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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-06

The legislature adjourned sine die last
Friday morning after session of eighty
days, which overruns the average
length of former sessions about twenty
days. During the session 444 bills
were introduced in the senate, of which
number 1870 became laws; in the house
4s4 bills were introduced. of which 200
became laws. The appropriations for
the sessions amount to 1915, 254 ii
against about 100000 last year. The
principle item in the present appropria-
tons is $500, 900 for the enlargement of
the capitol, in order to furnish suitable
apartments for the historical society
and its treasures and the supreme court
and law library Among the promi-
nent laws passed at this session were
those changing the time for animal
school meetings which are now fixed for
the first Monday in June; making a
penitentiary offense Of the seduction Of
females under l6 years of age fixing
punishment for the severe abuse of chill
dren by parents or guardians; providing
that hereafter FIVE years non-use of a
highway works a discontinuance there
OF; creating the new county of Florence.
Re-apportioning the state into state.
assembly and congressional districts.
This is the last annual session which
viii occur in the state, hereafter bien-
NAL sessions taking their place.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-06
MOUNTAINS OF MINERAL.
The San Juan Region and the Wealth it Contains.
In its Intprior

In ITS Interior.
In introducing some account of the
characteristics of this region as district
producing the precious metals, it is to
be said, in the first place, that as vet it is
chiefly region OF great expectations. =
Its prospects are well founded, but up
TO the present time its inaccessibility and
other disadvantages have been obstacles
to the development that under more
favorable circumstances might have oc-
cured. The scrutiny to which it has
been subjected by sharp and knowing
eyes, and such digging as has been
done-by no means small amount in
the aggregate exhibit the fa, that the
region is remarkable for its general rich
ness. Profitable ores are - be HAD
nearly everywhere within its limits
hardly volcanic hill can be mentioneq
where veins carrying ore do not occur.
Every mile of its fifty miles square may
be said to hold one or more good mines.
1t is doubtful if anywhere else in the
world there is SO large a region over
which the precious metals are so gener-
ally diffused.
Generally speaking, these are all ifs
sure veins, and the gangue, or matrix,
constituting the veins in which the
desired metals are mixed, is quartz. in
stead Of any of the lime spars Of ferru-
ginous materials with which silver and
gold are often associated. The ore it
self that IS. of silver, for gold is scarce
is principally galena, frequently en-
riched by gray copper (tetrahedrite).
This high percentage of lead makes
smelling the most rational process of
treatment
In several localities, however. of which
Parrot City and Mount Sneffels are chief
examples. rich ores of silveroccur nearly
or quite devoid Of lead. These come
mainly into the group of antimonial
ores. with chlorides and sulphides also.
Popularity these ores, barrying the chlor-
ide. are termed brittle silver They
are unfit for smelling. on account Of the
absence OF lead. but must eventually be
treated by a milling process in which
the pulp is subjected to the action Of
mercury in amalgamating pans, where
the silver is separated from the quartz,
and collected by the quicksilver Anti
monial ores, prior TO am ] .amation.
viii require chlorination (roasting with
salt), as is done ut the Ontario Mine.
Utah, while the chlorides and sulphides
of silver can be treated directly without
roasting. as, for example. at the mines
of the Comstoek Lode, Nevada
Hagpcr's Magazine for April
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-06
Finger Nails.


