Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-25

Court next week.
Grant county has 43 postoffees.
"A good sugar season is predicted
1T begins to moderate, just little.
Farmers look well to the condition Of
your seeds now.
Considerable sickness in Beetown; one
case Of Typhoid fever.
Hon. J. Allen Barber is expected home
about the 9th proximo.
The Lancaster Graded school has an at
tendance of SS5 scholars.
That January thaw" neglected US last
month, as it has thus far IL February.
Some OF the young fellows of Lancaster
are talking seriously of organizing brass
band.
Hon. ]. Allen Barber and Senator Hollo+
way have our thanks for late papers and pub
lie documents.
&C W. Norris, formerly typo in this of
fee has married lately. Ills home IS at North
field, Indiana
The Witness saysth not word in rea-
tion to Sour proposed railway connection"
with-some place.
knowing ones say that potatoes will COM
mand a high price in the spring-so many
having been frozen.
We are sorry to learn that our tailor, Mr..
Ed Hite, was taken suddenly i'll on Monday
last. We hope his recovery will be speedy.
Bob Hamilton who froze his hands some
time since, will be unable to use the same for
some weeks to come. Bob has the sympathy
ofmany.
Mr.. w. NJ Mcdaniel, ST., of Beetown,
died on last Friday His funeral occurred on
Sunday. and was conducted by the Masonic
fraternity
--Muscoda. having big hotel, bank and
newspaper, now pineth after Touring mill
and bologna sausage factory. With these
her cup Of bliss will be we'll nigh "heaped up"
Every citizen should feel that he owes
kind thought and still kinder deed 10
the suffering poor, upon whom the severe
weather for sixty days past has fallen like a
curse from heaven.
-Itisa singular fact that some ladies who
can't bear the smell of tobacco smoke will reg
ularly rub their heads with a mixture of white
lead, whiskey, lampblack and logwood, and
think nothing of it
On Monday evening last both houses OF
Congress honored the memory of the illustri-
Gus Washington BY remaining in session and
doingg good work. just SO at Wingville hall
on the same occasion.
The Madison street Congregational church
was we'll filed last Sunday evening TO hear
Rev. s. w. Eaton deliver most excellent and
instructive lecture, his text being found IL
Corinthians, chapter III.
Young man, here: Three drinks of liquor
dav at 10 cents each amount to $lO9 90
in wear This sum put at compound interest
every wear for twenty-five years would
amount 20 the handsome sum of ,s45 So
The appearances yesterday indicate CON-
mencement Of moderation in temperature,
which it is to be earnestly hoped will soon
hiring us a more congenial cline than we have
endured and suffered under for two months
past.
-Litigants, lawyers and jurors who will at
tend court next week shond look over the
list Of cases to be tried before His Honor.
full copy Of the docket appears in this issue,
which it might be well to clip and paste in
your hat for reference.
Mr.. Adolph Nathan, of the firm OF Nathan,
Schreiner ( Co, will next month start to
Europe with his wife and child. He will re-
main there during the summer months. visit
ing,England, Germany, Switzerland and France
and expect to return in September.
John Bieg again toots his mellow horn
yhrough the columns of the HERALD in the
shape Of new advertisement, and says he i
making powerful efforts TO sell his goods SO
thai he can start bank. See his advertise
ment, headed CHOW Strange and How True
Although not strictly local item, yet a
soothing one. We mention that Chicago Is JUST
now luxuriating on fresh strawberries and ripe
tomatoes. The former delicious fruit brings
the moderate sum Of 81 IS per quart This
leaves the Lancaster club in the cold; their
treasury couldn't stand many quarts.
We some time since called attention Z
. the house Of II. Siegbert, Of Prairie du Chen
Tie old firm of II. Siegbert Co. has beer
dissolved and Mr. IL. Siegbert is now the sole
proprietor. lie this week shows all apprecia'
.tion for printers ink by presenting an adver'
,tisement in the HERALD. This is one of th'
very best houses in the State.
The exactness with which the man OF tn
house shovels off snow from his side
walk is amusing He will go at il fercely
until he comes 20 the line which separates his
territory from that Of his nezt door neighbor,
and there he stops and squints his eye, an'
treats the snow that lies just over the boun'
dary as if it were so much poison.
Bids were open on Saturday last Tor ID
building of frame barn on the county Poo
Farm near Lancaster SAID structure to be s.
feet square. grouud dimensions, and TO o
completed BY June lst Mr.. K. B. Showalter
the presen; landlord, was the successful bid
der, and is under bond to complete the worl
as specified. The bids range from $3.50
10 $50.