Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-08-06

NEIGHBoRHooD NOTES.
Bloomington.

been more moderate in its aspiration
than last week, being content to
range from 700 to 900.
-Ex-Supt Holford is going to FL
kad or to help conduct an institute OF
four weeks, to be held there, COM
mencing on the 10Th inst.
Notwithstanding the scarcity of
help our farmers are getting along
finely with their work, and this week
will finish tho harvesting so far as
the cutting and binding is concerned.
Two dollars and two and a half was
paid to hands.
Our miller has ceased brushing
in the dew OF mornings, since the
late rains, and now the rumble and
noise of the old mill is heard as in
days of yore, and "Ole" is at his
post regularly turning out the grists
of hi' many customers as in times
past
The concert given in this place
on Saturday evening by the Park
hurst troupe was a success. The
large audience in attendance must
have pleased "Old Shady" as much
as he pleased us with his classical
songs and good humor. While Prof
Wocllett, with his well trained voice
and beautiful songs, appealed to
| those of sentimental turn of mind.
- The extending Of the race track
on the fair ground is now being ag-
gltattd so as TO make it a half mile
track instead Of a third, as it now is
The proposition is good one and
ought to be encouraged and helped
by all concerned. That done and
we will have one of the best tracks
in the country for trottng. The
thing can be done if the people will
only help.
Mr.. j NJ. Grant has returned
from Sibley, Iowa and gives more
cheering account of that country
than was expected could be given
few weeks ago He reports the
crops as good, that the farmers are
busy harvesting. that the grasshop-
pors had immigrated, and that every
thing is lovely and in pros porous
condition 10 that muchly grasshop-
pered region.
Our young merchants that went
out harvesting for the fun of the
thing, think it is not such funny
thing after all. One day pleased
them with tho operation, and are
satisfied with telling "what they
know about farming" without any
further practical knowledge on their
part. Blistered hands and wrists
give them an idea of the sufferings of
the Granger or the farm, &c.
Litigation on small scale still
continues The last case being on
writ of replevin, in which one of the
Chief Justices Of the Justice Court q
Grant Co., appeared on behalf OF the
defendant. He raised more points
than Il Philadelphia lawyer would
have raised in the Supreme Court of
the United States, all OF which Esq.
Holford overruled as matter of
course. This failing an adjournment
was asked for and granted, after
which the actual measurement Of rail
roads was discussed and the only
dissenting opinion in the matter
being that of the Chief Justice afor
said. But then great minds will diff
fer as they always have differed.
Last Sunday the Rev. Mr..
Abrams, who has been for many
years a missionary to Africa, gave a
very interesting discourse of the
people of Zoolu county their habits,
}customs, and their peculiar religious
| opinions. One of their customs as
spoken of attracted considerable at
tention for the part of the bachelor
portion of the congregation, that
was the habit among them of buy ing
wives for cattle giving from five to
fifty head for a vile, according to
| the rank and station of the family.
In that country cattle are legal
tender in all payments for wives, and
| he that has the most cattle can have
the most wives Some of Us felt that
if we were 10 that country we should
have to enjoy single blessedness for
some time to come, there being only
one bachelor in town that could COM
ply with the regulations of that
country, and then not IN very
aristocratic circle either. The Gus
tom has it's faults and very many of
them.
Mount Hope.
The grocery of Mrs. Williams
continues TO do cash trade in pea
nuts and candy.