Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1853-11-21

Hup Except morals, in this City. House
ARE going up. Streets are going up. PEG
Hple are going up--uptown. Rents are up
/ We do not know that they can go highe
II Everything eatable is constantly goin,
Hup the price is going up, up, up. Flour
sIis so high at the grocer's, that it refuses
ito rise in the kitchen. A good many
rIwill be put to it to raise bread, if flour
IIrises any higher. Coal is SO high thai
many people cannot get it to go dowr
Iihe coal slide to the cellar. Notwith.
standing it is constantly falling through
1.-THE gate-it takes great deal of money
|lseven dollars, to raise tun. Firewooc
unjust have grown on tall trees, or it new.
IIer could stand up at present prices
i! Butter is so high--twc and six
lpence per pound--that it will not &c
Tdown poor folks Threats. The supply
comes from SO far sup country" there is
nothing low about it--except quality
I Potatoes have been getting up ever since
Ithey were put into their beds. They
Itook rise when they were dug, and II
has been hard digging to make rise to
reach them ever since. Beef, though
Ineither high fed, nor high bred is hig-
lpriced enough to make up for both. Six
teen cents pound for steak, warranted
las tough as any white oak. Our mutton
HALL comes from mountain sheep. The
lIprice is above anything in the low lands.
II The price of pork is enough to make the
lIbuyer do what the pig did when he was
seized to be killed. Chickens are all of
1.-THE Shanghai breed. The are high e.
IInough. Turkeys have grown quite out
I|of reach. Even geese, short as their
lIlegs are, are able to rise on wings a.
Ibove the vulgar herd. Ducks have got
lIup like a flock out of a frog pond. We
IIcannot raise quack, without dollar.
Il Water, that used TO run down hill to the
IIlevel common people, has now got away
OF getting up above their reach. You
), have to come down ten dollars to make
Hit come up from the Cvoton pipes. Dry
goods used TO be low; ssselling off al
Ilcost. We never hear Of such things
iInow. Even brandy, that used to run
iIdown so easy, is up now. A shilling
for drink. Everything we eat, drink
and wear is-Heigh-ho, how high -
/ n. Y. Tribune.
/ MURDER OF ARveLD.--The recon
murder of Major Arnold, at Fort Ora
ham ). In Texas, was wanton and unpro-
Nvoked. Surgeons teiner ard Lieuten-
ant Bingham. from drinking, fell to quar-
Ireling, when Maj. Arnold compelling,
them to go TO their quarters. The next
Iday they got to drinking and quarrelling
again, when Major A. sent sergeant
TO them with an order for their arrest.
Sturgeon Steiner there-upon went to
the quarters of Major Arnold and fred
Il four shots at him with a revolver, each
taking effect, and killing him in Is min
lutes. Mrs. Arnold was in the Majors
Nquarters, and saw the whole affair
IISteiner is Pennsylvania, an excellent
Sturgeon, but desperate character
Hwhen aroused by passion OF liquor.
Some years since Steiner cut Texas
citizen with whom he quarreled in a bill
lard room, almost to pieces with his,
bowie knife, his antagonist using a
similar weapon. He afterwards cured
the Texans wounds. In that affair he
was thought to be iustifabIe. He is,
Nproverbially, one of the most skillful sur
Ilgeons in the service, and so devoted to
Ibis profession, that during the Mexican
Iwar, after he had sufficiently attended
to the wounded on the American side
1Ihe was in the habit of going over among
1.-THE Mexicans, and dressing and opera
Iting on their wounded, canamore. He
Us a small man, Of remarkably polished
manners, but with an eye in his head
Il which tells of the desperation of hi.
Icharacter, when aroused by passion.
Il LOLA MoNTEz.-A California cores.
Ipoudent OF the Nashville Gazette, gives
Iau account of the recent doings of Mrs
Il Patrick 2. Aull, nee Maria Head. Conn.
ltess de Lansfeldt, alias Lola Montez-
IIShe was recently arrested for assault and
battery, and heavily fined. 1t appeared
lion the trial, that she, becoming enraoef
Iat her chinese servant, seized him by his
Hong tail of hair, tied it to the door-lsnob
Hand slapped his rice masticatine laws
Imost numerically. She had the boo,
l|leliow tight as he could not jerk loose
1|inless ne scalped himself. After thf
lIPerpetratlon of this feat, the quondam
lICountess still further oastonished thena.
I|llves by mining a whole day in cor
IIduroy Bloomer costume. To cap the Gil.
max 81 her eccentricities, Lola has sued
ief q separation from her husband, az
I|ser out few months, and sought the
protection Of handsome ca5alero.
SIs1BLE GIRD.-A young LADY, Of
newport, who was about leaving the
H,.'gay and festive scene,' which the mar
iors Of the ocean presented, with the
intention OF retiring for the nioht furn