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Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-27
PL A TT S., z4 4Church Street. au21 Ct FrightfuI Case of a C0Iored Man ]!

 Icontracted fearful of blood poison in 1883 was treated by some of the best physicians in At lanta. They used the old remedies of Mercury and Potash, which brought on rheumatism and impaired my digestive organs. Every joint in me was swol- len and full of pain. When was given up to die my physicians Thought it would be good time to test the virtues of Swift's Specific. When com l menced taking S. s. s. the physician said could not live two weeks under the ordinary treatment. He commenced to give me the medicine strictly cording to the directions, which continued for several months took nothing else, ana com menced to improve from the very first. Soon the rheumatism le me; my appetite became all right, and the ulcers which the doctor said the most frightful he had ever seen began to heal, and by the first of October, 1884, was well man again. am stronger now than I ever before, and weigh more. S. S. s. has saved me from early grave. LEM MCCLENDON. Lem MeClendon has been in the employ of the Chess Carley company for some years, and know the above statements to be true At the time he be- gan taking Swift Specific he in horrible dition regard his cure almost miraculous.
 W. B. CROSBY, Manager
 Chess Carley Co.,, Atlanta Division. Atlanta, Ga April IS, 1885.
 For sale by all druggists.
 Treatise on Blood and Skin Diseases mailed free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.,, Drawer 3. Atlanta, Ga, or 157 w. 23d St, N. Y. a21eodawnr
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-27

Smallpox Raging At Toronto. WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.-The Marine hos pital bureau is notified that 3S0 cases of smallpox and 115 deaths have occurred in Toronto since August l.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-27

5000 will buy first class paying business ir center of the city. Satisfactory reason for selling Call at once.
 W. c. WARREN Real Estate Agent R. M. HOOKER, Builder, 31 Exchange Building.
 FOR RENT, f&ss4 FIVE rooms in Heller's block, State street: @:::I gas and water closet; suitable for private @AssAl family. Also five rooms five minutes walk from City market. Also several other tenements in desirable locations, and store 555 State street. a24 If JACOB HELLER 9S Olive street.
Morning journal and courier., 1885-08-27
geaI Estate.

EOk& RENTs
 "A THREE small tenements and a store, If: which will be rented very low to an approved tA. tenant. Any letters addressed to me will cali and inform, cali at 4S2 Dixwen avenue after o'clock. GLOSON HALL. ana
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-26
uonors to the Dead in China.

When a man dies, the first care of his
friends is to place at the door of the
house cup of cold water. n custom for
which no satisfactory reason is assign
ed. Then suit of really good clothes
must be burned, together with most of
the dead mans wardrobe--his boots
and shoes, bed and bedding, opium
pipe, horses, houses, sedan chair, and
any other possessions which he is likely
to care to have with him, for he will
require all these things in the spirit
world, and his reception there will be
considerably better if he arrives well
clothed than it would be should he
appear in beggarly want. 1t is con-
sidered that genuine articles should be
sacrificed for his original outfit, though
paper representations are equally elf
cacious later. For the same reason it
is most important that all funeral
arrangements should be the very best
that can be procured; and the survivors
often impoverish themselves for years
to provide what is considered decent
burial. The corpse must be arrayed in
new clothes, with a cap and satin boots,
(such dress as the deceased would
have hired for the day had he been go
ing to attend feast.) The coffin, too,
must be handsome and expensive. This,
however, is SO very important that per-
sons who can possibly afford it pur-
chase their collins during their life; and
the most acceptable gift which duti-
full son can offer TO his parents is fine
solid set of longevity boards" that
they may have the satisfaction of super
intending the making and vanishing
of their own collins! In like manner
the provident Chinaman likes to secure
his grave and that of his family during
his lifetime. So a geomancer is en-
ployed, at a high rate of pay, to ascer-
tain at what spot the Fung Shut is most
favorable, and there land is bought.
vaults arc prepared, and a mound in
the shape of horseshoe is erected
above each grave. 1t is of the utmost
Importance to secure II spot we'll shield
ed from the baneful, lighting influences
of the north, but fully exposed to all
sweet influences from the south. Such
a grave is so well pleasing TO the dead
that the prosperity of the family hold
ing such ground is almost assured. =
The British Qudrtefiq ReCieW.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-26
New Orleans.

