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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
AN EXCELLENT BARN.
Description of One That Has Given Entir,
Satisfaction.

Description Of One That Has Given Entire
Satisfaction.
l have been reading your description
of barns for several years and will
now send you a description of one l
built in 1887. The size is 70x50 feet. It
stands with end to the bank so as to
drive in at the end The floor is rs feet
wide by 10 feet long. The bays are each II
feet wide by 20 feet long. The basement
is divided into sheep stable, feeding
room, horse and cow stable and man
ure shed and hog pen. The hog pen
has loft over it for corn. The sheep
stable and feeding room are eight feet
high in the clear The horse and COW
stable are nine feet high and the man
ure shed is 10 feet high. The siding is
IS feet on the main frame. The
roof is slate. The barn is painted with
two coats of paint, and the whole thing
cost $685., besides my own work and
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
Largo aud Double Yelked Exrs

1t is seldom that double-yelked egg
will hatch, though instances have been
known in which such eggs have pro
due chicks. When doublc-yelked eggs
are found, it IS To be regretted. rs they
invariably indicate that the hens are
ont Of condition too fat 4 hen in
good laying condition Will never pro
duce an erg other than If the normal
size peculiar to her hreeo. ana if fat,
she is entirely untitled for laying. If a
fat hen is killed she win Ice found full
of eggs. 50 TO speak, but they will be
noticed TO be u all sizes, and the poul-
tryman viii be amazed over the fact
that She did not lay; but examination
win show that distractions Of fat were
the cause. and the hen is then mora
profitable dead than when alive. Farm
and Fjreside
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
SCRAPS FOR SOLDIERS.

KENTUCKY has 165 posts, with a total
membership of $500 OF this number
eight posts, with 783 members, are To-
Gated in the city Of Louisville
Ar almost every public place when
General Sherman makes his appearance
the band invariably strikes up March
ing Through Georgia" and the General
recently remarked, while listening to
che air for the millionth time, Il have
often thought that when was march
ing to the sea it would have been well
had marched on into ii.
AT the close of the fiscal year 1890
Ohio had 57,0S7 pensioners; New York,
so, 206; Pennsylvania, 4957S: Indiana,
A., 79S; Illinois, 39.943; Michigan. 20, SOB;
Missouri, 23,749; Iowa, 2S,1s9; Kansas,
-, S21; Massachusetts, u S91; Wiscon-
sin, l6,7Ss Maine, Is, o24. and Kentucky,
$4,000, The number in none Of the rest
Of the States come up to five figures.
THE Commissioner of Pensions in his
annual report recently issued gives
some interesting statistics of the
Pension Bureau The number of sol
ult'fS VINO enlisted Is given as 1,2lo, 500.
The number killed in battle and died Of
disease to July /, 1865 was SOL, 1l6 The
number surviving July /, 1890 was
l,246 0s9 and of this number IA, 600 are
now sixty-two years of age or upward
MOST interesting relic of the late
war was cxhumed few days ago at
Belmont Mo. which confirms an old
story as to the methods of warfare
adopted by the Confederates in their
operations on the Mississippi. Captain
Burlingame, superintendent Of the Bel
mont, Mo, grain elevator. after con-
siderable time and trouble, pulled out
of a sand bar near the elevator over
/ 100 feet of chain, which proved to be a
/ portion of that used by the Confeder-
atcs in spanning the river between
Columbus, KY, and Belmont, in an at
| tempt to blockade the river against the
passage of boats. The original chain
was over 1900 feet long Washington
| Post.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
FIG. 8.

the box may be as short or long as pre-
ferred.
The inside may be lined with tarred
paper, or made in any manner suitable.
Stats or wire-netting can be stretched
around the legs, thus providing place
for sitters or for breaking up sitters.
This nest can also be made without
legs; or it may be placed outside Of the
poultry-house, provided an opening be
made in the poultry-house to CORE
spond with B, Fig. /, the opening of the
house and that of the box being brought
together"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12

