Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-03-23

Sto L LIN, W1SIolSDiN, i f1O kS
The Maine law in the state of its con-
ception is being evaded by parties who
import Original packages of liquor for
home consumption.
BY the ignition of a wall map, from a
gas jet, in the Madison postoffice, the
building and contents came within an
ace of being destroyed last Friday
morning. The saving clause came
from the fact that the fire caught but
few moments before the appearance of
the mailing clerk in the morning, by
whom it was extinguished, after hard
fight. About one hundred letters were
destroyed They had been received
from the @. nj. & st. P. road, Wood
man, Galena, GAINESVILLE and Beloit.
As will be seen in another column.
Senator Ryland proposes to amend the
bill establishing an additional state asy-
lum for the insane by measure that
will dissolve the present complicated
relations of state and county as regard
insane patients. Under Senator Ry-
lands amendment counties wishing to
maintain asylums can do so, receiving
from the state three dollars per week.
This is not unreasonable but just, so long
as they have to be taxed for the support
of the state institutions
--
It appears to be dawning upon the
minds of the Democratic Independent
combination managers, that the people
are going to turn out this spring on cleo
ton day as they have not before in many
years. The judicial contest cannot be
hid under a bushel, but is being actively
talked up in every hamlet and home.
As the workers for Judge Cothren can
advance no argument why Mr. Glenn
| entson should not be elected the result
of this talk is to make voters for the Re
publican candidate, And these votes
will have to be counted at the polls on
Tuesday the 4th Of April
A scene not down ON the bifls, was
enacted at the box office of the Academy
of Music, in Milwaukee, at recent APP
pearance of the Alice Cakes troupe.
just previous to the opening Of the per-
formance two burly deputy sheriifs made
their appearance and descent on The
money box in one time and one motion.
The attachment was in the interest of a
former member of the troupe who claim
ed arrears. In other words it was
salary grab Of the most provoking
kind. The claim was for $500 and a
compromise was effcted on SIS, after
which the nice but naughty Alice went
on with her role of the Grand Duke
A correspondent of the Prairie du
Chen Courier sailing for present pur-
poses under the colors of Republican,
ism asserts that when Judge Mills step
ped down from the bench he left over
three hundred unfinished cases (which
Judge Cothren had to dispose of" As
the correspondent writes from Patch
Grove, he plainly intends to refer TO
Grant county. As THE HERALD has no
wish to be in error in regard to matters
| OF fact, if the aforesaid correspondent
will no k,nI anoucrL ~ a;t,, a.. .e,...,,.l.
cluded in his sweeping assertions we
will gladly make desired corrections.
1t barely possible that this fierce wri-
ter may find any one can make asser-
tons but facts are disagreeable things
which have to be backed up by proof.
As it is facts and not assertions with
which The HERALD deals in the present
campaign it asks for proof, which the
correspondent well knows will not be
forthcoming
Through courtesy of Messrs Cowles
and Dunklee, Of Chicago, The Herr
AID receives their sixteenth annual
packing report, showing the receipts
and shipments of hogs, live stock, and
provisions in that city for the season of
1882, with comparisons with that of
other years. The present report shows
that the number of head of hogs packed
during the last winter season was
2,323,847 against 2,72S. 400 for the sea-
son of 1891. The total number of
head packed for the year was SOP, 1922
against 5,5s3,034 head the year before.
The largest receipts of stock for any
day during the year were; cattle, Octo-
Der 10, 1881, 1908; hogs, November
20, 1881, 64,643. The largest receipts
for one week were; cattle, week ending
October Is, 1881, ~, 100; hogs, for the
week ending November 20, 1881, 200,-
1873. The largest receipts for any one
month was for; cattle, October, 1881.
Isl, 545; hogs, November, 1881. ILL.,
996. The report thinks the prospect for
packers for the summer season is not
over fiattering. The grounds for that
opinion are that the hog prospect win
fall short of that of 1881, which was in
turn below that of 1880. 1t is thought
on the other hand that the shortage of
the ice crop will make packers go slow.
and everything tends toward an easy
season although prices will undoubtedly
rule fairly high.
| Under the modest title of circular
ex-Superintendent Whitford issues for
the benefit of the school districts and
boards throughout the state pamphlet
of some two hundred pages containing
plans and specifications for school
houses, which will meet the wants of
any district however poor or the OPP
posite. Some of the buildings are gems
in their way and Supt. Whitford is en-
titled to the everlasting gratitude of the
! people of the state for his endeavor to
/ lift school houses from the barn plane to
something higher. 1t has heretofore
been considered sufficient if school
house contained four walls, roof and
floor, without any attempt at exterior or
interior adornment. Supt. Whitford in
his admirable pamphlet presents designs