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

COLUMBIA, S. c., Dec. 15.--A sim
gular paper has been presented
to the higher board OF the South Caro-
lima general assembly. which is now in
session, a copy of which is annexed.
Before the war there was no such thing
as obtaining a divorce in South Caro-.
lima, but after the war, when the recon-
struction era dawned upon us, the on
stitution made provision for tho grant
ing of divorces, and the legislature Of
1868 passed a law accordingly. But
when the democrats returned 10 power
in 1876 the law was repealed, and as
the petition following shows, the hus-
band without y wife and vet with one
has no chance to get a wife in this state:
To TIE SENATE M HoUsE OF REP-
RESENTAT1yEs OF South CAROLINA:
Your petitioner would respectfully
show to your honorable body: That in
March, 1871. he was married TO one
Martha A. Dun, with whom he lived
happily until 1874, when his wife de-
serted him. She soon became a ON
mon prostitute, and, sinking lower and
lower, became the kept mistress of 4
negro, and IS now living in open adul-
terry with q. w. Oldfeld, a mulatlo.
Your petitioner is, by repeal of the law
Of divorce, left remedies before
the courts. He is yet below middle
age-in fact, a young man, with the
prospect Of a long life before him: and
yet he is tied to and, in fact, is the hus-
band Of a woman whose daily life is a
disgrace TO common decency. He can
have no home, no family, nor ever be
freed from the sense Of his present and
continued disgrace. Now, as your hon.
orable body has repealed the laws q
divorce, he humbly prays that You will.
by special act in his favor, grant unto
b'm a divorce from tho woman who il
vat his wife; or if in your wisdom
such an act cannot be passed. that you
viii enact such laws as will enable him.
and all Others in a similar unfortunate
condition., to obtain relief through the
courts of law. And your petitioner will
ever pray, etc. G. c. WALL.
The petition was referred TO the iudic-
iaTy committee, who, after mature de-
liberation, submitted TO the Senate The
following report;
The committe on the judiciary, TO
whom was referred the petition Of {. C..
Wall, praying for divorce, respectfully
report that they have duly and
carefully considered the same, and re-
port that, as they are o prepared to
recommend any general law for d.
vorce, they know of no relief which
they can suggest. and ask TO be dis
charged from the further consideration
of the petition. Respectfully SUBJ
mitted.n Wall and his wife are both
white citizens.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
GnnId OH Corners.

New YORK, December 15.-Jay
Gould appeared before the Senate com
mittee on grain corners this morn
ing. He said he was in the railway
business, as a manager of railways, and
had been such for twenty years. He
was familiar with operations in stock,
but not with grain, whict5 ne used only
for his own consumption. He was
familiar with making corners in stocks,
and also in dealing in futures in stocks,
1.-The roads ! am interested in
said he ''are those which reach produc-
ing districts. Our roads run through
Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Nebraska, Kan
sas, Texas, and Iowa. The effects Of
making corners is to make uneven
transportion. Corners are made every
little while, but | cannot remember the
last one. The system of making cor
ners does not injure the transportation
interests, as it makes large markets.
On the whole, | think it helps. 1t gives
producers better prices and they who
make corners lose. The consumer may
pay more, although spectators suf-
fer. The corner engineered in Chicago
some two years ago is reputed to have
lost millions. The farmers kept back
their grain. and they made the money.
Western railroads were not mater lly
affected one way or the other. They
dealt without regard TO the fictitious
transactions. / recollect the recent
c~ornering transaction in stocks-the
Hannibal and St. Joe. Ii resulted dis
astrously to the man who made it, for
when be got through with bis corner
he found he had lost his fortune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
Growing Hotter.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.-The Ferry
Hubbell fight is growing hotter every
day. Both the contestants are very
liberal with charges of treachery to The
Republican party for personal gain.
They glare at each other as they pass.
Were they Southerners it would take
~herculean measures to prevent a fight.
Congressman j. S. Lacey, who was
Chairman of the Republican committee,
states that Hubbell's charge that his
committee confined their efforts to the
election of members CT the Legislature
favorable to Ferry. is false. He said:
81 have no reason TO believe that either
Ferry or Hubbell contributed directly TO
the defeat of the Republican Legislature
candidates, but the GOODNESS of their adj
herents in certain instances may have
lost three or four Republican members.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
Reunited RepubIicaus.