No doubt the law and order loving
people from the North who visit the
New Orleans Exposition may find that
there is great chance for improve
ment in the methods of the city and
state government, but we do not believe
New Orleans can give Chicago any
points on fixing up election returns, nor
do we believe the New York Tribune
need go outside its own city to find ma
terial for criticisms quite as severe and
fully us just rs the following:
q" If the Crescent City Exposition
proves to be an utter failure financially,
the Nation may profit something by it
after all. 1t has not attracted immense
crowds from the North; yet many hun
dred intelligent men have visited New
Orleans, and not only examined the ex-
hibits at the Fair. but also the methods
of the city and State Government. The
shrewd politicians who have hood
winked good many Northern visitors
heretofore cannot handle all that come
now, and the outrageous abuses which
have long existed there are becoming
thoroughly understood. The visitor re-
turning home will carry with him the
information that the courts in Louisiana
are utterly corrupt and that the govern
ing rings are composed of murderers
and thieves whose political crimes are
among the least they have been guilty
of. This will be likely to rouse public
sentiment in the North to so high a
pitch that the South in time may feel
the good effects of it. In that case, the
Fair will not have been failure"
We do not deny that there is more
lawlessness in the South than in the
North, nor that the visits and the settle
ment of Northern people in the South,
on the whole, have a wholesome effect,
but we think it is about time to cease
waving the bloody shirt. Let it 90 into
the wash.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-26
The Sun of a Woman's Life.

+
An occasional parsonage in society
Is the young woman who does not in
the least care for the companionship of
other women. To her an afternoon
tea or y then lunch is like soup with
out salt. 1t does not at all matter that
the women may be bright and clever.
leaders of fashion or notables in a
worldly way; after all they are but wo-
men, and all the bright talk, all the
ready smiles, all the grace and charm
of manner that are current coin at
such gatherings, are but awful wastes
of raw material. Ii she is a person
lacking in refinement she does not
nearly disguise her Impotence, her alb
solute WEAKNESS, her conviction that
hours spent with them are lost. And
even If she is tactful it is often appar-
ent that her mode and manner intend
gracious patronage, and the gentle en-
durance of boredom that she cannot
escape. When the men come in it is
like the lighting of theatre by cleo
tricity. All the dimly guessed at femi-
nine attractions flash into view. There
are smiles, laughter comes readily, re-
partee is quick, and archness most
arch. To this young woman the man
is as a glass of champagne. He is lit
orally and figuratively the sun Of her
existence. New Orleans TImes-D Demo
cydt.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-26
Cattle Kings.

II we except the growth of Mormon
ism. there is nothing 50 dangerous to
the interests of the far West as the
growth of the cattle power. Foreign
capitalists, owing no allegiance to the
United States. are getting control of
large tracts of land, and away on Che
frontier where they are law unto
themselves, are amassing fortunes at
the expense of the loyal and tax-paying
citizens of the country. The Chicago
Commercial Bulletin says;
The cattle companies have become
the most aggressive interest in the coun-
try. They are located away on the
frontier. and appear to have persuaded
themselves that their independence of
law is I'm proportion to their remoteness
from the political eenters, where laws
arc made. Their habitual conduct is in
Wild disregard of authority OF legal
methods. and OF the rights either OF in-
diyiduals. the general public or the
Government. This disposition which
thev are manifesting is not less irritat-
ing from the fact that the largest and
most aggressive companies are organ
lied under the laws of foreign nations
and most of the members OF these cor
porations are foreigners. Ii Is we'll
seated principle of international law
that foreign residents doing business IN
any country have less rights, il anything,
than citizens of the same country pos
sess. These cattle men act as i, own
inc no allegiance to the United States,
they owed no obedience to its laws. Il
IS time that this cowboy logic received
practical lesson. The lawless squat
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-26
Keeping Their Costumes secret.