Both the method and results when
Syrup Of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys-
tenn efectually, dispels colds. head
aches and fevers and cures habitua'
constipation. Syrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac-
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in It's
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, its
many excellent qualities commend il
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. ANY reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA re syrup CO.
SAN FRANCISCO. cal.
LOUISVILLE. KY NEW YORK. NY
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12

shot through both arms nearthe elbow.
His hands hung limp and useless and
the blood was dripping from them. But
up under the armpits he Rugged his
broken Belgian musket.
Il didn't lose my gun, Mr.. hdj-ton;
I got my gun, sab, the ex-slave called
out proudly. Not a murrnur escaped
him about the shattered arms, but he
had saved his gun and he claimed credit
for it-St Louis Globe Democrat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12

A, sheep stable, isxl5o feet; b. feeding room
@. well; 5, stairs; c. COW stable; d, box stall !;
F, manure shed, S0x50 feet; G, drive way; II.
hog pen; l, storage.
what material I got on the farm l
have well of good water in the feed
ing room, also large water trough
about 100 feet from the manure shed.
The water runs to this trough from as
good a spring as there is in the county
have room enough for all the hay,
straw, corn-fodder and all other stuff
that | want to handle The stairway
and feeding room is boxed up and serves
as an oat bin, and is connected by a
spout with granary above-P. p. Cal
breath, in Ohio Farmer
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12

Muusey' 5 Weekly Mrs. Bunker, oil
Boston (o her brother. Alkali Ike. who
IS visiting herr The waiter is very
slow. Perhaps You had better tip him
a tritle, Isaac Alkali Ike CATER stand
ING the waiter on his head) Thar,
Will that do, Jula2 | kin sling him
plumb ont into the kitchen jest rs vel
rs not you think il will hurry him
any"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
WAR "REMINISCENCES.
TWO SOLDIERS AT GETTYSBURG.

The armies they had ceased to night
The night was still and DARK,
And many thousand on the field
Were lying stn and stark
The stretcher men bad come along
And gathered all they could
A hundred surgeons worked that night
Behind the clump OF wood.
They flashed the lanterns in my face,
And as they hurried by.
The sergeant looked and said "He's dead"
And made no reply
The bullet had gone through my breast
No wonder was still;
But once will be nearer death
Than when upon that hill.
A gray-clad picket eame along
Upon his midnight beat.
he came so near me that tried
To move and touch his feet
At once he bent and felt my breast
Where life still fought at bay;
No one who loved me could have done
More than this man OF gray
Ger me all chilled with blood and dew.
His blanke, soft he spread;
A crimson shcaf o. wheat he brought
A pillow for my head.
Then knelt te-ide me for an hour
Ana hathtd my ups HHd bf0Wi
But for the man who was my foe
I'D not G living now.
Then as the coming daylight shown,
He bent his lips 10 say
God spare You brother though you wear
The blue, and | the gray
The sounds OF war are silent now;
We call no man our Zoe,
But soldier hearts can nos forget
The scenes OF long aeo.
Dear are the ones who stood with Us
To struggle or 10 dc
No ore can Of encr hreathe their names
or love them more thanI
But from my life Ia give year
That grayciai man 10 see,
- clasp 10 love The foeman' hand
Who saved my life o. me.
Minneapolis Tribune.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12

Indianapolis journal: My dear. =
said young Mrs. Fits at the play, "it
is humilatng confession for me To
make, but am positively nervous for
the want Of a piece of gum
II u 50 get you some as soon Is the
curtain falls, said Mr. Fits.
And various of their acquaintance,
as they saw him disappear, said what a
pity it was that SO sweet young
woman should be bound for life to such
slave Of the Demon Drink that he
could not even wait until the play
was over to satisfy his depraved ap-
pQfitp
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12

there being walkway, inches wide,
the whole length, which may be open
at one or both ends, as preferred.
Fig. is plan of the entrances to
the nests and also of the partition be-
tween the waIkway and the nests The
holes are ten inches in diameter. the
bottoms of the holes being two inches
above the floor of the nests.
THE door, or entrance to the box, rs
twenty-four inches high, but may he
lower if desired; and the legs under
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12

At a public meeting in Boston, Mr..
Cough said: Not long ago was in a
hospital and saw young man twenty.
six years of age pale and emaciated,
with his shattered arm resting upon a
oil-sill1 pillow, and there had been
many long and weary weeks, waiting
for sufficient strength for an amputa-
ton. ! knelt by his side and said "Will
you answer me one question:" Yes
sir was his reply Suppose then you
were well, at home, in good health, and
knew all this would come to you, if you
enlisted, would you enlist?' Yes sir, y
he answered, in a whisper; Il would in
a minutes What is my arm or my life
compared with the safety of the coun-
try" That was patriotism of the
genuine brand Anecdotes of the Re
belliOn
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1891-03-12
PLANS FOR NEsT-sox.

