Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1857-04-11
Pears.

and so far as we can learn, with very small
success. Our own experience has been
decidedly discouraging, although we OBJ
tanned our trees from the best eastern npr-
series.
We shall not advise people on the sub
iect at all, but if we did, it would be to-
make small investments in the pear, and
especially in dwarts on the ounce. What
we plant hereafter VIII be confined mostly
10 hardy standard varieties Wisconsin
Farmer
GEoReTA Wild Car BANKs.--The Au-
gusta Chronicle, cautions the public against
the bills Of these banks:
Merchants Bank, of Macon.
Interior Bank, Griffin.
La Grange Bank, La Grange.
Bank of Greensboro, Greensboro.
Southern Bank, cambridge.
Cherokee Insurance and Banking Com
yany, Dalton.
Planters & Mechanics Bank, Dalton.
North Western Bank, Ringold, Ga.
Manufacturers d Mechanics Bank Col
umbus.
GgT The question of Negro suffrage is
TO be submitted 10 tie people Of New
I otk. In Massachusetts coored men have
voted ever since the Declaration of indie
pendeuce; in Maine they have voted since
It's admission as "A State; il Rhode Island
since she had written constitution; In
New Hampshire and Vermont for half a
century past.
GYI In Tennessee and North Carolina,
free negroes used 10 vote. The Hon. John
Bell, the prese' Senator from Tennessee,
said not a month ago in Cicinnati, that the
first time he ran for Congress in bis dis
trict, hereceived upwards Of three hundred
votes from negroes. He was a Jackson
man, and the negroes who voted for him
doubtless voted for the hero of New Or
leans.
LEAvING.-The bred Scott decision is
working revolution among the "Ameri-
can" papers in New jersey. Those which
last year. were most inveterate in the hos
tility to all plans for a junction Of the OPP
ponents of Slavery extension, now earnest
J counsel such action as will secure cor
dial union.
@A very diffident young gentleman,
IN one Of his experiences, waiting on
maiden home in the evening, desired her
not to mention, it, as it might cause re-
mark. "Don't be afraid said she, ''of my
telling--I feel as much ashamed Of it as
you do"
~ Dickins, in his Little Dorrit," tells
us that tender word dropped like hea-
Wy stone into the we'll Of Clennam's heart,
and splashed the water into bis eyes.
&g The Kentuckians are discussing the
question of constructing slackwater navi-
cation on the Kentucky river as far as the
coal fields.
Gx The Methodist Society at Warren
ton, Virginia, is raising funds by the per-
formance in the church of the scriptural
drama of Joseph and his brethren.
BsY Gen. HARVEY, at last dates, was in
active pursuit Of the Indians on the east
side of Lake Okechobee. 1t is supposed
that important results will flow from this
GE Prof Henry, the distinguished
head Of the Smithsonian Institute, testifies
that he knows but one man among the sci
entifc men Of the United States who is an
infdei.
Ezy The St. Louis "Intelligencer," one
of the staunchest supporters Of the insttu-
ton in the State, says; Slavery will soon
cease to exist in Missouri. The fat is in
avitable. It will not be abolished. I'll
Will disappear, 1t will melt away as snow
Of winter 1t is agoing now; and once
started,i it will gather increased acceleration
like a stone rolling down mountain
side.
AN APT REPLY.-"Madam," said doc
tor once to the mother Of sweet healthy
babe, the ladies have deputed me to
inquire what you do to have such happy,
uniform good child" The mother mused
for moment over the strangeness Of the
question a d then she replied, simply
and beautifully: Why God has given me
a healthy child and l LET IT ALONE.
Gg"Do you think I shall have justice
done me!' said a culprit to bis counsel, a
shrewd Kentucky lawyer of the best class
in that eloquent State''
Il am little afraid that you oon't,''
replied the other; 81 see two men on the
jury who are opposed to hangingw
ggThe citizens of Madison, Wis, have
voted, nearly unanimously, to issue $50
900 in bonds to aid the State in extending
the Capitol.
az The receipts of gold from Califor
MIA thus far this year are S5,50O,565,
showing a falling off as compared with
the last municipal year of 1924, $50.
Ry"Patrick Mallory, what do you say
to the iudictment-are you guilty or not
guiIty!"
"Arrah, musha, yer worship, how can
| tell til hear the Evidence :"
re- The other day two Dutchmen were