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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25
aaherIff RnIe..Siiles.

az cSSSy sn Court c /. ana for
Reed Patch and Louisa Patch, executors OF the last
will and testament Of Henry Patch, deceased, plain
tiHs, IS. Norman Stiles, defendant.
BY virtue Of writ Of execution issued out Of the
Circuit Court Of Grant County Wisconsin, In favor Of
Reed Patch and Louisa Patch, exrs Ac, plaintiffs and
against Norman Stiles, defendant, 70 directed and
delivered, and for want Of sufficient goods ana
chattels OF the above named defendant whereon 10
levy, have BY direction Of PLAINTIFF attorney levied
upon ell the right title and interest which the aid
defendant had on the Cd day OF October D. 1868 or
has since acquired In and 10 the following described
real estate. to-wit
Commencing thirty.three (33) feet north from the
southwest corner Of lot decided by Dennis Rooney 10
Robert Collier and recorded In tho Registers ONCE in
Grant county, In Book W 2 on page z22; thence run.
ming north ono hundred and twenty Q20) feet ;
thence east one hunered and eightysix Os6J feet 7,
thence south one hundred and twenty 20 feet thence
west one hundred and oghtyx s6l feet 10 the place
VI beginning. Also the following described piece or
~ 60 feet east from the southeast Of the frat
mentioned piece tract Of land; thence north one
hundred and twenty (l20 feet thence east sixty (e0
feet thence south hundi cd and twenty l2O feet
thence west sixty (eO) feet to the place Of beginning
all being situated in the south part Of the southwest
quarter Of the northeast quarter Of section number
four ~ Of township i've (5) north OF range number
i've 6 west Of the fourth principal meridian situated,
lying and being In the county Of Grsnt and etate OF
Wisconsin. Which said real estate will on the LIST
day OF March, A. D. 1870 at the hour Of ~ O'Clock,
neon, Of said day. oner for SALE and viii sell at public
auction 10 the highest bidder for cash, at the front
door Of the court no ase In the village Of Lancaster
Grant county, wisconsin Said sale will be made 10
satisfy said execution amounting two hundred five
and 2olO0 dollars (20520) damages also interest and
costs Of sale W. III. elise Sheriff.
). ALLEN BAEBER, pins atty Grant Co. Wis.
Dated sheris once, Lancaster, Wis. JAM H. 1870.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25
The Benefit of Walking.

If you hold yourself erect, with
your chin close to your neck, swing
your arms freely and move rapidly,
you will find walking the very best
exercise. Few muscles escape work,
while you enjoy fresh air, sunshine
and constant change of scene. l
have taught gymnastics as a profess
sion for many years, but as source
of health | believe walking is superb
or to any of the artificial exercises.
The best hour during the autumn
and winter, for people of average
strength, is from to s in the morn
ing for invalids from 10 to II. Mrs.
Lewis and myself have walked
around our common more than a
thousand mornings, with the happi-
est results upon health and spirits.
By the way, is it not curious fact,
while our people are clamoring for
large park, which must be located
several miles away, this most beauti-
full park, which lies at their very
doors, should never be visited by
them? During these years of morn
ing walks we have never, that we
can recall, met single person out
for a constitutional" With the ex-
ception of the children Of toll, hurry
ing across to their tasks, we have it
all to ourselves.-Dr. Di0 Lel0iS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25

LIES AUTUMN.-Like the leaf,
life is fading. We speak and think
of It with sadness, just as we think OF
the autumn season. But there should
be no sadness at the fading of life
that has done it's work well. If we
rejoice at the advent of new life, if
we welcome the coming of new pill
grim to the uncertainties of this
worlds ways, why should there be
so much gloom when all these uncer-
tainties are passed, and life at it's
waning wears the glory of a compile
ted task? Beautiful as is childhood,
in its freshness and innocence, it's
beauty is that of untried life. 1t is
the beauty of promise, of spring, of
the bud. A higher and holier and
a rarer beauty is the beauty which
the waning life of faith and duty
wears. 1t is the beauty of the thing
completed; and as men come togeth-
err to congratulate each other when
some great work has been achieved,
can see in its concluding nothing but
gladness, so ought we to feel when
the setting sun filings back its beams
upon a life that has answered we'll
life's purpose. When the bud droops
blighted, and the mildew blasts the
early grain, and there goes all hope
of the harvest-one may we'll be
sad but when the ripened year
sinks amid its garniture of autumn
flowers and leaves, why should we
regret or murmur? And so a life
that is ready and waiting for the
welcome" of God, whose latest viz
tues and charities are it's noblest.
should be given to him. Household.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25