factors and actresses are nightly
distressed when they appear in q new
role, said a dramatic manager of ex.
perience, slest some other actor or &C.
tress should manage to see or get de.
scrlption of their costume, and either
reproduce it first or else make it sub
Ject OF gossip in professional circles. 1t
isn't easy to understand their feelings
when costly costume has been bought
to find some one else reproducing it on
the stage. The dress of the actor and
actress is part of their capital 1t is
not thought to be stealing in the pro-
fession, however, if an actress can get
The best OF her sister actress by appro-
priating her ideas. The argument used
is that if one cannot guard her profess
sional secrets, then she had better not
go into the business. The stories OF
the pains that actresses have taken to
learn what popular rival intends to
wear would fill a book. To be outwit-
ted in this way is a disgrace, and now
a-days it is rarely done. Indeed, it is
not 50 attractive an amusement as it
used to be, for. in first-class theaters
actors haven't word to say about
what they shall wear. The manager
dictates every garment to be worn,
both IN design and color The reason
is that the picturesque, effects of stage
grouping are closely studied, and an
effort is made to present at every new
situation new picture to the eye-a
picture that might be model in every
way for painting. In the matter OF
color the tone is carefully studied, and
all the tints in walls. carpets, furniture,
ana dress are selected according to the
laws of harmony or of contrast.
I'm minstrel or variety perform
ances, however. such nicely cannot be
OF use, and erformers select whatever
they please for a costume. Where they
get their clothing made is a mystery.
Ii by accident you should learn the adj
dress, and should ask the milliner, or
dressmaker, or tailor, or shoemaker for
whom the bonnet, or dress or suit. or
shoes are being made, YOU would be
met by the polite and firm reply that
the gentleman or lady who left the or
der requested that it should be kept
secret. At dress rehearsals where per-
formers are required to appear as they
propose TO perform on first nights, the
actress will often appear in street cos
tune, and put in excuses, sometimes
plausible, often absurd, to account for
the omission. Some popular singers
and actresses | know, whose dresses
are admired, have resorted to learning
the knack of dressmaking. so that they
may be sure that their secret is safe.
10 their friends they say that those
dressmakers are so unreliable that
they, the actresses, were driven TO
making their own costumes. They
have been held to be weak and foolish
for being jealous of each other" added
the manager, ''but it seems to me that
if they are. they are to be excused hy
the public. "A D. san.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-26
From AsninMalI.

From letter written from Aspinwall
by Z. F. Strong, brother of our towns
man Capt. Fred Strong, we have been
permitted to make the following inter-
esting extracts:
AsPINwALL, Jan. 20, 1884.
L write this letter tonight hoping that
1T will leave here tomorrow morning
by steamer bound for New Orleans.
and you ought to receive it in ten DAYS
from now. We shall sail day after
tomorrow for Havana, and very glad
we are to leave here. We have all
been very happily disappointed regard
ing the discomforts of this place, how
ever. The weather has been very pleas
ant-a moderate seabreeze has been
blowing night and day, so that we have
not suffered from the heat, and there
has been no rain. There is a good deal
of sickness on shore and along the route
OF the canal; but we are not brought in
contact with it and the health of the Of
ticers and crew is excellent. | am sorry
not to have been able to cross the 18th
mus and see the progress made on the
canal, but it has not seemed best to do
so. About four miles have been dug
at this end and last evening l went that
distance ia boat to see the working of
the steam dredge. The land here is
low and swampy and the work of ex-
cayating is very easy compared to that
on the more elevated parts. The most
difficult part is at the summit. where
the country is very rough and rocky.
That part has been taken by company
who wish to engage 10000 laborers for
the work; and the estimated amount of
earth to be removed is $4,000, 900 cubic
meters. The company is well organ
lied for work and there is somewhat of
military system in the plan of opera
lions. The director-general lives in
Panama where he has large staff of
assistants and clerks. The route of the
canal is divided into thirteen sections
each of which has its chief and organ
ganized clerical force who live on the
spot and have direct superintendent
OF the work. Pretty houses have been
built for their accommodation and in
some places villages have sprung up,
showing by the taste in building and
the decorations OF the grounds that
French live there and expect to remain.
The work in the different sections is
done by contract and in some places a
good deal of progress has been made.
suppose it is only question of time
and money. but have no idea that it
can be completed for several years.
The agitation of the Nicaragua canal
scheme has affected their finances here.
and money is not so readily obtained
NJ II al. n
two and half millions of dollars in
in Panama which is expected to pay
expenses for the next two or three years.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-26

