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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-10-28

LANCASTER, BEETOWN & BLOOMINGTON
STAGE.
LEAVES Lancaster every Tuesday, Thursday and
and Saturday at a. m. ard Arrives at Bloom
ington at 12 IN.
LEAVES Bloomington at p. m. on same days
and Arrives at Lancaster at 9 p. m.
s. JOHNSON, Prop.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-10-28

NEW Lemons. Oranges, Pears,
Grapes, Figs. and Dates at Joe Nathan's.
35w2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-10-28

REPUBLICAN SPEAKING. The follow
ing speakers will address. the people at
the places named on the political issues
of the day; Friday evening at Cassville,
Capt Z. j. Clawson in English and
Hon. J. X. Trotman in German; Friday
evening at Bloomington and Saturday
afternoon at Patch Grove. Senator Fos-
ter and Hon. IL. G. Adams; Saturday
evening at the Hoffman School House
Pleasant Ridge, Hon. E. NJ. Lowry, and
Monday evening, November l. at the
Welsh School House, Little Grant, Col
j. G. CLARK
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-10-28

FIRE IN MoNTFoRT. Tuesday
evening shortly after ten O'Clock the
old school-housc in Moutfort was no.
,iced to be in flames. The fire is re-
ported to have broken out some dist
ance from the stove, and is supposed to
be the work of incendiarism, as no fire
had been built since noon in the stove.
The loss is said TO be about $4,000
1t was insured for $1,000. The build
ing was two-story frame structure.
About 800 bad lately been spent in
painting and repairing the building
and putting in new seats. The win
dows and doors were all closed and
after the fire had been burning a few
minutes an explosion took place. blow
ING the roof off. This was evidently
cansed by the heat and smoke
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-10-28

SPooNER's SPEECH United States
Senator John c. Spooner spoke at
Hydo's Hall last night to large audi.
ence. Although suffering from severe
cold, he made speech that in point of
oratory and clear and convincing argu-
ment has not been approached by
any speaker at this place during the
present campaign. Even if time and
space did not forbid. it would be inn
possible to reproduce his address He
made many friends and good many
wavering voters went away impressed
with a sense of duty to put in straight
Republican vote next Tuesday.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-10-28
Store y Business
FOR SALE

/ again offer my store and dwelling house for
sale al bargain. The store is well stocked with
as good line Of general merchandise as can be
sold cheap for cash. Store and dwelling viii be
sold for one-half cash down, balance on time 10
suit purchaser, on approved note. Good and
perfect title gwen. Ny intention Of selling Is to
90 more extensively into the egg trade. am
still selling instructions as to how ] keep my
eggs fresh as newly laid the whole year round,
and desire correspondence from anyone who
wants to make fortune for themselves. You
can do this by purchasing my egg receipt.
For further information call on or address.
MRS. CHRISTINA ANDREW.
Hurricane. Grant County, Wis, June 10, 1886
I6m6w&s
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-10-28

REMEMBER these Prices can be !
chant DAREs give you such Low Prices.
Cheapest store IN the State. We have d
the FAIR STORE IN BOSCOBE
34yi-Wd
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-10-28
Grant Cnnntp @erald,


ltains on Narrow Gauge make close connec.
''ons Win tfaiEs on Milwaukee & st. Paul r. r
w. H. DECKER, Agent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-10-28

+ II. S?RAGUE. Plaintiffs Attorney.
Post-ofIice address Elkhorn. Wis
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-10-28

~ Everything in our Store VIII be sold at
equally Low Prices.
lad only at this store, as no other Mcr-
We claim this much that we are the
istanced every competitor Come to
L. First Dry Goods Store from Depot.
SS-0-P
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-10-28
ORA RICHARDS. sherla.


