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The apportionment of 1887 made no change in the assembly dis- tricts.
The apportionment of 1891 gave Grant County only two districts and formed them in this astonishing manner: First District-Bloom- ington, Boscobel, Clifton, Ellenboro, Fennimore, Glen Haven, Harri-
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son, Hickory Grove, Lima, Little Grant, Marion, Millville, Mt. Hope, Mt. Ida, Patch Grove, Platteville, Watterstown, Wingville, Castle Rock, Muscoda, Woodman, Wyalusing. Second District-Lancaster, Liberty, Beetown, Cassville, Waterloo, Potosi, Paris, Smelser, James- town, Hazel Green. Other apportionments had been bad, but this one was so outrageous, both in the shape and the population of the districts, all over the State as well as in Grant County, that the Su- preme Court of the State decided that it violated the provision of the constitution providing that districts should be "according to popula- tion," and " as compact as practicable."
A special session of the legislature in June, 1892, made another gerrymander, which was also decided to be unconstitutional. The State officers, to aid their fellow rascals in the legislature, rushed out the election notices under the second apportionment, long before the usual time, in order if possible to have the election take place under the infamous gerrymander. It was a strong illustration of the la- mentable fact that men tolerably honest in business become unscrup- ulous rascals when they go to work for their party.
A second special session was held in October, 1892, which made the following apportionment: First District-Cassville, Clifton, Ellen- boro, Glen Haven, Harrison, Hazel Green, Jamestown, Liberty, Lima, Paris. Platteville, Potosi, Smelser, Waterloo. Second District-Bee- town, Bloomington, Boscobel, Castle Rock, Fennimore, Hickory Grove, Lancaster, Little Grant, Marion, Muscoda, Mt. Hope, Mt. Ida, Millville, Patch Grove, Waterstown, Wingville, Woodman, Wyalusing.
The apportionment of 1897 was as follows: First District-Bloom- ington, Boscobel, Castle Rock, Fennimore, Hickory Grove, Lancaster, Liberty, Little Grant, Marion, Millville, Mt. Hope, Mt. Ida, Muscoda, Patch Grove, Watterstown, Wingville, Woodman, Wyalusing. Sec- ond District-Beetown, Cassville, Clifton, Ellenboro, Glen Haven, Hazel Green, Harrison, Jamestown, Lima, Paris, Platteville, Potosi, Smelser, Waterloo.
The roster of legislative officers of the county from the admission of the State until the present time is as follows:
Senate .- 1848 -- 49, George W. Lakin, Platteville; 1850 -- 51. John H. Rountree, Platteville; 1852 -- 53, J. C. Squires, Platteville; 1854 -- 55, Nelson Dewey, Lancaster; 1856 -- 57, J. Allen Barber, Lancaster; 1858 -- 61 (two terms), Noah H. Virgin, Platteville; 1862-65 (two
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terms), M. K. Young, Glen Haven; 1866 -- 67, John H. Rountree, Platteville; 1868 -- 71 (two terms), George C. Hazelton, Boscobel; 1872 -75 (two terms), J. C. Holloway, Lancaster; 1876 -- 79 (two terms), O. C. Hathaway. Beetown; 1880 -- 83 (two terms), George W. Ryland, Lancaster; 1884-91 (two terms), E. I. Kidd, Millville; 1892 -- 1900 (two terms), Charles H. Baxter, Lancaster.
