Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-07-31

Lancaster nine we treated the visiting clul
With all the leniency that was possible an,
at the same time do anything like Justice I,
our own club, knowing that a second gam
was contemplated which probably would b.
fair and impartial game, aud properly shoa
the relative me- 40 Of The clubs. But II seem
we east pearls before swine, as il we.e; on
kindness was net appreciated. Instead o
thanking US for hiding their fault. and i'm
prophecies from their friends at home, and 70,
letting them down easy, they abuse US in tn,
Courier for not proclaiming them as pure an1
spoiless. We are pleased TO see that this /.
not from Bro. Merrill's pen, but emanate:
from some base 6ascler who goes off half.
cooked on seeing his own unenviable record
laid, even with out comment, before him. II
we lacked Ia verac ity il was in relieving the
Prairie Cities from some unenyiable facts (; il
we lacked in justice it was in withholding
from our boys part OF the credit they so just.
~ deserved. The correctness OF the score
given in the HERALp.is denied. The scorer
Tor the Lancaster club, from whose sheet
our published score is correctly taken, was
one who had scored for match games before,
and whose correctness was never questioned
by clubs that had record of their own. We
doubt not but that il was kept m strict con-
formity to League methods and is correct.
Besides, the Prairie Cities kept no record ex-
cept Of inns an outs and have no basis for
| questioning our score bat mere assertion.
This fact is conclusIyely shown by the gross
errors contained in the article signed "Spec-
tatorn in the Prairie du Chen Union which
we consider in general tone to be fair arti-
Gle. 1t says in the first inning &c. Englebach
struck fo- one base and scored on Harry En-
! glebsch's two-baser." In fact e. Englebach
took first on tn, zee strikes, the catcher failing
! to get the ball 10 first in time to put him out,
/ and Harry's bat was a single baser. ssOn
the other side Keyes struck fly which the
center fielder capturedn In truth Keyes
bated so near TO first that the first baseman
put him out alone. "Then Davis, Sprague,
Fuller and Jackson struck safely and
scored" The fact is, Davis and Jackson
both took their first on nine balls for which
they patiently waited. In the fifth inning
"Fallahey opened with magnificent two
baser." Really Fallahey made an excellent
three baser, which was the only three-base
hit in the game. In this inning the Union ar
tcle credits Sprague with three. base hit,
whereas in fac. he made one-b base hit. Da-
Wis is said to have closed the eighth inning
with long fly TO center. In reality il was
a little fly 10 the s.ield, which tho shortstop
captured. As 10 the umpire's error, he him
sell admits il, add on referring the
question to A. G. Spalding, of Chicago,
the best authority In the north west, he re.
plies that the ruling was erroneous. "The
Lancaster people have never seen fairer and
more impartial umpire than the gentleman
referred to-" We do not wish to cast refiec-
tions on one who has acknowledged his err
ror, but it is fact that we never saw less
fair game, and Plstteville gentlemen who
were present asserted that it was the most
unfair OF any game they ever witnessed.
Binder had a public trial on Mr. Ryland's
farm last Friday. Mr.. B. Pratt, of Mineral
Point the general agent, and Mr.. VIM. Lang
stat, agent in this county were in attendance
and the trial was witnessed by fifty or more
farmers of this vicinity. The trial was in a
field of rather green oats and the ground was
quite rough. For awhile the machine was
run with two horses but proved rather heavy.
1t was then drawn by four, and the ease Of
movement showed that three horses could do
the work easily. Round after round was
made on an eight acre patch and not the
slightest mishap Of any description occurred
The grain was cut clean, not straw left, ex>
cept where down and clinging to the ground
Every straw cut was taken in by the goose
neck" and carefully and securely bound in the
handsome sheaves. 1t is claimed for this
machine that the grain saved over hand bind.
ing more than pays for the wire used and
this trial satisfied those who witnessed il
tina. the claim is good The machine saves
the farmer the whole amount paid to binders
when other machines are used. By all awards
McCornlick's is acknowledged to be the best
of all self-binders. From those who witt
messed its work on Friday we have heard
nothing but approval and the farmers are all
! anxious to have one on their farms.
| Last Monday between IL and o'clock
while the sun was shining brightly in Lancas-
ter, few heavy claps of thunder were heard,
close on the north side of the city. South
OF Plattevie there was pretty heavy rain.
1t raned quite shower in Platteville. Away
over on the other side Of the State, in Dodge
Washing ton and 0zankee counties there was
at that time great hail storm. Hailstones
fell large enough to kill pigs and crops
the width of two-mile belt were entirely
destroyed, In Madison it hailed so much
that after it was ever gentlemen gathered up
the hail by handfuls, and ''snow baled" each
o.her with it, and they boast of having a
game Of snow>ball in July.
- Jake Hough appears 10 be the crack
glass ball shooter of these diggings. A week
or two ago he broke eleven balls in thirteen
shots The other members of the company
| laughed at him for some time thereafter, say
ing they were only scratches" and chal-
lenged him for another trial. They tried il
again and the result was precisely the same
-l3 shots and II broken balls. When he
! goes to shoot pigeons the rest of the company
win 90 along TO gather them up.
--"Graduates of London" form class OF
men whose chapter, Intended to accompany
those on lightning rod men, graft men, bunko
men, &C.. is not yet ready for publication in
the HERALp. These chapters are not usually
written un.il the farmers, or some other
working men, furnish few neighborhood ex-
| perienees for illustration
The teachers of the Hazel Green Schools
elected for the ensuing year are as follows
| Principal, Mr.. S. A. Harper Grammar De
| partment, Miss Ellen Morcom intermediate
Department, Miss Amelia Smith Primary
Department, Miss Bessie Crowle.
Through the efforts Of the Rev. w. J.
Kermot, the Baptist Church in Mt Ida was
largely increased last winter. If the little
Baptist church in Lancaster is we'll filled this
evening We do moi think the attendants will