Jw seaton and Bushnell 6 Watkins, PLAN
tiff's Attorneys.
Post-otilce Address Lancaster, Grant County,
Wisconsin. 34w7
Freie Presse fuÌˆr Texas. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1865-1945, 1886-08-31
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graiebungs- uno Bobltbatigteits 8tpede bon
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finfanbsman5ig Sabren geiesIi@ inccrporirt
nit einem Rapital bon 1000, 900, gu tueI1em
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Botums tpmrbea ibre @e9te Elm 8beI Der geeeu.
t~partisen Characterization, ansenOm.naen am
2. December 1879.
Sbre sroBen 8iebungen bon etmaeI
men Nummern Fnbeu raonatIi9 fatt.
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Iefe na9folsenben Hlan.
Muberprbentltd sterteltabrltae 3ie>
bmng
in Der Neaben,p Of Mufe, Nen Srleans,
Dienffas ben IA. Septer1ber 1886.
O0,O0O aidets gu $40 iebes.
GnIke AZ Tiinftels 50. 2ehnfel 81.
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nnabertref1ide sIn3iebuns
11eber cine halbe Millicn berlcof.
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2.279 i'm Betrage bon $522,50O
t- Mnfrasen fit Asenten, foEie Rateu
fir Clubs t6nneu nur In Der Office In Nep
Orleans senaGt tuerben.
@ege naberer s~ustuaft f9reibe man bentlid
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n, GrpreB Mcneh Srber, Netp Oprf
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Dir sabIea grprebtofen.
90. u. Dauphin,
sfep Orleans, Ga.
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Rational 8ant, Stein Orleans, Ga.
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221 aeeania Strabe, Gan GntsuiO, 3tyas
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-07

and wise men connected with all u uni
versities who viii go over his personal
doubts and fears with him, and give him
comforting assurances. If suchs question
is to be solved by a compulsory daily at
tendance at early chapel, the student will
probably decide for himself in the mega
tive. Where religion is exscted as q task,
and not proffered as q blessing, there the
hypOcrite and 4ycOphaut will breed and
flourish. 1t is within the knowledge OF all
men educated at UNCONVENTIONAL colleges
that = sort Of sauctimoniouS piety brings
q certain reward Of its own, and that pray
er meeting elOquenee aud Sunday school
diligence have sometimes obtained the de
gree that is supposed to be given only tor
scholarship"
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-07
CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS.
The Prominent Legislators of to-
Day and Other Days.
Comparative Strength of the Two Parties
in Both Houses---Edmunds, EVarts
and LOgan---CarIisIe Nor
rison and Randall.

There has not been d timein many years
when both houses OF Congress contained
sofew pre-eminentand acknowledged leaders
as at present occupy seats therein. In the
Senate the Democratic side is the weakest
in this respect, while in the House the Re-
publicans suffer most by the comparison.
If these conditions were exactly reversed
it would perhaps more nearly ~equslize mat
tiers in a political sense, for as the case
now stands it is the minority aide in each
house that is weakest in leadership, and
there is nothing that more closely resembles
a forlorr hope in a legislative body than a
minority iue~dequately led. The majority,
with q friendly presiding officer, will
generally pull through in the face OF a de,
ficiency Of commanding leadership, and
the minority, possessing strong, able lead
ers, will be able to hold them pretty level.
The question of leadership in a legislative
or deliberative body is one that cannot we'll
be settled by caucus agreement. | settles
itself. The man who possesses the tact,
the ability and the other gifts of nature
which constitute the leader will gradually
come to the front and be recognized, no
matter who else may be striving for the
position. In the last Congress ~eX-Speaker
Keller assumed that his prominence and the
usages of the past would place him in the
van upon the floor, though wholly deficient
in the qualities of q leader, but Mr.. Reed
soon came to be recognized by the Re-
publicaps as their best spokesman, poorly
az he filed the shoes of Blaine and Garfield.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-07
ESAToR EDMUSDS,
OF Vermont.
SENATOR BECK,
OF Kentucky,
NJ onestion ever existed AZ TO the lead.

