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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06

SPRING-Tbe manuscript of the
following on "Spring" was picked up
near the postoffice one day this week,
and we give it for what it is worth,
and let TIE readers guess the author,
if they can:
SPRlNG-Of all the seasons Spring is the
most coquetish. 1t is a good time for the real
ization of loves young dreaAs Mushrooms
ripen IN the Spring. Water 81 springeth
up in the Spring, and the young chickens leave
their prison walls, and come out 10 eat oat
meal Pendennisl She is like the prin-
cess who stopped and kissed the sleep
ing poet under the tree, who still
slept on but dreamed different
dream. The earth was hardly conscious that
Spring had come till yesterday, when blue
skies dropped ETHEREAL mldness( Thompson) on
her bosom. 1t is indeed the time when the
young, the rosy Spring gives to the breeze her
scented wing (Anscreon) and May is gar
landed with all the fairest flowers and fresh
est buds the earth brings forth (Spenser).
Well was it observed that Ike an army de-
feated the snow hath retreated (Wordsworth)
and that the fields with flowers are decked in
every hue Drummond), though We must not
90 out just yet to pull them. The swallow al
so brings rs the season of vernal delight, with
his back all of sable and belly of white An
onymous) and there are daffodies which come
before the swallow dares and take the winds
of March with beauty (Shakespeare) In the
Spring a brighter crimson burns upon the
robins breast (Tennyson), and young mans
fancy lightly turns TO thoughts of love (Ibid).
Now is he ard the sound of vernal showers on
the twinkling grass Shelly, and with his UNI
brella wanders forth the hyasinthne boy, for
whom morn might break and April bloom.
(Emerson) Now shall we notice how our
swift spring heaps the orchards full of bloom
and scent (LowelD, and the maiden May res
turns with pretty haste barry CornwalD.
Now do the majority of intelligent people
think il better to sport with Amary His in the
shade or with the tangles Of Nearas hair
(Milton) than to creep into some still cavern
deep, there to weep and weep and weep (ren-
nyson). All these and many other things do
we see and enjoy now that Spring has broken
the icy letters of the silver streams wilkes
barre special dispatch) and all nature rejoces
that grim visaged March has smoothed his
frosty pow Burns and Shakespere) Spring!
beautiful Spring. has returned with its birds
and flowers (originan and new fashionable
styles in hats bonnets dresses( advertisements,
intluenzas and catarrhs and hundreds of othec
things make business lively Much more
might be said of Spring, but her lovely and
smiles OF yesterday show that at
last she has consented 10 speak for herself
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06
sS- Apropos to the sermonwhich Mr..

ssS Apropos to the sermonwhich Mr..
Eaton delivered last Sunday morn
ing, on the subject of missions, we
quote the following from the New
York Times report of a lecture, by
David Dudley Field, in description
of his tour round the world:
His second impression was the great value
of missionaries abroad. They were every
where respected In Ceylon one lady had
effected a perfect revolution in the social
lives of the natives for the better. If we
had TO choose between sending consuls and
missionaries to foreign countries, we would
get great deal more for our money out of
the latter than out of the former.
We also quote this from Charles
Nordof''s book, on the Sandwich
Islands:
The patient and effective labors of the
missionaries seem to me, now that | have
seen the results, TO have been singularly
undervalued at home. No intelligent Ameri-
can can visit the Island, and remain there
even month, without feeling proud that the
civilization, which has here been created in
so marvelously short time, was the work of
his country men and women. And if you
make the acquaintance of the older missionary
families, you will not leave them without
deep personal esteem for their character as
we'll as admiration of their work. They did
not only form written language for the
Hawaiian race, and painfully write for them
school books, dictionary, and translation
OF the scriptures and Of hymn book they
did not merely gather the people in churches
and their children into schools; but they
guided the race slowly and with im-
mense difficulty toward Christian civ
ilization. And though the Hawaiian
is no more perfect Christian than
the New Yorker or Massachusetts, man, and
though there are still traces of old customs
and superstitions, these missionaries have
eradicated the grosser crimes of murder and
theft so completely, that even in Honolulu
people leave their houses open all day, and
unlocked all night without thought of theft.
And there is not country in the world where
strangers may travel in such absolute safety
as in these Islands.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06

