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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-08-23
BLOOMINGTON.


The farmers are all busy threShino
now. The grain Is turning out so much
better than was expected taat times this
fall won't be so hard as everyone sup
posed. Glen Haven will be the place
for marketing our grain and we expect
to receive the most of our goods from
that point Bloomington is 0. X as
far rs railroad transportation is con
cerned. We are within eight miles one
way and ten the other and the lines are
fighting for our freight now; so. YOU
see, we will be better off than as if we
had just one railroad into our town.
Bloomington is improving considerably
this summer.
Robert Hoskins is erecting a fine res
idence on the northwestern corner of
the fair ground 1t will be ready to be
occupied by October1.
Mark Hadley is building an addition
TO his residence, which makes it much
more convenient for him and his wife.
They have raised 4 family of twelve
children, who are all grown up and are
doing for themselves Uncle Mark is
the oldest Odd Fellow in the county.
He has been an Odd Fellow for more
than fifty-tive years His wife is now
in good health. Last spring she fell
and broke her leg bat was able to cele-
brate their tiftieth wedding anniversary
last 4th Of July. The wishes of their
friends are that they may live to cele-
brate many more anniversaries.
Joseph Clayton is building one of the
finest dwellings, in our town.
William BENEFITS has erected two new
buildings on the block he bought of
Woodhouse q BARLEY.
The Misses Andersons, who have been
visiting at Otis Yields for phrec or four
weeks, have returned to their homes in
Bellevue, Iowa
DR.. Mckinney was taken With an
epileptic CONFUSION last week, but is
able to be around once more.
A young son OF J. f. Connect was
thrown from horse about three weeks
ago and produced conclusion of the
brain, and the first time he was able to
be out the horses ran away with him
and broke his arm, which goes to show
tba. when person begins to have bad
luck all nature is creased for the oeca-
SIGN.
Charles Brown of Sibley, Iowa, is
visiting his brothers here. Charley be-
gins TO show his age and that time waits
for none of of US, When we look over
the last sixteen years and see the many
changes which have taken place in and
around Bloomington we cannot help
realizing how rapidly we are fastening
to the bourne from which no traveller re-
turns, but how few they are who stop
to think of the rapid changes that are
taking place.
Jake Martin, one of our old and re-
spected citizens, is dangerously sick at
his home west of town. DR.. Conant, of
Prairie du Chen, DR.. Cronin, of Cass-
VILE. DR.. Chambers of Bloomington,
and DR.. Sala were IN consultation and
DR. Chambers and DR.. Sala are attend
ing him at present They think his
symptoms are some better but do not
consider him out of danger
Slime Woodhousei is very low and not
much hopes of his recovery.
Mrs. Lilly BARLEY returned last week
from Sibley.
Hib Taylor returned from a trip to
GAINESVILLE last Wednesday,
Joe Jacco was up from Hnerville
last week. HENRY JAMES.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-08-23

One of th,. most aahr> ST. nd durable
of cements for uniting ;rHt surfaccs is
found to be the oxide d. ron itself
With this joint can be made 50 per-
feet and sound that the ron will break
before the cement viii ra,t. As an il
lustration OF this statement the fact is
cited that, in removin-. the cast-iron
pipe of bilge pump from a ship that
had made four Atlantic voyages, it was
found necessary to take the sections
apart-the flanges uad been pasted with
a cement of cast-iron drilIings and fill
ings. mixed with sulphur and salam-
m0niac moistened with water; then the
nuts. three in each fiange. We're set up
on the bolts, and the union was com
pieted The four voyages occupied
nearly year, and, on the separation of
the parts being attempted. even the cold
chsei failed to make 4 division between
the solid castings and the cement that
interviewed.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-08-23

viii Ward, of Hurricane, had four
hogs struck and killed by lightning Sat
urday night.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-30
rhEIRish siruArioE.