Onr finger nails grow out about three
times year. They should be trimplel
with the scissors once weak, not 81
close rs to leavs no room for the oprt H.
gather, for then they do not protee! H.
ends N the fingers, as WINS designed 10y
nature besides, If trimmed too Close Is
the corners, there is danger al Ia w
growing into the flesh, causing iuco.
venlence and sometimes great pam.
The collections under the ends Of ~
nails should not be removed bv Any
thing harder than q brush or n soft plccv
of wood, nor should the nails he scri,sd
with penknife or other metallic sub
stance, rs 1t destroys the delicscy Of
their structure, and viii at length give
them an unnatural thickness. We .,fe
not fayorably impressed as to the clean
llness OF Il person who keeps his hais
trimmed to the quick, as it is often done
to prevent dirt gathering there sl,E,-
as, II Il margin were allowed il would ic
IN index 10 the cleanliness Of the hands,
from which the collections under the
finger nails are made. Leave q margin,
then, and the moment You
observe that these collecti,als
uecd removal yon NAV kn,.
that the hands need washing, when they
aud tile nails are both cleaned together
Most persons are familiar with ihos-
Troublesome bits Of skin which looscIs Il
the root Of the finger nails it is caused
by the skin adherng TO the nal. whicii,
growing outward, drags the Ska a.Cu1
With It, stretching it until one end give.
way. To prevent this the skin shotiil
be l0gfeacd from the nail once Il week.
not with knife or q scls, Ors, but s3sn
something blunt, such as the end % a.
ivory paper-cutter; this is best done
alter soaking the fingers IN warm water,
then pushing the skin back gently anil
slowly; tire white speeks on the nails are
made by scraping the nail with hniic
at point where Il energies from tie
skin Biting off the finger nails !. an
uucleaniy practice, for thus the insight
IL collections at the ends are kept eat..n
cleanl Children may be brokeL of such
filthy habit by causing them 10 dip
the ends Of then fingers several Times q
,lay in NORWOOD bitterB, without let
ting them know the objcc; if hi, is
not sn1li tent, cause them to wear cops
~ each finger untIl the practice is Dis
continued. = Uats .IoHrnaI NJ Haf.b.
The magnitude of the cattle interest
in Colorado may he inferred from the
fact that according to late estimate
there are 1000, 900 cattle being fed ia
the valleys of tkat State, and as yet tho
business IS III its infancy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-06
THE PRESIDENTS PLaN.
BY Means of Which he Folssas. Arms Length the
Horde of Small Politicians ami once
Beggars.

Two days of lovely weather this week
brought the ladies out in full blossom
and crowded the receptions. much to
the delight of the Society correspond
ents, " who have been trying to make an
unusually quiet Winter appear unusu-
ally gay. The President has wisely
changed his private day from Satur-
day to Monday, and now all day long
Saturday the crowd pour through the
corridors, stand on the private stairs.
and everybody looks bored and har-
raised. 1t is not very hilarious affair
to 90 TO the White House to ''see about"
Postmastership or a Consulship, or
what not. The president stands at the
end of a queer, pretty, oval room up
stairs, and receives the Senators and
Representatives on the day Saturday
sacred to the law makers of the nation
The room is finished in dark red, and
the heavy carpets and curtains deaden-
ed the sound so that the modulated
voice of good breeding cannot be heard
by any of the persons who stand in a
circle around the room waiting to he
recognized by the President. But there
are great many persons who attend
these levees whose voices are ANYTHING
but well modulated. They belong to
the class defined by the bitter tongue of
John Randolph as "bobtalled politi-
clans, damme." They stand and argue
with the President, they gesticulate and
interrupt, and at every word damage
the cause they think they are forward
ing. If the president were to station a
couple of sharpshooters on the stairs to
pick off this class of bores nobody could
blame him. The President has quite a
wonderful control of his countenance
He can, when it is necessary. listen to
the longest-winded account of things he
already knows all about without the
change of u feature, but occasionally
all his training can't keep him from
showing how wearied he is with it. He
looks thoroughly bored. and the effort
to become attentive evidently becomes
painful. He maintains his dignity adj
mirably with ill-mannered people. He
lets them argue and dispute as if it
were haranguing at country cross
roads, with well-bred silence, but he
can get rid of them with a CELEBRITY that
is astonishing to these green politicians,
who suddenly find themselves in the
corridors, they know not how, with a
vague suspicion that the President has
been very courteous but wholly noncom-
initial. Washington Cor Nc10 York
World.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-06
JAMES JERKED.
He Ends his Career by a Shot from One of his
Pursuers.

