Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-08-10
Elk Editor Abroad-Weather and Crops
neutrality-suspicious. Men
Judge Barron.

hS eo0u lTOu IHo Ch ldIIIy COm u0HC
ed The wheat and cat crops sp-
peared heavy from PIattsville to
Dunleith and same as far as Chicago.
Corn never had better color the
stand is rather thin, owing to a fall
ure of much Of the seed TO grow it
promises two>third average, though
on account of the late start it may
yet suffer from some cause, possibly
frost.
Left Chicago on Wednesday, heavy
rains falling the night before and
continuing all that day till arriving
at FIT. Wayne the whole country APP.
pearsl under water, and the people
said it had raised every day for near
ly month. Oats and wheat all har,
vested and in shock, and the people
in dread of growth in shock. Great
fears also of total loss of the hay
crop. No corn at all Upon the best
and highest lands probably three
bushels to the acre are promised.
No question but corn is to be very
dear in the West, and stock hogs
very cheap.
From Wooster through Ohio and
through Pennsylvania and Maryland
there has been less wet weather and
the crops never were better.
l have to report new feature in
Maryland and one that is step ad-
vance in economy. mean the en-
tire dispensing with outside fences in
many places, and keeping of stock
within fields. Such is the practice
in thickly populated Europe. The
practice, am told, commenced here
in Maryland when hefences in many
places were destroyed by the army,
and thereupen it was found cheaper
to build enclosures in view of,utilizing
the common for pasture. In many
parts Of Grant County there would
be even more gained than in Mary
land by dispensing with fences, ex
cept for what land is required for
pasture. l leave the figuring to be
done by farmers.
The whole country east from Ores
cent, Ohio, appears fast falling under
the domination Of the manufacturing
interests. Such is shown along the
railroad. Large towns and even
small villages, unless supporting sevr
eral factories, are on their way to
decay. Wherever manufactures are
seen there is briskness and all the
signs OF accumuatlng wealth and
where there are no factories at the
market towns, the neighbOring farms
are languishing, but in the vicinity
Of all such institutions the farms eX>
hibit great profit in their way by be-,
ing we'll improved and tastefully or
namented. / am told that the man-
utacturing proprietors see to supports
ing the best schools as means of in
surfing good order, stability and use>
fulness of operatives. Said Super
intendent of an iron works, "good
schools are worth all the police force
that can be hired they make the pa
rents proud OF their children, and
pride insures exemplary habits and
economy schools diminish the sup>
porters of grog shops and in every
way help to change bad men for the
better"
l have met here in Washington
many Wisconsin men, among them
Generals Harrison c. Hobart and
Richardson, the former in Govern
msnt employ as q Treasury agent, the
latter formerly Of the Seventh Wis
consin Regiment and now lawyer
in Baltimore. Have also met Judge
III. ID. Barron, the Fifth Auditor of
the Treasury, and said to be one of
the most efficient officials in the De-
partment. Judge b. is credited with
having introduced several reforms
by which many hundreds Of thous-
ands will be saved to the Govern
ment, and for which Treasurer Bout,
we'll regards him with high favor.
May all Wisconsin servants in office
merit equal praise!
Called on ii. +. Miles, employed
as telegraph operator at the Office of
Chief Of Police, and W. n. Reed and
family, formerly of Lancaster.
On Monday morning, August ,, |
expect to leave for Boston, thence
sail the earliest opportunity for the
land of my new mission, the Azore
Islands, under the dominion Of Port
ugal, To-day have been trying
without success TO find some books
to aid in acquiring a knowledge Of
the Portuguese language. The wealth
err is warm, and business dull in
Washington. Gen. Grant and heads
of departments reported generally
absent.
Imet Horace Greeley at one of the
Hotels, and cannot see that he has
changed in ten years. He and 9TH
ers had been to Fredricksburgh. Va
buying lands in that vicinity, where
I Is designed to settle a colony of
Northernsrs and establish schools |
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