Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-10-11
Potosi.

with the sights they saw. and returned
wiser if not Weather men.
Hon. IL. b. Coons, general account
ant and bcok-keeper for Hunt Il Jack
son, made flying trip on the Flying
Dutchman for st. Paul. the other day.
The politicians on the trains were quite
numerous and their excited converse
ton over the Iowa., election, made the
trip doubly interesting. Ono idiotic
prohibitionist said he had lost two chill
dren by diptheria, and he thought more
of them might have it but that he would
rather see them all in their little graves
than give them a drop of alcoholic
stimulant to save their lives. Such de-
votion to principle is wonderful, if true.
1t is said that a horse in the pasture
eating grass always nips towards him.
self and a COW contrarywise. How is it?
The grapes received and shipped
from town last week was something
surprising even to our own people.
Messrs. Hunt & jackson alone shipped
400 bushels, containing $4,000 pounds,
for which they paid the round sum of
$4,000. This aside from individual and
other shipments which amount to
several hundred baskets more, and
large quantities that are being convert
ed into wine and kept for home con-
sumption. The have been mostly sent
to st. Paul and Minneapolis, where they
meet ready sale at Sc per pound. This
is growing industry that has only
been entered into within the past ten
years for the purpose of gain, and since
| it is found that the Catawba and some
few OF the harder varieties grow thrifty
on the south and southeastern declivi-
ties OF our warm light-soiled hills; and
that the climate is sufficiently long to
] bring them to perfection before the
killing frosts ensue, many of our small
farmers, especially among the Germans,
| have abandoned growing hops and
some OF the cerials and taken to the
culture of grapes. There is scarcely a
farmer now, in the south part of the
town, who does not raise from one 10
| five acres of grapes, and he is well re-
Enumerated for his trouble both in the
luxury they afford his family and the
handsome income they create as hey
| advance in fruit bearing. Should the
crop prove as profitable next as it has
been this year in asmall way, the inlus-
try will be largely increased and We
shall be enabled to sing of our gine-clad
| hills in less than q decade.
| Rev. John William after three weeks
absence, preached again last Sunday
| morning to his little flock in Potosi. He
has been down to Chicago hearing
Sankey sing, and pastor Moody dis
course about municipalities and powers
and things present and things to come
and tell about the great crowds of bad
men and wicked women being gathered
into the fold across the big sea.
Rachel Cedar, Aunt Rachel as
everybody calls her, has not been ex-
pected to live for several days, and pro-
badly by the time your paper is issued
the current week, she viii have passed
over to the great unknown. Rachel is
and in her younger days was reputed
as good looking, not to say facinating.
She was employed many years as Cham
bermaid on the Lower River boats and
afterwards became servant in the
family of Senator George w. Jones, of
Dubuque, when she united her fortune
in marriage with Alexis Cedar, who
was also a servant in the same family.
She has resided in Potosi since its in.
fancy and is familiar with its whole
history.
Superintendent Harper, after being
smiled upon these many years, still
pursues the even tenor of his ways,
single and alone. If there is anything
| ir, this world more sad than another,
and that draws all the sympathies of
our nature to the surface, it is a man
sewing buttons on his own s-ves-
tnre-in q solitary chamber with the
bed unmade.
Among the funerals which took place
i'm town the past week was that of Mrs.
Peter Scholl, who had passed the merid-
ian of life, and who was an estimable
and kind neighbor. She leaves be-
reayed husband, two sons and daugh-
tiers who have aall grown to maturity
and who deeply deplore her loss.
1t rained so much of the time last
week we couldn't get out to catch
items.
Vennor predicts the coming winter
will be an open one. 1t has COM
menced to open early and if it stands
open till next May it will take in a
good deal of cold and use up some
rough feed.
One of our public street lamps was
lighted for the first time on Friday
evening last. The young moon has
taken its place and is much cheaper.
The comet Of 1912, that kicked up
the little muss between Uncle Sam and
Great Britain will be on exhibition
again about Christmas. Wonder If it
will kich up another fussP
These are no weddings on the tapis
that we can hear of. What does it
meanP Potatoe digging and corn
shucking time is the proper season for
such things to occur. Perhaps they
are waiting for the Meteoric showers
which take place next month.
Jumbo, some of whose ancestors
were buried in our soil two thousand
years ago, accompanied by nineteen of
his degenerate relatives paid Dubuque
a short visit last Monday. You may
have heard of it. Some of our bows
did and went
| The post Office and cabinet shop pre-
sent new shingled roof now to the
elements.
What is the use of country paper if
it IS not to publish local news and give
hedgelingS q chance to try their WINGS