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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-12-11
PLATTHvELLSs.

Attorneys CARTER & CLEARY. Attor-
news az Law, Platteville. Grant Co, Wisconsin
Practice in all the courts of the state Odlceovei
Hodges & McCarns Bank
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-12-11

Entered atthe Post Office, in Lancaster. Wis. "a
second-class matter
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-12-11

LANCASTER COUNcIL r. r. Meets first Thur
day Of each month in Bndd block Madison stree
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-12-11

FIDgLITY Lopez A. o. U. w Meet first and
third Mondays Of each month in Budd block
Madison street.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-12-11

CONGREGATIONAL CHuBcH Corner Madison
y. m. Sunday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-12-11

Insurance BLOoMINGTON farmers In
suRANoE COMPANY Office at Bloomington Grant
county. Wis. John Ryan. Presidents; Thomas
Pendleion, Secretary aud Treasurer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-12-11

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH Corner Mon
roe and Cherry streets. Services 10:39 a. m. and
p. m. Sunday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-12-11

AuctiOneer-CHAREs VINCENT, Brit
lsh Hollow. Wis, Auctioneer and Collector. Busi
ness attended TO promptly in all parts of Grant
county.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02
The Mothers of the Future.

While few topics have elected more
wordy discussion during a quarter CEN
tury than that inchoate and indetermi
nate thing called Woman's Rights,
there is, perhaps, no important subject
which has called forth so little thought
full attention as this-the most momen-
tOus question of all-how shall we best
secure the highest education for our
girls?
Never before, i'll the history of the
world, has there been nation or an
age in which the young women were
SO much educated as in these United
States and these closing decades of the
nineteenth century. The doors of our
public schools are as widely opened to
them as to our boys. The rapid, heat
ed processes of our civilization yend to
their proluse and abnormal develop
ment but it is development in char
acter;stics which, if we are not careful,
may lead to the deterioration of our
race.
These paragraphs are not written to
champion any pet theory for or against
the regulation of sex in education"
We plead, simply that the loftiest ideas
be adopted for the training of our
daughters in body, in intellect and in
morals. Their education is the most
sacred trust committed to this great
Republic. The claims Of the ignorant
immigrant voters; the charging press
ing needs, even, of the freedom of
the South, are hardly as momentous as
the solemn demands made upon us by
these mothers of our future genera
tions. For, indeed, these demands in
clude the others. BY the grade of in
! telligence and the moral standards of
! these young women the future Of our
nation is to be nodded. The snccring
! illusions to the 8" Girl Of ,"v period .
that we 80 often hear from press and
platform, are unmisakable Indications
of a want of reverence for Tomanhood
that is alarming.
And these thoughts bear directly on
the illiteracy of our Nation. 4 large
proportion of the ma.dens in the United
States. vino stand on the verge of mat
rimouy and l.lo;h,rhuod, where brook
and river meet" are utterly unquali
fed for the solemn responsibilities be
fore them. Thousands of them-dusky
daughters of the South, children O
priest-ridden foreigners, offspring o
pOlygamOus Mormons-have spent tn,
golden years of their youth outside 0
the educational provisions of on
schools, and their descendants will. il
the natural order of events, grow II
ignorant and uncared for; while tn
training Of many of their more favore
sisters has had 50 little bearing upol
the duties of motherhood that it woul
be idle to expect to find their progen,
on the side of enlightent BY the il
telligcnce and moral purpose of thes
mothers of tina future, we repeat, AZ
the destinies of the Republic to b
shaped, and their fitting culture is tn
most imperative of National duties
I'0nkerS Statesman.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02

The sheep breeders of Vermont and
New York have managed to build up a
very handsome trade with Australia
and New South Wales, where the
breeders are fast learning the value of
the improved Merinos, and are import
ing them at enormous prices. About
three weeks ago seventy-five head left
Batavia, New York, for James Winter,
of Australia, at cost of 500, 100.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02

