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The Republican journal., 1885-08-27
A Ship Railroad Project.

A ship railroad project of great interest is
absorbing the attention of men away down
East. The scheme is intended to revolutionze
the coasting traffic of the maritime provinces
and develop the resources of the north shore of
New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island.
The railway is designed to connect Northum-
berland basin, at the head of the Bay of Fundy,
with the Bay Nerte, an arm of Northumber-
land strait, Gulf of st. Lawrence, The isthnus
which it is to span lies between Westmoreland
county, Nova Scotia, and is the boundary be-
tween these tW provinces.
The isthmus is Only about dozen miles
wide, and if, as is asserted it Is practicable to
transport vessels over it, a saving of over 300
miles can be effected in the voyage from the
north shore of Prince Edward Island to Boston
or other United States ports. By the natural
route vessels from the Gulf of St. Lawrence
are obliged to make circuit of Nova Scotia,
which is great obstacle, not only by reason of
the distance. but on account of the dangers of
navigation along its rocky coast. Work has
already been begun on the railway.
The Republican journal., 1885-08-27

The Bddeford Times says that q cat belong
ing to Officer 4. A. Seavey, of Saco, day or
two ago gave birth to five fully developed kit
tens, all attached TO one another in manner
somewhat after the Siamese twins. Their heads
and fore feet seem in their natural positions,
but otherwise they look like mass of reptiles.
The mother cat tenderly cares for them seem
ingly cognizant of the fact that her little family
is living under peculiar circumstances she
feeds them one at time turning them over
each time to favor those upon the bottom.
The Republican journal., 1885-08-27
MAINE STATE COLLEGE.

The following have been elected officers of
the Gymnasium Association: President, |. Is.
Ray, 'SG; Vice President, j. III. Bureigh, 81 !;
Secretary. G.. r. Mason, 81; Treasurer, f. H..
Thompson, 50; Collector, W. J. Hancock. On
account of the Increasing number of students at
the college, Lieut.. Phillips, the new military IN
structor, has deemed ii advisable to divide the
Coburn Cadets into TWO companies. This was
done on Friday and the following officers Were
appointed: Company A-Captain, IL. X. Jones
Jr.; Lieutenant>, B. j. Allen, 1. b. Ray, T..
Lenfest, ranking in the order gwen Sergeant..
f. V. Coffin. A. r. Saunders, j. ID. LaZeile, b.
f. Clark, ranking in the above order; Corpor-
ais, III. Butter, q. ). Bacheder, A. Ii. Buker,
ID. w. Colby. Company B--Captain, G.. f.
Black Leuenant> j. ID. Blagden c. A. Sears,
II. 5. French; Sergeants l.. L. Ciey, c. T.,
Nose, f. l.. l'rask, j. 5. Williams; torporal>,
{. l.. lIowes, 9. i. Gould, Il. B. Lord j. s..
True.
The Republican journal., 1885-08-27

tended not to see her, and walked tow
ards the door leading to the bar. He
noticed the girl, however, scan the floor
anXlously in every direction. Then she
hurried into the barroom, called her
father and when he came to her side in
the doorway, Norton overheard her re-
mark: 'Oh, Dad I've lost my good luck
garter
The miner at once became as agitated
as she was, and, striding into the room
and up to Norton, he said:
Mister, did you see anything of my
little girls garter? | know it's funny
question to ask you, sir, but she has ask
ed her girl friends. None of them have
found it, and | wouldn't have had her
lose it for all the coal in the Mines.
Jennie stood behind her father, her face
sutfused with bushes, but her anxiety
even overcame her embarrassment.
Miss Jennie, excuse me- said Norton :;
but here is the article you lost, and also
the match to it,
Both the miner and the girl uttered
eXclamations Of delight when Norton
placed the CATERS in her hand, though
he felt his cheeks turning as red as the
girls.
who are youp anxiously inquired the
miner of Norton.
Simply Frank Norton was the reply !;
but come, he continued, let US leave
here at once and 60 to your home.
There we can explain
Norton did not pause to say good bye
to the company nor his companions, but,
with old Clarkins and the young girl,
left the building, and in a few minutes
they were seated at fire in the miners
shanty.
Now, to plain talk said Norton to
Clarkins, how did your daughter come
in possession of this garterY
We'll, Mister, it's a long story, but I'll
cut it as close as | can. About eleven
years ago, d strange city chap and his
wife and little daughter came to this
town. He passed under the name of
Hallup, though that wasn't his right
The Republican journal., 1885-08-27

