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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-01-10
Horse and Turf Notes.

The owners of RichbalI are ont with
a challenge to any horse on earth 10
race, mile heats. three in five, for a
stake of IS or $4,000 side.
Mr.. I'll. L. Dausman, of st. Louis. one
OF its wealthiest citizens, and great
patron of fine arts, has invested over
$780, 900 in fine trotting stock. His breed
ing farm is at Prairie du Chen, Wis,
and consists of 5000 acres. He re-
Gently purchased twenty-three head of
trotting stock from Kentucky breeding
farmers, consisting of ten yearlings,
ten weanlings, one two years old and
two aged mares. Eighteen Of them are
Hambletonian sires and three from
dams.
p. Lorillard. the noted New York
horseman. gave an average week S
wages as a Christmas present to each
of the 5000 employees in his Jersey
City factory. About 1900 blue-fringed
envelopes, containing from 81 to $40
each. were distributed among the fe-
male employees. and 1000 others, con-
tanning from Sc to SIS each, were given
to the men and BOYS. The total amount
distributed was $4,000.
An important transaction in horse
flesh, and one in which Illinois breeders
are particularly interested, was the pnr-
chase in Kentucky last week, by Mr..
G. b. Allaire, of Peoria, H., of the
trotting stallion Voitaire, record 2:2Ol,
by Tattler, dam Young Portia by Mann
brine Chief. Tattler, the sire of Vol
taire, was one of the best sons of Pilot,
Jr., and as the blood of that horse is
now eagerly sought after by breeders.
the strain is q valuable one in a sire $
pedigree. In addition to being well
bred-combining, as he does, the Pilot,
Jr., and Mambrino Chief blood-Vol-
taire is a trotter of merit himself, as
his record proves; and that he is stout
as well as fast is attested by the fact
that he always secured place in all
his races, trotting during his last sea-
son against the best horses in the coun-
try. Mr.. Allaire has done the breeders
of Illinois service by bringing Vol
taire here, and his action should be APP
preciated. Breeders Gazette.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-01-10
The Irish Members to Visit Dubuque.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 81. f. Red
mond, member of parliament, and VIM.
Redmond, his brother, who were work
ing for the Irish National League in
Australia, arrived here. The former
stated to an Associated Press represent
atives that prior to his visit there was
no organized movement in Australia
During his stay he addressed l42
meetings, established 800 permanent
branches, collectedS IS, 900. and created
a federal convention to hold yearly meet
ings, comprised of delegates from all the
colonies. The Bishops supported the
movement and wrote approving the
principles of the league, and with the
exception of Archbishop Vaughn sub
scribed funds. Redmond further said
that the colonies subscribed "a, 900 to
the Parnell fund to be sent to Parnell as
special donation. As the members of
Parliament are not paid, arrangements
Will be made by six colonies to subscribe
yearly sufficient support for the six Irish
members elected under the auspices of
the league. Redmond lectures here and
at Leadville, Denver and Omaha. His
brother goes south and lectures at Tomb
stone, Des Moines and Dubuque, and
two meetings at Chicago.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-01-10
Wire News.

BLUNT, ID. r., Jan. 4.-Thc bribery
case instituted by Shaw against Cover
ernor Ordway was continued until to-
morrow. in the absence of important
witnesses. Quo warranto proceedings
have been commenced against Cretech-
mer as nonresident, and against Shaw,
as not the person appointed.
PITTsBURG, Jan. 4.-Dr. Hostetter,
one of the largest stockholders of the
Pittsburg & Lake Erie Railroad, says
that Vanderbilt will assume control of
the management of the road at the en-
suing election, and that John Newell,
president of the Lake Shore d Michigan
Southern Road, will be chosen presi-
dent, to succeed Mr.. Henrici.
TORONTO, Jan. 4. 1t has finally
been decided to have public funeral of
the victims of Wednesdays railway
accidents. The city officials, military,
police, and trades organizations will at
tend in body. Business will be sus-
pended during the afternoon and the
theaters will close. Subscriptions are
pouring in from all quarters for the
sufferers. No further deaths are re-
ported to-day.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-Mr. Randall
says that the Subcommittee on Pen
sion Appropriations estimates that a
surplus of $50. 000,O 900 of unexpended
pension funds will remain IN the Treas
ury at the end Of the fiscal year. and
the committee win endeavor to keep the
appropriations for the next year down te
Sl5,000,000 additional, making in al
about $4,000. 600 for the payment 81
pensions the next year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-01-10
Religious Notes.

