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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

ed glowing illusions TO the latitude of
liberty and far-reaching impartialitv of
the law under our free institutions.
MIR. Scoville, upon being informed by
the court that the prosecution was en-
titled to the opening and closing where
both parties prayed for instructions,
called attention to the fact that the pros
ecution had made one argument. TO
which the jury had listened this morn
ing, and would have the same advantage
on Monday, while the defence (proba-
bly, it was mere accident like Davidge's
cold in the morning, which allowed
Judge Potter to air his eloquence before
the jury must be content to discuss
these questions in the absence of the
jury.
A lively and somewhat
SARCASTIC CoLLooUY
between counsel ensued.
The court did not think any retiec-
tons upon prosecution was intended by
Mr.. Scovllle, and put an end to the
dispute by telling Mr.. Scoyille to pro-
coed with his argument.
Mr.. Scoville criticised severely the
course of Judge Davis Gin New York
case just decided) in going out of his
way, as he (Scoyille) said to render
decision that might be made use of in
this trial of Guiteau
Eyes" called out the prisoner, land
the jury in that case went out of their
way to rebuke Judge Davis
sCoyILLE'S PLEA.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.-Guiteau ar
rived at the court house about $50.
After taking his seat in the dock he har-
angued the audience for a short time
and then Scoville resumed his argument.
His remarks commanded marked atten-
ton. He placed especial stress on the
point that insane men sometimes know
the difference between right and wrong.
Mr.. Scoville concluded his argument at
10 O'Clock
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

Guiteau seems to be rapidly APP
prosching the choking-off place.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

Abbot, the prima donna, has been
suffering from too much vaccination.
1t took just 'too beautifully for any
thing
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

Tunis still remains unsubdued. Like
the noble red man of the States, the
tribes will wait until spring before they
rise again.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12
BOSCOBEL.

HOtel-BETTs House, Boscobel, Wis.
Seymour Case, Proprietor. Good accommoda
tons for man or beast. Good Sample Rooms.
Baggage conveyed to and from trains free OF
charge,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

The Civil Service Reform Association
is after Gen. Curtis with stick that
has an uncomonly sharp point. The
association state that Curtis while acting
as special agent for the Treasury de-
partment collected political pence from
the brethren of the New York custom
house and they call attention in a most
announcement manner to a section of the
statutes when makes this missionary
work a high crime and misdemeanor.
They further ask for the mediate de-
capitation of the offender.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

to Judge Davidge, and confined his ar
guments to the consideration of two
questions: First. the definition laid down
in the Revised Statutes of murder and
manslaughter. under which if malice be
not proven, he contcnded, the crime
would be manslaughter; second, the
application to this case of the question
OF reasonable doubt IN connection
with the plea of insanity.
Mr. Reed concluded bis argument a.
2.15. .Tith ps--tssi1n. II which hg-r-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

Tramps are numerous in Milwaukee
and are fully up to the average ugliness
of their class when their demands are
refused.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

Eth Brute must have been Logan S
exclamation on reading Grants change
of front in the Porter case
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

Mrs. Edmunds wife of the senator, il
quite fine artist.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

Apachcs and Cowboys are making
matters lively for the settlers round
about Tombstone, Arizona
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

With the November number began the new Sc
ries under the title of TUE CENTURY MAGAZINE
which will be in fact, a new. enlarged and i'm.
proved "ScRIBNER." The page is somewhat
longer and wider, admitting pictures of a larger
size, and INCREASING THE READING NAT
TER ABOUT
Fourteen Additional Pages.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

The Fitz John Porter case promises to
equal in longevity the Kelly motor or
attempts on the North Pole.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

The board of supervisors of Dodge
county, will appropriate $4,000 for the
erection of county insane asylum.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12
A NEW PLAN

WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.-McCord Of
Iowa, introduces bill bearing on the
Presidential succession difficulty con-
tinuing the powers of presidential cleo
tors for four years with power 10 elect
President in case of vacancy occur
inOy
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

who is before you he would scarcely
seem to be an appropriate instructor for
youth.
Proceeding to eXpound the law on the
subject of malice reading from the 1880
edition of Archibald's criminal practice,
Porter dwelt upon the preniditation of
Guiteau.
Referring to his lying in wait and to his
dogging the footsteps of the Presiden !,
he said. WAS this worthless vagabond
the man to be selected and inspired by
Coda swindler, a creature of
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12
NOTICE 10 NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.,

Dated November e. 1881.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

7~N~7N0~N~0~NO00~~o~N~N~~~
Attorneys CARTER Il CLEARY,
Attorneys at Law, Platteville Wisconsin
Practice in all the courts Of the state OfHcc over
Hodges Il McCarns Bank.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

MI. HoPE; Mr. Elijah Trollope, who will be in
that town for the few weeks collecting and tax.
ing tle names Of new subscribers
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

Hotel SMALLEY HOUSE, John S. Small
ley, Proprietor, Muscoda, Wis, near the depot
Express Office and Livery Stable attached Meals
at all hours. Rooms well furnished.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

T. o. Address: PlattcyiUc. Wiz
W II BEEBE. Attorney Tor Defendant Johr
ilockett p. @. Address Piaucyllc. Gran
tounty, Wisconsin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12

for the Jury he would over turn the law.
He would create a precedent in this
famous case which would inevitably be
condemned throughout all time to come.
Mr.. Scoville objected that the decisi-
ons in support of the prosecution were
antiquatcd. Said he. never said Porter
intimidated any man and never COM
mented on any ones oratory; whether my
manners and morals should have been
improved is for others to say. Judging
from
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-01-12
ank-ExcHANGE BANK OF BosCoBEL.

N. d. Tillotson Cashier date Cashier of First
National Bank. Transacts general banking
ana exchange business. Special attention given
TO collections, and proceeds RENTED promptly
on day of payment. Boscobel. Wis.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-12

responding to orders. The multitude Of
pieces issued in a single year gives an
idea OF the use the public makes Of this,
insignificant coin. The circulation of
pennies is 80 general at the north, and
the European nations have recognized
SO clearly the adaptability for general
exchange purposes of the minor divi-
sions of two and one, that it is quite
curious to observe how the south has
kept aloof from handling the trihing and
yet most available conveniences for exact
bargains. If, as most Of us think, the
south is to increase and prosper, the
more it is unlike it's old self and resem-
bles the north in manufactures, in indus
trial policy and in the minor details
which prevent waste and contribute to
the wealth of q community, it is not be-
meath the dignity of the subject to init.
mate that the relatively unimportant
matter Of using the same money as the
north, in the lowest divisions of coin,
may be sign that the peculiarly and
reserve of old days are passing away,
and that even a penny is counted at the
south worth saving and worth earning.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-12
AN IKPoRTANT DECIsIoN.

The supreme court of errors of Con-
nectiout has decided that where person
contracts with another for q chattel not
in existence, but to be made for him,
and pays the full price in advance or
from time to time, he acquires no title in
the chattel (unless a contrary intent is
expressed) until it is finished aud de-
livered. The case was based upon these
facts: The contractor failed when part of
the work in making special tools was
done; but those who ordered the tools
had paid the whole contract price, and
brought suit to recover from the as
Ggnee. The judgment was against
those ordering the tools, on the ground
that 10 title ever became vested in
them, since inspection and acceptance af-
tor the work waa done were needed to COM
plete the bargain. The purchasers had
the right to reject the tools after their
completion, for cause; and while the
money had gone into the contractors
pocket, the articles in question still be-
longed to the manufacturer. The de-
cision is fresh warning against paying
prematurely.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-12
THINNING THIN OUT.