NO. |. Sulphur Fumigation use
this effectively, two pounds of sulphar
should be burned in room ten feet
square. Every opening into the room,
tiues, doors, windows, cracks and crevices
must be closed, except the door by which
the disinfector is to escape. The sulphur
is to be burned in an iron kettle or other
vessel set in tub containing little wa
ter to guard against fire. A little alcohol
or kerosene should be poured upon the
sulphur by which it may be ignited.
Leave the room quickly, for the fumes
are highly poisonous when breathed, and
close the room tightly. Let the room re-
main closed twenty-four hours or more.
Then air thoroughly for several days.
No. 2. For the Discharges Sulphate
of iron (copperas), pounds warm wa
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05

DOctOr-F. f. STRONG, Lancaster. Wis
eonsin. Physician and Surgeon. Ofice over
Bryan's Drug store
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05
A Beautiful Story.

Salt Lake has one of the most INTEL
ligent dogs in creation, as the following
story shows: The owner of the dog is
also proprietor of COW. Every morn
ing the dog is started off to drive the
cow to pasture, down near the Jordan.
A lunch for the dog is tied up in paper
and fastened to his collar. He win
drive the cow TO where there is good
pasture, and on hot days will then lie
down in the shadow she casts, moving
along as the COW moves, and thus
keeping constantly in the shade. He
does not touch his lunch until noon,
when he slips the collar from his head,
tears off the paper and devours his
repast. He will then, with his paws,
push the collar back over his head, and
toward evening starts the COW for
home. This story is youehed for By
several persons who have witnessed
the dogs performance; in fact some OF
the people of the vicinity are in the
habit of watching him every day. -
Salt Lake Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05
Randall's Constituents.

Samuel J. Randall has an Office on
the third floor of No. 615 Walnut street.
The building is occupied chiefly by
lawyers. The immense crowd of place.
hunters surging up and down stairs
and stopping in every other room to in
quire where Mr.. Randall receives visi-
tors set the other attorneys wild. MIR.
Randall himself has only little sign
nailed upon the door. Every body
misses it, naturally. The lawyers, by
way of saving themselves from annoy
ance, have pasted the inside of the
building over with placards announc-
ing that Mr.. Randall can be seen only
on the top floor. at the end of the entry,
near the janitor's ice-chcst. The sign
on the first floor is little paper thing
about the size of handkerchief. Upon
each flight there are these signs, each
a little larger than the one below. On
the top floor, 1T the head of the stairs,
is brown paper sign, two yards
square, artistically decorated with sun
flowers and index fingers.
II presume" said the writer 10 one
of the lawyers in the building yestcr-
day, 'that it is all right now, and Mr..
Randalrs visitors don't annoy you any
moreP"
"All rightin roarcd the exasperated
attorney, with the light of despair in
his eyes. alt is almost as bad as ever.
Why. thrce-fourths of these office-seek-
ers can't read. "-fhttadeiphta Press.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05
Driving Nails with an Iron Hand.

While passing down Dupont street,
near the Acadamy of Sciences, yester-
day, reporter observed man pound
ing away on nail with his hand. 1t
was in a blacksmiih's shop which
opens on the street. The nail seemed
to penetrate further and further into
the wood, and the man did not appear
to feel as if the striking of his hand
against the nail hurts him ut all. APP
preaching nearer, the reporter saw
that the hand was made of iron. The
steel-fsted man said that while partici-
pating in Fourth of July celebration
in Marysville in 1864 he lost his right
arm at the elbow by the premature ex-
plosion of cannon. Being black
smith and q key-iitter, the loss CON-
PEELED him to abandon his trade. For
five years he wandered about the coun-
try doing one thing or another. One
day while in a blacksmith's shop in
Vallejo, the idea entered his head to
fabricate an artificial hand out of iron.
He gave his directions and had the
contrivance he now wears manufact-
ured. 1t consists of a steel cylinder
about four or five inches long. To this
is affixed leather apparatus. which
enables him to adjust the artificial
hand on the stump of his arm. The
stump fits into the apparatus and is
carefully strapped. The hand may
then be used as a hammer, and the
dents in the steel show how much it
has been SO applied. The deficiency of
fingers to grasp file is supplied in the
following manner. A long hole pro-
jects into the base of the cylinder, into
which file or knife may be screwed.
this is properly frightened, and the loss
of fingers is not felt. If the iron-hand-
ed man desires to pick up anything he
adjusts peculiar hook or an instru-
ment resembling chisel. and he can
bring to his reach anything he may re-
quire. Besides the heavy hand, which
he generally uses for hard work, he
has moro delicate apparatus of brass,
manufactured by himself, for easy
work. He says that he has worn the
steel hand for sixteen years, and he
has grown to regard it with great affec-
ton. He scarcely feels the loss of his
natural hand. As he hammers or files
at saws behind bis little glass window
on Dupont street the passers-by gaze
curiously. San Francisco Chronicle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05

