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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17
Southern Grant Notes,

The late heavy rains destroyed consider
able fall wheat in Harrison township by beat
ing it down and tangling it so much as to in-
terfere with the harvesting off. The Platte
washed away many tons of hay, and a few
fields of corn
The crops, generally speaking, in the
southern part of the county never promised a
greater yield. Everything is luxuriant and
thrifty. Henry Huber has very heavily
laden vineyard. The clusters of grapes are
so numerous and large that the trelis will
barely support their weight.
A strange phenomenon may be seen in a
trick dame Nature played upon German
family Of children. We read of hairy men, of
families with pink eyes, and long, woolly
hair, but Of none with no hair at all. These
children, some four or FIVE in number, have
none whatever, and no promise of any, their
scalps not atfording so much as fuzzy
growth. However, their parents hair is fine
and uxurant
A coon hunt on pleasant night with
moon and stars to partially light the deep re-
cesses of the forest is pleasant and exciting
pastime, but such hunt as two young fell
lows had the other night on Platte bottoms is
| neither exciting, pleasant nor profitable A
hot night, dark and sultry. the earth drenched
and Shiny frcu recent showers, is poor
trbf f,e 20 10 al
they reached home concluded it was poor
night for them, too.
-Blockhouse mill has one of the fines,
waterpowers in the county, and is doing lots
/ of work.
r. A. Wilson, of Georgetown, has nice.
\ " furnished hotel and will treat bis guests
6rst,rate. The town is thriving nicely, as
carpenters, timers. painters, &c. can testify.
st. Rose is improving the dull business
period in recruiting for the fall trade. Mr..
SSely is doing good business in the black
smith line. Mr.. Sullivan, who for two or
three years has been in business in Iowa will
shortly return, build fine residence and con-
time as of yore in the dry goods and notion
trade.
Mrs. Haney, in Harrison, recently fell
and fractured both tibia and ibuls bones jus;
above the snkle In few days she was taken
sick, and in her helpless condition suffers ex.
tremely.
The farmers re quite generally engaged
il harvesting fall wheat and rye The wheat
about jamestown S good indeed, as are all
other crops CosxoPoIirAs.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17

by Telephone dispatch from Capt.
Beebe we learn that the delegates from the
lst District to the Madison Republican Con-
vention are j. b. Mccoy and Thomas Wat
son, and the delegates to the Convention
here Saturday, are James Jeffrey, w. An
derson, Chas Watson. N. p Rindlaub and
Sam1 Barstow.
The gentleman who promised the Bee
town folks 20 write up their celebration has
failed to come to time, probably for some
sufficient reason The crowd there was about
the best they ever had, estimated by many at
1000 people. Mr. Thomas made short and
good speech and everything went of. splendid.
".
We noticed the other day very fine
monument erected by A. j. Buss of PLATES
vile, to the memory of Mrs. S. H. Farnsworth,
deceased. IL is after the Cottage design.
The workmanship and artistic finish through
out, shows that Mr.. Buss understands his
business.
Mr.. Omar J. Arnold, chairman of Mt.
Ida, was successful in obtaining reduced
rate for the town railroad bonds. There were
$4,000 out at ten per cent. They will now
be out at seven per cent. saving to the town
$3.50 per year.
When the Dubuque Times takes such q
good thing as Bluff and Mack from the HER
AID it ought to give credit,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17
CONSISTENCY thou art a Jewel

Some have refused to use 'sput up, rsedi,
cines, simply because they do not know just
how they are made. Do you refuse TO accept
the deductions and conclusions of the astron-
omer simply because you are unaequainted
with his methods OF calculation : You do
not refuse to eat and yet the exact process
by which the food is assimilated into the
structure of the body is unknown. Are you
always able to translate the Latin prescrip-
tions obtained from your family physician.
and understand the effect of each remedy
named, and the chemical change each NAV
undergo when combined with another, Then
why let such groundless objections debar you
from using remedy that has cured your
neighbor Take DR.. Pierce's Golden Nedi-
cal Discovery. Thousands bear testimony
that il has speedily and permanently cured
them of coughs. colds. incipieat consumption.
and almost all forms of scrofulous diseases.
Can you doubt that il is pure, potent, and
valuable medicine Are the parties whose
names are Published false witBessesy Read
Pierce's Memorandum and Account Book.
given away by druggists.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17

