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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16
Rivalry Among Women.

Women who want to be clerks in
Washington have found new griev-
ance. 1t has been understood for some
time that they were being discriminate
cd against under the civil service rules,
which allow the heads of departments
to call for male clerks if they prefer
them when vacancies are to be filled.
1t is now claimed by the blondes that
not only do they have to fight favorit-
ism shown to men, but also that eyinc-
ed toward brunettes of their own sex.
The startling discovery is announced
that such appointments as are now Civ
en- to women are invariably bestowed
upon the dark haired sisterhood. When
taxed with making this cruel distinc-
ton the officials excuse themselves by
saying that blondes are apt to be quick
tempered and do not make rs good.
clerks as brunettes. Naturally there is
great rivalry and hatred between these
faetions-a war of white and red roses,
so 10 speak. The blondes, however,
are able to score one over their dcspiscd
antagonists owing to the appointment
of one Of their nur.bcr to a coveted POI
sition in the Treasury. She was APP
parcntly a brunette, but, as 5ubse-
quently transpired. wore dark wig
while passing through the ordeal Of eA-
animation. 1t is supposed that hereaf-
ter the discomfitted powers viii insert
into the list of questions one requiring
sworn statement as TO the genuine
ness and ownership of each applicants
hair. In the meantime the fair-haired
sisters are enjoying their triumph. but
propose 4 serious movement on the en-
envy by requiring national action in
their behalf by the woman suiiragists
of the country. San francisco Pest
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16
Unable 10 Write.

'.Would you mind writing this mes
sage for me?h asked a quite respecta-
ble-looking young woman of the receiv-
ing operator st District Telegraph
station on Eighth street yesterday al
ternoon. Il can not write with my
gloves on.
certainly, miss, with pleasure, y
was the polite reply, and the official
proceeded to take down from dictation
message of some length.
"Are you often requested to do that?'
he was asked, when the message was
written and the lady gone.
.'Oh, yes. She probably couldn't
write at all, or so badly she was
ashamed to let me see her ealigraphv.
1t is quite common thing for people,
both men and women, to ask us to do
their writing for them. / guess any,
one would be astonished to find out
how many people there are who are
hardly able to spell their own name,
much less write legible letter or tele-
graphic message. These are princi-
pally English people of the working
classes, who have only been in this
country short time. Nearly ali born
Americans can write. They tell me
that in England the laboring people
are very seldom able to read and write,
especially in the mining and manufac-
turing districts.
at is not an uncommon occurrence
for people to come in and ask us to
make up their letters for them They
tell us the substance of what they want
to say and get us to put it in shape for
them. They never let on they can't
write or read, but it's easy to see that.
Some of the excuses they make arevery
funny. They will pretend they are
foreigners and cant write English, or
that they have spraincd their wrists, or
have their gloves on, or can't write
with our pens, and we have to look
serious, while all the time we see
through their lodges perfectly. Then
there is the kind who don't want to
have their handwriting recognized
young men who are sending love letters
to girls unknown to their parents, and
young girls who wish to keep appoint
ments with young men that they would
be wiser to avoid. /"
do you always accommodate
themPn
''Oh, yes, unless we are very much
pushed, and in that ease we make them
wait until we have time to attend to
them. 1t doesn't do to lose message,
you know. Philadelphia Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

On the afternoon of July u, while
ex-Mayor A. c. Rand. his wife and two
sons, Harvey and Frank. and daughter
Mary, j. 4. Coykendall and wife and
daughter Kate, Frank Hussey and Geo.
Mcdonald, the engineer, were 10 a
steam yacet sailing on Lake Minneton-
ka, thunder and wind storm came up.
and the yacht was capsized. Before
help could reach them the entire party
went down and were drowned. Gov
kendall was member of the wholesale
dry goods firm of Coykendall & Bros,
Of Minneapolis. The bodies have been
recovered.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16
Teachers !ss.!!ssss!a 1885,.

