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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-12
It Should Be in Every House.

j. B. Wilson. 81 Clay St. Sharps-
hurg, Pa saws he will not be without
Dr. DIR. Kings New Discovery for Con-
sumption, Coughs and Colds, That it
cured bis wife who was threatened with
Pneumonia sf'er an attack of LA
Grippe" " when various other remedies
and several physicians had done her no
good. Robert Barber. Of Cooksport.
Pa, claims DIR. Kings New Discovery
has done him more good than anything
he ever used for Lung Trouble. Moth
ing like it. Try it. Free Trial Bottles
at Jos T. Benefits dug Store. Large
bottles, soc. and Sl.OO
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-12
"RAM's HORN" SPEAR POINTS

Worry kills more people than the
cholera.
To HAVE an honest critic is to have
faithful friend.
Ii IS hard to agree with the man who
quarrels with hi mself.
You can't tell how big a man is until
you find out where his influence is going
to stop
In you don't want your boy to turn
out bad don't bear down too hard on
the grindstone.
If we had no trouble but real troubles
there wouldn't be round-shouldered
man in the world.
You can still find man now and
then who is expecting to get to Heaven
on his wife's church membership.
Ir is as bad to cover up the blind eye
in horse trade as it is to rob a man
after you have knocked him down with
a Sandbap
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-12
The Boston Star

SAYS Dr. kautmann's great book on
diseases, its CAUSES and home cure, with
line co'ored pilates, the best work ever
published \ copy viii be sent free 10
any body who sends three cent stamps.
to pay pystage. to 4 p. Ordway 4 Co,
Boston. Mass.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-12
Republican State Convention

On account of the Republican State
Convention, TO be held at Milwaukee.
May 9th. the Chicago Il Northwestern
Railway Company will sell tickets from
all stations in Wisconsin at half rates
one fare for the round trip. Apply to
agents c. Il \. w. R'y for tickets and
further information.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-12
Low Rates to Milwaukee.

On May 3D., 4th, 9Th and oath, agepts
of the Chicago & Northwestern Rail
way will sell excursion tickets to Mil
waukee and return ut half rates Cone
fare for the round tip.) For tickets
and full information, cali on or address
agents Chicago x North Western
Railway.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-12

General Manager: L thought you
advertised that you were selling out at
cost? growied the customer throwing
down % cents for small package OF
note paper
Yes, sir, replied the stationer, brisk
~. That's right. We referred to our
hostage stamps. Want any?'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-12
Rheumatism Cured in a Day.

Mystic Cure" for Rheumatism and
Neuralgia radically cures in to days.
Its action upon the system is remark
able and mysterious. 1t removes at
once the cause, and the disease inn
medately disappears. The first dose
greatly benefits, 10 cents. Sold by,
Stone & Hassell, Druggists, Lancaster.
4Sly
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-12

Cough Cream" is scientific COM
pound fol coughs and colds, prepared
by well-known druggist from the for
mula of celebrated physician, and
must not be classed with the many
quack compounds in market. Your
druggist sells it. 80 cts.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-12

Truth: Diner-You may possibly
recolIect that | ordered roast lamb a
long time ago.
Waiter-Yes, sir; i'm be ready direct
~.
Diner Well, kill another; l don t
Mnnt mnttOn
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-12

Indianapolis journal: How can YOU
sell these beautifully dialect,
stories for only 75 cents volume2
That Is really less than cost. answered
the bookseller. but we sell key to
them tor ST.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-12

Cloak Review: Losing Her Grip
Mrs. WitherbY-'Mrs. Plankington
doesn't dress so well as she used TO, does
she?' Mrs, Banger-'No; since her
husband signed the pledge she hasn't
the hold on him that she used to have
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-12

The success of Hoods Sarsapaarilla
is because it possesses true merit, and
no claim is made for it which is not
fully supported.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-12
For SHORT.

