Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-02-14
TUE HERALD,
TOWN AND COUNTY:

TOWN AND COON
The river is still open at Cassville and
the ferry boat running.
There is great deal of He'll in this paper.
A great many people need it.
Stevens L. Bartlett, CassviIe, have
dropped per cent. on prices of lumber.
superintendent Harper has been visiting
schools in the vicinity of Lancaster this week.
Teachers can find in this paper when and
where the Spring examinations will be held
The Good Templars are to hold Dis
trict meeting at PlatteviIle February 10th and
goth.
Read Rev. Mr.. Eaton's sermon on that
much talked of subject that troubles Ingersol
and many others, these days.
Tho Inter-0eean, whose Prospectus we
publish, is good paper in all things except in
its cheap fallacies on cheap money.
w. Anderson has closed out his mercan-
tile business al Fairplay. The whole stock is
transferredt 10 his store in Jamestown.
Jury cases being disposed Of Judge Goth
rem discharged the Jurors yesterday afternoon.
Court will adjourn this week.
We enjoyed a very pleasant hours chat.
in our Office. with Capt Farquharson, of the
Dial, last Friday.
Scarlet fever prevails in Little Grant
township. There are ten sick in one family
The form Of fever appears to be not so malg
nant as last year.
Judge Cothern has appointed as Court
Commissioners, L. J. woolley, Boscobel; AP
Thompson, Lancaster; Thos. II. Robertson,
Piatteville.
If you would buy good chromos, not
cheap. trashy ones send to f. & H. T. An
thony, New York, for lists. Prices ranging
from 80 cents for very pretty views to the
handsomest drawings, all ar.istically executed.
"A protr acted meeting is going on in
Jamestown, conducted by Revs. Bancroft,
Mayne, Jefersol and others. The people are
greatly interested in il and crowd the church
every evening.
John HER, Supervisor of jamestown.
took both the Johnsons of that town, who
were afflicted with religious insanity, to the
Asylum last week. Their insanity s not he
reditary, and they will probably recover.
In another column the reader may see
how his neighbours law suit resulted if before
we go to press it has been disposed of. Under
the Criminal Calendar" may be learned
who pay fines and who are to serve the State
at Waupun.
j. Allen Coombs has become tramp
that is to say, he is on tour through Ne
braska, Kansas and western Iowa, where we
fear he will invest In interests that will take
him from Giant County, but we hope other.
wise.
The most celebrated gardener Of Amer
lea il James Wick, Rochester, New York.
He issues three or four beautiful publications,
one Of which is a monthly magazine at $l.25
year. 1t is time now to send for flower and
vegetable seeds. Vick's advertisements may
be found in this paper
--Platteville is making another attempt to
have city charter. A year or so ago the
people there voted by several to one, against
the luxury, but the city chaps may yet prove
to be the longest wnded. The people hold
meeting to consider the question to morrow
The village of Monroe has the names of
the streets posted on the corners so that 'not
only strangers but Monroe citizens can know
Al.
ment. In Lancaster we never can tell where
we live without hunting up the name of the
street or plat.
The Muscalunge Anti-Treaters have
new set of officers as follows G. f. Arthur,
w. G. f. Ii. Bushnell, A. C. ; Mary Patter-
son, G.. Estella Brown, Gdn.; J. l.. Brady,
Sec; j. T. Patterson, Treas. Fl. LOOMS, c.;
Maud Hinch, Guide VIM. Patterson, Guard /;
Mary Brown, Organist J. Champion, Leader
of Music.
The Great Awakening on Temperance,
Romanism and Professionalism, is the title of a
work to be issued March LIST by the Anchor
Publishing Co, of 300 Locust Street, St Louis
Mo. II will contain a series of lectures by
the ablest advocates Of temperance and promi
nent clergymen of the Catholic and Profess
tant chlrches--I Illustrated. Will be sold by
agents only.
DIR. G. McFadden, formerly of Lancas-
ter, and who married Miss Julia Hyde here,
was last fall elected county clerk of Wilson
county, Kansas. The doctor had few years
of hardship, principally through the instru-
mentality of grasshoppers, but like men of
STEADY habits, energy and strong will, gener-
ally, he comes out success. Fifteen hun
ared dollars year salary and farm are for
tune enough.
--0fttimes when in boyhood we "paddled
our light canoe" over Mississippi waters,
catching fish and shooting ducks on its sloughs
and quiet lakes, our companion and protector
was the genial j. H. C. Sneclode, of Cassville.
From his hands we received handsome re-
minier of those times the other day in the
shape of as pretty lot Of speckled pike and
pickerel as were ever caught Wen fish with
you again next Spring, Mr.. S.
The Iowa legislature had before it las
Saturday series of resolutions calling on
their representatives in Congress to vote for
the Bland bill. They were discussed for
three hours. Among those who spoke against
them was Alexander Bliedung,of Gutenberg.
The Assembly voted not to send the resolu-
,tions TO their Congressman. The present set
of weaklings in Congress who think they are
abou: playing good hand will come back
home after while TO find they did not play
trump cards after all.
A Plattevile correspondent writes to the
GAlena Gazette the following in reference to
the death Of Miss Alice Tracy A gloom Of
sadness was cast over our village by the death
from scarlet fever of Miss Alice Tracy, or
Thursday, January Slst Miss Tracy was as
.sistant teacher in the brick school, north dis
Itrict, and was dearly beloved not only by hei
pupils but by the entire community. She wsl
resident of Piatteville, her parents having
,noval hnro from, RlaEnts pra;r;a covarat Won ~