Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-08-07

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Of d. II. Budd.
County senatorial convention on Monday,
goth inst. to select two delegates to attend the
State convention.
Advertisements and special notices to
insure publication must be handed in by
Tuesday evening.
-Four additional members were received
in the Congregational Church, in this Viii
age, last Sabbath.
"A County Grange of the order ofPatronI
OF Husbandry will be organized at Lancaster
on Thursday next.
The Bridgeport bridge will undergo some
repairs shortly, at points where any doubts
are had of its safety.
Cap "Ferg" and Alderman Pepper oil
Boseobel, run through the Phelps House bill
Of fare last Saturday
The many friends of Gen. John B. Calls
will be glad 10 learn that he is now able to
ride about the Village.
-Croquet playing seems to be having a
resting spell. Very few parties are now par
ticipating in that game.
1t is reported that the Dubuque Shelters
have entered into bonds not to give over an
agreed price for mineral.
Unless the Clerk of the weather grants
unto his section a copious rain, the yield OF
corn will not be very heavy.
The Eighth Annual Fair of the Bake's
Prairie Agricultural Society will be held at
Bloomington, Sept. 9th and 9th.
A lot of long logs just received from
Saltwater at the Cassville saw mill. See
now advertisement Of d. b. Stevens.
Promising success seem to attend the la
bors Of those who are circulating petitions for
aiding the TomOh Chicago Railroad.
Several contractors on the Galena N. G..
r. r. have 'sloped" for parts unknown,
leaving unsettled bills for material and labor
One day last week Kronsage, produce
dealer at Boscobel, shipped direct to New
York 10000 pounds Of butter in one Of the re-
frigerntor cars.
Owing to the fact that our farmers have
been busily engaged in securing the new crop,
our streets have presented very quiet APP
pearance Of late.
The Fire Company were out in uniform,
last Thursday evening. They made credit
able display, and did force water 10 a good
distance--high up.
The Crawford county Agricultural soci-
ETY. will hold its annual fair at Seneca, on the
lst, ID and Sd of October. The premium
list will be published soon.
- The Board of Health should look after
the nuisance existing on Adams street, in the
northern portion of the Village. 1t is a gen.
une Asiatc cholera breeder.
--Messrs. w. II. elise & Co. are doing a
wholesale business at the Factory. That In
stitution ii kept constantly at work turning
on; the best quality OF cloths.
Crop reports received from different
quarters report wheat at from 10 to 20 bush
els per acre. Oats, rye and barley generally
average better than last year.
-Timms, the horse buyer, succeeded in
purchasing sixteen hsrses in this place, at an
average cost Of sil6 per head. They were
taken to Freeport for shipment East.
Judge Mills has run away from the
courts and lawyers and IS enjoying himself at
Manitowoc, where resides his recently mar
ried daughter, Mrs. James S. Anderson.
The dwelling Of Mr.. NJ. Graw, two
miles west of Boscobel, was destroyed by fire
on Monday evening Of last week. Los!
about $1,000. Insured in Madison Mutual fol
500.
1t costs q Bosbobel man a sore head fol
interfering with another's business Ia most
places il is expected that every man and his
wife will interfere with every other man'
business.
The Street Commissioner has done
good work on the street in front of Judg
Mills residence. A few more loads Of tn
same material, will make that the best stree
in the village.
SECRETARY Ansley, Of the Southwestern
Wisconsin Industrial Association, has on
thanks tor a complimentary" 10 the Fourt
Annual Fair Of this society TO be hell :
Mineral Point Sept. Sd to 9th.
The baker is about the only person who's
presence in Lancaster is cared for, by tn
housekeepers, these sultry days. He KEEP
the very best assortment OF pastry to be ioun'
and should be literally patronized.
"A large delegation Of travelling men sper
last Sabbath in Lancaster. Among them W
noticed Mr.. Abe Levens and d. c. CHASER
Dubuque, Mr.. II. o. Wood Of Milwaukee
and Mr.. Green Sawyer Of Chicago.
Gen. Lawler has entered into an agre
ment with the NJ. 4 St. P. r. r. Co. to birds
the Mississippi with pontoons at Prairie
Chen, which will answer the purposes
Transporting cars until bridge is erected.
Two hundred loads Of dry bone are sh
ped daily from the mines about Wiagyills,
correspondent informs u.s. We do not VOL
der that the construction Of the Galena N.
road 10 being rapidly pushed forward to tn
point
According to scientists, the surface,
fiery envelope of the sun, just now seems TO
in a remarkable state Of ebuition. There a
pears TO the telescope observer many sm'
spots, and one very large spot which is maj
times further across than the diameter Of I
earth.
That was great surprise to young IN
who woke up about two o'clock in the NOR
inS, and found sixteen Of his male acquaiu
anees formed in a circle about his bed, char
ing funeral dirge. The corpse sat straig
up in bed and frantieally calculated, "wb
are you aboutP lam not dead yetw