PHILADELPHIA, December. 1.-THE
Times, tomorrow, will print inter-
views with prominent republicans all
over the state regarding the prospects
for reuniting the party. 1t is the gen
eral opinion that such union will take
place. Chairman Cooper of the repub-
lican committee, voiced the general
sentiment when he said that he thought
that the reunion of the republican
party would come naturally as the result
OF defeat. The first step had already
been made by President Arthur in recon-
mendiDg the reforms which the people
demanded, and in putting the admin
istration in accord with the people.
This would be followed in Pennsylvania
by the Inauguration of the reforms in
party management incor, ,orated in the
platform of the convention of Nav 10,
1882. This could not be done at once,
but would be carried out as rapidly as
possible.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21

A woman living on the other side Of
the river was very much annoyed by
her neighbor's hens scratching up the
grass in her yard and dong other mis-
chief, and making up her mind to be rid
of these hens, she hit upon a happy
idea for the immediate determination Of
the unsuspecting biddies. She got a lot
OF corn and soaked it in water, which
contained a large quantity of arsenic.
Then, placing the corn in q tempting
and inviting position in the yard, she
retired to the house, end seating herself
at the window, anxiously watched the
result of her plan from behind the closed
blinds. Presently three biddies made
her yard a visit, gobbled up all the corn
and went home with full crops. In a
short time ali three kesled over. A
pleasant feeling crept over the M
that her troubles from hens were at an
end. A few hours later she glanced
Owe into the next yard, when, horror!
what did she seel a huge pile of feathers
on the ash heap. Mercy it could not
be possible that the owner OF the poi
soned hens had picked them and intend-
ed to eat or sell them, but somehow or
other she couldn't get this impression
ont OF her rind. The o she thought
of it the more uncomfortable she felt.
Her experiment was not as satisfactory
as it was a few hours before. She WAS
not exactly scared, but then a kind of
neighborly feeling seemed to steal Owe
her very suddenly. Perhaps, since her
neighbor had kept hens she had not
been so pleasant to her, OF treated her
as kindly as she ought to have done.
She was not anxious to know what was
to be done with the dead hens. Oh, no!
But she concluded to just run in and
make a friendly call-iust to ask after
her neighbor's health.
After being pleasantly received, and
discussing those choice little bits of
news in which women most delight, she
happened to notice the hens nicely
plucked and lying in a basket. She
casually remarked:
"Why, Mrs. -, what beautiful
chickens; so nice and plump; where did
were they? But what are you going to
do with three of them?"
The reply was that she was going to
cook n for dinner and sell the other
two to the butcher, who had agreed to
take them. The other woman said she
was just going down town TO order some
chickens. She was going to have some
company and would like the whole three;
in fact, she would pay considerable more
a pound than the butcher, because they
were so nice and plump, and she knew
where they were raised. The bargain
was finally closed, the friendly call end
ed and the hens carried home by a wo-
nan whose mind was very much re-
lieved. 1t will never be known whether
the owner of the hens wei knew the
cause of their death; perhaps she did;
perhaps she did not; perhaps she pur-
posely put the feathers on the ash heap,
knowing that it would scare the other
woman. Perhaps SO, who knows?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
The Underground Cypress Trees Of Del.
aware.