CINCINNATI, July IA mulatto
named John Breckenridge overlook
Miss Fannie Berry (white) while
she was on her way TO church near
Carlisle, KY, yesterday, forced her
into the woods and ravished her.
He was subsequently captured and
placed in Jail. AT an early honr
this morning mos surrounded the
Jail, forced an entrance, Carried
Breckenridge out and hung him on
tree.
ANOTHER NEGRO LYNCHED.
Knoxville, July l3.-Lucius Wea-
yer (colored), who in May last COM
United rape on Mrs. Howell, (white)
near Strawberry Plains, was arrest.
ed and fully identified by her. To-
night he was taken from the guards
by mob of 100 men, carried half
q mile from the town, and shot
through the head, the wound Prov
ing mortal.
TRIAL OF CHAsTINE cox BEGUN.
New York July IA -Chastine Cox
was placed on trial to,day for the
murder of Mrs. Jane Lawrence De.
Forest Hill. The prisoner was flash
lily dressed. looked happy, and chat
ted unconcernedly with those
around him. The prisoners counsel
said he had prepared a petit chal.
lenge to the array ofjurors 1t chal.
lenges the whole manner in which
theCommissioner of J urors SUNNI on.
ed the jury panel and selected their
names. He then moved the panel
be quashed. The pros scution de.
INJURED to the challenge, and the
Judge sustained the demurrer.
Counsel took exception.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17
Teachers Institutes.

There will be two Institutes held in Grant
County this summer. The first will be held
at Boscobel, August 4-l5, and win be con-
Quoted by Profs. A. J. Hutton and A. ID.
Maxson. The second will be held at Bloom-
ington, August 1870, and will be conduct
ed by Profs. Geo. Beck and Chas Nye of the
Normal School. Teachers examination
will be held at each of the above places as
follows: Boscobel August 9th and 10th.
Bloomington, Aug. 90 and so. The outline
of work will be the same at both places, and
the suggestion that at least onehalf of the
questions used at these examinations be
based upon work done at the Institute will be
acted upon. Those who expectto attend the
Institute at either place, and who wish to
prepare themselves for the work, will be fur
nished with a copy of the syllabus. on appli-
cation to me at Hazel Green.
CHAs. l.. HARPER, Co. Supt
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17
End Assembly District Convention

The Second Assembly District Republican
Convention was held at Beetown yesterday.
We failed to get all the names of delegates
and cannot give them this week. Only Bee.
town, Bloomington and Lancaster were rep.
resented. The convention was called TO or
der by Mr. Baldwin, and Mr.. Clementson
was chosen president and Mr.. Hathaway Sec
rotary. An informal ballot TOR delegates
to the State Convention resulted in no ma.
jority-Mr Hathaway taking the lead in
votes. formal ballot resulted in the choice
OF w. b. Clark as one of the delegates. The
hrst formal ballot for the other delegate was
divided between Hathaway, Clementson, Pol
lock, G. ii. Baxter and "scattering A
series of ballots followed running abou. for
Ciementson, for Hathaway and 4 for Pol.
lock. Finally ballot resulted for Hatha-
way, 10 for Clementson and II for Pollock
The Pollock troops fought nobly but at the
last ballot were oyerpowered thus: For
Clementson IA, TOR Pollock TO- Mr.. Glenn.
eltson is therefore the other delegate from
this District.
The five delegates chosen to attend
the Senatorial Convention TO be held in Lam
caster next Saturday are, T. y. Baldwin.
Chss. Baxter, DR.. o. 2. Sala, o. G. Hatha.
way and Edward Pollock.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17

WINTER GERANIUMs.-Geraniums
that are expected to bloom 10 winter
must have a season of rest during the
summer. Keep the plants in pots
out-ot.doors, under the shade of some
tree, till September, and water spar
ingly. In the beginning OF Septem-
Der shake the sol from the roots, re-
plant them IN rich sandy loan, and
bring them forward to the sun and
air. Place them in sunny window
indoors when there is danger of
frost, and when they begin to grow
give them an occasional watering
with liquid manure They need
plenty of sun and air and compare
lively low temperature. In a hot
room they will not do well.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17
THE Greenbackers of Wisconsin

THE Greenbackers of Wisconsin
met at Watertown Tuesday and NOM
mated Col May, Of Vernon County,
for Governor Geo. b. Goodwin,
of Milwaukee, for Attorney General !;
w. l. Utley, of Racine, for Lieuten.
ant Governor Geo. W. Lee, of
Grant, for Secretary of State; w.
H. Searles, OF Marathon, for State
Superintendent.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17
HONORBD AND BLEssBD.

