Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-03-28
THE HERALD.
TOWN AND COUNTY:

Thanks 10 h. TX. JIei, oil sacramento, for
late California papers.
"A firm in Dubuque advertises in the Times
that they want one hundred and fifty babies.
The present term OF the Lancaster public
school closes tomorrow. Vacation one week
"A 5O-cent entertainment at the NJ. E.
Chul oh tomorrow night for 10 cents.
The platform of the Honest Money
League viii be found on fourth page. II is
solid.
MIR. AdOlph Nathan has just spent two
weeks In Chicago buying goods hence the
new announcement in the advertisement of
Nathan, Schreiner & Co.
1t is about time now 10 plant those pota-
toes sold by Mr.. UT, of which with the aD-
plication Of a little experimental knowledge
you can raise 400 bushels 10 the acre.
Teachers meeting of the Congregational
Sunday School at Mr.. Joness this Thursday
evening, instead of Friday as previously an
nounced.
"A gold sleeve button found in the school
house by Mr.. Edwards after the Band enter
tiinment, may be had by the owner, on appli-
cation at the HERALD office.
Winter wheat as far as heard from in this
county isin excellent condition. Spring wheat
is all sown. The season has to this time been
very favorable for the tarmers.
Frederick Kuhn has taken the West fe-
H. OfTa Lara Lot IF fa-r nd
hold property for sale. Where, when, what,
&c, may be learned by referring to our this
weeks advertisements.
The Dubuque Times says the road down
the east side of the river to Dunleith is all
finished except the bridge over the Sinipee,
and that 800 are wanted of Dubuque to finish
the bridge. This is about half subscribed.
The prospectus of those superb monthlies
known az the "iour quarterlies" and Black
woods Magazine is given in our new adver-
tisements. They are reproduced in this coun-
try at about one third what the cost would be
to get them Fl ON their European offices
Through the kindness of the Hon, James
Pollock, Superintendent of the U. S. Mint at
Philadelphia we are in possession of five of
the new legal tender silver dollars. OF course
we will take pleasure in showing them to
any persons v no wish TO see them. While
bright and new, right from tie mint, they are
very pretty.
- The Nursery, published in Boston, is ato>
gelhcr the best publication in existence for
little to year Odds. But if it wants to give
us only refined examples it mustn't have any
more stories aud pictures of "nice" little boys
sprnklng clothes for ironing by squirting wa
ter out of the corners Of his mouth in Chinese
fashion.
--Overcoat lost. Somewhere on the road
between Thos. Weir's and Lancaster, a
checked gray Talma overcoat was lost on
Tuesday by ID. II. Budd, The coat was lined
with plain gray flannel about the same color
as the outside. In one pocket there was a
pair of red striped wooden mittens. The find.
er is requested to leave the coat at this office
or at Mr.. Budd's six miles north of Lancaster
and will be rewarded for his trouble.
Vol 2, of Professor Chamberlin's Geolog-
ical survey has been 80 highly appreciated aud
in so great demand that the Legislature has
ordered a second edition printed That per
tanning to the mineral district has nearly all
been republished in the HERALD. If any per
sons have noticed important errors in the
work Prof Chambern would like to be in
formed of them 50 that they may be corrected
in the new edition.
--HELP IN ACQUIRING KNowLEDGE-In ac-
quiring a knowledge of the English Language,
and especially in learning the meaning OF
words, probably no other work, nor many 9th
er books altogether can furnish so much aid
as Webs.ers Unabridged Dictionary, with its
1900 Pictorial Illustrations, its precise and full
definitions, its careful discrimination of synon
ymous words and its many valuable tables 1t
IS, in itself, whole library of the language.
Let one family have a copy Of this work and
use it faithfully and another be without it.
the difference in the progress of the two fam
iies ia getting knowledge will be very great.
w. II. Rose who manages an extensive
hoop mandatory al Boscobel for Messrs
Parker, Hildebrand & Co. Meyer Bros, and
pitman s. McWilliams, reports that since The
LIST of September last they have bought and
shipped two million flour barrel hoop-poles
and have two hundred thousand on hand.
They have made 100000 flour barrel hoops,
100000 fierce hoops and 100000 birch straps
the last being for Field, Letter s. Co., and
other wholesale establishments. They have
besides contracts to supply 100000 hoops for
mills at Minneapolis They are buying hoop
poles all the time. paying about IS per thous-
and, and have about twenty men employed
working them up.
A stabbing affray occurred at Fennimore
on Monday night between two boys aged
about Is years, one son of R. P, Green and
the other a step son of A. Govier, the tailor,
named John Tobler. The boys were at church
so the facts are reported 10 US, and Tober
threw a bullet over the audience, hitting
Green on the forehead. Green made threats
that he would attend TO him when they got
out. When they were out scuffle beg an be-
tween them when Tobler stabbed Green
slightly on the shoulder, where the bone ar
rested the progress of the knife, then badly
through the arm above the wrist and danger
ously, laying open deep cash about seven
inches long and severing AL artery, between
the shoulder and elbow of the left arm. DR..
Leavitt fortunately was there and took i'm
mediate charge OF the boy or he might have
bled to death. IL was dark and the crowd
did not know that knife was being used I'M
iii young Green was pulled away by Mr..
Narrell, when he was found 10 be dripping
with blood.
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