SAVE THE BABIEs.-A eorrespon-
dent of the Medical Gazette, who is
a practicing physician, comes to the
rescue Of the babies against what he
denounces as their deadly enemy,
Mrs. Win-slow's Soothing Syrup
He says he was called to see an in
faut that was in a dying condition,
apparently from the effects of mar
cotic poison, and he was assured that
it had taken no medicine but this
soothing syrup" The doctor took
the bottle and had some of the sy-
rup analysed by a skillful chemist
and the analysis showed that each
ounce of the stuff contained nearly
one grain of morphine. A dose for
an infant three months old, as pre-
scribed by Mrs. Winslow's printed
directions, contained an amount of
morphine equal to ten drops of laud-
anum. This is ordered to be given
to the child every two hours in GER
tain cases, and double the quantity
10 a child of six months old. AS
children are very susceptible to the
influence Of opium, of which NOR
phine is the active principal, four
drops of laudanum having been
known to kill an infant of nine
months, and as the manufacturers of
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing syrup sell
annually one hundred thousand two
ounce bottles in the single State of
New York, the reader can form some
idea of the number of babies that are
soothed to perpetual sleep by this
nostrum. Mothers had better fall
back on catnip tea.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25
An Odd Fish.


To believers in the Darwin theory
it will be of interest to know that in
the quiet bays and rivers on the
eastern coast of Central and South
America there lives an animal,
which might be rightfully considered
as the connecting link between man
and fish. 1t is the manatee, the wa
ter siren, the sea-calf or sea-cow, as
the strange animal is some times
called. 1t belongs TO the Cetacea,
and is altogether herbiverous, living
on grass which grows under water,
or on herbs which it seeks on shore.
The body is pisciform, and measures
some fourteen feet or more in length !;
the skin being very thick, without
hair, and of a dark color. The up-
per part of the body, especially Of
the females, much resembles that of
a moman, the breasts being of the
same form. La place ofthe fins of the
ordinary fish, the manatee has short
arm of only one joint, which termi-
mates in a sort of hand, on which the
nails are distinctly visible and which
the animal uses with much dexterity,
in moving about whom on land, and
in carrying its young. This limb
has caused the animal to be called
manatee, from the latin word mdnuS,
the hand. The writer, who for sew
eral years resided in those countries
where these animals abound, has
seen the animal, and has been told
repeatedly by the natives, that the
female holds her cub to suckle as the
mother does her babe. The tail of
the manatee is shaped like an open
fan, and the close observer will per-
ceive ten divisions, which mark the
ten toes. Manatees swim by the help
of this broad tail, which moves up
and down, not to right and to left like
that of fish. This limb, which at
first appears to be mere fin or nerve
melts almost entirely into butter
when fried in pan, and is highly
priced by the natives for ointments
and for other medical purposes
The animal weighs from 1000 to
1900 pounds and the meat is consid-
cred q great relish. 1t looks and
tastes much like pork, and needs a
good deal of cooking. 1t is strange
fact that the flesh keeps longer from
decay than any other, and it is there
fore sailed and preserved like pork.
They are caught with harpoons by
the Indians, who know their haunts
and customs, and it seems as if they
wers becoming more and more scarce
every year.-Scientlfc american.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25
Make Yourself u seful."