Cypress Swamp, in the lower end OF
this State, Is a place of interest at any
time.
Fires occur frequently, and are caused
by the carelessness of some n The
peculiar name of Cypress Swamp at
these times is better under understood.
For ten or fifteen feet below the surface
the devouring element burrows, finding
everywhere material upon which to feed.
The soil is but decayed vegetable matter
accumulated through centuries. Some.
times those fires msiduously eat their
way beneath the fields of corn which
grow here ana there ON the edge of the
swamp, and frequently the rural inhabi-
tant, upon awakening in the morning,
sees these fields scalloped with holes big
enough IN some places to comfortably
take III his granary.
The swamp is a mystery. At a time.
with regard to which even tradition is
silent, it had been a basin-a basin of
considerable width and depth-for the
Indians had sat on its bottom, fed upon
CLAIMS aud oysters, and indolently smoked
pipes in the shade of the cypress.
The expresses which had shaded these
aboriginal opieures many centuries ago
now lie, or dld years ago, before the shin
gle hunter came into the swamp. a fallen
forest, with fifteen feet of swamp. and
acres of trees of another age growing
thrifty above it. In its depths creeks
OF Indian River Bay find source, and the
waters, dark with tile soakings of 9
table matter, and carried by these on the
side into the Atlantic Ocean. and by
the Pocomoke River on the other side
into the Chesapeake Bay. The theory
Is that the streams of water which are
now mere creeks were the channels up
which elements in the process of gradual
formation were carried and deposited,
The forest of cypress timber gradually
gave way until the trees became COM
pletely buried. This matter, which in
time filled up the basin. has served to
preserve the cypress.
Very few OF them, however. lie
buried for almost a century Single
hunters have thrived in the swamp.
Among the many things of interest /
saw were the cabins of these men. The
shlngle-huntlng industry is now almost
extinct.
Those engaged in the business would
go into the swamp and work there for
weeks. In dry weather, such rs that of
last summer, the soil of the swamp
would crack in many places, and, with
the instinct which experience gave, the
hunters would search for these assures.
Every crack indicated a SPOT where was
buried cypress timber. After the tree
had been resurrected, the rivers would
come, and in a very short time the once
buried trunk would be converted into a
large pie OF shingles, which were then
more profitable than now.
Almost all the old buildings in Sussex
County are rooted with these, and many
thousands were shipped to other States.
Nothing now remains of this once lucra-
tive business but the cabins in the swamp
and a few gray-haired rustics living
hereahouts who made their dollars in
this way Wilmington NCws.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
Pension for Prisoners.

DUBuQUE. Iowa Dec. IA mass
meeting of Union prisoners confined at
Andersonville, Macon and other prisons
during the late war was held to-day to
NJ Manchester, Delaware county, to
give expression to the rapidly growing
sentiment in favor of placing on the
pension rolls the names of all soldiers
who suffered in these prisons. After
considerable discussion it was resolved
to forr an association to further this
end. The counties represented were
Delaware, Buchanan. Black Hawk.
Jones and Linn. The Iowa prisoners of
War association is one of the strongest
in the country. and will make its in
iluence felt in the next congress.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
Report Received.

madison, Wis, December 18.-Goy-
ernor Rnsk to-day received and approx
ed the report of the Lewiston Leyee
Commission. The work was done to
prevent the waters Of the Wisconsin
river from overlooking into the Fox riv-
er, and 1 guard against the Obstruction
of property caused by the flooding Of
Fox river, as was the case last year.
The cost of the levee was $4,000, Of
which Wisconsin pays 5000 and the
United States Government $4,000.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
ROry's R~etributi0n.

LONDON December 10. A letter sigh
ed Rory of the Hills" was received at
the home office last evening. threaten
ing within the next five days one or
more of the government Offices or some
other large building would be set on
fire as a rctribution for the execution Of
the three men in Galway yesterday for
the murder of the Joyce family. The
police and all the government officers
have consequently been doubled.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
Called TO Show Cause.

New YORK, December 16.-Dr. Nor
win Green, President of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, has been
cited by the Attorney General of Penn
.sylvania, to show cause why it should
not be retained from doing business in
that State by eason of its repeated vio-
lation OF the constitution Of the State,
which provides that nc telegraph COM
pany shall consolidate with, or hold a
controlling interest in. the stock or
bonds Of any other telegraph company
owning a competing line, or acquire by
purchase or otherwise any other com
noting line of telegranh.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
Taxing Bonds.