Youths Companions: In one of the
smaller towns of Kentucky lives negro
familiarly known as Tim White. On
one occasion it was necessary TO record
his fail came.
The not-unnatural supposition that
Tim stood for Timothy was met with
a fiat DENIAL
No, sabi My right name is What
iimorous--souls--we poor--mortals- be
White. Dey jes' call me Tim TO shot,
sahr
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-12

N. Y. Herald: In Training.-Hanks
I've just discovered the reason why
Closefist is so small. Banks-'What i
it?' Hanks-'fte expects TO have 10
crawl through the eye of a needle some
time
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-05-12

Truth Here is hair-raising thing
---' began the literary member. For
charity's sake give it 10 me, SAID the
bald headed member, excitedly. passing
bis hand sadly over his shining dome;
L need 1t badly
Some of the Grand army boys may
be interested in the following. from
Alex. B. Pope, A. d. c., Commander.
Dept Tenn. and Ga. He says: 1--WE
have had an epidemic of whooping
cough here, Stewart, TENNESSEE and
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has been
the only medicine that has done any
good" There is no danger from
whoOping cough, when this remedy is
freely given. 1t completely controls the
disease. 90 cent bottles for sale by j.
r. Bennett Druggist.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
HAD BETTER TAKE

The report of the special committee on
legislation to the Worlds Fair Directory
declares that Chicago does not want the
$4,000, 900 asked from Congress as a loan,
because 'fit would not be in accordance or
in harmony with the spirit of the law un-
der which we have prosecuted, up to the
present time, all work connected with the
Exposition
The committee is right in saying that
the loan would not be in accordance with
the spirit of the law or the agreement by
which Chicago secured the site. That
spirit was expressed in the declaration of
Chicago's representatives that mot cent
would be asked from Congress except the
appropriation for the Government ex-
hibit" The law was based on that under
standing. Since Chicago has failed to
keep that pledge and has come to Con-
gress with an application for So, 900, 900 the
majority of the country has taken the
view that the national interest should out
weigh the fact that the pledge has not
been kept But with that fact fresh in
the memory of the public the exact value
of the new Chicago proposition, that they
will raise 100000 if Congress will SUBJ
scribe $4,000 to the stock, may be esti-
mated at zero.
Chicago will do wisely to accept the
s., ,OOO,O without further recalcitration,
and be thankful that she gets it. There
is an old proverb about certain class
that should not exercise too fastidious
choice.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
THE BOsToNIzING OF PIrTsBURG.
A Case of Melpomene Being Put to Sleep
by Mercury.

a case OF Melpomene Being Pue TO sleep
by Mercury.
New York Evening World.I
John L. Sullivan had a 81 200 audience to
humble to at Pittsburg last night, while
Mme Helena Modjeska waltzed around the
Forest of Arden and curved the sweet sem
tences of Shakespeare's Gas You Like It."
with that exquisite Warsaw dialect of hers
to an audience that didn't represent more
than 500. 1t was a case of Melpomene being
put to sleep by Mercury; of the mimic art
getting it in the neck from the manly art.
There will be great rejoicing in Court
street, Spring lane and Scollay Square over
this news of the Bostonizing of Pittsburg.
The victory of Drawn was emphatic; the dis
comf1ture of the buskin was distressing and
undeniable. The 1dealizing of fustian must
hereafter give way to the idealizing of fist
on the banks of the Monongahela, and the
Marquis OF Queensberry will be looked up to
with as much reverence in the smoky
as he is around the Back Bay or
the South Cove.
Nine. Modjes was rash in pitting an airy
phantasm like Rosdifnd against robust
characterization such as
John L. cavorts around in. Shakespeare
was all right in his way and good enough for
the 2sthetfcism of the sixteenth century,
such as it was, but his gigantic and teeming
"conch' never conceived the idea of tank
drama or a horse race tragedy; he couldn't
have written q play for Spike" Hennessy
and "Kid" Mccoy, and he wouldn't know
how to begin to fit a Chicago divorce with a
comedy. He at least might
have put four-ounce gloves on Rosdlind in
the Forest of Arden scene, but there's moth
ing sporty about Shakespeare.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
AN ADVERTISING CRANK

