies! the horrible flies!
Buzzing about like election lies;
Dodging about like a maniac's dream,
Over the butter and into the cream;
Holding convention all over the bread,
Bitingyour ear and tickling your head,
Crawling,
Buzzing,
Too lazy to die
Dog gone the nasty pestiferous flies.
-Upshur Co. Democrat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03
COUNTRY ROADS.
Phocion Howard gives Little Interesting Infor-
nation Regarding Illinois Roads.

nation Regarding Illinois Roads.
Phocion Howard, widely known
throughout the West as newspaper
correspondent, was recently invited to
address the Vermillion county Super
visors at Danville, H., upon the subject
of country roads, and from the mass of
interesting data which the address con-
tanned the following facts are given:
In the sixty-four years that Illinois
has been State there has been expend-
ed on roads and bridges 1921 ,475. In
the same period the taxable property of
the State hes paid in aid of railroads
$22, 316, 900.
For this outlay of S25, 607, AIS we have
grasping, soulless railway corporations
ramifying the whole State and vet not
an hundred miles of passable roads.
In building two canals and general in
ternai improvements the State has ex-
pended S21 100000, and yet all the in
ternal improvements and one canal
have been abandoned, and now it is
proposed to give the other, Illinois q
Michigan CanaD away.
In 1873 the State was in debt, and her
equalized assessment was put at 81 $780,
4Ol,3l7. As her debt was gradually re-
duced, year by year, the assessment ran
down to 1886, Gle, 1894 in 1880.
To-day Illinois stands the fourth
State in the Union, owes no man dol
lar, and her property is listed for nearly
one-half of what it was in 1873. Why?
Because she has no use for money, the
State Treasury reporting $l,974, 2S7 w.
ing idle in the Treasury at the last fiscal
period.
For the last fiscal period years
the State collected the following sums:
For schools Observation-Disclosures. Q O6s m
For military Observation-Disclosures. 1873 PIG
Illinois Central fund .................. $50, 467
Other items .......... -. ............ $50
Total. ........... .........,.... 90, 1874, 09i
And yet not mile of passable road
was built from all this amount of money.
To educate the children of counties too
poor to educate themselves the State in
the meantime prorated that is, donat-
ed] S139,S4S.
The proposition is now to extend a
tax upon all the property of the State
for the purpose of building gravel or
macademized roads, under the direction
VI anu W Dt uOnt
at State expense and as being largely
interested parties. Col. Howard said
he was authorized by the management
of the Chicago Il Alton, the Illinois Cen
trail, and the Wabash railway COM
panies to offer either the State or any
county moving in the matter free use Of
trains for transportation of material in
aid of construction of roads tributary to
their several lines.
In closing this statistical matter.
Phocion reminded the honorable board
that in her care for the unfortunate, in
her noble work of charity, in her edu-
cational, curative, and eleemosynary
institutions Illinois to-day led any civil
government in the world, and having
ambition. wealth, and population there
should be no reason-there was no con-
stitutiOnal reason-why she should not
at once provide those public highways
which would develop her talent resourc-
es and by 1890. make her the third, if
not the second, State in the Union
CHica1O Tribune
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

District. comprising the counties Of Dane. Grant
Green. Iowa and Lafayette. Will meet in Con-
vcnton at Monroe on Thursday September
nominating candidate for Member OF Congress
20 DE supported at the ensuing fall election
Each Assembly District viii be entitled to two
delegates. and each Senatorial District 10 four
delegates in the convention.
By order Of the Committee.
". S. WESCOTT. chm
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

1t is the correct thing at present for a
man to have a pocket in his night-shirt
1t is also very convenient as affording
an original excuse for not lending mon
ey to a shady acquaintance. Instead of
a man being obliged to reply as of old
to applicants for loans: 1--WE just spent
my last V to settle BILL" he can feel
in his pocket and say; g Hang it. you
know, if | haven't left my purse in the
pocket of my night-shirt." This also
shows he is a man of property and style
in being able to possess a distinct and
separate garment for repose.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

We have three styles of devils describ-
ed in literature: Dante's Roman Catho-
lie devil, Millions Puritan devil and
Goethes Philosophie deyil.-Ereh.
Where does the Printer devil come in
and whose is he?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

When the doctor announced to the
rich printer who ardently desired son
and heir that it was girl the man Of
type pathetically implored him to marx
it wrong font" and send it back to the
foundry.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