SYLVAN CAN'T, NJ. w. OF A. Meets fst and Sd
Fridays Of each month in Budd Block, Madison
street
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05
NUMBER SO.
A NuisanCe.

There is an individual, says the New
Orleans Times Democrat, who once
every year makes his appearance on
the street corners and bores people un-
til they feel like beating him to death
with slcdge-hammer and scattering
his gore from Que end of the city to the
other. The individual in question is
known as The Man Who Has Been
Away" He stops you on the street
when you are busy. aud slapping you
violently on the shoulder, says: Hello,
Old fellow; haven't seen you in some
time. You know | have been away for
the last four weeks; had a splendid
time yachting and fishing" He rattles
along in this style until yon become
weary of standing motionlcss in one
spot, and you smile out of courtesy and
endeavor to make him believe you are
glad that he had such nice time, when
away down in the grocery vaults of
your soul you thirst for a chance TO
quatf his blood or hurl his bones to the
far corners of the earth. At last YOU
realize that nervous feeling is creep
ing over you, and that you are feeling
Tor razor, when he suddenly changes
his expression and becomes grave, and
IN tone reeking with solicitude for
your welfare says: "Oid fellow, You are
looking dreadfully thin. BY George!
never saw you looking so bad before;
you must have been sick. Ii l were
you l would go away at once, and take
trip through the country" He knows
when he says it that it is impossible
for you to leave the city. and knows
that he lies like horse-trader when he
says he would go away if he were in
your place. Not satisfied win inform
ing you that your personal appearance
is like that of a dyspeptic corpse, he
insists on you taking trip without de-
lay. He is so solicitous for your health
that he does not want to give you time
to pack your valise, and when you say
that you cannot leave he wants 10 know
why, and you are forced to admit that
you cannot afford the expense or be-
come grand a liar rs he is.
Then he feels sorry for you, and tells
you so, and you hate him for doing it,
and great volcano of enemy begins
to boil within you and you hate him
still more, and a desire .creeps over
you--to eat him or to injure yourself in
some other way. When he has taxed
your patience to such an extent that
you are on the point of taking him by
the throat and beating the street full
of holes with him he suddenly bids you
good evening and takes his departure,
and leaves you wondering why it was
that you did not break his b ok when
you had the opportunity.
Men who have been away are return
ing daily, and those unfortunate NOR
tails who, through the irony OF fate, are
compelled 10 remain here during the
summer and help the Clay statue per-
Spire, should be held blamelcss if they
also keep the iiends ut bay with shot
gun. The poor are entitled to some
but-they don't get it.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05


Last Wednesday afternoon in Chicago
a man named Burrus, who had been
employed in Dun's Commercial agency,
shot and seriously if not fatally wounded
two young women who were employed
in the same place. The trouble seems
to have grown out of petty quarrels and
i'll feeling which have for some time
existed among the three. They had
been employed in st. Paul by the same
firm, and there, it is stated, Burrus
borrowed a gold pen which he failed to
return. This led to hot words and since
that time small prosecutions have been
kept up on both sides. The women
claim that Burrus slandered them, and
used insulting language toward them
while in the Office with them. They
made complaint and Burrus was dis
charged the day before the shooting.
Burrus claims that the women circu-
lated slanderous reports about him and
his wife, that they even sent anonymous
and insulting letters to him. Whether
the shooting was a valiant attempt to
vindicate his own and his wife's honor,
or noble refutation of the charge of
having taken gold pen, it is impos-
sible to judge at the present writing.
Whatever the cause may have been the
jury that sits at Burrus' trial will doubt
less agree that Burrus' fine sense o.
honor and devotion to his wife coule
find no nobler satisfaction.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05
No Defense Required.

