Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-04-12
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man to return to his boyhood haunts.
Miss Ella Darcy, one of our most &C.
complished young ladies, left last week
for Montana. She expects to engage
in teaching. Her mother expects tc
join her during the summer.
A lively interest was created in town
ON Friday last by the circulation of q
rumor that the blacksmith tools, sup.
posed to have been used in effecting the
late burglaries in town, had been found
in the possession of young man of the
neighborhood. A warrant was hastily
issued for his arrest and young John
Razar was the culprit brought into court
to answer to the complaint. He denied
his guilt at first but afterwards weak
ened and acknowledged he had taken
the tools. He denied, further, with
penitential tears, all guilty knowledge
OF the store burglaries, though suspicion
was strong that he had hand in them.
He is an intelligent lad, of good me,
chanical skill, and il is pity to see him
thus early enter upon career of crime.
The court entrusted him to the care and
tender mercies of Sheriff Rewey, for
ninety days.
And here must not omit to mention
two other cases that were adjudicated
IN town during the past week Both
were of the same nature-assault with
intent to batter-but differed in color
as widely as the hues of spring and aut-
umn. The first was an election sup
plement and originated in over dra,Ehts
of lager. The complainant appeared
in court with two woefully bedizened
eyes, an upset nose and q royal purple
phiz which would have graced the Van
derbIlt ball. Unfortunately he was
short on evidence which is the dessdera-
tam, as the lawyers call it, in every
suit. The defendant swore he never
hit him NIT his fist" and thought the
swelling must be a case of spontaneous
elephantiasis caused by hop fermentation
and laying on the cold ground election
night. His Honor thought SO too and
under the mitigating circumstances
made it two fifty and costs, which was
covered into court and divided with the
constable. In the next case the symp-
toms were milder but the fever more
violent if we may judge rightly from
the incoherent expressions used upon
the trial. The parties were 'sowl neigh
bors'' and would be ''owl friends were
it not for little crookedness in their
line fence, which, as alleged, the de-
PENDANT undertook to straighten by an
ambidexter movement but which he,
the. said defendant, swore he never
made. 81 niver lifted ham till him.
said Tom with uplifted hand before his
Honor, corroborating his testimony by
his son, and as John had no supporting
evidence but his own ''bowld OATH he
was mulct in the costs. Court and
constable entered satisfaction of iudg-
ment, and the litigants turned their
steps homeward, wiser but madden
men,
Mrs. S. E. Lewis, having sojourned
during the winter with her daughter
Mrs. Joe Mckee in the city of Leaven-
worth, Kan, is again domiciled at the
old homestead. Her grand daughter,
Miss Minnie Graham, accompanies her.
Thay are welcome home
Mrs. Lizzie Ennor Foster, wife of
Prof. L. FL. Foster who has charge of
the high school at Cherokee, Iowa, has
returned and will spend the summer
with her mother, Mrs. I'll. L. Massey.
She was accompanied by a son and
heir of the Professor.
John Vandyke, our old townsman,
passed away peacefully and calmly as
clouds at set of sun, on the evening of
April 5. He had sojourned in our val
ley for nearly half century and was
entering upon his seventy-second year
when death called him from his pleas
ant home on earth to that "undiscov-
cred country whittier we are all swift
ly journeying. He was man of quiet,
gentle ways, akind husband and father,
true friend, good neighbor, honest
to fault, ever living within his means
and possessed of those strict principles
of probity and integrity which we all SO
much admire and which 90 far to make
up the true Christian character. He
seldom visited the sanctuary of God,
his hearing preventing him from enjoy
ing the services; but on all occasions
and at all times he was accustomed to
speak with reverence of divine things
and respect religious subjects. He
died as he had lived, expressing a full
belief i'll future state and in the i'm
plicit confidence that there is a better
and happier life in the world beyond.
The community deeply sympathize with
the widow and only daughter in their
loss.
John Scipker, another old citizen
whose home was in the Brawner Settle
ment between the Plates, also died
last week. He was man much re-
spected in the neighborhood.
Mr.. Charles Vincent, our well known
townsman who dwells in a neighboring
village, may be seen any pleasant day
summing himself upon our street corners.
Charlie is watching for somebody to
turn up.
Andy Kaltenbach, the young family
grocer, whom the girls ali smile on so
complacently, is refitting his establish
ment and treating it to coat of paint.
Andy is kind, accommodating and all
that, and a bright mercantile career is
before him.
Peacock's flour, since the instalment
of his new miller, is now sought after
by our wise matrons, as being choice
article of diet 1t is pure, nutritious
and full of sweet incense, and only needs
to be needed with clean white hands to
make it white as the ''driven snow.''
Town meeting was quite literally
patronized considering there was only
one ticket in the field. The cohorts of
the democracy were out in force but no
enemy put in an appearance except
Sam Morris who fought nobly all day
for constable. and was only slaughtered
when night came by IL votes
Hon NJ. nj. Cothren received COM
pin >ntary vote for the office of As
soc ate Justice of Supreme Court of 166
votes. PICA.