Editors like hrevity but man recent
" hanged in Indiana suited them too
well. All he said to the preacher was:
..I'lI see Won later
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

An editor says that when he was in
prison for hbeling justice of the peace
he was requested by the jailor to give
the prison ''puff."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

Ninety-three thousand trees have been
planted in Kansas since the Forestry
laws have been enforced.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

A California harvesting machine
combined header and separator-is
drawn in the wheat-field by thirty-two
horses.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

Judge Tourgee is said to have cleared
the comfortable sum of $50, 900 from the
sale of The Fools Errand."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

How are the mighty fallen! 1t is said
that Jay Gould was once a country ed
itor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

The Department of Agriculture esti-
mates this years corn yield ut 1,700.-
900. 900 bushels.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

DrCT business now before the pnbl;c
DIG l. You can make money faster at work
for u than al anything else. Capital not needed
We will start you. Si2 a day and upwards made
az home by the industrious. Men. women hovs
Now Il the time YoG can work In snare in.
only or give your whole time TO tue business
You can live al home and do the work No otbe.
bnSiness VIII pay you nearly a. well. No one can
Costly ontht and terms free. Money made fast
easily and honorably. Address TRUy a 90 A.
gusta, Maine " - Al
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

France has Il. 200, 900 hens. with only
5000, 600 women to throw things at
them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03
WHENCE COMES THE UNB0UNDED
POPULARITY OF
Allcock's Porous Plasters?

Because they have proved them
selves the Best External Remedy
ever invented. They will cure
asthma, colds, coughs, rheumatism,
neuralgia, and any local pains.
Applied to the small of the back
they are infallible in Back-Achc,
Nervous Debility, and all Kidney
troubles; to the pit Of the stomach
they are a sure cure for Dyspepsia
and Liver Complaint.
ALLCOCK'S POROUS
PLASTERS are painless, fragrant
and quick to cure. Beware of
limitations that blister and burn.
Get ALLCOCK'S, the only Gen
uine Porous Plaster.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03

MT. IDA' Mr. II. Buggins as THE, HERALD
agent for the town Of Mt Ida viii transact bust
1ess at the postoaice in said town.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-08-03
Republican Congressional Convention Third Dis.
Grict.

GEORGE 2. MATHES. EprroR.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-13

There is no good reason why the Repub-
lican Party should not be a united, com
pact and vigoreus organization. The di-
visions in the party come not from aues-
tions of principle, but from men and pat
ronage- There ought to be intelligence,
patriotism, Hberality, and Observation-Disclosures
enough among Republicans to forget the
past and realize the Importance of having
a united party. 1t is time to ignore men
and prepare to carry forward the mission
of the Republican Party. President Arthur
Is not as wise as q serpent nor as crafty as
. diplomat. He seems TO have lost his
cunning and his astuteness in the whirf of
fashion and the round of dinners and par
ties al the capital Had he exhihited the
tact of the true and sagacious politician be
would have provided places for pugnacious
editors who are forever startling at him,
and have sent them abroad TO cool their
keess in the shades of royalty, instead of
appointing lot of effete diplomats with
no newspapers, county committees. active
political workers, members of Congress,
or votes behind them.s This is not politics
or common sense. It is simply faVoritisms
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-13
UNIONsSQUARE.

Few citizens of this city are aware that
we have public park. There is general
knowledge of cow pasture called Union
Square, and of its usage as receptacle for
rubbish and cast of sewer pipes, bnt to call
it park has seldom entered into the head
of any man, even in his widest and most
careless moments. Men have had dreams
of beautiful park, laid out with walks
and flower beds, with perhaps a fountain
in the center, and seats where loving coup
les can interchange secret conversation
and candy and peanuts. But then dreams
have been transient and at rare intervals,
and the sober reality of an open lot, tri-
file below grade, and used as a receptacle
for old trees, has always been enough to
dissipate them. At times, side show
would come along, and with its pictures of
fat women and two headed boys, make
things gaudy and picturesque for time,
but these joyful occasions are 5rief and IL
lusive. At times the youthful heart has
been thrilled by the announcement that the
trees would be cut down and circuses al
lowed there to erect their tents, but even
this scheme of excusing the barren waste
by making it source of profit has never
been reserted too. There it stands, proud
monument to the love of beauty possessed
by our citizens, and the value of lecture
by Oscar Wilde, intoxicating into our minds
the true theories of the grand and the beau
tiful
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-13