Great revivals of religion are reported
in the different churches throughout the
East
A New York Christian worker buys
tive-cent testaments and cuts them up.
distributing the leaves singly here and
there.
All the good things of this world are
no further good than as they are of use;
and, whatever we may heap up to give
to Others, we enjoy only as much as we
can use. and no more. -Defoe.
Two of the Methodist missionaries in
Norway have been brought before the
courts, accused by clergymen of the
state church, and fined, for receiving
members into their church.
The Michigan Advocate states that
among the missionaries laboring in
Norway, Mich, is Mrs. Nelson, who
was for twenty-five years successful
actress. She was converted under the
preaching of a Methodist minister.
abandoned her profession, and has
since been preaching with great accept
ance to crowded houses. Her fine elo-
cutionary powers, added to an intense
conviction of the truths of the gospel,
give peculiar attractiveness to her dis
courses.
There are seasons when the soul
seems to recognize the presence of, and
to hold communion with the departed.
They are like angelic visltants. We
meet them in our lonely walks, in our
closest communions We meet them
when the lengthening shadows hallow
the even tide. Mysterious and solemn
is their communion. We meet them
when sorrows encompass us round
about, and hallowed is the influence
their presence imparts. Who shall say
that at such times there is not real
communion between the living and the
dead? Who shall say that there is not
then a real presence of the dead with
the livingP-BishOp d. w Cgark.1
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-01-10
Iowa Pioneers.

The Peoria Transcript publishes some
timely notes on the deaths of Gen.
Dodge and Ex-Governor Lowe. of Iowa,
few of which we reproduce:
ga few days ago there was an an
nouncement of the death within a week
of each other of two distinguished citi-
zens of Iowa, whose lives were links
between the past and present of that
State. In the fierce political strife that
was carried on in the territory of Iowa
long before there was single State
west of the Mississippi river, these two
men were rival disputants. Each was
candidate for the Office of territorial
delegate in Congress forty years ago.
Augustus c. Dodge. one of these men,
staunch Democrat, was elected over
his competitor, Ralph p. Lowe, by de-
cisive majority. the Territory of Iowa
being in those days strongly Democratic
When Iowa was admitted as State,
Mr.. Dodge was promoted to the United
States Senate when his father was even
then a Senator from Wisconsin This
is the only instance in which father and
son served in the Senate together as
Senators.
As Iowa grew in wealth and popu-
lation it passed solidly and forever from
democratic control, and Ralph p Lowe.
the defeated candidate of the old terri
torial days, now became governor of
the new state, and has been in public
life ever since, owing mainly to the
permanent and continued success of
his party in Iowa. Mr. Dodge, once a
delegate and senator in congress. was
permanently retired from usefulness by
the downfall of the democratic party in
Iowa, and has been retired so long that
when he died the other day he was al
most forgotten. He had been scarcely
heard of for more than twenty years,
| when his death few days ago, so near
to that of Ex-Governor Lowe, recalled
| him to memory in the minds of his
countrymen. What q mighty change
from the Iowa of early DAYS 20 the
proud commonwealth of to-day is COM
passed in the lives of these two men.
who have been so closely identified with
her political history, In the Wild terri
tory, where Dodge and Lowe fattled to
be the representative of a little hand
full of poor settlers. living in log cabins
forty years ago. there is now power
full and wealthy State, with eleyels mem
bers of Congress, covered with rich
farms and populous cities, and growing
twice as fast as my of the Eastern
States. Forty years ago. when Angus
tus c. Dodge addressed little assembly
of settlers near where the city of Daven-
port now stands, you might see the wig
vans and fires of a band Of Indians
outlined against the western sky as the
sun sank behind the bluffs of the Mis-
sissippi; now a thriving city rises from
the hills, and spires and belfries of many
churches are pictured against that even
ing sky over the same ground where
savages once erected their rude habita-
tions. There is mightier romance in
the progress of the West than anything
| that ever passed before the mind Of
! man.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-01-10
The Prohibition Question in Iowa.

