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Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-09-28

Nsw lonE, sep~ n. -corror- spc, closed
sales. $40 hnlcf
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19
IN ICED Yeternn.

There resides IN Marshfield, Wis.
m old man named Bat La Prheire,
whose physical yjgor and remarkable
longevity combine to render him of
public interest. He is of mixed Indi-
an and French parentage, his mother
being an Indian woman and his father
one of the fur traders in the employ of
John Jacob Aston He was born in the
Michigan peninsula in the year 1873.
and is consequently in his l06th year.
At the age of 81 he entered the Amer
lem army, and served as soldier scout
and Interpreter through the war of
1872 He has always led wandering
life, and at the close of the war of 1912
penetrated the western Wilderness and
remained unknown until The outbreak
OF the Mexican war in 1916. Although
then nearly 6S years of age, he joined
the American army and served under
General Scott until its close. AT the
outbreak of the late civil war Bat In
Praerie again volunteered, but was re-
iected on account of his age and in
lirmities lie was finally sworn into
the service in the Indian troubles in
Minnesota where he acted as inter
prefer and guide. During all his ex-
pcricnce and duties as soldier he
has never but once been wounded, and
that was by the accidental discharge of
a musket IN Minnesota. At present he
is living with Mr.. Frank Gopey. OF
Mar>hiield, and is still hale aud hearty
and has a good appetite He is sup
ported by private contributions has
never received u pension, although
steps IRE being taken To secure him one
soon. lie can be seen any day on Cen
trail avenue walking with the aid Of a
cane. lie has always drunk liquor Of
All kinds. and has used tobacco for
uineiv-iiye wears
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19
Divorce Laws.

The General Conference of the Meth
odSt church, recently in session in
Philadelphia, rs might be expected
from such 4 body of Christians, have
been prompt in handling the abuses of
loose divorce laws. The committee
having the matter in charge reported
as follows:
10 this end it is recommended that
the following suggestions, with appro-
pirate ecclesiastical penalties, he en-
bodied i'll the discipline Of the church:
/. That no divorce shall be recog-
nized as lawful in the sight of God ex-
cept for adultery.
Z. Persons procuring a divorce for
any other cause than adultery, or unit
ing in marriage with persons divorced
for any cause other than adultery, are
guilty Of immoral conduct, and minis
tiers of the Methodist Episcopal church
are forbidden to solemnize such mar
riage.
3. That before beginning proceedings
tor divorce the member shall advise
with his pastor
4. Tibet ministers shall not perfol m
the marriage ceremony between stran-
gers without diligent inquiries into
their characters, condition and circum-
stances in life and the general fitness
for the marriage relation, nor between
members of their own church or CON
gregation without consulting with the
family and relatives or guardians.
>. They shall not perform the cere-
mony between persons either of whom
is minor without the consent of the
parents or guardian of such minor.
And 1t is further recommended that
this conference invoke the government
of the several states to appoint commits
sioners for the purpose of taking into
consideration the enactment of uniform
codes of divorce and reducing the num-
her of causes therefor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19
NV NeighbOr on the Corner.

am mad at the man on the south
west corner of the block, and he is mad
at me, and it's all on account of nothing
at all. We bought mantle and CRATE
just alike and costing the same price.
We had tilling Just of the same pattern,
laid down by the same man. For five
years we were like brothers. If had
sick horse l consulted him. We went
over to his house to play old sledge,
and his family came over to my house
to play croquet. I'd have turned out of
bed at midnight of the darkest night
you ever saw, and walked twenty miles
through the mud thirty feet deep, to
bring doctor, in the case of sickness,
and I'm certain he'd have done fully as
much for me.
In an unfortunate hour my brother
in-law from Chicago paid me visit.
He said the mantle was very handsome,
and the CRATE perfect beauty, and
added:
"But You want brass fender"
"No!"
Certainly You do. 1t will be an inn
mense improvement"
A dav or two after he returned home
he sent me brass fender from Chicago.
He not only sent it as present, but
paid the express charges. Some one
told the man ON the corner that l had
brass fender.
cit can't bel"
"But he has"
"I'll never believe il"
"But I've seen it.
"Then he is a seoundred Of the deep.
est dye. Some folks would mortgage
their soul for the sake of showing of
littlei"
When the remark was brought to me
turned red, clear back to the collar
button. | called the southwest corner
man liar and horse-thief. ! said
that his grandfather was hanged for
murder and that his Oldest brother was
in State prison I advised him to sell
out and go to the Cannibal Islands, and
offered to buy his house and turn it into
q soap factory
The usual result followed. He killed
my cat and | shot his dog. He com
planned of my alley and / made him
put down a new sidewalk. He called
my horse an old plug. and / lied about
his COW and spoilt sale. He got my
church pew away by paying a higher
price, and destroyed his credit at the
grocery. He is now maneuvering tc
have the city compel me to move my
barn back nine feet, and have all the
arrangements made to buy the house
next to him and rent it to an under
taker as a coffin wa.v-oom.-M. Quad
in brakes Irdreter.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19

