Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-09-26
THE HERALD.
TOWN AND COUNTY,:


Mrs. orion Of Lancaster, the mother Of
the aorton boys" is quite i'll.
A Business Education for s35 at La
Crosse College See Advertisement
The article entitled A Pilgrimage to Con-
cord, Massachusetts,, is by son of The Rev.
Eaton, Of Lancaster
Mrs. ]. C. Cover has traded away her
residence and property on the south side of
the city to Lewis Holloway.
-George Wallace two days ago placed on
our table twig Of fresh blooming apple blos-
SONS Presumptuous flowers.
QUERY: "Why will men smoke common
tobacco, when they can buy Marbnrg Bros
slSed of North Carolina for the same price?
The big storm Of Tuesday night entirely
broke into the Old Settler arrangements, and
their annual meeting is postponed to future
date.
We are told that Mrs. DR.. Scott, whose
professional notice appears in this paper, has
successfully treated a diseased eye for daugh-
ter Of James Mahan.
Mrs. w. II. Haines has gone on visit to
her old home in New Hampshire. She took
with her samples OF of Baumgartner's premium
wheat and some other products to show that
the West can beat Yankee>land.
Nathan Sehreiner & Co have just opened
and have on hand the largest stock of fay and
and winter goods ever shown in this county.
Their store is filed from cellar to garrett Go
and see ,hom. You cannot fail to be suited.
This weeks letter by our European cor
respondent is a ha:ty view of the great Expo
stion at Paris He next goes through Lon
don and then the German States Our Scotch
readers were much interested in his letters
from Scotland and our English and German
readers will next have their treat.
ID. II. Dudd's BARN on the old Gregory
place in Liberty, six miles north of Lancaster,
was struck by lightning and burned at o'clock
yesterday morning The family heard it,
looked out and saw the flames, and the men
ran ont without waiting to clothe themselves,
and succeeded in removing five horses, leav-
ing one which appeared to have been struck
by the lightning and killed, to be consumed
by the fire. A lot of hay and oats were also
burned.
The Greeubackcrs at their convention in
this (2d) district last Saturday nominated
John Bate as their candidate for the Assem-
bly,. Mr.. Bate stands well with his neighbors
but IS utterly fanatical on the finance question.
In few years he will be as much ashamed
OF the work he has been engaged in as GER
tain lawyer Of ability is of having when be-
ginning to practice in this county about TWEEN
ty-tive years ago, been sent out by the young
bloods Of town to catch birds along creek
with bag, The contest between him and Mr..
Grlfs will be close.
-Toimprove the channel in the Mississip-
pi opposite Bellevue, Iowa,as we notice in the
Leader, the Government is building dam
across a slough 1900 feet wide, from an island
to the Illinois shore, thus throwing the i'm
mense body of water that runs through the
slough into .he main channel. Similar work
done all the way from Minneapolis down to
the lie Claire rapids would make that part of
the Mississippi respectfully navigable for the
next 20 or % years. But the work would
create sectional wars. Glen Haven would OBJ
jeet 10 cutting off the waters Of the twelve
mile slough, which is the lawfully established
channel, and Guttenburg wonld object to cut
ting off the waters on the other side through
which boats have generally passed. We can
imagine how pleased both towns would be
with Uncle Sam, if he would build the dam
on this side inst below the ferry cutoff.
We give elsewhere the official proceedings
Of the Democratic county convention held
here last Saturday. They were handed US by
the very gentlemanly secretaries. The CON
vention was the most respectable looking
Democratic convention we have seen in Grant
county, Its proceedings were harmonious
and orderly. What it had to do il did in
election of county officer in old Grant since
the existence OF the Republican party, and we
do not blame it for using the Greenbackers in
an attempt to get county officer. fit had
been a little wiser and nominated Mr.. Grimm
we Republicans would now feel little dis
turbed. Mr.. Phelps's nomination would also
have been more likely to succeed The other
convention held W stairs in its attempt to
pull chestnuts out of the fire for Democrats
did good work for the Republican ticket. II was
the worst Bedam of convention we ever saw.
Certainly not fifty men in Grant County, not
participants, would vote a ticket put up by
that convention if they had witnessed its pro-
'ceedngs. 1t was but SHINY attended and as
one act after another showed that the major
ity came there as Democratic catspaws, gems
Hlcmen left it. As one of these, a prominent
worker among them, was passing out a gen.
tleman going in said to him, SIS this the hap
nv family 2" YES" said he, cor a cage of
monkeys" Half the convention went away
disguised and some of them reformed"