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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-11

are sweet, they will go for them
again, and are wiling TO pay the diff
ference in cost. Grapes have been
sold in the market this year, tons
and tons of them, that were not fit
to eat but the pubic bought them,
as being the best they could find,
"Another thing: great many
people do not wait until grapes get
ripe before picking. Some of them
never would get ripe if they did
wait, but they do not wait to let
them get their best quality; as quick
as they get half colored they are
sent to market, and people eat what
comes to market, asking no ques-
tions. They may say they are not
very good, but they buy them never
theless.
81 do not begin to market my
grapes until after the first of Octo-
Der. Perhaps you may say it won't
do for me to do that, because my
grapes would freeze up before that
time. It is not so with me. Ordl-
nary frosts do not hurt the grape at
all. 1t is not hurt particle until
you make ice in it, and after the
grape has got ripe, it will not freeze,
ice will not make in it, until the tenn
perature is as low as twenty-nine
degrees. [ dislike to have frost come
upon a vineyard, because it will re-
tard the ripening by its action on
the leaves, but if grapes are nearly
ripe, / care nothing for the frost. SO
far as the grapes themselves are con-
cerned. "-MaSSachuSetts Ploughmdn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-11

sV Let me tell you what / saw not
long ago at circus. Sitting in front
of us was General Sherman, and with
him quite a number Of children whom
he had gathered from the SHY ways
and hedges" We saw him look down
under the seat, and then haul out a
dirty, ragged little darkey, who had
crept in under the tent, and then seat
him at his feet, where, by crowding,
was made place for the little rascal.
snow" said the General, "sit there my
boy and see everything. Bless me!
many time / have done just the same
thing, and many thrashing have l
had" He seemed like child; every
thing pleased him, and we wondered
where was the vanity of which the peo-
pie talked so loudly. Who has a bet,
ter right to be vain than Sherman;
vain ofhis valor, vain of his deeds, vain
of his wife, vain of his children, and
vain of the love of his country people?
Correspondence Cincinnati CONNER
cidl.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-11

sm-The Williamsburg disaster has
set the people of other manufactur-
ing towns of Massachusetts to exam
ming their dams. Worcester is uu-
easy about her "North Pond" The
Gazette of that city says that the
dam which stands between that res
ervoir of water, 650,000,000 gallons,
when the pond is full, and the city
below is a simple gravel bank, :"
from fifteen to twenty feet IN height,
with wall of stone en- the inner
or water side which was originally
laid in morter or cement; out has
long since disappeared. Thore is
also an incomplete outer wall of
cobblos that has tumbled down in
spots and doesn't seem to amount to
much as a protection. At one point
quite large stream of water is run
ning under it, and we are told that
"the babble of little water fall
some where between the two walls,
can be distinctly heard" Three
years ago, the chief engineer report
cd that the dam was ga structure en-
tirely unsuitable to stand az re-
straining barrier between such an
amount of accumulated water as is
held in It's basin and the destruction
of q vapt amount of property and
the probable loss of hundreds of the
lives of our citizens" Another city
is still worse frightened, viz : Fitch
burg. The city engineer went up to
see the Mill River wreck and on his
return his first act was TO officially
notify the Mayor and Council, in
writing, that the dam of Overlook
Reservoir" above Fitohbdrg SO
than two miles from the city, four
hundred feet above the average level
of its streets, and containing sixty.
million gallons of WATERWAYS in a.
dangerous condition, with more leaks
and q greater probability of immi-
nent disaster, than in the case of the
Williamsburg dam a week before the
break occurred.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-11
Burning Witches In Mexico.