If reports arc well grounded the
British government is at work upon
new method of solving the Irish prob
lem, viz: that of shipping the impover-
ished and maloontent population of the
green isle to the broad acres of the west
erp hemisphere. Admitting it to be q
fact the New York Times says: Irish
men in this country have an opportunity
of doing something which will reflect
everlasting credit upon them. Nearly
all Irish immigrants have come from
rural districts. They have been born
upon farms and accustomed to work as
agricultural laborers. Hitherto these
men have been landed upon our shores
and have helped to increase the misery
of tenement-house life in cities and to
swell the catalogue of crime. If there
was properly organized Irish Colonial
ton Society much of this evil could have
been prevented. With millions of acres
of government lands to draw on for set
Element, it would at any time have been
e comparatively easy matter to ship
thousands ef hearty young Irishmen and
women to new districts and give them
the means Of tilling land which, after
a few years of hard work, might
become their own property. The hunger
for farms in Ireland has been the most
fruitful cause of trouble with landlords
and agents. The Irish come to America
with this feeling strong upon them, and
it seems a thousand pities that they
should be allowed to recruit the worst
classes Of the community when it is so
easy to put them in the way to become
valuable producing citizens of the re-
public. We can see what the Germans
can do in.the way of building up the
northwestern states. They come with
money in their pockets, and do not wait
in New York long enough to fall prey
to the attractions of city life. Irishmen
are not 50 happily situated in money
matters, and having friends and &C.
quaintances in big cities remain in them.
It may be said that there are already a
considerable number OF Irish benevolent
societies, but not one of them has risen
to the height of arranging to furnish
free transportation md homes for immi-
grants in purely agricultural districts.
If the land league had undertaken a
work of this kind even in connection
with its original purpose, it might have
secured the voluntary support Of thou
sands of Americans who lave no interest
whatever in its crusade against Irish
landlords.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-12
The Best Boefsteak.

Tue NOW 4O1A ouA.J
Miss Parloa gave lecture in Pharm-
acy Hall yesterday on " "Marketing, IL
Illustrating it by cuts from side of beef:
What were called the poor parts OF
meat she said, were really best, because,
being most exercised by the animal, the
blood coursed more freely through them,
making them tougher, but more nutri-
tious. Meat ;" marbled" with fat is
good, end 80 is dry, crumbling suet:
The best steaks of all is the upper part
of the round or rump, cooked rare and
cut thick. The American. people all
cook too rapidly; the toughest meat may
be made tender by slow cooking. :. The
French, having to be careful Of their fuel
are far beyond us in this respect. Peo-
ple should recollect that the butcher has
GOOD reason for his various prices; there
are parts which it would not pay him to
sell at dollar pound. No matter how
rich or refined woman may be, she
should understand how to market if she
proposes to undertake house managing.
tsSome of the most literary Boston
ladies' added Miss Parloa, care the
best housekeepers, and say their best
thoughts come to them when they are
ehout their work"
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-12
A Sharp Little Boy.

Near Hackett City, Arkansas, there
lives a planter, Maj. J. K. Hale, who
has a son about six years of age. One
night during the first week in January
Of this year, three masked robbers enter
ed the house. and bursting into the
room where Maj. Hale was sitting with
his family, demanded his money. The
planter handed them his pocket-book,
but they told him that he had 81 100 hid
in trunk and that he must give them
the key. While Maj. Hale was looking
for the key, the little boy crept up to
one Of the robbers, peeped under the
mask and said: :" Mr.. Willford, why do
you want to steal my fathers money p
The discovery 60 startled the robbers
that they dropped the pocket book on
the floor and fled. On the following day
the robber named, who lived ID the
neighborhood, was arrested, and shortly
afterwsrd the other robbers were taken
to jail also.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-12
PENNIES AT THE SOUTH.