This is the standing Injunction to
a large family of steady and affec-
tionate children, of "Friend" moth
er, whom we know, and we regard
it as one of the most important les
sons which childhood can learn
Many young man would have been
saved from the halter had he learned
in his fathers house how to "make
himself useful" under all the circum-
stances of life
And well do we know, that many
a girl with a good heart has gone
down to an early grave of infamy,
from being brought up, by false
kindness, without the knowledge OF
how she was to make herself USE
fnl" in the various changes and ad-
versities of life. Very many girls. in
this drear winter weather, go to bed
hungry, and rise to hover around
stinted fires, and SILVER all day in
scanty clothing, wearing the wrin-
kles of sadness and care on faces, yet
in their teens, willing enough to
work-and abundant work TO do,
with liberal pay, in luxurious man
sions, whose rich occupants, would
count it fortunate thing" to find
person suited to the place.
Why, then, are the doors of all our
charities besieged and daily throng-
edP and why does the pitifuI appeal
strike the ear of the pedestrian in
his early walk, or MONDAY promen-
ade, or nightly visit to the party, the
lecture, the concert or the opera?
1t is simply because these starving
freezing girls were not brought up
to be useful, were not taught, by care.
less or over-indulgent mothers, how
they might command situations
The necessant and earnest cry OF
thousands of almost despairing house.
keepers, is for competent "help," tC
cook, to nurse, to sew for chamber
work, or for waiting. Within any
twenty-four hours, 1000, may We
not say 10000 such girls would find
welcome homes in the very best fam
lies In New York, at high wages.
But American girls think it degrad
ing to cook, and nurse, and wash
and wait on the table, and their more
inexcusable and short-sighted parents
confirm them in their views and the
next we hear Of them is starvation,
suicide" premature disease or dis
honored grave. Let all these, espe
cially those who can leave their fam
lilies nothing, impress on the minds
of their children, day by day, that il
is more dishonorable to beg than tt
work, that it is more criminal to dC
nothing than to be Industrious thai
no employment is dishonorable which
is useful and that it is not only {
disgrace, but crime to be idle, from
feelings of despicable false PRIDE
Halls journal o. HEALTH.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25
Execmtrix saIe-Griffin.

CrLTE or WISCONSIN,, :. In Probate, Grant County
- County Of Grant. Court
deceased.
Notice IL hereby givsa, that by virtue and In pursu
sncs Of an order Of license made in said matter on the
sth day OF January, A. D. 1870 By the County Court
81 said Co.. the urdersgnes, Lucinda Grimm, Executrix
Of the last will aud testament Of said deceased, will on
Tuesday the 1Sth day Of January, A. D. 1870, at one
o'clock In the afternoon Of said day at the front door
az thS court house In Lancaster in said county, offer
for sale public ysndus tho following described Lands
to.wit:
The south-west quarter and the southwest quarter
o. tho north sast quarter Of section ~ In town
ship four a. north q range three (s) west, In the
county Of Grant and State Of Wisconsin.
The terms Of Bals-Two-thirds Of purchase money
AZ the time OF sale 70 be paid tho other onethird
cured by mortgage on the premises. az annual In
tsrsst LUCINDA GRIFFIN,
32w3 Eexecutrx OF said estate.
Dated at Lancaster. the eth day OF JAM A. D. 1870.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25

- County Of Grant. court.
In the matter Of the guardianship Of Elizabeth Cooper
and Ella Q. Cooper, minor children Of Thomas Coop
er, deceased.
On reading and filing the petition Of Solomon Light
cap guardian Of said minors representing among other
things that his the said wards seized Of certain real
estate in the county OF Grant and state Of Wisconsin,
and thatt Is necessary that all the should be sold
and praying for license 70 sellthe same and II appear
Ing TO the Court from said petition, that IL Ii
sary and would be most beneficial TO the said
miRor heirs 70 sell said real estate; IL Is ordered
and dlYocted that the next kin 10 said wards
and All persons interested In said estate appear before
the Judge Of lis Court, Monday. the 18th day Of
February A. D. 1870 at one o'clock p. NJ at the Court
House In Lancaster in said Oounty, then and there
show &c any there shall boz why license should
not be granted for the sale Of said real estate, accord
ing TO the prayer Of said petition.
And II IL further ordered that copy Of this order
shall be published for three successive weeks prior to
said day OF hearing IN the "0rant County Herald =
weekly newspaper printed at Lancaster In said county.
By the Court. WM. Mcd0NIGAL, Co, Judge.
Dated At Lancaster the 10Th day Of Jan A d 1870.
Anvil
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25
THE HERALD.
Letter From Kansas The Soil, Climate,
Products and Prices.

