Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-07-21

The population Of San FraneEisto :
about 100000.

The population d san FrAnsEls',o :
The New York ,i54waol Of Com
n'erce comes out for BreskinIidge.
"A Michigan papef states that a Girl,
twelve years OF age, having two seperate and
distinct noses, landed in Detroit on Satar-
day last.
The death Of Prince Jerome Bona
parte is announced by, the last arrival from
Europe. He was the youngest brother Of
Napoleon.
i "A Frenchman writes to the New York
Times that instead Of 100000 francs
the French public schools cost over 20, 600,
600 francs annually
Tin Norway, a VIGOROUSLY behind hand
country compared with proud and happy
Columbia, corporal punishment in the army
is legally abolished.
A lady Of upperdom was some time
hack greatly shocked en- reading that
male and female strawberry plants are found
occupying the same bed.
The city Of Jeddo, the capitol Of Japan,
is said to be, without exception, the largest
city in the world. 1t contains 100000
dwellings, and the unparalleled number Of
5000, 600 inhabitants.
Thomas Ward and Samuel MarvIot,
! of Cherokee county, Georgia, while intoxi-
Gated, agreed to fight with bowie knives ii
dark room. They did so, and Ward was
literally cut to pieces.
A company has been formed in Wash
ington for manufacturing Wine, witha cap
ital Of 100000. The Hon. Amos Ken
dali is the principal stoekholder. The
company contemplates using the wild
grape.
The Republican Club Of Marine. Mad
ison county, Illinois, now numbers lsI
members, OF whom 10 voted for Douglas
two years ago.
A woman by the name Of Hughes. re-.
siding at Philadelphia, was recently burnt
to death by a cegar stump being thrown
into her lap while she was asleep.
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Geo. B. Gardhire, of Cole CO., for Governor.
At St. Louis, July 9th, Hon. Francis
p. Blair j., was nominated by reclamation,
by the republicans Of the First District, for
Representative in Congress.
The Democrats Of Ohio, in State
Convention on the 5th., after nominating
State ticket, passed resolutions indorsing
Douglas and Johnson, when some fifty
Breckenridge men withdrew, and measures
were adopted for another Convention.
1t is said that not long since an armed
party Of twelve persons obtained entrance
/ by strategem to the dwelling Of John Brown,
! Jr., Ashtabula Co, Ohio, and made an at
tempt to carry him off, Brown and his
friend succeeded in beating off the luiians.
-eIke heard that you have a new lit
ter Of fine breeds 2"
"Yes, / have"
"Wel, Ike, just put my name down for
a puppy"
osam, I set you down forthatsome time
ago"
The Texas costume, which was once
described as a shirt collar and pair Of spurs,
has been recently modified. Gen, Houston
recently passed through the city of Hous-
ton, on which occasion, the Houston Iele-
graph says, he was dressed in yellow vest
and turkey-tail fan,
The Prince Of Wales viii depart from
England on the 10th inst, stop first at St.
Johns, N. f., next at Halifax, thence to
New Brunswick, and then, stopping at
Prince Edwards Island on the way, be will
be received in Quebec by August 9th or
9Th at the latest. His movements in Can
ada will be conducted almost exclusively
under the direction Of the commissioner Of
public works.
Tn letter by Victor Hugo to Hay
tian Newspaper, apropos Of the John Brown
affair, app ears the following: Were there
several Adams Naturlists may discuss
the question. What i certain Is, that
there i but one God. Since there is Lut
one father we are brothers, ---Before
God all souls are white"
The ambassador extraordinary, +. Ii.
/. Benjanine Idris, Of the Emperor Of Mo-
roco to his brother Emperor Of Frarce, and
General Guenia Pfophete, administer oftho
Interior Of Hayti, are said to be- Of market-
able color in the lower United States
Wonderif they have marketable snel.-
The moving machine Of N. Peltier.
con,sructed on the system q. q. the repro
duction) Of Mr.. Wood's American mower,
took the first prize Of .he foreign competit-
ors aud the prize Of honor; that is, l,000f
and the rold medal, and large gold med
al Of honor at the late National Agricultur-
al Fair 10 France. Mr. Woods machine
won its double crown pot more BY thecom-
pleteness and finish Of its moving than by
til cheapness and simplicity. Another Of
the laureated machines was Of American in
ventlon.
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EEOn tho night Of the 27tA June,
four female and two boy nchattles, belong