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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-02

William f. Rupp & Co., Merchant Tailors.
Importers of the select and special woolens for
the American trade, also the best of our domes-
tic styles. Our work and art in workmanship
exceled by none. No. 90 East Washington street.
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A Few More

A Few More
OF those Atwood corkscrew suits still to be had
for $40, at the MODEL
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MONUMENTS
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80 and 81 Massachusetts Avenue,
INDIANAPOLIS
E-No agents. Send for DESIGNS.
CHURCH SERVICES.
Universalist.
WANTED.

TANTED-A MAN. WITH SOME MEANS. TO
w take interest and control of good.payiug
business. Address L. CROSBY. journal Office.
WI ANTED = EXPERIENCED AGENTS AND
w correspondents for new business Positions
permanent. Salary commission. Write to-day.
Address NATIONAL ECONOMIST, Chicago, III.
VIZ ANTED-AN EXPERIENCED TRAVELLING
Should be we'll acquainted with the druggists and sta
tioners in Illinois and northern Indiana A similar
chance for a good man well acquainted in Missouri
and Kansas Address Druggists Sundries. care Of
LORD g. THOMAS, Chicago
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IN the announcement Of the votes the Rrst ripple OF
-~siause was heard when w. II. H. Miller announced
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FOR SALE.

TSOR SALE-DOUBLE-SEATED OARRIA0E
II very cheap. Il. e. GRIFFITH. 1872 s. Meridian.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-26

dell & Lynch were out csnytssinp in
the interest Of their marble business.
and while few miles east of here. had
a rich experience with huge rattle
snake. As they were riding along they
saw something looming up in the grass
by the roadside that they took TO be a
granite monument. They were about
to look and see if their trade mark was
not on it, when they discovered that il
was the rattles of a rattlesnake Nav
both members of the firm are men of
nerve and courage. John Grindell es-
pecially is renowned for great valor.
However, when they realized the fear
full danger that they were in. they
looked and felt almost twice as sad and
sympathetic as they do when they are
trying to sell a tombstone. Still. under
such trying circumstances, with death.
as It were, almost staring them in their
face, they had involuntarily began to
hgure on the cost of suitable shaft tn
mark their memories. Their pluck and
presence of mind did not forsake them
and they made hasty and glorious flight
to tree which grew not far off and
which they squirreled up to place of
safety. From their place of refuge
they waXed still more courageous and
yelled to a man who was along with
them, to kill the reptile. He did so
and after all appearance of life had
left the ugly monster, the firm decended
from the tree, plucked off the rattles of
his late snake-ship and brought them
to town, where they exhibited them to
their astonished felow-citizens They
Do not know positively how long the
huge reptile was, but think 1t was a
triile less than nineteen feet. The
rattIes are on exhibition at their marble
works andJohn Grindell will be pleased
to snow them and to give history of
how they were obtained, to anyone who
will call there.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-26
Obituary.,

Died, Mrs. Belle Crow, at 8 O'Clock
a. M, July Is, 1886, Of cerebro spinal
meningitis, in St. Charles, Mimi. The
deceased was born in Mt Hope, 1849,
and was therefore 81 years of age.
Her father, David Chisholm. was one
of the earliest settlers of Grant County.
In 1869 she married Chas. NJ. Grow, by
whom she had six children, who are
left to mourn her loss. The eldest of
these is fifteen years old; the Youngest
nine months old. In 1885 she went
with her husband to St. Charles. where
she lived until her death. She was sick
little more than week. On Tuesday
July Is, VIM. Chisholm, her brother,
received telegram to come to her as
she was at the point of death. He and
her sister, Mrs. Moore, started at once
and arrived about ten hours before she
died. The deceased, accompanied by
her husband and brother was brought
to Mt Hope for burial Besides her
family already mentioned, Mrs. Crow
leaves three brothers and five sisters,
most of whom are residents of Mount
Hope, and large circle of friends made
by more than thirty-five years residence
among US
We stood beside the couch of pain,
Where slumber had no rest
And strove to soothe but yet in vain
The MORNINGS of the rest
Until her star went down in death;
What glory, none may tell,
Then kissed the life and sealed the breath
With tender, Fare you WE'LL.
w.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-26
Confederate Coats Rare.