tiers on vast tracts of public land, who
have fenced it in and are occupying it
without leave, lease or purchase, and
who have been procuring swindling
leases from the Indians, in violation of
law, should be brought up with round
turn, and be made amenable to justice.
The cattle business is at present the
most profitable enterprise in which la
Dor and capital are invested. Beef is
everywhere high, and its high price
keeps up the price OF other meats. The
profits from ranches are enormous.
Men who invested few thousand dol
lars but few years ago are now mil
lionaires. The cattle companies claim
sway over sections as extensive as some
OF the American States or as some of
the countries of Europe. Because they
do not see constable or an agent of
the Government everywhere, they APP
pear to think the law does not extend
over the vast territory which they have
occupied. Their minds should be in
formed in an urgent way on this sub
ject.
This is new evil. 1t has grown up
within year or two. These cattle
barons are an entirely new order of
nobility. The herders and COWBOYS
have developed into lordiy class with
extraordinary rapidity. Their insolence
mas grown as rapidly as their herds.
Their lawlessness is as broad as the
pastures belonging to the Government,
which they have fenced in, and over
which they exercise all the prerogatives
of ownership.
Like other new-made millionaires,
these men are of opinion that money
can do anything. They have creased
the way with cash for working leases of
Indian lands through the tribal author
tiles, and their Hobbies will doubtless
next make sortie against Congress.
They appear to already have pliable
friends in some of the Washington de-
partments. These are not, however.
all-powerful. The people who over
threw the monopoly of slavery, and
who placed the restraints of granger
laws around the great railroad corpor-
ations, will know how to handle the
cattle syndicates when the time comes,
if strong measures should be found
necessary.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-26
What is q SilN.

SO muchshas been said about Silos and
Ensllage in this and other journals with
in the past few years, that it is surpris-
ing the subject should have escaped the
notice of any one, yet here is new
subscriber in Indiana who asks in effect
the above questions. As there may be
others to whom the matter is equally
new we answer our inguiring correspon-
dent in brief. A silo is a continuance
for preserving green fodder in fresh
state in manner similar to that used
in the canning of vegetables and fruits
for human food-by exclusion of air.
A silo-literally pits any air-tight
receptacle. 1t may be built Of stone, of
brick or OF wood. 1t may be construc-
ted entirely below ground, entirely
above grounp, or built into bank and
be partly covered and partly exposed
The important point is that its walls
shall be air-tight. Green forage of any
kind, especially Indian corn stalks, is
cut small and closely packed in the silo
treading it down firmly. The fodder is
covered by boards or planks, upon
which heavy weights are placed, the
cover following the fodder as it settles.
The weights may be heavy logs, stones
or boxes filled with earth. When the
fodder Is taken out for feeding, during
the winter, it may be quite unchanged,
may have an alcoholic odor, or even a
strong odor of vinegar. In either case
the animals are fond of il; but as the
alcoholic or acetic odors indicate that
there has been some loss of nutritive
matter by fermentation, these conditions
are not desirable and recent expert
ments tend to show that they may be a.
voided. Several power cutters are now
made for the purpose of preparing the
fodder for storing in silos. The term
ensilage is applied 10 the method of
preserving fodde', and to the fodder
that has been thus preserved. The term
ensilo is short, and well suited for the
first use of the word ensilage We
ensilo the corn fodder, and it comes out
of the pit as ensilage.--Dr. Thurber ia
american Agricuiturist of FEB.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-26
The ictiOn Of the State Bar Association.

