Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-12-13
Roundabout Notes.

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Platteville has boy drum corps
the Cadets-seyen drummers and three
fifers.
MIR. G. 5. Whitcher, of the. town Of
Lima. has now the largest dairy in
Southwestern Wisconsin, having nifty
cows.
A thirteen year old son of G. Paulson,
OF Hickory Grove, was run over by q
wagon last week, receiving fatal injuries.
Miss Emily Faithful, opens the OAR
lington Lecture course next week, with
Modern Shams and Extravagances.
Mr.. David Ballantine. of Blooming.
ton, purchased an orange grove in
Florida in 1880, OF forty acres at Sl.0C
per acre, which has increased to $500
an acre in value.
Last week, Albert Richardson, of this
city, deputy u. S. collector of internal
revenue, received notice OF his removal
by Gen. Harnden, collector of this dis
tfict, and was ordered to turn his pa
pers over to John Bennett, of Mineral
Point, he being designated as Mr.. Rich
ardson successor. Immediately on this
becoming known, about eighty of Mr.
Richardson's soldier friends signed q
petition and forwarded it to Gen. Harm
den, requesting that Mr.. Il. be retained
in his official capacity for the present,
until they had decided upon some
worthy soldier of this county, whom
they wished to be Mr.. richardson
successor.
The projectors of the Eagle Point
Ferry and Street Railway company are
hopeful of having a ferry-boat crossing
the river at Eagle Point in the spring
They have been offered liberal aid from
the merchants in Dubuque.
M. Hohenfels, the embarrassed cloth
ing merchant of Freeport, has com.
promised with his creditors at 80 cents
on the dollar
The Wisconsin State Medical So.
ciety, during its recent annual session
passed resolution virtually declaring
consumption TO be an infectious dis
ease, and urging the necessity of the
proper isolation and disinfection of those
suffering from it.
Dodgeville claims to have the ssswift-
est weigher of the world in their midst
He says that he took in $40 in one day
weighing grain, etc., at 10 cents load
That is to say, he weighed 400 loads Of
stuff in one day. Giving ten hours as a
days work, he weighed 40 loads an
hour or load every minute and half
If any town can show up sooner mar
than this, let them step forward now, oil
| forever after hold their peace.
Sister Alberta, of ST. Clara Academy
Sinsinawa Mound, died on Tuesday
morning, December 4th. Sister ALDER.
ia was member of the Dominican
| Order for the past p years, and was
mistress of music in the academy foI
20 years. Deceased was next in order
TO Mother Superior. Sister Alberta was
universally known and respected and
much beloved by all. She was 80 years
of age. The funeral occurred last Thurs.
day.
A week ago last Sunday was the an.
niversary of the dedication of the p. M
church in Dodgeville, and appropriate
sermons were delivered ON the occasion
Dubuque is lighted with twenty cleo.
trio lights, and contracts have beer
made to light twenty business houses.
| Miss Frances r. Willard will deliver
an address at the winter meeting of the
| Wisconsin Agricultural Society at Mad
ison next February, on Temperance
and Amusements at State Fairs" and
Miss Ella Wheeler will read poem.
Philip Bickle and Willie Jaecle, O.
Beaver Dam, Wis, two boys about II
years of age, were drowned in the Cat
fish river at Portland, this state on the
9th inst. Both bodies have been re.
covered