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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24
Religious Liberty.

EDITOR HERALD: = In your semi
weekly issue of June q, you publish a
very remarkable Grafton by J. W. Muir.
ply, of Platteville. Among the extrav-
agant claims set forth TO glorify the
church of which he seems TO be a mem
Der, the following is the most striking to
my mind. ut was the Catholic Balti-
more who first proclaimed religious lib
erty on this continent, and thus enuni-
Gated the principles-under which we live
to-day" This claim is made so often
and by so many persons that it deserves
correction for the sake of historic truth
What proclamations Lord Baltimore
made i am not able to say; but venture
the assertion that religious liberty
never obtained in the Maryland colony,
but the exile Roger Williams was the
first defender of religious liberty on this
continent, and Providence, r. l., was
first consecrated to liberty of conscience
and democratic government.
Lancaster, June %, 1886. S.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24
CITY AND VICINITY BRIEFS.
Platteville will celebrate.

Platteville will celebrate.
Lots of visitors in town this week.
The eagle will scream all day 'nere
July Sd.
Rev. Mr.. Hurd, of Darlington, pre- ach-
ed in the Congregational Church last
Sunday.
State Superintendent Graham and
Regent Chandler were at the Normal
School this week.
Candidates for Sheriff spring up like
mushrooms nowadays. There were
only five in town last week.
John Anthony, an old resident of
Jenkinsville, Wis, died last Saturday,
of cancer of the stomach and was buried
Sunday.
BY request, Rev. Burt Wheeler
preached sermon to the graduating
class of the Normal in the M. E. Church
last Sunday evening.
Virgin & Eastman have just received
another load of that celebrated Red
River Wheat flour, made by III. NJ.
Hastings & Co. 1t certainly takes the
cake
The fine shower of rain that fell Sun
day did many thousand dollars worth of
good to the growing crops. Corn did
not seem to be suffering, but small grain
and hay needed it very badly.
f. w. and E. C. Burke, two of our
Platteyille boys and nephews of Hon. j.
Y. Holman of this city, have embarked
in the newspaper business in La Crosse.
They are editing and publishing bright
and newsy five-column daily called the
Gateway city Sentinel. They are both
enterprising young men of good ability,
and we hope that they will make de-
cided success in their new venture.
Our good friend Moore, of circus
fame, had the great misfortune to lose
his wonderfully sagacious fox, the pride
of his menagerie, last week. One of
his neighbours boys saw it and shot it
and then took its scalp to Lancaster
and got bounty on it. 1t is unnecces-
sary to say that Mr.. Moore was exceed
ingly wroth when he heard of it, and
did at once retire to his tent to bias.
pheme.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. B. Barnes gave
very pleasant party to few of their
friends, at their residence on Pine
Street Tuesday evening. There were
present the Misses Smith and Mayne,
of this city; Martin, Chappell, McNett
and Mcbride, of Elk Grove, and Width
am and Richards, of Elmo. The gen.
tlemen present were Messrs. Smith, of
Chicago, Jeffry and McNett, of Platte
vile, and Millman, Webster and Jones,
of Elk Grove.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24
Pretty She VIII Re,

An English woman is beautiful by
nature or not beautiful, and there is an
end of the matter A Parisienne can
rarely compete with the beautiful En-
glish or American women in features or
in complexion and purity of skin, but
she exerts such an effort of will in MAX
ing herself fascinating that she often
surpasses her rival in spite of natural
disadvantages. Take Rachel, for in
stance. Nature gave her thin face
with large and prominent forehead,
deep-set eyes, sunken mouth, point
ed chin, n scraggy body, and lean arms
Out of these natural materials the little
Jcwess. by dint of genius, will, passion,
love, and gold spent on beautiful OBJ
jects, made the Rachel that men will
ever remember-a woman of Corinth or
OF Syracuse, with the caressing gesture
OF statue by Coysevax, the intensity of
a water color by Gavarni, lips that al
ways caught and reflected the light, and
in her sombre eyes the subtle flame of
intelligence.
In the Parisienne, from the shop girl
to the grande dame, there seems to be an
innate cutie of her person, respect of
her flesh, pride in her silhouette and
bearing, and withal constant effort to
refashion and remake her If in accord
ance with marvellous ideal of beauty,
grace, elegance, and youth; to take from
antiquity, from the East, from all ages
and all countries that which has consti-
tuted their peculiar elegance, and then
to reduce those elements of elegance to
the Partisan formula. Every Parisienne
is living work of art, the product of a
mysterious collaboration of surround
in0a
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24
Big Fresh-watcr Eels.

