Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-08-04

time, al the Fair groun0s last lhuIsuay'
The weather was most favorable for
bsll-playing. being decidedly cool
This seemingly inspired the Babies. who
played in an exemplary manner from
the beginning. The score stood 3 to p
in favor of the Babies.
Last Friday night the planet Mars
was nearer the earth than he has been
since 1877; and will not be as near again
for Is years more. In 1877, the Wash
ington telescope discovered two satei-
Its attending the war-like planet, which
astronomers were totally ignorant OF.
Ii is therefore presumable that the Lick
telescope (the largest in the world has
revealed and photographed other inter
esting facts about the planet. which
have heretofore been unknown. The
distance between the Earth and Mars
on Friday was SCOUT 80, 100000 miles.
The North Andover base ball team is
evidently composed Ct a tenacious lot Of
fellows. Thus far they have succeeded
in scooping every aggregation Of base
ball players sen: out from the hub to do
battle with them a week ago Sunday
the Greys we're the victims. Last sun
day a nine composed Of the best mater
ial for the purpose Of doing them M,
went out aud were likewise defeated.
Judging from the coIloquy which took
place before the game came of, the
And9yers should have been di>taneed.
1t IS now in order ior the "Babes to
retrieve the lost record
A travelling man by the name Of hunt
was taken in custody by the sheriff last
week, for praclicing fraud on a dont-
fort Marble dealer. Il appears that be
contracted with a lady in Boscobel to
furnish her $3.50 monument for $3.50.
A contract was drawn up for purchase
of the monument by Atty. Blanchard
Of Bcscobel, who was careful to see that
no grounds for fraud were left open
Hunt. or someone interested in the deal
changed the duplicate contract, and
Hunt sold it to the Montfort man for
commission of $50. Hunt viii have his
hearing before Justice Wheeler to day
The bond questiyn was settled sine
die at the poles Tuesday. The total vote
cast was 257 four of which were thrown
out. This left vote of 25S, of which
139 were cast against, and ia in favor
of bonding tie city. The small major
ity in favor of no bonds, and also, the
fact that a two-thirds vote was not cast,
fully demonstrates that the issue did
not rest on precarious footing as alleged
by the opposition. But, since bonds are
out of the question, we sincerely hope
that steps in the right direction, leading
to the adoption of an adequote system
for macadamizing our streets, will be
taken.
We invite your attention to the pro-
gramme of the third Annual Conven-
ton of the S. W. Wis. Christian Endea.
vor Union, which will be found in an
other column. Rev p H. Mason will
return before the convention opens and
will participate. No question pertain
ing to any branch of the extensive work
now being performed by the society,
but receives attention, and will be dis
cussed. Visitors from every village in
the county will be present and also
quite number from different places in
the state. The society of this city has
taken it upon ITSELF to provide enter
talnment for visiting delegates.
Messrs Rail Walker, Chas. Edwards,
Ray Walker. and Clark Hampton, left
Sunday for the Mississippi, equipped for
two weeks camping out. The father
of rivers, although having subsidized
from the great height which it attained
during the rainy season, is still consider
ably above the normal stage; this fact
together with the many adaptable
places for camping in this county.
along the river, make the vicinity of the
big river a most desirable place ipdeed.
We understand, others of the city con-
template camping out somewhere, and
would advise them to try the plea
SAINT, romantic spots along the Mississ-
ippi.
No little interest was manifested in
the $4,000 election Tuesday. In fact.
it was an almighty easy thing to asccr-
tain q man 5 feelings on the question.
especially if he were against bonding.
So confident were some that the bonds
would be showed under out of sight,
that bets for cigars. of two to one and
approximate odds. were scattered pro-
fusely like dry leaves by an Autumn
wind-storm. The HERALD reporter was
fortunate anouUh IN 0a tha,- II, a favy bots