Two Institutes OF two weeks each win be held
in tins county, the first in Lancaster, will com
mence Monday, August 3, and the second in
Bloomington, August II. Prof Hutton will con-
duct at Lancaster, and Prof. G. II. Nye, Of Platte
vile, assisted by Prof. w. j. Desmond. of Mil
waukee, VIII conduct at Bloomington. Examina-
tions will be held as usual in connection with
these institutes. The topic OF Hygienic Physo-
ogy will receive fair consideration with the other
branches usually taught in country schools It
Is the duty OF every teacher to see that he is
ready Tor live and intelligent work in the school
room for the coming year and this opportnnitv
offered for general review OF topics and methods
should not go by unheeded. The help and pres
ence or every teacher is most earnestly asked.
and we trust that the time will be agrceably and
prohtably occupied for all
20wi CHAS. L. HARPER County supt.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16
Dr. WOOD Will BE Az FENNIMORE july 20. 1855

Collector Parkinson, of this revenue
district, has appointed Tho.. Kennedy,
OF Dodgeville. as one of his deputies.
lie has also appointed j. d. Clark, who
was Gen. Harnden's chief deputy for
over twelve years, and John
Ha5hager, who was member of the
Iwenty-third Wisconsin regiment and
has good war record The retention
of Mr. Clark certainly look like civil
service reform, and is not perceptibly
lessened by the other appointments.
Mr. Parkinson's deputy for the sale of
stamps is Chas. Ii. Jacobs, of Water
town.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

Dayton, o., had the incest kind of a
ghost-Just too cute for anything and
the population were all in fino frenzy:
but fellow named Furess got after it
one night and captured it, when 1t
turned out to be an insane woman.
whose people supposed she was securely
locked in her room. 1t seems to be the
hardest thing in the world for some peo-
pie TO mind their own business.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

Regarding the tight-buttoned, con-
stricted financial policy of the present
administration, which is depicting the
country of lis business medium and
heaping it in idle millions in the banks
and money centers, The Current has
this to say: ''Mr. Manning has printed
$50, 000,000 of coin certificates. He then
has become alarmed lest the paper
should get into circulation by mistake,
and thus bring discredit on all the GER
tificates; SO he sets aside $50, 900, 900 in
coin to secure his job of printing. When
the holders of 100000 daddies shall
come to the Treasury to get this paper,
how well it shall be secured-two dol
lars for one; SLIGO worth of bullion for
each dollar of paper! But suppose Mr..
Manning's fears were more than real
lied, and paper and coin were both
stolen. What shall secure the two?
Clearly there should be gold back of the
paper and the silver. And then let us
imagine all three stolen-ah, but that
is silver bugs bubble. Yet with all
this loving kindness exhibited toward
worthless certificates, we see the supply
of actual ones vanishing by the mil
lion"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

An exchange says: High license is
only larger bride to the people to ex-
tend lease of life to the liquor traffic.
1t is said, the liquor traffic we must en-
dure, any way. We must endure it
simply because so-called temperance
people say we must and refuse to fight
tor relief" We were obliged to endure
slavery, also, we were told; the most
that could be done was to regulate it
not exactly by high license, but by
sectional lines. But it occurs to us
that slavery is now abolished, and
that every man in the country now
is an abolitionist. May God speed the
day when the abolition of rum may
have as many followers as the abolition
of slavery-for rum is a greater curse
than slavery ever was. The "regula-
ton" of crime is compromising felony;
it is legalizing crime; and whenever
and wherever crime has been legalized
it has seized the reins of government
and attempted to override the people.
Slavery grew arrogant and dictatorial;
polygamy has followed the same un-
varying rule, and whisky and beer.
hand in hand with their legitimate off
spring, gambling and lewdness. defy
and menace the whole social structure.
both in America and England. To hes
itate will be to invite the fate of the
Roman empire. the French empire be-
fore the revolution, and every govern
ment that persisted through the vices
engendered by wine-bibbing and its de-
baucheries.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