vi fresh-water cells as apart from theii
mighty cousin the eonger, there are three
distinct kinds-the sharp-nosed eel. the
broad-nosed or frog-mouthed eel, and
the snig. OF these three, the sharp
nosed eel is both the largest fish and
the best eating, though some prefer the
ss,nlig-eel as having u superior flavor.
The snig, however. in spite of its excel
Ience, has not the same value as the
sharp-nosed eel; for it seldom, if ever,
attalns more than half pound in
weight. The sharp-nosed eel, on the
contrary, attains an enormous size.
One on record that was taken in the
Medway, not far from Rochester, weigh
ed thirty-four pounds, measured six feet
IN length, and mad girth of twenty-five
inches. Another eel. taken in Kent
weighed forty pounds and measured
i've feet nine inches. Yarrell speaks of
having seen at Cambridge the pre-
served skins of two which had weighed
together fifty pounds; the heaviest
twenty-seven pounds, the other twenty
three pounds. But these instances,
though not to be regarded as apocry-
phai' are still very exceptional; and a
very fair average weight for sharp
nosed eels is six pounds. Eels of even
ten pounds weight are not common,
and MIR. Frank auckland speaks of one
OF that size as being the largest he had
ever seen.-Popular Science Monthly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24
OUR CELEBRATION.

The celebration to be held here July 3
will by far eclipse all former celebra-
tons. In the forenoon a grand process
sion will be formed, headed by the Citi-
zens' Band In the parade viii be Co.
K, of Darlington, Dodgeville Drum Corps,
Car of Liberty, Platteyille Fire Depart
ment, Grand Army Post No. &c, Civic
and Military Societies, Alphonso de
Moore's Great Encyclopedia of Wonders
and trained animals. The parade will
start at 10 o'clock and will move through
the principal streets of the city to the
park, where the exercises viii take place.
Hon. j. V. Holman will preside, Prof
A. j. Hutton viii read the Declaration
of independence, the Grafton viii be de-
livered by DR.. w. H. Cleary, of Galena.
Capt. j. B. Mccoy will act as toastmas-
ter, and j. I. Dawson as marshal.
In the afternoon win be the usual
number of toasts and responses and also
a parade of the famous Knights of Rest,
No. 1,001; drills by the celebrated OAR
lington Rifles, one of the finest military
organizations in the state or United
States; drills by the noted Drum Corps,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24
Yancey Killed by Ben Hill.

heard the other day from a high
confederate source, writes correspond
ent of the New York World, a true his
tory of the cause which led to the death
OF Confederate Senator Yancey. Yam
cey, when he returned from England,
made report to the confederate senate
OF his failure to secure recognition of
the southern cenfederacy in England.
1t was in that speech that he used the
ott-quoted sentence, Cotton is no longer
king" lie said then that the eonfed-
eracy could give no guarantee if it were
recognized of its ability to maintain a
stable form of government The states
rights theory carried to an extreme
would soon result in anarchy This
speech was made in executive session of
the confederate senate. During the de-
bate which followed he became involv-
ed in heated dispute wsth Ben Hill.
During the discussion an insult was
given by Yancey, or at least Hill re-
garded 1t as an insult, and he resented
It. lie picked up a large glass inkstand
ana threw it at Yancey. 1t struck him
upon the spine, below the center of the
back. He fell over into his seat and
tainted. From that blow he never re-
covered. His illness was spinal trou-
BILE resulting from the blow given him
by the inkstand thrown by Mr. Hill
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24
Work ON the G. Ii. & N.

