Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1854-10-09
News and Sentimental Rteaas.

I ween Tom Hyer and John Morissey to fight
for $20,0 00-Sl0,000 side. The fight is to
come off within five months.-Three thou
sand eight hundred and forty acres of land in
the town Of Haton, Manitowac county, Michl-
gan, have recently been sold to company OF
five hundred Germans. The land was valued
at So 80 per acre.--The OsTego Gazette
says the potatoe crop is turning out much bet
Ter than was expected. Of course it will
The New Orleans Picayune states that the
prospects of the present cotton crop are high
ly fatteung.-A telegraph from New Or
leans says Major Neighbors had arrived at
Austin, Texas, and he reports that the lndl ms
are marching TO attack the Rio Grande Sc {
ments.-The Great India Rubber suit of
Day vs.. Hartshorn and others, for infringe
ment of patent, is now progressing at Newport
r. |. The suit has already been in court
three ars.---The best mixture for sick
heart, is nine yards of calco,..a fine broadc!oth,
four arms-full Of humanity, PERSONS certltl-
cate of matrimony, pair Of canary birds and
bundle of greenhouse hollyhocks. People
disposed to doubt the recipe should get boX'
by the new Constitution of Maryland lot
teres win be abolished after April 1st, 1886.
Two Questions have recently so much ag-
itated the German Lutheran denomination in
Cumberland, Md, as to have caused chism. -
These are as to whether an Odd Fellow can
be good Christian, and as TO the proper me-
thod of administering the bread in the Lords
Supper. The story that George Law is a.
bout to purchase "Ashland,'' is denied by
son of Henry Clay, who, in letter to the Ken
lucky Observer says: 81 desire through your
paper to say, that never having offered Ash
land for sale, presume that neither Mr.. Law,
nor any one else, would venture to offer me the
insult of proposing lis purchase. 1.-THE
advces received from the vine districts OF
France are dep,orabe, and in several the vim
tage will be totally inadequate to the ordinary
consumption. The price Of wineswas therefore
argumenting. An English writer says you
can tell when you are surrounded by dozen
Americans, by the following nnerring test -
three will be found smoking cigars, and nine
reading newspapers. ---The shipments Of cop,
per last year, from the Lake Superior country
a correspondent of the Lake Superior Journal
says We're little short of 6, 700 tons of mineral,
producing 1900 tons Of refined copper. On
this the increased value Of last year ever the
previous one was not far from $200,000.---
The different railroad companies Of Ohio, have
united to build union shop at Columbus for
the purpose of building and repairing their
rolling stock.--Ihe supply of paper is SO
inadequate to the demand in Eng and, that old
newspapers are used over again. the ink being
extracted BY chemical process, and the pa
per reduced to clean pulp.--A new coun-
terfeit fthe denomination of So, on the ATTAIN
tic Bank, Cape May, N. j., is in circulation in
ttsburgh.---According to the De Bows
Review the total population Of the Island of
Cuba is 100000, viz whites, sol 1888 !;
free colored, 176, SAT slaves, 339, 429. -The
United States Convention of Universalists as
sembled in Philadelphia, on the goth ult.---In
some'parts Of Missouri, cattle are dying in great
numbers, from disease called ''dry murran,''
caused by want Of proper grazing and water.
actor has realized $4,000 from professional
trip to California. VINE ships from urope
arrived at New York on Saturday morning
bringing 3,038 emigrans. THE n Y Cen
trial Railroad has been carrying -four this sea-
son TO the extent Of its capacity. The increase
of freights for August 81 over same month in
'53 was SAT, 389 42.-It is computed that the
Mormons in Great Britain number about 90, =
600, at Utah $4,000, and not less than 10000
are scattered over Iowa, Missouri, Illinois,
Wisconsin AMI other Western States making
in all 10000 belonging to this singular sect.
One of the party of $50 who left East for
Kansas, writes to the st, Louis Republican,
stating that the whole party have arrived safely
without accident or sickness, at Kansas City.
We are told that some of the peop,e of
Lorain County, Ohio, during the late drought,
have had to go eight miles for water for ord-
nary household use.---Wm. Parrot, who
fought under Gen. Washington, died near Lu-
ray, Va, on the Goth ult., aged 100 years and
Z mouths.---At Carover, Mass, there Is a
shoe string factory turning out two thousand
gross of shoe-strings per month,---A mil
has been started at sllaneatIas for the mahu &C
ture of cease paper from straw and corn stalks,
according to the new processs-Correction
does much, but encouragement does more
Encouragement after censure is as the sun af-
ter a shower.---of Governments, that of moi
is most sangulnary, that of the soldier the mos
expe asive, and that of civilians the most vexa,
tious.--Senator Doug as is now stumpin,
Southern Illnois.-Reports state that til.
town OF San Juanis being rapidly built
1t is stated that rocco persons have died o
cholera in Paris during the summer. Coy
Sadie is coming west with .tw enty-fiye young
women as teachers, under the patronage of tn
Educational Society. The Society has alread
sent out ever 400 teachers. --char,eston
Mass, has been annexed to Boston, by vot
Of ten.-Lies are hiltless swords, which Gu
She hands which WELD them Few hav
been taught TO any purpose who have not beer
greatly their oHl teacaers---D. scontent i
the want of seifre lance; it's i4frmity Of WI
-"Do you drink ka'e,' III America v ask
ed q Cockney, No; We drink thunder an
lightning, 2 replied the Yankee. Ms. Ho.
lyhock thinks it "rather qaeer'' that the rising
OF little quicksilver in glass tube should
make the weather so hot-To prosper i
business, make up your mind TO accomplish
whatever you undertake decide upon som