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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13

SHARP.-The whole people, cs-
pecially landholders, are interested
in equitable assessments Of all prop
erty. The assessors especially have
their attention called to the sharp
practice of men who own small sums
of money which they lend clandes
timely without reporting the same
for assessment. 1t is to be remem-
bered that those whose property is
assessed must stand increased taxa
ton to make up for those who escape
assessment. This fact must be I'M
derstood and realized in order to in
terest the minds and actions of tax
payers. Besides the practice of con-
cealing small sums loaned out, there
are various resorts to evade assess
ments, one of which is as follows
Money is sent to friend residing in
distant town to be lent out for the
interest. In such ease the real own,
er is unknown TO the assessor the
lender if known at all may truthful
ly deny having any interest in tho
money lent and tie borrower may
be ignorant as to who IS the lender
At the Lancaster town meeting
the other day it was voted to appro-
pirate the sum of $4,000 for enforce
ing the payment of taxes of all per-
sons who may resort to the law for
evading their taxes, and the town
Board was authorized to put things
through according to law and justice
1t begins 20 be seen that the richer
men become, the more shall be their
taxes, which has not hitherto been
the practice in Lancaster. If men
would not permit any increase of
their taxes, they must stop accumu>
latIng. Rich men must show their
riches upon the tax uooks-just as
poor men have TO record their pow
erty. The idea that rich men should
be poor tax payers is an invention of
bad hearts and wrong heads. And
any law bubbles to screen the rich
from sharing the burthens of gov
eminent are intolerable outrages.
In Lancaster the old assessor,
Henry Fox, was re-elected-pledged
as usual to assess the people fairly,
the rich to be rated in just proper
ton with the poor-no favors to be
shown TO any on account of station.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13

WHEAT PRosPECTs.-W are in re-
ceipt Of reports relative to crop pros
poets from reliable correspondents,
over an extent Of country from Min>
nesota to Delaware, and from Vir,
GINA to Texas. They arc pretty
unanimous in assuring us that the
winter wheat is not only safe, but in
! good thrifty condition, and at this
late day we may consider it safe be-
yond any ordinary danger
1t is noteworthy that the usual or
binary ominous reports Of extensive
winter-killing do not as usual reach
us this season, and from this fact
alone we might be led to anticipate
a prosperous and healthy condition
Of the growing wheat crop.
Shall the people put in large crops
of wheat this spring. No. Better
seed in flax, oats, corn. barley, beans,
&c 1t will be impossible for wheat
to bring a good price much short of
a year from this date. But the other
crops promise as well as ever, And
there is pork and beef-just as prom
ising as ever. Corn will pay largely
in pork and beef.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13
Germany and the United States.

The following is the text of the
little speech made by Bismark at the
grand dinner in Berlin, on the 4th OF
March:
Permit me, gentlemen, to inter
rupt your conversation while [ say a
word about the occasion which has
brought us together. This is the day
upon which, on the other side of the
Atlantic, the victorious commander
10 the service Of the United States
enters on his Office as President
The event, inasmuch rs it deeply in
teresis the United States, has spec
ial claim Oh the sy mpathetic interests
of this country, for it was King Of
Prussia, it was friedrich IL, who, at
the birth Of the great American Re-
public, was the first among the nom
belIigeronts to recognize its indcpen
dence As to our subsequent rela
tons with the United States, it gives
me the greatest pleasure to be able
to state as fact, not only from my
personal experience as Munster OF
Prussia, but from the archives OF
our history, that the cordial Under
standing inaugurated by Washington
and Frederick has never suffered the
slightest alteration. Not only has
no difficulty ever arisen between the
two countries, but nothing has oc-
cured between them which so much
as called for an explanation. 1t is
then to me a most agreeable as well
as an appropriate duty, to call on you
to unite with me in drinking in Ger
man wine the health Of the President
of the United States, General Grant"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13