No question ever existed as to the lead
ersbip OF Adams, Webster, Clay, Calhoun,
Douglass, Stephens, Thurman and Blaine
when they were in Congress. There is g
fine engraving It'll extant entitled The
United States Senate in 1850 1t repre-
sents Henry Clay in his famous attitude,
addressing the Senate On the compromise
measured. Millard Fillmore is in the
Chair; among the attentive listeners are
Calhoun, Benton, Webster, Douglass, Prem.
tiss and a host of Others whose names are
familiar in the history Of that time. They
are ell men who sdorn the past
Of Congressional history and brought to
the discharge Of their duties unusual
abilities. Siuce that time there has been
no occasion when 50 worthy a group could
be photographed from q single sitting OF
the Senate. The tendency has been
rather downward ever since, and not long
ago we had O carpet'bagger in the place
OF Calhoun and a third. clAss lawyer in the
seat of Webster. 1t does not follow on &C.
count of some ~degenerhcy In the halls Of
Congress during the past twenty-five years
that there has been q corresponding de-
reneracv in the mental culture aid educa.
ton Of the American people. The con.
trsry is true. The table land of general
intelligence is much higher now than it
YVES twenty-five years ego, and hence
p~roRontorys are fewer and more difficult
of growth. The Senator used TO be the
great political instructor Of his people.
When railroads were few and news
papers dear tie people waited
Tor the Senatorial welcome home
to find out what Congress had done ami
what they ought to think. Now the village
school-hoy reads the Congressional Report
every day, and the chances ore ten 10 one
that he is n better informed man than his
Senator before the close Of the term. 1t
would feartully tax the powerof the human
mind for any man to be to;he general intel
~ligence Of 1886 what Clay and Webster
were to the general intelligence Of 1850.
But there is still another reason for the de-
cline Of greatness 10 the Senate to be found
in the fact that the qualities which once
alone secured an election 10 o seat in that
body are not go absolutely the require
ments of the present day. Other
cnnsideretihns than ability, experience
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-07

to the issue Of who can show us the ba.
credentials.
Sixty cents for mining coal is Ltd.
enough. We hope to see the time vh,.
the miners will be able to get along Is the,
should, "a they are an industrious class.
An entertainment will be given soon !,
the High School.
Mrs. DR.. Mcclellan is somewhat betts,
Col. C. L. Poorman will return to ca,
umbus again tomorrow.
Our dramatic troopes will not be rssu,.
rected this year.
DR.. NJ. D. Rearson "a seriously i'll ys.
terday.
A great deal OF fine ice was cut yss,s,.
day.
The Belmont and Bucke,s Building 4.
sociations meet tomorrow evening.
A prominent employe at the Lantern
Globe Works will be married shortly, A.
cording TO report,
The planning mill is only working eiat,
hours q day.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-07
sKEPrICIsM IN COLLEGES.

Of late years it is worthy of nOtice that
there has been an increasing ~laxness in the
rules Of many of the denominatoual edu-
cstionsl institutions Of this country. There
has been = tendency to place students upon
their own honor both as regards religious
instruction and morality. In many OF the
State institutions every student is allowed
10 take up with what ever be iet or disoe'
lief be pleasss Just IS long as ne does not
20 beyond the bounds Of the law. This,
of course tends to develop individuality
and diversity among students rather than
t~ashioning them al! according to the same
uattern as in intensely sectarisn schools.
But the question has been raised Wheth-
err there is not too much hberaity in many
schools. The cry is raised that some are
but the hot beds of scepdcism, and that
the Young men who enter their doors as
students do so but to reap the misfortune
of having no religious belief. DR.. McCosH,
ofPrinceton, and President ELIOT, Of Hsr-
ward, locked horns on this question in the
Nineteenth Century Club q few days ago.
As the Ebershty shown in State and de-
p~ominational schools of West Virginia has
often been the subject of warm discussion,
the following comment By the New York
Star upon the Nineteenth Century Club
discussion is quite spropos; "Seetarisnism
IN schools and colleges is contrary to the
spirit and law Of this country. That 1t
exists in certain institutions is more q
matter of accident than Of choice. AS
most Of our older colleges were founded
Win tue prtmohy V"y~ - 80
men for the ministry, 3 marked degree OF
de~noninatiousl influence has existed in
their management. As the question Of
educational expedieuts has become of more
importance than doctrinal tenets, the de-
u~ominationsl influences are now dying 8
natural death.
mo one cares to see them revived. The
sect Of 3 college will have no weight or in
huenee in the future. The student will
not care whether he is being taught or lee
turod to BY = Baptist or a Roman CathO.
lie, provided that the beat thought Of the
age is OF bis disposal The churchgoers
will continue to attend the religious ser
vices of their own belief, and the others
viii stop away as they do al present. There
is no reason why this option should lead to
sEuostieism among students any more han
any other class Of intelligent citizens The
average age Of admission to college and
the requirements for q degree are so stead
lily increasing that the raw boy, turned
adrift from home influences, is no longer q
figure in our seats Of learning. So long as
the student is protected from i~rreEgionS in
Ruenees be might as vel be allowed to es-
tSbHsh his own standards of faith, without
coercion, at the age of 81, as to be encour
aged to develop the other attributes of
manhood.
IF, Is Dr.. McCosE suggests, the stu
dent seeks information Is to whether life
il worth living, there II plenty Of good
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-07
WEST ALEXANDER,
The Past Week in West Alexander-Per-
sonal News.
1eciGi 70 tie Sunday Register.