A gray coat has been hung in a case
at the National museum near the collec-
ton of relics Of the confederacy, says
the Washington Star. This coat was a
confederate officers coat, and though
such garments were worn by thousands
of men less than twenty-five years ago,
they are regarded rs rare curiosities.
What became of all the old gray and
butternut suits after Appomattox is one
of the mysteries which those only can
explain who save made a deep study of
the average life and the final destiny of
n suit of clothes. This coat was present
ed to the museum by 0. w. Barron, of
Danvillc, Va, formerly captain of COM
pany II. oath regiment Virginia infant
~. 1t is the coat of a captain of infant
ry, and is in fair state of preservation.
Capt Barron in a note which he sent
with the coat, said: II bought this coat
early in the year 1868 in Petersburg,
Va, for $3.50 in confederate currency,
and kept the coat constantly in the army
with me in Pickett's division until that
command was nearly all captured at
Five Forks, just a short time before the
final surrender, and my colored servant,
who took care of my clothes, thinking ]
was killed, burned the remainder of my
baggage and carried this coat home to
my father in Henry county, this state,
where | got it on my return from prison
at Johnson's island. | seldom used the
coat except on occasions of dress parade
and reviews, or when sitting on courts
martial" The cloth, which is gray, is
not of very fine texture. 1t is frock
coat, with cuffs and military collar faced
with blue The sleeves are embrolder-
ed with gold braid. There are no
shoulder-straps, but instead three bars
on the collar indicate the rank of the
wearer. The buttons are similar to
United States buttons, except there is no
lettering upon them. They have en-
bossed upon them the American spread
eagle, with the union shield upon its
breast, and surrounded by galaxy of
stars. Mr. Howard Clark, who has
charge of the historical collection, ex-
poets soon to obtain possession of a coat
of an engineer officer in the confederate
service.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-26
RIBBON BOWS.

Ribbon bows have superseded almost
universally any other trimming on tur.
bans. An occasional model is brought
out with two or more birds wings set in
the midst of the bow; but fancy feathers
have had their day for the present, while
the growing disfavor of the sacrifice OF
birds for dress ornamentation is Danish.
ing wings, heads, and small birds from
millinery. How long this merciful pro.
test against the murder of the innocents
to minister to woman's vanity may stir
the bosom of fashion we can not tell, but
for the moment my lady is more than
willing to compromise on ribbon bows
A very beautiful turban with the shelly.
ing, melon-shaped crown, made of alter
nate folds of brown gros-grain ribbon
and bands of ecru, broad, rough braid
running from the front to the back, has
the brim overlaid with puff of brown
velvet, and n monture in front of brown
velvet and ecru faille-Francaise ribbon;
and turban of navy-blue Milan braid,
with the brim smoothly faced with blue
velvet, is made to match costume in a
monture of a drapery bow of satin
broche in blue and old gold, set with
several upright loops of poppy-red faille-
Franchise ribbon.
Bows of mixed colors also trim the
more pronounced dress-hats. A model
in memory, of broad. rough braid in
sphynx-gray, navy-blue and poppy-red,
has the brim faced with navy-blue vel
vet, and garland-like bows of gray,
blue, and red climbing from the back
over the left side of the crown. 1t will
be observed in the trimming of this ha,
that there is nothing around the crown;
absence of the usual crown trimming is
a caprice of the moment Flowers and
lace, or flowers yelled with silk tulle,
crepe lisse, or pointed esprit net or
gauze, vary ribbon bows as the objec-
tive garniture on hats. Among the
most tasteful of the summer hats are
those with the crown of black Milan
braid, and the brim of rough straw
braid; the brim faced with black velvet,
Il cluster of red silk or velvet peoples
posed at the left side, or at the left OF
the front. yelled with black tulle or
pointed esprit net, this trimming held in
place by several small, tight bows OF
No. u black velvet ribbon. A caprice
of the moment is expressed also in white
flowers. They are much used in the
trimming Of bonnets. and vary colored
flowers as trimming for hats; clusters or
white lilac, elder. hawthorn, spirea, OF
some other small-petalIcd flowers being
the addendnm to the ribbon bows, OF
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-26
An Undertaker's Experience.