The CROPS OF THE CoUNTRY.-Mr.
}. K. Dodge, statistician of the Agricul-
tural Department, has just completed
preliminary estimates of the principal
crops of the country for the year 1888,
which are to be printed as a special re-
port for December. They show that
potatoes, as well as all other roots, and
oats have grown luxuriantly and yield
ed abundantly. The average yield of
corn per acre for the present year, Mr..
Dodge says, is nearly % bushels, or
more exactly by preliminary estimates
22.7, which is 2 per cent. less than the
average yield for series of years, or
l,55l ,O67 ,S35 bushels. This stands for the
quantity Ofthe present crop. Thequali-
ty, he says, is another consideration.
One feature of corn-growing in 1885,
Mr.. Dodge says, should be lesson to
the farmers of the country. The gen
eral use in the West of seed-corn grown
in lower ATTITUDES, the planting of
Nebraska seed in Minnesota, and of
Kansas seed in Illinois, has demonstra-
ted the folly of attempting to acclima-
Southern maize in more Northern dis
tricts. Much of the loss from frost
would have been avoided had seed
been carefully selected from the best
corn grown in the immediate neighbor-
hood. The wheat crop, Mr.. Dodge
says, is slightly in excess of 400, 100000
bushels, and the cotton product, as
shown by the December returns, is
about 10000 bales.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02

1t was his first attempt on roller
skates, and as they brought him to in
the toilet room he remarked: 81 tell
you, boys, that was gorgeous. must
have kicked in the whole dome of
heaven the way those stars few round.
| wonder if there's any left for the
next man,
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02
DAILY EXPRESS.

NelC Caste Accommodation TrdiHS.-Leave Will
mington at \. NJ and ?. NJ. Leave New Castle
at 90 A. NJ. and 40 P. NJ.
SMYRNA BRANCH TRAINS.-Lcave Smyrna
for Clayton Il, SOB 30 and 1888 A. NJ. Us 40
~ P. NJ. Leave Clayton for smyrna 80, 935
1851 and lilo \. NJ, 30 506 and SEQ = NJ
CONNECTIONS.-AtP Porter. with Newark 4 Della
ware City Railroad. At Townsend. with Queen
Anne'SS Kent Railroad. At Clayton with Delaware
Il Chesapeake Railway and Kent County Railroad.
AT Harrington, with Delaware. Maryland x Wiz
ginia Railroad. AT Seaford, with Cambridge 4
Seaford Railroad At Delmar. with Eastern Shore
Railroad WicOmicO u POCOmOke Railroad and
Peninsula Railroad.
CIIAS. +. PUGH. General Manager.
J. r. WOOD General Passenger Agent
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02

In A CROwD.-"Who is that man?'
ooh, he is one of the most prominent
Irish-Americans." "Who is that other
oneP" "He is a distinguished Ger
man-American." "And that one?"
"A we'll known French-American."
"And that one over there with bum
die under his armP" "Oh, he is no.
body-nothing but an American-Ameri-
cam
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02

Senator Plumb, of Kansas, has q per-
feet right to present bill to prohibit
gambling in the army, and if the
measure were passed and enforced it
would be a good thing. To be equit-
able and and square, however, the Sem
ator should SO amend his bill to make
it prohibit gambling by members Of
Congress. That will also be good
thing Philadelphia Press.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02

The Volumes of the Basar begin with the first
Number for January of each year. When no time
is mentioned, 1t will be understood that the sub.
scrlbeT wishes to commence with the Number
next after the receipt of order.
The last Four Annual Volumes OF HdrDeTs
Bdzdr, In neat cloth binding will be sent by mail
postage paid, or by express free of expense (pro.
vided the freight does not exceed one dollar per
vOlume) for 500 per volume.
Cloth Cases for each volume, suitable for bind
Ing, will be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt Of
SlO0 each.
Remittance should be made by Post-OHice
Money Order or Draft, 10 avoid chance of loss.
Newspapers not 10 copy tis advertisement ,ui-
out the erpTess order Of HARPER q BROTHERS.
Address HARPER g. BROTHERS, New York.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02
1884.
Bazaar.

H,trper's Bazaar is at once the most brilliant and
useful Household Journal in existence 1t is the
acknowledged arbiter of fashion in this country
It's fashion plates are the newsstand mOststylish
and It's pattern sheet supplements and economic
suggestions alone are worth many times the cost
ofsubscrptiOn. Its illustrations Of art needlewOrk
are from the best sources Its literary and artistic
merits are of the highest order. It's Stories poems
and essays are by the first American and Euro
pean authors. Its choice art pictures would fill
portfolios, and It's humorous cuts are the most
amusing TO be found I'm any journal i'm America
host of brilliant novelties are promised for 1884
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02
Delaware Mari Beds.