The House of Commons yesterday wit
nessed an exhibitioneof unparliamentary
behavior which can only be understood by
some knowledge of the principal per-
former. During the discussion of bill to
enable local authorities to enforce the sale
of estates that they may be cut up into
small holdings, Mr.. Cunningham Graham
made himself conspicuous by Interruptions
entirely out of order. The result of his
continued defiance Of the Speaker is that
he is suspended for week from taking
his seat in the House or engaging in its
business.
Mr.. Graham is gentleman possessed of
a desire to pose as a martyr. He glories
in his Socialistic principles, and seeks on
every occasion to put himself in a position
that can be perverted to appear as per-
secution for the convictions he processes.
He goes out of his way on every possible
occasion to place himself in opposition to
the authorities, and then maintains that
their action in upholding the laws is an
unjust attack on the ideas of which he
claims to be the chief exponent, when his
own personal waywardness is usually the
sole source of trouble, as it was in last
nights incident.
Graham's constituents will lose little by
his enforced absence from the House, and
the only thing to be regretted is that the
gentleman has obtained another advertise
ment of the kind he lives for. He is a
curious compound of democratic con-
victions and petty conceit, in which the
latter largely predominates, and by his
actions he frequently casts discredit on
causes that are not unworthy of serious
consideration.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
A SINGULAR CLAIM.

The comments of our friends of the
Third Party concerning the possibilities of
their movement with regard to the cleo
ton of President indicates an insufficient
knowledge on their part of the Constitu-
ton of the United States. Congressman
Simpson, of Kansas, is reported in an in
terview as expressing great jubilation
over the growth of the Peoples PARTY in
the South. He thinks the party will carry
a number of electoral votes in the South.
which he declares jubilantly "will be al
most certain to throw the election into the
House"
As the same idea has been put forward
by other sanguire mouthpieces of the
Peoples Party, it is pertinent to state
that, supposing the realization of the glow
ing expectations, the grand result of
which the granger statesmen are boasting
themselves before putting on their armor
would be to carry States now set down
as surely Democratic, in order to make the
election of a Democratic President and
Republican Vice President a dead GER
tainty. If the election is thrown into the
House the vote will be by States. The
Democratic candidate will get 80 States,
the Republican candidate will get II, and
the Peoples Party candidate will get 2.
In the Senate, on its present membership,
the Republican candidate for Vice Presi-
dent will get AZ votes, the Democratic
candidate 80, and the Peoples Party
candidate Gf Indecrat Kyle votes for
him), 2.
Exactly what the Third Party would
gain from their yet unharvested victory
does not appear from the above But Re-
publicans who are tempted by the Third
Party movement will be put on their
guard by the fact that the utmost claim
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

not make much of a compensation. There
are some people unreasonable enough to
think that Justice has not been satisfied
and who urge the Sheriff to make another
appointment with Mr.. Blackburn. But
both hanger and hangee object to this.
The Sheriff says be hanged Blackburn ac-
cording to law, and the legal records con-
tain convincing proof of his death; and
the records are not to be overset by any such
irregular proceeding as a man walking
about after his death. Blackburn on the
other hand pleads the universal principle
of law that a man must not twice be
put in jeopardy for the same offense; and
how man can be put in greater jeopardy
than to dangle by the neck six feet high be-
tween heaven and earth-with, drop Of
three feet according to the new and inef-
fectual Mississippi method-Mr. Blake
burn, like therest of us, is unable to see
The greatest puzzle in this case is yet to
come. The victim of the law, being ad-
dicted to wife murder and other similar
amusements, is likely to come before the
courts again. But how can the courts
indict, arraigp, convict and condemn a
man who is officially shown by their
records to be defunct? We think 1t will
have to be understood that the next out
break of Mr.. Blackburn will have to be
treated by lynch law, in which case the
relatives can proceed with the funeral un-
disturbed by doubts as to the actuality of
his demise
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
GOVERNOR AND CORPORATIONS.