The Dubuque Times has the following
regarding the progress of this new road
Rutledge is the name of the new way
station, to be located directly opposite
Eagle Point. The station will be exactly
four and three-tenths miles from East
Dubuque and near the present wagon
road leading to the Eagle Point ferry.
A sand pit and side track have already
been laid near the proposed station.
Track-laying on the new road will be
completed by Aug. 1. So says an Off
cial of the road high in authority. The
tracklayers have arrived at the Platte
River, north of East Dubuque. South of
East Dubuque the track is down the en-
tire distance between East Dubuque and
Savannah, except at point near Me-
nominee, for about mile and a half.
which will be completed in few DAYS.
As soon as this short piece of track-lay-
ing is finished, operations will be renewed
north of East Dubuque with increased
vigor. 8 The track-laying machine at
present operating between Savannah
and Oregon will be put to work above
the Platte River, and the construction
force at present working on this portion
OF the road transferred to Oregon. The
track-laying machine is is capable of
laying two miles of track per day.
About forty miles of track is down south
st. Paul. South of La Crosse the track
track-layers' gang have arrived at Ferry
vile, distance of thirty-five miles from
La Crosse.
Superintendent Coleman says that the
entire construction force at present en-
ployed in the work is able to lay forty
miles OF track per week, when fully I'M
derway and when not interrupted by I'M
foreseen cause.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24


HYMENEAL. A quiet but very pleas
ant event occurred at the residence of
Mr.. Anton Schmitt, in this city, at 10
O'Clock Wednesday morning, when his
daughter, Miss Amelia b., was married
to Mr.. Charles Lisherness, of this
city. The wedding was very quiet
one, only the Immediate relatives and
intimate friends of the parties being
present, the latter which included
Messrs. E. E. Mccoy and Sam. Gro
shong, and Misses Name and Myra Bar
nett and Miss Cora Streeter. The
rooms were tastefully decorated with
evergreens and flowers, and DIR. Eaton
performed the ceremony in an impress
siye manner, after which delicious
repast was served. A number of ele-
giant presents were received. After
the ceremony the bride and groom
started for Dubuque, Iowa, via Specht' S
Ferry, on a wedding tour, which will
include sail up the Mississippi, visit
ing St. Paul. Minneapolis and other
points. The bride and groom are two
OF Lancaster's best known and most
popular young people, and will have
the best wishes of very large circle
OF friends for their unbounded happi-
ness and prosperity. They will be sat
home" after July 10, at the Lancaster
House, Lancaster, Wisconsin.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24
Children's Day at Mt. Ida.

Children's Day Mt the Mount Ida Bap-
fist church was well attended last Sun
day, and the sum of Sl1.64 donated for
the purpose of adding to their Sunday
school library. The attendants had a
good time and mnch credit is due the
ladies and gentlemen who assisted in
decorating the church for the occasion.
Good taste and artistic skill were dis
played in the blending of the ferns and
flowers. The children, who participated
in speaking the pieces, did nobly. The
choir, with Mr. Arthur Taylor as organ
list, enlivened us with many well selected
pieces, accompanied by the lovely warb-
ling voices Of four cages of canaries.
Nature seems to sanction all by pour
ing upon the parched ground after the
dismissal refreshing shower of rain.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24
SUDDEN DEaTu

Last Friday evening Mr.. Geo. Brown.
one OF the Oldest and most highly re-
spected citizens of Elk Grove. was found
dead on the farm of John Golfer. about
| one mile south of the village. Mr..
Brown was widower and had lived
| alone on his farm about two miles south
OF Elk Grove for many years He was
quite well-to-do, but was very ambitious
and always liked to be at work. He had
been burning brush for Mr. Golfer for a
few days and was seen about ten O'Clock
Friday morning on his way to work.
About five o'clock Caspar Belkin and
Nan Craiglow went down to Mr..
Browns house to visit him. They found
the door open but saw nothing of Mr..
Brown. His faithful dog, however, was
there, and the gentlemen noticed that it
acted in very peculiar manner, run
ming about and whining as if something
were wrong. They started out and the
dog led them to Mr.. Golfers farm and
to the spot where Mr.. Brown lay dead.
He had been dead about two hours, they
thought. One hand grasped small
hazel bush and the other was near his
head as if he had suffered great pain in
the head. A few rods from him was the
pile of burning brush, while about twen-
ty rods of the fence had caught fire and
was totally destroyed A few feet from
him lay pile of rails that had been
taken from the fence. leaving a gap. 1t
is supposed that when the fence caught
fire, he tried to put the fire out, but not
being able, he ran ahead and took out
panel of the fence, hoping to stop it in
that way, and that he became exhausted
from the heat and over-exertion and fell.
and died where he was found. Squire
Mase was notified and Dr. Law, of Bel
mont, was called. A jury was impaneled
and after hearing the opinion of the doc
tor and the testimony of the witnesses, a
verdict in accordance with the above
facts was rendered. The remains were
buried next day in the old church-yard
in the lower part of the village and the
funeral was attended by large number
of his old friends and neighbors Mr..
Brown was about 60 years old; was born
in England and came to Elk Grove
nearly forty years ago. He served in
the Union army during the late war and
was brave soldier. He was very
quiet, conservative man, thoroughly
honest in all his dealings, and was held
in the highest esteem by the whole COM
munity.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24
Mt. Hone.