Assembly .- 1848-James Gilmore, Jamestown ; N. H. Virgin, Platte- ville; Arthur W. Worth, Lancaster; A. C. Brown, Potosi. 1849-J. R. Vineyard, Platteville; Robert M. Briggs, Beetown; D. Gillilan, Potosi; Robert Young, Hazel Green. 1850-H. D. York, Hazel Green ; John B. Turley, Beetown; J. E. Dodge, Waterloo; Wm McGonigal, Wingville. 1851-John N. Jones, Platteville; Robert M. Briggs, Beetown; W. R. Biddlecome, Potosi. J. B. Johnson, Fair Play. 1852-Noah Clem- mons, Platteville; J. Allen Barber, Lancaster; David McKee, Potosi; Wm. Richardson, Jamestown. 1853-Titus Hayes, Platteville; H. E. Block, Potosi; J. Allen Barber, Lancaster; H. D. York, Hazel Green ; J. E. Dodge, Waterloo. 1854 -- E. Estabrook, Platteville; Wm. Hull, Po- tosi; Wm. Jeffrey, Ellenboro; Lewis Rood, Hazel Green ; M. K. Young, Cassville. 1853-N. H. Virgin, Platteville; Wm. Hull, Potosi; W. W. Field, Fennimore; Allen Taylor, Hazel Green; William Cole, Beetown; 1856-Allen Taylor, Hazel Green; Wm. Hull, Potosi; J. T. Mills, Lan- caster; J. T Brown, Clifton; Horace Catlin, Cassville. 1857-Han- mer Robbins, Platteville; A. W. Emery, Potosi; J. T. Mills, Lancaster; Allen Taylor, Hazel Green, Joachim Gulick, Wyalusing. 1858-Han- mer Robbins, Platteville; A. W. Emery, Potosi; Henry Patch, Patch Grove; H. D. York, Hazel Green, C. K. Dean, Boscobel. 1859-J. Wal- dorf, Lima ; J. W. Seaton, Potosi; H. A. W. McNair, Fennimore; Geo. Broderick, Hazel Green; Luther Basford, Glen Haven. 1860-J. R. Spottswood, Hazel Green; J. W. Seaton, Potosi; S. F. Clise, Ellen- boro; J. B. Moore, Muscoda; George Ballantine, Patch Grove. 1861 -H. Robbins, Platteville; H. L. Massey, Potosi; J. G. Clark, Lancas- ter; Joseph Harris, Hazel Green; Jared Warner, Patch Grove. 1862- Wm. Brandon, Smelser; Allen Taylor, Paris; J. T. Mills, Lancaster; W. W. Field, Fennimore; Samuel Newick, Beetown. 1863-J. H. Rountree, 'Platteville; J. F. Chapman, Potosi; J. Allen Barber, Lan- caster (Speaker); W. W. Field, Fennimore; Robert Glenn, Wyalusing. 1864-H. Robbins, Platteville; Allen Taylor, Paris; J. Allen Barber, Lancaster; W. W. Field, Fennimore (Speaker.); W. R. Beach, Beetown. 1865-W. W. Field, Fennimore (Speaker); Wm. Brandom, Smelser;
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Robert Glenn, Wyalusing; Allen Taylor, Paris; Henry Utt, Platte- ville. 1866-H. Robbins, Platteville; W S. Scribner, Jamestown; A. P. Hammond, Wingville; George Washburn, Millville; A. A. Ben- nett, Glen Haven. 1867-H. Robbins, Platteville; John Carthew, Potosi; Joseph Allen, Clifton; H. A. W. McNair, Fennimore; A. A. Bennett, Glen Haven. 1868-H. Robbins, Platteville; J. A. Neaville, Potosi; J. E. Dodge, Lancaster; Mat Birchard, Fennimore; N. W. Kendall, Wyalusing. 1869-Joseph Harris, Hazel Green; G. H. Block, Potosi; W. P. Dewey, Lancaster; B. M. Coates, Boscobel; A. R. Mc- Cartney, Cassville. 1870-J. C. Squires, Platteville; John Carthew, Potosi; W. P. Dewey, Lancaster; H. A. W. McNair, Fennimore; Luther Basford, Glen Haven. 1871-Joseph Harris, Hazel Green; H. B. Coons, Potosi; J. C. Holloway, Lancaster; W. W. Field, Boscobel; George H. Chambers, Bloomington. 1872-A. R. Bushnell, Lancas- ter; George E. Cabanis, Smelser ; S. A. Ferrin, Wingville; J. B. Corey, Patch Grove. 1873-W. H. Clise, Lancaster; Thomas G. Stephens, Hazel Green; John Monteith, Fennimore; C. Hutchinson, Beetown. 1874-Thomas Jenkins, Platteville; John B. Callis, Lancaster; Gottlieb Wehrle, Fennimore; Robert Glenn, Wyalusing. 1875-James Jeffrey, Smelser; Lafayette Caskey, Potosi; B. F. Coates, Boscobel; Delos Abrams, Little Grant. 1876-William D. Jones, Hazel Green ; Joseph Bock, Lancaster; George Brown, Woodman; Wm. J. McCoy, Bee- town. 1877-Wm. E. Carter, Platteville; Joseph Bock, Lancaster; Daniel R. Sylvester, Castle Rock; 1878-Wm. E. Carter, Platteville; T. J. Graham, Muscoda; Wm. J. McCoy, Beetown. 