The whisky makers must pay their
taxes. A few weeks before the expira-
ton of President Arthur's administers
ton Secretary Mccullough rendered a
decision which extended the time of
the payment of this tax seven months.
The extension is now about to expire.
and Secretary Manning refuses to make
any further extension. The amount
due on the entire product is upwards of
81, 900, 900 and the owners are almost
on the verge of de.irium tremens. They
would willingly destroy the whole lot,
but it has been entered for taxes and
the tax must be paid if they are worth
If
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

The French chamber of deputies has
voted an appropriation of SS00,000 to
be expended by the state in maintain
ing and educating every seventh child
born in French families. The lack of
fecundity in French families has grown
SO alarming that the governmental thus
melted TO offer reward to foster this
"home industry"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

The Chicago Herald, speaking of
Statistician Flowers part in Hugh
Lewis's letter, says: "The whole affair
is supremacy disgraceful to all con-
cerned, but particularly so to the fellow
Flower. The Governor of Wisconsin is
an old soldier, and if he has any regard
for decency in office or respect for the
veterans it is difficult to see how he can
refuse to remove tho man who deliber-
ately plotted to disgrace an unfortunate
soldierr
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

Rev. NJ. d. Turner, of Lawrenceville,
Ca. committed suicide one dav last
week, rather than sit at table with
twelve others, thus making the "un-
lucky number thirteen. The number
thirteen is certainly unlucky to person
who has no more brains than to think
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

There is great excitement in the coun-
ties of Kansas bordering on the Indian
Territory, on account of the almost
certain uprising of the Cheyenne Indi-
ans. All the available troops in the
United States are being massed in the
vicinity with a view to crushing the in
surrection at once should it be set on
foot.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16
Our Washington Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.


WASHINGTON, d. c., July IL, 1885
The Commissioner Of the General
Land Office affirms that by his order of
April Sd last suspending the issuance
of patents in certain parts Of the coun-
try, more than one million acres of the
public domain have already been saved
to the uses of the actual settler by
eluding the grasp of the fraudulent
land spectators and pirates. If such
is the effect of the order in such a
short time, it certainly would not be a
bad idea to make the order perpetual.
There is no special enchantment about
patent anyway
A government theorist who ought to
know better writes to the press that
1.-THE Government is perfectly competent
to conduct the most extensive and in
tricate business affairs, and can and does
conduct them as carefully and with as
much watchfulness over details, as
would be possible under any other man
agement. Can it be possible that our
theoretical friend has ever read of the
transactions of the Government and the
land grant railroad companies, and if so
did he ever hear of "any other manage
ment' that could be SO effectually ''horn-
swoggled?"
There seems to be as much difference
OF opinion as to the practical applica-
ton of the civil service reform rules, as
there is upon any other of the great
questions affecting the Government
policy. To the average mind, it would
appear that the intent of the law would
be to secure efficiency in the public ser
vice by the appointment of men quail
fled by honesty and capacity, these quail
fications to be asccrtained by suitable
examination under proper rules and by
proper tests, but by the construction
which has been put upon the law it is
declared that an administration that is
responsible for its office holders, may
rest that responsibility where it chooses
without any compliance with the civil
service regulations. And this was just
about what the subscriber has always
said in his estimate of the virtues Of
this great piece of political fol-de-rol
will take it for granted that the
Government has no right, moral or le-
gal, to NEEDLE with the private affairs
OF any of its employees but | am very
much inclined to think that recent
order issued from one of the departments
to its subordinates, to the effect that
refusal to pay an honest debt would be
sufficient cause for dismissal, is indica-
tive of a growing regard for honesty and
fair dealing. The salary of a Govern
ment employee is not subject to garnish-
ment and as the consequence the only
security that dealer has who extends
credit, is the promise of his debtor to
pay whenever the Government pays
him. Justice would seem to demand
that the head of the department in
which the debtor is employed should
see that the promise is fulfilled, or the
offender relegated to fields new and pas
lures green.
: BY way of placing Mr. Sitting Bull
under the civilizing influences that a
contract with the most esthetic of white
society can throw about him, Secretary
Lemar has kindly consented to allow
him to travel with Buffalo Bill and his
great moral aggregation of w-boys and
road-agents. JUNIUs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

