Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-04-02

Platteyille Witness. The chairs for the
new city bali have arrived, and work
men are busily engaged setting them
up ready to be placed in position. The
chairs are the opera style. with spring
back, folding seat, hat and coat and
cane rack, and foot-rest. The main
auditorium will be seated altogether
with these chairs, as will also the two
front rows of the gallery. The remain
der OF the gallery will be seated with
settees similar 10 those in the banquet
room of the new Masonic hall The
stairway to the observatory is now COM
pleted and il worth the effort to 80 mp
and take in the surrounding country.
The sight is magnificent one.
The 9th of March was day of re-
joicing and pleasure to the many friends
of our oldest citizen, it being The
eightieth birthday OF Major j.
II. Rountree. AS many OF his children
and grandchildren as could be present
sat around his hospiiable table, and
united in the wish for many more such
reunions. The major has seen the state
grow from a sparcely settled territory
and our place to a thriving city, and no
doubt the large number Of warm friends
whom he has made during this time viii
be glad to learn that his eve IS still as
bright, and his step as vigorous as most
mems twenty years younger. May he
have many happy returns OF the day.
Bloomington Record: The levels ta-
ken through Bridgeport hollow by j e.
Scott show u grade Of about seventy
five feet per mile, which will not make
railroad building difficult in that locality.
Eighty thousand brook trout have
been received aud most intliciouly dis
tributed through the streams Of West
Grant within the past week. an coming
from the state fisheries ut Madison.
There win be fine trout fishing in nearly
all our spring branches within two
years, as a result. Messrs Brown.
Greer, Lewis, Hayden ard others were
instrumental in securing the fry, aided
by Senator Kidd and Fish Commissioner
Hutchinson.
Galena Gazette: Mr.. Chas. Basford.
one of tho leading merchants and busi-
ness men OF Lancaster, and Messrs. {,
Abraham aud NJ II. Prideaux. promi.
nent citizens OF bloomington, Wis, are
in the city, on their way home from the
New Orleans Exposition. They euioyesl
their visit and report the Exposition a
success, but the attendance is VERY
small, only averaging from 5000 10 10,
900 people 3 day J.
MIR. Geo. G. Biesmann. OF this city.
has q relic of the great Hazel Green
Tornado, of March 10th. 1876, in The
shape of n potato, which is apparently
/ petrifying. When the tornado struck
the house of Mr.. Thos Aleu- just east
of that village, the structure was carried
up bodily in the air thirty or forty fee
| and whirled around. coming back in tht
! direction of the storm, and breaking e
pieces in the air, the fragments Of tn.
house and its contents flying in all di
rections MIR. Allen was killed ans
other members of the family were Sc
yerely injured. A kettle Of potatoo.
which had stood on the cook stove, fel
right side up without spilling its con
tents, a few rods from where tie house
stood, and Mr.. Biesmann secured one 81
| these as relic. II IS now almost al
hard as stone, which it is apparently
/ rapidly becoming, and is highly priced
by its owner