A dispatch from the city of Mexico,
uid, Havana, dated May 18th, gives
the following account of an attrocious
and cruel proceeding: Senior Castillo,
alcalde of Jacoba, in the state of Sina
loa, has officially reported to the pre-
feet of his district that on April 4 he
arrested, tried and burned alive Jose
Maria Bonita and his wife, Diega, for
sorcery, it having been proven that
they had bewitched one Sllostre Sea-
carias. The day before the execution
citizen of Parras, as final test, made
Seacarias take three swallows of bles-
sed water, whereupon the latter vom~
tied fragments of blanket and lunches
of hair. The alcalde states that the
people were exasperated against the
sorcerers and demanded that they be
burned. The sentence was executed
with his approval. He adds that he
has an eye on another sorcerer, against
whom complaint has been made by
the citizens, The Official DARE, of
this city, confirms the report of the
outrage, and says that several families
in the town have since compelled the
officers to burn another old woman
and her son for the same cause. The
general Government has asked the au
thorities of Senaloa to send detailed
report of these proceedings, and to
take measures to protect the lives of
persons threatened with similar vic
lence. 1t will probably turn out on
investigation that the victims of these
atrocities are insane people, who
would be put in comfortable place
and kept from harm, did they live in a
civilized country.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-11
Overbearing of Grape Vines.

Most grape growers, and in fact
the growers of all kinds of fruit, are
ambitious to raise the largest posi-
BILE crop, without reference to the
permanent good of tho vine or the
tree. They overlook the fact that
tho vine or the tree is capable Of do
ing about so much and no more, and
aim for the highest immediate profit
rather than to a prospective one. 1t
. is true that the amount which q
strong and healthy grapevine is ca
pabl9 of bearing depends a little up
on the character OF the season, but
we can not always tell what the sea-
son is TO be. 1t is wisest therefore
to thin the fruit somewhat early in
the season, in order that it may not
draw too heavily upon the vitality of
the plant.
This matter is so important and so
apt to be neglected, that we are glad
to quote the judicious remarks of DR..
Fisher in his Address before the
State Board of Agricultural at Fitch
burg in December last, as given in
the last Report of the Secretary of
the Board.
He said "Grapes from vine that
is overloaded are only purple, not
when they are ripe, but when they
have got as ripe as they can get +;
they have little or no bloom, and
they are acid they will make a
mans stomach ache if he eats many
of them but if the vine is not over
loaded, the berries are large, the
grapes are black, the bloom is very
deep blue, and the quality is such
as Will make people deny that you
grew the grapes out of doors they
will say that it cannot be done, that
you cannot get so much sugar and
so much high quality into a grape
out of doors. A grapevine can do
certain amount; it is just like every
thing else, aud just like everybody
else. If an ordinary man attempts
TO spread himself out very wide, he
will necessarily become very thin.
ftIf the public would make no dis
elimination in the quality, of course
YOU would grow the larger quantity,
but the public know better, especial
IL in the matter of luxuries. 1t is
largely the beautiful things that peo-
pie are induced to buy. If clusters
of grapes are large, if they are hand
some, people will buy tbem If they
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-11
CLAYTON.

State of Wisconsin, Grant County, S. Probate Office,
Lancaster, May 25th, A. d. 1874. In the matter Of
the Proof and Probate of the lastwll and tesla
ment of Peter Clayton, deceased late of the County
of Grant.
Whereas, an instrument in writing, purporting to
be The last will and testament Of Peter Clayton de-
ceased late of the County of Grant has been filed in
this office and whereas application has been made by
John r. Clayton, praying that the same be proven
and admitted to Probate according to the laws this
State.
Therefore, it is ordered that said application be
heard before me at the Probate Office in the village
of Lancaster ia said County on the I'D day of june
A. o. 1874. at one O'Clock p. NJ.
And it Is further ordered that notice thereof be
given to all persons interested in said estate by pub
hsng copy of this order for three successive weeks
prior to said day of hearing in the Grant County Her
aid weekly newspaper, printed and published at
Lancaster in said County, By the Court,
llw3 VIM McG0NlGAL, Con Rty Judge
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-11
BLACKSMITH SHOP,
AT PETTYJoHNss MILL,

II HAVEjust started Blacksmith Shop At PATTY.
4 jeans new Fou-ing Mills; IL miles nortbwest of
Pattevils and miles east of Lancaster and an pre-
pared TO do all work in my line.
Price for work-SS.o 90 span for new shoes: 20 cts
for setting.
4Stf JOHN WILKINSON.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-11
Trying the New Fire Engine.

