Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-08-21
PASSING EVENTS


THE City Council Of New York have vo-
ted to erect a monument to the memory Of
General WORTH, at a cost of $lO,OOO.-
Gerrit Smith, in settling with the Ser
geant-at-Arms, was entitled to about $500
legal mileage, but only took $50, being Sc
a day while coming and going, and actual
travelling expenses. This is just like Ger.
rit Smith. z The price asked for the
Sandwich Islands is said to be IS, 100000
The Milwaukee Wisconsin Dem says,
''the aggregate appropriations by Congress
are estimated to foot up the enormous sum
Of $7O,00o,o0o" Yet Western Rivers
and Harbors received not a cent. sThe
amount of the recent defalcation in the U.
S. Mint at Philadelphia, is $4,000. aA
party Of young Frenchmen in New York
have organized themselves with view Of
emigrating to Kansas, and propose to esta-
blish joint stock company for that pur-
pose. fCouimudore Downs died on the
18th al the May Yard, Charleston, S O.
TIT is said that the variotis Express com
panies in the United States are about con-
solidating. TSonebody adveftises to sit
up with the sick at 81, per night! "de-
lirium tremons" double price. sTTheStark
Co. (Ohio) Agricultural Society offers pre-
miums for the hsndsomest, largest, and
heaviest babies. Do such articles come un-
der the head of agricultural products Let
the Woman's Rights Societies take hold of
this matter. eA prohibitory liquor law
went into operation in Connecticut on the
LIST inst. qIJersey City is to be supplied
with water from the Passaic river, at cost
of 100000. sTThe offer of bounty of
100 acres to each single man, and $40 a.
ores to each family settling in Oregon, holds
good to December LIST, 1866, having been
extended by the last Congress. eTAn at
tack was recently made upon President
Pierce by three fellows, in liquor; but he
sustained no serious injury from the eggs.
IT appears, notwithstanding the contra
diction, that it was the youngest son of Pa
trick Henry, whorecently died in extreme
poverty and restitution in Floyd county,
Va. An innkeeper had kept him for a
year without remuneration, and on his death
bore his funeral expenses. gThe Navy
Yard at Memphis, Tenn, has been aban-
doned, and the property Of the U. S. there
given to the citys SFSalt Lake City has
sent out 81 Mormon missionaries to the
Sandwich Islands. This sect claim 1000
members of their faith in these Islands,
II is said that the Homestead bill will
come up early during the next session.
Only two or three bills preceded it upon
the calender. eae play Of Hamlet has
been enacted IN tr4gic earnest at Ava, in
India. The king Of Ava has poisoned his
brother, seized the throne, and married the
odd queen. aTThe Boston Five Gents sa-
wings Bank, chartered by the last legisla-
ture, has received during the three months
it has been iii operation, sloey 600 from de-
posters: Nearly 1900 dogs have been
killed III New York since the MayorSs edict
went forth, June Goth, Offering bounty
on the ufttnttzzled countenances of these
gentry. aGrasshoppers are committing
geat depradations in New England, espe-
cially in parts of Vermont: GA bill pas
sed Congress extending the boundary Of
New Mexico to the southern limit of the
territory recently acquired from Me4ieo.-
9 The reclamations on the United States
for losses by the burning Of Greytown, will
not fall short of Three Millions Dollars
: The drought in New York, New Hamp-
shire, and other eastern states is said to be
very severe. TT. L. Pickard, of Platte
vile, delivered an address before the Tea
chers' Association of this state, at its late
meeting at Madison. He ettoys the rep
titatioli Of being one Of the best teachers
in the State. sTtfhe Scientific American
states that the Ericsson steamship project
has been abandoned. sTMr. Giddings, of
Ohio, for the sake of harmony in his dis
trict, withdraws from the approaching can
vass. 1.-THE Galena Adv. says that on the
18th the house of MIR. Marchant, one mile
from Pekatonica, was struck by lightning,
and himself and four Of hia children killed,
1Ihe Post Office at Wallace, in Iowa
county, has been discontinued.
IERRIToRtAt HoMEsTEAb BiLL.--It having
been stated in some Of the papsrs, thatCangress
NAG passed, as an appendage TO an ssact 10 es-
tdDllSl the office of ror,ora1 e NJ