Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-02-04
Local Matters:
SCARLET fever prevails at Platte

Vile
Hops have advanced from 20 tc
80 cent?.
-Eaos sell a. 25 cents, and scar &c
at that.
The Boacobel brass bard wants
to re .orgacize.
"A hundred tons Of old iron cast
ings wanted by c J. Hyde.
-AucrloN bills printed at the
Heraa ofice on reasonable terms,
LAFAYETTE county has so doc
tors, and no marble Works" so
says Jim Knight.
-EvERYn DY and his wife 60 0
& J Hyde 4 Co.'S grocery and pr
vision store for canned fruits.
-GALENA is encouraged with the
prospect Of procuring government
aid Tor the improvement Of Galena
river.
TnE Spring Term Of Grant Cir
cult Court commences on Monday
NJ ,rch l0.h-four eeks from M -
day next
-Bf-HoP Armitage is expected t'
preach AZ the Episcopal church OF
Sunday next NJ the usual hour OF
service.
-OvER fifteen thousand tons Of
carbonate Of zine (dry-bone) wa,
shipped over the Mineral Point Il r
taung the year 1872.
The religious revival at th'
Congregational church continues. 4
large number have taken an unusual
interestin the meetings.
Nh + Hull, of Lima, sold or
the 20,h uIt. three of / il improved
breed Of hogs which weighed in the
aggregate Sirteen hundred pounds.
THE Episcopal SociabIe will b,
held this week at the residence Of
Mrs. $. f. elise, on Thursday oven-
ing The yonrg and old are invited.
RYAN, OF Galena. bought 907
dressed hogs the other day which av.
craged 354 pounds each. The pork
camo from Grant and Lafayette
counties.
-MR. David Weaver, the Lancas-
ter milN.mau, has resigned his busi-
ness 70 the hands Of Mr.. S. German,
who will hereafter give us each day
our daily quart Of milk.
Ma. Jas. W Sheppard, late fore
man in the Herald job rooms, is now
associated with Mr. l. j Raymond
in the publication Of the Cherokee
Leader, at Cherokee, Iowa, We
wish Jim success.
H l. MCCARTNEY will sell at
auction on the Mccartney Farm" in
Cassville, on Thursday, Feb. 18Th,
sixty hogs. several horses, and a
large lot Of farm machinery, house,
hold goods, &c
TUE Dial says that farmer
named Dari ng-feld sold at BosoobeI
the Other day eight Chesters, The
average weight Of which was SOC
pounds. One Of the little porkers
weighed q hiilc over 642 pounds.
liz you want to see rare and
beautiful specimens from the mines
copper, silvcr, gold, iron. and al
other sorts Of ores, curiosities and
crystals 60 10 Ryland and Hollo
ways Bank when you come to town
An additional specimen now and ther
is gladly received by Mr.. Ry land,
A SAD accident occurred TO the
wife Of Samuel Blair, of British Hol,
low on Monday of last week. A.
she was bringing bucket Of water
from the we'll 10 her house, she fel
on the ice and broke her leg JUS
above the ankle She is q woman
over sixty years Of age The bro
ken limb was set by Or Jas. Bird
sell and the patient seems to be get
ting along finely.
-THE Philadelphia Society OF tn
Platteville Normal School will hol,
Public Exercises on Friday night
Feb. IA Prof Beck will give an ad
dress and S II Schellenger an ora
tion on Influence The question q
Compulsory Education will be dis
cussed, D. E. Morgan and Il
Nicely speaking in its favor, and
L. Stevens and + A Williams agains
il
In answer TO recent Quesiio
ia these columns. Prof. Purma
states that the old dictionary by D
Samuel Johnson still holds q hg
place among the scholars of Ems
land but that two later works
Ogilvie and Richardson are TO Eng
land what Webster and Woreeste
are to us. Another scholar we
versed in such matters. and educate
10 England, tel' Us that johnson
in its revised stA.e H. the stands
dictionary there.