Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-06

Gen. Gordon told the ex-Johnnies to
honor jeff Davis if they were showed
under with votes; that some things are
better than offices. Northern Democrats
are afraid of the showing under part,
but they have different opinion of the
value of Offices
The new Democratic postmaster at
Baltimore is a millionaire who drives a
fourin-hand, and is related to the de-
scendants of Jerome Bonaparte. He
gets his Jeffersonian simplicity by in
heritance, and it is not of that rugged
character which the masses have been
looking for.
David Swing, in sermon on the
labor troubles last Sunday, advised the
surplus laborers to go West. Consd-
ering the circumstances of most of
these laborers and the circumstances
of the West, this advice is about as
brilliant as that attributed to Marie
Antoinette, who, when told that the
French peasants in the mob had no
bread. said they ought to eat pie.
1t is found that where the Chinese
can do so they will ingeniously load
raw silk with foreign substances. rice,
sugar, etc, To make it weigh heavier,
even when they know the deception
must inevitably be detected and will
lose them good and steady customers.
The only way, it is said, to put check
on them is by concerted action among
American manufacturers to shut out all
raw silk which does not come up to
certain standard. An experienced
manufactures says that "all considera-
tons are imperative to make the China
man honest in his dealings with the
foreigner
The private soldiers of Wisconsin will
do well to remember Mr.. +. S. Bragg.
Ever since he has been in Congress he
has opposed all legislation for the in
crease of the insignificant little pensions
of private soldiers or their widows; but
he has ever been ready to urge on a
bill to give any generals widow $4,000
year. Lately he threatened VIM. T.
Price that if the latter did not withdraw
his opposition to an extravagant pen
sion to generals widow, he (Bragg)
would block all legislation for pensions
for private soldiers matter in which
Price is very much interested. Perhaps
there are generals enough in Wisconsin
to elect Bragg Governor of Wisconsin,
but probably there are not
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The Colonel who commands the
Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph wants us
to consult the boys that followed
Lagrange, Harndeu,e al, as to whether
they sled" or not. We probably could
not find a single private soldier who
followed them-in fight. The fact re-
mains exactly as we stated it: The regu-
lation place of the officer was behind
the line of battle, the higher the rank
the farther behind and the consider
ably extended observation of the writer
of that item, supplemented by the test
imony of q great many other old soldiers
with whom he has talked, is that the
generals and colonies kept their regula-
ton places with great unanimity. These
gentlemen drew from ten to fifty times
the pay the fighters did, had a picnic
| where the privates had all sorts of sheol.
and since the war have monopolized
nineteen-twentieths of the glory which
properly belonged to the private soldiers
who did the real iighing. 1t is time for
the private soldiers to protest Gen
erals fought about as Jay Gould builds
railroads. The Colonel should have
headed his article Commanders as not
Fighters y
\ AAShN"N . ftU0NE
The labor situation in Chicago may be
summed up as fellows: The railroad
officials took no decisive action yester-
day, because they really did not know
just what to expect or what should be
| done. 1t is believed by some that many
of the freight-handlers will resume
work this morning, having only joined
the strikers Saturday when the process
sion made its rounds from fear of per-
sonal violence in case of refusal. The
st. Paul road will try to raise the
freight blockade this morning by using
| its office men, who have been ordered
to do the loading and unloading under
guard, but it is understood that the
switchmen will refuse to handle the
cars when such an attempt is made.
The packing houses have agreed to
give the eight-hour system two weeks
trial, possibly settling the question by
arbitration thereafter. Many meetings
were held by workingmen representing
other occupations to which the shorter
hour agitation has extended, the gen.
eral sentiment favoring firm stand.
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