Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, W.T. [i.e. Wis.]) 1843-1844, 1843-03-18
0mr SPARTAN Column:
Or. MANY Things in Few word 8


Or, Many Things in Few words.
| COUNTERFEIT Co IN.--It appears from late New
York papers, tina, the real Bill Johnson, OF the
Thousand Isles, is now living at French creek
lIf so, the gentleman who was yhched in Iowa, Is
a spurious hero.
| pooR WIsco sIS.--The political weathercock
and turn-coat, Mordecai Manasseh Noah, can
tdidale for the Governorship Cf Wisconsin. Oh!
Jerusalem!!!
/ ToNGuEs.--A new disease, the black tongue,
prevails in Missouri. An old disease, the long
tongue, i. very fatal in these parts. ANt
GONG AnEAD--The ship canal across the 18TH
mus OF Dariea; ntendedto connect the Atlantic
with the Pacific Ocean. sa Qsg
/ WANTED IMMEDIATELy--A good road from Lake
Michigan to the Mississippi rver--apply TO WIS
consin. at
No Go.-The Mermaid which has been tho
wonder of the creduods IN the Atlantic cities, has
at last been scientifically disposed of in Charles
ION, S. c.. The body proves to be that OF mon
key, and the tail that of FISH. .riis.-
BANKRUPT BILL---President Tyler has F-rsed
the repeal of this bll-we hope. for the sake OIL
newspaper printers. What say yOu, lawyers.
| Two SHEETS ~ THE WND.--The wind OF
Tuesday swept two sheets of manuscript from ons
of our Office windows--lhe last we have seen OF
,hem.--.N o Pieay1sne.
We caught them both. One was beaded, Please
Exchange: the other, Southern Hospitality.
TYR Eyr Coulso.--'The grand jury Of Boston
have presented the Miller tabernacle as dan
gerous structure -e.FsrsT4a ~
PULLING THE RoPE ToGETHER.--Ihe " orces-
ter Egis contains a notice Of the petition OF q
man and has seite, 10 be declared bankrupts
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY An eminent London
musician has recently discovered that the night
mare, in nine cases out of Ten, is produced "irom
owing bill to a newspaper"
ANciENF STYLE OF ADvERTIsING.-- "John Jones
sells, by the grace Of God, and direct from Man
chester the very best of caicoss, at ten pence per
yard"
New MAIL CARRIERs.-The Government are
EMPLOYING some of tho small vessels of the navy
as mail packets between tho isthmus OF Darien
and Pensacola. ..t sv
VICTIMS OF MILLER Twelve persons in tho
unatic asylum at Concord, N, ii.
FREsHET-More than one hundred persons have
lost their lives By the late freshet i'll the Red iiver.
Results OF WAR.--A letter from China receive
ed in Philadelphia, states that three hundred uo-
men committed suicide in the city Of Chin Kiang
Foo, in order TO escape the savage RIGHTEOUSNESS Of
the British soldiery.
Plum THRoUGH.-The rail road from Boston to
Buffalo was completed in January. Distance SGT
miles Cost l5,625,27l.
An AaERlcAN.-Stand aside John Bull, and let
me speak. | do like a Frenchnan, because he is
al heart democrats Pole, because he wants to
be one; German. because he is one in literature;
an lrishman, because he has heart, and dug the
Erie canal; a Scochman, because he saves his mo-
,,sv. ,nif;,ila class E,ol isho,an harausa he
brother; the Russians, beeauss '''ey win pull your
hair ons Of 'h~~s nays
AWFUL SToRM.--Tbe New-Orleans Picayums
extracts the following fiom Clown at the Circus:
I'VE had an awful storm once when | was out to
sea on the Ohio canal-captain tod us 10 take il,
all SAIL stake in all sail on canal boat how
did you do that" 'Junaped ashore aud knocked
the horse dolsm.n
SINNERS PRErARE.--Parson Miller has ascsr-
tanned by careful calculation, that 10 man will DO
allowed "to ascend" even in the year 1914. .riia
o'oes for a netc,paper.''
WELL EMrLoyED.-We Learn with pleasure
that our talented Minister TO Mexico, Gen. Waddy
Thompson, is employing his leisure moments ia
iransiating the celebrated 'siiistory OF the Con-
quest OF Mexico,n from tho original Spanish Of
Benal Diaz.
CHARITY BEGINs AT HoME.--The entire United
Iates SIX per cent. loan, which has been begging
about Europe for some time, has al last been takea
by New Workers.
GoLD.--A lump OF native gold, of the enormous
weight of ponds and Tbs. (about S0lbs English)
was found very recently in the sands of Mass,
near the mines Of Zateoust, ia Russia, and placed
in the museum of the Institute of Mines at ST.
Petersburg.
| ANcEsTRY,--An empty coxcomb, boasing of
renowned ancestry, is better than potato bio,-
som--all that is good pertaining 10 aim being UNI
der ground.
HoaE.--Keep yoar store Of smiles and your
kindesi feelings, Tor home; give TO the world only
those which are 10 spare. e.HE
I BLACK WoRK.--The late eastern papers an
nounee the fact, that the Negro republicans of
Hayti, are fighting among themselves.
WoarnY OF ArrENrIox-T following is an
extract from a speech OF MIR. Talmadgc, Of n. Y.
before the Homo League:
"lmporis last year amounted 10 s l27 ,000, 900:
on which We imposed and collected duties amount
ing in all to 100000, or barely / per cent, o.,
the aggregate. During the same year, our export
OF Home Products, mainly agricultural. amounted
| TO S9l 100000; on which foreign nations. imposed
duties amounting to Sll3, 900, 900, or at tie rate
OF l2i per cent. :heir total value--or balance
OF over 100 per cent against the labor aud produce
tion Of this country! Can the country bear this.
Ought not all considerations Of mere party inters,,
be made to give way until can devise a perma-
nsni remedy against this enc nous Injustice o.
Ought we 10 rest contented uader a buthen Of ons
hundred per cent, imposed the free labor Of this
eolniry, in competition with the yassal labor Of
Europe, living a. sxpenee day.
1.-The commercial statistics Of our country have
only been collected and preserved Systematically
since 1915. From these tho following facts ara
obtained:
'.Our Soassng trude IS entirely protected against
foreign compsiitfoa. Since 1916 our coasting ion