Ten thousand Seeding apple trees,
eight years old, large and thrifty,
are to be had. at the Lancaster
Nurseries, at fifteen cents per tree
These trees have already been dug
and set in loose ground, andare ready
for delivery by tens, hundreds or
thousands, and if well set out may
bear fruit in two or three years.
Some Of them bore last year. About
one hundred of these trees were set
out last season, near by, and may be
seen as samples of good success.
Seedlings are expected to bear all
manner OF fruit, about a half of first
rate.quality, the other half of inferior
sorts, fit only for cider and cooking
use. Seedlings are known To bear
nearly twice as abundently as gratis,
and most experienced orchardists be
lleve them to be harder and longer
lived. These trees oil survived the
fatal winters of '55 and SO, when so
many seedlings and grated trees
winter killed, and died: They arc
thereioreIof certain hardness and able
to stand any future winter of ex-
IRENE fatality.
We should not hesitate to insure
these seedlings to stand and bear
well, and to endure the extremes of
climate, were they properly set in
land inclining to the north, or north
east or northwest. Southern ex>
posures are not half so healthful.-
Level land, not wet, does very well.
As to forest protection it is of little
consequence.
Right pruning in June or July,
in our experience, insures successful
orchards. Wrong pruning in early
spring or winter is fatal The
Herald will at times give instructions
as TO the entire management of trees.
And as to our ability to impart in
struction, our orchard of several
thousand trees, near by in the Ian
cast CIR Nursery land, is offered as a
test-being as we claim by far the
most healthy and hardy, and prom
lsing OF any in the country. We
have not lost nor do we expect to
lose tree by So called ,ointer killing,
simply because our trees have been
made ready to endure any degree of
cold or heat. This art of making
reddy to resist the extremes of eli
mate is quite simple, inexpensive and
when understood carries conviction
to the mind as to It's certainty
of success. Call and we will free
| ly describe. Also, we can show
hundreds of seeding trees of bear
ing size-samples from the lot
offered, only two to six years older.
Going to the Nursery for trees,
mind to fill your wagon box with
wet straw for covering roots. Keep
ing the roots moist till the transplan
ting insures a tree to grow, if it be
properly set. Losses are always
from neglect somewhere, chiefly from
allowing roots to dry or freeze, Or
from bungling setting in the ground.
OF about hundred large trees, all
seedlings from this same lot of eight
year Odds, set last year, we think not
one died ..as may be seen, and this
year or next we expect them to bear
apples.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13

- County of Grant. s. Court
In the matter of tic estate of John Dodge deceased
On reading ana Mug the petition of Catherine r.
Dodge of GRAFT county, representing. among Other
Things that John Dodge, late Grant county ON the
18TH day OF March, A. d. 1862 at his residence in said
county, died interstate, leaving goods chattes and
estate within this State and county and that tho
SAID petitioner is widow of the said deceased a.,
ttioner grar ed.
Therefore, il is ordered that said petition be heard
before the Judge OF this Court Tuesday the 4th da
in said county. " Saa.si'
And 1T is further ordered, that notice thereof bo
en- TO the heirs Of said deceased and to ali
terested by publishing copy Of this order for tbo
successive weeks prior to said day of hearing in tb
Grant County HERALD, weekly newspaper printed in
1N % D. -. "a 80 s0uh', H., - - 45t3
Dated at Lancaster the 18th day Of Anrl n ssse
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13
WISCONSIN APPOINTMENTS .Among

WISCONSIN, APPorNTMENTs.-.A Among
the Presidential appointments an
nouhced in our late dispatches are
those Of G C. Hazelton. of Colum-
bus, for L. S. Attorney of this State
and Gen. Beadle, of Boscobel, for
Surveyor of Dakota. Both are ex-
cellent appointments 1t will be re-
membered that Mr.. HaZelton was
ous.ed from the Revenue Collector
ship because ho would not follow
Johnson His ability and integrity
eminently fit him for the position for
which he has been designated
Mr.. D. B Priest, formerly a mem-
Der of the Legislature from Vernon
county, has been appointed and con-
tirmed Collector of Internal Revenue
for the 9th District of this State
The appointment is an excellentone.
Judge vid'Noggle, formerly Judge
of the 1st Circuit in this State, has
been appointed Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Idaho. an appoint
ment that will please his many friends
in this State. Some minor appoint
ments are also announced.-Stdte
J0nrHd{.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13

This State, in her election We'd
nesday, has followed the example set
by her sister New England States,
and endorsed Gen. Grants admins,
tration, and anew proved her fidelity
to Republican principles. Seth Pad
dleford, the Republican candidate for
Governor, is elected by 1906 MAORI
ty. The Senate stands 26 Republic
cans to Z Democrats the House &C
Republicans to II Democrats. We'll
done, "Little Rhody."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13
A Bold Attacks the new Grain Buy
ing Scale Right?