BAPTIST AssoCIATIoN.-The third
quarterly meeting of the Lafayette
Baptist Association will be held at
the Lancaster Baptist church on the
1st and End of June. Sermons will be
delivered by Rev. G D.. Stevens and
S. w. Aunes, an address by Rev
VIM. Mansel, and an essay by Rev.
E. Pronty.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06

AGRICULTURAL REPoRTs. Persons
desiring Agricultural reports of 1872
8, can, by applying to J. Allen Bar
Der, have the same sent to them by
mail, free. They have just been re-
ceived.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06
THE YOUNG
BLACK WAR RIO R

will stand the ensuing season as follows: On Mon
day at John Myres. at Museslonge: Tuesday at Bee
town. at q. LaEsoH' stable: Wednesday at Benja-
min Potter's. he Hurricane Corners road Thurs
day and Friday till at Ruel Morrel's in Hurri
cane Corners. Will insure with foal for five
dollars, the money to be due soon as the is
known TO be with foal. JAMES BR00KENs,
May g. 1875 sw2 Proprietor.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06
CHICAGO.

CHICAGO, May 5, 1875.
wheat-sl o6 for No. J; No. at 81 O3.
Corn-T3sT5c.
0ats-62c.
Rye-stesdy at 81 OSGl oS.
Cattle-Medium Grades s. 5096 so; common t
extra shipping s565 50; choice steers S5@6 40; fsi
to good SIS 25GD5 S. extra So so.
Hogs Market firm at 81 40@7 90 for light; SS5s :
for heavy: sales chiefly at SOS 20.
Sheep-Msrket weak at IS 65615 so for inferior +
common grades medium s595 IS; good to extra a
IS 5000 IS.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06
A BARGAIN.

A farm for sale. Known as the John L. Graham
farm and half miles northeast Of Lancaster, con
sisng of l4O acres about go acres of powland, bal
ance meadow, pasture and timber. good frame
house of six rooms plenty of water on the place 1t
will be sold for $40 per acre-$600 down. the remain
der secured the property Now is the time TO buy
cheap farm sfore the railroad 10 put through.
Inquire hall. mile north of the stone mill, to
48m3 THOMAS r. GRAHAM.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06
ers the same amount of money
rN.To prevent animals running

s@-To prevent animals running at
large chapter 81, of Revised Statutes
Of Wisconsin, provides that no stallion
over two years old, nor bull over one
year old, nor boar or billy-goat over
four months old, shall run at large in
this State.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06
The Old welsh Mill For Sale,

The Little Grant Mill property. owned by me, viii
be sold on reasonable terms and good time. The
mill site and power is one of the best in the
country The building Is new-rock basement anf
frame overhead size 3Qx60 feet. Also, will be sold
with the same, 20 acres of good bottom land. Come
soon if you want good bargain -
ADAMSON WELSH
Z Al Grn2
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06
A History and Directory of Grant
County.

IN PREPARATION
History and Directory of Grant county,
Wisconsin.
A we'll bound volume of over 400 pages.
The Directory will contain the name of
every man in business or employment residing
in Grant county.
Stating what his business is,
His post Office address,
Location of his residence,
Where born and when he settled in this
county,
To which political party he belongs,
What religion he processes, and
What is the valuation of his property.
The history, after brief sketch of Territory
and State viii give all that is known of the
earlier inhabitants Of Grant county soil, the
redskins, of their happy hunting grounds,
their villages and their names of the streams.
Next the first white settlers will be describ-
ed, how the re | men went out as the white
men came inflow the light put out the dark.
Personal incidents of our Da mel Boor es
and Kit Carsons.
II will give all the history that can be OBJ
tanned from the best sources-the mouths OF
the earliest settlers now living and records
here and elsewhere. The stories of the early
miners, with the help of those of bordering
counties will be told.
The first houses, the first farms, the "hrst
BORN" the first school house, the first church,
the first laws, (squatter) the first juries, the
first courts, the first county and town officers,
the first valuation of property, &c whatever
will help to make the reader acquain ted with
the time and people then living.
The history will be continuous from the
early down TO the present time, making note
of whoever and whatever figures in the de-
velopement and progress of the county. The
ma mes of all soldiers, their companies and
regiments. from Grant county, who enlisted
10 the war of the Rebellion distinguishing
those who persisted in that war, will be re-
corded.
The statistical pages will contain full
county and legislative official record, from
first to last.
Official records of church societies, lodges,
oranges and other soc eties.
The latest census of the States, showing
population, number of voters in each, and the
vote oil each party at last election.
The book will also contain a summary OF
tax, collection, estray and other laws of FIRE.
quent reference by citizens.
The names of citizens in the Township Dr.
rectories will be arranged in alphabetical or
der.
Agents will furnish the book TO subscribers
and only as many as subscribed for will be
printed. 1t is hoped the work will be one
in which every citizen will pride in finding
his name, and in having on his table or IN his
library.
Correspondence with parties who may have
information of value to this history is solicit
ed by the undersigned, at Lancaster, Wis.
EDWARD Pollock.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06