.glish indignation and betraying the fact
that thee is in Ireland and A1nsrica q
large baby of men, who are totally disre
pardful &c all law and order, who look On
force as an argument and assassination as
q remedy. The madness of their folly is
further shown by their antagonism to and
contempt for the Land League and. few
such acts of theirs will be enough to set
back all the good which the wise course of
the Land League has brought about. The
answer to the piece of folly will be short
and quick and England viii lose no time
in peffecting policy that the new coer-
cion act of yesterday was the precursor of.
In this present crisis let all good and true
Irishmen unite around the Land League;
let them make their already strong organ
ization stronger, and oppose by all means
this body that antagonizes it. Let them
recognize that the Land League is. the
friend of Ireland, the Fenians its enemies
and let them so frown down all these mad
attempts that they viii be stopped in their
course; a course which if persisted in will
put the cause of Irish liberty back one
hundred years.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-13
A BARRETT NIGHT.

Davenport is to have a night of genuine
Shakespearian tragedy. by that justly eels
ebrater actor, LawrenceBarrett- Manager
Skeels has succeeded in making arrange
ments, for his appearance at Burtis Opera
House, on Monday, June 5, supported by
his own company. Barrett is now in Cal
fornia, playing very successful engage
ment, and the only stop he win make be-
tween San Francisco and Chicago will be
at Davenport. 1t is sometime since he has
been here, and a good house is sure to
greet him. The character evil portray
has not been decided upon. bat it will be
one of his strongest and best.ssBarrett is
at his best, this season, having lost none
of his old fire and vigor, and the company
supporting him is the best he has ever
had
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-13
REPUBLICAN NOMINATIONS.

The republican candidate is now alive in
the land, and he works on the street cor
ners and button holes in friends whenever
he can find them. Rock Island woods are
full of them, and the would be sheriffs jos
tie the aspirants for treasurer while the
man who wants to go to the Legislature
lacks all the features of being curiosity.
But the saddest and most heart rending
thing of them all are the republicans who
would be congressman. They are plotting
together and laying plans and wires, and
making and breaking states, and all the
time there is not republican in Rock ISL
and who has as much choice of being the
next congressman from this district as he
has of beingl struck by lightning. Take
away the proba bility that democrat will
be elected and Rock Island republicans
will have no show. The lower counties
will waste no time in breaking up any little
state of that kind, and in telling the Rock
Island men that this county is the orphan
child of the district, and must not be too
greedy about nominations.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-13

final and early completion. They give
a list of the incorporaforss who are all SUBJ
stantiaI capitalists. These will elect a
board of directors, which will elect pre-
sident, vice president and treasurer. A
public meeting is to be held in Davenport
to further this project. This proposed
railroad ought to tap the Red river valley,
and in order to do so the people of Dakota
should take an interest in it. 1t would
give us another outlet to the markets of
the world If some encouragement is ex-
tended to this enterprise by our citizens, It
viii be of great benefit 10 this section OF
the territory. We need all the railroad
facilities we can get. The citizens of Dav.
export see the importance of establishing
railroad connection with Dakota, and our
men of capital and enterprise, who are
deeply interested In the future of this teri
tory, ought to be willing to meet the men
of Iowa half way We cannot have toe
many lines of communication and trans
portation with the states Let every. such
work be encouraged by active and sub
stantial aid. All money putinto it will be
a paying investment. Nothing tends so
much towards the. rapid settling of q
country and the developing of its resources
as the building of railroads. The more of
them we have running into and through
Dakota, the more rapid will be the increase
of population and wealth within our Dor
derS.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-13
THE FREE TRADE CLUB.