Continuance That VIII Prevent Hens
from Eating Their Eggs.
Mr.. Luther Robbins sends to Farm
and Fireside a plan of a nest-box
which, though simple, is novel in some
respects. Mr.. Robbins, in describing
it, says:
" My hens prefer it to the open nests,
and as the inside of the nest is dark
(which the hens prefer. they are not
liable to eat the eggs in the nests.
Fig. l shows the exterior of the
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1891-02-21
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Land Office At Boise City, Idaho.

January 40, 1891.
Notice is hereby given that the following.
named settler has filed notice Of his intention,
to make final proof in support ofhis claim, and
that said proof will be made before the Reg.
lister and Receiver At Boise City Idaho, on
March 6, 1891.
viz: Elmer A. Mcconnell, Of Caldwell Idaho,
who made Hid application No. 1888, for the
nH sw4, nw1 sex. Sec. Al, TIP 4 N r 3w
B. P. NJ. He names the following witnesses
to prove his continuous residence upon and
cultivation Of, said land, viz: Thomas H.
Galloway, James Kinkaid. James Kimsey and
James NJ. Cook, all Of Caldwell, Ada Co.
CHAs. S. KINGSLEY, Register.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1891-02-21
BUCKLEN'S ARNICA sALVE

The Best Salve in the. world for cuts bruis.
e, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Series
letter, Chapped Hands, Ch,lblains, Corns
and all Skin Erup,ions, aud positively cnres
Piles or no pay required, It is guatantee to
give perfect satisfaction or money refunded.
Price IS cents per box. For sale by H. D.
Blatchley,
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1891-02-21

dier-general of the regular army.
In October, 1858, he succeeded
General Grant as commander of
the army department of the Ten
nessee. D.s
When, in March, 1854, General
Grant was made Lieutenant-G ener-
al and commander of all the Union
forces, Sherman succeeded him as
commander of the military division
Of the Mississippi. This included
the entire Southwest, and his ap-
pointment gave him command Of
more than a hundred thousand
effective troops with whom to oper.
ate against General j. E. johnson.
He began the invasion of Georgia
on the End of May, 1865, making
his advance movement at the same
with that of Grant in the East. His
forces were superior in number to
those of the Confederate general,
who, however. stubbornly contested
the advance at every possible point.
There was much hard fighting be-
tween the two armies, and it was
until September End. that tlanta
was captured by Major General
Sherman, but then newly promo
ted to this rank. He occupied the
city with his army for ten weeks,
when he commenced his march to
the sea, having previously dis
patched some forty thousand men
under General Thomas to repel
General Hoods advance into Ten
nessee. His remaining forces con-
sisted Of sixty thousand men, more
or less. In less than a month they
had marched 800 miles without
resistance. His first fight was at
Fort McAllister, below Savannah,
tho surrender of which stronghold
preceded that Of Savannah by eight
days.
In the middle Of January, 1865,
General Sherman began his inva-
sion of the Carolinas. His march
through South Carolina lasted six
weeks. In North Carolina he en-
countered considerable opposition,
and fought two pitched battles.
Goldsboro' was occupied on the
22nd of March 1865; Raleigh, on
April 18th. On the 26th of April
General Johnston surrendered his
army to Sherman on the same
terms as had been granted to Cen
eral Lee by General Grant. This
surrender virtually closed the war.
General Sherman continued in
command of the military division
of the Mississippi a year after the
end of the hostilities, with the rank
of major-general in the regular
army. He was promoted to lieu
tenant-general when in July, 1865,
Grant had been made general Of
the army. His command contin-
ued as before. Sherman succeeded
Grant as General in the army in
March, 1869, after the election Of
tho first named to the Presidency.
He spent part of 1871 and 1872
abroad and in the East. Upon hie
return he made his headquarters
at Washington, but removed to St
Louis in 1874. General Sherman
contributed to the historical litera'
ture of the United States by pub
lication of his memoirs in 1875.
At his own request, and in order
to make Sheridan geueral-in.c hief
he was placed on the retired list
with full pay and emoluments, or
February 8, 1884.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-03-19