Our new steam fire engine, the
first We ever had, arrived in New
Castle the other day, and of course
the entire population of the village
turned out to witness the trial of the
machine. Mr.. Bob Parker secured
the post of honor as holder of the
service pipe, and he was mighty
proud of it. The engine was down
at the wharf getting ready to pump
water from the river, and Parker
stood almost tour hundred yards of,
at the end of line of hose, waiting
for the stream to come so that he.
could squirt it over the Court House
steeple.
There was great deal of delay
while the men were fixing the en-
CINE, and Parker incautiodsly held
the muzzle OF the pipe towards his
waist-c0at while he discussed the
question OF a third term for Grant
with the Rev. Dir. Hopkins. At the
most interesting moment of the do
bate the engine suddenly began TO
work, and the next instant two
inch stream struck Parker in the
stomach with terrible force, and
rolled him over in the gutter He
felt as if the gulf stream had been
shot through him from front to back.
Then the pipe gave few eccentric
Jerks, smashed DR.. Hopkins hat
into black silk chaos, and emptied
hogshead of water into his open
mouth. 1t concluded the exercises
by getting into such position that
it could play a million Of gallons o
minute up the left trousers leg Of
the PROSTATE Mr.. Parker. Parker
seemed to lose all interest in the
capacity of that engine. He went
homo for his Sunday clothes, and he
has since intimated to his coniden
tial friends that if Grant should
spend the whole Of his third term
squirting a stream fifty thousand
feet high with that diabolical fire
extinguisher he, Parker, would not
go round the corner to witness the
speetacle.-Mar Adler.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-11
ESTATE--KILBY.

tate of Wisconsin, Grant County, S. Probate Of
fee, Lancaster, May rs. A. D, 1874. In the Mat
ter of the Proof and Probate of the Last will and
Testament of Abraham Eddens KiIby, deceased,
late of the County of Grant,
Whereas, an instrument in writing, purporting to
be the last Will and Testament of Abraham Eddens
Kirby, deceased. late of the County of Grant, has
been filed in this office; and whereas, application
has been made by Edmund Borah, praying that the
same be proven and admitted to Probate according
to the Ii ws of this State.
Therefore, it is ordered that said application be
heard before at the Probate Office in the Village
of Lancaster, in said County. Monday 22d day of
June A. d. 1874, at one O'Clock PM.
And is further ordered, that notice shall be Civ
en- 10 all persons interested in said Will of the time
and place of said hearing by publication in the Grant
for three successive weeks each week. prior to
the time of such hearing. By the Court
llw3 VIM McGONIGAL, County Judge.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-11
SHERIFF SALE.

State of Wisconsin, County of Grant--ss In Circuit
Court. A. d. Carroll Co., The American Whip 90 4,
The Union Hide Dc Leather Co.. Kuehn Brothers,
Benj. Young, G. Pfster, VIM. Flaceus 4 Son. Her.
man Zohrand, Seigel Gesler Co. John b. Young,
Schmidgel Sherman, III. Booth Il Sons, and d.
Bachman, Moses Bachman David Kistler, part
pers doing business under the firm name of Bach
man Bros. e Kister, efendants.
Ey virtue AID In pursuance OF a judgment and
order of foreclosure and sale rendered in the above
entitled action by said court at the September term
1873 thereof, the 25th day of September, 1873,
shall Saturday, the 9th day OF june A. D. 1874,
in Boscobe in said county offer for sale and sell pub
lie auction to the highest bidder for cash the follow
ing described mortgaged premises CT so much thereof
may be necessary and as may be sold separately
without prejudice to the interest of the owners
thereof towt The north half southwest quarter of
section thirty in town eight, north of range two west
also the west half of northwest quarter and the
northeast quarter of northwest quarter and north.
west quarter of northeast of section thrtysix and
the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of
section thrty-ve less 14-100 thereof hereto
fora decided to N. Brainerd by deed record in Regis
Office, Vol g. page 621; and the northwest quar-
ter of southeast quarter of section twenty five less
that part thereof heretofore decided to Hannah II
Morehouse by deed recorded in said Registers office,
Vol 68, page 403, all in Town eight north of range
three west also the west half of lot four and all of
lots five, six, seven eight and nine, and ten feet off
the west side of lot ten all in Block twenty in
the village of Boscobe wisconsin, also lot No. four,
the recorded plat thereof, lying and being in the
county of Grant and State of Wisconsin.
Dated at the Sherif's Office in the Village of Lam
caster, Wisconsin, this I'd day of May, 1874.
am t. CARRIER, Sheriff Grant Co.
GEO. c. HAzELToN, Plaintiffs Attorney. 9we
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-11
leaal Notices.
ESTATE-KNAUF.

