Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-03-08

you WANT 10 guy Town i0tss Gail AT
the Herald Office.
If you want to sell any property.
city or country, call at the Herald
Office.
Mr.. John Schreiner is home again
from Chicago. somewhat improved in
health.
Auction bills, horse bills, printing
of all kinds, neatly and promptly
executed at the HERALD office.
Car load of Fine Ground Oil Cake
just received at Stone & Hasselrs. Is.
Two of William Calloway's children
are down with the scarlet fever. The
attack is light in their cases so far.
MissL. Stephens is recovering rapidly
from severe attack of erysipelas. For
awhile the disease threatened to be very
serious.
A new four room, dwelling house
and lot of good land 120x112 feet.
Good water. good cellar, good garden.
Call at the HERALD office. At
School commenced Monday but the
attendance is not nearly as good as
usual, owing TO the soreness arising
from vaccination and the fear of scarlet
fever.
Mrs. John Humphrey lately received
$4,000 from the Woodman Lodge, as
the insurance due on account of Mr..
Humphreys death. There were S144,-
900 paid for the January losses of this
order.
Reports of smallpox have from time
to time come in from different parts of
the county but all of them have, upon
close investigation proved wholly false
until the case of Frank Burns at James
town was reported. He is brother of
Attorney E. E. Burns, OF Platteville,
and is school teacher. His attack is
not a severe one but is diagnosed as a
case of genuine smallpox. Look out.
and get vaccinated at once.
Brinkman & Wagner, who some time
ago started the Lancaster Extract
Works, have dissolved partnership,
and the business will hereafter be car
ried on by Mr.. Wagner, who viii be
glad to receive orders for any kind of
flavoring extracts.
The German opera gave most excel
lent satisfaction and left the promise
of an early return to Lancaster. A
pleasing point in this entertainment,
as well as in the Mozart Symphony
Concert, was the execution of the pro-
gramme without word of address to
the audience.
Mr.. Davis, the Youths Cyclopedia
man. has told us such a good story
of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, illus
trating his faculty of keeping his peo-
pie in touch with the times, that we
give it in his own words:
In the spring of 1865 was in Brook
Ign, and one Sunday morning went to
hear Beecher His sermon was on
sinfulness and helplessness of poor
human nature in its natural state.
At the ,ose OF his sermon he gave out
the hymn commencing with
How helpless guilty nature lies
Unconscious of its load.
The organist commenced playing a
solemn tune suitable for the words.
Just then a man rushed in at the rear
door and on the platform, and gave
him slip of paper, which he glanced
at-and instantly jumped up and turn
ing to the orgainst exclaimed, "Hold
on there! / have a telegram from
Washington which | viii read, and
after that | want everybody to sing
America He then read the tele-
gram giving an account of one of
Sheridan victories, IN which he had
captured thousands of men and
great many guns, and had sent the
enemy ''whirling down the valley"
Then clapping his hands like pistol
and stamping his foot he screamed.
.'Now sing, everybody singh The
organist caught the inspiration and
with all the power of the immense
organ played, while all the vast CON
gregation joined in,
my Country It's of Thee.
Sweet Land of Liberty''
Handkerchiefs waved, voices choked
and faltered and tears of joy were rum
ming down many cheeks, and the
whole sceue was more dramatic than
ever before seen on the stage in New
York. He had kept his audience
posted and given them an oppor-
tunity to express their feelings. How
many ministers would have kept the
news until after they had sung, ..How
helpless, &c. But Peecher was a man