\ very excellent letter on the nat
ural resources of this State, written by
Professor F. D. Chester, of Delaware
College, was published in the Morning
Ne,Cs.
Professor Chester estimates that in
New Castle county alone there are
probably one hundred square miles of
the finest clays, varying in depth from
five to fifty feet He thinks that our
clays are just as good as those of New
Jersey, from which are manufactured
fire brick, crockery, sewer pipe, cruel
bles, etc. In 1881 the output of white
clay from the Middlesex county pits,
New Jersey, which cover clay area
less than that Of our State, was 100000
tons, and supplied the potteries of
Trenton, Elizabeth and Jersey City,
which produce a yearly value in ware
of 100000.
Professor Chester's estimate of the
value of our mari deposits is equally
encouraging. There are probably over
100000, 900 cubic yards of this valuable
fertilizer in the State. He shows that
if only ten per centum of this quantity
(about 51O,OOOOOO tons) should be ac-
cessible it would be worth at least So
000,000,000. From number of careful
analyses of this "green sand " he is
confident that it is worth at least eight
dollars a ton; at the same time he
thinks that it could be mined at a cost
of less than fifteen cents a ton. In
view of these facts he is naturally sur
prised that there should be in the State
less than six pits, and not one
wrought for purposes of trade" The
mari beds of New Jersey are one Of
the main foundation stones of its
growth.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02
Fish and Oysters.

The undersigned hereby gives notice that he
will keep in season and when they can be pro-
cured, a constant supply OF fresh Fish and
Oysters, at his establishment, on Main
Street, three doors from the corner Of Commerce.
H1-All orders left with me will be promptly
attended 10. sep bly,
EZEKEEE, q. REED.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02

The aesthetic movement has entirely
died out, because-well because people
think there is more good common sense
in taking a bottle of DR. Bulls Cough
Syrup than in carrying q lily.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02

WAHHM IN people are always on the lookout
MI HNE for chances to increase their earn
1W INT ings and in time become wealthy;
w ~ kw those who do not improve their
opportunities remain in poverty. We offer great
chance to make money. We want many men,
women, boys and girls TO work for us right In
their own localities. Any one can do the work
properly from the first start. The business will
pay more than ten times ordinary wages. Ex-
pensive outfit furnished free No one who en-
cages fails TO make money rapidly. You can
devote your whole time 10 the work. or only your
land. Maine. feb 2l-iy
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02
CHURCH SERVICES.

AsBURY METHODIST Overwhelmingly
ing at 1917 a. NJ. and P. NJ. Sunday school
9AM.and2P.M. Prayer Meeting-Thursdays at
JPN. Rev. John d. Rigg, Pastor.
ST. PETERS PROTESTANT overwhelmingly
Preaching at 1917 A.M.and ~ Pm. Wednesday
-7IzP.M. Saints Day-912 AN. Sunday School
Pr. N. Rev. VIM b. Gordon, Rector.
PRESBYTERIAN -Sunday-Preaching at 1917 4. NJ.
and p. ~ Sunday School, P ". Prayer
Meeting-Fridays at : P. NJ. Rev. J. 7. Umsted
Pastor.
ST POLYCARP CATHOLIC CHCRCH.-SecOnd Sunday
of every month, at 10 A. NJ, and P. NJ Rev
Geo :. Bradford, Pastor.
centennial METHODIST EPISCOPAL tCOlOredJ.-
Sunday-Preaching at 1917 A. NJ. and ~ ?. II
sunday School, p. NJ. Rev. d. A. Ridout
Pastor.
A. NJ T. -Sunday-Preachng at l0L
A. w. and ~ P ~ Sunday SchOol-2lz P. NJ
Rev. John G. Brock, Pastor.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02

FOR SALE.

