Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-07-27
TOWN AND COUNTY:

TOWN AND COUN 7:
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Organize Hayes and Wheeler club.
Attend the Hayes and Wheeler club on
Saturday evening Of this week.
Hon. B. NJ. Coates propose TO "stay" at
Boscobel, if the Dial reports correct.
-Gold falls, or rather greenback rise in
value, as the prospect Of republican being
elected to the presidency increases.
Mr.. John Blew lit, who formcrely resided
at British Hollow in this County, was scalped
BY the Indsaus in the Black Hills Country.
Judge Mills starts to day for Manitowoc
to visit his daughter there, Mrs. Eva And
erson.
The postage required for sending a single
newspaper to any part of the United States is
now only one cent.
-"yote, brothers, vote with care;
Vote for Hayes and Bill Wheelaire.
Go your pile on the gallant pair,
Rutherford Hayes and Bill Wheelaire
-Boscobel, Lancaster and Muscoda has
already organized a Hayes and Wheeler club.
Every town in the county should do likewise
Organize at once.
Our townsmen, Messrs Barlow, Wenezl
and Cook. are off TO the Centennial. Their
wives accompanied than, and therefore
good report may be expected ofthem.
-Huckleberries are said to be very abund-
ant at Castle Rock. Any persons desiring
them will be provided by sending their order
to johnson Van Buren,, Castle Rock
The butchery Of our soldiers by the saw
ages under Sitting Bull, on the Little Big
Horn river, should convince US that the way
20 settle thh Indian question is to take the
Bull by the Horn"
Rev Maiben, viii preach at the Congre-
gatonal church on Sunday evening next
The event will be most pleasing and Interest,"
ing to the many who listened to his discourses
fifteen years ago.
Reports from different sections of the
county show that the wheat crop is quito
faiure-about one third crop being the esti>
mate. Oats fair yield, and corn promising
well The latter is growing very rapid
Our devil gets off the following
Search, boys search with care
In the bushes after Tom "Crottair,"
Search, brothers, search with care,
Hes got his own revolvair
Let us see whether the HERALD will pub
lish Mr.. Tndcns letter of acceptance. "-Adpo-
cate
Tnden was nominated away back in june
vet the Aelpocate hasn't published his letter OF
acceptance When is it a9ing to publish it?
An Italian beggar named Rossi was in
town on Tuesday, with two printed papers, one
in English and one in German, telling how he
had been in business d, Cuba and was burnt
out. etc. Beggars Of this class arc always inn
posters and should be snubbed at every door
When the St. Louis Convention nomin-
ateI Tildcn, of the Democratic New York
World vas: The St. Louis Convention gives
us "a candidate without a purpose on plat
form without principle. The World is
great fayorite Of the Aduocate
The Republicans Of Mt Hope, are re-
squested 10 meet in the school house, IN the
village of NIt. Hope, on Saturday evening,
July 29h, at O'Clock, tor the purpose Q
organizing Hayes and Wheeler club. Lei
every Republican be present.
Mr. Darlington, editor of the Muscod'
Ne,rs, was in Lancaster Tuesday and Wednes'
day. We find him wide-awake, go-ahead
alive young man. HIS paper is handsomely
printed and well edited, and has the effect to
give strangers a favorable impression Of the
village of Muscoda.
Sheriff Mccoy thinks that the capture OF
'Crotty" the escaped burglar, is worth to the
county an d community at large 5000 W,
learn he is close on Crotty's track, and hi
return to the county Jail should not surprise
anybody.
Is the editor Of the Eau Claire Free Pres,
.oae of the thousands of thousands of citi'
zens distiugushable in no important respect
from other citizens, VIII have Indian BLOOD
in their veins ?" We Judge he is by the
humanity and pathos of his editorials.
Tho ADVOCATE copies from the Green Coun
Il Retoymer and the Industrial 1ge the state
ment that the HERALD supports Judge Mill
for Congress. That paper knows better. W.
have not gone into the candidate business Il
tho extent that the .4dpocate has, nor DO ",
expect to follow in its sickly trail.
The Sheriff of Dane county offers 500
reward ter the arrest of two burglars; one
feet 10 inches in height, light rcd hair, ligh
blue ewes, smooth face, % years old, and tn
other feet inches high, heavy set, darl
hair, with wound on head or face, made will
the but Of gun.
For six or eight weeks in succession th,
.Adtocate has had its most prominent aud valu
able space, right under the editorial title
filled with extracts from the HERALD. B,
this, and by its innumerable appeals and ref
erences to the HERALD, it betrays the be
lief on the part of its editor that the onl
way it can get itself into notice IS through
the HERALD. fit really thinks 1t cannot ge
along without our attentions we will endeavo
to find some space for it.
The Democratic Executive Committee
has tempered with the Corduroy Bridge thei
party put up at ST. Louis aud called a plat
form, 70 The extent Of making two changes
They have struck out the log aga nsl Chimes
Immigration, and instead Of The resumptio
riaise they make it demand the repeat of tn
resumption dlte. They not only want thei
past record blotted out, but they want thei
present changed or obscured as soon as made