Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-06-04
Mineral Point Railroad.
CAR TIME AT PLATTEVILLE.
NATURALIZATION leave at s:45 A. N.
arrive at 33h P. NJ.
BELMONT Trains leave at OILS A N.
arrive at 3:O5 NJ.
GEO. W. COBB, sap't.
Local Matters:

The Assessor wants TO see you.
ID. Ii. Budd wants horse-shoer.
Water in the Wisconsin river is
high.
Winter wheat never looked bet
ter.
Lancaster has one hundred too
many dogs.
Prairie du Chen wants masons
and carpenters.
-Laff and grow plat. Read Mark
Twain's "Roughing It."
-PlatteviIle had a strawberry fes-
tivaI at the Campbell House on Fri
day.
Nathan. Schreiner & Co. pur-
chased 4 900 pounds Of wool on Sat-
urday.
Lovers OF ice cream may know
that honest John Bieg stands ready
to serve them.
Mrs. Perkins lectured at Dun
lieth Sunday evening upon the
PHILOSOPHY Of Spirltualism."
The diggings of Arthur Gribble
4 Son, at Hazel Green, yields about
10000 lbs Of ore per week.
B +. Underwood gave the Du.
buquers the benefit OF his Free
Thought ideas on Sunday.
IF you want to see who are the
live business men of town look
over the advertisements in the local
paper
The oldest native born citizen in
Wisconsin resides at Prairie du Chen
Mrs Galarneau. She was born in
1893 at Prairie du CHEN.
Dubuque has not despaired of
the Monroe extension railroad
$50 900 is already subscribed for the
enterprise, and $50 900 more is ask
ed
Thomas Cruson, a former we'll
known and prominent citizen Of
Plattevile, recently "struck Dia.
monds" at Cruson's Flat, near Placer
vile, California.
james Banding is in town, just
from Richville, Dakota. He Ox-
poets to return in couple of weeks
with the family.
-Postmasters throught the coun-
try will do US q great favor by Civ.
ing US notice at once should the Her
ald packages fail to arrive at the
proper time.
The oldest school-house in Wis
consin was built at Robinson's Hill,
hear Greon Bay, about 1920, and
the first teacher vas Captain Curtis,
a retired army officer.
WIN. +. Carter of Platteville. Ad-
olson Burr Of Lancaster, and Hiram
GILMAN Of Georgetown, started for
Madison yesterday 10 attend the u.
S Court, both Of tho latter as grand
jurors.
"A prominent reformer recently
said that every step in dancing is
step towards hell. He resides in
Wisconsin, and wears moro shoe
leather than is usually allotted to
one mas.
The Madison Journal says Maj.
Gen. Stephen A. Hurlburt, the COM
mander of the 10th corps on Sher-
mans Meridian raid, will deliver the
GRAFTON in the Capitol Park on the
4,h of July.
The Village Board met last
night and considered numberless
propositions for sidewalk aid. Here
attor meetings will be held regularly
on the evening Of the first Monday
of each month.
The Rev. Jenk. 1T. Jones, Of
Janesville, Unitarian Minister Of
fine abilities and broad culture,
preached three candid sermons in
Polock's Hall, Lancaster-one on
Friday evening of last week, two on
Sunday, the 2nd inst.
On Friday, May 81, the house
.of Mr.. John Shilliam, on the Galena
road about mile south of Hazel
Green. was totally destroyed by
Sire Much Oft the furniture was saw.
ed. Fire caused by defective fue.
Loss $500.
Roy. G.. L. Strong, of Delevan
Walworth County, has accepted a
call from the Bloomington Baptist
church and has entered upon his la
bors. Mr.. Strong will preach in the
Baptist Church in this village Lam
caster) next Sunday, June 9th.
We heard of a lady the other
day who tied her husbands hands
and feet "just for fun, and then
went through his pockets for a GER
tain hiletdoux which she found -
His head is "a bald as billiard ball,
and physicians tell him his face won't
be very badly SCARED.
Felix Dhger's horse, Flying
Childers" was poisoned by some
scoundrel at Annaton on the night OF
May 23d Tho material used was
probably corrosive subhmate. We
are authorized TO state by the pro-
prietor that 500 will be paid for in
formation as to the guilty party. The
horse is now in fair way for recov-
cry.
The twentieth annual session OF
the Wisconsin Teachers Association
will take place at Madison July 9th,
10Th and 18th, 1872. The railroad
companies of the State having re-
Gently entered into a compact whic b
precudes any reduction Of passenger
fare, it is probable that teachers will
not be allowed the benefit OF the
usual excursion rate.
The Post-Ofice Department
has extended the mail route No ID.
go Lancaster to Potosi) TO Specht':
Ferry. Iowa. The stage will leave
Speoht's daily at o'clock A. NJ ar
irving at Lancaster daily at 1880;
willleaye Lancaster daily at o'clock
7. NJ arriving ut Specht's at 400