Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-11-28

-Congressman Barber started for
Washington yesterday morning.
-Four hogs per minute are slaugh
tered az J VI Ryah's abattoir in Ga
Jena
The little village of Montfort
can boast Of the best skating rink il
Grant County.
Examine Budd's portland"
cutters before they are all shipped
TO purchasers abroad.
Mr.. Joseph Kay, of Georgetown,
sent 10 Galena last week drove OF
hogs numbering 7l2 head.
There will be mass at st. Glenn.
cntc Church, Lancaster, on Thurs
day next at 10 o'clock A NJ.
THE Sage of Concord" Ralph
Waldo Emerson, lectures n.Dubuque
in December A man well worth
hearing
Bro Brown Of the Galena Gazette
receives letters from parties who
want to be conductors on the Musco.
ola Railroad.
Tho coolest kind Of midwinter
weather prevailed here for several
Jays last week. The mercury went
far below zero.
That "wolf story" narrated by
FREQ Williams at the last meeting of
the Old Settlers of Grant County, is
going the rounds Of the papers.
Joseph Vosberg, who resides
near Dickeyyille, has two year old
iron grey colt which weighed on
election day 1912 pounds. This colt
promises" well.
-Nast's illustrated Almanac for
1872 is for sale at the Lancaster book
store. A rich compound Of the liter
airy and the pictorial, the sublime
and the ridiculous.
The towns in this County along
the proposed line Of the Galena and
Muscoda Narrow Guage r. r. are
jubilant over the prospects Of the
building Of the road.
The Mississippi is solidly frozen
oNoi ~ ihllio uu Oulous ~ Icu pos
rary railway bridge is now being
constructed there and will be ready
for use by Thursday or Friday of this
week
d. II Budds "Portland" cutters
are now all the talk Of liverymcn
and others intending to purchase
winter go-hicles They are beautiA
iul il form, we'll made and painted
and very cheap.
We are pleased to notice the
return of Mr.. VIM. Ward, from his
summer surveys and wanderings
among tho pioneers and aborigines Of
Minnesota and Wisconsin. Bill looks
a. halo and hearty as Of yore.
"A literary association has been
formed by the young ladies' in the
public schools Of this village. The
chief aim Of tho society is intellectual
Improvement, including discipline in
the useful art of augmentation.
The Lancaster Skating Rink
was opened TO the public one night
last week. Mr. VIM Orton will do
his best to keep this popular place of
resort in good '5katable condition,
and deserves an abundance of patron.
age
-"War or peace, fame or forgetful.
ness, can bring no real injury TO one
who has formed tho fixed purpose to
1--we nobly day by day, and, the es-
sayist should have said, has his
clothes made by Ed. Hite, tailor, Ian
easter, Wis.
Snow began to fall thick and fast
about ten o'clock last night, continu-
ing pretty steadily until an early
hour this morning A depth Of from
four TO FIVE inches covers the ground
to-day, and the merry sound of sleigh
bells is heard in the land.
The demand for the manageable
young ladies Of Galena is active, and
the supply is said to be inexhaustible.
IL il declared that the best prizes are
carried of by young men from
abroad, and we wonder how the
young natives can submit to that.
We see in town to-day Mr. A. j
Pipkin, who represents Goodrich.
Terry Il Co., wholesale grocers. of
Milwaukee, We believe he finds
trade" here, Notwithstanding the
fact that our merchants are Just now
dealing mostly with Chicago firms.
Gov. Fairchild has appointed
Hon w. w Field of Boscobel to rep
resent Grant County in the Com
mercial Convention which meets at
Detroit tomorrow TO consider the
subject of continuous stream naviga-
ton from the Mississippi Valley to
the Atlantic Ocean.
Capt A. Il Bushnell Of Ian.
easter, member of the Assembly
elect, has been appointed by Govern
or Fairchild member of the State
Visiting Committee, to visit the Be-
nevolent Institutions of ourState and
report upon their management
This annual round takes place next
month.
Last week muscular quartette
Of Bloomiugtonians, while in saloon
of that town became, like Tam
O'Shanter and his cronies, full and
"unco happy" Then combativeness
asserted itself aud diversion ensued
in which one of the four did cleverly
and prettily punch the heads of his
muddled companions.
At public entertainment re.
Gently given by the students of Beloit
College, Mr.. Edward d. Eaton, of
Lancaster, delivered a fine poem en-.
titled THE Last Of the Anchorites."
a correspondent there sends US a
somewhat lengthy account of the en-
tertainment, which owing to a press
OIL other matters, we are utterly una.
Die TO publish in our columns.