Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-05-28
GLEANINGS FROM THE STATE PRESS.

Aouhtalne On Inc streets corners.
There is o farmers Grange in
every town in Walworth county.
A dozen horses have been stolen
In Dodge county within a month,
!. There are thieves there.
-The Mineral Point Railroad will
conform to the new railway tariff
law as far as practicable.
"A Ripon editor spoke of young
lsdy as "tramper," and now speaks
OF her father as "trouncer."
"A man who wants to get drunk
IN Neenah has to break stone 80
days for the county TO pay for it.
Two Councils of Changers in
Waupaca County have been dissolved
and new one established in their
stead.
| The spring wheat crop through.
tout the State promises well. The
acreage is one-ifth greater than last
season.
Two of the best stores in La
Crosse are being fitted up for sa-
Icons, with $4,000 organs, billiard
tables, &c.
Whitewater claims to be the
banner temperance town. the anti.
license majority at the recent village
election being 175.
Mrs. Able Taylor, of GAINESVILLE.
an old lady sixty-three years of ago,
has just completed q bed Quilt con-
sisting of 1882 pieces.
Fires have been running over
the immense marshes of eastern Adj
ans County, doing much damage to
the cranberry marshes.
Professor Chamberlin's expedi-
ton for the State geological survey
leaves Beloit soon. Mr.. IL. C. Woos-
ter, of Whitewater, will go.
The Ladies' Temperance League
of Ripon formally opened a coffee
and reading room, on Tuesday.
There was large attendance.
The editor of the Oshkosh
Northwestern has been put in pos
session of two eggs connected after
tho manner of the Siamese Twins.
"A state oratorcal society vas
organized at Madison last week,
which is made up of personalities
of the various colleges in Wisconsin.
There are seventy-two steam
boats on the Upper Mississippi river
engaged in towing RATS, goodly
number Of which are owned in La
Crosse,
Two men entered the house of
Mr.. SWEET, near hartford, in his ad.
sence, and robbed the family of a
observation-disclosures
the resistance of Mrs. S.
Mrs Priest, of Eau Claire, hav-
ing been separated from her child
through abandonment by her hus-
band, who took the child with him,
has become raving maniac.
At Chippewa Falls, recently,
some burglars cut the panel Of o side
door in the Catholic Church, took off
all the alter plate, valued at S400,
and cut the silver clasp off cope be-
longing to the pastor.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette says that
the estimates furnished to the board
of the Blind Asylum for taking down
tho walls of the old building were so
high that it is impossible to give the
work to either of the applicants.
WATERFOWL is about to adopt q
new way, not to raise the wind, but
the water. The proposition is to
have an artesian fountain in the pub
lie square, the expense to be met by
means of grand gift enterprise.
The State Gazette says the
Brown county Jail is now uncom-
fortably full, there being % prison
ere in the male department, includ-
ing number of rather desperate
characters that need more or less
watching.
j. Ii: Gainhart, proprietor of the
Gajnhart reaper works at Madison,
died in that city on Sunday, of heart
disease. Owing to his death the
reaper works will be stopped, and
there will be about fifty rnn- chow"
out OF employment.
The farmers of tho western por.
tion of Waushara and eastern part
Of Adams counties have formed an
association called tho Farmers Ex-
change. They meet the third Fri
day of each month for the sale, ex-
change and exhibition of property.
Two roughs from Chicago, nam
ed Fellows and Rogers, made an
aoortive attempted to levy black
mail on Mr.. P. Albee, respectable
citizen, of GAINESVILLE, by threats Of
exposure, murder, etc, but his lusty
cries for help induced them to let
him loose from the room into which
they had inveigled him.
Hon. James Ross organized @
lodge of Good Templars, at Darling
tor, on Monday evening, of last week,
consisting of over sixty members,
among which were ex-senator Ma
COON, Mr. Bergman, editor of the
Republican, and wife, Revs. Messrs.
Hackney, Breckenridge and Annis,
and many other prominent citizens.
The women of the temperance
union of Green Bay passed the fol-
lowing resolution, which refers to
Victoria Woodruff: "Resolved,
That we regard the teachings of this
person vile and dangerous in the OK
IRENE, tending directly to uproot tho
first principles of society and govern
ment and to produce gross immoral
ity and anarchy"
The grange movements render.
ing notable service to GAINESVILLE.
On Saturday last, says the Gazette,
an order from Vermont, KY, for d
carload of -four, was received at tho
grange headquarters, and the ship.
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