A lynching party in Mississippi, one
day last week, started out early in the
evening and before midnight had bro
ken into two jails and lynched four MUIR
derers. Yet there are people who claim
that the southern climate is enervating,
and that the people living there lack
energy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

A meeting of sympathizers with Louis
Riel was held in Quebec, on Thursday
last, at which 5000 persons were pres
ent. Speeches We're made by distin-
guished citizens, and a subscription list
was largely signed to detray the ex-
pense of his defense in his forthcoming
trial. On reflection it seems almost as
though Howard, the American drum
mer for gun factory, ought to have
staid away with his samples and let
Riel succeed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

Miss Mamie Larkin Hatchett, the ed
itor of the Southern Woman, published
at Henderson, N. c., says in her saluta-
tory; "A callow birding nestles among
you, its unfiedged wings eager for
flight, eager to penetrate the mysteries
of the bright faroff canopy of blue and
revel amid the dreamed-of beauties of
the wide, vide world That is all
right. Mamie, but remember that paper
dealers will expect you to pay cash.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

The cultured mugwump element CT
Boston turns up its nose at John A.
Logan because he read hisrecent speech
there from manuscript instead of speak
ing extempore. Had he spoken extern
pore they would have said it was be-
cause he couldn't read.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16
luminous ct al.

Circuit Court-Grant County.
Phillip Shilliam, Plaintiff, vs.. Andrew Doyle
and Mary Doyle his wife, Joseph Banfeld Arthur
Doyle, Charles Doyle, Nicholas Mnrry William
Smythe, James Kivalahan, William II. Psscoe
William Hoskins, George Cullen, Jacob Karr
mann, Mary Doyle. The Mccormick Harvesting
Machine Company, corporation duly organized
and existing under the laws of the state of Hill
nois, and Sebastian Maybrun, Defendants.
State OF Wisconsin, to the said defendants, and
each of them:
You are hereby summoned to appear within
twenty days after service of this summons
exclusive Of the day OF service and defend the
above entitled action in the Court aforesaid and
in case of your failure so to do judgment will be
rendered against you according to the demand of
the complaint. ORR & LOWRY
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
P. o. Address, Lancaster, Grant county. Wis
consn, 20w7
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

One thousand and four hundred feet
of tin roofing were blown off the capitol
at Madison during the recent storm.
The state contractors, in putting on tin
roofing. should be required to use
better quality of paste.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

Money is so plenty in New York and
London that in the former city millions
of dollars are to loan at per cent, aud
in the latter city per cent. per annum
is the rate. The fact that money is so
plenty in the banks is evidence suffi-
cient that the veins and arteries of trade
are depleted. Hence the hard times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

The street car strike in Chicago came
to an end after eight days foolishncss
in the capitulation of the company and
the reinstatement of the striking driv-
ers and conductors. J. Russell Jones.
while vowing he would ne'er submit,
submitted.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

On the 18th a special train on the
New York, West Shore and Buffalo
railroad, containing party of inspect
ing officials, made run of sixty -four
miles on the Buffalo division in fifty-fiye
minutes. actual time as taken by stop
watches. No stops were made during
the run.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

Three young men, named Eliza Sham
baugh, age Is; Levi McFarlin. age Is,
and Henry Fisher, about the same age,
were drowned in Kickapoo river during
the celebration of the Fourth at Viola,
Wis
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16
yUMMONS-MAHoNEY

Circuit Court-Grant County
Lydia J. Mahoney, Plaintiff, VS.. Andrew ]. Ma
honey. Defendant.
The State of Wisconsin, to the said defendant
1ou are hereby summoned to appear within
twenty days after service of this summons exclus-
i've OF the day of service and defend the above en-
titled action in the Court aforesaid And in case
OF your failure so to do judgment will DE rendered
against you according to the demand of the com
plant. SAMUEL MERRICK.
Plaintiffs Attorney.
Z. .. Address, Fairplay Grant County Wis
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