1879-Wm. E. Carter, Platteville; J. T. Mills, Lancaster; John Brindley, Boscobel. 1880-Charles Watson, Clifton ; John A. Klindt, Cassville ; John Brind- ley, Boscobel. 1881-James H. Cabanis, Smelser; H. S. Keene, Lan- caster; E. I. Kidd, Millville. 1882-James H. Cabanis, Smelser; Daniel B. Stevens, Cassville ; E. I. Kidd, Millville. 1883-84-E. P. Dickenson, Lima; W. J. McCoy, Beetown; E. I. Kidd, Millville; 1885 -- 86-James V. Hollman, Platteville; W. J. McCoy, Beetown; Rufus M. Day, Mt. Hope. 1887-88-James B. McCoy, Platteville; Reuben B. Showalter, Lancaster; Rufus M. Day, Mt. Hope. 1889 -- 90, James B. McCoy, Platteville; Reuben B. Showalter, Lancaster; A. C. V. Elston, Muscoda. 1891-92-John Longbotham, Paris; John J. Oswald, Lancaster ; Chris- topher Hinn, Fennimore. 1893 -- 94-John Longbotham, Paris; Joseph B. Johnson, Wingville. 1895-96-Adelbert L. Utt, Platteville; Joshua B. Bradbury, Mount Ida. 1897-98, Thomas McDonald, Jr., Lancas-
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ter; Adelbert L. Utt, Platteville. 1899 -- 1900-Thomas McDonald, Jr., Lancaster ; John Ryan Glen Haven.
Grant County has had the following Representatives in Congress : Orsamus Cole, XXIst Congress ; Ben C. Eastman, XXIId and XXIIId Congresses; J. Allen Barber, XLIId and XLIIId Congresses; George C. Hazelton, XLVth, XLVIth, and XLVIIth Congresses; Allen R. Bushnell, LIId Congress.
EFFORTS TO DIVIDE THE COUNTY.
Not many years elapsed after the foundation of Grant County before efforts began to be made and were vigorously continued for a division of the county. The first and strongest efforts were for the cutting off of the two eastern tiers of towns for a county, with the county seat at Platteville. The Grant County, Herald in its first number in 1843, said: "The eastern side of the county is about applying for a divorce from the western side. If this is not a ticklish subject for a poor devil of an editor just starting a county paper to touch upon, we don't know what is. Petitions in favor of and against division have been circulated, and there are just nine hundred signers for division and just nine hundred against it." When Goodhue be- came editor of the Herald he was not so cautious, and ridiculed the divisionists, whose main argument was that division would bring the farther parts of the county nearer the county seat, by asking: "How much nearer do you bring the ends of a log together by splitting it?" The point was that the proposed eastern county would be forty-eight miles long and twelve miles wide, and Muscoda thirty miles in an air line from the proposed county seat.
A division by an east and west line drawn through the middle of Towns Four was also advocated, mainly by the people of Potosi and Fennimore. A meeting on this subject at Fennimore was called by Goodhue "two or three peas rattling in a brass kettle."
Finally the legislature, by an act approved March 11, 1848, pro- vided that the question, both of a north and south and an east and west division, should be submitted to a vote of the people at the county election in the spring of 1848. The vote on this question, and also on State and county officers, is given in the table on the next page, as an interesting piece of old political history. The extent and location of the election precincts at the time of this election may be seen on the map on page 135.
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VOTE OF GRANT COUNTY, SPRING ELECTION, 1848.
GOVERNOR.
STATE SENATOR.
FIRST ASSEM. DIST.
SECOND ASSEM. DIST.
THIRD ASSEM. DIST.
FOURTH ASSEM. DIST.
COUNTY DIVISION.
Tweedy, W.
Dewey, D.
Lakin, W.
Catlin, D.
Gilmore, W.
Barnes, D.
Virgin, W.
Burns, D.
Brown, W.
Hull, D.
Cox, W.
Worth, D.
No Division.
N'th and South
Division.