In the long catalogue of southern
needs, says the Boston Advertiser. there
is one necessity, not often mentioned,
which the people of the states below
Mason and Dixon's line are at last slow
ly beginning to recognize. The intro
duction Of pennies would not put an end
to disquiet and an unreconciled frame of
mind, but it is urged that the con-
venience of the smallest coin, which the
north takes for granted and is almost un-
known at the south, would hasten the
era of good feeling. The citizens OF
Georgia are exhorted by the Atlanta Con-
stitution to be pioneers in penny re-
form which shall sweep over the whole
south. Those familiar with that section
are aware that nothing in the form Of
money below five cents is circulating
me1ium among southerners. In buying
and selling there is a certain lavishness
which wars against economy and thrift,
and all because there is no medium used
for narrowing the margin. For example:
In paying fares on the railroads the pas
senger has the advantage of the COM
pany in certain instances, for the corpor-
alton row loses the fraction below two
and half cents, although it gains the
fraction of nickel above the dividing
point. The suggestion is made that the
circulation of pennies would be brought
about by the railroad organizations,
under the direction of the railroad COM
mission, when they. should charge ex-
actly three cents mile. Between two
stations eight miles apart the fare would
be twenty-four cents, and the company
would be required then to return a
penny. In this way pennies would be car.
ried not only to the towns but to all the
villages along the line. The people could
not tbe depended upon for concerted action
in such matter, it is declared, and only
by the interposition of large orgauiza
tions, like the railroad companies, cal
the benefit Of penny circulation be in
augurated. 1t is reported that man,
people in influential quarters are op
posed to the introduction of the humble
coin which We find Indispensable. I
would seem % il long usage adverse Il
. petty currency had come to be regard
ed as the equivalent of an importan
principle. The period Of recognition o
pennies may be deferred in the sonth
but it IS likely to be at hand when sol
enn leading articles in widely circulate'
papers are devoted to the question. I'll
coinage Of one cent pieces in 1850 va
U4,15O. At the Pbiladelphia mint
the only mint where minor coins ar
struck the demand for one cent coins j,
that year exceeded the capacity Of th
office, 20 far as concerns promptness j,
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-12
sski3s Me- -

A rather good story is told by Ger
man paper, the Deutches Montags.blatt:
The servant of the newly-married wife OF
a Berlin banker had remarked that every
afternoon in theabsence Of Frau -'s
husband, shabby. looking individual,
ugly, ill-bred and suspicious, called at
the house and remained closeted with
her mistress for an hour. Supposiag
some intrigue. she one day listened at
the key-hole and was Mortified to hear
voice say, "Kiss me" and another ap-
parently replying to the tender invitation
BY playfully exclaiming: Oh, you Don
juan! You good.for.noth'ng! The
next time that the shabby man called
the servant managed to let the hueband
know. A violent scene between the
:. happy pair /" was the consequence.
The presence Of the suspicious visitor
was, however, soon and satisfactorily ex,
planned. He was bird-tancier who bad
had. been requested BY the gushing
bride to teach q few amorons phrases to
| . net parrot, with which she intended to
surprise her husband on his birthday.
Yery German, isn't it y.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-12
Veto of the Chinese Bill.

President Arthur brought the suspense con-
corning the fate Of the Chinese immigration
bill to close on the 4th inst, by sending
message to the senate yetoipg the measure.
The message is lengthy and thoroughly revises
the negotiations between the United States and
Chinese commissioners at the time the Bur-
ingame treaty was modified, and also Analyses
the provisions of the treaty as it exists at
present. The President states that he with
holds his signature from the bill, because, in
his opinion. a suspension Of immigration for SO
long time as twenty years was not contem-
plated by the treaty commissioners and that
such restriction is violation Of the treaty OF
legation which declares that suspension, it con-
sidered necessary, should be for reasonable
period. He also calls attention to the fact that
no provision is made in regard to the passage
through ur country OF Chinese subjects going
to or returning from other countries: He
also improves the opportunity to criticise
some other provisions, such as the registration
and passport system, which he considered
hostile to the spirit of republican institutions.
Reference islmade to the advantages derived on
the Pacific coast in former years from Chinese
immigration AMI the intimation is advanced that
the tendency Of the bill in its present shape is
to injure our commercial interests.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-12
Deer Caught with lariats.
From the Modoc INDEPENDENT

S. s. Bailey, OF South Ford, Cal., tells
us of an exciting deer chase that oc-
Cured on his ranch last Sunday. Mr..
Bailey, T. II. Mcbride and Charley Will
iams were in the barn saddling their
horses preparatory to taking ride. Mr..
Bailey's little daughter called out to
them that there was band of deer COM
ing out of the swamp They looked out
and saw seven deer coming across the
fields and making for the hills. The
three men were immediately in the sad
die and started in pursuit. They sue
ceeded in cutting off two Of the animals,
and lively chase ensued. The excite
ment seemed contagious and in few
minutes there were fifteen men in pur-
suit of the deer. Some of the South
Fork boys are very handy with the rope
and never ride without their riatas. In
less time than it takes to tell it, these
useful articles were brought into use and
the vaqueros had two fine deer tied to
the fence. They wereleft there until all
who wished had a good look at them,
when they were butchered and the meat
distributed among the captors.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-12
Comparative Values Of Gems.