DIES MONIES, Jan. THE effort of
the Prohibitionists to capture the Green
back members of the Lower House of
the coming General Assembly has not
been crowned with distinguished sue
cess to date. Without Greenback help
there is no possibility of passing pro-
hibitory legislation. unless the rumored
Democratic scheme to lend the move
ment enough votes 10 insure its success
materializes. One of the Greenback
Representatives, III. b. Cloud, of Marion
county, was i'll the city to-day, and in
answer to the question as to how his
constituents stood ON the prohibition
question, as it would come up this win
ter, said he thought that at the election
the proposition was defeated He had
been seen by great many of his county
people, and almost invariably they had
told him to look the field over and then
use his own judgment in voting Mr..
Cloud declined to commit himself as to
his personal views Oh the prohibition
question.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-01-10
Buffers Successor Inaugurated.

BosToN, Jan. 3.-Gov. Butler and
staff were in the executive chamber dur
ing the morning. He sent two of his
staff to accompany Gov. elect Robinson
to the State house, where he was warm
ly welcomed by Gov Butler. President
Bruce, of the Senate, then administered
the oath of office to Gov. Robinson and
Lieut.-Gov. Ames. The new Governor
then delivered his address. He asks for
a more particular enforcement of the
registration laws and biennial elections
of State officers. He says on the labor
question: "Adventurers and Missionaries
may try to set labor and capital in Bit
ter hostility. stir up bad blood among
citizens, and divide all people into en-
vious and antagonistic classes; but they
are only iustigators of mischief, and the
greatest enemies to those whom they
profess to aid. All statutes relating to
hours of labor, the employment and
schooling of children, the intimidation
of laborers and kindred subjects should
be strictly enforced If they are not
expressive of the judgement of the peo-
pie, let their repeal come regularly"
The Board of Charities gets a kind
word, and greater facility in obtaining
the dissolution Of the marriage bond'
censure. Enforcement is urged of the
laws existing relating to the traffic in
liquors.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-01-10
Governor Ordway,s Integrity.

CHICAGO, January Sin Washing
ton special published here this morning
Governor N. G. 0rdway, of Dakota, is
represented as saying that he offered
General o. l.. Mann, ex-Sherifl of Cook
county, the appt intment as one of the
commissioners for the organization of
the Potter company. of Dakota, con-
corning which organization recent
charges have arisen in Dakota. Gen.
Mann in an interview tomorrow will
deny the statement as absolutely false.
He says ou the 10th of last Novem Der
hetold Ordway personally that he would
serve as such commissioner if it was to
be fair deal, etc. that 0rdway said to
him then that he had not appointed
commissioners for Potter county. Gen.
Mann asserts this statement was 4 mis-
take, as the commissioners bear date
four days prior to this conversation.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-01-10
Roundabout Notes.

Ferdinand Kramer, son of Henry
Kramer, of Pine Knob, died at Neils-
vile. Clark county, Wis. Dec. goth, of
diphtheria.
On Christmas day, 1888, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Chappell, of Platteville, cele-
brated their golden wedding.
Rev. and Mrs. II. j. Davis of the NJ.
h. Church Platteyille, were recently pre-
sented with magnificent set of china,
In token of their appreciation, and as a
memento of the twentieth anniversary
which they celebrated.
Mr.. Fred. Stevens, of Bloomington.
q salesman in MIR. f. l.. Greer's store,
has terminated his engagement and will
soon remove from that village
Mr.. David Taylor, of Bloomington,
has received three fine pigs from Penn
sylvania. They are of the s'Red Jer-
sey'' strain, which has many fine points
one of which is that 1000 pounds is
not an unusual weight for them to at
tain.
The Darlington creamery is making
arrangements to run all winter Wagons
will be sent over the routes to gather
cream once week, and those not on
regular routes viii be paid three cents
additional per pound for cream deliver
ed at the creamery.
f. Bowen, of Brodhead, distributed
about S400 worth of flour in fifty pound
sacks. TO families in Brodhead, Wis, as
u Christmas gift. Such an act needs
no comment. No doubt Mr.. Bowen's
Christmas was one of happiness and
contentmeT after so generous deed
Monroe Sentinel.
Married at the residence of the
brides father, w. b. Walton, Wheat
vile, Crawford county, January2 2, 1884,
by Rev. James Ford, of Excelsior, Mr.
A. j. Bashfield and Maria E. Walton,
all of yVheatville.
L. w. Lacy has disposed of his in
terest in the Prairie du Chen Union to
Mr.. A. M. Beach, and the firm name of
that institution is now known as Hurl-
but & Beach.
On Wednesday morning last the first
''double-headern train went through
on the Prairie du Chen division of the
Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul rail-
way.-Didl
The fire bell called the fremen to duty
yesterday morning few minutes after
five o'clock. Fire was discovered in
the northwest corner of the Campbell
House, occupied by Messrs. A. w.
Kemler, and Theo. Hager. The fire
started in the second story in room
used as wood and wash-house. A
stove was in the room in which there
had been fire on Tuesday afternoon,
and it is supposed that, in some way.
fire was communicated to the mop-board
and from there to the floor. A hole
from two to four feet wide and six feet
long was burned through the floor, adj
hitting the fire to the room below, in
which the furniture belonging to C. w.
Mitchell, of st. Paul, was stored, and
much of his goods were burned or badly
damaged. A large hole was also burn
ed in the floor below. The fire had evil
IDENTITY been smouldering all night, and
but for the fact that it was closely con-
fined, would have broken out much
sooner. The tiremen responded nobly,
and their prompt efforts no doubt,
saved the entire destruction of the build
ing.-PldtteCille Witness.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-01-10
Fear Held Him.