East and West Division.
Hazel Green.
147
145
147
146
137
156
45
209
2
Smelzer's Grove
46
24
46
24
49
20
27
26
5
Jamestown.
37
19
38
18
38
17
53
1
1
Fairplay. .
44
69
43
70
42
71
93
12
3
Platteville
365
187
366
183
416
138
4
548
3
Head of Platte.
49
42
47
44
37
53
39
55
1
Muscoday ..
9
2
7
2
7
1
3
3
Centerville .
25
31
26
32
26
31
44
9
4
Fennimore
26
19
24
19
23
2
46
Potosi ..
119
175
119
175
114
183
296
Pleasant Valley
107
80
103
81
125
63
157
16
14
Hurricane
39
14
38
16
39
12
54
1
Waterloo
12
7
12
7
11
5
19
New Lisbon
48
30
48
30
47
28
38
37
1
Lancaster ..
117
78
127
69
114
74
205
..
...
Beetown.
157
148
149
156
96
201
147
148
3
Patch Grove ..
27
56
21
59
24
59
81
1
ยท
Cassville.
21
50
20
49
10
60
15
51
Milton. ..
57
18
55
20
57
18
67
7
Millville ..
15
5
15
5
14
5
18
2
.
1467
1199
1451
1205
266
264
509
225
336
291
315
417
1451
1125
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The project defeated by this election was renewed at various times. Platteville people and papers were always the leaders in the matter, while Lancaster and its paper fought strenuously against division. All this was quite according to human nature.
In 1856 there was a vigorous movement to cut off the towns of Millville, Patch Grove, and Wyalusing from Grant and attach them to Crawford County. The ground was that the County Board neglected these towns in the matter of roads and bridges. The three towns were too weak to accomplish anything toward secession, but perhaps their efforts gained them some roads and bridges.
In 1859 another determined effort was made and defeated. Since then the question has not been very strongly agitated, and with the county seat now accessible by railroad, and connected with every vil- lage and hamlet (and many farm houses) by telephone and telegraph, the old grievances have little force. An attempt which created some little excitement at first, but amusement later, was a bill prepared for introduction into the legislature of 1891, for the formation of "Platte County." It was fathered by some ambitious young lawyers at Platteville, but was "nipped in the bud." In 1895 a bill was intro- duced into the legislature to cut off Castle Rock and a row of towns along the Wisconsin and annex them to Crawford County. The bill was framed with a view of having the county seat at Boscobel, but it did not get out of the committee room.
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JUDICIAL HISTORY.
District and Circuit Courts-The Bench and Bar of the County.
DISTRICT AND CIRCUIT COURTS.
Section 6 of the act of the legislature establishing Grant County provided that there should be two terms of the District Court held annually at the seat of justice of the county, one upon the first Mon- day in June and the other upon the fourth Monday in October, by one of the Judges of the Supreme Court. Sessions of court were to be held at Cassville until the necessary public buildings should be provided at the seat of justice. John S. Fletcher was appointed by Judge Dunn as Clerk of the Court and T. S. Wilson as District Attorney.
The justices of peace of the county were appointed by the Gov- ernor. As the justices gave bonds to the United States, in accordance with the Statutes of Michigan Territory in 1817, instead of to the county, as provided by the Statutes of the Territory in 1833, the legis- lature of 1839 passed an act to release such justices from the penal- ties incurred by them and to legalize their acts.
Grant County at first formed part of the First Judicial District, and Chief Justice Dunn was the District Judge. The first session of the District Court was held at Cassville, beginning June 5, 1837. The docket was exceedingly brief compared with present day courts and was written on a sheet of foolscap. It contained only seven cases, viz : James H. Johnston vs. A. R. T. Locey, action, trespass; Francis Gehon vs. J. B. Estis, action, trespass; A. Levi & Co. vs. Coyle & Palmer, action, trespass; Stewart McKee & Co. vs. John R. Farns- worth, action, trespass; Holder vs. Keller, action, debt; A. Cornell (assignee) vs. Richard Ray, action, debt ; C. A. & C. L. Lagrave vs. J. B. Estes, assumpsit, discontinued with leave to withdraw de con.
