Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-04-15
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STATE NEWS.

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A home insurance company has
been organized at juneau.
The Busy West OF Milwaukee, has
gone farther west-to st. Paul.
Wisconsin tobacco, of the crop Of
last year, is selling at eight cents per
! pound,
! Several farmers in the State vii
try the plan of sowing wheat Gad
oats in the same ground.
A Ripon cow is Photographed on the
strength of having had seven calves
in thirty-five months.
Three Marquette hunters killed 1853
deer between the Goth of November
and the first of January.
Some opossums have been killed
in Walworth and Jefferson counties
during the past winter.
a boy at Columbus has been sent
to the Reform School for robbing a
contribution bog at church.
A Watertown woman attempted to
vote last Tuesday. She was April
fooled out Of it.
Senator Howe, Of Wisconsin, is
making tour through the Gulf
States for his health.
One hundred and forty.eight Hol-
anders were added to the populations
OF Depere last week.
Winfield Scott was elected Co.
Judge of Waupaca Co. We supposed
Winfield had died some years since.
The Waukesha Democrat learns
that all the grain thus far sown in
that locality has rotte d in the ground.
There were SOC 900 pounds Of
cheese manufactured in Green county
in 1872.
| Jacob Cook of Prescott has been
sued for 5000 by Mrs Lydan fer
selling liquor to her husband.
The La Crosse Democrat nominates
+. b Washburn for President and G.
G. Washburn for Vice President in
1876.
The waiter girls in the Appleton
hotels wear red jackets, high boots
and full zouave what-do-you.call
; ems.
The Fond du Lac Commonwealth
states that but few of the fruit trees
planted last season were killed by
the frost.
A barn attached to John Saar'.
hotel at Highland, Iowa county, was
destroyed by an incendiary fire last
week, with one horse, harness, etc.
10 the graded schools of the State
there are 3l6 scholars studying latin
26 Greek, l58 Modern History, anc
426 German.
Beav yer Dam will have splendid
4 b II July celebration, including
Reunion of the Third and Flftf
) Wisconsin volunteer regiments.
: The two elks lately owned by
John J Ross, of Mineral Point. anc
sold % G. Msppea, Of Belmont. have
been for~arded 10 New York, anC
thence are to be sent to Vienna. t.
! be present at the great exposition.
Many OF the farmers in Jackson
county say that the late variabl.
weather, freezing nights and thaw.
ing through the day, has been sever,
on winter wheat. Some fields viii
; be plowed up the present.spring.
Seven hundred and seventy,twc
, thousand, four hundred and on,
pounds of cheese were manufactured
IN Sheboygan county during tn,
year 1872, from the milk of 2.25!
COWS.
The Grand Rapids, wis, } Tri5wa
says that prairie chickens were nev.
err before 80 plenty at this season o
the year, which dissipates the suppo
sition that the recent severe winter
had destroyed them.
The Ozaukee Advertiser SAYS tina
parties from abroad have been pros.
pecting there with q view of estab.
fishing q glass mandatory, al
abundance of very superior materia
being found in the bluffs south of th,
village,
A few days since, Madison ply
stefan attending a German prescrib
ed leeches to be applied to the pa,
tient. The wife Of the sick man mis-
took the word "applied" for "fried'
and accordingly gave her husband a
dish of fried leeches and made him
eat them The man got well.
A Washington dispatch says thai
the Attorney General OF the United
States has decided that the Wisc0e.
Sin Central railroad company is emit
tied to the land covered by the gran,
on the line it is building, and that
the law OF the state which REQUIRE,
the road TO be built from PORTAGE
before any land can be had is inn a
tive.
The members of farmers grang.
in Fond du Lac county have passed
resolutions declaring that those Con.
gressmen that favored the increase
of salaries by voice and vote. and
those who did not vote have alike
forever dIsgraced themselves, and
that they (the members of the
grauge) will withdraw their support
from them from this time and for
ever.
Six years ago, the County of Fond
du Lac voted $50 0p0 10 bonds to the
Sheboygan & Fond du Lac Railroad
Com, Any. The southern part of the
County rePudiated the bonds and an.
pesled to the Supreme Court, which
decided against the validity of the
bonds. After several years of litiga.
ton, decision has jus. heen render
ca 10 the United States Supreme
Court declaring the bonds valid.
The total amount of the bonds. costs
and interest will reach $3.50, GOO.