Are they aoliciloua to do business with ua of
the mines!
Sad Accident.— On Monday, the 16th in
stant, two young men were engaged in deepen
ing the well of the Grant County House in
Lancaster. James Thomas was in the bottom
of the well and Washington Garner was turn
ing the windlass. Just as Garner had wound
the bucket filled with mud and water nearly to
the top of the well—so feet—the bail of the
’ bucket slipped from thr, hook, and the bucket
fell; Garner instantly descended the well, and
found Thomas terribly bruised and neatly in
sensible. Garner, with no footing but a noose
' in the windlass rope, took Thomas up under
one arm, and held on to the rope with the other,
and thus they were drawn up, Mr. Thomae’
head was awfully cut and bruised, and his jaw
was broken and his left shoulder and some of
his ribs. He will probabiy recover.
J/” The Independent American was estab-
Ihhed in Platteville on the •• Native American”
basis. Ii aimed to cure the evil of admitting
foreigners to the polls. It has since been more
devoted to the literature of patent medicines,
i Unril lately, the Independent American has
had no type of its own for a head ; it had type
for its head, borrowed from the Herald office.
This head, used in the American office, some- :
times for hone bilb and sometimes for ad ver-'
tising horse lozenges, hae been returned to the
Herald office, badly bruited. This will ex
plain the following from the American; which
we quote for the benefit of persons living out
of Platteville and beyond the circulation of the
American.