COLONEL w. F. CODY, better known
as Buffalo Bill, has secured a signal
triumph over General Morgan, the com
missioner of Indian affairs. The latter
was determined that Buffalo Bill should
not take any Indians back to Europe to
join his show. Buffalo Bill brought
back to this country the Indians that he
had with him to answer the charges
made that they had not been rightly
treated. He seemed to convince the
secretary of the interior that the stories
hostile to him were false. But General
Morgan was very determined that no
Indians should ever leave reservation
again to join the show. But an appeal
was taken to the secretary of war, and
the latter, in view of the representations
that had been made to him and also the
very good service which Buffalo Bill
rendered to the government in the re-
cent Sioux trouble, granted the permits
sion which Buffalo Bill desired. Speak
ing of the probabilities of any Indian
outbreak this summer, Colonel Cody,
who is about to start for the Sioux
reservation to engage his Indians. ex-
pressed his opinion that there would be
no further Sioux trouble.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-03-19

NEW YORK, March 19.-Fire swept
through the five-story brick tenement,
No. 81 Allen street, at 8. a. m. A father
and two daughters were burned to death.
Their names were: Bernard Jasper, 90
years old; Sarah and Betsy Jasper, aged
10 and Is Their bodies were burned
aim ost beyond recognition and were taken
to the morgue. Several persons were in
jured. Minnie Jasper, SO years old, was
terribly burned. Abraham S. Goldstein
a baby, was thrown from a third story
window to the sidewalk and received in
ternal injuries. Henry Jasper, 10 years
old, was slightly burned on the hands.
There were many thrilling rescues. The
people had no time to save any of their
effects, and rushed to the fire-escapes in
their night clothes.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-03-19
FLED For rAslR LIVES.

Ehs Employees OF the Elizabeth cordags
works Escape from the Burning Building.
ErIxABETH, n. J., March 19.-Ths
Elizabeth Cordage Works, the second
largest industry in Elizabeth, were do
stroyed by fire during the afternoon.
Six hundred people We're employed in
the works, $50 of whom were females
When the alarm of fire was given thers
was a mad rush for the doors. The men
and the girls tumbled down stairs in con
fusion, some being trampled under foot
So far as known, they all got out safely,
with the exception of few scratches and
bruises.
The plant was established here in 1910.
There were two large and half dozen
small buildings, all brick. The plant was
worth 100000. The works belonged to
the National Cordage Company, and were
the largest ropemaking works in the
United States.
There were wild rumors of loss of life,
but Superintendent Williams says that
all the operatives had plenty of time to
escape. The works were insured.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-03-19
ONE MORE TRAGEDY
Excitement in New Orleans
Over Another Murder.
A NEWSPAPER MAN SHOT DOWN.
Killed by Lawyer Who Was Prominent
in the Hennessy Trial