Mr.. Dillon undoubtedly correctly charac-
terizes the royal commission to investigate
the condition of affairs in Ireland when he
calls it a fraud. 1t came into being simply
as convenient dey ice to keep the Irish STILL
and to persuade them that the government
wanted to do something for them if it could
only find out what to do. Had the govern
men suspended evictions pending the report
of the commission that would have been an
earnest of its sincerity, and the Irish people
would have had reason to believe that the
ministry really intended to alleviate their
condition when the best manner of doing so
had been discovered by the commission. But
it did no such thing. The landlord has not
even temporarily been shorn of one particle
of his power to turn his tenant out of doors,
or been compelled, or advised even, to hold
that power in allegiance. To-day ten thous-
and people are on the eve of ejeetment from
their homes, and not the slightest provision
has been made by the government to allevi-
ate their necessities or tide them over the
long and critical period that must intervene
before the royal commission can make its
report.
Beginning with conciliatory words to the
Irish people, holding out to them the eXpec-
tation of liberal concessions, the recent ses-
sion of Parliament closed with harsh words
and without a single concession. The ses-
sion was barren of any act for improving the
condition of the Irish people, and in her clos
ing speech Mcqueen dismissed the subject
in few words, as if it were matter of little
Importance and not worth bothering about
The attitude of the ministry grew harsher
and less conciliatory from the day that Par
lament met, and when it was adjourned the
policy of coercion was seem to be in easy
reach of the government and the disposition
| to resort to it was equally apparent. Ire
| land has evidently little to expect from Lord
! Salisbury government in the direction of
home rule. His policy toward that unhappy
| country has grown more ineXorable and less
conciliatory from the day he took office.
| Resistance to evictions will be the signal for
| the interposition of the strong arm of the
| law, and the adoption of a policy as ruth
| less and relentless as former Tory gov
ernments have pursued. Even now it is
limited that when Parliament convenes in
November, if in the meantime any DISPOSE
| ton on the part of the Irish tenantry to re-
oiot VIC uChidiluo VI 1nO lduuloluo 10 ucFol-
oped, stringent measures will be adopted to
| compel their submission.
The Irish people evidently must agitate
and struggle sometime yet before their right
| eous demands VIII be acceded to- The Tory
| portion Of the British nation still looks upon
the Emerald Isle as a conquered province,
| the wishes of whose people are not entitled
| to the slightest consideration in deciding
| how it shall be governed, Might is still APP
| pealed to in stead of right, and the claim of
the coyetous landlord is more potent with
the powers that be than the cry of anguish
of the suffering tenant.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-30
CURRENT COM nj EMIT.
A PIoUs WISH.
Buffalo Courier.

PIOUS WISH.
Buffalo Courier.
Would that the Canadian hotels could be
induced to refuse to sell bait to American de-
faulters.
A SUSPICIOUS LOOK.
Hartford Post
The Third Party Prohibitionists of New
York held their convention at Albany in the
room of the Young Mems Democratic club
This has suspicious look.
WHY NOT TO KENTUCKY.
The Craftsman.
A good many people in Rhode Island de-
sire that that State be annexed to Connecti-
cut, as in some such movement only can the
blessings of liberty and citizenship be Sc
cured.
A VERY RECENT DISCOVERY.
Mobile Register
Boston has been remarkably generous tow
ard Charleston. This leads us to remark
that the Bostonians are more like cultivated
Southerners than the people of any other
Northern city.
SIGNS OF COMFORT.
N. Y. Mail and Express.
All the colleges are reporting unusually
large freshmen classes this year. We don't
know that this is a sign of anything, except
that more fathers than usual are feeling COM
Portable in pocket and few more boys are
to have four years added to the happy days
of their lives.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-30

The Connecticut Democrats have nominated
a handsome" man for Governor. and a
Knight of Labor for Comptroller. This is
much better than to have nominated for
either office man who combined beauty
with friendship for the toiler. Recent his
tory in Maine shows that this is a combina-
ton that won't work
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-30