MADISON, Wis, December 15.-In
the State Grange, this morning. a MEM
orial TO the legislature was adopted ask
ing the taxation Of bonds and mort
cages the same as real estate, and re-
questing railroads to reduce passenger
rates % per cent. l.. G. Kniffer, of
Milwaukee, was reelected Purchasing
Agent. The Grange adjourned at noon
To meet in Madison next December.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
Condensed Socialism.

NEW York. December 18.-Herr
John Most. the German agitator lately
imprisoned in England, landed this
morning from the steamer Wisconsin
and was met at the pier by representa-
tiyes of the local revolutionary clubs,
Socialists and members Of the Interna-
tional Workingmen's ASSOCIATION
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
On the Increase.

ST. LOUIS, December 15.-In the
Mississippi Valley Cane-Growers' Con-
vention to-day, the subject discussed
was how to secure a market for sorghum
product. Many members related their
experiences. They were unanimous in
agreeing that the demand for sorghum
syrup was on the increase. and that
when once introduced the syrup held
its own. The Committee on Samples
reported that the best sugar from
sorghum was made at the works in
Champaign, Ill. The convention adj
journed sine die at half-past II o'clock,
to meet again in St. Louis in January,
1884.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
High Crime.

NEW YORK. December 16.-George
J.. Rise, President of the Utica, Ithica
and Elmira Railroad, was arrested here
last night on charges of forgery, over
issue of stock and embezzlement, II
is said there is a discrepancy in his ac-
counts of from 500. 600 to 500, 900.
The prisoner lives near Elmira.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21

The bill for the admission of Dakota
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
i~ections.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
The Joyce Murderers Hanged.

GALWAY, December 10. - Patrick
Joyce, Myles Joyce, and Patrick Casey.
the three men convicted of participa-
ton in the murder of the joyce family
at Maamtrasna, were hanged in the
jail here at s o'clock this morning.
The prison inside and Il was heavily
guarded. Myles Joyce protested hi,
innocence to the last.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
Sherman will Retire.

WASHINGTON, December 16.-Gen-
eral Sherman will give up active COM
mand of the army next Fall, after max
ing his annual report and closing up
his affairs, and viii retire, leaving
things in good shape for General
Sheridan.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21

Governor Cleveland's visit to New
York City has not left that feeling Of
calm and lestful enjoyment behind that
was anticipated. The Manhattan Dem
ocracy a not tell just where to locate
the sore spot, but they are certain that
il was an iron hand that hit them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21

An authority on etiquette says a gem
tleman should not offer his left arm 10
his wife. What in thunder is a fellow
to do when he has a boil on his right
arm. Authorities never make allowan-
ces for little DISCREPANCIES of this nature.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
entity OF Manslanchter.

CHICAGO, Dec. I5-At 1890 o'clock
this morning the jury in the Teresa
Sturla case came into court and rem
dered a verdict that Sturla was guilty
of manslaughter. and that the punish
ment be ore year in the ~penitentiary.
A motion Tor a new trial was entered by
Trudc.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
Getting Even.

BERLIN, December l5.-The North
German Gazette says, in view of the
disinclination of the French 10 purchase
articles Of German manufacture, Ger
many will not maintain the present
moderate duties on French goods, and
will particularly subject sparkling
wines and other articles de Paris to
higher duties.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21

The Torso of the Farnese Hercules
was found in the Baths of Caracalla,
the legs at Boville ten miles from Rome,
and the head in a well the other side of
the Tiber. Mr.. Hercules must have
been fooling around with some nitro
glycerine at the time of his disease.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
Good Pr0spects Ahead.

ToPEKA, December 16.-The report
from the Board Of Agriculture is to the
effect that the cold has thus far done no
injury TO the growing wheat. The win
ter has been open and there has been no
serious frost. The acreage is as large
as last year and the existing favorable
circumstances indicate another great
wheat crop next year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
Dog beings.