Our schools closed last Friday after a
good year of work, with success to the
teachers and pupils.
Commencement exercises passed off
very nicely. There was large crowd
in attendance. The essays were well
worthy of high praise. evaledictory,
though short, was well rendered and
expressed the deep feeling of the grad
uate who was now to sever her relation
ship as schoolmate with those with
whom she had SO long associated. Her
way was paved by her many friends
and schoolmates with flowers and ever
greens, and it is their wish that she
may ever be accompanied by the bright
est successes that adorn life.
Our hearts were gladdened on Sum
day afternoon by the arrival of dark
blue cloud which seemed to float majes-
tically over from the west and bounti-
fully poured forth its great gift. which
was gladly received by the parched and
thirsty plants and ground. This is the
first rain we have had for six weeks.
Miss Glennie Whiteside, of Patch
Grove. gave her cousins, Misses Jennie
and Alta Day, pleasant visit last week.
Miss Mary Wright, of Potosi, who
has just finished successful year of
school work in Patch Grove, has been
visiting her friend, Miss Daisy Lynn,
for the last few days.
Mrs j. G. Snider is attending the an
nual camp-meeting of the Seventh Day
Advents, now in session at Madison.
AT the close of the school last Friday
the Primary teacher. Miss Jennie Day,
gave her scholars picnic at her home.
The occasion was greatly enjoyed by
the little folks.
The sudden death of our neighbor,
Mr.. Robert Narrower, Sr., filled all
hearts with sadness. The bereayed
family has the warmest sYmpathies of
a large circle of friends and neighbors.
The Shady Dell school, taught by
Miss Jessie Townsend, will close Fri
day, June %, with picnic. A good
time is looked for by all.
Mrs. Jefferson Handy is beautifying
her home by fresh coat of paint.
Mrs. John easier, better known as
Aunt Jane easier, was surprised by a
score or more of her friends by their
arrival at her home on her SIND birth
day. All enjoyed good time.
Frank Trapp, lad of II or IA, re-
ceived kick from his pony, while try
ing to catch it. AT first it was thought
severe accident, but proved only
slight injury.
Candidates for Sheriff are numerous
among us, and strange to say. each
thinks his chances are best and feels
sure of the much-coyeted goal
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24
Mr.. Blocks Statement.
To tie Public:

10 Gt1 lW0ttCs
In answer to the many sensational
reports in circulation, | desire to say fol
my wife and for myself, that all charges
of responsibility, direct or indirect, for
the death of Barbara Elizabeth Long,
even in the remotest degree. are wholly
false; and that neither of us has ever Of
fered. or authorized any one else to Of
fer, nor win we pay single penny to
compromise the matter.
In simple justice to Miss Mary Lud-
wig, who was and still is in our employ.
we win further say that she is absolutely
innocent of any connection with the loss
of the money or with the finding of the
same upon Miss Longs person.
j. s. BLOCK.
Platteville, June 81, 1856,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24

performance by De Moore's great all
star circus. In the evening there will
be magnificent display of fireworks
Arrangements have been made to have
excursion rates on all the railroads. and
it is confidently expected that there will
be one of the largest crowds that has
ever been on ike occasion. Come,
everybody, and help us celebrate the
10th anniversary of our glorious indie.
pendence.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24
Platteyille Commencement.

