Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-03
The Early Life Of Ger eral Grant.

| NC AcdycF CONTAINS the HTbI Two
of series of letters by tho father of
General Grant, describing the early
life of the General. 1t gives at the
same time portraits of the father and
mother of the General, which are un-
usually faithful. Grant, it seems,
was from an early age passionately
fond of horses. The father writes
The leading passion of Ulysses,
almost from the time he could 90
alone, was for horses. The first time
he ever drove horse alone he was
about seven and half years old.
had gone away from home
to Ripley, twelve miles off. | went
in the morning and did not get back
until night, | owned at that time a
three year. old colt, which had been
ridden under the saddle to carry the
mail, but had never had collar on.
While / was gone Ulysses got the
colt and put a collar and harness on
him, and hitched him up to a sled.
Then he put a single line on TO him
and drove OFF, and loaded up the sled
with brush and came back again
He kept at it hauling successive loads
all day and when I came home at
night he had a pile OF brush big as
cabin.
He used To harness horses when
he bad To get up in the manger 10
put the bride and collar on. At
eight and half years Of age he had
become regular driver, aud used to
work my team all day, day after day,
hauling wood There would be a
man in the woods to load, and another
At the house to unload, bat Ulysses
would drive the team.
SAT about ten years of age he used
to drive pair of horses alone. from
Georgetown, where we lived, forty
miles, to Cincinnati, and bring back
load Of passengers.
He always broke his own horses.
lnever knew horse to balk with him.
He used to get one colt perfectly
broken, and then put annother in
by the side of him. He had a most
wonderful faculty for breaking horses
TO pace; it became known in the
neighborbood, and people used to ap.
ply to him to break their horses to
pace"
HONESTY AND MoNgY.-The whole. |
sale dealers do not at present credit
tho country merchants, only in Ger, |
tain cases they allow four months on |
SIN all balances. This fact makes it |
impossible for tho country merchants |
to credit even the best OF their custo> |
mers. The people must not there's
fore expect any credit. And if the |
merchant kindly opens an account
with patron for short run. to neg> |
lect payment according to promise
may be ruinoIs in returu for friend |
illness, which is dishonesty. 1t is well |
known that the profits of the mer-
chant are exceeding small at present,
perhaps 50 small IS to insure failure |
IN most cases-certainly with sill who |
credit as 3 habit. We mention these |
things at this time in view OF benefit
ing the people as we'll as merchants
because people and merchants are
mutual dependents, and each q sup.
porter of the other Mr.. d. F. Brown, !
at Bloomington, has been crediting q
few of his friends and wishes them to
pay at once. See advt.
New SEEpER AND CULrIvAToR Con-.
new, singular and common
sense machine for seeding grain and |
sultivating corn and other crops may |
be seen at the store Of Mr.. John 2. |
Lewis, Lancaster, known as Mr.. L.
Seeder and Cultivator Com.
5ined," the price only $500 1t ap-
pears indeed the equal if not the SUI
perior of any machine offered Mr..
Aug. Tyler, at Platteville, also has
one Of these machines and will send
orders.