Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21

tleman should not offer his left arm 1
his wife. What in thunder is a fellow
to do when he has a boil on his RICH
arm. Authorities never make allowan
ces for little discrepancies of this nature
The bill for the admission of Dakot,
as a state will be called up at this ses
sion and will probably pass, as the east
ern capitalists, having found that con
gress cannot be well used as a collect
ing agency, have withdrawn their OBJ
jections.
The Torso of the Farnese Hercule
was found in the Baths of Caracalla
the legs at Boville ten miles from Rome
and the head in a well the ether side O
the Tiber. Mr.. Hercules must hav,
been fooling around with some nitro
glycerine at the time of his disease.
A Democratic exchange thinks the
Republicans ought to wait until tn
~sickening efluvia from the coming
Democratic congress begins to arise
before holding their noses. There ar,
smells that compel persons to close theil
~nostrils a long time before reaching
them.
The war among the railroads of the
northwesthas ended and the old schedul,
of rates has been restored. Particulars
of the truce are withheld from the gen,
eral public but as the companies them.
selves are the ones to be suited and they
seem satisfied it is probable that kick.
ing over the traces will be abandoned
for the future.
A Burmese nobleinan, who has beer
twelve years in this country and is 9
graduate of the American College, ha.
taken to the lecture field. 1t is about
time this thing was stopped. 1t is bad
enough to have ready-made specimens
of foreign manufacture thrown on the
market, but when it comes to taking
foreigners and educating them for pub
lie nuisancey, something should be done.
Naval officers were required to give
banquets at every port they touched and
c%haplains were obliged to bear their
share of the expense, was the reason
given in the senate for an increase in
the pay of this class of officials. The
bill did not pass, a majority of the senate
being old-fashioned enough to suppose
chaplains should attend to the spiritual
rather than the temporal needs of Their
man-of-war flock.
A party of children who were skating
on a pond near Philadelphia, last week,
while busy with their sport got too near
an air-hole and four were drowned.
Soft weather had made the ice in the
vicinity of the hole unsound. Children.
and grown persons for that matter can
not use too much caution while on the
ice especially when moderate weather
alternates with cold. The ice that is
secure one day may be anything but
that the next.
Opelika. Alabama, has been the scene
for some weeks past, of rioting and
bloodshed, the counterpart of which can
only be found in Mexican or South
American records. A gang of toughs
assumed control of the town and run
things to suit themselves for a week or
two. The charter of the town was re-
voked and the town placed in the hands
of five commissioners, but the latter,
not having accumulated a sufficient
supply of sand for the occasion, failed
to impress the brigands with the idea
that there was such a thing as law.
Travellers go around the town rather
than through it and passengers who have
to pass through lay down on the floor
Of the cars to avoid being shot.
The trial of Theresa Sturla for the
murder of Charles Stiles, one of the
most sensational cases Chicago has
known for some time, closed last week,
the jury returning a verdict of man
slaughter and fixing the Imprisonment
at n year in the ~penitentiary. The
verdict is rather more of a surprise than
a disappointment as the majority of
those who followed the proceedings
closely rather looked for an acquittal.
The testimony in the case brought to
light one of the most hideous exhibitions
of human d%eprayity unearthed in court
annals for some years showing that
whatever might have been the sins of
the oma they were snow white in
comparison with those of the man she
killed, 1t was placed in evidence that
for four years Stiles while drawing a
large salary as caller of the Board of
Trade had habitually forced this woman
to ply her infamous calling in order that
he might squander her ill-gotten gains
in wanton debauchery. During this
time he had kept up a course of diaboli-
cal abuse in comparison to which DOWN
right murder would have been merciful.
Yet time and again did this woman
drawn by a love which might have
shamed that of many Of her more res
pectable sisters returned to the tiend
who, through this passionate love, con-
trolled the body and soul of her whom
men called beautiful. At last, in a fit
of desperation, induced by more than
usual Entertainment, she shot him. The
weak spot {. the defense was in trying
the insanity dodge. Had the learned
counsel boldly claimed that she had
done what she should have done years
before, the sympathy of public and jury
would have secured a certain acquittal
The case was not one for maudlin
sentimentality. the life of the defendant
would prohibit this, but was one for the
exercise of those highest attributes of
justice which are latent in every breast,
and the result shows that this was
sufficient to govern the final outcome,
wherein substantial justice both to law,
public aud defendant was impartially
administered The vprdipt meets with