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

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| of breadstuffs But the war is not over by
any means Prices will not fall greatly but
+, considerable advances cannot be expected
| "A Fair will be held in the social room of
| the Congregational church in the afternoon
and evening of Thursday, December goth,
where NAV be found articles suitable for
| Christmas presents--quilts, tides, toilet sets,
aprons, scarfs, children's stockings, mittens,
&c. Among other toys are dressed dolls at
prices ranging from five cents to FIVE dollars.
| Refreshments viii be provided and the famous
Lancaster string band viii furnish part of the
music. The managing committee says, "Come
one, come all, to be happy, and to make happy.
| Mr.. A. Kaltenbach reports Potosi prices
yesterday as follows Flour, 1925 Corn 80
cents. Oats 20. Barley s5@4O. Potatoes
30. Fresh butter 15@ls. Lard 10. Eggs
ls. Salt per Dbl s2.oo. Hogs ss.5O@3.65
Pork $40 Hides green 7@6ic. Chickens
Buckwheat -four 81.
From the specimens of Oregon fruit shown
US by Mr.. C. R. Thomas, one would at once
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Piles and pears A Blne Pearmain ''as large as
a lineup" and covered with blood-red streaks
will make Wisconsin mans eyes enlarge and
bis teeth water, and when told that worm
never touches an apple in Oregon his admira-
ton will become intense. A sample of the Vel
low Bellfower, nearly as large and as hand
some as an orange and another called the Toll
pyhocken, red checked and green, look equal
| ly tempting; and prettier than any of them is
perfectly shaped Pound Pear that in form
and size looks like young squash, but in
| color is US handsome as the ebreast of evening
decked in the tints of golden sunset" But
all this beauty in appearance is only one of
| the proofs Of which nature has so many and
man more, that the prettiest are not always
the best. a wagon load of these apples placed
| in your cellar would not be as noticeable by
their agreeable odor as a good Grant County
apple at rest on your clock shelf. And that
handsome pear-why they never eat it 1t
will keep year without rotting and then by
sugaring more than it is worth you may make
something like citron preserves out oft.
| Casper Fritz of Fennimore has been on
another war. Il was hoped the treaty of peace
he signed here last Spring, in negotiations with
Marshal Mitchell would remain in perpetuity,
but he has broken out again. Last Thursday
| his boy Henry was put under arrest for taking
| coat from a man in Boscobel. Henry was
taken to the house of the Constable, j. G.
| Perkins. Casper followed soon after, and
| went into Perkins house resolved on rescuing
Henry. He had butcher knife in his hand
and made direful threats. Milton Shearer
| fearing he would stab some one, caught his
| hand but Fritz adroitly passed the knife to
| his other hand and threatened Shearer with a
back>handed stab. The latter got out of the
way and then Perkinss life was for some min.
utes in apparent jeopardy. Perkins undertook
| to use revolver but was restrained by his
wife, The result of the fracas was, the escape
| of the boy. The taking of the coat was settled
| for between the taker and the loser.
but Deputy Kelly and an assistant from Bosco-
bel had Fritz put under arrest for rescuing
prisoner. Fritz waived examination and is
sitting of the Circuit Court. The surest way.
to quiet Fritz would be to have Marshal Mitch
| ell 90 up to Fennimore and sit down on him.
That would be better than the probabilities of
Judge Cothren's court.
The Dial has nearly a column more in
| defence of its course in printing Republican
| tickets with an opposing candidates name on
them. We have not space for general an
swer but we copy from the article the follow
ing
over your Dreams sister HERALD Surely it 9TH
erwise in days gone by, or the memory OF the Editor
of the Dial is at fault. When he was employee Of
the HERALD office at which time it was in ADLER aud
more honorable hands than it is now, he remembers
| such work being frequently DONE Since that time
many little Jobs OF that kind have issued from the
HERALD Office.
Cap Ferg was an employe of the HERALD
under j C. Cover in 1860. At the time of
printing the tickets that year the HERALD
October lS), says:
"Bogus or mixed tickets are never printed
a this Office for any party or faction"
Cap. Ferg's memory is at fault. If it is not it
can refer to more emphatic expressions by JIG.
Cover against printing bogus tickets than the
above.
Some effort has been made to have lec-
| turers come to entertain and enlighten Ian,
| caster people We would all like to hear and
would willingly pay something to hear many
| of the popular lecturers but there is not as
much profit as penchant in it. If such men
come they take away our meney-say $500 or
| $500 in a winter-and after while all we
have to say is, eve have heard Eli Perkins, or
Anna Dickinson, or preacher Swing" But we
can enjoy lectures prepared by some persons
nearer home and we can get them in way
that the money can be used to advantage at
| home Rev. Edward Eaton has recently de-
livered lecture in Newton, Iowa, where he is
now preaching. That town, much larger than
Lancaster, able to sustain a Young Mems
| Christian Association, listened to him instead
of importing lecturer. The people of Lam
caster. after they read what Newton people
| say of the lecture, would fill larger house to
hear it than they would almost any lecturer of
national reputation that could be induced to
come here And then the proceeds of the
lecture could be used to break the back of
the debt of the church in which the Rev
Edward had his good christian and useful
bringing up. All citizens would rather do
that than give their money to be carried to
| New York or Boston. Please read the follow
ing complimentary notice of Mr. Eaton's lee
ture, copied from the New ton Journal:
"There is no need of importing high-priced
lecturers, when the people of our city can
be so well served and so highly edited by home
talent, as they were last Friday evening, at
the hall of the Y. NJ. c. A. by Rev. Mr. Eaton's
''Sketehes of travel and Art in Italy" The
| gentleman has evidently travelled to some
purpose, CARRYING abroad mind richly stored
| wish classical lore, thoroughly trained per-
ceptive faculties, an enthusiastic love of the
beautiful in art and nature, and an earnest
purpose to make the most of the time and
opportunities at his command. He was la
borer and not a loafer and pleasure seeker in
foreign lands, and probably crowded more hard
work and study into the time he spent in Eu-
rope than in any period of the same length in