The first grand jury, most of whom afterward became well known and prominent, were Jeremiah E. Dodge, John R. Farnsworth, Alex- ander D. Ramsey, Andrew McWilliams, Isaac Lander, Moses Hicklin; Daniel Richards, Clovis A. Lagrave, Abram Miller, James Bonham,
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Thomas Shanley, Wm. P. Flaherty, Elisha T. Haywood, James R. Vineyard, Henry Hodges, and James Groshong. Upon opening the court it was found that Orris McCartney, Henry Wood, James Boice, and Aaron Boice, who should have been in attendance as grand jurors, were absent, and they were ordered to show cause, if they could, why they should not be fined for contempt of court. It seems they "showed cause." Justus Persons was granted a license by the court to keep a ferry across the Mississippi near where Specht's Ferry now is. The session appears to have been limited to three days, as the Sheriff and the deputies received pay for that time. The court was held in the house of G. M. Price, for which he put in a bill for $100 rent (short as the session was), alleging that the building was "fitted up for the ac- commodation of the court at a short notice and at a greater expense in consequence thereof, and of the scarcity of mechanics, and there being nu other building in the town of Cassville, the place of holding said court, which could be obtained for that purpose." The house was probably the old "Council House," a frame building which long after did service as a part of the store of Gus Prior.
The grand jury at that term of court brought an indictment against John R. Miller for the murder of James McBride. The fore- man of the jury was James R. Vineyard, who afterward killed Arndt at a session of the State Council. On the 7th of September, 1837, the County Board ordered the District Clerk to remove his office to Lan- caster. It was a very quiet and informal moving of the county seat, greatly in contrast with many a "county seat war" of later days.
The second session of the court was held at Lancaster in October, 1837. The court house not being built, court was held in a little frame building on the corner opposite and south of the Wright House. At this term of court J. Allen Barber and Edward Southwick were ad- mitted to the bar, Mr. Barber being the first person to be admitted in the new county. Louis Reynolds was appointed crier for the the court. This District Court continued to sit at Lancaster, Judge Dunn on the bench, until the June term, 1848. Wisconsin had then been admitted as a State and the system of circuit courts was adopted, Grant County being placed in the Fifth Circuit. Mortimer M. Jack- son was the first Circuit Judge, being elected in August, 1848. The first term of this court was held in Lancaster, beginning October 2, 1848. Nelson Dewey, J. Allen Barber, Orsamus Cole. Stephen O. Paine, Joseph T. Mills, Cyrus K. Lord, Royal C. Bierce, Wm. Hull,
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James W. Seaton, and Ben C. Eastman, were admitted to the bar of the circuit.
The first grand jury of this new court was composed of Thomas Cruson, Simpson Oldham, Warren Hannum, William Richardson, Jer- miah E. Dodge, Samuel Wilson, A. W. Emery, Jonas M. Smelser, John S. Kirkpatrick, James Prideaux, Thomas J. Taylor, Robert Langley, Neely Gray, Jacob Benninger, James Barr, Abner Coates, Robert R. Young, James Bonham, James R. Short, Louis Rood. Thomas Cruson was foreman of the jury.
The new court began business on the case of the State vs. William Morris and others for riot. The case grew out of a charivari party. It was stricken from the docket, subject to reinstatement at the option of the District Attorney, J. Allen Barber.
M. M. Jackson continued as Circuit Judge until 1852, when he was succeeded by Montgomery M. Cothren, who served two terms. In 1864 Judge J. T. Mills, came upon the bench and held the place two terms, when he was succeeded by Judge Cothren again for one term, ending in 1882, when Judge Cothren was succeeded by Judge George Clementson, the present incumbent.
THE BENCH AND BAR OF THE COUNTY.