The earth ; twin sister. Venus. is now
a superb object IN the heavens. shining
with surprising briliaucy in the west
as soon as tha sun disappears below the
horizon The moon, approaching the
fail, scarcely dimS the uStre of the
t@ireSt of the stars, and the giant ,Iupi.
ter, bcamlng family above her. is OF 30
account in comparison with his fair riv-
al. Our nearest celestial neighbor is in
her best estate, taxing on the brightest
aspect she ever assumes for terrestrial
eyes II we could pierce the dense at
moSphere that surrounds her. and be-
hold the starlit sky that arches above
her. a star of surprising beauty would
attract our attention This would be
our own earth. approaching opposition.
and appearing under more favorable
conditions from this standpoint than
Venus is ever seen in our sky. For the
earth is M outer planet as observed
/ from Venus, and like Mars. Jupiter aud
Saturn in our sky, is visible when in
opposition throughout the night Oh
servers on the earth never see Venus
much more than three hours after sun
set, or three hours before sunrise. OBJ
servers on Venus can nj times behold
the earth during the entire night. shin
ing. rs she looks down from the zenith.
with peerless beauty on the midnight
sky, her luStre undimmed by the
twilight glow, aud her round, full face
turned toward her neighbor planet.
whose place is nearer the sun than her
own Providence journal.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19
4 Practical Religion.

We want a religion that softens the
step and tunes the voice TO melody, that
checks the impatient exclamation and
harsh rebuke; a religion that is polite,
deferential to superiors, courteous to in
feriors and considerable to friends; a re-
ligiou that goes into the family. and
keeps the husband from being cross
when dinner is late. and keeps the wife
from fretting when the husband tracks
the newly-waShed floor with his muddy
boots, and makes the husband mindful
of the scraper and the door mat; keeps
the mother patient when the baby is
cross, and amuses the children rs well
as inStructs them; cares for the servants
besides paying them up promptly; pro-
iects the honeymoon into the harvest
moon, and makes the happy home like
the eastern fig tree, bearing in its bos-
ON at once the beauty of its tender
blossoms and the glory of the ripened
fruit We want a religion that shall in
tcrpose between the ruts and gullies
and rocks of the highway of life, and
the sensitive souls that travel over
them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19
or Interest to Smokers.

A gentleman describing himself as
zone of the people fond of a good eli.
gar" assures the NelO York Times that
a prominent physician told him that
from the practice of cigar makers wet
ting the wrapper with their saliva and
biting the end of the cigar into shape a
loathesome disease was spreading, and
that he knew of several cases. "Some-
what alarmed" he continued, II man
aged to visit a number of factories.
Two-thirds of the cigar makers, | found,
daub the whole end of the cigar with
their saliva. Thinking that Cuban
places where they were employed, and
found that not only did they use their
saliva to make the wrapper stick, but
that most of them, before wrapping,
bit the end of the cigar into shape with
their teeth. As the physician informs
me that many of the cigar-makers have
gore mouths from disease it is a dan
gerous as well as beastly habit"
This Is horrible, If true; and we fear
it is true to some extent. From per-
sonal observation we know that cigar
III SItld 40 manipulate buGlT
work with a touch of saliva. Not many
of them do it, we should Judge; but
some do, aud these nasty workmen are
probably the very fellows whose
mouths are the most likely to commun-
icate disease. Those cigars, moreover,
which look the neatest at the smoking
end, and are therefore tie most adj
mired by young smokers, probably owe
their attractive symmetry to this dis
gushing manipulation. Yet it is q fact
that the most inyctelate smoke are
found among young men who mast be
aware of tn e prevalence of this filthy
practice. Almost ali tiiose who manu-
facture cigars, or who deal in cigars,
also smoke cigars. We don't quite see
how they can do it, but they do.-But-
tdlo Express.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19
nlainr's Qualifications.