He Ends his Career by Shot from One of his
Pursuers.
KANSAS CITY, March Special to
Chicago Times: Jesse James was shot
at St. Joseph at 8 clock this morning
by Robert Ford, young man twenty
years old, who lives in Richmond Co.
The object of the deed appears to be the
securing of the reward of $50, 900 which
Governor Crittcnden offered for James,
dead or alive. 1t was discovered last
fall that the house of the Fords in Rich
mond was the rendezvous of the James
gang, and the officers of this county
made midnight raid over to the house,
and only escaped an encounter with
Jesse, Dick Liddel, and others of the
band The outlaws escaped, but their
rendezvous was broken up and two of
the Ford boys were induced to join the
officers in their efforts to capture the
bandits.
For months the boys have been shad-
owing Jesse, but only this morning had
they fonnd him without arms on his per-
son. 1t is expected that the death of
Jesse will scandalize soma apparently
respectable citizens of this city and COM
munity, rs it is an undoubtful fact that
he has been living in this city with his
family at various times, and he must
have received shelter and protection
from many influential people.
The dead outlaw was born in 1915 in
Clay county, Missouri, his father being
the Rev. Dir. james
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-06
Fading Floods.

VICKsBURG. Miss, March 3l-The
great flood in the rivers in this region is
subsiding, to the great relic Of the
planters and the public The Vicks-
burg Commercial has the following:
.Within the last few DAYS a notice
ably cheerful feeling is lighting up the
countenanees of our planting friends
Gloom and dependency are fast disap-
pearing. The weather and water indi-
cations point 70 subsistence of the
overflow in time to make fair crop of
corn and cotton. The great flood wave
that broke through the lcYee in Bolivar
and Coahoma, and in It's downward
course submerged SO large portion Of
the valley between the river and the
hills, has been on the decline for sew
eral DAYS. The Tallahatchie and Yszoo
are falling, Day by day, in the upper
counties. more and more land appears
above the water This process will GO
on until the overflow viii be reduced.
in less than a fortnight, to a narrow
belt in the lower parts of Isaquena,
Sh7rkay and Yazoo.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-06
Agricultural Accounts.

WASHINGTON, ID. c., March 3l.-The
following statement relative to the corn
and wheat crops of 1880 and 1881 is fur
nished by the Department of Agricul-
ture: There are seven States that pro-
duce surplus corn. These States togeth-
er yielded l ,046, 900, 900 bushels in 1880
and 737, 000,0 bushels in 1881. On
the Goth of March returns estimating
the quantity of corn of the last crop in
the hands of farmers were made from
over 400 counties of these States to the
department. They represented more
than two-thirds of the entire area The
percentage of the product of each State
still on hand is reported as follows:
Ohio, 24 Indiana, ~; Illinois, 26; Iowa,
20; Missouri, 10; Kansas, 10; Nebraska
20. The average is nearly "a per cent
and amounts to 175,000,00O bushels
The estimated proportion on hand March
20, 1881, of the large crop of 1880 was,
in Ohio, 80 per cent; Indiana, 80; Hi
nois, SO; Iowa, 46; Missouri, 80; Kansas
80; Nebraska, 80; average, 81 per cent
or 3S8, 900, 900 bushels.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-06
The Garfield Hospital.

WASHINGTON. dispatch: The Gar
field memorial hospital association.
whose managers are all gentlemen of
prominence, is to be aided by co-or-
dinate association whose managers will
be ladies of like prominence. A num-
Der of the wives of prominent men met
Mrs Keifer, wife of the speaker
and the first lady in official society, at
the Ebbett House on Wednesday after
noon last, to take steps looking to the
formation of such an organization. 1t
viii have vice presidents for all the
States. The original association reports
good progress. Contributions have come
in with as much rapidity as could rea-
sonably be expected. and the managers
feel encouraged to hope for ultimate
success.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-06
TERRIBLE TAPPANITES.
They do Not Wish TO be Insulted by the Presen
of the Andre Monumpnt