Scientists speak lightly of co]ored
gems as alumina found in nature crys-
talized and colored with oxide of iron,
and "valued at enormous sums" 1t
hardly raises the more precious in esteem
to know that the emerald, ruby, sapphire
and amethyst are almost the same chem
ically, or the emerald and aquamarine
only differ in color, the former being alb
solutely priceless, while the latter has
no determinate value. Pearls are sold
by the grain. All other precious stones
are sold by the carat, which weighs four
grains. Diamonds weighing less than a
carat are more valuable than rubies,
sapphires, or emeralds of the same
weight. But all the colored stones ex-
oeeding carat are more valuable than
diamonds, and the difference in value in
creases very rapidly with the increase of
size. If a ruby is very perfect, and of a
rich, dark color, it commands an extrava-
CANT price. A fine, three-carat diamond
might be worth from $500 to 81, 900, &C.
cording to the quality, while perfect
three carat ruby would find purchaser
at from s., ,000to 5000. Rubies weigh
four carats have been sold in eastern
cities for $4,000. Scientific writer's
class sapphires and rubies simply as
sapphires. The red sapphire is a ruby,
and the blue ruby is sapphire. The
present demand for rubies exceeds the
supply. It is not exactly known where
those came from that are now finding
their way into the market, but it is pre-
sumed that many are taken from old Or
naments in family collections. Sapphires
are very rare and scarcely less valuable
than rubies. They make an exquisite ap-
pearance, properly arranged, and having
small diamonds rs foils. They are apt
to show dull color at night and those
are consequently most sought after
which sparkle by gaslight. Large and
perfect stones are of fabulous value.
The Baroness Burdett-C Coutts has fine
sapphire, considered worth $3.50, 900.
SGpphires and emeralds are rarely set
alone, but with smaller stones, COM
manly diamonds, which throw their
beauty into relief. Expert jewelers. are
not agreed as to whether the sapphire or
the emerald is the more valuable, but
the last, perhaps, maintains greater
popularity. Its value increases rapidly
with it's size. The wife Of q railroad
king purchased fine ten carat emerald
a dozen years ago for S., 900, which is
now worth probably $2O, ,00O.; It is worn
| in ring as solitaire and needs no foil
to enhance its extraordinary beauty.
There said to be many rubies and emeralda
in this country worth from s., 900 to s..
600 or even more; which are in the pos.
session of connoisseurs.
Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1882-04-12
MOrtuarY.

Andrew Bismeller, ownes Of the opera house
at sandusky, O., died on the 8th inst.
Joseph B. Weaver, proprietor of the Everett
House, New York, is dead.
Thomas Allen representing st. Louis in con-
gress, died in Washington on the 9Th inst. He
built over one Thousand miles of railway in the
southwest, and took the first locomotive across
the Mississippi Some years ago he presented
library building to his native town, Pittsfeld,
Mass. His fortune is estimated at $6, ,0O0, 900.
Dennis Florence Mccarthy, the poet, is dead.
Joseph Dowdall, past grand master and one
country, died at Columbus, O., on the 7th inst.
Gen. Jack Wharton, United States marshal,
died suddenly Of .pople1y in Surveyor Pinch
beck's Office, New Orleans, on the 7th inst.
Frederick Drake, the celebrated German
sculptor, is dead.
Frederick William Kuecken, the German musi-
cal composer, is dead.
Le Play, the celebrated engineer and scien-
tic writer has joined the silent majority.
Mrs. Emily Bristow, mother of ex-Secretary
of the Treasury Bristow, died at Elkton, Ky.,
On the Sd inst.