Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-12-13

The best offer euer heard Of For $500 in
advance we will give the HERALD and first
class Chicago weekly for one year, to sub
seribers in Grant County
There are two tremendous falls this week
the fall of Plevna and the fall of the Advo-
cate man.
-Potos and jamestown are talking of
opening the road along the river shore to
Dunleith. So we learn from Mr. John Neavil
Hon. W. A. Maginnis. State Senator, from
Jackson County, in the Legislature of Iowa, ia
In town on legal business.
&C. ]. Hyde viii go to Washburn to>mor-
row and remain one week selling dry>goods,
notions and clothing
The Presidents message of which synop-
sis was given last week, is published in full on
first page.
Miss Edith Fisher accompanied her sister,
in-law, Mrs. Hewlett Fisher, to Boston The
young people miss her every day.
On December il:h there were 90, 448 hogs
awaiting sale in Chicago and the quoted SELF
ing price was S4O420.
The average valuation of lands in Sank
County, by the Board of Supervisors is 1913
per acre. The aggregate value of all property
is S., 285, 909.s6.
-George Brown of Beetown, sold on De-
cember 9th, forty hogs that averaged each,
392 pounds after being driven to Bridgeport.
Articles intended for the Fair at the Con-
gregati onal church are to be taken to Mrs.
Geo Howe's his Ueek Gov.
-Nathan Schreiner & Co. receive live
chickens and turkeys on Friday mornings and
pay cents per 10. for the chickens and 81 lor
the turkey.
Without taking exceptions to The theory
Of friend Browns lesson for the boys, we must
remind him that here we have no grand jury.
That method Of the dads is abolished.
Members Of the Lancaster Lyceum will
please notice that the next meeting will be
held at Belz's hall Monday evening Dec. II.
The ladies of the Congregational church
intend their Fair next week to be the last
undertaking Of the kind as a means to raise
money This should be a reason for Everybody
to give their las: lift
The Anti-treating Society of Muscalunge
boasts that it is 'iourishing like green bay
horse" 1t is taking in" more members in
that vicinity than the Good Tcmplars or Mem
doas.
Farmers viii confer favors by coming to
town with sleighs instead of wagons, because
our town cattle can the more easily reach the
hay and corn in them.
There will be festival in P0tosi on
Thursday, the 2Gsh instant under the auspices
of the Congregational church and society, for
the benefit cf the parsonage. All are cordially
invited to attend.
The Mineral Point Democrat is now pub>
lished by Crawford & Bro, Mr.. A. Watkins
having sold his interest te Mr.. K. N. Crawford.
The brothers start off with very good inten
tions towards the Democracy.
A lady teaching near Dukes Prairie, in
Iowa County left her watch, TO which large
gold seal was attached, in the school house
two weeks ago Next morning the watch and
seal and some other property were gone.
On reading.the article About Bees and
Their Honey" this though. occurred to US
If the farmer who grows field of clover or
blckwheat would keep as many bees as could
feed upon it, would not the yield Of honey
always be good cash dividend on the invest
ment , Ask friend Joseph Hentrich, of Dicks
evville, about it
Before buying holiday presents go and see
the prettest doll ever brought to Lancaster,
at G. J. Hyde's, which is not for sale but with
other presents will be given away to his GUS
toners before New Years.
The articles now being published in this
paper taken from the Geological Survey, were
originally prepared by Moses Strong, who
was drowned two or three months ago, in tn
northern part of this State
John McCaron, formerly of Lancaster
now Of Alleghan, Kansas, recently met with a
severe injury. He was driving load of wheat
to market, when, &c ting off the wagon, his
foot slipped under wheel and broke his leg
Just aboye the ankle.
-Thirty-ivc ladies in Sank County pc
titioned their County Board of Supervisors to
build an iron fence and stone sidewalk around
the courthouse square i'll Baraboo. The
Board declined to max. the necessary approp-
alton.
"0nton has an unsettled place in the
the dictionaries but is forbidden entrance ins
to the grammars. 1t is etymologically as good
as the word into Such writer's as the law
allows to make their own grammar use it and
they are the makers of all grammar.
There will be a donation and oyster sup>
per at the residence of Fred Divall, FIVE miles
northeast Of Lancaster, on Thursday, Decem-
her 20th, for the benefit of Rev r. Stephens
pastor of the Mt. Ida and Little Grant p. NJ.
congregations. All are cordially invited
1t was the planet Venus that apparently
received an hours embrace BY the moon on
Saturday evening An eclipse of one of the
planets by the moon is an occurrence much
more rare than an eclipse of the sun or moon
Indeed. although the moon nightly leads her
virgin host" of stars, il is seldom we see her
pass between US and one of Them
The Dubuque Times throws out hints to
the business men of that city like this Ear
mers from Potosi, who seek this point for the
marketing of their produce, have great difficulty
in getting here since the ferry at Specht's has
been withdrawn and put on the ways There
IS a road leading to Potosi from Dubuque, but
it has not been travelled for some time, and it
Potosi farmers have to 90 round by Dickey>
VILE Many preferto 60 to Platteville instead,
and Dubuque is in consequence losing large
amount of trade. In Potosi township there
are, 50 we are assured by farmer, at least
$500 hogs that are about ready to market
besides a large amount of other produce, all of
which would come here, because we pay bet
ter prices, il the road above spoken of was
smoothed up little. A small amount of labor