Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-04-04

MILLVILLE.
hih Creek-A scrap OF Earl IIistory- -Inndelity
and the Intestinal Canal-The Village stores
saw, Grist and w oolen NIlIs-DIckens.

trout ana other hnny Injuries are
said to be at home. We saw many
places wherein to drop line would
be sport most pleasant. The water
pow or afforded by this stream near
its confluence with the Wisconsin is
of the first class. There are many
fine mill sites and two or three very
good mills-lrmbe and four-have
long been jarrlng on its banks.
Millville is truly ga place of old
renown," 1T was founded many
years ago. and was aboriginally call
ed the POCKET" a name which has,
however, not yet become obsolete, in
spite of the big map to the contrary.
Why SO called, we are not prepared
to state, unless the belief of those
very charitable people who generally
see notes in the eyes of others, is
something more than idle conjecture
or malignant fancy. Their belief, by
the by, is, that q certain heather de-
ity named Pocket" was loved and
worshipped by the early settlers OF
Millville as no creation of Nature or
of the imagination was ever loved
before and that to treat his potent
majesty with all the passionate ado
ration and reverence in life was or
seemed the beings end and aim of
each individual inhabtant. But this
blind devotion to the god Of gain did
not last long. A reaction soon fol.
lowed, and the place began TO ego
down"
Other men, whose opinions seem
to us more worthy of consideration
than these, claim that it was the
cholera that played the mischief with
the town, and kept it from becoming
the commercial metropolis of Grant
County" Years ago, party Of en-
igrants brought this terrible epidem-
&c to the then fourishing village,
and the number of funerals that i'm
medately succeeded must have been
"A source OF great qualification to the
| gentleman with q very bad reputa-
ton somewhere below us. Tradition
tells how q notorious infidel of that
tlme-One whose firm belief was that
oman wakes no more man, peerless,
valiant, wise, once chilled in death,
sleeps hopeless in the dust"--was
| brought to his senses in an amazing
| ly abrupt manner. Whom the chol-
era was first talked about, he tossed
mis- hat aloft, performed an imprOmp-
tn hornpipe, and exclaimed, "Who's
afraid p And then, in the warlike
vein Of Caius Cassius, he declared
that he'd as lief as not be, as live in
awe OF such a thing as-colic. But
IL came to pass, one mOonit night,
that very near neighbor Of his was
taken down with twinges in the most
prominent part of his assimiative
| apparatus. The infidel's valOr began
to fail. Like Sheridan, the humorist,
he "felt it sneaking oil, oozing out,
as it were, at the palms OF his hands y
He was panicstricken. His hair
scared. Hastily getting out Of
bed where the news first reached
him, he made an insane dive for the
door, rushed wildly for the road.
vaulted high rail fence, and tore
off in the moonlight like an out and
out lunatic. He did not come back
Several days after search was made
for him, and he was found among the
branches of u high tree on the top of
q high hill, chanting a doleful hymn,
and chatting his unclad knees to keep
up the circulation. He never return
ed to the village more, and from that
day to this the place has not been it's
former tiourishing self The poor
fellow is now (et us hope) in the
land where the wicked cease from
troubling, and where cholera never
comes but for many a long year be-
fore he went off, it was his invariable
morning custom to take "a fiddle
brayer to himmel and n good long
drink of-well, not coffee"
In the MillviIle Of to-day, are to be
found two good stores, one by the
Brothers Kidd, who have also an ex-
cellent grist mill and the other by
Mr.. ID. HOrsfall, the acting postmas-
ter. Some distance below town, to-
ward the river, are two saw mills,
which yearly produce respectable
| quantities Of lumber. One of these
is the property Of Mr.. J. Creager !;
the other is owned by Mr.. A. r. Fos-
ter. About year ago the large
wooden factory that had been erect
cd here by Mr.. Joe Horsfall was de-
stroyed by fire. Tho spot whore it
stood is one of the finest mill sites 10
the country, and is now offered for
sale
In Millville we met a man whose
rare good fortune it has been TO hear
some OF the readings given by Mr..
Dickens at the time Of his second
visit to this country. 1t was worth
q good deal, let us tell You. What q
strange interest we take in a person
who has actually seen tho author of
Pictuick and yoppereId, and who
can tell You just how such and such
well-known passage was rendered by
the matchless delineator of human
life in its homely, everyday phases
Dickens needs no eulogium. His
fame is las broad and general as the
air" and some of his books will
live in literature as long rs we are
what we are, and mans inhumanity
TO man makes countless millions
mourn" Yours
ROUNDABOUT
WESTON AND BOOSTERS Weston,
the Democratic candidate for Cover