The New York papers have of late been
attacking the sincerity of Governor Patti
sons stand against the anthracite coal COM
bination. At least such is the intimation
of the World, while the Herald asserts that
he "loSt the opportunity of his life" when
he cleft the vindication of Pennsylvania
Constitution to the roundabout decisions
of the courts."' The Press likewise takes
the partisan view of jeering over the posi-
ton of the Democratic Governors Alb
bett and PattlSon In opposing monopolles
in public, but relying on corporate favors
in private.
With regard to Albeit the course of his
party supporters in railroading bill
through the Legislature at the dictation OF
the combination, and his own lame excuses
for the deal in vetoing the bill, leave little
foundation for confidence in his present
profession of opposition. An official who
opposes monopolies only in obedience to
public clamor is bruised reed for the
popular interest to lean upon. But with
regard to Pattison we fail to see that the
criticisms of his course are well taken.
These rest on the assertion that
the Governor had some power in
his hands to dissolve the combination
once. The Herald says that he should
have dealt it "a fatal blow when 1t was
first organized" A tolerably close ac-
quaintance with the Constitution of the
State of Pennsylvania fails to discover any
power on the part of the Executive to
deal with corporate aggresSions except to
bring them before the courts This Gov
ernor Pattison, acting through his At
torney General, has done. 1t was right
that the Attorney General should examine
the case so as to be sure that it was done; but
only few days were taken for that pur-
pose. So far from dilatoriness in pushing
the case, the corporations have been
forced to answer scarcely more than two
months after the announcement of the
deal, which for equity proceedings is un-
usual urgency.
The DISPATCH has from the first been
clear that it was the duty of the State ad-
to use all the means in its
power against this combination. 1t sees
no reason now to doubt the sincerity of
the steps that have been taken. The real
criterion will be the ability and urgency
with which the trial is carried on. And
when the Attorney General has pressed
the case to a conclusion it will devolve
upon the courts to take some means for
giving their decisions more permanent
than was secured for the
nullifed rulings in the South Penn case.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05

ALL four of the Ohio delegates to the Re-
publican National Convention are members
of the G. A. R.-Ddyton Journal
In the Republican National Convention
there will be sa5 delegates. Necessary num-
Der to make a nomination, Warren
Chronicle.
BY the end of the week it will be possible
to make very fair estimate of the compost
tion of the Minneapolis convention.-AL
toond Tribune.
MINNEAPOLIS is getting ready to hump her.
self over the convention, but st. Paul ex-
poets to rake in its own share Of the dpcats.
-Ceueland World
THE force of uninstructed delegates to the
Minneapolis convention is likely to be
strengthened by a woman delegate from
Wyoming.-Broohiyn Standard Union.
THE seating capacity of the Democratic
wiywam in Chicago is now placed at 10 300.
1t is proposed to put Tammany in one corner
and pin down the roof securely, SO they can
all yell at once without lifting tt.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
THERE will be $50 seats set apart for the
Representatives of the press at the National
Democratic Convention at Chicago. This
is a larger number than has been assigned
for this purpose at any previous national
convention of either political party, but
there will be none too Manipulation Herald.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
THURSDAY. MAY 5. 1892.
TWELVE PAGES