DECORATION Day The national
and State custom of decorating the
soldiers graves falls this year on Sun
day, and in some places the following
day (Monday) will be observed. Yon
monumental column pays a proud yet
fearful tribute to our boys who wore
the blue, yet it is only proper and
right that once each year flowers
should be strewn over the monuments
and the graves of those dead heroes.
Last year committee was appointed
for the arrangement of the decoration
for 1875, and the HERALD will report
proceedings in accordance with the
workings of the committee, as follows:
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06
FARM FOR SALE.

The undersi gned will sell his farm OF 100 sit
uated miles southwest of Lancaster, 81 acres
der pillow, balance timber and bottom land The prop
erty well watered and adapted for stock raising OF
farm purposes, Comfortable log dwelling and stable
on the premises. The land is all under fence
Lancaster March I, 1882 MAGNUS BULL.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06
Stop That Cough.

Many people hesitate TO try medicine for a
disease, on account of the expense, connected
with the uncertainty of its henehting them;
while at the same time, had they confidence
in that remedy, the expense would be the least
objection With this fact in view, we make
the following proposition: Any person suffer-
ing with cold cough or sore throat, that will
call at W. b. Baxter's or any other drug store
and purchase bottle of HALE'S COUGH
CORDIAL, use one. half of il and, if they then
conclude that it is doing them no good, they
can return the bottle and receive back their
money. No medicine ever sold IN this vicini~
ty, that produced so magical results. Don't
fail to try it. 47m4
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06
M ARRIED.

-
At Little Grant, April %, 1875, by the Rev.
Jehns, Mr.. Samuel Wilkinson, of Hazel Green, and
Miss Florence A. Pendleton, OF Little Grant
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06

GRANT COUNTY RAILROAD COM
PANY.-The Board of Directors of the
"Grant County Railway Company"
assembled at the office of Bushnell Il
Clark on Tuesday for the purpose OF
organization. Officers were elected as
follows:
President-Hugh A. Moore
Vice Decentralization Burr.
T:easurer-John Schreiner
Secretarv-John G. Clark.
These gentleman will manage the
affairs of the company for one year
when a new election will take place
The Secretary was authorized to oper
correspondence with the officers OF
the Mineral Point and Galena narrow
gauge railroads with view to secur-
ing railroad extension to Lancaster
4 meeting of the directors was held
last evening for further business.
W OLN Es AND SAIe.-1iaut county
paid out during the year ending May
J, for bounty on wolf and cat scalps
the sum of 5000, being s45 less than
the amount expended during the year
previous. The number of wolves
caught and killed was IT'S and of eats
SIS. The state also paid to the catch.
ers the same amount of money.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06

August FLowER.-The most miserable be-
ings in the world are those suffering from
Dyspepsia and Liver Complaint. More than
seventy. FIVE per cent of the people in the
United States are afflicted with these
two diseases and their effect: such as
sour stomach sick headache, habitual costive>
ness, impure blood, heartburn, waterbrash,
gnawing and burning pains in the pit of the
stomach, yellow skin, coated tongue and dis
agreeable taste in the mouth, coming up OF
the food after eating, low spirits, &c Go to
the Drug Store of James A. Jones and get a
10 cent bottle, or a sample bottle for 10
cents Try it. Van Schaak, Stevenson Il
Reid, wholesale druggists, 80 and "a Lake
street, Chicago, wholesale agents S2-49
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PLATTEVILLE.
PLATIEvILLE, May 8,
DUBUQUE.

