Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-03-19
Local MatterS:

Louse has fifty two inmates.
The Spring term of the Iowa &c.
circuit court opens next Monday.
Mr.. S. +. Lewis is lying in a
critical condition at his home ia Po'
tosi
Easter Balls are announced to
lake place in different parts Of the
county
The Jail Of Iowa county being
tcnantless, Sheriff Ryan 10 yearning
tor somebody TO do something mean.
Mr.. Morgan Taylor, Of Fenni-
more, can learn something that will
llea-e him by calling At the Herald
ollice.
Why Lancaster should have Il
town hall, is clearly set forth in u
communication printed in another
column.
The Congregational Festival at
BOsoobel on Monday Of last week
was we'll attended Proceeds unusu-
ally large
The auction sale Of II. G. McKin-
ny takes place on Wednesday, April
3D. instead Of on the 2nd as announce
cd in his bllls.
Work on the Turkey Valley
Railroad is TO begin early in the
Spring. Fifteen miles Of the line are
already under contract.
-Assembyman Bushnell has our
thanks for copy of the Legislative
Manual OF Wisconsin for 1872. The
work is Of great value
Read Baxter's Drug Report.
Reference il made therein TO the Itch
Lotion, which is probably a special
call 10 the unannOlnted.
The Rev. Mr.. Breeze, OF Rock.
Vile, breaches every fortnight in the
old Lancaster Institute. Services at
2o'clock p NJ. Remember it.
Tho Gazette says that about
twenty families from Galena and
other parts of JoDaviess County start
this month for Clay county, Kansas
The Dry Honse at Hines stove
tact rv. Boscohel, was burned the
other dav together with quantity
Of barrel heading loss $3.50.
At tho Platteville corporation
clnction on VI )nday of last week, Mr..
n. ri Virgin was elected President
OF the village board OF trustees.
1t il not generally known that
Mrs Emma D. +. N. Son'hworth, the
famous auihoress Of the day, was
once . resident Of Potosi-the wife OF
Il poor nut honest tinsmith
James Il Owens, a former resi-
dent Of Hazel Green, died at Dodge
willie near the close of last month.
Consumption took him off at the
early age of q.
Capt. Chas Baxter Of the firm Of
Baxter 4 Kinney, started for the
Eastern markets yesterday. Many
new goods Of many desirable kinds
will follow his return.
A colt with neither eyes nor
sockets in which TO put them, and
a corset that has squeezed three fe-
males to death, are the boast and
possessions of Dubuque.
Yesterday in the Circuit Court
Joseph Hodnett Of Lancaster, and
John p. Day of WyaIusing, were
each admitted to practice as an At
toruey and Counselor at law.
To-day those poetical bleak winds
of March make us tremble aud shiv>
err and, il spite of the brilliant suns
shine. blow away all our fine no.
tons about an early Spring and seed
timo.
Tho first session of the union
Sunday School Institute, as noticed
last week. will be held tomorrow,
Wednesday EVENING" 10 the Methodist
Church Teachers and the public
are invited.
The kind people of Rockville
have given ,he Rev. j. I. Breeze an
other expression of their good will by
making him and his family several
fine presents, for which he expresses
his uufeigned gratitude.
We learn there are yet enough
cases to dispose Of in the Circuit
Court 20 continue the session during
the present week, and it is probable
a .pecial term will have TO be called
in April OF May to finish the business
of the session.
Tho Lancaster Meat Market is
newly advertised in our columns this
week. Charley succeeds finely, and
that il evidence that he knows and
attends to his work. lfnot eminent
asapoet, he is certainly successful
ass maker Of bologna.
Should any Of our readers be
restored with the Establishment of g
OH Follow newspaper published at
Siolx City. Iowa they NAV. if mus
cnlar enough for the enterprise pnnch
MS head, for ne is an arrant rogue.
One Vurrell. gentleman Of the
JACK Bulge DC Jim Bludso variety
well known among the immoral and
unsoaped classes Of DubuQ1e, was
las week sentenced hv n Minnesota
Judge % die on the ga'l1ws on the
tenth of September next. After the
hanging, some poet will probably
make ont that Red Varrell" il going
around with the saints above as good
saint as the best y
Mr. Melvin Grigsby, Of Potosi
ono Of the members of the first class
graduated at the Pla'teville Norma
school, favored Us with a call to-day
Mr.. G is young man Of good abil
tiles, and has, since his graduation
done some effective worN as a teach
err in higher schools. We are pleased
10 learn that he is about TO begiI
the study of law, having made ar
rangements to enter the office o
the Hon w. p. Dewey in this village