Those who sympathized with the English
Tories when they raised the cry in the cleo
ton just before the last that the Church of
England was in danger from Mr.. Gladstone
and his followers, may be interested to know
that Lord Lonsdale, now in America as the
manager of much-talkeG of theatrical com
pany, is a great patron of the established
church. He has under his care forty church
livings, and is solely responsible for the Sc
lection of the clergy who minister to the
spiritual needs of about sixty thousand peo-
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-30

1t is said that thousands of dollars are
paid into Pinkerton's detective agency in
Chicago every month by business men, who
take this means to protect themselves against
the populations of their employees. Perhaps
some of these employers might find it more
profitable to hire their men to keep honest
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-30

The foreign affairs committee of the Senate
are getting at their work of investigating the
fisheries question. Senator Evarts is still ill
in New York, but the others are gathering
in Boston. But it is sad to think that with
all the wisdom Of Edmunds, Vance, Sauls-
bury, Frye and Morgan, the fishermen but
yet go without any explanation of that most
distressing phenomenon-the unaccountable
liking of the mackerel for Bluenose waters
this wear
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-30
THE PRESS.
THURSDAY MORNING. SEPT. so.

We do not read anonymous letters and conmun
cations The name and address of the writer are
in all cases indispensable, not necessarily for pub
lcation but as guarantee of good faith.
We cannot undertake to return or preserve
communications that are not used.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-30

General Lees son, after hard fight, has
secured the Democratic nomination to Con-
gress in the Alexandria (Va.) district; but 1T
is said that it will take something more than
his fathers saddle to secure his election.
Lots of Democrats charge that bribery was
resorted to to influence the convention.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-30

The natives of India, who are growing
poorer as their silver rupee falls in value, are
protesting against the expenditure of $780,
600 every year to move the Viceroy and his
government from Calcutta to Simla during
the hot season. They should pattern after
Americans and let the Viceroy take vaca-
ton in the jungle while his salary goes right
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-30

Some people in Washington are shocked at
the extravaganza of the Chinese diplomats.
These Celestials, it is said, have box at the
theatre every night when there is anything
good on the boards, drive the handsomest
carriages, occupy the grandest residence, and
live the most extensively of any of the Off
Gals who are gathered in Washington. But
why shouldn't they? They come from an
Emperor whose thrifty subjects arc a. the
sands of the seashore, and who has inherit
ed an ambition for the gains and comforts of
peace rather than the glories and expenses
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-30

The New York Sun learns that four men,
bers of the Cabinet think Attorney General
Garland should resign. Attorney General
Garland, unfortunately, is not one of them.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-30

1t now seems that the earthquake in
Augusta told of in such startling terms by a
Boston paper, was merely caused by the
dumping of load of coal. The dealers must
sell twenty hundred weight to the ton at the
;fal
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-30

Wiggins's predictions go by contraries.
Instead of storm and tempest yesterday
there were sunshine and calm.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-30

Yesterday, according to Jewish reckoning,
was Adams birthday. Had he lived he could
have regarded the day with the complacency
of man who has cut his eye teeth.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-30

At City Hall. EIGHT ENTERTAINMENTS. ulustrat-
ed Lectures Concerts, Readings. Course Tickets
with reserved seats S1.5O and $500, according to
location Reserved seats for the course to men,
bers of the Association 90 cents and $780, Course
tickets now on sale at Stockbridge's. Eg-The
course opens Thursday Evening october IA, with
grand concert by the Standard Concert Company
of Boston, six artists. sep27d6t
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-30

The correspondents are taking hold of the
Eastern question in good earnest, evidently
bent on settling it before snow flies.
Their plan is to remove the Sultan to
Egypt and let him preside over the des-
TIMES of that country, while Russia is
given Constantinople and Austria is concili-
ated with the cession of Solonia. Germany
is said to favor this plan, and of course Rus
STA will not be likely to oppose it. We fear,
however, that the Eastern question is not to
be so easily settled.
The great question which is agtating New
York, more than any other, if we can judge
by the newspapers, is why Violet Cameron
left theHoffman House. One story is that
Mr.. Stokes, the proprietor, turned her out
rather unceremoniously, because of the scan
dial connected with her relations to her hus-
band and her agent, while Mr. Stokes al
leges that he delicately suggested that anoth-
other hotel nearer to the theatre would be
more convenient for her. The papers are
devoting columns daily to this momentous
question.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-17
THE MALAGA.
The Coming Grape for the Foot
hills.