The bench and bar of Grant County have had on their roll the names of many men who stood very high in the profession, and the administration of justice in the district and circuit courts of the coun- ty has been on a high plane. In the justice courts, while there have been many incumbents who were men of considerable information, good judgment and experience, there have, of course, been examples of "dispensing with justice" which form good material for comic stories. The rude frontier conditions of the county for a long time fa- vored the production of these comical incidents. The late Frank Barr, an old pioneer of Beetown and a great story-teller, wrote a descrip- tion of a trial in a justice's court in Potosi, the article being published in the Teller of Sept. 22, 1891, as follows:
"In the latter part of May, 1844, one bright, sunny morning I went from Platteville to Potosi, arriving there before noon. Judge Colter of Lancaster stopped at the same house that I did. Soon after din- ner there was much excitement on the street, which was full of men with their coats off and their clothing covered with ocher and mud, some with picks and drills on their shoulders. The saloons, of which there were several, were also full of miners, playing cards and drink-
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ing beer and whiskey. Soon I heard the cry, A fight! a fight!' and two strong men out on the street were doing their best to injure each other, whether according to Queensbury rules or not I do not know- but probably not. 'They fought like brave men long and well,' and then clinched, and came to the ground. Biting and gouging seemed to be the order of the day. Several fingers and thumbs were badly lacer- ated. Presently one man's eye was out upon his cheek, and his oppo- nent still gouging away. Some one cried, 'Enough! take him off!' The men were soon parted, and the eye was put back into its socket. The excitement increased. Every one was dissatisfied with the result, and it looked for a time as though half a dozen encounters would re- sult from that one. Finally it was suggested that they would have law,-that the parties must be arrested and tried for breaking the peace. Presently C. K. Lord, afterwards Judge of Probate, came to the store where I was and invited me to attend the trials. He said if I never attended a Western court it would pay me well-that there probably would be lots of fun. In a short time one of the belligerents was arrested, a jury inpaneled and the trial commenced before an Irish justice, named Peter Coyle, I think. C. K. Lord acted as one of the attorneys. The others I do not recollect. Blackstone and other authorities were quoted, and the attorneys ranted and beat the air. In due time the case was submitted to the jury who soon brought in a verdict of 'not guilty'-the peace had not been broken. Then the other belligerent was arrested, another jury was impaneled, another trial had, another verdict of 'not guilty' rendered-peace not broken. Court then adjourned for supper. After supper I met C. K. Lord again, who informed me that I ought to attend the evening session which would be more interesting than that in the afternoon, for they were going to arrest and try one of the men who assisted in part- ing the belligerents, a man who had some property, by the name of Mclaughlin. He was arrested and tried that evening. A great deal of eloquence was wasted. The jury about ten o'clock brought in a verdict of 'guilty,' and the Justice, according to my recollection, im- posed a fine of ten dollars and costs! The room was crowded and the excitement intense. The defendant made a short speech, stating that it was a 'd-d foine town' where two men could fight like dogs for half an hour on the street and bite and gouge each other, and not break the peace; and yet when a man undertook to part them, to save a friend's eyes, after one had cried, enough,' he was fined ten dollars and costs because he happened to have a little property. He thought
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it a 'd-d foine court' court too that would impose such a fine under the circumstances. Justice Coyle considered the remarks insulting and a contempt of court, and I think, struck at the defendant with a chair, when the three or four tallow candles were blown out or thrown upon the floor, and the fight became general. I fled precipitately through the front door, but many others, and I was informed the Justice was one of them, jumped through the back window and ran up the bluff. At all events when I looked the place over the next morning the back window sash was nearly all broken out. McLaugh- lin resided "down town" as they called it, towards Van Buren in a comfortable home near a large spring. I. G. Ury, who was selling goods in Potosi at the time, informed me years afterwards, that a few weeks after the above occurrence, he met Mclaughlin running rapidly towards home, occasionally looking over his shoulder. He asked, 'What's the matter?' Mac said, 'They are having a fight up town, and I am trying to get home so they will not arrest and fine me. They usually fine me every time there is a fight.'
"I did not see nor hear from Mclaughlin for many years and sup- posed he had 'passed that bourne whence no traveler returns,' until some years after the war, an old man came into lawyer Barber's office in Lancaster to consult him in regard to some property that he said he used to own in Potosi. Said he was many years in California and Australia, and that during his absence the property had been sold and the money spent. Said he had nothing left, and that his health was poor, and he would have to go to the poor-house unless he, Barber, could help him. A few weeks after that I heard him complaining to Mr. Burr, chairman of the County Board, about the poor-house. Thought he was not properly treated there. Said that many years be- fore he went upon a bond for a thousand dollars for a man's appear- ance at court. The man ran away and he was compelled to pay the money into court; and he thought that, inasmuch as he had paid so much to the county, he ought to be kept well treated at the poor-house the balance of his days. What became of him I do not know."
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