DUBUQUE, May 5, 1875.
In wheat prices were firm at 93a95c.
Corn 74c.
Oats Csc.
Barley 81 10.
Hay-$I6@2a.
Cattlc-s4 50a5 Is on foot
Hogs-sT so
sheen -$4a6 90.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06

rau IN iapor on roaas ..'.--- o'S
On examining the account of H. B. Fisher: road
commissioner, find that the sum al S3O1 70 has
been received in cash and expended for lumber and
material for building sidewalk and repairing walks
and bridges, leaving balance due the commissioner
of s. "a.
The commissioner also reports that there has been
built during the year 1900 feet Of new sidewalk, be-
sides repairing walk crossings bridges and highways
r. E. McCoY, Clerk. ADDISON BUR-,
May 8, 1875. President Village Board.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06
SPECIAL NOTICES.

esS- Market and Willow clothes baskets
also tubs, washbOards and pals may be found
at Utts store.
G-New and fresh lot of chattcl mortgages
lust printed and for sale at the Herald office.
G7-H. F. Nobis will sell his household fur
niture at the court house yard, or Saturday,
Nav 8, in the afteraoon. ivy
rs Fresh sweet oranges-the best ever
brought to this market-at Utt's store.
Take Notice. The School Board of
district No. 4, Mt Hope, desire sealed propo-
sails from the lowest and most responsible bid
ders, for the building of Graded School
House. The particulars of plan, terms, &C.,
can be had of said Board
J G. HARsHBERGER,
6w4 District Clerk.
U'Syrup in gallon kegs at Utt's store.
IVEY & WEBB,
British Hollow, Wis,
Have nice line of
WALL PAPER
Ready-Made Clothing,
Ladies' and Children's Trimmed Hats, Etc
6w4
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06

rs Fresh sweet oranges-the best ever
brought to this market-at Utt's store.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06
VILLAGE FINANcEs.-The reports
of the treasurer aud road commits
sioner of the village of Lancaster are
as given below:
JOHN p. LEWIS.

JOHN p LEWIS.
Treasurer of Village of Lancaster.
Accounts audited and allowed May 8, 1878, for
which orders drawn for Sl07 "a,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-05-06
THE MAR X ETS.
LANCASTER.

OoRREc1KpevERY THURSDAY MORNING BIT NATHAN
sOHREINER Il co.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09
fer the farmer.
THAT PEsTILRNT WEED.

Ed;tor Champion :-You have frequently called
attention to that vile weed, with prickly leaves
and yellow flowers, which seems TO threaten to
oyerrun all Eastern Kansas. And you seem to
desire further information as to the plant. 1t is
known, bOtanically, as the Solonum nestratum,
and is allied to the common potato in botanic
character. The plant is not named in the older
class books of botany, of the Eastern and South
ern States, but is described in Woods Botanist
and Florist, under the above name. 1t was not
met with by Major Emory, in his expedition to
New Mexico and California, in l547. Nor was
it collected by Captain Stansbury, in his expedi-
ton to Utah in 1s49, but was collected i'll West
ern Texas in 1853, by Captain John Pope, in his
explorations for a railroad route from the Red
river to the Rio GTande. .
1t seems nearly certain, therefore, that the
f1ong horn traffic has introduced this weed. Its
burs finding Judgment in the bushy tails of cat
tie ranging or driven through its habtant, the
seed have been scattered along the thoroughfares
over which these cattle are driven. 1t seems
nearly certain that the dispersion of this weed
has close connection with the introduction of
the Colorado Potato Beetle, both appearing in
Eastern Kansas ut nearly the same time. And
little reflection will show there is hope of ev-
er DISCRIMINATING the beetle until this weed is
utterly destroyed. {. W.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09

