Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-04-20

NEWS NUGGETS.
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Madison is to have new water sup
ply. The new beverage viii astonish a
good many threats in that city.
The Illinois legislators are in a peck
of trouble over their apportionment bill.
They should send for Bill Price
Little Abe Hewitt is said to be Tilden'
political heir The latter is small man
but those shoes are several sizes too
large for Abe.
Baked beans have lost their charm
for Senator Hoar. The Worthington
patti has taken away his relish for old
fashioned dishes.
The Prairie du Chen Courier says
that Judge Cothren was "victoriously
defeated" If that is the proper name
for it all right.
A Chicago man has been found who
declines an office. The refusal is only
to be accounted for upon the supposition
that it did not pay enough.
Howgats, when in the signal service,
studied the stars to some purpose. He
was thus able to tell when the signs
were propitious for an escape.
Mr.. j. I. Clark, formerly general SUI
perintendent of the Union Pacific, has
been appointed general superintendent
of the Milwaukee x St. Paul lines.
Three thousand emigrants arrived last
week at Castle Garden, New York, and
the agent of the Inman line promises a
million by that line alone during the
year.
New York city contains 100000 per-
sons of Irish birth and 165, 900 Germans.
Taken together these nationalities form
one-third of the entire population of the
city.
Even his brass medal has lost its
charms for Don Cameron. Family Jars
in the political domestic economy pro-
hibit his taking time to enjoy his hard
earned reward.
Mr.. Senator Don Cameron would con-
sidcI it a personal insult if Mcpherson
was placed in the secretaryship of the
Republican Congressional committee.
Well what then?
The President has informed Gen.
Fitz John Porter that he can do moth
ing in his case Mr.. Porter may now
take the last section in the seats res
erved for the mourners.
On the question of giving the right of
way to the St. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad company through the Choctaw
reservation, Senator Sawyer voted aye
and Senator Cameron no.
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Secretary Lincoln will stay where he
is rumors to the contrary notwithstand-
standing. The desire for change is
said to have emanated ia the breasts of
recently discharged employees.
Mr.. Shipherd may tally one. He has
worsted the newly appointed official
stenographer. Shepherds chain light
ming conversation was too much for the
new appointee and he dropped out.
Shipherd was testing the ''moral APP
probation of Hurlbut in their mutual
intercourse. This is quite too utterly
utter. Lobbyists will only be known
hereafter as moral appreciationists."
Ex-Attorney General McVeagh en-
tiers the lists as sort of national Jeze-
bel. Gail Hamilton will have to look
out for her laurels. She has always
been supposed to have monopoly of
that sort of thing.
If Mrs. Scoville is insane it is a Jay
Gould kind of insanity that goes for all
that is in sight. Guiteau, for the next
few months, will be paying piece OF
property and his ''unselfishr sister
wishes to get hold of him.
The cold weather of last week did con-
siderable damage to fruit and berries
in those states from which are drawn
the early supplies for the market. Grain
in some places was badly nipped but the
damage in this line was confined to mar
row sections.
Judge Loomis, of Chicago, denied
the petition of Mrs. Scoville as conserv-
ator of the estate of Charles j. Guiteau.
Nothing daunted, Mrs. Scoville Climbs
another round of the legal ladder and
pushes The matter into the Supreme
Court. Persistency thou art jewel.
Guiteau, in the security If thick brick
walls, continues to throw out his abus-
i've blackguardlsm against his former