In probate--Grant Co, Court. In the matter OF the
Estate of Henry Knauf, deceased.
On reading aud filing the petition of Margaretha
Knauf, of the. County of Grant representing
among other things, that Henry Knauf, late of
1874, at Cassvle. died intestate, leaving goods
chsttels and estate within this State and coun-
ty and that the said petitioner is the widow of said
deceased and praying that administration of said
tats be to Joseph Sehieffer granted
is ordered that said petition be heard before the
Judge of this Court on Monday the 10Th day of june
A. D. 1874, at O'Clock NJ, at Lancaster in said
county.
Ordered further that notice thereof be given the
heirs of said deceased and TO persons int crested
by publishing copy of this order for three success
i've weeks prior said day of hearing in the Grant
County Herald weekly newspaper printed and
published at Lancaster in said County.
By the Court
fENF VIM. Mca0NIGAL, Co. Judge.
dated at Lancaster, Wis, the lst day of June,
A. D. 1874 12w3
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-11
,c "Phebe Couzins dosen't dres

sA"Phebe Couzins dosen't dress
like her brothers at the bar" says
the Chicago Tribune of Thursday,
by way of commencing an item.
That's undoubtedly true she dresses
by putting her clothes on over her
head, while they don't-and what's
more, they can't. But what business
is it of tho Tribune's, anyhow?
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-11
ga western editor says he knows

n@-A western editor says he knows
OF young man who is so infatuated
with his lovely wife that he lights
the candle two or three times every
night to look at her. The New York
Commercial knows several young
men who think just as much of their
better halves, and yet never pretend
to hold a candle to them.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-11
We are also exclusive Agents for the popular
HOWE SEWING MACHINE.
known as the standard machine for family use.
Mason &c Hamlin Cabinet
Organs.

We also keep for the accom- mediation Of those who
use our machines, extrasto be had at the following
points:
AtANNATON-A full line of Extras for j. p
Nanny, Excelsior, Ohio Champion and j. /. Case 4
Threshng machines,
LancasteF-With ellis pie & Bsrah.
Boscobel With Thompson Bros
Mt Hope With Fox & lynn.
Piatteyiile-With M. s, Trewbridge.
Glen Haven-With VIM. Tate
Little Champion and Prairie City Extras at Lancas-
ter; Excelsior extras at A nnaton and Mt. Hope.
Remember that Extras only sold for cash, and
agents ar . instructed by the manufacturers not to
sell without the cash in hand.
All those who desire htst class machine of any
kind on the best terms especially for cash-wlll
nd 1t to their interest to give us call.
Do not purchase until you examine the above nam
ed machines in the hands ofour agents as foliows
Observation-Disclosures IL BORAH.
BLOOIINGTON-A MORSE
BOSCOBEL-THOMP5ON BROS
FLA TTEVILLE-BUER4ER a CAWLbH
Animation, February 20, 1874. Ooho
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-11
ssrA Young man abonttown. VII

s1-A young man about town, who
aspires to move in fast circles, met
a young lady of the upper crust"
on Fourth street yesterday after
noon. at is quite warm to-day,
Mr." said the young lady gra-
ciously. otis that" was the reply.
makes fellow feel pretty sweaty,
d. Mt il ?"
New-York tribune., 1874-07-30
ANOTHER (" ADDRESS.O