They do Not Wish TO be Insulted by the Presence
of the Andre Monument.
NEW York, March 31.-Some little
excitement was created this morning in
the city by the report that the monu-
ment erected at Tappan, on the Hudson,
to commemorate the time and place
where Maj. Andre was hung as a spy,
had been blown to atoms during the
night Mr.. Cyrus Field said he could
not understand why so much fury had
been aroused against the stone when Il
similar monument was allowed to re-
main att rarrytown. During the night
the slumbering residents were aroused
from sleep by a loud report. and some
nearest the place hastily dressed and
ran out to see what had happened 1t
was found that the base had been blown
up and badly shattered, but the stone it.
self had not been injured One person
was asked by the reporter whether there
was any i'll feeling in the vicinity against
the monument, and gave the answer
that all Rochland country was bitterly
opposed to both its erection and main
tenance. They wish the monument
had been sunk in the sea before il had
been erected on the patriotic ground of
TaDpan.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-06
FERRlTING FRAUD.
A Howl Already Raised In South Carolina over At.
| torney General Brewster's Letter.

To Hon. Charles G. Williams.

A Howl ALREADY Raised In south Carolina over At
torney General Brewster's Letter.
WAsHINGToN, ID. c., March 3l.IA
prominent South Carolina Republican,
now in Washington, in speaking of the
election trials which are to begin in
Charleston next week and of ATTORNEY
General Brewster's letter to the special
counsel employed in behalf of the prose-
cution, said: ''Brewster's letter has
aroused a storm Of Indignation in South
Carolina, and fear on the whole its eff
feet has not been good Ithas made the
conviction of any of the accused persons
an imposslbility Not that think that
they would have been convicted had the
letter not been written, but there would
have been chance for some Democratic
jurors to vote for conviction. Now not
one of them will do so. The matter is
made one of party fealty, and it would
be fatal for any Democl attic Juror to
vote otherwise than to acquit the ac-
cused. The result will be in every case
a disagreement of the jury, because, I'M
der the Juror law passed two years ago
by rider to the Judicial Appropriation
bill, one-half of the Jurors are to be Sc
lected from one political party and
another half from the other
Some leading Republicans predicted
at the time that the effect of the rider
would be to bring politics into the jury
box, and this was demonstrated last
year, and it will be undoubtedly more
clearly proved in the trials now to be
held
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-06
NUMBER 5
SHEPHERDS STARTER.
The Foundation for the Peruvian Claims viii
Caused Such a Political Sensation

The Foundation for the Peruvian Claims which
Caused Such Political Sensation
WASHINGTON, ID. c., March 31.-At a
meeting of the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs. Chairman Williams
said he had just received the following
communication from Minister Hurlbut
in regard to the ''Cochet claim
UNITED STATES LEGATION, LIMA.
Peru, February %, 1SS2.-My Dear Sir:
! shall probably leave this city for the
United States early in April, on leave
of absence. In reference to the Cochet
claim which understand is the founda-
ton of the Peruvian Company. desire
to state, for your information, or for
any of the committee of either House
which may choose to examine it. certain
principal and controlling facts:
/. Alexander Cochet was a French
subject; lived such and died such.
?. His supposed heir, his Legitimate
son, through whom the company claim
title. was never legitimatized, or at all
events. have no evidence of it.
3. In that case Cochet's rights, il
any, descend to his sisters, living in
France.
4. Granting that Cochet had claim,
and that it was properly transferred to
1.-THE company still it was French
claim, and the company, having ac-
quired nothing but litigation, is not
within the protection of the United
States, which is only given for injuries
and wrongs inflicted upon American
citizens.
B. There never was any law of Peru
applicable to case like that of Cochet,
which gave one-third to discoverer
1t is a grievous misconception The law
relates only to concealed property; and
was given after the suppression of the
converts, to encourage the discovery of
property belonging to such converts
hidden and concealed
6. Cochet himself in his lifetime
never made any such claim.
z. The whole question is .'res adiudi-
cata." The claim of Cochet was pre-
sented in 1861, before mixed commits
sion of Peruvians and French citizens
appointed under a convention for that
purpose. That commission examined
into the case, and decided adversely to
the Cochet claims. This decision is of
public record in the French legation
and the Peruvian archives. ] give YOU
these statements in case there shall be an
examination before | return.
Very truly yours.
S. A. HURLBUT
To Hon. Charles G. Williams.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-06