few attorneys met in Madison on
Tuesday, the 18th inst, and nominated
Levi M. Villas, OF Eau Claire, for Judge
OF the Supreme Court to succeed Hon.
David Taylor, whose term expires on
the first of January next. The meeting
was nominally non-partisan but it is
worthy of note that Moses NJ Strong,
the President of the meeting, E. E. Bry-
ant the Secretary, and E. p. Villas the
Assistant Secretary, are all Democrats,
and so is the nominee. We have in
quired of some of the attorneys of this
section who Levi M. Villas is, but have
learned nothing except that he is a
brother of William Villas of Madison,
that he has had no judicial experience
and that as lawyer he is unknown to
fame.
The meeting of those attorneys that
made this nomination was held pur-
suant to call for meeting of the State
Bar Association ''for the purpose of
transacting such other business as
might come before it," There was no
intimation in the ''call" that the meeting
would attempt to nominate a candidate
for Judge Of the Supreme Court. The
Association never, at any of its previous
meetings, so far forgot the object of its
organization as to presume to make a
nomination. In fact, upon one notable
occasion it expressly declined to do so,
or to express preference. The NOM
ination made at the meeting of the 18th
was not properly in its line of "busi-
ness" That it was not generally I'M
derstood that so important matter
would be passed upon, is clear from the
fact, that, although there are about
four hundred members of the Associa-
ton, less than fifty were present at this
meeting; and, when it is remembered,
that there are in the state over fifteen
hundred lawyers, the arrogance of this
handful of forty or so speaking for the
bar OF the State is strikingly apparent.
The fact is, that the meeting was
group of self-constituted delegates
mainly called together upon private
suggestion of the friends OF L. NJ. Villas
for the purpose of nominating him.
1t is unfortunate for his future that he
should be given notoriety in this way.
The people do not want a candidate for
Judge to be thus put before them.
1t is understood that Judge Taylor,
who although Republican, was cleo
ted rs an independent candidate, is
willing again to be an independent
candidate TO succeed himself The call
for him to be a candidate has been ex-
tensively signed. 1t is said that over
four hundred attorneys have already
signed it. AS he has made good Judge
there is no doubt he will be reelected.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-26

There has been discovered near Yu-
ba Dam a fugitive sheep, which, in
swimming through the muddy water.
had become thoroughly covered with
..slickens. in which much grass seed
had been mixed. A thick cropof green
grass IS now growing upon the sleeps
back. Both The sheep and grass are
being carefully guarded. and when the
latter has reached its full growth it
will be harvested converted into hay
and preserved as one of the California
curiosities
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-26
An Amendment.

Later advices indicate that we shall
be obliged to amend our cabinet of last
weeks issue by substituting the name
of Daniel Manning in place of Abram S.
Hewitt for Secretary of the Treasury.
We are loath to accept this amendment,
mainly because we know nothing about
the gentleman save that he was the ac-
knowledged leader of the Cleveland
forces last fall. In this capacity he may
have gained some experience in the
handling of money, but hardly enough
to ontitle him to the claim of being 9
great iinancier. Moreover Mr.. Man
cling is an editor, and who ever heard
of nm editor who had any practical ex.
perieuce with finances?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-26
Insanity is on the increase. Statistic

Insanity is on the increase. Statistics
show this. Many cases are brought on
by overwork, anxiety, excitement, men
tai trouble and nervous prostration; it
is also inherited, Invariably sleepless-
ness and constipation manifest them
selves before one becomes insane. Con
stipation induces dyspepsia, jaundice.
bad breath, piles, pimples, low spirits.
headache, etc. DIR. Jones Red Clover
Tonic relieves constipation. thereby cur
ing these diseases. Price, so cents.
4 L. w. Bryan.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-02-26
uariIe.a on Insanity.

Among the congratulations extended
10 Judge Paine, of Cleveland, for refus-
ing, in his charge to a jury in a murder
trial, to recognize the plea of momen-
tary insanity, was letter from Gen.
Garfield, saying: 'The whole country
owes you debt of gratitude for brush
ing away the wicked absurdity which
has lately been palmed offon the country
as law on the subject of insanity II
the thing had gone much further, all
that a man would need to secure him
self for murder, would be to tear his
hair and rave little, and then Xii his
man. hope You will print your opin-
'on in pamphlet form, and send it broal-
cast to all the judges of the land"