Novel-writers have tried, with more
or less success, to depict life in Wash
ington; but if the real inside history of
men and parties there could be given,
it would surpass any picture in wild
improbability.
Take, for example, the following bit
of actual history. During the last gen
Grafton, one of the most familiar faces
on Pennsylvania avenue was that of
well-known party leader, who was
popularity supposed TO be an aspirant
for the highest political honors.
He was known as man OF great in
tellectual power and unstained probity.
He had the control of vast national
interests. His personal popularity was
very great throughout the country,
and his ambition was known to be in
satiable.
Yet, when, time after time, high poll
teal offices were offered him, he re-
fused to allow his name to be present
ed as a candidate. The reason for this
was known only after his death and then
to but few persons.
In his early youth, under strong
temptation, he had committed crime
which, if disclosed in after life, would
have brought irreparable shame and
disgrace upon his children. The facts
were known but to two or three persons
in an obscure country village, where he
had once lived.
These persons were not unfrlendly to
him, but they belonged to the opposite
political party. When, therefore, his
name was su0Uested as a candidate for
a high national office. he received a
quiet intimation from the inland village
that if he came before the people the
story would be made public.
We know no more dramatic figure
in fiction than that of this strong, am
bilious leader, with noble aims and
true purposes in later life, perpetually
held in check by an occasional crack of
the whip from an unseen hand in a
distant hamlet. That single crime in
his youth had put yoke upon him,
hope of his whole life.
Yet hard and pitiable as this mans
hate seems to us, is it not measurably
that of every man who gives way to
vice or folly in his youth? No matter
how sincere his repentance, or how pure
and helpful his after life, the inefface-
able marks of that early lapse into
crime remain on soul and body. The
man who frequents vulgar and vicious
society, or is a drunKard, gambler, or
libertine at twenty, will carry the faint
with him into old age and the grave
Youths Companion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-01-10
Electric Lamps.

The arc lamp is that most widely used
at present, and is the one most suitable
for Illuminating streets and large spaces
and for those purposes in general for
which great brilliancy is required. OF
all the artificial sources of light this is
by far the most intense; and for con-
centrating a high degree of illumination
in small space is the most economi-
cal. As is well known, the light is pro-
duced by vivid blaze playing between
the tips of two carbon sticks about one
quarter of an inch apart. When it is
considered that even the diamond will
melt in this flame, and that to produce
a steady light it is essential that the
two points should be kept at an exact
distance apart, that one carbon burns
faster than the other. and that both
burn irregularly, some notion may be
formed of the difficulty of constructing
an arc lamp to burn steadily all night
without attention.
The incandescent lamp has not yet
come into general use, but it Is slowly
growing in popularity. This lamp is
much more simple than the arc, and,
though not by any means so brilliant,
is capable of much more extended APP
plication. 1t consists merely of per-
fectly tight glass bulb from which the
air has been expelled, and containing
curved filament of carbon. This fila
ment presents great resistance to the
passage of the electric current; and
when electricity is forced through it,
this resistance occasions intense heat,
which quickly raises the filament to a
clear and steady incandescence. Those
usually made are so constructed that
the light emitted is a little brighter
than that of a good gas-burner. The
Continent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-01-10
Russell Sage Squeezed.

