Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-06-27
TOWN AND COUNTY:


MIR ALI Humphrey of the Glen Haven
firm Of Bashford & Humphrey was seeing city
sights in Lancaster Monday and Tuesday.
George Lumpkin shipped two car loads Of
hogs from Glen Haven on Monday. lie ships
from one TO FIVE car loads every week.
-Basford & Humphrey, VIM. Tate and
Griu;cr & Son are shipping large quantities OF
oats and other produce from Glen Haven.
As announced last week the programme
for celebration in British Hollow appears in
this paper. Hons Jas. w. Seaton and A. w
Emery are to be the orators.
-Next-raspbcrries just ripening. The
same letters will spell the word, repining, and
that is what mans heart does in sympathy
with his pocket in time OF berry ripenins.
William Dyer, five miles north of Laneas'
ter. will have ball at his house on the even
Ing of july 4th Music by the Ketner boys
Bill, supper included, :l.0o
Jake schreiner is improving his farm on
Blakes Prairie with "a large, new house. He
has long been deserving of it and may he live
many years TO enjey his hard earned acquisi'
ton.
The Good Templars Of Mt. Ida propos,
celebra ting the Fourth Of july on the ground:
of VIM. Angelo. The well-wishers of the
temperance cause are cordially invited to par
tcpate, and bring provisions with them
these to be under the supervision of the table
committee. So writes Mr.. j. s. Moore
The Sorth Andovcr school numbers rs
pupils enrolled, and this army of little ones is
in the charge Of but one teacher Miss Nette
Kilbourn How Nettie can possibly teach SO
many is a mystery. Yet the school is prosper
ing finely, and the parents as well us pupils
are highly pleased with her endeavors.
Mrs John Maclay and Mrs. Fred Bissell,
for Il rest from the monotonY of rural life in
Dubuque and to enjoy city life and to renew
old and pleasant associations in the family Of
Mr.. james A Jones, have passed week in
Lancaster. They return home to-day. Mr.. John
F.Wght and Miss Alice Wight,o of Whitewater,
cousins of Mrs. jones, are also at Mr.. Jones's.
American slavery had some redeeming
features In many cases the slave prided in
being regarded as member of his masters
family. A romance founded upon such Incl
dents is published on first page, taken from
Hapers NeO Monthly Magazine. There were
many Col Daters, Major Duncans, Daddy
Wills and Aunt Bettys in slavery times
- Mr. A. j. Buss, of the Pattaville marble
works, has just received large quantity OF
marble right from the quarries. lie has done
much work for citizens in this vicinity and his
work is not exceled by any. He guarantees
also to be as low in prices as the lowest. Par
ties will do we'll to examine his work and price:
before ordering elsewhere. l5w3
Grant County it seems, will be quite
prominent at the Beloit College Commence
ment next week. Besides the Masters Grafton
by G. T. Foster, of is..county, an Grafton tc
the class of 1866 will be delivered by Dr.
John S. Lewis, formerly of this county, nov
of Dubuque, and a poem will be read for
class of 1872 10y Rev. E. D. Eaton, formerly q
this county and now of Newton, Iowa
Mr. Cyrus Sargent, of Bloomington, ha:
in crops this year 80 acres of wheat, 445 acres
of corn, 800 acres of oats, 40 acres of barley
20 acres Of rye and 10 acres of potatoes. He
raised last year 42O bushels of wheat, l4,00C
bushels of corn, 400 bushels of oats, coo
bushels of barley, 125 bushels of rye and 60C
bushels of potatoes. So reports J. w. Braek
EFT.
The Blakes Prairie Congregational church
had lawn festival on the evening of the 10th
inst at the home of Mr.. Lyman Powers. The
weather threatened rain which prevented
the attendance of very many; however,
sufficient crowd turned out to eat about &c
quarts of strawberries and 4 gallons of ice
cream. The youngsters had a jolly time, ant
the old folks seemed to forget their hge ant
had good time, too,
Friend Cooley's advice not to buy west
ern lands Of agents here may not be good
We venture the opinion that the average Of
purchases made here are better than those
made under the lightning rod influence of the
swarms OF agents there But il is probable
that purchases made here are of rare occur
renee. The business of agents here is simply
to drum up customers and send them west ,and
they are too successful.
by special dispatches from remote re-
gions to the Committee on Foreign Relation:
we learn that the Grand Cavalcade and Earth
olso Dria Vvbi will ic;t ri
Lancaster during the afternoon of July 4
1873, is to be commanded by the world re
nowned Generalissimo Seajaideovyska, who
will be most ably assisted by Sir Lucifer vor
Hades; the invincible Don Carlos Benedict
dc Lancastero; Ell Cadi Baldouin Pasha; Lu
hollola, Chief of Monomotapa, and Sir Row
widen Granger, Grand Master of the knight:
of Pax. OF these renowned warriors each
has won an enviable reputation for valiant
deeds and skill in arms in his own country.
Some days ago thirty or forty newspaper
came to the Lancaster postofficc, addressed t
business men. They we're in wrappers ant
on each wrapper there was one cent stamp
The wrappers were manuscript, written on in
side. They were doubtless waste papers anC
the writing not intended to be noticed. Blu
this writing made it the duty of the post
master to collect double letter postage OF
these pdpers-amounting to 2S cents for each
OF course no one is willing to pay the 2S cent
and the papers remain dead in the postofice
The object in sending them is defeated and
the sender loses his labor and outlay either be
cause he did not know the postofice law o.
thought TO save few cents by disregarding il
1T is due to w p, Durley to say that tn
books OF the Registers Office as kept by hin
are models in neatness and correctness, not
withs.anding fears, surmises aud statements t
the contrary. The record pages of the book
are clean, the penmanship symetrical an
handsome and the spelling correct. To tn
surprise of even Mr.. Durley's friends !. can
not be said that his books, or the order i
which he keeps everything pertaining to hi
Office, are inferior to those of the best Of hi