LEAR HERALD Noticing in the
issue OF the 23d ullimo an article
headed, Farmers, uLy oM you be hun
plugged 2" | wish TO offer word of
| encouragement TO the brave author
and say
| EDRAR FARMER II would offer my
tribute of coincidence aud gratitude
10 your noble efforts to expose the
steals of the Boscobel IN heat Ring"
Had il aot osen foryou, this German
neighbor probably would never have
known that he was cheated" and
three bushels OF his whea, sfoien,"
aud that too in load of twenty
bushels, when the price, as you say,
| God knows is low enough (if he
don't, we do 1t IS likely that
hundreds of others have been stolen
from and never knew it. We must
stand boldly up to the fight against
the wheat conf 'deracy who are pi-
Ii ~ p t ,ous Is of bushels of wheat
aud thousands OF dollars out of our
hard earning. If we do not, the
country will surely be ruined. These
thieving drones tried their steal on
me. A short time ago | took down
some hogs and the best offer could
get was Sl4 05 per 100 lbs, and then
they would have cheated ne in
weight, but | told them I..had weighed
them and they feared to do it
If we stand right up to them aud
can get Cover to help us, we can
bring them TO time, or we will subs
stitute some honest men in their pla-
| ces, perhaps 90 in ourselves and
make the money. But lot US see :
This "Wheat Ring" extends beyond
Boscobel. Muscoda is but little bet
ter Avoca was last year, but | don't
know this; Mazomanie and Madison
steal in the same way, and even
worse and how is it in Milwaukee ?
IT'S said be good authority, they pro
nounce wheat weighing on the test
scales only 50 lbs. (the weight of our
German friends wheat), "Rejected,'
even though in other respects it be
as good as the wheat the goose ate
which layed the golden egg and
then they steal s lbs. per bushel, ia
king 60 lbs, just as the Boscobel
thieves do and as No. on the 22nd
was worth only $1.104; after paying
II cts, per bushel to Rail Road, u
per cent. commission for sending to
the Milwaukee buyers, besides Ito
! per cent. Government tax, and }
bushel per car load to the warehouse
to mako weight good, | fear we shall
get to stealing like the rest if we
make much and really Cover can't
control Milwaukee, but I'll write to
Grant and he can but if be treats us
as he does the Office seekers, the
question will be
How shall we ntrve the matters,
| To keep the people from laughing at us?
| don't know, unless we quit farm
ing, letting the whole tribe of thiev.
ing, gobbi"g, stealing, cheating
wheat confeoerates starve, and go n
to the substitute business.
Believe me dear Farmer" hear
and hand with you.
COME GAIN.
= | "A f4l
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13
Administrator,s saIe-Ho1row.v

real estate o. John ". Holloway deceased ''o
NoricE is hereby given that by virtue and , ,,,,.,
Anee OF an order OF license made in said mater % a.
nints Gay 81 March lst9. by the County Court Of
q said decreased, will Tuesday the i'm dar ~ %
1853 a. one clock in the afternoon IF said ~ ~
At tue front door Of the court house in thu vilI
lancaster in said Grant county offer for Ii -, o.
'endue the following described lands to- wit: ''e
ne nndis; led one half part of Il following I.,a
sltu'te IA the county Of Grant and State Of G;s;
arscrib-d as follows The southeast u,rtar ~ ~,
north east quarter and the north halt Of the so,h
quarter o. section thirty FIVE (s5 and the south vat
yer q west quarter objection thirtyir 30,
All IN IoWHshp NO four north Of Range five ri 49,,
me Terms OF sale will be male known on ~ -
OF sale ana said Lands will be sold subject 4. 81
ovs dover interest therein. 3 n.. lns wild
45w3 Admini.,...,l "Ef,
DATED al lancaster this 9th day Of April A d 10
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13
f0rThe Woman's RIGHTS question

@-The Woman's Rights question
has crept into the South Carolina
mixed Legislature. The question of
women voting was referred to the
Judiciary Committee of the House,
who heard speech from mulatto
woman named Rawlins in support of
woman suffrage. She held that in
asmuch as the Constitution did not
define the voter as male, the intent
and scope of that paper were that
sex was unknown to the Constitu-
ton, and that, accordingly, women
have as much right TO vote as men
have. The committee has not re-
ported. Its chairman is q relative of
the mulatto woman.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13
AUCTION SALE
STOCK AND FARM TOOLS.

