Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-07-13
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Icapital-ridden State
lIThe Michigan Central R. r.. is is a.,
lhave offered bonus Of 100000 10 the c,,,
lda r. R. Co., on the condition that it be CO,
Ipieted by the 10Th of next January. The r.
madam management say they win win the m,
lney.
! IThe translation Of the Holy Scriptur.
INTO the Chinese language has been complet.s
at Shanghai, by Dir. Medhurst and Mess,
lstronach and Milne, agents of the London M.
sionary Society, after years of toll.
Gone of Gutzlaff's (the American Nj,
sionary) converts to Christianity is one of II.
most influential cou nsellers to the rebel ob;.,
GThe citizens of Harrisburg, Penn. a.,
about to erect monument over the grave of
John Harris, the first settler on the banks =
the Susquehanna river
HJanesville, on the 9th, decided bv 9a
majority to loan her credit to the Rock P;r..
Valley Railroad, to the amount of sl50nOo
a|Cotton is now being cultivated with suo
cess in Greece. 1t will also be probab,, :.
troduced into Algeria.
CHINA.-The Chinese Insurgents have /,
ken Nankin, and Chang Choo and Shansba
were deserted.
aEIhre were seven deaths by yellow feye
at New Orleans for the week ending June 4
and five by cholera.
| GBeoks and papers were formerly sold On
~ at stalls, and the dealers therefore came IA
be called stationers.
SINGULAR.-Mrs Stowe has been in PAR,
about ten days, and has met with little or M
attention.
TFhe King and Queen of Hanover have
arrived IN England, on visit 10 Queen Vic.
EFFECTS OF RUM.--The Oshkosh
Democrat of the 1st inst, states that On
the Wednesday previous, man named
Geo. Nimrow who was drunk, stabbed
his friend, a Mr.. Crummey, who was en-
deayoring to take him home, SO severe.
~ that his life is despaired of. Crum-
mey is sober man. Nimrow is now
in jail.
QUrcK SHOOTING THE rational sal
lutte of "a guns, on the morning of the
4th, was fred in % minutes. If our
artilterymen are such quick shooters
on the start, what may we not expect Of.
them after little practice ?-T Water.
town Chron.
1--WE learn that mad dogs are ma
king sad havoc in some parts of Grant
county. At Boyd's Prairie about forty
head Of cattle have been bitten, andmuch
damage has been done elsewhere. The
only sure protection against them is cold
Lead Crawford County Courier.
ALTERED BILLS OF THE Cu1casc
BANK.-1he Detroit Advertiser says
that there are altered bills Of the CHI
cago Bank, in circulation in that CITY,
It says, ave were shown yesterday, /
s. q Hill ~e-.-sl,- Shi~asu Bank, WilIca
had been altered from $2-
1--we don't believe the Wing Partt
is dead yet, although the Tribune says
it is !: it is only playing possum. Eve II
now and then it forgets, and gives a.
kick at democracy and President Pierce.
= Wisconsin Pinery, Democratic.
EPenny-royal powdered and mix
ed with honey, has been recommended
to the French Academy Of Science as a
sure cure of hydrophobia. It must be-
taken six spoonsfull day, with some
sweet oil, for three days, and no Fear
need be entertained of the disease.
ian appeal for aid is published IN
the New Orleans papers in behalf oil
the suffering passengers on the William
and Mary. Many of them, it appears,
are in lamentable state Of restitution,
and without the meals of reaching their
place of destination.
1.-The Detroit Free Press seconds
the proposal of the Chicago Journal, TO
call North Western Convention, for
purposes similar to those which brought
together the recent Southern Conv en-.
ton. Chicago is the place named for
the gathering.
IA tavern keeper out East adver-
tised young lawyer, who has left his
house without paying his bill, under the
followinf expressive caption:
"Absquatulum damum ct Swartwout-
and ibus in transitu, non est inventusad
libitumscapegoatum, I'm comentibusin
swampo.
I5Crops in Central and Northern
Wisconsin look superbly. Wheat is fiji.
ty per cent better than it has been for
eight years past. So says the informant
of the Daily Wisconsin.
1.-THE Boston Journal says the gram
crops never looked finer in Massachu'
sets, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and
doubtless all over New England, than at
the present time.
1.-THE Jefferson Co. Bank in this
city, has gone into full operation. Its
first bills were put in circulation on the
4th. and beautiful bills they are Wa
tertown Chron.