Some Of the country negroes are very
ignorant of the law, in proof of which
we submit the following:
A gigantic negro. who had crippled
up half the police force in their efforts
to secure him. was brought from the
Jail to the office of the justice for trial.
Not observing that the accused had
any counsel employed, the justice
asked:
Don't you want lawyer to defend
you?"
The accused glared at the justice
and, pounding on the table roared
out:
II don't need anybody to defend me.
I kin defend myself against a dozen
sick lookin' men as you is. II you don {
believe me. come out in the back yard
and see if you amt de man what needs
10 be defended. - TEXAS Syiings.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05

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DOctOr-A. III. BARBER, Lancaster, Wis.
Office over Gibbs Barber Shop. Hours 10 a. m.
to p. IN.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05
FORECLOSURE sALE-LvsrrR. ct al.

State of Wisconsin. County of Grant-ss Circuit
court.
Jacob Ginter administrator Of the estate Of Her.
Donder. deceased. plaintiff VS. Franklin Iyster
and Hannah Lyster his wife. and Martin NeCollins
defendants
Notice IS hereby given that by virtue and in pur-
of udgnen of foreclosure and order of sale
rendered at regular term of the Circuit court for
Grant county, held in the court house in the city Of
Lancaster in said county the 2th day Of Septem.
Der. A, ID. 1854, and the time allowed BY law for re-
demption having expired and no redemp ton having
been made therein WILL on the 18th day of Decem-
Der, A. ID. 1855, o'clock in the afternoon at
the front door Of the bank Of George w Eastman
in the city Of Platteville Grant county, Wisconsin
offer for sale and sell the highest and best bidder
or bidders for cash. the following described mort
gagged premises. much thereof as will be sufi-
Gent raise the due the plaintiff for princ-
pal interest and costs together with the expense Of
sale towlt A part of the east half Of the northeast
quarter OF section No two t7l, town one tf) north
ofrange tsi west and bounded as follows to-wit
commencing at point one cham and hve links tT.os
chs east OF the southwest of the said half
OF northeast quarter Of section two ta thence north
tweny-hree chains and nnetythreeli links % chs
to west boundary Of highway thence south fifteen and
one-hslt degrees east Is. I5ze twenty-four chains
and eighty-one links (24sI ehs) TO center Of highway
running east and west, thence west six chains and
ninety two links 6os chs) to the place Of beginning
also part Of the half Of the northeast quarter of
section two Ia. and bounded as follows to-sgit:
commencing the southwest corner of said eirht,-
tract, thence north on line through the center Of
the above described quarter section twenty-four
CHAINS and ninety-three links (74-os chs.) thence
twentyfour chains and ninety three links (a. o. chs
thence west one chain and fvs links (t.os chsA 10
the place Of beginning
Dated Sheriff S Office, Lancaster Wis, November
srd 1855. ORA RICHARDS.
Sheriff Grant County, Wis.
A. w. & w. + BEIl, Plaintiffs attorneys.
p. o. Address: Platteville. Grant County, wiscon-
SIN sow
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05

The old adage BETTER late than
never" is we'll illustrated in a recent
decision of the supreme court of Michi-
gan. which restores to Mrs. Cynthia w.
Crawford, of Detroit, tract of five
thousand acres of land ON the shore of
Lake Huron, to which her son, Leonard,
had obtained title by forging deed.
Mrs. Crawford is now 95 years of age.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05

The Chronicle and Star of Dodgevile
vigorously differ in opinion as TO the
respective merits of present and past
county officers, and the responsibility
of the ex-treasurer for certain financial
embar easements. Meanwhile The Sun
shines undimmed in its new quarters in
Strong's old bank building.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05

Ferdinand Ward was on Friday ar
raigned in New York courtroom and
sentenced to imprisonment at hard la
Dor for ten years. Judge Barrett re-
marked that the prisoner had done more
to unsettle public confidence in none
tary institutions than any man in the
country, and showed no remorse for his
acts. Ward was taken to Sing Sing
prison in the afternoon.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05

