Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1877-05-24
I EEL E He K A Id.
TOWN AND COUNTY:
Some racy reading will be found in this
amor under the title. Agricultural Theories

morrow night leu DY tue bahcasSer harmonic
Band.
We have another communication on the
subject, How the County Saperntendents SAL
ary is Levied, and will give it our attention
next week.
Mr.. Gingrigh is learning some OF the ben
efits OF advertising. His little advertisement
OF Teams for Sale brings him SO many callers
that the next news will be that Chris Cling
rgh has opened a sale stable in Lancaster.
That snake story ''off the coast o: Scot
lard" is hoax Ii was in effect that sea
serpent had actually been killed and its one
hundred aud one feet of length was in posses
sion ofmen.
-"Nasby,n who writes our New York let
tiers over the signature of Pietro, and whose
name Is D. r. Locke, is said to be looking for
a post-officc position. The P. o. Department
has a big KEY aud it should have good Locke.
The Committees on Decoration Of the
Monument are urged to meet at the Court
house on Tuesday at o'clock P. NJ. at the
ringing of the bell There is much hard work
10 be done and should not De left to the will
ling few.
II our back door neighbor can get G. W.
Rylnud, j. Allen Barber, Geo c. IIazslton, F.
5 kidd, sthe Holloways," or some other Re
publican, TO tako chattcl mortgage on them,
he thinks Of sending 10 the foundry for a few
cap C's, 50 that he viii not have to borrow
from, his neighbors.
a Sunday School Convention for tine
Mineral Point District Of the NJ. f. Church
viii he held st Hazel Green, commencing May
2gth aud continuing TO the 3lst. Each pas
tor in the district is a member Of the conven-
ton. al is expected to be present, and each
Hay School is entitled to send one male
ana one female delegate
Henry Wagner committed suicide in
Lima, eight or len miles north Of Platteville,
last Monday. On Saturday last, on complaint
Of his wife, he had been fined $40 for assault
ins her This fine aud the fact that his wife
was suing for divorce were the provoking
causes to his rash act ''Poison" purchased
in Platteville did it,
The reunion Of the 9Th Wisconsin Battery,
yesterday, al Avoca; where Capt. IL. 5. Keene,
delivered the Grafton and poem by Mr.. }.
Allen Coombs was read, was a splendid affair.
Forty members of thr Battery were present
ana sixteen regiments Of Wisconsin soldiers
were represented, and great crowd of cit-
zeps participated.
Our back doorneighbor has nosed around
until he has found that ga certain railway
company he wots OF +" has something against
~ What he has reference to We do not
know-neither does he. We have had Tits
with several railroad companies but we are
very sure our neighbor knows nothing about
them. They are not in Martin Chuzzlewit,
where he gets his knowledge
The poem "The Years Agone," was writ
ten by gentleman who wrote much for the
HERALD twenty-five and thirty yeats ago, and
saws he has not tried his hand at verses since
then. lie recalls that in those days Du;
buque lady wrote over the signature Of Ada,
Wild Bird began to write and his memory is
that the poetic mania seized on J. T. Mills
and others 1t affords US much pleasure to
find so many of the old friends who loved the
HERALD in days agone.n returning and cling
ing to it,
"A Fond Gu Lac man swOre off smoking
yesterday morning, aud up to the time of go
ingto press, this afternoon, he had chewed up
the handles Of two brooms, one rolling pin, the
biggest part Of bedstead and waa around
this afternoon inquiring the price of a cheap
drug store" "The editor of the Grant County
HERALD Is not President of the United States. "
These two sentences are from the Fond du
Lac Commonwealth The first We suppose
must have been evolved by its cunning little
devil but it must have required day OF hard
study after night of sound rest on the part
Of it, principal editor to .get up the second
Upon invitation Of one of the members
we had the pleasure of witnessing the performs
ances at the Lancaster Lyceum last Friday
evening. The Lyceum now consists of An in
dependent organization Of young ladies and
gentlemen who meet semi monthly for intel
Iectual improvement There were recitations,
ESSAYS. and debate-all conducted croditably
10 those engaged "Woman's Rights" was the
question discussed, and the speeches on bott
sides were good enough for publication. One
feature that pleased US was that large proper
ton Of the good performances were BY "HER'
40 bows aud yet before the invitation We did
not even know that so commendable an instr
tuition as this Lvceum was now in existence.
We are told that few weeks ago oui
back door ncighblr charged that man came
clustering into the HERALp office and com
imauded that certain article already in type
should be distributed that it should not 60
into the HsRALD. and that we found ourselves
obliged TO submit. We have looked through
the back door mans papers and can find no
such charge 1.-The did make it he probably
left it out of tn copies he sent to the HERALD
office We have known him to put ADVERTISE
ments for Bloomington men in the papers he
sent there and leave them out of papers sent
some other places. and advertisements fol-
lancaster men in the papers distributed here
to be left out OF those addressed to other
places, ani articles which would be offensive
in certain uejghborhoads to be taken out be-
fore printing papers for those places, bnt ",
cannot vet think he would care perpetrate thai
trek upon u.s. We have only this to say that if
he made 4 statement OF airy such import it IS
lie out OF whole closh. There is no man living
who would presume to say to US what shall
or Shall not publish in the HERALD No man
has come to US and even asked Us not to pub
fish an article in type There is not the slight
est foundation for the back door mans lie, ans
that he published the size we learned casually
from one of his staff
Since writing the above the Advocate arti
ee referred 10 has been pointed out to Us
Absolutely nothing has transpired on which
it could have been founded, and its author is
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