will sell at auction at my farm three miles west OF
Bloomington mile Of the red school house.
SATURDAY APRIL "a, 1862 horses, harness, wagon,
bob sleghs, plOws, cultivaor harrow, sulkey plow.
cows yearling calves, and about 40 hogs, quantity
of corn, &c.
Terms-All sums under $40 cash; over $40 time
til the first day of December 1862 with approved
curty with interest at per cent if paid when due, il
not 10 per cent Discount of per cent will bs al
lowed cash in hand Sale to at 10 O'Clock
A. NJ BRIGGS
Bloomington April s, 1869. 45w2$
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13

RAILROAD IN La FAYETTE COUNTY.
The matter OF voting county aid
for extending the railroad from Mon
roe west through La Fayette and
Grant Counties. was very largely
defeated ut the Spring election N LA
Fayette County Thi- IS ominou+ f.
any extension Of that road. and l.
another showing that tha people su.I
moan 10 refuse 70 bc the stockholders
ia thcir own roads VT, when
strangers furnish capitai tar building
western railroad the people void il
they could apply legislation to com
pei heavy reductions q railroad
charge rates There is awful small
ness aud moanuess among the peo-
ple! Egen towns benefited 80 to 100
per cont. by raiIroads refused 10 vote
: one cent tax for aid. There i, *
norauce rs we'll as meanuess display
cd by the people.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13

sa-The French politicians are
very expert in evading the law for.
bidding political meetings.
"Tho Life and Death Of Abraham
Lincoln" was the subject of public
meeting recently, and under its cover
the strongest doctrines of Republic,
canism and opposition to the Empire
were taught.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13
sheriff sa'o--wilkinson CT 81,

A nL ~ miscossIs, Circuit Court Of Gran. r.
county Wisconsin
Wilkinson Hsou and Fsrah
By virtue Of Judgment Of forsclosgrs
rendered and mcd a the March term Isf ~ ~. OF
cut Court OF sal County shall on the ss,h 'ss Iir.
-; nay , 10 at the front door Of the Court Hou a.
sale and vi sell at public auction at 10 ocIo, oIsf ior
@ ., .s Day to the highest bidder for cash
Lot No four n in block ons 49, -, 70 I;
n M ge Of Musco Ia in ,rant cont W..
oa saie wiz De made to satisfy said IA Iemart
i''' t 1855 ana costs &c ,ruing WM HI CIIsE ~ ~
Ds,aJ sE..;a- 90 .. Allen Barber, Plaintiffs Attsy
pS'so sherifs Office Lancaster wis April n 1Ss'
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13
Stock and Farm Property

II VI AJoItF AitICLIt)I.
The subscriber having sold his farm will expose far
sale at public auction on SATURDAY the frat dav az
May 1869. At his residence pa miles nortb of the vii
age OF Beetown tue following described property to-
Wit: one team one mare years old one horse w
od also one mare 10 yrs old, sett harness. wagons
bob sled, two horse corn planter tanning mill.
pows, harrows, aud other farm implements too num-
erous TO mention / will also sell all my household
furniture, consisting of stoves, chairs tables &c
TERMS CASH. Sale to commence at o o'clock
Beetown April II, 1869. 45ws* JOHN WOODS
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13
Official Canvass Of Judicial Election.

Below we give the vote by towns
for the several Judicial candidates.
including Bloomington, rejected for
being variously informal. 1t will be
seen that Judge McGonigal received
a small majority over all the candio
dates, and 624 majority over Bland
ing. The candidacy Of Eastman and
Merrick unquestionably saved Nc
Gonigal from defeat, Eastman pollcd
but about half his party vote. In
his own town, Wingville, be was
supported strong by the Stephens
party under the remarkable notion
that Eastman might possibly make
o useful and respected official citizen
Of Lancaster and be fully assessed
and made pay his full share of per-
sonalty taxes. We find that belief
generally prevails that Lancaster is
a hard town for clandestine property
holders to dodge the assessor.
Hereafter follows the judicial vote
by towns:
THE VOTE FOR CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13

