Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-04-26


avaricious intent but we might just as
well make few hundreds or SO with
fishing pole and have all the fun
thrown In.
Query: DO trout bite as well as
mosquitoes?
Also, with tho warm breath OF
spring winds and the melodies oil
spring birds, will come the pigeons.
We like pigeons-to eat and Just as
soon as they cone up from the south
myself and another fellow-citizen are
going out to see them fly from tree to
tree. We will take our guns along
also. You see, Mr.. Editor, pigeons
toW eat up the wheat, oats and corn
that the kind-hearted granger sows in
his fields, and if we kill any it will all
be out of love for the granger. And
after we have killed some, of course
not wishing to throw them away, we
take them home and presently they
are turned into pigeon pie, then we
take an absorbing interest in them.
A fellow told rs the other day that he
killed sixteen pigeons at one shot
Pretty good shot, that. | never like
to be beat on experience, but this was
beyond any of mine, and | had bic
"whopper" to tell in reply, but my
regard for the truth compelled me to
tell him that instead of shooting six
teen pigeons at one shot / shot six
teen shots at one pigeon once and the
pigeon still lives, blast him.
meant TO have told you a moment
ago something of the Circuit Court
proceedings here of the past week.
Richland County has had a rather
heavy calendar for its size and Court
is still in session. Judge Cothern is
dispatching business with promptness
and rapidity. Do you know that last
week he impaneled jury, limited
the counsel in their statement of the
case. tried it, charged the jury and
received their verdict, all inside oil
ten minutes! However, the case Just
preceding occupied three days and
wa an important criminal case, it be
ing an action by the State against
Jno. Leach. of Dodgevlle, for the
murder Of Jno. Robbins last fall.
Leach stabbed Robbins 10 drunken
ARRAY in which Robbins was the ag-
gressor and on a charge of venue the
case was brought here The finding
of the jury was manslaughter in the
fourth degree--the extreme penalty
Of which is two years in the peniten
tiary. The Judge has not yet sen
fenced him, but will probably con
demn him to the full limit OF the pun
lshment as Leach is somewhat un.
ruly character on general principles
Messrs VIM Garter, Brooks, Col
Clark, Jno Wilson, Alex. Provs, and
others from Grant County are down
this week with their documents, and
motions, to attend court
Court week is the gala-week Of the
whole year in the towns of the circuit
1t is the signal for the gathering Of
the people far and near to the county
seat, and the juryman from the coun-
try comes in with his pipe to have a
rest and shake hands all around One
occasionally meets a hale aad hearty
old settler on such occasions who can
look back over the shoulder of twenty
or thirty years experience and tell its
incidents with relish, for the men
ton of some name invariably gives a
jog to his memory that shakes out Of
it whole host of incidents of pioneer
days.
And it is pleasant to meet some old
patriarch citizen of this kind Ii is
pleasant to meet old people anywhere
so full Of joviality and hearty health
human trees Of long growth still wear
ing a green foliage and preserving a
good trunk For my part, however
much people dislike old age, | always
look forward to the "sere and yellow
leaf" of life as look upon the au-
tumn of the year-something to be
enjoyed quietly and sweetly- 1t is
care, and worriment, and fretting over
real or imaginary trouble that brings
Wrinkles 10 the 1ace-lJ IS Seluom the
years. / think some of the pleasantest
and most contented people IN the
world | have found among those
whose heads have long been frosted
with silver, who have lived qniet,
happy lives, remaining in their latter
days with countenances almost as
fresh as in youth, and with minds uu-
impaired. They belong to the winter
apple variety, and ripen late.
Hoping, dear Editor, that we shall
be well-preserved winter>apples in
our later life, ] remain,
Your well wisher
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RienIand Center, Wis, April 10.