Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-03-14
TOWN AND COUNTY:

ready been sold by Mr. Barlow.
There will be no "Spring openings" this
year. There was nothing iroze.np.
The Revenue Department says there are
not more than for.y-fve million gallons of
whisky now in the United States Only gal.
Ion piece! What will become Of us2
Miss Geiger of Cassville is named as one
of the distinguished guests Of Mrs. Hullshoff at
an elegant party of ladies' and invited gentle
men at Dubuque, week ago.
This year Cassvile ice dealers boated
their ice from the sloughs on the west side of
the Mississippi Some Of them built ice houses
on the island.
A lester from Mr.. Snecloie states that ten
or twelve families have left Cassvillc tor the
West and others are about to go, but notices
with pleasure that the deserted farms are
quietly rcoccuped by new men.
Spring is here The grass shows its color
We move that the fence around the public
square in Lancaster be Strengthened up and
painted The color of the courthouse cupoIa
win do well.
If any one wants one of those watches of
fered in the advertisement ON fourth page, by
our arrangement with the Toledo BLADE, he
will need to apply on the present notice.
The advertisement will not appear after this
week.
Toss your hat boys Hurrah / am go
ing to Nebraska. Home sweet home, well
have in Nebraska. Ten years long credit
on land ia Nebraska. Great inducements to
cash buyers of lands in Nebraska.
BENZ. Garthwaite, seven miles north of
Lancaster, on March 81, will sell FIVE cows,
work horses, colts, steers, wagon, hay rake,
and other farm implements, hogs, etc. G.. j.
Hyde, Auctioneer.
Mr.. Joseph Sullivan, of Saint Rose, is one
of the most accommodating and pc .,ular mer-
chants that ever sold goods over counter.
He sells at the lowest living prices, and has
frstrats patronage. which he deserves. Gale
M Gazette,
Samuel Galley, three miles east Of Hurri,
cane grove, will on March l6, sell hundred
bushels of oats, 80 Of corn, 80 of rye, stack
of hay, brood mare, cows, hogs, chickens,
and all his farm implements and household
furniture. He is going west.
Charles Vincent will be the Auctioneer at
Leibfrieds sale Of the Ames property at Poto-
Ell, March %. There will be more wine than
the whole crowd can drink. 1t will be served
out in barrels at purchasers prices See ad.
vertisement at bottom of 7th column, 4th
page.
"A six hundred dollar check on Mr.. Ry-
lands bank was uninten.onally left in our Office
some days ago by gentleman who yesterday
rode six miles through the rain looking for it.
lie found il all right, but the trouble is we
thought it only a piece of waste paper and
hadn't even read it. Hereafter Wen take a
look at strange looking papers left loosely in
our sanctum.
w. d. Plummer, one and a half miles
south of Mt Hope, will on Friday, March 22d
sell oil all the personal effects of the farm. On
the list of property are horses, cattle, young
and grown, hogs and shotes, wagons, reaper
plows, planter cane mill and evaporator,
stands of bees. hundreds of bushels OF corn
and oats and other things. VIM. Clack of
Prairie du Chen, Auctioneer.
"A family named WAGNER, in Sturgeon
Bay, were suddenly taken sick after dinner,
few days since father, mother and children
were convulsed in agony accompanied with
vomiting, speedy medical assistance alone saw
ing them from death. Upon examination it
was proved that they had eaten of cheese pre-
scented to them by neighbor, which had been
made in copper kettle, the corrosive sub
stance having poisoned the article.-Er.
Grapes the Concord grape-are the
surest fruit grown in this country. Last year,
when apples, plums berries, even currants
failed, there was plentiful crop of perfectly
matured Concord grapes. Any persons who
would like a supply Of vines for themselves
can get all the roots they want from Mr.. Anton
Schmitt, Of Lancaster. Also sets of the
choicest varieties of raspberries can be OBJ
tanned of Mr.. Schmtt. These are also sue
cessfully and proftably grown here. Prices
low.
We regret to learn of the severe illness
of one Of the oldest and most respectable citi-
zens of Southern Wisconsin, Mr. Henry Gray
of dazel Green, who has been failing for some
time and is now confined TO his bed Mr. Gray
has been a resident of Hazel Green and neigh
horboOd kntwoon th;rty nd forty yoara opJ 3,
beloved and respected by all. We hope that
under the skillful treatment of his attending
physician, the proper means will be directed
for his recovery. Galena Gazette
-ILLUsTRATIoN BY PIcrUREs.-One of the
great contrasts between the School Books
used by the fathers and mothers Of the land,
when young, aud those now used by the child,
is the use of pictures. AS a curious instance
of Illustrating the meaning of words by pic
lures, look at the three pictures of a Ship on
on page 1851 of Websters Unabridged Die
tionary, these alone illustrate the meaning of
more than one hundred words and terms far
better than they can be described by any de-
scription in words.
Alfred l.. Sewell will be remembered as
the publisher of the Little Corporal, publica-
ton that in his hands acquired the largest cir
cuation of any child's paper ever published.
He has established another monthly which he
calls Home Arts published in Chicago. at one
dollar a year 1t is devoted to learners in
printing, scroll saving, wood engraving and
kindred arts 1t will help keep the boys and
girls out of mischief and teach them some use
full employment.
The Marshall Qowa) Times thus refers to
tn, poem published on the first page of this
paper; "Ths beautiful little poem-in an
other column-written for The Times by Mrs
Long, of this city, is sparkling with bright and
happy thoughts and shows that its author is
possessed of genius rarely met with. We feel
exceedingly proud that we have poetess in
our midst Of such marked ability as is Mrs
Long" The poem was evidently written while
its author was passionately recalling her early