New YORK. Jan. st was black
Thursday for Russell Sage to-day. The
great put, ''call," and ''straddle''
broker, it was said, was very vexed, and
put brokers called upon him faster
than he could sign checks Union Pa
cific stocks, of which he was reported to
have held from $50, 900 to 200, 600 shares.
had taken a tumble, and he was said to
be temporarily loser in the neighbour
hood of million dollars. The squeeze
which the well-known speculator is said
to have suffered was the favorite theme
of conversation among brokers who did
not attend the charity ball this evening,
but preferred to while away their honrs
of recreation at the Windsor. Said
well-known member of the Stock Ex-
change:
II guess Russell Sage has had enough
of Union Stock for one day, and in fact
| doubt not he felt almost buried with it
when brokers, alarmed at the manner
in which the stock was acting, de-
manded their checks. Only a short
time ago, when Sage got about $50, 900
shares. ! think, of Union Pacific, its
price was close on to 50. To-day it
opened at 7ls. its highest price was 72s.
and closed at III. If it bad been AIRY
other man than he have no doubt that
he would have gone UNDER
''At what figure would you place
Sage's loss2"
''If reports are correct as to the num-
Der of shares he took when put at
him Lventure to say that he was poorer
by a million this evening than he was
in the morning"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-01-10
Sabin on Finance.

MINNEAPoLIs, Jan. 3.-Senator Sa-
bin chairman of the national republic
can committee, has defined his position
on the finances as follows: In his opin-
ion, the payment of the national debt
should cease, in fact, should have ceas-
ed long ago. He would favor the issue
of two per cent. fifty year bond by the
government into which all bonds Of
either denominations should be convert
ed as they mature or are called in.
These bonds could be used as basis
for bank issues. Accompanying this
measure should be the repeal of the
one per cent. tax on bank circulation
now existing. This would make the
interest on the new bonds equivalent to
the banks to three per cent, and he
thought majority Of the banks would
readily take them, especially if allowed,
as they should be, to insure circulation
upon their full face or par value. I'm
der the present laws the banks can is
sue circulation TO the extent of only
ninety per cent. of the par value OF the
bonds deposited as security for such cir
cnlation He thought it would be safe
to permit banks to issue notes to the
par value of the bouds, because our
money cannot be any better than oul
government.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-01-10
J. W. Banding Christmas Present.

De W. DiuuutHS SCHTlStflidS ITPseuts
Mr.. j. w. Banding, former Clerk of
the Grant County Circuit Court, and
who has hosts Of friends throughout the
county, although they could not be
eye-witnesses, will learn with pleasure
of the event chronicled below which we
republish from the Gazette of Wahpe-
ton. ID. T.:
lone of the most interesting events
that occurred in this city on Christmas
day was the presentation to Mr. j. w.
Blanding by dozen of his friends, of a
gold watch, valued at$150. The watch
was purchased, and arrangements were
made to have Mr.. Banding and the
donors meet in the Bank of Wahpeton,
at ten o'clock a. M, when the presenta-
ton was to be made. At the appointed
hour the parties assembled as it had
been agreed to, but Mr.. Banding was
allowed to remain unapprised of the in
tention of his friends. John M. Rug
giles, Esq, was elected to make the pre-
sentation, which he proceeded to do in
words well suited to the occasion, while
CtC ObuClo NClO CAOtbllf2 ONtI
the pleasant surprise which they had
planned for their esteemed friend. But
as Mr.. Ruggles looked upon the grey
hairs and manly form, that already sug-
gested the near approach of life's adj
vancing sunset, his feelings SO nearly
gained the mastery of him that it was
difficult for him to proceed. Mr.
Blanding was also deeply affected. but
expressed his appreciation and graft
tude in highly becoming manner.
The gift was intended as pleasant sur
prise, but the givers were surprised as
well as the receiver, when they witness
ed the deep emotions it awakened in
both donee and donors. Such little
tokens are calculated to arouse friendly
feelings and strengthen the friendship
already existing And the parties
to this little episode will never regret
their connection with it