Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-07-09
Madison Matters.

/ Inc Nl0nOna Lakeside Assembly has
published it programme for the coming
encampment from July % to Aug, 6
Fine music by celebrated musicians anc
vocalists will be added to the rich pro
gramme of lectures. Steamboats, will
make trips nearly every hour between
the camp and the city.
Capt Curran went to Eau Claire on
Monday last and mustered in new
company Of state militia. The number
of men in the company is 20, and they
were chosen from among 400 or SOC
applicants, and the captain is an old vet
eran who went through the war and
served eight years in the regular army
They rank as company c, Third Regi.
ment W. N. G.
On Monday evening two little girls
named Miles and Miller living south
west of Madison near the village of We
roma, while playing at trout pond fell
in and and were both drowned. Each
was 10 years of age On the same
night an old, unused brewery near Bea-
yer Dam was burned A family named
Steil occupied the building, in part, and
did not discover the fire till it had spread
through the building The father and
mother escaped with their infant, but
three of the children persisted in the
flames.
The board for examining applicants
for admission to the bar met at the CAPT
toll on Tuesday and examined eight APP
plicants, all of whom were admitted
The normal school regents met at the
capitol the same day, and the board of
examiners of applicants for state teach
ers certificates sat from Monday till
Friday
The Episcopal church has been re-
paired and covered with slate roof,
Wiconsin avenue near the postoffice
will soon be ornamented with new
Unitarian church. The building is pro-
crossing finely now and will be complet-
ed ere cold weather. 1t is in fine To-
cation, near the city hall and the NJ. E.
church, and one block only from the
capitol
Madison will be favored during the
summer vacation with college Of Ian
guages, under the superintendent of
Prof Stager, who will hold the school at
Ladies hall from July 6 to Aug. IA.
Latin and German will be taught by
competent professors.
Hugh Lewis, who wrote letter few
weeks ago, denouncing the democratic
party, now retracts his SAY and accuses
the republicans of taking advantage of
him while he was in close communion
with an old chum, John Barleycorn.
Gen. Bragg wrote Hugh a fatherly let
ter, calling the wandering boy back to
the democratic fold. The General
guessed at the traitor who had ensnared
Hugh, and told him that he was quite
sure that John Barleycorn had been
the cause of all the disgrace 1t is pc
culiar how instinctively this famous old
chum is known in democratic ranks.
The Madison Democrat thinks that the
only time Hugh could be republican is
when he is mad or intoxicated, while the
republicans will shed no tears over the
departure of visitor who could find no
place where he could have spree SO
we'll as in the republican party and no
place so appropriate for the wretched
''hair-pulls" of SOLDERING up as in the dem
ocratic party.
President John Bascom, of the state
university, will soon depart for Montana
where he intends spending the summer
on his ranch.
Nearly all the professors in the scien-
tific branches of the state university are
engaged in surveying work of different
kinds for the United States government
The Fourth passed off very moderate
ly for the Capitol city. Ex-Gov. St
John, of Kansas, was advertised to speak
in the capitol park on the afternoon Of
the 4th. In the morning an effigy Of
the great Prohibitionist was found hang.
ing in the park. In the afternoon, steam.
boat excursions, picnics, game of base
ball, and sailing regatta on Lake Mo.
mona tended to diminish the crowd; but
he spoke to good audience. He in
tends to visit Milwaukee this week.
YANKEE.