Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-03-01
TOWN AND COUNTY

in February April, in April February.
Can't S. W. Osborn has been appointed
postmaster Of Darlington.
The St. Louis Journal says blue glass i
goodfor hot houses because 1t hastehs the
hlnem Of flowers. He be blewed
The blue glass cure is on the homeopathl
principle-like cures like To drive away inc
blues use blue glass.
The "refined tallow" patented under the
name Of oleomargerine, to take the place OF
butter. is now exported as "butterine"
1t costs ten dollars for one lady to slap
another in tie face, in a church Of this city
Bosco5a Dial.
The Sheboygan Herald says there are
contracts entered into for eighty new buildings
in that city this Spring already.
In Muscoda. children Of DR.. Tyler had
dphtheria and Mrs F. NJ. Drew attentlveiy
waited upon them Then her own children
were taken and she lost all three
Charles Belz, the wagon maker, has pur-
chased the old Methodist church property,
which adioins the shop and grounds now oc'
cupied by him The consideration was sou.
Somebody compares Watterson to Charles
Lamb, and the Fond du Lac Commonwealth
saws it is because he bleats so mnch and IS
otherwise very sheepish o. late
Tho p, .nciple involved in giving parties
the M onopoly of supplying the children OF tue
State with schoolbooks is wrong, but th0
outrageous prices we have TO pay the ring
monopoles who supply them must in some
way be reduced.
Lancaster has had one death by scarlet
fever, daughter of Mr.. j. J. Mckenzie. Two
other members of the family, one OF whom IS
seventeen wears old, are afflicted. Members
Of another family have had it and recove red
il behooyes the people to use all precantion
as to cleanliness, diet, exposure and proven
lives
Some members of family over on Grant
have had the measles recently. They say that
short time before they were taken with the
disease they received letter from family IN
Galena who had the measles, and that this
was the only possible way the disease could
have been communicated.
Mr. Barr says there was greater rush to
the library at the courthouse last Saturday
than on any previous occasion. Old men,
middle aged and young men went and got
books who are known not to have had books
in their hands in years before. Mr.. Barr sug>
gested that there was an interesting prosecutor
going On at the courthouse at the time, but be
thinks the FIRE sh stimulus to literary culture !:
owing to the blue glass influence.
-FExNIMoRg, WIS, Feb. u, 1877. Our
worthy chairman, Mr.. Jacob Baumgartner, sold
and delivered to John Pepper to-day, l6 spring
pigs. averaging $50 lbs, ten months old He
realized fancy price for these fancy pigs
rney brought So per hundred II you want tc
raise hogs at profit, write 20 him and he will
Tell YOU his plan whereby you can make as
much moneE out a ten months old pig as you
san out Of an ordinary three years old steer OF
cow
SENATOR Simon Cameron has settled the
breach of promise case by giving the broken
hearted widow $1,000 rather than pay 1t e
Lawyers TO defend him. Now see If every rich
old bachelor and widower in the country don'i
have to come down with his thousand dollars
Haven't we one or two in Lancaster, two oil
three in Bloomington, four or five IN Platte
Vile, and-but wait until the widows ara
through with these.
An American citizen of African de
scent" from Louisiana, has been in Lancaster
and vicinity the pas. week. Though gentle
man of color he bears legitimately the title o.
Honorable" for he has been member OF tn
Louisiana Legislature He was bulldozed of
of his farm in that State. Since then he ha
addressed the people in many places in hi
North and the press speaks very highly of him
If hall can be obtained he may address
Lancaster audience, aud We fully believe thos
who hear h II will be pleased with his address
His name is F. w. Wade.
-Eaenboro. Fs5 24tI 1877. To the Edit o
In the HERALD Of February 22n1 you say tn
grave ward at Ellenboro is near the Platte Riv
er and has suffered continual washing away
AMI that several graves were opened by tn,
abr,sion Of the river bank, sc. The gray
ward at Enenboro is not near the Pl&tta Riv
er. ana has suffered no washing away. Hig'
water never came nearer than forty feet OF il
although il has been encrcaehed upon by ex
cavati ig for the county road. There has neve
been but one grave opened and the remain
removed, and that was done by my nephe"
Balue Barnett, and myself, on the 18th OF tn
present month. Yours Respectfully, J. H. Q
NchSsEV.
-Reeeher's admonition net TO pat toC
vauch trust in a too religious person, as re
ported in our Madison letter, must be an IN
situation against Bowen 1t will be remen
bered that Henry c. Bowen urged every ma
and woman who could get together enoug
Iaoney to buy Pacific r. R, Bond, 70 inves