Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, W.T. [i.e. Wis.]) 1843-1844, 1843-04-15
eur Spartan Column:
", Many, Things In Few Words.

Iaos STEAMERS more iron steamships
have been contracted for. to be built at pit's-
burgh, Pa. as revenue enters for the U. S:
lake service.
REsIesED.-Capt Spencer, the brother Of
the Hon. John C. Spencer, and uncle to the
late Midshipman Spencer, has arrived in New
York, from the American squadron in the Med
iteranean. II is said ,ha! he has resigned his
commission in tie Navy. a4sesa
EXCESSIVE LEGISLATION. The Missouri
Legislature adjourned on the 2o,h uls, having
passed during the session 563 acts!
| MApDeR.-The cultivation of this root. for
the purchase of which thousands Of dollars arc
annually sent from our country, is attracting
the attention of enterprsing farmers of Ohio.
/, is said TO be profitable crop. il we'll at.
tended to.
SrEAMBoATs.--The worth Of the steamboats,
owned 10 Cincinnati is stated to be nealy 81,
900. 900. They employ 1888 hands, and
their united tonnage is l9.4Ss,
| CHuRcHrs.--upwards Of 5000 persons have
become professors of religion within the
las, few weeks in the city of Albany. The
churches are open every night, and are literal
ly .hronged.
new and splendid Roman Catholic Caihe-
dral is abou, to be erected at Cincinnati, Ohio.
I. will be 200 fee. in length by 80 wide. and IS
high. 1t will be ornamen,ed with tower 200
feet high.
DISTINGUISHED STRANGERS Twelve mil
lions Of dollars in specie are supposed TO be on
the way TO the United States from Europe,
while we already have more than wasever be-
fore accumulated in the country.
MILKY WAY.-On the Goth uls nine thou
sand five hundred qnar,s Of milk were brought
to New York by the New York and Erie
Railroad.
VERMONT SUGAR.-The Montpelier Watch
man estimates that the maple sugar produced
10 that State the present season, at the low
price of five cents per pound, will amount 10
one million of dollars. This will make the
quantity Of sugar about 10000 hhds. In 1910
the quantity was but 5.50Ohhds.
THr MoRMoNs. the Illinois Legislature
on the eth ult. the Senate repealed the law
creating the Nauvoo Legion. military corps.
They also repealed tho Charter Of the Mormon
City ofNauvoo.
CAUGHT A late ST. Louis Republican
says:--"Orin Porter Rockwell. the Mormon
who has been accused OF being the person who
attempted 10 assassinaie Ex-Governor Boggs
last fall, was apprehended on borad of a sream-
boat at the wharf, yesterday, and committed
to Jail. He wiIlanow have to s,and his trial
Goop.-The repor, Of the escape of the Tex.
an prisoners from Meir, is confirmed.
"Bridget. two pillows missing from the front
gane, bed ROOM" "Yes ma'am know it,"
"Well, then, what have you done with them,"
"Why, Miss Jane and Sarah put them on for
Justles this mornn."
| A LEGIsLAruRE.-In an unpublished Die
,ionary. Legislative assembly is called "a
circus, where each Of the performers rides his
own hobby, and takes his turn al playing the
clown"
Nor BAp.-A Lowell printer requests one
of the Milerite preachers 10 .'caIl and settle"
for the printing Of some second advent hymns
before he goes up. lie says, ave can go be-.
fore magistrate and swear that we believe
he intends to leave the state"
A DUEL.--Ths N. o. Picayuuo of the IIth
ul,. states tia. ga hostile meeting took place
yesterday morning in the vicinity of the Cy-
press Grove Ceme,ry, on the Shell Road. be-
tween the Hon. MIR. Waggaman Of the State
Senate, and formerly Senator of The United
States. and the Hon: Denis Prieur. lately May
or Of the city. Upon the second FIRE. Mr.:
Waggaman received the ball ofhis antagonist
in the aeshy part Of his RICH. thigh, through
which il passed and buried itself in the left.
Mr.. Prieur was untouched. Judge Waggsmsn
10 not considered to be in danger. The diff
Guilty between these gentlemen we learn was
some family affair. of long standing. md which
they deemed i, impossible to settle in any 9TH
er way than BY resOr. to fire arms"
NEWSPAPER ADvERrIslSe.-The London
New Monthly Magazine says, Experience
enables Ne to assert confidently, that twenty
thousand addresses. printed separately, and
circulated with the utmos, diligence would
not produce the effect Of one advertisement"
MARROW EscAPE.-Among the anecdotes Of