When a board Of eminent physicians and
chemists announced the discovery that by
combining some well known valuable rene.
dies the most wonderful medicine was pro-
duced, which would cure such a wide range
of diseases that almost all other remedies
could dispensede with, many were skepti-
cal; but proof of its merits by actual trial
has dispelled all doubt and to-day the discoy-
erers of that great medicine Hop Bitters are
honored and blessed by all as benefactors.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17

Inc report was accepted as correct.
The election of Director being in order,
Mr.. Geo. Clementson, Jno. G. Clark A. r.
Bushnell and Jno. P. Lewis were each nomi-
mated. Mr.. Clementson and Col. Clark in
sisted on being excused because of years of
service in this capacity and after several in
effectual ballots Mr.. Bushnell was finally
elected. he having received SO gu. of 55
votes.
The appropriations for the ensuing year are
tor teachers salaries s2400. 0O-to be divid-
ed among the seven teachers about the same
as last year. For wood $4,000; for Jani-
tors wages $4,000; for debt and int rest
sl,2s0o 90; for incidental expenses 5000. 90.
Deducting amount on hand and coming
through other funds it was estimat ted that
tax of 50, $40. 90 should be made and on mo-
ton of Col. Clark it was so resolved
BY motion passed, the school board is to
appoint visiting committee Of six school
patrons ca ch month to visit the schools.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17

"A match game of base ball will be play,
ed Saturday afternoon in the Fair Grounds
near Lancaster, between the Prairie du
Chen club and the Lancasters for a purse Of
fifty dollars. 1t is intended 20 charge an
admission of ten cents.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17
Petit Jurors.

Notice is hereby given that the names OF
Petit Jurors to serve during the September
term, 1872, OF the Circuit Court for Grant
County will be drawn at the Office of the
Clerk of the Circuit Court for said county in
the Court House in the City of Lancaster in
said county, at the hour of o'clock, p. NJ.
on Tuesday, the 29th day of July, A. d. 1879
HERMAN BUCHNER,
Clerk of Circuit Court, Grant Co.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17
MARRIED

Al csssvilis July 8. 1879, by Henry Burgess, ESQ.
AR. James D. Lakough and Miss Emma A. Wilcox
Atthe residence of Rev. II. q. Conden Clinton To-
wa Aondsy eve. June 30th. Mr.. Frank b. Newell, OF
lancaster, Wis and Miss Florence Williams OF Low
Moor Iowa.
In connection with the above notice the
following item found in the Clinton Qowa)
Herald some weeks ago is interesting:
Miss Florence Williams, who lives with
Geo. Benham in the south part of the town.
ship, has fallen heir to a large fortune in
Indiana. The amount is stated at about
100000. Some relative died intestate, SO we
understand, and New York City lawyer,
who was acquainted with the parties and
circumstances, interested himself 10 the AZ.
fair and worked it up with the result stated.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17
New Advertisements,
Still Thew Come!

Six good photographs for $l.00 has kept
me busy Time will be extended while you
make 1t lively. In the meantime bring your
friends pictures and get them enlarged.
just note these prices: K 10 photographs
taken life itself, $l.0O. Any kind Of pie
lures enlarged for Sl.00. F. WITC0MB,
Bloomington, Wis. 10.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17
The Lancaster School Meet,r.

The school meeting for the Lancaster dis
trlct was attended by sixty voters. Mr.. Geo.
ciemeatson called to order, and Mr.. Jones
Treasurer, read his report. Without giving
here the items in detail it was as follows
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17
anne Is John. and he Is furthermore Baptist

