Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-07-25
Grant County i'm the Churn-O1d
Eogses Discover kOmetiaing-
they Giad 1.-THE Revolution
ReVgsVing.

where the vision could range over tho sew
eral hundred miles of country included
within the boundaries of Grant County
supposing also the beholder to possess a
full knowledge of the past and t. be suffi-
GENTLY skilled in compromising SO as to
know what vast bowl of villages and men,
rivers and farms, railroads and mills, shops
and lead mines, DC, would produce if jun
bled and churned all together, there would
be presented curious and even ridiculous
condition of thingsl Though all this can
not be seen from any erninence, yet just
such jumbling process is really going on
every day-most industriously. 1t is true,
each particle of the great mass is not fly
ing hurly-burly, producing that clapper-
dashing of usual churning process, yet a
very similar operation is going on; and
though butter may not appear swimming
upon a sea of buttermik, we are very con-
fdent great many good things will be
produced and swim on the surface when
the jumbling ceases. These old fogies,
who seldom leave home and who believe
only what they see, taste and smell, are
just now in great stew al out matters;
they want to know what all this confusion
j about, and whether something is not
turning up that will empty them out Of
their boots. The dear incredulous, faith
less old conservatives think there is mischief
at work some~ here. They are brought to
believe that yankees and railroads are great
Institutions and together work wonders in
r score of years, but they never looked for
such quick job. They thought the M.
&c M. Railroad might in ten years cause
the north part of Grant County to settle
and possibly support store and smith
shop.
One of these old ones, merchant, has
lost sight of battalion of his former pat
rons and thinks they are greatly in want
of goods. We advised him to go to Boz
cobel; he went and met a regiment of his
old Fenninore friends, trading there and
acting just as though they had left the old
folks and set up housekeeping for thensel-
yes. Says he, "this will never do; the
country is bottom upwards Boscobel is at
the top and must follow; I'll go to Bos-
cobel since my gods are there; Lancaster
is in the center of the heap; l always
thought it was at the top and the top
round, but that railroad-I have just found
it out, has knocked away my under-pin-
ming and | mus. jump or fall" Beetown
fogies have discovered that in the jumbling,
Cassyille is uppermost. The old ones of
Potosi are discovering railroad influences
at work pulling things down towards Dun
leith. Patteville fogies are good finan-
ciers; they see the mischief at work, but
they can't quite agree how TO dispose of
the crstterj some 90 for railroad to keep
Plattevile at the top-others think Bank
will do it-othcrs say nothing but a jump
will save them. Old Patch Grove is jeal-
Gus, fearing the new bridge over the Wis
consin river will enable Prairie du Chen to
swallow them. There is the Dunleith and
Prairie du Chen Railroad, terrible mon
ster. coming; the tail of the comet is al
ways most feared-it sweeps and wig wags,
knocking things endwise. That new rail
road is a fearful scarecrow to the old fogy
he don't intend to believe word in it
till after it is in operation five years!
Now we have one word of advice to Of
fer our old fogy friends: Grant County is
progressing; you won't be hurt--let her
rip. Help along the revolution by your
cheers; your money is inaccessible but you
car put on manly face and smile and
cheer. Don't blubber because the eoun-
try is coming out right in spite ofsyou and
yom past wrong forebodings and selfish
notions. Cheer up. Sing Yankee Doodle
and the Railroad song.
PRAIRIE Do CHEN LEADAR-A new
paper has just been started at Prairie du
Chen, called the Leader, ia most fo:tu-
nate name,) by Messrs. Hill & GREENE,
editors and proprietors. The first number
before us, an eight column sheet, is printed
on new type, and we think presents the
most beautiful priating we have ever seen.
We are unable to see an error or misprint
in the several columns We have read from
the Lsader--besides, every department of
reading is separsted by headings which an
swer the purpose of an index-just as a
well regulated farm is laid out into fields
and lots ard labeled in July, wheat, corn,
oats, &c. The Leoaer editorials ate well
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