Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-07-11
GRANT CO. HERALD
LANCASTER, WIS, JULY 18th, 1857.
Fourth of July celebrations
Young America in Harness.


ranged to come off in Grant County on the
4th, large number Of small parties, Co
,illions, pic-nics, and social gatherings are
reported in every neighborhood; the day
was warm and very well celebrated. A
bout 200 of our village folks went ,o
Carrolton MIS- on Grant River, accom-
panied by the Brass Band. The ladies'
got up an excellent dinner, and we had y
glorious time among the rurals and rocks.
Mr.. BARBER read the Declaration, after
which loasts were read by mr. BURR. The
performance concluded bv { ee cotilllon
in the evening, arranged and superinten-
ded by Maj. BARNETT, The patriotic splr-
it of our village has been in operation ever
since the fourth there being one or two
public and private parties and a wedding
or SO every day Of the past week.
JUVENILE CELEBRATIoN.-On Tuesday
last, that excellent lady superintendent OF
the young America of Lancaster, Miss
NARY PARKER, aided by the matrons and
friends Of our Lancaster infantry, got up
a splendid afternoon picnic, which was at
tended by most in town-from blossomine
fathers and mothers of foursccre, &c bloom
ing misses and boys of four summers and
more. Two long tables were spread IN
the locust grove of the public square
covered with all the nice things and prairie
flowers that the country affords for feasting
the soul and eyes; cakes and candies, figs
and raisins, nuts and fruits-all and more
loaded the tables in rich profusion. After
marching in double file around the square,
the little ones were conducted to the feas t
Miss PARKER seeing that all got fair
play. The dissolving sweet things melted
gs snow flakes, and in half an hour most all
disappeared like dew drops before morn
ing sun. J. T. Mills, ESD, occupied half
an hour addressing the children; after
which Miss PARKER and the speaker were
complimented with votes Of thanks. The
remainder of the day and evening was de-
voted to play and juvenile sports, in which
the young ladies and gentlemen joined,
the old folks looking on much delighted.
IW-It is said that one of the condi-
tions of Walkers acceptance as Governor
of Kansas, was, that the Barstow faction
Of Wisconsin was TO be indorsed by the
administration at Washington. This
charge Noonan of Milwaukee made before
Walkers appointment. Walker Is a great
financier, and how much the Barstow men
paid him is not revealed. In pursuance
of this compact, the Patriot says, Calkins
of the Madison Argus has gone to Wash
ington for the appointment of Postmaster
of Madison. Walker is therefore II Gov
ernor of Wisconsin as well as Kansas, and
the kind OF men he appoints are of the
same stripe throughout. We notice the
charge is made in New York papers also.
DEMOCRATIC STATE CoNvENrIos.-The
Democratic State Central Committee have
called Convention to meet at Madison
on Thursday, the 9th of August, for the
purpose of nominating candidate fol
Governor ahd other State offices at the fall
election.
We have no doubt every good Demo
crat as well as Republican. will regret to
see tho call for State Convention head ed
by Geo. Brass Smith, who IS stamped in
every mans mind in the State as even a
worse than Barstow. He is the man who
figured in the school land spccuiatiops,
frauds and absorptions-nish running the
school fund of our State. The one or
two millions of loss to the school fnnd, be-
yont all cavil or doubt was through HIM
CHICAGO CHRoNoTr PA new Cbfca-
go paper called the Saturday Evening
Chronotype, comes to us marked for ex
change; but whether the Y is for deceiv.
ing US into notice, and then give us
French lieve-as the custom is with Chi
cago papers, or whether to get a perma-
nent exchange, We are at loss to know.
We put the Chronotypc on our list, and il
il behaves we'll we'll leave it there. We
have had no exchange from Chicago, and
we do not believe there is Chicago PSI
per taken in Grant County--a county OF
$4,000 inhabitants situated within a few
hours ride of Chicago, the great western
metropolis.
gg-O On Saturday morning last, the
Steamer "Rosslie" OF Fulton City, struck
pile of Rock in the River between Du-
buque and Dunlelth, and sunk.
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