The Chicago Evening Journal says
james g. Blaine possesses in greater
abundance than any other living man
the strongest features of American citi-
zenship. He is a manly man. He is Il
demonstrative, enthusiastic man. He
is ambitious-not meanly, selfishly and
narrowly, but with a grand ambition,
which seeks power, seeks high office,
seeks the greatest seat of honor, not by
low arts and political cunning, but by
great labor for great ends, by his iden-
tity with measures in which the pros
perity, greatness and peace of the ma
ton are concerned, by making his cause
the cause of his countrymen. He has
achieved greatness by his participation
in great events He has stood where
history was made, and has helped to
make it. He is great as mountains are
great and as seas are great. by their
being conspicuous part of the great
earth upon which they are upborne.
He has been a foremost workman in the
chief labOrs by which the destiny OF
the country has been nodded for the
last twenty years. II is right and fit
that he should be made president He
will amply fill the office, and his adj
miniStration will be the ablcst, the most
yirile, the most energetic, that the coun-
try has seen since the days of Jackson.
The campaign will be one of stirring
and irrepressible excitement. No name
could have aroused the depths of pub
lie feeling rs they will be aroused by
that of Blaine mt the head of the Repub-
lican ticket An electrical thrill will
awaken the popular heart. The Repub-
lican canvass will be a prolonged hur-
rab. and will be overwhelmingly sue
cessful. The loud voice of political
calumny will be lost in the louder chorus
of general enthusiasm. and in the pre-
monitory and gleeful shouts of assured
victory. With that name upon the Re
publican banners, a Republican triumph
as splendid as any that has been
achieved in the past, is foregone con.
clusion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19
iusting the politics of entire towns and

justing the politics of entire towns and
counties-dictating who shall be dele
gated with representative CD authority,
who may or may not be nominated 10
this or that office. and so forth? Not
one in ten thousand of them would be
regarded as competent and worthy to
be entrusted with like influence in the
management of business, moral or So
cial affairs Men too lazy to hoe
n hill of potatoes, and lacking
the practical sagacity to run a saw
mill successfully, are suffered to fur
nish with ready made political opinion
and dictate the votes of thousands of
sovereign citizens. 1t is time for the
people to assert themselves and sit
down on these cheeky fellows. The av-
erage paiyate citizen is quite too modest
in matters of politics. 1t would not be
difficult to select in almost any town a
score of citizens with more intelligent
and sounder views than the average
District boss" What is wanted is a
little more boldness on the part of the
Man, TO impress upon the Politician
little more modesty. This thought
may be pursued with profit in the work
ing of political machinery; and on the
same line wholesome reform may be
brought about in the selection of candi-
dates for representative positions in
Congress or the Legislature. What
the people want, what the interests of
good government demand in these bod
les, is a larger proportion of intelligent,
honest plain men, with no political
axes to grind and no weakness for
grinding those of others, - whose sole
motive shall be to procure the enact
ment of wholesome and just laws and
to provide for their enforcement. Such
men, if they do not often make brill
liant display, frequently serve the peo-
pie most faithfully and efficiently-ex-
IMPLIES OF which are not far to seek
1t goes without the saying that skin in
manipulating ward or county politics
and plying the tricks of the caucus con-
stitutes no part of the furnishing of a
good legislator. Nor does it follow, be-
cause man can please the crowd
with a Fourth Of July speech, that he
is fit SO be trusted to make laws. Many
a rascal who can write pretty page.
and cut wonderful curl icues with his
pen, would be sadly out of place as
cashier OF bank.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19
The Man in Politics.

When the mass OF the people. the iu-
tellircnt farmers. merchants, mechan-
les and workingmen, come to apply
common sense and Independent judg-
ment to political issues and the choice
Of representatives and public officers,
we shall have cleaner politics and bet
ter government, Already there are
hopeful indications of change in that
direction. Aud we say speed the day
when the occupation Of the professional
politician shall be thing of the past.
People in these days have no need for
the political boss or the political wire
nuller-men who live on politics, and
rs matter of course subject all other
considerations 70 that OF p occurring and
dispensing political favors. Who are
these tricksters, these suoSers of pap,
these traders in Office ana brokers Of
patronage, that they should appoint
themselves to the duty and office OF adj
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19

THERE is a good deal more meaning
to kiss than is generally credited to
it. It sometimes means true friendship,
often denotes affection and too often it
is an act of deception as was the kiss of
Judas. Promiscous kissing an the part
of person, that is kissing everything
and anything, has no real meaning. 1t
is not in fact kissing. 1T is merely the
formality of sticking your puckered
lips against an object and making
smacking noise. The purest. sweetest
kiss, is that given by hoy to his
mother. When yo1 see boy. no mat
ter if he IS forty or enc year old, proud
of his mother ard not ashamed to kiss
her and not afraid lie viii be considered
sentimental fool hy others for doing
it, you have found man who has a
spark Of true manhood IN him, no mat
ter what or how al his general record
may he Iha boy w O when he comes
home will invariably LIS, his mother is
generally the boy O h. denendcd upon,
for there is no 10y or man With a guilty
conscience, who San & ne up and look
his mother in the ere and kiss her No,
the hoy who kiss. hj mother Is every
inch man. ] i y proud record for
any man 70 ave, to have II said he al
wa S iSsts lis mother -Peci'S Sun.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19
A Drunken Herd of Swine.