tai; COUNTY AND FREE BRIDGES.
The idea brought ont in the local col
umns of The DISPATCH yesterday with
regard to the use of county funds for the
erection of free bridges is one of the great
est cogency 1t is supported by numerous
considerations, all of decided bearing on
the question, and makes the solution OF
the free-br,dge problem comparatively
easy one.
In the first place, the cities of Allegheny
and Pittsburg have in the past quarter OF
a century contributed vast sums, to De
reckoncd. as Commissioner Mercer has
shown, by the hundreds of thousands, for
the erection of county bridges throughout
the rural sections. Five-sevenths OF all
the money raised by taxation is paid by
the population of the two cities, and that
proportion represents what the cities have
paid of the expenditure for rural bridges.
This is not presented as hardship; but is
il not a sound argument for the expendl-
ture of county money for bridges within
the cities, particularly when the rural dis
tricts will be benefited thereby? At what
other point will the people of the county
be so much accommodated by free bridges
as at Pittsburg or Allegheny?
Free bridges across the rivers within the
cities will be of evident value to the rural
population Every dweiler in the county
who drives into the city, either to sell prod
uce or purchase supplies, or who lands on
the north or south side of the rivers and is
forced to cross, has to pay toll. It's doubt
full if the toll charges to the rural popula-
ton, comprising as they do the toll on vehi-
cles, are not larger per capita than the toll
charges to the city population The ex-
penditure of share of the county funds
equal to what he cities have paid for
rural bridges will relieve the people out
side the cities as well as inside from this
tax.
Beyond that it is an interesting question
whether the county cannot proceed more
satisfactorily. than the city for the con-
demnation and purchase of existing
bridges. Every consideration unites in
pointing the justice and utility of applying
county funds TO the work Of opening free
transit across both rivers
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
JOURNALISTS ENTERPRISE.

The day before yesterday Angus Sim
clair, Editor of Locomotive Engineering,
rode cramped up on his knees in a small
iron box on a locomotive, for two hours
and three quarters. As will be seen from
the story of his trip in another column, it
was no matter of light recreation. His OBJ
ject was to test the capacity of the engine,
and he exhibited devotion to science and
a spirit of enterprise well worthy to rank
with heroic actions sung of by the epic
bards. From time to time when an ex-
plorer drops out of sight, or a professor
loses life or sustains serious injury in the
midst of and owing toresearch, we hear of
martyrs to science. Yet there are num-
bers of men to-day who engage in occupa-
tions entailing discomfort at best, and en-
dangering life and limb on occasion, in
the cause of investigation, though their
actions are lightly passed over because
they are fortunate enough to escape acci-
dent
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-05
AN EXCUSE FOR LYNCH LAW

The theory of Southern lynch law, that
the punishment of capital offenses by the
regular methods of justice often fails, re-
ceived strong corroboration in the case of
Mr.. Blackburn, of Mississippi, recently
hanged for wife murder. Whether it was
because it was his own wife, or because
new system of hanging was to be tried
under the law and the MTlssissippians
wished to see how it would work, Mr..
Blackburn was unusually favored in be-
ing permitted to enjoy the more leisurely
process of statutory justice. The process
in his case consisted in jerking him six
feet from the ground by the moose, letting
him drop back three feet and hang there
thirty-six minutes until life was pro-
nounced extinct
But the difference in Blakeburn's case
continues in that his story does not end
here Relatives took charge of the body
and started to take it to the family burying
ground thirty-fve miles distant On the
road there scratching and kicking was
heard inside the coffin. On opening the
box it was found that Blackburn
was not in fact, however he might be con-
III law, uCluuCb pCloOudbt.
When the burying ground was reached
the family was able to decide, with Blake
burns aid, that there was no need for a
funeral, the Sheriff having failed in his
duty of furnishing the corpse. At last ac-
counts Blackburn was out, little stiff in
the neck but to all appearances good for
several more hangings.
These facts bring up several questions.
Mr.. Blackburn is dead in law but alive il
fact. 1t is difficult to see how person
executed by the law and formally declared
dead can hold property, convey real estate,
inherit, vote or serve on jury. These
disabilities would be balanced in Pittsburg
by the obvious fact that no one can collect
taxes off dead man; but in Mississippi,
where taxes are light, owing to the diff
Guilty of collecting anything else, 1t does