ST.. Louis, Mo-, March 31-A special
to the Post Dispatch from independence,
Mo, says: Dick Little. the train rob
Der, surrendered to the authorities under
the following condition: He was to le-
ceive amnesty from punishment by the
Governor. be paid $1,000 cash imme-
diately upon giving himself up, and re-
ceiving 5000 more in the event of five
of the train-robbers now at large being
captured through his instrumentality
Little has already received 81 900, being
part of the $1,000 paid Police Commits
sioner Craig for the arrest Of Clerence
Hite in Kentucky. Should the capture
of Titles pals be effected, Craig and
Governor Crittenden, between whom the
plan was evolved, will receive in the
neighborhood Of 5000, 900, the aggregate
amount of the rewards offered. minus
the s.. 600 to be paid Little.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-06
SUMMERS SERVICE.
And How 1t Was Received BY Kate Sprague After.
wards

-
wards.
| am asked from Boston whether
President Lincoln ever rendered the
Chief Justiceship of the United States
to Charles Sumner, and | answer, mol
Chief Justice fancy died in October,
1874, and Mr.. Sumner Immediately
urged the President to appoint as his
successor Mr.. Chase, who had resigned
the Secretaryship of the Treasury some
three months before. There was then
much dissatisfaction with Mr.. Lincoln 5
Administration, and the friends of Mr..
Chase were openly and secretly urging
his nomination.
When Mr.. Sumner came to Washing
ton he renewed his request that Mr..
Chase be appointed. and he had several
interviews with Mr.. Lincoln on the sub
ject. One day Mr.. Lincoln suggested
that he send for Mr.. Chase and frankly
tell him that he wanted to nominate
him rs Chief Justice, and that he
(Chase) would make the greatest and
best Chief Justice the country had ever
had, if he would only give ap all idea
of being elected President. Mr. Sum
ner replied that such a statement, how
ever frank it might be. would never
answer, as ii would not only expose him
(Mr. Lincoln)to criticism as wanting to
purchase an opponent, but it would be
offensive to Mr.. Chase, as an attempt to
extort from him pledge that he would
never be candidate for the Presidency
Mr.. Lincoln, who was quick-witted
saw the force of Mr. Summers argu-
meut, and pleasantly said: well,
take this card and write on it the name
of the man you desire to have appoint
ed" Mr.. Sumner wrote, .'Salmon 7.
Chase" and Salmon F. Chase was
promptly nominated on the 9th Of De-
cember, 1864. Mr.. Sumner urged the
immediate confirmation of the appoint
ment, and having carried it from tie
Senate Chamber, FASTENED to congratu-
late the new Chief Justice. As he came
out of the room in which he had con-
veyed the news, he met Mrs. Kate
Sprague, who shook her index finger
at him and said:-''And you, too, Mr..
Sumner? Are you in this business OF
shelving papa? But never mind. |
viii defeat you allr' Mr.. Sumner used
to relate this incident as showing how
he bad been rewarded for what he re-
garded as one of the most praiseworthy
acts of his life Besides, MIR. Lincoln
was not til only candidate for the Pres
idential chair who would loose a rival
oy the appointment of Judge Chase.
Mr.. Sumner had strong aspirations in
that direction, but | don't think he re-
garded the bench of the Supreme Court
as stepping stone to the White House.
Had the Senate found Mr. johnson
guilty on the impeachment charges,
and had Ben Wade thus become Presi-
dent, Mr.. Sumner would have been his
Secretary of State, and | am not sure
that this did not influence Mr. Fessen-
den in his vote Of Not Guilty" Had
General Grant been offered the same pos
ition, it would have been accepted, with
the understanding that he was to direct
the foreign policy of the country I'M
trammeled. Ben Periey Poore in Bos-
f0,a TO1xr,aal