Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07

ine IoliOwing correspondence was
received too late for publication last
week but as it contains too much good
news to waste it is printed this week:
had been told that Boscobel was 6
live town; that it's business was stag.
| nant and its inhabitants leaving as rats
desert sinking ship. When / arrived
in the village last Tuesday evening
about half-past nine instantly con.
cluded that Boscobel was the most de.
funct place on the face of the foot stool
Not only that, but it was in a far-ad.
vanced stage of decomposition. and the
efiiuvia therefrom was the most nause.
Gus dose ever administered to the un.
offending nostrils of mortals. 1t was
not until the winds of heaven and the
waters Of the mill race had bathed the
heated brow of night for hours that the
odorous stream was carried away. The
succeeding morning the sun came out
and lighted up, not a corpse, but one OF
the pleasantest little cities in existence.
A walk about the town showed every
one busy and interested In improving
the appearance of his premises. There
seemed to be but very little business on
the streets, but that was of course ow-
ing to the season. The farmers are all
at work on their land and the merchants
improve the opportunity to lay out am
bilious gardens which they will hoe
once and then surrender to the weeds
for the remainder of the summer.
saw one of the ''rats" leaving the
ship. He had his family in covered
wagon, drawn by two blind horses. Sc
curely hItched to the rear of the wagon
was third eyeless quadruped, indus
triously pulling the wrong way, as
though loath to leave this land of rest.
Bringing up the rear of the procession
was a relative and family in an open
buggy, drawn by n fourth wreck with
sightless optics. With twenty dollars
in his pocket and countless millions in
his mind, this hoary patriarch braves
the terrors of the plain. May propi-
tious providence make rough places
smooth, and hold up the blind lest at any
time they dash their feet against stone
and compel the emigrant to return.
Boscobel, too, has its sensations.
When gay and festive butcher takes
his handmaiden, his partners money
and his own personal property, covertly
leaves his home, his loving spouse and
the pledges of her affection, it furnishes
food for many an omniverous gossip.
This is no hypothetical case, but an ac-
tual occurrence of the past week.
The news that the Ziegelmairc boys
had been given three years sentence,
was received with satisfaction, though
it is the universal opinion that the pa
rents who, throughout the long course
of thievery, encouraged by precept and
example the dishonest course of their
children, should receive greater pro-
portion of punishment. 1t would seem
that the one nest did not hold all the
light-fngered people of the village, for
several of the merchants have missed
various articles from their stores of late.
One day last week a young woman was
seen to slyly appropriate hat from the
counter of Parker, Hildebrand & Co.
A prompt and vigorous course of treat
ment from the senior member of the
firm resulted in the restoration of the
stolen property, together with the sup
posed value of the tile.