Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-12-24

WI ~ II ~ were IN nay plan 10
speak of other things | could not un-
til | had paid my tribsto to sixty
years OF pure life. Howl, We fir
trees, for cedar has fallen"
Did you ever stand in the forest
and see some great pine, which shoots
It's spire of green q hundred feet and
more above the frs and beeches and
elms, so down Pit was a sad sight
to witness the noble growth OF cen
fury in one moment blasted and un-
done, the earth groaned and the for
est gave long loud wall, as it went
crashing to the ground. So is it
when great man, who has filled the
land with the hum and noise of his
busy life is stricken cut. But it is
not the loss of great man who m the
people and little children Cf the East
and West have wcpt over the last
few days. IL was not great man
whom the poor and the rich, the low
ly and the great, the ignorant and
the learned, men and women from
sunrise till midnight poured through
the City Hall in New York to see and
kiss bis coffin 1t was not Gredt
man that the government itself stopt
to do homage TO, and whose remains
passed through an avenue more than
five miles in length of bowed and
fearful human faces on its way TO
Greenwood, 1t was more than a
great man,it was gigantic good man.
How quick God has turned calumny
into a funeral Grafton and shown to
rs our own hypocrisy. Since Nov.
18th the pulpIts, the presses, Legis-
latures of States, societies AMI organ.
izations of all kinds--Congress itself
have declared their solemn belief
in the virtues and abilities OF Horace
Greeley, and we say, if all this virtue
lift be half true-whRt an honor be
wonla have been to the Presidency
have read with profound interest
an abstract of Thanksgiving adj
dress delivered nj Lancaster by Rev.
Mr.. Eaton, 1t expresses views to
which the most earnest aud thought
ful men IN all walks Of life are giving
their attention. This matter Of
voting is a serious business and that
| abhorred maxim "principIes not men"
is OF piece with that other one, MY
country right or wrong" Neither
of them can be entertained by Chris
tians.
Principles can not exist apart from
men, no more than sound can apart
from ears "tO the pure all things are
oure, and 80 men Of rectitudo, what.
| ever their party name, we must look
for good government. Probably ev-
cry man in Lancaster will agree to
Mr.. Eaton's definition of a clear tick
ct and tomorrow or whenever the
next election comes of, they will di-
vide as usual into Republicans and
Democrats. Oh men when will We
learn that party spirit is an euH spiro
it, that rectitude, purity, goodness,
ability will manage affairs beat for
the town, the county, the state, and
the nation
When your correspondent was a
teacher at Lancaster, and Profess
or Of one Of your State Normal
Schools, was County superintendent,
they had notion, whether right or
wrong I'll not say, time will decide
that strict temperance principles are
necessary qualification for office and
accordingly made a clean ticket t
one Of the Fall elections. Your cor
respondent has kept to that plan ev.
er slnce-he can not speak for the
Normal Pro lessor.
We have bad O remarkably uniform
season since Jan. last. The Winter
was steady and cold, the Spring dc.
veloped very rapidly in April and
May, The Summer was hot, and the
Autumn rainy and fruitful. There
has not been so abundant d crop Of
apples in ten years-every farm has
enough and to spare. The apples
most commonly raised here are Prem
tice Russets and Baldwins. The old
fashioned custom of pitcher Of cir
der and dish of apples for every
caller is in vogue again.
An old man in the neighborhood
who loves his cider used 10 affirm. in
talking Of the failure Of the apple
crop: "ID my opinion there was a
Gus sent on as for maxim Main
law the trees amt bore nothen
sence il was mode and they never
will till it is taken off" 1t looks as
though the old man was right, for
this year the Legislature passed q
license law and the apple harvest is
abundant. Potatoes are very poor
and very high. Hay was very light.
Beef and pork don't pay tho Eastern
farmers for raising Tobacco il the
great crop Of Connecticut and the
cultivation Of 1t is increasing every
year. | have read OF a man in the
Connecticut valley who was offered a
hundred dollars per acre for the use
Of his land to raise tobacco a few
years ago and refused to rent it al
any price, the story goes that he is
now pressing every acre he has into
tho service and hiring all he can be-
sides, such is the demoralizing power
OF money paying traffic.
Grant County is well represented
in Connecticut by her sons in Yale
they are all Institute graduates and
do honor their Alma Mater and their
native county. Respectfully yours,
ALLANN.
Groton, Conn. December 18th, 1872
GE-I 1t is twenty-one years since
the present Constitution Of Indiana