Mattieu Williams says that he once
witnessed a display of drunkenness
among 300 pigs, which had been given
barrel of spoiled elderberry wine all
at once with their swill Their be-
hayior was intensely human, exhibiting
all the usual manifestations of jolly
goodfellowship,. including that adj
vanced stage where a group were rolling
over each other and grunting affection
ately in tones that were distinctly ex-
pressive of swearing good fellowship all
around Their reeling and staggering
and the expression of their features all
indicated that alcohol had the same
effect on pigs as ON men; that under its
influence both stood On the same ZOO
logical level--PopttIar Science Month
III.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19
Southern Political Methods.

The Sherman COMMITTEES report on
the Danvillc riot and massacre declares
that it was ''premeditated and preeon-
certcd for the purpose of raising the
race issue and intimdating negroes;
that democrats prcarranged the riot
aud endorsed it after it had occurred =
The committee finds no evidence that
the negroes fired shot until after the
whites fired . general volIcy, and that
they had very few weapons of any kind.
The negroes were of all ages and
both sexes, and gathered unquestion-
ably from curiosity. The ties on the
contrary were generally ned. The
fire bell was ruug bait W. not for a
fire: on the contrary ii was secret sig
nal for the white militia company.
The whites came rapidly f, all direo-
tions and guns were distrilu ed to those
who had none from the shops and
stores The rest Il the report concludes
the object of the democrats in these
efforts to raise the race issue, to alarm
the blacks and excite the whites was
two-fold first intimidate colored yot-
ers in localities where they We're strong,
rs in Danville: and second, but chiefly,
to produce such q frenzy Of feeling in
the state ~ would induce white electors
to Join with their own race and escape
the eontumely and reproach to which
they would otherwise be subjected for
fraternizing politically with ''nggers.
1t WAS made to appear the blacks were
the offenders when in truth the white
democrats were mob in possession oi
the town and no urgr, dared make his
appearance on the streets. The occur
renee was one which caused ceioiejng
instead of regret among democrats.
II is shown further that no white man
has been punished in any way Tor par.
ticipaton in the Dauville riot, and it i,
suggested that in such cases. when the
State fails todo justice the penalty en-,
Joined by the Uuitcd States Constitution
should be pat in force; that is to
say, the representation of the Nsate
should be reduced in proportion to its
denial of the franchise to any part of it.
citizens.
The facts in this case, as in that q
the Copiah (Ni,sl murder At the poll
seem fully 10 justify the remark Of th'
Tribune. that The plain trah (trankly
admitted by several Southern witness
esq is that the Southern Democratic
white men have for years been resolved
to suppress the colored vote by an
means, and that they have never scru
pied to employ violence when mer'
fraud would not serve their purpose"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19

A number of eastern papers are bolt
ing the nomination OF Blaine and Lo-
gan. These ''kickers' are necessary
70 the success Of the party this fall.
Some Of these same "oraces'' bottled
the nomination Of Grant, in 1872, but
he was elected all the same.
Tildon has written letter which has
been given to the public, forbidding
the use of his name before the Demo
cratic National Convention and forever
putting at rest the question Of his can
didacy The old 'usufruct" and sham
reformer OF 1876 will not enter the con
test IN 1884 against Blaine and Logan,
and the cold tickle t. the cipher dis
patches, the ''bar'T' and other issues
of unfragrant memory, which have
been recently politically resurrected
win now be carefully laid away in
their eternal resting place.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19

FRESH water fish are reared on every
Japanese farm where there is pool or
brook, with as much care as poultry are
in French cottage yards. Girls go in
the evening with long wands to drive
the fish into rooted tanks, where they
are locked in for the night to keep them
from birds Of prey.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19

The Chicago Evening Journal is put
ting in some hard work for Blaine and
Logan, and will strike some blows
through its editorial columns, for the
Republican party during the campaign,
that will be felt, if its present tone is
aDv criterion
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19

II don't see how you city folks live
with no exercise at all, remarked a
countryman to his new boarder. NO
exercisel'' exclaimed the man; ..you
never saw man chasing a street
carr
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19
Republican Ticket.
For President
JAMES G. BLAINE.
OF Maine.
For President
JOHN A. LOGAN.
OF Illinois
Republican Electors.
OF Illinois.

The Democratic Congress has fixed
June 30, as the day Of final adjourn
mcnt. 1t is unfortunate for the Repub-
lican party that the session could not
have continued the rest of the summer.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19

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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-06-19
III POIISs1
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