hR. COVER AS many friends in
Grant have asked me to write to
them about Kansas, l do so through
the Herald. Kansas is great State,
extending over 400 miles east and
west and over two hundred north
and south as far as / have seen it
ia good country for farming and
stock raisisg. Clay county (where
have located) is about 100 miles west
Of Atchison; the land is mostly roll
ling, except on the streams. The
Republican river runs through this
county; its bottoms are from one TO
three miles wide, and dry-mostly
good rich soil except near the river
which is somewhat sandy back on
the prairies it is black loan and very
productive grass grows very high
and heavy. The soil of Kansas can
DO beat fot producing grain and veg
etaDles. Farmers tell me that they
raise from, 20 to 45 bushels of wheat
per acre, corn 80 to 100, oats 80 TO
81 per acre the reason of this
difference in the yield per acre is
mainly in the time given to cultiva-
ton. A man remarked to me that
one could do well here by working
half his time, and some do not work
more than one quarter, hence they
have poor crops. | saw some corn
fields here this Fall that yielded 65
to IS bushels per acre of good sound
corn and was only plowed twice and
not hoed at all the stalks grow
strong here and do not blow down
as in Wisconsin. The water is hard
ard clear, spring water is everywhere
found. ! find no low marsh lands
here as seen through Iowa. | have
been in three different counties west
and northwest and find the lands
coil and water about the same a:
here timber is to be found on al
tho streams but not very plentiful
think by taking care of what we
have, and fencing with hedge, wire
and stone, and planting out groves
we may have plenty of timber in {
few years. We have the finest stone
for building / ever saw-the soft
lnagnesia and hard limestone, also
the red sandstone, This is also des.
tined to be one of the best fruit
growing States in the Union. sup
pose you have heard our new State
took the first premium over all others
for display of fruit at the late Amer
lean Pathological Exhibition al
Philadelphia, Pa. The climate il
very agreeable and healthy. The
Winter so far has been mild we
were blowing till the 18th of Dec.
since then it has frozen and showed
some but little. Sowing here com.
mences in February grass starts in
Iarch. SO you see our Winters are
short; the wind is very cold when il
blows from the north, but it don't
hast long. This is good country
for poor man if he is willing tc
work. / will give the prices of some
articles: wheat 60 to 70 cents, corn
30 to 40, oats 30 to 30, potatoes &c
to 80, fou" So to $3.50, pork dressed
u to II cents. Our timber is main.
ly oak, ash, black walnut, hickory
sycamore aud cottonwood the price
OF lumber on the railroad is, for pine
$50 to S75 per NJ native lumber, s25
TO $50 per NJ.
Clay Co, Kansas, Jan. Is. G. wINswoRTH.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25

ASHES FoRW HEAT.-A correspond
ent of the Rural Gentleman says:
l. Wood ashes operate as manure
upon wheat, even in the limited
quantity Of eight bushels per acre.
2. They push the wheat forward
several days, and in time to escape
the hot, sultry days, which often pre-
vail about the time of the "heading
out" Of the wheat and
3. They strengthen the stem, Civ
ing it substance and solidity.
| may here add one or two more
properties to the ashes. They afford
just the kind of pabulum or food
which is best for the developement
and perfection Of the grain, and will,
in my opinion, also prevent the raw
ages of the fly in wheat. l would
here venture to remark that whoev-
err tries this experiment will her eaf-
ter spread his wood ashes upon his
wheat as above indicted and in so
doing be will effectually guard
against and prevent the rust in his
wheat.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25

RISK C:F GREAT Eaters. DIR. Hall
says THAI great eaters lever live long.
A voraoious appetite, so far from be-
ing a sigh of good health, is a certain
indication of disease. Some dyspep-
taos are always hungry and feel bet
tor when eating; but as soon as they
have finished eating they endure
t9rments so distressing in their ma
t1re as TO- make the unhappy victim
wish for death.
The appetite of health is that which
is inclined to eat moderately when
eating time comes, and which, when
satisfied, leaves no unpleasant re
minders. Multitudes measure their
health by the quantity they eat and
out of teg persons, nine are gratified
with an increase Of weight. when in
reality it indicates an increase in di-
saase, SHOWING that the absorbents of
the system are too weak TO discharge
their duty, and the tendency to fat
ness, to obesity, increases until exis-
tencs becomes burden, and sudden
death closes the painful history.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25
nrMrs Stanton l.c,nra5 =. c

EgM Mrs. Stanton lectured at st.
Louis the other day on Our Young
Girls" When speaking of the pre-.
vailing desire of women to appear
beautiful, she referred to an adyer-
tisement setting forth the glories of
"Hagan's Magnolia Balm, " which re-
moved freckles, pimples aud blotches.
and made woman of thirty app ear
as young as girl of eighteen. She
advised the girls not to use il. What
lady of thirty, she asked, would de-
sire to look like a foolish girl of
eighteen? Cosmetics and hair-dyes
are injurious to health; they contain
white lead and other poisons that
impair the health and produce weak
ness and paralysis. A woman has
as good a right to grow old as man.
She would give the girls a recipe
better than Hagan's Magnolia Balm.
1t was fresh air and exercise, which
would beautify the complexion, and
did not cost 10 cents bottle.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25
SummOns--CrOVv.

