Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-08-03
THE PEN AND SCISSORS
News Efenas. sc.

1918 aosOOl@'AoIio III AAs5 idlU' Vie u1eln-
bers Of which are partners in labour and
in profits. -g The number of exhibit
ors who display their wares in the New
York Crystal Palace, is six thousand.
--T -Four parties are now in the field
surveying routes for the great railroad
to the Pacific. "The Pacific Railroad
say the prophets, ''is to be the topic Of
the next session of Cong ress. "-T The
Sixpenny Savings Bank, at the corner Of
Broadway and Anthony street, is in the
'full tide of successful experiment. p
1t receives deposits of five cents, if de-
sired. The notion originated in the
mind of Elijah F. Purdy and Zadock
Pratt-the greatest tanner the world ev-
er saws the President In the
late debate on the ballot, Lord John Rus
sell, "would not concede the ballot, if at
all, unless every man in the country
should have vote ) and Mr.. Golden
would not extend the suffrage to every
man without the ballot" Roll these
two opinions into one, and the result is
the American system. ST The popu-
lation of Iceland is diminishing. The is
land once contained population Of 100,-
eco; but now the number is $4,000
The poorer people suffer much from the
severity of the climate, and from leprous
diseases induced by the dizziness of their
habits, and the coarse unwholesome food
on which they subsist. -f The county
Judge of Jefferson county, Iowa, has sub
mitted the question whether the County
shall issue bonds to the amount of $780,
900 to aid in the Burlington and Platte
River Railroad -T The County Judge
of Des Moines County, Iowa, has pro-
posed to the citizens of the county, the
question of taking 10000 Of stock in
the Burlington and Missouri Railroad.
- The citizens of Davenport, Iowa,
have voted to subscribe $4,000 to the
stock of the Mississippi and Missouri
Railroad. --T Miss Martha II. Mowry,
NJ. d., of Providence. r. l., has been e.
lected Professor Of Obstetrics and Dis
eases Of Women and Children, in the
Female College Of Pennsylvania
The Fox and Wisconsin Improvement
Company met at Green Bay on Thurs
day, the l4th inst, and organized by e.
lecting the following officers President
Mason G. Darling. Vice President
Otto Tank. Secrctary--Joseph G. Law
ton. Edgar Conkin. Chief
Engineer-J. Kip Anderson. --fT The
Christening of the infant son of the
Queen of England, took place on the
28th Of June, in a private chap i in
Buckingham Palace. The young prince
was named Leopold George Duncan Al
bert.---T A ship is not SO long a-rig-
ging, as young girl is trimming herself
up against the arrival Of her sweetheart.
~ There are in the United States
$4,000 houses of public worship, capable
of accommodating l3,849,896 persons.
---T The Home Journal-good author
ity-says that Fanny Fern is about TO
commence the publication Of a new paper
in New York.---f Accounts from AL
exandria, Egypt, mention the opening Of
the new railroad from that place to Cairo,
distance of g miles. A locomotive
run over tho road on the Dist june
y The Governor and Legislature of Mas
sachusetts have unanimously given one
days per diem, amounting to about $500
towards the completion of the Washing
ton Monument. -S On the 22d ult., 4
poor quality Of peaches from New Jer-
sey were selling at the Washington mar
ket, from 9s to l6s per basket-those
from the South at $3a$4 per basket. -
4 Garrick said he would give hundred
guineas if he could say .'O!" as Whit
field did.-T A new Free Soil Daily
is about to be established in Chicago. -
Il At the recent commencement of Beloit
College, the Trustees established a new
ProfessorShip of Rhetoric. Rev. f. w.
FISK recently tutor in Yale College, and
now travelling in Europe, was invited to
fill the Chair.--T A banking estab-
iishment rejoicing in the name Central
s4mcrican BaRh, has gone into operation
at ST. Paul. 1t is a wild cat of course.
~ The records Of the Washington.
county circuit court, stolen few weeks
since, have not been recovered, nor any
clue to them obtained. Bad business,
this.---P A Mrs. Smith in Washington
died recently from a fright experienced
by q report that the steamer Baltimore,
on which her husband had embarked,
had been lost.--T A delegation of in
telligent and shrewd Bostonians is now
engaged in making an extensive explo-
ration of the copper districts Of the Lake
Superior region. A boy whose gem
eral appearance betokened the want of
fathers care, being asked what his faith
err followed for living, replied. ''He is
Methodist by trade, but he don't work
at it any more. "--g There are at pre-
sent AZ prisoners in The Waupun Peni-
Tertiary. --T The new Hotel in .lfadi-
son is up, to the fourth story, and as ma
ny hands as can work upon it, are has
tening its completion. --T tits announ-
ced in the Chicago papers that Barnum
will make ''grand tour" i'll Wisconsin,
lecturing on TEMPERANCE and the Maine
Law, as he goes.--T Arthur Middle
ton, of South Carolina, we'll known to
Americans abroad for his amenity and
accomplishments, died at Naples, on the
9th of June.
I-Lake Superior is getting into high