Special TO ne Sunday Register.
WEsr ALEXANDER. February 6.-Gen.
Meade (E. S. Alexsnder) has retired from
the authorship eff the Presbyterian Church.
cause, too much work for the amount OF
shekels received. Private Jno. Becroft
takes his place.
A force of workmeu will erect q new
stock pen at our depot for loading N cars,
which is badly needed. A new depot is
Dr.. &, E. Woods la on uury ugaru a..er
his illness.
This has been rather q dull week in bust,
meas owing to the extreme cold weather.
The Executive Committee OF Temper
snce Club met last evening at the residence
of Dr.. s. A. Craig to decide whether they
would give an entertainment on the even
ing of Wsshington's birthday.
The gas and oil speculation is having a
boom here in the way of talk about form.
ing q company to sink a well in this
vicinity.
Mrs. Laymsster, of Washington, Pa, is
the guest Of her brother, W. b. Nsuss,
ESQ, of this place. She arrived yesterday
accompanied by Mrs. NJ. L. Stillwsgon, of
Clsysyille.
Work will be resumed next week at the
West Virginia Gas Compsny's well near
this place as tools for removing the OBJ
straetions have arrived.
The Temperance Band Of this place will
give q literary and musical entertainment
at the Presbyterian Church on the even
ing Of 22d inst. A small admission viii be
charged, proceeds for the benefit of Valley
Grove Band. We learn hat there will be
an oyster supper and festival held at the
q. P. Church on the same evening.
The Nail City Sss we'll represented here
this week, our friend John Gibson being
the latest arrival.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-07
MORRISON, ILL.
y. Y.

and Statecratt often prevail in these days
to elevate men to that dignifed and lofty
position.
When President Cleveland took three Of
the sblest Democratic Senators for his Cab
met he weakened his party in the upper
house OF Congress TO g very considerable
e ent. There really seemed to be nobody
to I'll their places on the floor Of the Sen
ate, end while voorhees,, Vest and Beck
have stepped mantQlly into the breach, it
is sill measurably untitled. These three
are the strongest men 90 that side OF the
Senate at this time, though Butl=r, of
West Virginia, IRE developing rsIu aJll.tJ
ss debateEs. Senator Vest, who is regard
ed BY some as tbe Administration
leader in the Senate, is not the
writer ideal Of a great man, yet he pos.
sesses more than Ordinary gitts 9a g de-.
batter, is a far lawyer and is altogether q
well equipped, ready and able man. His
style of speech is somewhat ford at tines,
yet ne is both interesting and effective in
discussion. His short and slightly rotuud
figure, short neck and round head, with
bigh,colOred complexion, do not exactly
suggest a model OF physical beauty, though
coupled with q genial temperament and a
degree of personal magnetism. The Tall
Sycamore of the Wabash" is a strong
man on the floor of the Senate, bgt has not
up to the present session taken the leading
part in the discussions there which might
have been expected of him. The present
appears to be his opportunity. No man has
left the United States Senate in twenty
five years, who has been SO much missed
BY his party as Allen G.. Thurman. Atthe
first glance over the body. when he sat
there, a stranger would hardly have select
ed Thurman as a leader. One might even
have heard him speak without noticing his
ability or influence, but after watching the
proceedings a few days the conviction in
evitsbly came that no mans words were
more worth listening TO and that no mans
words commanded such respectful atten.
ton. In a few hours of defamation other
Senators would show you ali their airs aed
graces, but there vas q reserved strength
about the grand old man cf tie
red bsndanna, which opponents dread.
ed and friends con6ded in. One
blast Of Humans horn would be
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-07
WEtlSB
Returning to the u'o u C"nI-osn@
News-Psrso. al.
Special 10 no Srniry RsyUip.