At the Thursday night meeting. the
Free Trade club elected the following off
GERS; President, Hon. John E. Henry;
Vice President, H. NJ Martin: Recording
Secretay, Geo. c. Preston; CorrespoE ding
Secretary, II. C. Fulton; Treasurer, r.
Smetham; Auditing committee, O. G. Car
stems, Fl. P. Lewis and J. NJ. DeArmond.
Steps were taken to secure Henry J.
Phillpot, of Des Doincs, to deliver an adj
dress before the club at some future time.
The club starts out with a strong COM
pliment. of officers. and gives promise of
being strong organization. They might
lend their energies towards repeating
some of those decidedly protective ordi.
nances enforced in Davenport, which are
the means of driving business men away.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-13
LORD HARcouRr,s BILL

i
The bill proposed Thursday in the House
of Commons by Lord Hafeourt, Home
Secretary, and which has already passed to
second reading, is undoubtedly the direct
outgrowth of the late assassination. 1t is
extraordinary severe coercion actr and
rests almost absolute power in the hands
of the Lord Lieutenant. 1t gave him con-
troll of the liberty of theIrish people, and
almost of their lives It's operation is en-
tirely discretionary with him, and he can
make what use of hisextraordiuary powers
that he pleases.z 1t is an addition to, mot
repeating of the coercion act, and the
two together effect an entire enslaving of
Ireland The bill is to be in force three
years. How far it will be enforced, and
how many of its extraordinary provisions
will be taken advantage of depends, if the
/ Lord Lieutenant is just and humane, en-
tirely upon the. temper and actions of the
Irish people, and it is thought now that
Earl Spencer viii be both just and hu-i
name. But change of Ministry in Eng
land would result in new Land Sentiment,
and that new man might be neither The
fact that no members of the Commons but
home rulers voted against the bill. showed
the temper of the House and England on,
the subject, and there can be no doubt that
the proclamation of the Irish Republican
Brotherhood will have a strong effect in
making this temper stronger. That TRADE.
coming from body that Dretends to he
working for Irish interests extolled assasr
sination and outrages in England in self
defense must repress it. There has been
yet no disposition in /. England to blame
the Land League or its teachings for the
recent crime, but the feeling seems to be
that there is in Ireland body of fanatical,
irresponsible men that care nothing for
human life and would hesitate at no crime.
These men England seems bound to repress
at any cost, and their new coercion act is
the outgrowth of that feeling.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-13
THE REASON OF n.

The Kewanee Iadepeadent recently gave
vent to to the following opinion as to the
denomination of our present representa-
tive, Mr. O'Mara
ct may as well be understood at the
start. that the democrats OF. Henry do not
propose to serve simply as a tail to the
Rock Island Kite, or have decidedly OBJ
jectionable candidate selected for them by
their brethren of Rock Island. We do
not want any more Pat O.Maras, and if
the democrats of that county are wise, they
viii not attempt to force any more such
upon the. democrats of Henry. There are
plenty of good men in the district, men
who would honor the position, and it viii
be best to make choice of such a one for a
candidate"
This article has been copied by the
weekly Monopolast and Hgp0crste here and
evidently approved. Now it would be as
well perhaps to state right now and here
how the Independent came to be SO terri
ably angered at Mr.. OMara. When that
gentleman was nominated two years, ago
by the democrats of the district. the Jude
pendent supported him, as did all the other
democratic papers in the district. This
was proper and right, and no other course
was to have been expected. Mr.%O'Mara
was the democratic candidate andsdeserved,
both on the ground of personal fitness and
political affiliations, the support of all dem
ocratie papers. But when the campaign
was over then did the proprietor of the
truly independent Independent write q let
ter to Mr.. O'Mara asking him for fifty dol
lars as the price of its support. This, Mr..
O'Mara very rightly refused to pay, taking
the ground that true newspaper would
not sell its support, and that opinions that
could be bought were not worth owning.
1t certainly was q queer proceeding for q
paper to ask money to support its
own party candidates and Mr..
O'Mara was properly indignant
that a paper, processing to believe in the
same principles that he represented should
demand bride to support them. Had
that money been paid, the Independent
would doubtless be an O'Mara man to-day,
But as it is, some other man with fifty dol
lars will have the preference. Itwould be
well for Henry county. democrats to take
these things into consideration. That the
weekly Monopossst and Hgpocrits should
approve of the Independents course is not
It is actuated by the same
motives.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-05-13
TIE GUITEAU FAMILY.

No manscan do wrong and the eonse-
quences be with him alone. Has he a rel
friend he bears part of the burden. When
Guiteau committed bis dastardly crime
last July he dragged his entire family into
the disgrace of his deed and now the very
fact that the disagreements between SEQ
vile and his wife, disagreements growing
out of the assassin and his act, are being
published far and wide, and the most sac
red family relations commented on all
all over the land; show how certain and
quick is the disgrace and pain a criminal
brings down upon all connected with him.