49,. -. x,,,,.,s,,, \ Circuit Court, in and for
StAics W " rsb Grant Co. Wis.-In vacation
- "'"n' Nou"'' after Sept. Term 1859.
Action for Divorce.
Sarah s. Grow, Plf. vs jesse Grow, Deft.
The State Of Wisconsin 10 The Defendant here named :
You are hereby summoned and required 10 answer
the complaint In this action, which was filed in the
once of the Clerk Of said Court at Lancaster GrantCo.
Wis., tho 9th day Of December, 1882 and TO serve
a copy Of your answer TO said complaint the sub
scribers at their Office In the village Of Lancaster, Wis.,
within twenty days after the service horeof exclusive
the said complaint within the time aforesaid, the
Plaintiff In this action will apply TO the Court for the
relief demanded In the complaint
BARBER A CLKMENTsoN, PITS Attys
3Ow6 Lancaster, Wisconsin
Dated Dec. 9th, A. D., 1869.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25
summOns--shaffer.

49,. =. ,r,.,..,., Circuit Court, Grant Co.,
49, W Hs.vN'A"' SN Wis-In vacation after
- "t"n' 0Ou"''' Sept. General Term, 1859.
Ruth shaner rs. Philip shafer.
The STATE Of WiscoHsiR 10 the Deendant GboUs named
You are hereby summoned and required TO answer
the complaint Of the plaintiff in the above entitled ac-
ton a copy % which was filed in the office OF the
Clerk OF the Circuit Court for Grant county Wisconsin,
on the fifteenth day o. December, 1869, and 10 serve
copy Of your answer 10 the said complaint upon the
subscriber az his oce IN the village OF Farpay in the
county Grant and State Of Wisconsin, within twenty
days after the service hereof exclusive OF the day OF
such service and II you fail 20 answer the said com
pIant within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this
action will apply to the court for the relief demanded
in the complaint. SAMUEL MEHhlCk,
Dated December l6, 1859 COWS Atty for Pl'f
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25

s6s- Btet sugar is proving a sue
cess in same parts of the West. Mr..
Bonsteel and Mr.. Otto, of Fond du
Lac, Wis, planted eighty acres to
beets this year, and, Notwithstanding
the unfsgorable season, the peculiar
fitness og the soil gave them a good
crop. 'fhey have obtained machin-
cry, and are at present manufactur-
ing about 1000 pounds of a good
quality of coffee sugar every twenty
four hoars. The crop is sufficient to
occupy Ahe works for at least four
and obt+half months, which will give
an aggregate of $4,000 to 135, 900
pounds ST sugar.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25

~ "'sn' county after Sept. Term, 1859.
Action for Divorce.
Jefferson r. varrell, Plf. u.s. Sarah A. Vsrrell, Def
me Saie Of Wisconsin, 10 he DcfeRdGm here named
You are hereby summoned and required 10 answer
the complaint in this action, which filed in the
once the Clerk Of said Court AZ Lancaster, Grant
County Wis, on the 18th day Of December, 1869 and
10 servo = copy Of your answer 20 said complaint on
the subscribers at their Office in the village Of Lancaa
ter Grant County Wis, within twenty days after the
service hereof exclusive Of tho day Of such service
and II you fail 30 answer the said complaint within
the time aforesaid the Plaintiff in this action will ap.
ply 20 the Court for the relief demanded in the COM
plant. BARBER a CLEMENTsON, Plf's Attys.
3Ow0 Lancaster, Wisconsin.
Dated Lancaster, wis, Dec 18th, A. ID. 1909.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25

SMoKING AND Loss OF SIGHT.-To-
bacco smokers, says the London
Medical Mirror, must look to their
eyes. Proofs are accommodating that
blindness, due to slowly progressive
atrophy Of the optic nerves, induced
Icy smoking, is of frequent occur
renee. In one of the volumes OF the
"LondoE Hospital Reports" Mr..
JoRathah Hutchinson has narrated
several aases of amaurosis, the his
tories of:which go to establish the
fact thag in each case the blindness
was broaght on by that rapidly in
creasing, and, as it appears, baneful
habit AID in the Medical Times and
Gazette, of late date, the same dis
tirguisbed surgeon has described
another @triking case of tobacco
amaurosss, ending in absolute blind
ness, induced in Is months"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25

If top of q carrot, cut off at
this season, or later, is placed in a
saucer of water, with few bits of
charcoal to sweeten it, it will form
radiated feathery plant by no means
unworthy to grace lady's table.