Mince Meat, Buckwheat, New Prunes.
Currants, Cranberries, Sc, at ]. b.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02

W. " 04O Sopcr's instantaneous Guide 20
Keys of Piano and Organ Price, 81. VIII teach
any person to play 20 pieces of music in one day.
You couldn't learn IL from teacher I'm month
for 500 Try II and be convinced. Sample copy
cents in stamps by HEARNE Il CO., Publishers
p D. Box 1887, New York.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02
MTTCTC WITHoUTATEAcHER

nADnC Esthetics "A designs) Something
VA AJ6 good Mailed on receipt of cts
in stamps HEARHE & Co, p o. Box 1887, N. Y.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02
Philadelphia, Wilmington Z Baltimore Railroad,
DELAWARE DIVISION.

On and after THURSDAY. November - 1853
Sundays excepted, trains Will leave a. follows:
SOUTHWARK. SORTHWAED.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02
M. COLBOURN & CO..
l047 KENT COUNTY l:a
Mutual tHSHraRCeGa.,
DOVER. DEL.

Insurcs against los 10y firr issuing il''-4 a.
cie> only under which payments ere ~ Ne /.
nually i'll advance daring mc". eI>'..l 49,
cCaSing 10 br members WA0:rNcf .ti-A''., FL.
pended after paying losses. expense @..-
dendS is returned, Thereby ius..l,.'..- '''-
nf
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02

&" A Merciful Man is Merciful to his Beast. '
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02

HISTORY ::;;: "a: i; IA; n
War 4Oc; Creasy's Fifteen Decisive Battles 4Oc;
Carye's French Revolution, 60; Green Schiller
Greasy and Carlyle in one 81 so: Kenrick's Ancient
Egypt 81; Rollins Ancient History $40; Gibbons
Rome 81 20; Hume 'sEngand 49, ;Froissar tChrOn-
ieler SIPS. Catalogue 10000 volumes free.
JOHN II. ALDEN, Publisher,
p. o. Box 1927 dec II 4w 1SVesey st., New York
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02

We claim the following
for this Bar:
1st.-A saving Of fuel
over the ordinary bar.
2nd.--Such constitute
ton as will equalize all
strains resulting from eX-
pansion and contraction,
thus avoiding warping, and
thereby insuring long SER
vice.
3rd.-Thorough com
bustion of fuel, owing to the
large air spaces exposed.
Smyrna times., 1884-01-02
Abstract Of Statement. 1879.


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4. Jackson. Jr., CUmden. II !. p'''''"s'
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Smyrna times., 1884-01-02
WIN. DENNBY, sec" =,

March 4. 1888.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-06

the presidency My opinion is that public senti-
ment has not changed in the past four years on
this question. But if we do not learn by the eX-
perience of the past how can we expect to gain
by the opportunities of the future! ! think it
very unfortunate that this divergence of views
on the tariff question should occur at this time,
but I am not willing to sacrifice the convictions
of my better Judgment ofa measure of presumed
expe,liency, and particularly when
sad reminders of the correctness
of my position then and now, and of the mis-
guided action of those of the other way of
thinking | want the Democratic party to VIM
and propose to do all in my power to that end
and the voice of the people from ali sections
of the country swes up in opposition to the
agitation of this question, or in favor of home
enterprise and labor first am more convinced
than ever that the Democratic party has more
to expect before the people from conversative
course than from repetition of the mistakes
of former years | am beginning to think that
this tariff agitation in the House will expend its
force before it goes much further. But. as far
as | am concerned, l will oppose any policy
presented to the House in the form of a bill
that is not for the best interests of the Demo
cratic party and success.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-06
BARBED WIRE.
Millions of Money Made in Its Manufacture
PrOtracted Legal Contests.