hills.
The general failure of the Muscat of
Alexandra in the foothills country of
South California is turning public atten-
tion toward some other grape to take it's
place as raisin grape. The foothills
have very decided advantage in the
matter of drying raisins by their general
immunity from fogs, permitting the dry.
ing of the crop very late in the season,
even to the finish of the second crop.
This advantage is so marked that we
need only to find a grape which will grow
in that soil and make good raisin to in.
crease our raisin output fully one hun.
dred per cent. The grape for this pur-
pose seems to be the White Malaga.
SO far as we know all the vines of this
variety in this end of the State have come
from few thousand cuttings brought
into Los Angeles county some ten years
ago from Napa by Byron o. Clark and
his father, then living near Santa Aua.
They are doing splendidly at Pomona,
where @. E. White is growing them; at
Ontario, where several thousand cuttings
were planted two and three years ago,
and at Pasadena Highlands, where F. M.
Hovey has a fine vineyard of this variety.
Mr.. 4. L. Gay also has vineyard OF the
same stock in East Los Angeles which is
bearing some fruit this year.
The White Malaga is not as heavy
bearer as the Muscat of Alexandria, but
it has several most excellent qualities
which the other grape does not possess.
The Malaga is q better shipping grape
because it is of frmer flesh than the
Muscat, and while it will probably show
signs of decay as early after picking. will
always show better front ON the fruit
stands. The Muscat has bad habit of
decaying at the end Of the grape by
which it is attached to the stem, and on
taking up q large bunch few days old,
a number Of grapes will almost invariably
fall. from it; this the Malaga does not do.
The Malaga is also q better table grape.
because its seeds are smaller than those
of the Muscat, and it does not possess
that pronounced musky flavor which is
so Objectionable to many people. But
the great superiority of the Malaga as
raisin grape lies in the fact that it will
make from so to 20 per cent of the best
grade of Layer Raisins, while the Muscat
usually makes only 30 to 40 per cent.
The Malaga punches are smooth and
compact, the berries clinging firmly to
the stem, and the bloom of the berry,
when pressed in the raisin box, is very
attractive.
We believe the White Malaga is by all
means the coming" grape for the foot
hills country. Record.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-17
CrOtchetY Trees.

In the training of young trees all the
crotches should be avoided. If the tree,
as it comes from the nursery, has fork,
one branch should be removed and tied
up perpendicularly. If bad crotches
occur in trees six years old or up ward,
they should be braced. This bracing is
done by twisting together two twigs, one
from the inside of each branch of the
crotch. The twigs may be twisted about
each other loosely, the ends being al
lowed to project freely beyond the orpo-
site branches of the crotch. If securely
kept in place these twigs will soon be-
gin to adhere along their whole length.
and after three or four years the ends
may be cut off. In few years they will
be united into perfectly solid bar across
the crotch of the tree. Twigs from the
size of lead pencil to the size of ones
finger unite readily. All the larger
branches of an apple tree may be braced
together 10 this manner, and injury from
splitting will be mostly avoided. When
a large branch shows signs OF splitting,
one cannot wait for the growing together
of small limbs. In such cases iron bolts
must be used. Much damage to fine
trees can be averted if bolts are used as
soon as O weakness is discovered. Half.
inch rods of considerable length may be
run through the branches at some dis.
tance above their junction.-[Ameri
Agrioulturist.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-17