"I've Just returned from the house of
young married man who died last
night, said an undertaken, land his
weeping wife told me she wanted his
coffin made large enough TO hold his
gun and game bag, because he was so
fond of shooting.
81 suppose you have great many
such queer requests" remarked list
ener.
"Oh, yes. 1t was only a month ago
that mother, frenzied with grief, when
| was about to put the lid on her daugh-
ter's casket, took from II closet n satin
ball dress and insisted upon having it
used as a cover for the corpse.
Then some people want favorite
books, letters, bibles. pictures. and such
things buried with their dead. 1t seems
to soothe their anguish to some degree,
and you have to humor them. The
queerest thing of the kind happened to
me just after | went into the business.
1t would have been laughed at on a
minstrel stage, but in house of grief
had to be tolerated with solemnity.
The 10-year-old boy of poor woman
had died OF fever, and | was engaged to
bury him. Her neighbors had all gath
cred downstairs. | went up to ask her
if there was anything more | could do,
and she handed me little bundle. say
ing, Please put this at the foot of John
ny's coffin. They are pair Of his old
pantaloons, and the first | ever whipped
him, in -
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-26
FASHIONS N SHOES.

FASHIONS N SHOES.
A shoe known rs the comfort last
is one of the triumphs of the business.
The design is made on a perfectly seam
less last with light, pliable sole and
low, broad heel, and the leather is 4 kid
that is as fine, soft, and elastic as a
suede glove. The boot was manufac-
tured originally for very wealthy old
lady's home and was intended for tender
feet. 1t proved so much of a success
that the goods were thrown upon the
market, where the sale has been some
thing enormous. Everything in the
makeup of the boot adds to the comfort
of the wearer and the opinion prevails
that a single trial insures q continual
purchase They come in all cuts, styles
and sizes, and for all ages, prices rang
ing from S. to Sl6.
There is complete revolution in
wedding boots, every fastidious bride
having them made TO order, bit of her
gown being used for the uppers. Prices
run from Sl5 to S35. the position of the
parties regulating in 4 measure the price
charged. For all drcssy occasions the
vamp is low in cut, the uppers medium,
and the heel Louis Nv. The cut is
preposterously trying to comfort, but is
not meant for standing purposes, the
aim of the bOotmaker as well as the de-
sire of the wearer being to shoe the foot
prettily
For fancy dresses, feteS, carriages, and
house wear there are piece goods OF
crimson, cardinal, blue, olive, brown.
garnet, and indigo satins embossed with
small white flowers, and also the same
tolerable shades Drocaded. When it is
necessary to procure Il boot that viii
harmonic with several costumes the
order is given and the shoe made up in
the leading style. The texture is the
very best quality and Wears like kan
CARGO skin. Low-cut shoes and slippers
are made Of the same goods as well rs
of channels skin, and colored feathers
heavily beaded with steel beads are in
demand. Buckskin is much used by the
elite for party wear with charming eff
feet, and for Il tea gown there is moth
ing to compare with the Edison tie OF
milk white deer skin, which is lined
with kid and edged with white swans
down. Like the Sicilian silk. cress-
green, and colored kid, they call for an
investment of SO.
The leading afternoon and garden
boot is made of bronze leather, which
may be had in any style ut figures rang
ing from So to Sl5.
The promenade shoe is us frequently
made Of lusterless kid as anything else,
though there is an advance in the sale
of patent leather, the boot being mat
top, low heel and medium toe, tipped
with the shiny leather and decorated
with punctured sewing. They sell for
IS and in all probability will have the
same popularity accorded by the East
ern ladies.
There is the regular French kid boot,
which sells at Sc and is neat enough for
the average entertainment, while being
equal to the demands of street wear.
Common-sense lasts may be had at
enormous discount, there being no call
for them among city ladies, who are
much too artful to care to make their feet
unsightly by dressing them in blunt
shoes.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-26
Notice to Builders,

