Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-07-30
RAIN TIME AT spECHTs FERRY.
Local Matters:

lsbW Anu - lawn PANSSNSN -
Potos last Sabbath.
The Chicago and Milwaukee
market reports failed to reach us to.
day.
TIE latest papers claim that
North Carolina is generally conced-
cd to the Republicans.
&C. 5. CARPENTER retracts the part
Of his affidavit which said that Gree
ley favored pensioning rebel soldiers,
A long and deeply interesting
letter has been received from DR..
Livingstone in Central Africa by the
~ Y Herald.
-DtV'L BlUKga, who stole Jas.
Ovens team il the street at Belmont
last December, was arrested this
moreing at Marietta, Crawford Co.
by Dept. Sheriff Joan Kelly
GRANT and Wilson Clubs are
formed, and actively at work, in
PIatteville Lancaster, Boscobel and
Bloomington. We hope new clubs
will at once advise US Of their forma-
ton.
MI H. B. FREEZER, late Of Ohio,
now re,iling at Platteville, is in pos.
session Of Il Combined ClOUer Hulier,
in complete repair, with which he
offers to help farmers at reasonable
ratios SEQ advt.
-rHE PlattevilIe Normal School
is expected to commence with the
same corps Of teachers as before, ex.
ccpt Mrs, EuioLta A. Graham, resign
ca The model room will probably
be in charge Of Miss A, NJ. Terry, of
Milwaukee,.
--REFREsHING showers have fallen
during the last few days, but
they have not essentially delayed
harvest work which has common
ced in good earnest Harvest hands
are paid $500 a day hoI aabouts ; 50,
10 Mineral Point.
We Welcome the presence Of
Mr.. T.. III. lows Of Potosi, now an
advanced student at Yale College,
who visits Lancaster few days
He reports i decided enlargement
Of the grain and lumber trade at
Poto,i since ths completion Of the
Railroad at that place
--AMoNG the number of our towns
folk who have been absent teachi ng
or attending school the past year
il Professor f. H. Sprague, Prin.
cipal OF the High School At Angus
Ia Wis, who is spending vacation at
hi. home ia Lancaster, and who, we
understand, has boon highly success
ful in his last two years experience
at pedagoguiug. EIe intends return
ing to his vocation this fall.
Tue Northwestern Wis. Fire
Relief Committee, whose headquar-
ters were at Green Bay, has closed
its labors by disbursing to the suffer
ers all the money and materials it
has received, except a portion retain.
ed by the Governor for tho further
relief Of widows and orphans. 1t
has received in cash contributions
S2lS. 545, and an amount of supplies,
transportation, &c. deemed equal to
more than $3.50, 600 more A COM
plete report is promised soon.
-TuosE who may search these col
umns for any imitation of the per-
sonalties Of those who have tried to
provoke personal quarrel with us,
will DO us injustice and be disappoint-
ed. We will say in justice to the
HERALD and its absent editor, Capt.
John Cover, that when suddenly call
ed away, he expressly charged those
he left ii his place, with the duty OF
hosting the name of Hon. J. Allen
Barber for Congress, with suitable
notice. This statement destroys the
only point in tho Democrats leader.
The condition Of the Courr
House square illustrates the error
committed by those in early day
who planted It with the black locus
for shade trees, instead of some bet
ter trees. Most of them have beer
cut down or grubbed, and at every
root there is thicket of tall thrifty
sprouts, which are worse than
pestilence The large roots ill tn
ground, and as long as they cal
raise their heads to the sun-light a
at present, they will DEFY the count,
board,sher and village marshal I
arrest them or eject them from tn
premises We watch with intere,
to see If this beautiful lawn is to
given MP 10 The prickly Hydra tn:
raises H. countless heads above tt
grass. Cu'tirg them of vii leav
sharp hidden stumpS that will lis
aud grow. Only frequent pullir
up or digging will prevail.