When one considers for moment that there
is no party line whatever to-day, except that
which separates those who hold Office from
those who do not, the buncOmbe of resOlu-
tons and addresses seems very fat, stale, and
improbable. During the war, when there were
principles at stake and men separated into
parties for or against great cause, it was
well enough to indulge in battlefield rhetoric
and impassiOned appeals. That was time
when men were hot and earnest in their be-
liefs when blows were exchanged and blood
flowed, and the agony and pain were real.
Then you knew when your neighbor called
himself Republican or " Democrat"
what he believed in; something OF
the policy he supported and the prin-
ciples he espoused. His political desig-
nation gave him status, an attitude
you knew pretty nearly what he favored and
what he opposed; on important political ques-
tions You knew where to put your finger on
him. But now, call man Democrat" what
does it meant 1t does not define his relation
TO any question of finance or political econ
omy, currency or tariff to any policy of ad-
ministration or system Of reform to anything
indeed under the whole heaven except the
other side, which he consistently votes
against, and the Offices, in which he con-
stantly calls for a new deal. No more is
there any meaning to the name Republican,"
as applied to the politician or voter. Who
knows by that definition whether the voter
Is for or against initiation, for or against
Civil Service Reform, for or against
local self-government what indeed is
do
tionf 1t means nothing whatever except
that the citizen so described is In favor of
keeping the POst-Offices and Custom houses in
their present hands-not always indeed SO
much as that.
In this state of affairs we can only expert
ence sense of profound pity for the Commit
tee people who are just now trying to rally
the forces on either side and excite them to
enthusiasm by repeating the old war-cries.
Here for instance is the Democratic State
Committee of Missouri, calling with
great solemnity a State Convention to
nominate State officers, and adding thereto
a column and a half of what they cal
an address in regard to the pros
"pects of the future" further purpose of
which is "to advise briefly the course of
"policy which in our judgment should
abe pursued in the coming canvass"
This Committee is of the opinion
that cit is no time to doubt or
ito hesitate" They confidently assert that
"by the Democratic party alone, through the
"ascendency of its principles, can the nation
be redeemed from the misrule and oppres-
sion under which the people suffer-" We
seem to remember hearing something of this
sort at intervals for the past fifteen years,
but "the ascendency of its principles" has
not always meant the same thing. Indeed
the address proceeds to say, with pardonable
glow of enthusiasm, that "the Democratic
"party is party of the future and not of
the past" and that lit seeks to revive no
" dead issues,n by which we understand that
the asoendency of its principles" docs not
New-York tribune., 1874-07-30
JUST MY LUCR!D

It isn't strange that world in which so
manv men from the cradle to the grave are
perslstently unsuccessful should believe in the
malign influences of the stars. 1t is easier to
account for obstinate failure by some general
doctrine of personal fatality than to subject
every case to rigid determination OF natural
causes and effects. When we have said that
a man is "unlucky," We think that we have
said enough; and, after all, there ere behind
everything, congenital Influences and the early
accidents of life for which hardly anybody
seems to be personally responsible. We leave
this, however, to the consideration of the NOR
alists, giving them as bone to pick the hard
fate of James Turnbull, who has just lost
big lawsuit in Pennsylvania. The plaintiff in
this suit claimed to be the lawful owner OF
coal land, valued at s4O.OOO,0O0 and situated in
Luzerne County, Penn. Poor TurnbulPs first
ill-luck was in having father who neglected
to pay his taxes. Consequently, forty years
ago these lands were sold, and came into tho
hands of several great capitalists. The present
James Turnbull the Unlucky went down to
the sea in ship, and encountered disaster
in great variety. On his very first voyage he
was shpwrecked and Hoated about nine days
in an open boat before he was picked up, with
his eight dead companions. He tried various
s0heuss; he dug for gold IN California aud
New-York tribune., 1874-07-30

profit by the weaknesses of others could have
failed to see the mistakes of England and OF
France in relation to this hopeless rebellion.
Among the English Don Carlos and his cause
were extremely popular until within brief
period, when the atrocities committed by his
army induced Cabrera, who is widely known
and esteemed in England, to say that he
would have no further fellowship with
murderers. Last year the insurgents
rejoiced not only IN the sympathy
but the active cooperation of Englsh
society. In France the monarchcal tendencies
of MacMahon have insensibly led his Govern
ment to treat the CaIlists with indulgence,
and the SerranO Government with something
which vcrges upon rudeness. The German Gov
ernment, which has never been III the least
compromised in the matter, has now the OPP
porunity of showing itself at the same mo-
ment friendly to Spain, mindful of the CLAIMS
of humanity, and opposed to medieval bar-
barsm which would reduce war to sayagery'
religion to degrading superstition, ana gov
ernment to an absolute tyranny. III III TINS
way, whatever the result of the present action
may be, Germany gains an ally on the SOUTH
ern border of France. it will be an excellent
DAYS work for the statesman aud philosopher
of VarZln.