in the State There day the and time in the day when
delightfully."- cool breeze gentle and refreshing is not pecepble
Fifteen eighteen hundred above level and protected
chain of the Sierra Mades the north,
walled the south by the Veugo Mountains and the east by
the divide connecting the chains FORTUNATE MONTE
VISTA free from bghng fosts settling the hot winds
prevailing places in the country All this means health
wealth and plenty
MONTE VISTA FOR HEALTH.
for disease pure, dry air. clear, soft
COOL delightful nights delightful
surroundings good accommodaons excellent and attention. then
Monte Vista should be the Sanitar. .um of the World
PRACTICAL MONTE VISTA
The soil Of Vista rich sandy loan. and places
there water excepting he natural RAINFALL wond be
capable of growing known fruit grown IN California
THE MAGNIFICENT WATER SUPPLY
sufficient times the gable land the
probabilities that onetwenieth Of it will be suf
for all purposes WATER, SOIL ELEVATION and Gil
MATE for the Orange Lemon and Lime Every requisite that
be desired perfect lar clean and hgbAavored fruit Soil
and climate for highest degree development the F which
destined be Of the most important of Caoa fruit
ducts RAISN GRAPES have to absolute perfection and
Climate and soil for the early and perfect
maturing the OLIVE the valuable products of the
State Forty in tract growing in Monte Vista will
exang
maturing APPLES and PEACHES PRUNES and PLUMS
APRCOTS NECTARINES and the most difficult of all fruits the
ALMOND So elevation and climate for the absolutely perfect
WINE GRAPE No land which oil of the exactipg
dions which found Monte Vista exists elsewhere Southern
California One lacks climate another water another genial
and another all combined While have named the above
For within years be shipping
to the markets of San Francisco the
FINEST CHERRIES GROWN ON THE COAST.
We claim that requisite of SOIL climate and
for the growth of the PERFECT CHERRY, which
worth three times much the five times much
Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-10-17
Our Wine Industry.

The interest which latterly has been
aroused in the progress of Amerian vine
yard enterprise, Is q direct compliment
to the vine and raisin growers of Califor
mia, being one of the established results
of a great public spirited work which un.
aided, they have been carrying forward
for number of seasons. The California
Viticultural Commission recently sent q
representative to New York and Wash
ington to lay before the leading wine
dealers samples of the products Of our
vineyards, that they might know some.
thing of the flavor, cost of production
and proper selling price of pure Cali.
fornia vintage. As result of the in
tsrest created in the remarkable show.
ing, movement is now on foot for the
formation OF national organization of
wine makers, for concerted action for
the best interest Of the industry. The
representative of our Viticultural
Commission received the general support
of Eastern wine dealers when they un-
derstood the character OF the work in
which he was engaged in the nature of
the bill which has been introduced in
the House of Representatives at his in
stduCcs ~ eio Stouuohy ucCouiinS huoW Ii
throughout the United states that good,
pure wines can be made in this country,
and when honest producers are thor
oughly protected against compounders
and manufacturers of spurious wines,
production and consumption will both
show the steady increase which follows
the establishment of public confidence in
a home product. California wines have
been debased by Eastern componnders,
but now that samples of pure goods have
been widely distributed among the trade,
and large correspondence opened between
Eastern wine dealers and the growers or
their representatives in California. our
home product will be given a fair trial in
coming seasons and the growers have no
fears OF the results. 1t is but a repeti-
tion of the experiences of large handlers
of the raisin product of the State. When
systematic work was first inaugurated by
local houses dealing largely in California
productions, it was found that Eastern
dealers had hindered the introduction of
the California fruit. They had encour.
aged the sale of the foreign product, even
when direct inquiry was made for Cali
fornia raisins. They made comparison
of the appearance of the fruit damaging
to the California product, but were often
compelled to admit superiority in flavor
and size of lunches. California dealers
saw some justice in the complaints made,
and decided to remedy all defects in com.
ing seasons, so that the home product
should fairly enter the lists for the favors
of the trade and consumers in the East
The dealers succeeded in inducing the
growers to systematic the grading and
packing of their product, and now it is
an admitted fact that every season Cali.
fornia produces raisins superior to simi-
lar grades of Spanish fruit. There is no
surplus of the crop to carry from season
to season. The products Of certain vine.
yards are sold long before they have left
the packing house. aud the general de-
mand for the fruit is outstripping the
productive capacity of the vineyards. -
Grocer and Gamer.