Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-02-20
STATE NEWS.

featured in Racine. Orders from
Burmah, Japan, Hungary, and the,
isles OF the sea but the last order
received eclips0s all. J. l. Case &
Co. have received an order direct
from Jesus, for threshing machine
Now, my picus friends, don't get
scared-its only an order from Mr..
Jesus, resident OF Mexico, for q
horse power and threshing machine
combiHed. Ii The Journal would
give the ] the Spanish sound, which
is like our ii. it would sound like a
different name
The how TO do.it' of the Western
pianeer is illustrated in the life and
adventures Of Eli Stilson, of Oshk osh
Wisconsin, who marched into the
bowels Of the land twenty-four
years ago with $4,000, and started a
little farm in wilderness; he now
has 100 acres of as fine. land as the
eye can rest upon, worth $4,000
His house is small and neat, but his
barn bless you'll it is 900 feet long,
and he keeps adding to it. He runs
1900 (Merino) sheep, and cows and
oxen innumerable and is allowed to
be the best farmer in Wisconsin.
The worst man yet "exposed"
is the rich Madison merchant who,
owing q poor mechanic a sum of
money for services rendered, persist
emily refused to pay it till the me-
chanic in question repaired TO the
house of the debtor Mt n time when
he knew the family would be at din
nor, and entering, told the man he
must have the money, as his wife
ADD children were down with the
smallpox, and he needed it very
much. 1t took the merchant Just
about three-quarters of second to
dish out the change.
The Democrat says that the la
dies of La Crosse have adopted a
new dodge in vaccination, They
have the sleeve of the dress arrang-
ed so it can be opened at about the
place where persons are usually vac
einated, and the sanguinary work
can be done without showing to the
doctor the beautiful rounded arm.
The sleeves are trimmed with puffs,
etc, so that the opening does not
show. The doctors are almost ripe
for strike on this account.
For the first time within the
memory of the oldest inhabitant,
Lake Michigan was frozen at Racine,
Wis, on the 81 inst, as far from the
shore as the eye could reach. The
ice was from four to eight inches
thick. Boys ventured out on skates
as far as twelve miles from the shorel
So says the Racine Journal Oa the
next day the ice had almost entirely
disappeared.
The site for the Normal School
in the Mort b western District has
been located at River Falls, Pierce
county, by the Board of Regents -
The location is conditioned on the
securing of al Acceptable site of ten
acres and $40 900 to be raised by tax,
half from River Falls and half from
three adjoining towns and 5000
raised by subscription.
"A firm in La Crosse have just
been awarded the immense contract
by the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company for putting in the Duluth
docks at Duluth. This work will
take 0,000 piles, and over IL, 900, 600
nf hny
amount of iron and stone. The en-
tire work cannot possibly be COM
pleted in less than two years.
The editor of the Sheboygan
Herald has been shown large and
massive centre-table of wood-mosaic,
composed of 96,323 pieces, made in
that city. The top of it represents
birds, flowers and leaves, in bright
colors, though no paint has been us
ed upon it, each piece of wood hav-
ing been stained and polished.
One of the "Lo" family is buri-
ed near Green Bay, and his discon-
ISOLATE rclativesIhave placed the fol-
lowing epitaph over him: "Here
lies Johnny Kokupod have mercy
on him gracious God. He would on
you, if he was God and you was
Johnny Kokupod."
The water in the streams of the
burned district 10 Wisconsin taste so
strongly of lye, from the ashes
among which they run, that the
lumberers ssand workmen have to
drink melted snow~water, even
whore the streams are 100 feet wide.
Tho Columbus Republican states
that Chaplin Skinner, of Hampden,
from the milk of three COWS, from
the 18th Of last March to the 10Th of
January, sold 68l pounds Of butter,
receiving therefor S9I.33.
Letters from the Wisconsin pin.
cries state that the snow is deep
enough for all practical purposes,
and every able bodied man in the
woods is logging. The crop of logs
will be larger than any preceding
winter.
Christian Capoose, who lost his
wife and two youngest children by
the great fires in October, in the Up
per Sugar Bush, was killed by tree
falling on him on the 23d uIt.
Another disastrous fire occurred
at Monroe on Saturday morning =
The old American House, owned by
r B Allensworth, was totally con-
sumed. Insured with contents for
81 500.
A Cadiz Green o)unty girls
switch took fire from candle, the
other night. and she would probably
have burned to death had not some
one instantly jerked it from her head.
"A bill to establish lighthou Sc
at the Fond du Lac harbor has been
introduced in Congress.
Tho La Crosse board of health
has passed an edict making vaccina-
ton compulsory.
Two Wisconsin women have
aarnad 50 f00 tho praoant 1890. =