NEW ORLEANS, December 1.-THE
Picayune's Opelousas special says: This
was the fourth day of the Louisiana field
trials. Emma beat Comet Noble; Flossy
beat Peep o Day; Sue beat Chip; Lon
don beat Pink B.; Foreman beat Vic
tor. The weather is very warm. The
birds, though plentiful. had to be found.
The work was terrible.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21

A Democratic exchange thinks the
Republicans ought to wait until the
sickening efluvia from the coming
Democratic congress begins to arise,
before holding their noses. There are
smells that compel persons to close their
nostrils a long time before reaching
them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21

The 'double-heade nightingale" has
brought a suit for damages against
Adam F~orepaugh. The cause of this
eruption on the part of the Nightingale
was an insinuation made by one of
F~orepaugh's agents that the double
header was q monstrosity instead of a
nirhtinUale.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21

The war among the railroads of the
northwesthas ended and the old schedule
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.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
Jerseys.


of fine woven merIno in shades to match
dresses; the piles of red jerseys giving
evidence of the red costumes worn.
Little girls look cunning with their tan
or terra Gotta m~ousquetaires or colored
jerseys, and gentlemen's gloves are of
ten of terra Gotta in conservative shapes;
dog skin fordriving, etc. These Christ
mas times what nicer present to your
self or someone else than a pair of
gloves, the more so as you can get these
styles either at a leading store in your
town or by sending here.
BRIDESMAIDS THEIR DRESSES.
Boys are extremely stylish as brides
maids. Dressed in pages costumes,
they seem to have stepped out of old
time books or pictures, poetical, pretty
and proud as peacockS. Young lady
bridesmaids are no longer restricted to
conventional white; now they wear OF
only colored dresses, but very bright
colored, such as red, green, deep blue
or yellow. This too, a copying after
old pictures, and with which doubtless
esthetic Oscar has had something to do,
insomuch that we may expect '.stained
glass attitudes rs the next step in pro-
erosion or retro-progression, which
ever may be the right phrase. But
colored dresses are by no means the
rule. Indeed, ii is the escaping from
rule which brings about these things al
though our cold snow have reduced
Mr.. Wilde to the necessity of wearing
pantaloons-and an o%yercoat, just like
other people, except a large round col
lar which causes the passer by to stop,
stare and say to himself, THAT must
be Oscar Wilde" 1t has to be acknowl-
edged also that he looks out of the win
dow attired in a purple-faced dressing
gown made just like anybody else's
gown.
There is no greater success than the
little capote or cap shaped bonnet that
having first appeared three years ago.
ought, according to all the proprieties,
be utterly gone and forgotten, yet it is
almost more than ever worn. Some
times so very small, SO very fiat and so
very far back of the head that amounts
to nothing at all. Perhaps it is the de-
sire to see Mrs. Langtry, for easy It's
to see that one cannot see if somebody's
large hat in front pre- vents one from
seeing. At all events we see scarce
other than small bonnets, many so
small that they scarce are seen, e ven by
Lucy CAKTER.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21

MIR. Ferry insists that Mr.. Hubbell is
a charcoal sketch. Mr.. Hubbell retorts
that Mr.. Ferry is a product of the dark
est shades of crayon. And the end is
not vet.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21

Siatc Of Wisconsin. Comfy Court of Grant
to@uty-iu Probate.
Notice is hereby given, that at the January
term Of The County Court. to De held in and tor
said county. at the court house in the city of
Lancaster. ina said county, on the FIRST Tuesday
Of january. A. D. 1889. the following matter will
be heard and considered: The application Of
Emciiue Kern for the appointment Of an admin
~istrator of the estate Of George \. Kern. late of
tac town Of Lancaster in said county, deceased.
RS order Of the Court.
Nm. McGONTGAL. Judge.
Dated November ~. 1882. lows
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21

The calumet of peace has been smoked
in the Pennsylvania wigwam and stall
wart and Independent lie down together
under the same blanket. The olive
branch was extended under the direc-
ton of the elder Cameron and mutual
concession. did the business.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-12-21
Opposition Increasing.

BERLIN, December 16.-The opposi-
ton in the federal states to the propos-
ed prohibition Of the importation OF
American pork is increasing.