HoPEFUL Tho Des Moines aud
McGregor railroad is to be built, and
the McGregor papers say it iusures
also the speedy building of the Riv-
orside road from McGregor South
along the west bottom Of the Misss
sippi river. And this would, it APP
pears, insure continuation of the
Platteviile Caamine road to Cass-
Vile. Thus it is that one event
opens the way for another and that
to another.in limitless number and
unknown succession.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13

n@-Serano, Prim, and the other
leading revolutionists of Spain, were
warm friends of the North during
the rebellion, and the Duke de Mont,
pensier was the one who disclosed to
US the secret efforts of France to in
duce Spain to recognize the rebel
confederacy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13

Nor A CANDIDATE.-Hon. Philetus
Sawyer, the efficient member Of Con
gress from the 5th district, writes
that he is not a candidate for Cover
nor of Wisconsin nor for recollection,
but that at the end OF his present
term in the House, be proposes to
return to his old role of common
lulnberman."
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13

New York police use Planchotte
almost entirely 10 detecting rogues
Of all descriptions, and employ f..
males from The Five Points to oper
ate the machine These women
know the haunts aud the exploits Of
ali the Burglars and thieves in the
city, and, under the manipulation OF
the shrewd detectives. let their
knowledge unconsciously slip through
the ends of their fingers.
1t is said in New York that
"Brick" Pomeroy's Democrat is on it's
last legs. He has made the mistake
of writing his paper for the people of
the Five Points, forgetting that the
Five Points cannot read.
An attempt was made on Tues
day night to assassinate Josiah TURF :
err, Jr. editor Of the Raleigh n. c.
Sentinel. Some scoundrel fired gun
at him as be sat writing in his office
about midnight,
-Spangler and Arnold, two of the
pardoned conspirators lately serving
out sentence at the Dry Tortugas
arrived yesterday morning in Balti,
timore.
A private dispatch from Augusta,
Ga, states that Alex. I'll. Stephens,
Vice President of the late rebel gov.
eminent, has suffered a relapse, and
his life is now despaired Of
At the municipal election at La
Crosse, Wis, the Republicans elected
Mr.. Colman for Mayor, over Losey,
Democrat, by $40 majority, a Repub-
lican gain over last year of sos.
Governor Hoffman recommends
building more prisons for the New
i ork Democracy, as the State instit-
utions are now filled to overlooking.
without any hopes of decrease.
A passenger car for the Erie
Railroad, to cost $50, 900, is building
in Jersey City. 1t will be. it is said
the largest, costliest, and perhaps the
most elegant car in the world.
California has it's Ku-Klux. An
organization is sending secret circul-
ars to all who employ Chinese labor
ers, warning them to desist or to ex.
pect serious consequences.
A will has been thrown ont in
New Hampshire as fraudulent. on
the testimony that the paper com
pany whose. imprint it,,bore did not
exist at the date Of the will.
in the British House of Com
mons, yesterday, one of the Irish
members proposed that the church
disestablishment be extended to Eng
land and Scotland.
The House of Representatives
have adopted provision. placing So,
900, 900 in the hands of the Presiden,
to promote civilization and maintain
peace with the Indians on The plains
Tho 81 anisb and Mexican Gov
ernments have fled charges against
our Ml0islers Hale and Rosecranes
and they will be relieved at once.
Il telegram from Madrid an
nounces that the Government has al
lowed the importation of Protestant
books printed in foreign tongue.
The inhabitants of Richmond |
Va. are debating whether to call |
Miss Van Lew Postmaster, Postmis |
trcss, or Postmiss.
Andrew Proudfoot, Democrat |
was elected Mayor of Madison. Wis |
The Republicans made no regular |
n omination.
Great Britain. to population ofI
"a 363 900 persons, has sc 200 miris
ters OF all denominations, with 81 700
and chapels.
There are 100000 French Pro. |
testants in France, and of the / 100
pastors, 700 are evangelical.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13

nsa.W. f. Carter, of the able law
firm of Paine Carter, Platteville, il
Is understood, has received an APP
nointment of Consul to Naples, in
Italy TO which part he is DESTROYS Of
Going and spending a few years in
SS;ew of benetiting his health.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-04-13

sa. Ben. NJ. Coates, of Boscobel,
holds the appointment ofcollector OF
the Third Wisconsin District, in
place of DR.. Warren, whose term of
office has expired. This appoints
ment gives undivided satisfaction.