Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-01-07
CARRIERS ADDRESS
To the Patrons of the Grant County Herald
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 1, 1858.
ABNER s. FLAGG, CARRIER.

come on the morn ofthe glad New Year.
To greet our patrons and neighbors dear
With my simple lines. full OF words Of cheer
And smile for each and daughter
/ have brought you the news some fifty times;
And now. when come to look for the dimes
Who will turn me away, with my budget Of rhymes
With the pirate-cry mo QUARTER"
I've travelled this round. in the year that Is past
Week after week, from first to last,
From patron to patron still hurryiug fast,
Nor cold nor heat proved barrier.
But they seized the HERALD, began TO read,
Glanced through its columns with eager speed,
And gave few thanks or tokens OF heed
To the poor unnotced Carrier.
But now, on the New Years p'orn glad,
With bold address" the printer lad
Greets one and all both good and bad
Aud claims for himself attention;
For he finds It's a newspaper truth we'll known
Whoever would hear his trumpet blown,
Must blow il himself, in the shrllest tone,-
None else his namo will mention.
And what if these lines, that seem to claim
Should rightly be signed by different namei
Is not the example before US the same
0fal who write or edits
Do not our professors, lecturers, teachers.
And even our editors, authors, and preachers,
Use other mems thoughts, drest up in new features
And claim for themselves all the credit
I'm the PLAGG of the Herald Office; you see
My coiors are none but the loyal three;
As long as live, intend to be
Our national flags defender.
And hope, ere die, to see it wave
Triumphant and glorious, over the grave
OF every traitorous rebel and knave
That has tried TO dim its splendor.
am the true herald. Ia days of old,
Heralds rode forth, bedecked with gold,
Announcing in language pompous and bold
Some martial string of nonsense.
But can scatter along my way
More news than all such heralds ; yea,
More than those gossiping danes, who pay
Such tritiing regard TO conscience.
In the year that's gone, you will all confess,
Tho very best news that type would express
i have heTaded forth, of the health and success
OF all our Lancaster readers.
And whenever an opportunity came
To print some worthy subscribers name.
We have given him, gratis. a local fame
In the local items or leaders
How 1t pleased US to learn, the village all over,
That BUSHNELL and Powers and KINNEY aud CovxR
And others, were married nd living in clover,
When their names graced the marriage colurnn
And broad grin spread over town when thSy read
An item which said that our Senior and head
Had bloodlsss ARRAY with the valorous J-D,
Which WAS ludicrous rather than solemn.
Since New Year last our county has passed
Through sea of political troubles vast,
But, like Farragut. COVER was dashed TO the mast
Where he fought the good fight with vigor.
And whenever he sees, from his lofty post
Some iniquitous move mid the opposite host,
The newlyhatched scheme has to yield up the ghost
Or else he don't know how to figure.
Twas fearful tornado that ragged through the fall
Blowing some of us upward, unsettling us ALL
Gently waiting few to Maidstone halls,
Putting others in sack cloth to moan.
Maj. Pnrman in vain tried to cling to his station
Friend Hubbard was tossed to great elevation,
But eIedn cut Of the STATE, to obtain education,
tha blown
In the good old year. our sstonishod eyes
Saw many handsome new edifce rise:
schoolhouse of quite unlimited size
Dust the thing for this prolific people y
cabinet shop, and an elegant store.
New dwellings, at least half dozen or more,
palatial residence for the poor,
And towering Court House steeple.
And the year Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Seven
Saw the last finishing touches given
To the monument, proudly pointing to heaven
To show where our heroes stand.
Then the music and guns, on the Fourth Of July,
The applause of the thousands gathered by,
And the words of the speakers 80 noble and high,
Rosounded all over the land
A pass on my New Year round in glee,
How many new faces and forms see,
Ofevery age and Of every degree,
Who in Sixty Seven have joined us
May many returns Of this happy New Year
Still find them all living in happiness here
And strengthen the tics that bind us.
My heartiest welcome offer to some
Who leaving Potosi and Btetown have come
To find in our beautiful village home,
And WELCOME one more from Glen Haven
/ welcome tour Doctors-a numerous BROOD
The German-the great human magnet Doc. Wood,
And those two men Of gas, our Dentists so good,
They all came in the year Sixty Seven
Ahi the year that is dead has been kind to all.
rl,ar fhrrff he nfrv wi
Meier before have seen such summer aud fall,
So free from storm, frost and disaster.
Deaths visits were few. twe're too busy 60 die,)
No dread epidemic has dared 10 come nigh;
Our honor and credit-(snd taxes)-stand high,
And prosperity reigns in Lancaster.
According to usage, here might dilate
With propristy on the affairs OF the state.
BY giving my views las though they had weight
About Sheridan, Hancock, Old Andy,
Republican losses, Republication,
Brave aribaldi, Grants nomination,
highlands great fright at the Fenian nation,
Rebellion-or whate'er comes handy.
Not wishing to weary you, though, / willlsave
My political views for COVER to give,
Begging you'll read them, and firmly believe
All you see in your own village papers.
Reward well the printers great labor and pains,
Knowing seal makes up all we are wanting in brasns:
Excuse oG type, for friend eer complains,
Rather1aughs, at their fantastic cspers.
This year shall herald astonishing things:
The rise of republics. the downfall of kings,
The death Of sll humbugs, m0nopolies, rings"
And other old evils deep seated.
shall tell of the fall Of King Alcohol;
OF dozen old bachelors bitter as gall,
All welded this Leap Year; and, strangest Of all,
OF the Calamine Railroad completed.
So farewell to the Old Year and hail 10 the New I
Our blessings are many, our troubles are few;
Triumphantly still hoSts the rei, white aud blue,
And no treason our Union could sever.
Then onward, rejoicing and toiling, we 60,
While the streams OF Gods bounty eternaily how
Since He is Shepherd, no want shall we know,
For His mercy eHdursth forever.