1t is announced that President Cleve-
land has called halt in the present
practice of some of the departments Of
removing capable officers on flimsy pre-
texts, and notified heads of bureaux
that they must account to MIN hereafter
for every removal He is said to have
sent for Higgins and Black the other
day and sat down on them so hard they
have been paralyzed ever since.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

1t is given out on pretty good author
ity that Mexico is not for sale. The on
ly inference. then, that we can draw, is
that nice chrome will be added and
the whole thing given to whoever will
take it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

Secretary Lamar, who half-masted
the flag on the Interior department up
on the death of Jacob Thompson, did
not raise it at all on the Fourth. The
man who hasn't Fourth of July to his
back in this glorious land of the free
had better emigrate.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

St. John, in his speech at Milwaukee
recently. replied to the oft-repeated OBJ
servation of the Republican press on
those voters who "threw away their
votes on st. john" by saying. LAS TO
throwing away votes, tie Republicans
threw away 500 votes on Blaine to
where the Prohibitionists threw away
one on me. If the Republicans hadn't
thrown away their votes l would have
beaten Cleveland" This is indeed a
happy thought.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

The Democrats and Greenbackers of
Iowa have fused, the latter taking two
ofthe principal offices on the ticket below
governor as their share-that is, they
have taken them to get.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

Prof. Lewis Swift, of Rochester, N.
T.. has discovered the first new comet
of the year. Its position is right ascen-
sion 17h., 21> and 24Y; declination
south AL, 57> and 81. The present
weather has tendency to ripen things
rapidly , and it is believed new comets
will be plentiful inside of three weeks.
Picked fresh off the vines and put down
in their own juice, with little crushed
sugar. they make an excellent preserve.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

MoNoNA LAKE ASSEMBLY. The sixth
annual eneampment of tins Assembly
will open July 18th, on the banks of
Lake Monona, near Madison, and CON
tinue ten days. This Assembly has at
tanned national reputation. owing to
the beauty of its location and the rich
programme provided. Thatforthis sea
son is better than any previous one.
During the ten days over thirty lectures
will be given, by some of the best plat
form speakers in the country; also the
evenings made attractive by five grand
concerts two by the Assembly chorus
OF three hundred voices, led by Prof.
Sherwin, of Boston, and Prof. Parker of
the State University. To all this should
be added the Sunday school work, which
occupies every forenoon. Let such of
our readers as have never been there.
try it once; those who have been pres
ent once, need no urging. j. E. Nose
ley, of Madison, is the secretary, and
will send programmes to anyone, on
application.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

1t now appears that Kelley, minister
to Australia, has never been objected
10 by that government, and will be re-
ceived in due form. The only way to
account for all the talk about his being
rejected is that somebody has lied.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

In Pullman dining car near Chi
cage. on Thursday last. Charles Robin
son, the colored cook, quarreled with
VIM. Brown, a colored waiter, when
Robinson drew carving knife and cut
Browns throat, killing him instantly.
Brown, it is believed. could easily have
defended himself had he been armed,
but unfortunately he had left his razor
at home.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16
BIG RAr1ns. Mich. Lnlv1n ISIS.

BIG RAPIDS, Mich. July 10, 1888
BE IT KNOWN:
That have been intimately acquainted with
DR.. Fred B. Wood for seventeen years last past
and always knew him to be hard student and a
scientific and successful surgeon. BY energy and
close observation to his professional duties he
has always maintained high position in the
ranks of his profession / would recommend
nm to the suffering public as true friend while
In his speeiaties he has few il any equals and no
supcriors. NJ. BROWN
Late Judge 18th Circuit Mich
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

Upon the opinion of Attorney General
Garland, Secretary Whitney will refuse
to accept the Dolphin. Mr.. Roach will
please retire TO the rear and be seated.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-16

Malcolm Hay resigned his position as
first assistant postmaster-gene on
July 2, and is succeeded by A. f Steven
son, of Bloomington, Ill.