Returning to d U'o u Coal osna
Hews-Psrso. al.
Specidi 10 no Srniry RsyDtn
WELLsBvRu. F,brUary u Neal, \
the people Of this place bsyo ~rrlGrLsi
the use Of coal as. a fuel, and the pts
days Of gss 6res seems 10 have beooH,
thing Of the past. The exceptions bG.
those who are supplied by liats Of ps-
owned by the msnuiaclo,irs Who b.,
leased ell the gas we'll, except the g
owned By the Wellsbarg Gas C0mpaIr 7
they are not sufficient for hasrint pGfpy
coal is used in conjunction si,h III. -.
the two making Is good FIRE 10 '
there will be abundance u gs- N
dwellings on Sunday, as the ,~acIorif. ..
not be running until Monday.
The Jsparese Tea at Bsr,hs Hall Z
Q grand succsss. and Melted = hsbdsS
little snm for the benefit Of The fpiEhis
Church The phantom dance BY q,
yonng ladies' was n very iuten sting la
as WAS also the review OF the ara
Miksdo. The costum.s we're gorGt
and the booths we're pretty. E'uy z
seemed 10 have q good time.
James Beall. Of Independence s.'sS
the japanese Tea.
Misses Ida Erwin, Jane Good ADD
Brown, Of Wheeling came Up 70 ~
the Mikado Tea.
Miss Maggie Pendleion. Of Wis.,
rendered valGshls MD 10 The dnll sd
terest to tie entertainment.
The merchants did M upusu-l az:
OF business to day.
Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-07
GRAFTON.
A Tale of Love and Infanticide Lac,
News--Personal.
Special 10 the Sunday Register.

A Tale of Love and Infanticide -Loe,
News--Personal.
Special 10 he Sanday Register.
GRAFTON, February 6.-Daring the d.,
week there has been waited to the ess S
the news CATERERS of our city the aigb, Of
DR.. D. C. Bsdgley, Of simpson, and IL.
nearing to the great white throne of one q;
Grafton's young women, who loved not
wisely, but too well. ]. appears that On.
Nathan Kiizmiller, ~h0hss for some tin.
been q police officer here, wooed aud WOO ,
pretty young woman, in what seemed 4,
her o fair and honorable manner. and 81.
reciprocated with a like passion. Before ,ss
marriage vowsw were pronounced she yisldH
to the solicitations OF her betbtothed a. i
we're, and com nitted q social crime ,hy
was later on blotted out in blood. she G.
companied her seducer to the aforesaid y
d., aud he committed the deed, aud usr,
similar mes are said to have been De,
formed by the same hands, and mar
young women and also a few married QUE
have, it is alleged, sent their unborn Osbs
to another world by the crimes OF this pt,
stefan. About three weeks ago kitzuin,,
took his departure to the "laud OF prua
ise," Kansas, and Just before the crin,
above mentioned Was committed. II.
people Of Simpsons are greatly sgits,i
aud inceused over the proceedings Ts,
neighbors Of this physician have said ttg
it was not an unusual thing to hear al mid
night the cries Of some unfortunate female
whose I ,rtures to hide her shame were b,
acts of DR.. Badgley, in performing aba
ton.
NJ. E. Barrett, Esq Of Grafton, b,
been awarded the contract OF cons,rucdr,
the foundation OF Q new college at Bers
Ky. Mr.. Bsrretts bid was the highest, 90,
submitted, therefore it seems singular ,hs
the contract would be granted. The q
quel is tina: he has erected several build
ings in the vicinity Of Berea, and has suA
a good reputation for completing he1r
contracts that his name gave him the sui
over many other competitors.
Mr.. j. q. Webster was examined Jeiur
Judges Ice, Brannou and Fleming 90:
secured the necessary license to pr.c,is
law. He will 60 to Western pasture. t.
reap the reward OF study and sppIicau:s
and will erect his single in some lsyua
BILE point IN Southern Kansas.
Neil j. Fortney, Prosecuting Atoms
OF Preston county. who has been irvesis
ting the Newburg mine disaster, ,oseiSa
with his wife spent two days the past vel
visiting in Grafton.
Robert Birkett, oil near Wheeling, vac
our town last week.
Capt. Hoover ard lady, OF the Grsfa.
House, are visiting in Baltimore.
Mrs. Ann Hecker. Of Fet,ernan, bros.
her arm above the wrist on WEDNESDAY
DR.. Abe Warden repaired the member
A train OF emigrants from the VALLEY !
Virginia went Wes. Tuesday night via Gu
cinnati and st. l.ouis.
The roller rink at this place Was o6ss
for sale on Saturday, $500 being The biz
est bidder. The sale was deferred u.
Wednesday.
Mr.. + B Stone, an ex.posjmssler and
leading merchant OF RoalesSurg. ha, BE-. (.
circulating himself among his Grsfa I
friends for q day or two