Seventy fishing vessels were wrecked
off the coast of Labrador in the hurri-
cane which occurred two weeks ago,
and three hundred lives were lost. A
bark has arrived at st. Johns with
two hundred persons rescued from
wrecks, and over two thousand men,
women and children are said to be
destitute on the shore.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05

Boston Buck and six members Of his
gang of ceunterfeiters, who had been
operating in western Pennsylvania,
were sentenced last week to hard labor
in the Pittsburgh penitentiary for vari-
Gus periods. Buck is nearly 20 years
of age.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05
| the office of The Philadelphia

In the Office of The Philadelphia
Press, during an alteration, the colored
janitor seized Ratchet and fractured
the skull of Robert j. Cook, treasurer
of the company, iniicting fatal wound.
The injured man was a son-in-law of
Calvin Wells, the chief stakeholder in
the newspaper, and for years was cap
tain of the rowing crew of Yale college.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05

The yacht Genesta, which lost the
American cup at New York but carried
away three first prize flags, sailed into
the harbor of Portsmouth, Eng, Oct.
%, and received hearty greetings from
the English men-of-war. She made the
the trip across the Atlantic in twenty
days and ten hours. which is probably
the best yacht record across the pond.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05

Little Tommy Muldoon, the 14-year
old son of poor widow of Youngstown
Ohio, stole $2,2l0 OF his mothers hard
earnings one day last week, and was
afterwards found by the police in a
stupor of drunkenness, with all the
money on his person except 80 so that
he had spent for drink. 1t gave his
mother terrible scare, but was a pic
mic for the "solid" young Muldoon.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05

removed from command of any kind,
and ordered to report at Trenton, N.
j.. He was nominated for the presi-
dency in 1864 by the democratic con-
vention at Chicago. Though holding a
commission as major general in. the
army, and knowing that he could not
be elected president as against .abraham
Lincoln, he yet resigned his commission
the moment he was nominated. He has
never had an army connection since.
de went to Europe during the last year
OF the war, remaining there till 1868,
when he returned to take position I'M
der the late Commodore Stevens will to
complete the Stevens Battery at Ho-
boken, N. j. This kept him employed
for several years at $4,000 year. He
was also made superintendent of the
construction of the railroad bridge over
the Hudson river near Poughkeepsie, N.
T., and superintendent of docks and
piers in the city of New York, but re-
signed the latter office in 1872. In 1877
Gen. Mcclellan was elected governor of
New Jersey, and served the three years.
term. Since then he has lived in the
quiet of domestic life at his home in
Orange, N. j., though his winters have
been spent in New York. Mcclellan
was never poor man. He married
niece of ex-Gov. Marcy, of New York,
through whom he got large legacy.
and he himself earned very large sums
by his profession. His estate will easily
figure up 100000.
General Mcclellan has written sew
eral works of value. His Reports on
the Armies of Europe (1S6l) is a
standard military authority. and his
earlier work, Report on the Pacific
Railway Survey Q854), was the basis
upon which Congress finally authorized
the construction of that line. The gen.
eral also wrote a Report on the Or
ganization and Campaigns of the Army
of the Potomac Q864), and many pa
pers on military subjects contributed to
periodical literature. Ii is well known
that he declined the Russian mission
recently rendered him by President
Cleveland, and that he was about to be
offered place on the civil-service COM
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05

Otto Funk, well known in Chicago in
connection with the theft of two thou
sand books from the public library. and
who recently escaped from the insane
asylum at Elgin, ended his career by
poison in the Jail at Cambridge, Mass,
whore be was placed for stealing an
overcoat. He recently applied for adj
mission TO the divinity school of Harv-
ard university, but was not received.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05

Mrs. Ellen Finn, of Cincinnati, on
pleading guilty to drawing a pension
after her second marriage, was sem
fenced to one year in the penitentiary
Ibis is pretty hard on Ellen, as she un-
doubtedly needed the pension more than
ever when she had taken husband to
support.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-11-05

The Genessee valley in western New
York is being rapidly taken up by
wealthy New Workers for hunting per-
serves, after the manner of the English
aristocracy. At this rate it won't be
long till freedom will begin to shrek
and Kosciusko appear in his inimitable
act of ground and lofty tumbling.