name is John, and he Is furthermore Baptist
and mighty smart man, cunning in the law !;
let us send for him and elect him Justice of
the Peace and make him ruler over US and he
will tell US what to do"
IA And the words Of Ed the son of Sam
ford, seemed wise 10 the loafers and they
straightway sent for John, and he came and
brought his wife and his wife's father and his
wife's mother with their sisters and their
aunts and their cousins and divers other per,
sons.
10 And the loafeis did make John, who
was also Baptist, ruler over them, and he
taught them how to dig roads along the hills
sides and he made breeding TO keep the
horses from turning summersaults when they
plowed. And he made Try get good whisky,
for John was a Judge of whisky and would not
drink the 40 rod stuff, neither would he eat
mouldy -four nor any other kind if he had to
buy il himself.
10 And after many days the loafers did
make good farms and raise mnch wheat and
oats and John did buy thrs shing. machine
which he kept tied together with shoe.strings
and hckory-bark so that il worked exceeding
well.
Here Mr.. Derby tainted from exhaustion,
and found upon examination that the bottle
was empty. The doctor pronounces it a case
Of enlarged cerebrum. PHILIP KEARNEy.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17

A terrible accident occurred in the
town of Prairie du Chen the first of the
week. Mr.. Thomas Pinz, who has a farm a
few miles from the city, was on his way on.
there when the accident happened tina. de-
prised him of his life. Mr.. Pinz was riding
IN wagon With several friends and neighbors
and when he got out OF the wagon he reach
ed back and taking hold OF gun BY the bar
rel. drew il toward him. The gun was resting
between two sacks of bran; the hammer Of
the lock caught in q sack and was discharged
the whole charge entering his right breast
killing him instantly Courier,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17
DIED.

10 Glen Haven May 20. 1879. Of riptherla and liy
er comp int john }. Welsh, the Oldest soA of Maui
rice and Mary Welsh aged 10 years. four months aud
fifteen days.
Farewell, arlparen Is. my time is past3
Ny life for you not long did last
Think OF memo sorrows take
But love our Savior for my fake.
Yet again hope to meet you
Whsn that day of life is past
Beyond this world OF sin and woe.
With Jesus in Eternity"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17
BOOT AND SHOE STORE

The undersigned, thankful for the liberal
patronage received from the citizens Of Ian.
caster and vicinity for the past twenty-five
years be has been in the business here, soil
cts their continued favors and informs them
thathis shelves have been repIenishod with
a full line of new custom made and fine boots
and shoes.
He is prepared TO make 10 order at any
time ine or heavy boots or shoes and en-
cages to give good work at moderate prices.
call at his store on Maple street, two doors
east Of the bank. D. WEBER.
Lancaster, May %, re- If.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17

p. S.-JAK.'s article, Archaeology of Wy.
alusing." did not come up to the high standard
of truth required by the people in this part of
the county, so VIC have cruciied him and you
will hear from JAK. no more forever.
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-15
Dedicated to the Rod and Gun
Club.

Certificate furnished to a Partisan gunsmith
by IN. le Comte de Saint u, one of our
sportsmen, the most distinguished of the de-
partment of rAveyron: "The choke-bored
gun has surpassed my expectation for the
grouping and the penetration extraordinary q
the shot. The results, truly prodigious, which
came to obtain me have completely aston
ished. have procured myself six cats, which
l have made to be shut iI six little cases with
lids. The lid was upraising himself at the
method of ccrd, which permitted to free these
animals at different distances. L respond to
you that they have not had the time to voyage
much. Two have been lamed at the distance
of 80 meters by one barrel and killed stiff by
the second OF the four that remained three
were thunderstruck, the one at 46 metres,
the other at 81, the third at 72. As for the
last, who was finding himself at about so steps,
he has been missed, but he has not escaped for
that, for, being refuged himself upon tree
l have killed him at that same distance.
have then made to be f1ayed the cats and OBJ
served that they riddled OF shots and that III
certain portions Oh the corpse they "ere coni
pletely perforated"
And this from the Detroit Free Press: In
corner grocery in the western part of the city,
the other day, a boy was buying shot and get
ting ready to go hunting. His old gun was
lying around rather loose, and the grocer ner-
vousy remarked:
boy, wish you'd take care of that gun
I'm afraid of an accident"
The boy stood it up against barrel and
went on telling how many rabbits he meant to
pepper, and pretty soon it came near falling to
the floor.
81 tell you that internal thing will hurt
some one of us yeti" exclaimed the grocer as
he jumped aside, and the boy leaned 1t against
the counter aud said he'd never take back
seat for bear-neYer. As he reached over to
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-15
Burdette is ''P1tied'"

