Contributed by our Regular Correspondents Local Brevities -Remember the oyster supper at the Court House this (Friday) evening. -Jas. Y. CHALMERS, hunteth WRIGHT's rabbits daily with Esquire STRICKLAND's "big" dog. -Several of our citizens took a trip to Turkey last Tuesday. They "gobbled" the turkey. -During the past year there were forty-two marriages recorded in this county; and the industrious women added sixty-four to the number of our population, as reported to the Register of Deeds-probably about half the actual number. The number of deaths reported is twenty, showing this section of the country to be remarkably healthy. -The watchers held a meeting at the church on Monday evening until after midnight. Why don't some one institute a watch-meeting to see the old month out and the new month in? There would be just as much sense in it, and the occasion would come twelve times as often. -WRIGHT's dance last Tuesday evening was a jolly affair, but wasn't as large as it would have been had he advertised it well in the Press. -Capt. NEWTON is making more improvements about his place than is any other citizen about his in the village. His latest is a needed and a good thing. -Young America is wide awake and doing. Not to be outdone by its elders, the youngsters have organized a secret Lodge of some kind, and have their weekly meetings whereat there are readings, &c., and lots of fun. --- Taking the Short Track.-A fellow giving his name as William WEBSTER, and an old Waupun bird, stole a fat cow from Mr. R. EVERHARD, of Lincoln, on the 17th of December. He drove the cow to within a few miles of Berlin, and there employed a man to assist him to slaughter her and to take the meat and hide to market. Meantime Mr. EVERHARD and the officers got to his stopping place and overtook him before he had started for market with his beef. The fellow was secured and on the 21st was brought before Esquire S. S. PHELPS, of Lincoln where he plead guilty to the charge of larceny, and was committed for trial at the Circuit Court. On the 22d be filed a petition with the Clerk of the Circuit asking to be arraigned before the County Judge, and in accordance therewith he was so arraigned at nine o'clock last Monday morning, plead guilty to an information filed against him for the larceny of the cow, sentenced by Judge HARRISON to one year's confinement at hard labor in the state prison at Waupun, and by one o'clock in the afternoon was on his way, in custody of Sheriff MERRIMAN, for the prison. WEBSTER is an old prison bird, having been discharged from the prison at Waupun, on the 20th of March last, where he had been confined on a sentence for three years, for larceny in Grant county. BURGLARY.-The residence of Mr. O. B. CRANE, of Lincoln, was burglariously entered last Monday night. The circumstances as related to us, are about these, Mr. CRANE had been to Hancock on Monday and returned in the evening-Mrs. CRANE was absent, visiting a daughter in Princeton, and the family at home were Mr. O. B. CRANE, his son, and the son's wife. Late in the evening Mr. CRANE went to the barn to care for the team, and while out for that purpose, heard some person whistle as if signaling another. Later, and after the family had been abed some time, Mr. CRANE heard a noise about the house, and supposing it to be cats, got up, took a gun loaded with fine shot, and went out into the kitchen which is in a wing on the north side of the house, and having an outer door on the east and a window on the west side. Mr. CRANE opened the eastern door, and just then looking around, saw a person dodge away from the west window. Mr. CRANE opened the eastern door, and just then looking around, saw a person dodge away from the west window. Mr. CRANE sprang to where he could draw a sight on the fellow and shot at him. Immediately another man whom Mr. CRANE had not before noticed, sprang from a corner in the kitchen and, with the exclamation, "That's your game, is it?" struck Mr. CRANE a severe blow on the side of he head that knocked him down. The young Mr. CRANE hearing the noise, hurriedly came to his father's assistance, but the burglars had fled. In a few minutes a team hitched to a light lumber wagon was heard to start from a point in the road thirty for forty rods west of the house, and drive rapidly west to the first corners, where it turned and went south. The track of the team was followed the next morning for a now seems no clew by which the rascals can be identified. (Transcribers note: This is how it ended in the paper, including misspelling) SCHOOL REPORT Of the Higher Department of the Village School at Friendship, for the second month of winter term, ending December 31st, 1877. Scholars not absent during the month: Ada BRUWELL, Clara MERRILL, Helen TARBOX, Henry L. WARNER, Eddie NEWTON, Stanley HAMILTON, George STOWELL, Callie WISE. In punctuality, all are marked 10 with the exception of ten scholars. In scholarship, No's 4, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 28, 29, are marked 9, or above 9. In deportment, No.'s 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 23, 25, 27, 28, 30, are marked 9 or above 9. Number of scholars registered, 30. Average attendance, 26. Number of visitors during the month, 12. Through mistake the names of Callie QISE and Robbie HARRISON did not appear in the list of names of those not absent or tardy during first month of school; also, the standing in scholarship in report of last month should have read 8 instead of 2. Angelia COLBY, Teacher The following is a report of the Primary Department at Friendship, for the second month of winter term, ending December 31st, 1877: Those neither absent nor tardy during the month, Anson SLITER, Burtie SLITER, John PERKINS, John DALY, Eugene HAMILTON, Carrie SLITER, Clinton SLITER, Nellie GARDNER, Nina GARDNER, Cretia PERKINS, Addie WAITE, Kittie CROSBY, Eva WALKER, Lula WALKER, Lola WALKER, and Flora WALKER. No. enrolled, 31 Average attendance, 28 No. of visits to the school, 13. Jno F. CROSBY, Teacher December 31, 1877. Bounties on Wild Animals The County of Adams paid bounties on wild animals killed in the county since January 1st, 1877, one hundred and ten dollars. The bounties were paid to the following named persons: Hans GULLIKSEN $5.00 John CLAPPER $10.00 Ansel WALKER $5.00 John W. HARWOOD $40.00 David E. STEWART $5.00 Robert DUNN $5.00 Edward HANSON $5.00 WM. M. WARD $10.00 Chas. F. WARD $10.00 J. WINTERSTEIN $10.00 W. H. BANKER $5.00 The animals killed were 20 wolves, 1 lynx and 1 wild cat. S. O. HOLM, County Clerk Dated January 2d, 1878. MARRIED CRANE-LAPHAM.-At the residence of the bride's parents, on the 25th of December, 1877, by Rev. A. J. PIERSON, Mr. Lewis N. CRANE, of Lincoln, and Miss Alice M. LAPHAM, of New Chester. LEGAL NOTICES Administrator's Sale State of Wisconsin, Adams County Court-In Probate In the matter of the estate of Clement BASSETT, deceased. Notice is hereby given. That by virtue and in pursuance of an order of license made in said matter by said Court, on the 31st day of December, 1877, the undersigned Administratrix, will, on the 28th day of January, 1878, at the hour of ten o'clock A. M., at the dwelling-house of Edward WILLIAMSON, in the town of Monroe in said county, viz; The south-west quarter of the south-east quarter, and the south half of the south-west quarter of section thirty-one (31), in township number nineteen (19), north of range number five (5), east, fractional, containing ninety-two acres of land. Terms and conditions made known at the time and place of sale. Lucy BASSETT, Adm'x. Dated January 2, 1878.
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