The undersigned viii, until the 18th day of
August, 1886, receive sealed proposals for build
ing school house in District No. g. in the town
of Waterloo, Grant County. Wisconsin. The
building is to be 3G feet long "a feet wide IL feet
studdng, with stage feet wide and one foot
paper between siding and sheeting: the outside
and inside woodwork to have two coats Of good
white paint; foundation wall Of stone two feet
in the ground. one foot above ground on the
upper side. to be laid in lime and sand The
whole must be Of frstclass material and com
pleted by November !, 1886.
Also in the same contract there i to be built
cistern IA feet deep ana 35a feet across, lined
with brick.
All bids are to be sent to Herman Katmau.
Cassyille. Wis. The contract viii oe let to the
lowest and best bidder. bat the committee reserve
the right 70 reject any or all bids
j. II. CARDY. District Clerk
2lw4 COLLINS CHAPMAN. Treas
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-26
Personal.

Hon. E. P. Dickinson. of Lima, was
in town Thursday.
VIM. Thomas, of Elk Grove, was a
visitor here Thursday.
Lei. Cheney returned Friday evening
from trip in the country.
ALI. farrell, of Big Patch, was in
town Friday, on business.
NJ. S. Trowbridge and his wife, of
Lancaster, were in town Thursday.
j. L. Cabanis went down to Elmo
and Georgetown Friday to see relatives.
Mrs. G. B. Eastman and her daughter,
of Platteville, are in Lancaster visiting
relatives.
Geo. McFarlane, general merchant
at Elmo, was in town on business
Thursday.
Misses May Strong and Edna Nc
Kenzie, of Livingston, visited friends
in this city Thursday.
Fred. Walker, formerly student of
the Normal here, but now druggist of
Monroe, is in town visiting.
Frank I. Bentley, of Elk Grove,
passed through town Friday morning,
on his way to Potosi, where he will
spend few days visiting friends.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-26
DEcoEATIvE FANCIEs..

y
Young ladies often have dresses which
are far too good to be discarded and vet
require refreshing to make them pre-
sentable, and this can be done by ar
ranging on the left side of low corsage
pretty draperv of tulle or crepe, white
or in the color of the dress goods. stretch.
ing from the left shoulder to the center
of the bust. where it terminates in
bow of satin ribbon edged with loops.
On the right side IS n berthe of white
lace, which continues round the back
Bows of satin ribbon decorate each
shoulder. From the bow in the center
of the front falls spray of flowers,
which turns toward the left and fastens
on the left hip under bow This de-
coration is mounted on muslin and can
be applied to any dress.
Another method of beautifying gowns
for misses and young ladies is to form
tichu of crepe, which is passed round the
low neck ut the back and then negli.
gently carried up the front to the shoul.
der, where it is secured by bow OF
gauze ribbon. The crepe is then allow
ed to fall from the shoulder to the waist,
where it is secured by q second bow.
The remaining end, edged with fine
lace, forms sort of panier on the right
nip. This lovely finish 10 an evening
dress can be duplicated in lace or any
Of the diaphanous or gauze-likc textures
thar are 50 dainty for trimming dresses
OF heavier materials.
With partly worn high neck dresses
there are worn plated chemlsettes OF
tulle or crepe, in the color matching the
gown material, or contrasting with it,
and also draped TUNES and tabiliers in
suite, decorated with bows of ribbon.
If tie skirt is good, then one Of the small
fancy jackets, which are worn over
chemisettes, or embroidered gauze will
be en- rcgale. Some of these stylish
jackets are open all the way down,
others are closed from throat to the
chest and ornamented with small
revers.
Granite gray beaded trimmings are
entirely new; the beads are in the exact
shade of fine gray polished granite and
look rs if they had been Clipped from
blocks OF stone These beads are shaped
into passementarics and motifs, which
are used to trim dresses of blue and
gray htIUdc{Dhia Times
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-26
Notice of Teachers Institutes,

Two Institutes of two weeks each
will be held in Grant County this sum-
mer The first at Potosi, commencing
August 2, will be conducted by Prof.
c. II. Nye, of Platteville, and Miss Eta
Carrie, of East Troy. The second, COM
mencing August 16, at Fennimore, will
be conducted by Professors Geo. Beck
and G. H. Nye, of Platteville The
work to be done will be of the more adj
vanced character and will be based
upon the more prominent points in the
middle and upper forms of the course
of study for country schools. Teachers
examinations will be held in connection
with the institutes These meetings are
arranged for the benefit of the teachers
of this county, and | sincerely trust
that they will be fully attended.
CHAs. l.. HARPER,
County Superintendent
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-26
CITY AND VICINITY BRIEFS.

