Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-12-21
TOWN AND COUNTY
The sleighing is good.

rived on Tuesday at Bos cobel.
To day Winter begins-the shortest day
Of the year
The time for shooting pheasants, quail,
aud ssich" has expired, for this winter.
Read Mr.. Redpaths letter, and look out
for good one from him from South Carolina.
The old cracked bell comes down from
the top OF the Lancaster school house and a
new $3.50 one takes its place.
"A Christmas poem, an original contribu-
ton, will grace the columns of the HERALD
next week.
AT Ishmaeps in Beetown and at the Dem
lnison in Cassvie is where the dancers meet
next Monday.
We editors have received limitations of
plentiful crop this seaso of spare-rbs, sau-
sages, and mnce meat.
PAY your taxes, and bear in mind that at,
ter January Ist the tax collector may charge
per cent. as fees
u Warner Mills, lectures before the Hur>
ricane Lyceum next Saturday evening. Sub
ject-Stick to the Farm.
Scarlet fever has been raging in Mineral
Point In Mifin, also, it is prevalent, and in
Baraboo it has closed the public schools.
Advertising in the HERALD always pays,
because the HERALD is revd by everybody
Republicans, Democrats and ladies.
Bogus hafdoars are in circulation that
can only be detected by weight. Inside they
are block tin and have the ring Of the genu-
inc coin.
Mark W. Bailey, former Grant County boy,
late years resident of Dakota, is member
of the House of Representatives of that ter
.ritory He will likely be elected Speaker Of
the body.
Travelling men declare that Darlington
contains more beautiful women than any other
place of twice its size in the west.-LGFayette
Co. Democrat. just the words they all use
about the ladies of Lancaster
Little Grant has post-ofhce, which may
not be generally known. Andrew Cairns is
the postmaster, and the office is at his resi-
dence on the road erom Lancasterto Prairie
du Chen.
" The Iowa County Rangers are COM
,manded by their captain to meet in Dodge
vile to-day, with their EARNS and accoutre>
tments in proper condition" All right; let US
ali pray and keep our powder dry
Jimmy, Of the Darlington Democrat has a
xery complimentary twang to his whang. If
We wcre near enough next Santa Claus night
we would slip into his stocking a stick with
horses head and bride to it, and horn to
toot.
The Chicago Esening Journal, Is as good
city paper, daily tri,weekly and weekly, as
can be found Its news il always fresh and
abundant. and its statements in business and
politics are trustworthy. See its announce
nsnt for 1877 in this paper
Marriage and death notices are cheerfully
inserted in the HERALD free of charge. Clergy
meG and Justices usually send their marriage
certificates direc. to this Office, from which
~ gather the particulars Of the marriage and
then we haad the certificate over to the Reg
lister who puts Il on record as the law res
quires
On cur srst page this week, will be found
love story. Not having read it We can't say
whether it is good Ok not It was selected
for u bv a story reader Fer the benefit OF
this class of readers We intend the publication
OF story nearly every week, but as for read
~ tfuff do
money. Lovers of this sort of literature will
have to select for us
1t is enough to make an editor NERVOUS"
to find he has set adrift upon an open sea such
a. awful word as 'deservious," especially
when in the proof, he carefully marked out
the compositorS ous and substituted the prop
er ng, aud yet on such drifts rats often seram>
bic for rest, TO keep them from drowning
When one makes a mistake it is satisfaction
ito know it is 20 awkwardly made that intelli-
gent people will know it is mistake.
Our shoe merchant, W. II. Haines, has re-
aurned from New Hampshire and brought wish
ham that slice of New England. He looks full
~ sell NJ when he went away and VOWS he
h gained nine pounds of adipose. He trusts
and believes that in the new contribution Of
rho Z ~ 70 the West, which he effected, the
rule 60 j, ulversal, of the eastern scion ofiuteg-
rity and virtue. grated upon western soil,
aourisbinc N1th added strength and beauty
NAV BE- veria, u 10 this case Ifexplanation is
wanted look =, der head of marriages.
Mrs. Swissbe las letter in this paper Is
worth reading. + n many years she has been
an extremist on The temperance question. The
prohibition side was Neld up to her view and,
not seeing sny other, h'e Supposed there was
no other. Now she is among the Germans
and another side is pre- 'ented to her. That
being in view. she has forg, 1tten the beauties
of the other. IF Mrs Swiss. helm while sac IS
ia Germany will observe the habits OF the wo-
men of Germany she may earn something
that viii improve her womanly nature She
Will find them habitually attending to their
children. their husbands and their brothers,
thus doing their parts toward complying with
the law of nature that one sex WAS made to
help the other.