Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-09-19


Capt. Richard Carter has form
ed law partnership with S. w
Reese, Esq, at Dodgeville.
The fair of the Plattevile Agr
cultural Society will be held on Wed
nesday, Thursday and Friday Of this
week
The new Catholic, Church at Bos
cobel was opened for service on the
18th inst. There was large attend
ance.
Sec l.. Case Il Goes now an
nouncement among the new adver>
tisements. They carry on business
on large scale, as they advertise.
Tho extension Of the Mineral
Point X. r.. through Minlin, Wing
willie and Highland to the Wisconsin
river, is getting encouraging votes in
Iowa county.
The ladies all, both great and
small, should call at Nathan, Schrei
ncr & Co.'s without delay and ex>
anime those laces and trimmings.
They are high in style, low in price,
and bound to suit.
Tho length Of several articles
compcls Us to cut short our local
items and to omit much matter that
should appear. An important letter
from Boscobcl is also delayed for
next week.
"A brakeman on tho western
bound freight train while coupling
cars az the Boscobcl station, yester-
day, had his hand crushed between
tho bumpers Part Of his hand had
TO be amputated.
Nathan, Schreiner & Co. are
showing an elegant lot Of dress goods,
shawls and cloaks for the fall wear
What is important they arc in style,
and therefore cheap at any price,
The goods are just from New York
and will be sold cheap.
-Zieglcr & Dillon arc displaying
q large late received stock Of hard
ware. Wo notice that our people
have stopped sending to the cities
FOR spccal articles Of Hardware. u. a.
d. keep we'll stocked with everything
i'm the line.
To buy or not to buy suit at
Nathan, Schreincr x Co.'S is a ques~
ton You would soon settle by exam
ming their newly received stock OF
clothing. Gents furnishing goods
az all kinds from a hat to a shoe
string-may be seen in their new ar
rivals
The Normal School at Platte
Vile has an attendance of over two
hundred and fifty students. Two
new classes have been organized
one an Institute class for the benefi
Of those who expect to teach the
coming winter another military
class for the benefit Of the young
men in general
Tho dry goods store of Knowl
ton & Mclaughlin at BoseobeI was
burglariousIy entered on Tuesday
night. About 500 were stolen, }
Comstock's store was entered the
same night and robbed OF some re-
lolvors, watches, and S25 in money
AT a railroad meeting at Belmont
on Thursday last that town voted by
majority Of fifteen TO appropriate
SIS, 900 80 aid in extending the Mon
roe road TO the Mississippi, provided
il goes by their route. The town OF
Smelser, also voted down the project
Of aiding the Dubuque & Monroe rail
road by vote of l60 to 40.
We learn that tho eastern bound
freight train Of the Milwaukee and
Prairie du Chen r. II. ran off the
track near Woodman early thi:
morning Jimmy Dunn, a brakeman
whose homo is ct Madison, was sc
severely injured that his recovery j:
doubtful, both legs having been cut
oil above the knees, besides receiving
other injuries.
ON Sunday morning of last week
the brewery of Kemler & Muesso a
Platteyille was burned to ashes
There were also about | 500 bushel:
of barley and several bales OF hops
destroyed A family residing with
In the building narrowly escaped
death by tho flames. The property
was partially insured, valued at from
ten TO twenty thousand dollars.
In view Of the fact that Wash
buruo and Doolttle are to speak il
Lancaster on the 9th of October
Nathan. Schreiucr 4 Co have suppli
ga themselves with large and care
ullv selected stock OF boots an,
shoes They moan 70 show the candi
datt- that Lancaster people do no
80 about barttootcd.
Many sell evident thing ha
been expressed about hats The An
t5erat at the Breakfast Table hcl,
that a "plug" that has once been sa
upon il never itself again. which W
daresay is not far from true Tn
urcson. llumiuator however take
itas q matter OF sheer certainty tina
Nathan Schreiner 4 Go. airs roy
selling hats and caps that are not on
rs very good ones 10 look at but al
% very astonishing ones to wear.
We neglected to notice last wee
in our article on the BIoomingto
Fair the result of the trottng mate
which came off there on Friday
Sleepy Dave, owned by ). J. Walk
err OF Fennimore, won tho heat at 3.
and 3:16. This horse trottcd . mil
in 2:57 on the same track the day b
fore. The stallion is five years ol'
and is claimed to have had but thre
days training before the race abo7
referred 10.