Last week came awfully close to being
Il dull week for trade in Platteville.
Our razor sharpener and machine
tinker, Mr.. Smoker, has had very
good run Of business since he came to
our city. He is a first-cass workman.
Our load of young fishermen returned
Thursday, from weeks iaunt in the
region of the Pecatonica River A
minute inspection failed to discover the
whereabouts of any fish in their wagon.
Hon. Geo. E. Cabanis, of Georgetown,
passed through town Friday evening on
his way home from Dakota, where he
has been visiting friends and exploring
the country. He says that Dakota is
the best state in the Union for lazy
man to make living in. He thinks
that he will get lot of men from
Platteville, and go there and start y
colony.
j. l.. Cabanis and his wife formerly
Ella Jones) and their two daughters, of
Waukon, Iowa, are in town, visiting at
the residence of Mrs. Cabanis's father,
Mr.. Sam Jones. Lee says that business
has been quite good at Waukon this
season, considering the hard times.
Crops have not suffered quite so much
from drouth as here. He thinks that
prohibition is practical failure so far,
in Waukon.
Talk about pluck and clear gritty de-
termination; why. we have a man in
this town who has barrels of it. We
refer to j. H. Parnell, the astute fisher
man. If any man can smile mt bad
luck, and laugh at misfortune, he is
certainly that man. The very fact that
he has been fishing every day for the
last lweek, and has not caught in the
aggregate, more than three fish is con-
elusive proof of it all.
Some of the boys say that Jim Henry
has hunting dog that is possessed of
wonderful musical powers that not
long ago be was out hunting with it and
the dog got lost, when Jim whistled to
it and sought to right it. The dog,
however, was sureit was lost and sent
up and continued to send up, a howl
that nearly cracked all OF the tomb
stones in the vicinity, and which made
the celebrated Lament for the slain. -
seem like country reel.
We have before us on our table. a
wood cut and a biographical sketch of
ID. Wilberforce Taylor, the gentlemen
who used to be ar occasional visitor at
the Taylor lumber yards in this city.
AS we gaze at the picture of our lamen-
ted friend, recollections of him come
''crowding DER US" like nightmare
of our childhood days, and we fancy
we can almost hear the rustic of his
Droadcloth, and the jingle of his iewelry
as in times gone by. d. Wilberforce
was good, steady lad. until he be-
came enamored of the glamors of the
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-26
FOR THE LADIES.
The Prevailing Fashion in shoes Intended
for Comfort for the ISearer-The
FavOrite Hat Trimmings.

Decorative FancIcs for Old Dresses too
Good 20 be Discarded-POpularity
of Undecided CoIors.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-26

set in the midst of the tuft of feathers
which is posed against the crown
Millinery Irade RcCieC.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-26

Agent-R. BUGGINs, Mt. Ida, Grant Co.,
Wis. Notary Public and Conveyancer. Collec-
tons a specially.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-26

NARROW ESCAPE.
One day last week the firm of Grin
Morning journal and courier., 1886-10-18

DR.. Twitchen preached an impressive ser
mon in the morning from the text ''We all
do fade as leaf" The lessons taught by
the falling leaf were set forth in an original
and eloquent manner. We try to deceive
ourselves, and even call art to aid to
persuade our willing hearts that the summer
is yet with US while the chill frosts of age
have already touched and whitened the hair
and scanned the face with wrinkles. Yet it
is blessed to fade as a leaf. The leaf as it
fades becomes more beautiful, natures
browning beauty comes just before her
burial. So We need not to be blasted color
less by the winds and storms of disappoint-
ment. Every wind may be but for the ar
ranging in more effective forms of autumn
colors. The promises of the gospel are suf
fcient to accomplish this. Spring is not far
behind autumn; every falling leaf makes
room for a new lie to follow it. So the
eternal spring and the new life beyond the
grave await u.s.
The evening discourse continued the same
lines of thought as that of the morning