Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-02-06
State Items.

The annual meeting of the Wis
consin State horticultural Society
will be held at Madison, commencing
Tuesday evening, and continuing
through Wednesday and Thursday,
February 6, 7 and 8. Lectures and
essays have been provided for by
eminent horticulturists, upon subjects
of interest to every fruit-grower in
the State. The annual address will
be given by e. W. Miner, of Illinois
There will also be general discussions,
in which all who choose can partici-
pate.
The Prairie du Chen Union says:
Capt. Hobbs has been successful in
circulating q petition among our
citizens for the passage of Bill No. Z,
Assembly to prevent the evils result
ing from the sale of Intoxicating
liquors. He received one hundred
and seventy seven naDes, among
which were large majority of our
most respectable and influential citi.
zens. The petition was presented in
the Assembly last Tuesday, by Hon.
0. A. Caswell.
In Brilion, Calumet county,
isconsin, there is quarry of 200
acres of round grain marble equal to
the Italian. This quarry lies in the
strata from two inches to ten feet in
thickness, and on rise of ground
from twenty to thirty feet, easily
drained and quarried. Some layers
are white, some blue and white, but
the most of it pink and white. 1t
takes a polish fully equal to the
Italian marble.
One of the lumbermen engaged
in the "burnt district" informs the
editor of the Oshkosh Times that
recently, near his camp, a woman
was taken suddenly i'll, and before a
physician could DO called, died. A
child was soon after taken in the
same way, and then another, and
then third, AL three dying suddenly.
The symptoms were burning fevers,
and the throat and face turning black.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette says that
large grey eagle, measuring seven
and one half feet from tip to tip, was
exhibited on Main street Thursday.
1t was captured near Albany by
Albert Holmes.
Several Indians encamped this
winter near the Rosendale Marsh.
are getting very troublesome to the
white residents of that vicinity
Fond du Lac whislkey is at the bot
tom of it all
An Indian beggar boy has been
wandering about the streets of La
Crosse for some time past with
begging paper which certifies that
he is the mother of four children.
"A butcher at Fort Howard re
Gently purchased dressed hog that
weighed sos pounds. 1t was q mon
ster, and belonged to the white
Chester breed.
The next Fair Of the Wisconsin
State Agricultural Society will be
held at Milwaukee. B. r. Hinkley.
Summit, President; J. w. Hoyt,
Madison, Secretary.
Darlington is to have a cheese
factory. A company has been formed
and the contract let to have the
buildings ready by the first of April.
The State gained 35 per cent in
population between 1860 and 1870
1t will gain faster in the next ten
years.
A man in Lafayette Co. sold
80 hogs last week that averaged
4l2 pounds per hog, They were
from 10 to Is months old.
A valuable horse was killed at
Baver Dam not long since by eating
the bark of locust tree to which i
was hitched.
The Racine Journal SAYS: "The
river is literally filed with dead f;sh
whose putrescent oder fills the air.
bringing to mind Chicago River in
its palmiest days"
Seven bears and sixty deer have
been killed by the Indians in the
town OF Montpelier, Kewaunee Co.
the present winter.