| The Seventeenth Annual Commence
ment of the Platteville' State Normal
School took place Wednesday morning
in the City Hall, which was filled to its
| utmost capacity. The Glass numbered
twenty-one-the largest ever graduated
in the state since the adoption of the
four years. course.
The program, though long, was not
| tedious, the orations and essays being
| listened to with the closest attention.
| The music was excellent, as music
under the leadership of Prof. Gardner
always is. The exercises began at $50
a. M, and closed with the presentation
of diplomas shortly after l o'clock p. m.
| AT 3 O'Clock in the afternoon the doors
of the Normal School building were
thrown open for visitors to examine the
specimens of drawing done by the pu-
pills during the last year. The display
was most creditable to the pupils and
| the teacher of Drawing.
The Alumni met at the home of Prof.
Hutton in the evening, where exercises
of an informal character and general
sociability were the order. A full ac-
count of the Commencement exercises
will be found in the issue of the Semi
Weekly HERALD of Monday, June %.
The following is the program in full:
PROGRAM.
Music-overture-La Lyre D'Or, Hermann.
Prayer by Rev II. Goodsell
Music-Trio and Cho rus-Lift Thine Eyes
"Eljah."
Rssay-The Mission of the Beautiful. Mary E.
Campbell.
oration-Agriculture Source Of Civilization.
James NJ Ferebee.
Essay-Early Impressions, Maggie Eastman.
Oration-The humanity of Man, win T.
Wills.
Essay-Helen Hunt jackson, NJ Rena Wood
ward.
Musc-Female Chorus-Pcasant's Wedding
March-Soedermann
oration-The Young Man of To-Day, VIVA
Cundy
Essay-Mound City, Clara L. Grindell.
oration-The Nile and the Mississippi, Charles
r. Pickering.
Essay-The Monastery the Symbol of Culture;
the Castle the Symbol of Power, Ida H. Conner.
Music-Chorus-Early Spring-Mendelssoh
Essay-The Hobby Rider, Ruth A. York
Observation-Disclosures of Success, John w. Learv
Essay-The Moment the Mother OF the Age
Annie NJ. Pellow.
Music--Semi-Ch - serenade Song.-From
the German.
oration-Count Cavour John H. Rindla ub
Essay-Man's Deeds his true Monument, Agnes
I. Smith.
ofation-Necessity for Political Education.
Joseph A. Jeffery.
Essay-The True voyager must Steer not
d rift, Agnes Hay.
Oration-The Duty of the North in the Eduea-
cation of the South, Lellen S. Cheney.
Essay-Yoices Of Silence, Augusta F. Brindley.
Music-Female Quartet-Dinah Doe.-Moloy.
Oration-Mind Spu rms a Fetter, Dennis J
Murphy.
Essay-owls, May Strong.
0ratfon-Chinese Gordon, Albert H. Sanford
Music-Chorus-(a) The Night is advancing
From "1arke IN Ndtien.' tb) These Moments
Enhancing. From IL Elisire D. Ana0re ~ |
Presentation Of Diplomas.
Benediction.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24

Tuesday night the dogs in this city
assembled on the southeast corner of
the square and had something like a
cross between a minstrel walk-around
and chorus and an anarchist meeting.
Some friend of suffering humanity fired
a pistol shot into the crowd and imme-
diately every member of the meeting
moved to adjourn sine die, and put the
motion into effect Immediately. Then
the silence was eloquent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24

REMEMBER. Mrs. E. Scott Blocher's
elocution class, composed of twenty
seven little children will give "a Little
Folks Concert" at Hyde's Hall, Friday
evening, at o'clock. Admission 10
cents. A full program was published in
our Monday semi-weeklY issue.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24

Welded. At St. Clements Church,
Lancaster, at 10 o'clock last Tuesday
morning Rev. Father Barth solemnized
the nuptials of Mr.. Herman Koppen
of Cassville, and Miss Barbara Err
daughter of Jacob Err, of Lancaster
Later in the day they repaired to the
home of the bride, three miles south
west of this city, where party was
given in their honor. Mr.. Koppen has
a farm near Cassville, where they will
have their home.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24

GATEWAY Cry SENTINEL.--W have
been favored with copy of a new five
column daily paper, published at North
La Crosse, and known rs the Gateway
City Sentinel. The editors and proprie-
tors are Fred. w. and Z. G. Burke,
which is sufficient guarantee that ii
will be ably and entertalningly con-
Quoted. We are glad to note the push
and enterprise shown by our young
friends, and none will wish that they
find a bonanza in it more heartily than
the HERALD.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24

WISCONSIN TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.
The thirty-fourth annual session of
the Wisconsin Teachers Association will
be held in the Assembly Chamber, Mad
ison, July 6, and s. All railroads in
this state will take guests there and re-
turn at one and one-fifth fare.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-06-24

A VALUABLE HERBARIUM. MIR. G.
IL. Sylvester, of Boscobel, has herba.
rum containing over 1900 named and
labeled varieties of American and for
eign plants. These are plants dried for
future botanical study and examination.
His collection is said to be a very valu.
able, one.