Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-04


! enough, but wages are too high in thi
country. II is profitable in China, but /
| fellow there is hired for one dollara month
land boards himself.
i A LONG TIME.-The postmaster at Chi
Icago, in fulfilment of a wager. has dem
'iijohn Of liquor standing in his bedroom, &
continual temptation, labelled, to be drunk
when Douglas is elected President. Prem
tice. Of the Louisville Journal, suggesp
that if all the liquor in tie world were thu,
labelled, and the labels tn $ respected
Ifgood father Matthew himself could ask nc
! more
i GorSa TO VIRGiEIA.-Some patriotic
Virglnian offers to subscribe 500 toward,
buying Pierce plantation well stocked
with negroes as a Southern token Of graft
] tude, for his devotion while President, te
i the slaveholding interests.
To this New Hanpehire man says,
that New Hampshire viii subscribe doab!e
rs much as Virginia for that purpose, aud
that he will give $500, provided Pierce
agrees to lire on it for the remainder Of his
life.
i A SINGULAR .ColNdrDENeE.- A gentle
man Of fortune and responsibility was on
/ q visit 10 Randal's Island, n. Y, with lis
wife. While passing through the Nursery
the gentleinaa said to the lady, "My dear,
have never told yoa that was in my
Ic ildhood an inmate Of this asylana, and
ran about as do these little boys. To
which his lady replied, "Wel, dear, I vii!
now tell what | have always kept from you
secret: too, passed portion of my ear
lest days 10 this asylum, and got my first
lessons OF a God and Savior i'd its Sabbath
School.
The New STATE OF M1NHEsorA.-By
the law passed by Congress to enable the
people OF Minnesota to come into the Union
as a State, the apportionmont of represen-
tatives in Congress Is, Of course, one to
each 100000 inhabitants, and an addition
al one for any number over $4,000. L: is
supposed that the Territory will contain
this summer more than 100000 people, so
that the State of Minnesota will come in
with three Representatives, the same num-
Der that Wisconsin now has, with popu-
lation Of over 100000, and as many as
! Wisconsin can have till after the next APP
poriionment, to be made in 1861, four
years hence, when our State will number
over a million of people.
COOP FOR SOMETHING, AFTER ALA
lady who kept one of those little shaggy
animals, known as poodle 4 g, lately lost
him, and q policeman was applied to, to
hunt him up. The next day the officer
came with the dog, which was very wet
and dirty. The lady was overjoyed, and
asked where ''thc dear creature was
found?' "Why, marin" replicl the officer
"a big niger up in Sullivan street had
Thin tied to pole, and was washing win
dows with him. N. Y. Dispatch.
ggThe Journal Of Commerce states
ti,at child stealing has become regular
business III New York, for the purp ,se Of
obtaining reward for their restoration
In many cases they make sums amounting
to 800 or more.
NorlcE.-All men and women are here
after requested not to give Thomas Ben
ton the title of Colouel-because their be-
| ing no such term used in the Bible, it is
manifestly improper
lE"Mr. Jones, don't you think mar
rage is means Of grace r. "Certainly ;
anything is means Of grace that leads us
to repentance" Scene closes with broom
handle.
In THE DARK.-We, dwellers in this
world of error, are like men walking thro'
the streets ola city on a foggy morning -
Every one fancies that Immediately around
himself there is little or nc fog, but around
lotllers, at q little distance from him, he
percives it to be thick and binding; and
they, in turn, make a precisely similar
mistake about themselves and him; each
fdeeming It quite clear where he him
tself is, and that all the rest are in the dark.
aw The rails on the Milwaukee q Mis-
lsissippi Railway, were laid to within ten
lmiles of Prairie du Chen Oh Saturday G.
vening last By the 10th or ] 9Th or 5th
of April the cars Will be running to the
Mississippi.
gw-It is stated that tie fbres of the
Plantain tree Of Central America, where
! it has a most prolific CROWN. ean be con.
lyerted into hemp. The supply OF this ar
fticlei in Central America may BE termed
| inexhaustible. 1t grows spontaneously,
md j. reproduced three or four times a
year in that region Of perpetual vegeta-
ition; and If, in addition to It's fruit, which
lis very valuable and nutritious, it can be
used also for hemp, it is destined TO figure
rs largely in the agricultural and CONNER
Icial world as nearly any tropical production
fuow known.
EXPENSE OF p REacHING.-The follow
Inc estimate has been made Of the proba-
Die amount which it costs the individual
members Of the different churches in the
United States to sustain their respective
churches. The estimate is founded upon
1.-The last United States Census. A Baptist
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