Richland Republican and Observer

Richland Republican and Observer
October 19, 1882
Page 8, Col. 2 &3
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--M. A. Walsh, of Shreveport, Louisiana, is visiting his parents and friends in this section after an absence of seven years. He will remain here a week or two.

--The last of the pipe-laying for the city water-works at Madison was completed the other day. The twelve miles of mains will be tested this week by a pressure of 150 to 200 pounds to the square inch.

--Mr. George E. Bennett, Clerk of the Circuit Court, has been on the sick list for the past few days. He is recovering and will be able to be at his post during the session of the Circuit Court next week.

--The Madison ministerial association will hold its next session at Oregon, Dane county, beginning Tuesday evening, October 31st. Rev. J. D. Tull, of this village, is on the programme for an essay on the Resurrection.

--Now speculators in grain will squirm again. The State Supreme Court decides that grain deals as commonly made are void in law not only, but criminal, and subject their dealers to trial and penalty as criminals.

--The cholera is playing sad havoc among the hogs in the southwestern part of the county. A number of farmers have lost every hog they had. This is the first time, we believe this disease has ever appeared among the swine in this county.

--Mrs. E. L. Singletary, of Marathon county, is now visiting her brother, Ira Hyde, and other relatives and friends in Willow. Mrs. Singletary was one of the early settlers of Richland county, but has not been here before for twenty years.

--Our friend, Stewart, of Orion, still insists that the Democratic party, which cast three votes in the Assembly on the temperance resolution last winter, is as good a temperance party as the Republican, which gave forty votes for the same measure.

--We are informed by the postmaster at West Lima that A. B. Godfrey who formerly received his mail at that office has removed to Waukesha county. His name is on our subscription books for a year’s subscription, which he forgot to see about before his removal.

--Mr. S. J. Collins, assistant Superintendent of the Prairie du Chien division of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad has been appointed Superintendent of the Chicago & Milwaukee and Chicago & Pacific divisions, with headquarters at Chicago.

--The October term of the Circuit Court will begin next Tuesday. Among the important cases on the docket for trial are those of the State vs. Coleman on charge of murder and the State vs. Parsons for forgery. The court will likely be in session all the week.

--We publish a communication from W. H. Stewart, making a correction in his article of last week. Mr. Stewart should remember that plain writing is an important desideratum in furnishing articles for publication. The editors have not time to read and compare everything by copy, and the compositors cannot be expected to decipher everybody’s hieroglyphics as easily as print. We make it a point to print everything as correct and as nearly in the language of the writer as possible, but mistakes will frequently occur for all that.

--The Hazelton-Keyes racket in the Third district has just commenced to warm up. The Keyes Congressional committee last Friday issued an address to the people through the State Journal nine columns in length. Col. Keyes opened his campaign in person at Stoughton Monday night. He will follow it up vigorously till election day. Mr. Hazelton is about to establish a daily campaign paper at Madison, and will soon open his campaign, assisted, it is said, by General John A. Logan, Col. Robt, G. Ingersoll, Speaker Keifer and other eminent statesmen, besides a number of the local orators of this district.

--Col. Thomas Reynolds, late pension agent at Madison, has been arrested for forging the names of dead pensioners to vouchers and drawing the pensions. Among the names of the dead pensioners said to have been forged is that of Elizabeth Armstrong, of Richwood in this county, who was the dependent mother of Coyler Armstrong, private in Company A, First Wisconsin Regiment, who died at Benton Barracks, Missouri. The affair creates great surprise among the Colonel's friends. Colonel Reynolds denies the accusation and says it is political persecution, but the government detective says he has a sure against him.

--An exchange remarks, that "Letter Writing" is an exercise, which should be introduced into all our schools. Aside from the instruction, which is thus imparted, it accustoms children to express themselves naturally in correspondence. It may sound incredible, but it is true, that many grown up people, and teachers at that do not know how to write the simplest business letter. They cannot place the address and date in the proper place, and they do not know how to express what they want to say. They can talk intelligibly, but when it comes to writing, their sense deserts them. The reason of this is, that they have never had practice under a competent instructor. A few hours each week spent in this exercise by scholars, young ladies and gentlemen would be profitably employed.