New York Sun.
The manufacture of barbed wire has made
millions for many men The great West may
be said to be fenced with barbed wire. The s.,
800 miles of fencing destroyed by the Blue Devils,
of Texas, this winter was all OF barhed wire. The
| most familiar pattern of this fencing is made by
/ twisting two strands of thick. wire together so
that at every few feet the pointed ends OF the
metal thread project at right angles with the
! lengths. During the civil war and for ten years
thereafter thirty patents were issued for barbcd
wire. Before that plain wire had been used on
the great farms and pastures, its cheapness rem
derng it preferable to any other material.
A Worcester man bought up all the barbed wire
patents, and the firm he established had the pat
ents reissued, and then asserted that this gave
them control of the principle 1t took them years
to get decision sustaining them, and in the
meantime barbed wire factories sprung up like
mushrooms all over the West. After the decision
the Worcester men got all the other makers to-
gether and issued forty licenses to as many firms
| to continue making the wire. each being limited
to certain output, obliged TO sell at a certain
figure, and compelled to pay the Worcester men
$15 ton. The little makers were all crushed
out
The monopoly raised the price two cents a
pound and added $40 0000 900 to the profits
in half dozen States Iowa felt the
burden most and there some farmers
formed an association and set uD Des
MoneS man to manufacture moonshine wire for
them and to test the right of the monopoly. The
law indirectly aided them. The Supreme Court
in Washington, in the of Miler against the
Brass Company, dealt blow at the abuse of re
issued patents. Persons had been hunting up
patents for inventions distantly resembling sue
cessful new devices, and by purchasing these
patents for a song, had been getting them refs
sued in shapes so broadened and strengthened
as to make them cover devices. The Su
preme Courts decision strengthened the Iowa
| farNers. In 1883 the United States district
court for Southern Iowa declared the Feissued
barbed wire patents invalid, and last week
other decision in measure reaffirmed that de
cree. The fight still goes on upon such grounds
as remain for the Worcester men.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-06
Why Did He Weep?

Report of Suffragists Reception.
Mrs. Cougar, with her young face and gray
hair, was especially noticeable among the dele
gates, and was during the entire evening the re
cipient of congratulations for her brave fight
against her traducers at Lafayette, Ind. Many
people who knew her well some years ago did
not readily recognize her last night. Her hair
has turned from brown to gray within a year
Within that year also, she has spent thirteen
weeks i'll the courtroom, prosecuting her sland-
erers. Early in the evening Senator Fair ap-
when she addressed the Senate committee two
years ago she saw tear roll from his eye and
lodge half way down his cheek. During the re
mainder of the evening Senator Fair held Il
handkerchief in his hand, and occasionally and
apparently unconsciously wiped an imaginary
tear from his cheek.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-06
SAMUEL j. RANDALL.
The Pennsylvania Frankly Declares His
Opinions and Purposes.

The Pennsylvania Frankly Declares His
Opinions and Purposes.
Interview in the Philadelphia Times.
have marked out my course for the future as
far as my action on the tariff in the House is
concerned do not wish to say much about it
now, as it is little early, but when the time
comes l shall make myself heard on the floor of
the House. This tariff question has been rank
ling in the Democratic party long enough and l
think it is now about time to eliminate it entire
ly as political ISSUE or else settle it within the
party one way or the other. There are some
Democrats who have an idea that the masses of
the people of this country are Jealous for free
trade, when the lessons of the campaigns of the
last six years, at least, demonstrate the reverse
For instance, in the last presidential campaign
the Democratic party started out tariff
for-revenue only platform, and with what re-
suit? In the gubernatorial election in Indiana a
State that was put down as Democratic for a Ger
tanty on that issue, we were defeated. Some
say 5he State was carried by corrupt means. but
the industrial interests of that State were pow
er against us. Unhceding this lesson, the party
went on and month later we were beaten in
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-06
Preparations for the Arctic.

Lieutenant Emory, Commander Arctic Steamer Bear.
You would be surprised at the number of civil
ians who want to go the Greedy relief expedi-
ton. Most of them are attracted simply by a
love of adventure. OF course cannot take
them. On an expedition of this kind there
should be no more men than are absolutely neces-
sary, and every man on board should be able
if the emergency arises, to pull his share
on a sledging expedition. Captain Schley,
with the, Thetis. and |, with the Bear
will go ahead, and the Alert will act as a
reserve ship. Captain Schley has submitted to
the Secretary of the Navy his plan of action.
The details, of course, will be modified by the
exigencies which may arise in the Arctic l am
at work on the Bear now getting her ready. A
deck is being erected forward, and the
quarters for the men are being fitted up. The
board appointed to examine her have not yet
made their survey. AS they do it will
be decided what will be done to strengthen her.
We shall take on board provisions for officers
and crew sufficient to last two years Of course
we do not expect to be gone that length of time,
but we must provide against possibilities.