The Trouble Grew Out of Remarks Made
About the Lynching OF the Italians.
Fears Expressed that the Friends of the
Murdered Man May Seek Rsvenge-Ths
Grand jury at Work.
New ORLEANS, March 19.-At II o'clock
last night Captain Arthur Dunn, promi-
nent politician and we'll known attorney
of this city, became involved in a quarrel
with Frank Waters, an ex-journalist and
we'll known character about town, and a
shooting scrape followed, terminating in
the killing of Waters and the serious
wounding of Dunn.
Captain Dunn was one of the attorneys
employed by the State In the recent trial
of the Italians charged with the assassin
alton of Chief of Police Hennessy.
The trouble last night began in the
early part of the evening. Waters had
been drinking in a saloon, and during the
course of his remarks stigmatized the
killing of the Italians at the parish prison
as an outrage on the community, and ex-
pressed himself as satisfied that all those
who had participated in the killing would
come to an untimely end.
They Pull Their Guns.
Dunn met him shortly afterwards and
a dispute took place during the progress of
which Dunn referred to Waters as a muir
derer, he having killed Joseph Baker here
in 1887. The dispute grew warmer and
Dunn pulled his revolver and shot Waters
in the cheek and in the mouth. The bull
let ranged upward and penetrated the
brain. Waters returned the fire of his
antagonist and wounded Dunn twice in
the left leg and again in the right side of
his chest near the nipple. Waters died
almost instantly. Dunn was taken to the
hospital where he lies in a precarious
condition.
Intense excitement prevails and fears
are expressed that an effort may be made
by friends of Waters to wreak summary
vengeance on Dunn.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-03-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Rock Island Railroad is reducing
its force one-half
The Massachusetts House passed a bill
to compel railroad companies to sell new
stock at auction.
1t is reported that the Paris green man.
ufactures of the United States have
formed combine.
Captain Lansing Smell, one of the best
known citizens of Lafargeville, N. Y, is
dead at the age of SIS.
The statement that pleuro-pneumonia
prevails among the cattle OF Lancaster
County, Pa, is officially denied.
Senator Palmer says emphatically that
he is not a candidate for either the Presi-
Dental or Vice-Presidential nomination.
Liquor dealers are fleeing from South
old, L. l., to escape going to Jail as a re-
suit of the womens fight against saloons.
Mike Kelly declares that he will play
with the American Association this year.
He will probably captain the Cincinnati
club.
William II. Herndon, Abraham Lin
coins law partner, and author of a Life
of Lincoln" died near Springfield, Ill,
yesterday of the grip, aged -.
A Minersville, Pa, dispatch says a dis
ease resembling diphtheria is raging in the
HeckSchervllle Valley with fatal results,
the victims being mostly children.
Governor Hill has received from Wash
ington a check for S2,2l3 ,S30.S6, which is
the amount due to the State of New York
in pursuance of the provisions of the Di-
rect Tax bill.
One of the finest barns in the Cumber-
land Valley, the property of Mrs. Margaret
Moser, situated at Shepardstown, Pa, was
destroyed by fire last night. n lot of live
stock was burned.
A statistical report on the sweating
system" in Boston and vicinity, just pre-
pared by the Bureau of Labor, shows that
the profits made by clothing manufac-
turers under the system referred to in
some instances are as high as SS.97 per
cent.
At a meeting of the Executive Board
of the mine workers at Scottdale, Pa,
it was unanimously decided to continue
the struggle in the coke region until next
August if necessary to win. The wants
of hungry families are to be supplied out
of the defense fund, which is increasing.
A terrific explosion occurred in the pud-
ding furnace in the Crescent Steel Works
at Pittsburg, Pa, by which three men
were probably fatally injured. Six others
received serious burns and bruises.
Superintendent Edwards says the eX-
plosion was caused by the men pulling
! the hot Stag from the furnace and allowing
! it to fall into the pool or water lying upon
! the floor.
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-03-19

MIR HALSTEAD tells n new story of
General Sherman. The editor was in
Washington as newspaper correspond
ent at the outbreak of the war. He met
Sherman there as colonel. One day in
party of soldiers and newspaper men
the subject of the loyalty of the inhahi-
tants of Washington came up, when
Colonel Sherman grimly said The
loyalty of the people of Washington is
such that if our troops in the capital
should be attacked and meet with re
verses, the women of Washington
would cut the threats of the wounded
on the sidewalks with case knifes."
Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-03-19

THE returns of the population of the
southern states by races, every
where show that the increase of blacks
is much smaller than that of whites.
Some of the figures are very curious,
however, and will give rise to discus
sion. In Texas the whites have in
creased 45 per cent and the colored
people % per cent. In Mississippi the
whites, between 1880 and 1890 increased
% and the colored people 6 per cent.
In Georgia each race increased 10 per
cent, while in Kentucky the whites ill.,
creased Is per cent, and the colored
people only an infinitessimal fraction.
In North Carolina the whites increased
81 per cent, and the colored people not
quite per cent. The revised figures
for Louisiana give white gain of
nearly % per cent, and a colored gain of
little more than is per cent.