Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-17
TIE HERALD.
TOWN AND COUNTY:
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In Ellenboro lsst year 500 pounds oil
tobacco we're grown and in Lima rs pounds
DIR L. Wade of Rockville, will preach
next Sabbath July 2O) at the Boise Creek
church at l0:SOA. NJ.
Or Hartford Of Wyalusing and Poslmas.
ter Jackson, Of Hazelton, pleasantly surveyed
the HERALD rooms Monday last.
Mr.. Jas. V. HOLMAN, of PlatteviIle, de.
liyered the Grafton at Big Patch, on the 4th.
Hon Geo Cabanis was President Of the
Day.
A postal from james Darnall, Lancaster
county, Nebraska, dated July 18th, reads :
The thermometer shows lO4 in the shade.
Corn here is good. Wheat is about half a
crop"
~ q James OF Lone Rock, whom our
reporter commended for proficiency in dril-
Ing The boys at the Richland Center Soldiers
re union, was in the city Tuesday. He is a
live man anywhere you put him.
Mr. II. S. Keene, his wife and two chill
dren are down with diphthera Also two Of
George Marlow's children Drs. HasselI &
Kanouse pronounce them out Of danger The
disease seems not to be spreading.
The Sheriff on Tuesday took Mrs. Dufner,
the woman from Green river who became
insane and wandered away with her child, to
the insane asylum. John Messengill, of Brit.
i,h Hollow, was taken last Friday by Deputy
Richards.
The music stand in the courtyard is oc-
cupied by the Harmonic Band every Satur
day evening, and our worthy citizens are
treat a to the best of instrumental music,
and occasion affords an excellent opportu.
nifty for young ladies' and their "fellers to
congregate on the second story courthouse
porch and try to dance to the lively strains
But they dor't stop when the band stops.
Mr. c. IT, Brown formerly merchant
Of Beetown, is heard from cut at Wichita
Kansas. He writes a letter advising his
friends to stay where they are unless they are
able to own team and can buy land and
have enough to live on for year. Otherwise
if they 90 there they will wish themselves
back aud can't get back without sending to
their friends for money. Those who have this
much means he thinks should 60 to Kansas
They can have good farm and make money
in a few years
The Darlington Republican is a pretty
good paper, but it is our opinion that had it,
instead Of enlarging to nine columns to the
page, been cut down to seven columns to tie
page and then all edited apd printed at home
it would be much more acceptable to its in>
telljgent readers. We would rather, for ex-
ample, take up a copy OF the Door County
Adoocate and read it than any two patent
printed or stereotyped papers in the State
except for the additional interest given a pa.
per because of nearness OF locality.
Mr.. Ryland has succeeded in refunding
the $42, 900 in Lancaster bonds put out for
the railroad. The first issue we're out at ten
per cent. They were put out at a time when
no better rate for the town could be obtained
'"N hANNANob iuANGt hhOs thti) tllnR else,
have come down and now the
bonds are out at seven per cent. The
difference in favor of the town is considerable.
Al ten per cent. the annual interest would
have been $4,000. The anrual interest at
seven per cent is 81 $40. Tn annual saw
ing to the town will be 81 ,o6O The former
bonds were put out for ten years The PRES
enI run twenty years
A good-natured justice OF the pace in
Grant county recently defended fellow in
an assault and battery case, His clieut had
no money but promised him a bee tree which
he had found in the vicinity Not finding
the tree as expected, a renowned bee hunter
in the neighborhood was employed, and for
his services agree dto take honey. His search
proved fruitless, and both justice and bee
hunter were returning home, weary and dis
appointed, when they met the client on horse
back, who very readily consented TO guide
them to the tree. AT length he pointed to a
neighboring bluff, told them to cross the ra-
vine and climb the bluff, while he would ride
around by the wagon road, promising to show
them the identical tree from the summit
They dragged their weary limbs to the high,
est poiut, to see the borseman rapidly disap.
pearing in the distance. There were two
mad men, too mad to laugh at their specua-
ton, These men live in Hurricane.
We are in the midst of the heated term
The thermometer daily shows above ninety
degrees in the shade, or from 100 10 1870 in
the sun. Sun~strokes are numerous. Yellow
fever has already broken out in the South,
and it is thought il will come farther north
this year. Linen suits and busters are in
great demand, business is dull, and every>
thing seems possessed with greater or less
degree of larguor and lazness You are
lulled TO sleep with the gentle lay of the mos
quito, and wakened early by the tormenting
hazz of numerous flies. 1t is time to be
very careful as to what you eat and drink
You are very liable to eat too much green
stuff now that Tom Trollop has commenced
bringing peas and potatoes TO town. You
cannot be too careful as TO the quantity as
well As quality of what you eat and drink
Bartlett's ice cream may be very good in-
decd, but IT is not best 20 eat too many dishes
of it. Another source of danger is in sun.
stroke. Old Sol now sheds his rays with a
force strong enough to scale the land off a
Colorado Indians feet, and to those unused
10 being and working in the hot sun, the sea-
son is perilous This weather cannot last
always, So, if your business will permit axe
your gentle ease, and run no risks with y our
health until the heated term is over.
Mr. W. r. Durley's father, a gentlem an
IS years of age, on the Sd instant wen. to
visit his niece, Mrs. Hare, about, AZ miles
southwest of town, where he remained until
the morning Of the 9th, Il appe IRIS that he
left Mrs. Haire's home before the family were
astir in the morning, and started towards his
farm in Paris In trying to shorten the dis
lance by taking a cross road the old gentle
man lost his way and wandered in the woods.
Mr.. Durey learned Of his fathers disappears
ance and Immediately made search for him.
In the 7. ". OF the 9th he was seen near the
Cox farm, but further traces could not be
fonDJ although diIiCent search was made an