AS the train leaves the depot young man
leans over the back OF my seat and asks me
what paid for my ticket. 1 tell him and he
chuckles He bought ticket of scalper and
is dollar and half ahead of the railroad
company. He pities me because do not know
how to travel, and I blush and feel cheap in
the presence of his superior sagacity. The
conductor comes along. He punches my ticket
with ready unquestioning acceptance that
makes me an honest man, and L feel proud.
He takes the shrewd young mans ticket and
gazes at it with an awful scrutiny.
"Where are you going?" he asks the young
man.
The young man gazes at him with the un-
fiinching glance of q citizen who knows his
rights and the railroad law.
'I am going to Indianapolis" he said def
anty, "and that ticket is good until it is used"
''Certainly," replied the conductor, appar-
entity greatly terrified by the young mans de-
fiant attitude, ''of course it is; but it's got to
be used on its own road, and as this is Wa
bash excursion ticket of last summer, from
Peru to Lafayette, you'll have to get on
Wabash train and so to Lafayette to use 1t.
Fare, please"
And the young man read the ticket careful
ly and paid his fare, and planked down the
extra ten cents for having no ticket. lie mas
gone into the smoking car now, and mas ms
head oul of the window, but can hear hlm
swearing with startling energy and appalling
grammar
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-15

Boston Transcript: "When elections
cease to elect, the end of the republic will
not be far off; the handspring of our self
governing system will have been broken.
The overturning of the result OF the last
election in Maine, by the Returning Board
arrangement cooked up under strict con-
struction of the letter of the law, will be
long step on the downward road. The first
steps were taken in the desperate and anom-
alous politics of the South, which have been
a curse to the country in more ways than
are yet fully appreciated. But two wrongs
do not make one right; two frauds cannot
Justify one another; and the politician who
proposes to meet intrigue by intrigue, and
revolution by revolution, is a public
enemy to be repudiated by all good
citizens. The true way to defeat and punish
such an outrage as that contemplated in
Maine is to appeal directly to public senti-
ment on it, and let its authors reap the
whirlwind, as they surely will unless al,
public spirit has been supplanted by party
spirit Let us have no such tactics or their
counterplots carried into the Presidential
election this time
The Portland daily press., 1879-12-15
Lingual Difficulties OF French and
English.

In the high class schools the colleges and
lycees attached to the university OF Paris, and
which correspond to the public schools in Eng
land to Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester
and the rest, English is taught exactly as if it
were dead language, and by precisely the
same methods as are applied to the teaching
of Greek and Latin. The pupils spend years
and years over their grammars and over pain
full translations of the best English authors
The sharp boys learn to read English with the
same facility with which they read Greek and
Latin, that is to say, not very easily, and they
naturally do not enter into the genius of the
English language and literature any more than
they enter into that of the languages OF Greece
and Rome. The literature to them seems as
dead as the language. How many of our read
ers will recognize that this was the system on
which they were taught French at school. The
results may be excellent, but they are not
practical, and an Englishman who has learned
French in this manner, finds himself bewil-
dered when he comes to France, just as
French boy who has learned English in Ly-
Gee finds himself bewildered when he has to
tell a London "cabby' an address, and still
more so when the ''cabby" asks him some SIM
pie question in return. The knowledge is not
practical. You,can barely make yourself un-
derstood and you can certainly not understand
a word yourself. As for the terrible question
of pronunciation, approximate correctness can
only be acquired in the country itself where
the language is spoken. 1t is quite true that
in French every letter has its value, but it is
absurd to say that French words are pro-
nounced as they are written. The French ac-
cuse us of swallowing four-fifths of our words;
we may accuse them, in return, of abbreviat-
ing their spoken language very much in ordi-
nary conversation In common conversation,
both in English and in French, the non-accen-
tuated syllables of words have tendency to
disappear, more so, perhaps, in the English
than in the French language. This is the rea-
son why we cannot understand each others
spoken language, although we may be perfect
ly able to read it. 1t is the old story of the
railway porter and the name of the station
and we have as good cause to complain of
the French as they have to complain OF us. AS
for a merely practical knowledge of French,
there is 10 doubt that by the aid of good
method you may acquire a very servlceable
knowledge Of the language in comparatively
short time, particularly if you can come and
spend some time in the country, but between
this command of small vocabulary of the
French words and practical phrases and sci
entific knowledge of the French grammar and
language is chasm which it requires a life
time to bridge over.-The Partisan.