Unless the farmers of Kansas are more cautions
than has been their custom, more damage will
be done by the prairie fires than has been done
by the locust and floods together. There is an
immense crop of grass on every hill and in every
valley in our State; in most cases grass that
will yield from ton and a half to two tons per
acre. The immense corn-fields cannot be har-
vested till well nigh Spring If the prairies get
on fire, once started, no power could prevent the
immense eOrn-fields, with tens of thousands of
bushels of corn, being consumed by the flames
There is no one man who can afford to be care
less. No farmer can afford to leave anything
undone which he can do to protect himself and
his neighbors from the contingency of prairie
fire. No hunter must be allowed to be so eager
for the game as to be forgetful of the fact that
he may kindle fire in his sports which will car
ry destruction to immense wealth and endanger
life by its rayages. The camper must see to it
that he leaves no spark behind to destroy the
substance of those who have extended to him
the genial hospitality universal in the west. Let
everybody begin now to guard against the fell
destroyer, fire. Don't wait an hour or minute,
but make 'the important now" the time for ac-
tion. In that is the only safety of the people of
the State.-LeareHrOrth Commercial
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09
The Cur.e or Tobncco craving.

The little village of North Hadley, says the
Springfield Republican, has fallen upon the evil
days that have been predicted, of late years, us
ultimately in store for such of our Connecticut
Valley farmers as have given themselves blindly
to the growing of tobacco. The feeling of pros
porous security which the quick, profitable sales
of the best tobacco crops induced led these farm
ers as it did their fellows in the other valley
towns, to discount the future. Counting on a
ready income as sure with each returning season,
the expenditures of farm and family were gagged
accordingly. Calculating that given crop of
the weed would bring say twenty cents through,
when it was actually sold for much less, the res
idue was put into paper-and this was easily
enough done when indorsers were to be had for
the asking. Indeed, so "neighborly" and accom-
modating a community in this regard it would
be hard to find in all New England, and now the
more's the pity. The end of all this is painfully
plain. 1t needed but the fall of the first brick
to topple the whole community into financial
ruin. prominent citizen of North Hadley, who
had been carrying paper for two or three prom
inent farmers, was at last obliged, by personal
embarrassments, to refuse to further secure the
notes of his neigbors-and then the panic began,
until the total liabilities of the bankrupts are
reckoned at 900, real estate has fallen in the
town, and business is almost hopelessly stagnant
And we know of a good many tobacco smokers
who are physically going through similar pro-
cess of MISREPRESENTATION breaking do wn,
and they do not know why.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1875-09-09
Timely Hints.

Always save the earliest and best seeds fol
your own use by so doing, for years, the quality
may be greatly improved and early ripening will
be hastened.
Poultry may be bred in and for many years
and the quality greatly improved, by always Sc
Letting the finest fowls to breed from. This is a
fact
Never sell off the best animals and keep those
to breed from that are inferior, and will not
bring the highest price in the market.
Keep all weeds cut down, so they cannot go
to seed.
Cattle well sheltered will pay 100 per cent. on
the cost of the shelter.
Coal ashes are excellent for pigs to root in.
Poultry will also thrive by having dry coal ashes
to dust and wallOw in; they will keep down YER
min and make eggs also.
Worry wearies and wears out more than work.
Anger creates disease.
Live in the light. Open every room in your
house to the sun. Keep no room for company.
There is no medicine like the sunlight
One of the best dressings for old sores is per-
washing clean and applying fresh poultice of
dry dust.
Soft words and soft water should be abundant
and in every home.
Corn cobs make the best and cheapest Summer
fuel to be obtained. They are richer in potash
than any wood, and the ashes ought to be saved
for soap making.
To preserve beauty, preserve health.
Your business will surely be attended to if you
do it yourself.
Kind words will keep old friends and make
new ones.
If possible, neither borrower nor lender be.
The school house should be the most pleasant
building in the school district.
Trne economy does not consist in stnting and
pinching ourselves and everybody about us.
Old gardeners say that beans planted among
squashes, melons and cucumbers, will keep off
squash bugs