Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-08-10
'y8 PEN AND SCISSORS

NMUy1r1cEYcE.-Moses Shepherd, a
healthy Quaker of Baltimore, has CIV
II $500, 900 10 build an insane asylum
ii that city.
The Free Church of Scotland is sending
18th TO Australia, seventeen ministers, for
sacb of whom applications have been made by
tif Colonists'
Adyice8 received from Point Arenas, Costa
Rica. state that the cochineal crop in the
siate of Central America, is nearly DESTROYED
bv severe storms. Advices from Gautamaia
state. that black cochineal, sold in the CITY al
81 90 per h., hard money.
THE Canadian Board of Public Works, is
bout to erect lighthouse on Gull Island, on
the Scotch Bonnet, small island off the en-
nance os Presque Isle Harbor.
1.-The Population of New Foundland compri-
SCI 59,3l2 Protestants, and 46,9S3 Catholics.
-On the 1stof October says a Genoa cores
pdndent, the railroad which connects Genoa
Nth the railroads of France and the rest of
nrope, will be completed to Turin; and in
December, it will be opened to the foot of the
kbs, at the Mt Gents Pass.
The Patent Gutta Percha Works at Lon
ioh have been completely destroyed by fire.
re loss is 100000.
line London correspondent Of the Berlin
FMtlonat Zeitung" says, that Colts revolver
has met with such favor at the Cape of Good
Hope, that the Kaffirs have given it the name
of4 Goods Pistol"
- Wilmington paper says, there is cat be-
longing to lady in that city, over forty years
old She cannot bear her mistress to be out
ofaght.
An Anti-beef-eating Association has
bee forIned-sin Philadelphia. The members
pledge themselves against eating any meat at
more than eight cents Id. The present price
isfighteen.
Since the opening of the Crystal Palace
only one article has been stolen.
-~Laboring to please a fool ie a servile employ
melt
"James," says an 1rishman to another, the
lrsl time he saw a locomotive, ''what is that
noting haste ?''
aShure," replied jamie, ~ don't know at
aAPness it IS a steamboat splurging along to
set to wather."
AS significant slgn of the times it is worth
Selhoning that some of the tailors of London
dyertse that the garments made in their es-
AhishmentS are made cat fair workmen'
wages"
1t is gratifying to notice that tight lacing
iueng ladies', is leas common at present, in
bis country than in Europe.
Navajo Indians in New Mexico, are said
to have one field Of corn fifteen miles square.
4Boombo, the rebel African chief captured
bPresident Roberts, of Liberia, was senten-
ced to be imprisoned for two years, and
was also ordered TO pay q fine CT $4,000.
Whfn TIE sentence was pronounced, the pris-
onef shed tears, regarding the Imprisonment as
intolerabe.
Zoe Bull has prohibited the sale of spiri-
tuoQs liquors at his colony in Pennsylvania.
q There were about dozen women at the
Chief of Policies Office in Boston, in search of
their husbands, lost en- the evening of the
Foafth.
The Gospel is said to be preached from
hepupits of Chicago in seven different Ian
Tuages. The population of the city is about
$4,000.
A new law of marriage has been passed in
massachusetts,, by which no man under 81, or
wanan under IS, can be married without the
consent of parents or guardians.
n Adyices from the Grinnell Arctic Expedi-
hon report their arrival at st. Johns Newfound-
land where they were very Hospitality receiv-
Ia.
-frof. Morse; ii is said, has disposed of his
g'ife telegraph interest to the Hon. Amos
Mail.
IL gives us much pleasure to announce that
hNarschildlenorkipth umterdifnidekeit the
kebratei German tamborine player, has arri-
edRnd will soon give a concert-[N. Y.
haslcal World & Times.
IN here is much inquiry for the jeweller that
made the weIkin ring.
Wien is soldier not soldier? When he
lsmpstered.
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