Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-04-12
I H f I'll E AL d.
TOWN AND COUNTY:

Burlington has cracker bakery.
-Dodgeyille will have tannery soon.
Hammer Robbins is elected County super
visor for the village of Plstteville
The article on the Mormons, by one who
saw them at Nauyoo, viii well repay perusal.
II is raey and rich.
The trial Of John Leach for the murder of
John Robbins at Dodgeye is set for this week
ID Richland Center
The Republicans of Iowa County elected
) their candidate, John s. Jones, for County
Judge, By $40 majority
"A majority Of the voses OF York town.
sb.p in Green County petitioned for an election
to vote $I0,0 aid to narrow gauge rail-
road When the election was held rs votes
we're cast against the proposed aid and only
one for it.
-Thos Laird, esq, who has for some weeks
been suffering from paralysis was in town at
the Phelps House the past few weeks in care
Of Drs Clarke and Falley. lie appears to be
nending and We hope for his speedy recOv-
crv He returned home on Tuesday.
The 1t. Rev. Edward r. Wells, Bishop Of
Wisconsin, will visit the Parish of Emmanuel
Church in this Village, on Friday the 9th inst,
and hold service at the Church in the evening
Of that day.
pr. W. Ii. Stewart reasons, in hundreds
Of posters circulated through the country this
week. that it is better for farmers to grow
good stock than scrubs" 1t may be to the
advantage of farmers and other breeders of
horse to read his posters or to see him.
The people of Lancaster extend to the
Hon. 4. r. Bushnell, heartfelt sympathy in the
los Of lis baby son, born in June, 1876. In
the child was centured more than the ordinary
fondncss Of its father and love OF its mother,
and laeir loss seems great. II died on Sat
urday las.
Rev. A. G. Barry, P. G. R., viii lecture
before the Lodges of Odd Fellows in Lancas>
ter. on the 26th Of this month, which is the
2sth anniversary Of the institution Of Odd Eel
lowship. Mr. Barry on a former occasion
highly entertained Lancaster audience and
the people will be. glad to see and hear him
again.
justices OF the Peace, elect, should re-
member that they are required by Revised
Statutes, Chap Is, Sec. 1o5, after executing
the necessary bonds, to take and subscribe
their oath OF office before the first Monday IN
Nav. Neglect to DO so renders the Office vacant.
This oath must be filed with the Clerk Of the
Circuit Court, else lie cannot certify to their
official character on documents to be used out
of1he county, and cannot include their names
in lists of Justices sent to the Secretary of
State
The poem by j Allen Coombs on the
Land of the Mormons is on first page. Hon.
!. T. Mills read it and his exclamation was,
A capital production" Hon J. Allen Bar
Der read it and his exclamation was, Grand
Grand thoughts well expressed :" Col John
= Clark read it and exclaimed, Beautiful!
The writer is a born poet" We are really
proud Of having in the back woods OF Grant
County one who can write such easy flowing
verses, and capable of such fights of imagna-
ton The poem has some little faults, but
our critics, like ourstlf, found that they could
not correct the faults without numbering the
poetry, and so We give 1t to the world az we
received it.
In the fore part Of last week an unconth
looking fellow called at the house of ]. P.
Lewis aud asked for something 10 eat. He
received what he asked for. A day or two
afterward the same Young man sold a buffalo
robe 10 Mr. Bolster for fifty cents. On Thurs
day a pair Of rubber boots disappeared from
the front of Mr.. Lewia's store. DR.. Newell
found them in a barrel behind Mr.. Bartletts
shoe shop and pointed out the thief sitting on
Mr. Wedehase's steps He was the same chap
whom Mr. Lewis had ID and who had sold the
buffalo robe He confessed the theft and was
sen. to Jail for ten days. The robe belonged
to Rev. Eaton He says he came from Mineral
Point and that his name is Wilson
On Tuesday a thief entered the house OF
Mrs. J f. Dodge and carried away revolver
and !. select ION of coin of about Sl2 value
There was no one in the house at the time but
Wilbur and Jerry Dodge were at distance
where they saw stranger go suspl-iousiy
awav from the house. and on examination
found the above named articles missing.
They followed the fellow and on oyertaking
him took him TO the house and searched him.
They founI nothing in his possession that
they had lost They tracked the thief on the
course he had gone from the house and found
tbe stolen articles hidden under hay stack.
They brought their captive over to town be-
fore Squire Burr and secured quarters tor
him in the county jail lie calls himself Ed
ward Hogan, and says he is from Seneca,
Crawford County.
The Adgocdte mans vain endeavors to en-
thuse the Democracy of Grant County at ard
previous to the late election, it is said, has
well nigh crased him. No convention was
held 70 nominate a Democratic candidate for
County Judge, and but few regular Democrats
ic town tickets in the county were in the field
The Adrocdte man, however, has one concia-
ton. He has a friend left in this wide, vide,
world. In the count of votes at Lancaster at
the late election the following ticket was
found
DEMOCRATIC TOWN TICKET.
Board Of Supervisors.
A. REIFSTECK. Chm,
Ref. ASTECK.
GUS REIFSTECK
Town Clerk