Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-05-19
News Items.


Judge Young, formerly commissioner
| of patents has become insane.
There are 100 soldiers Of the Reyolu-
ton still living. The youngest # them i
80 years old,
A salute Of 100 guns were given in
Pottsyille, Pa, in honor Of the passage Of
the Tariff bill by tie House.
-PiecoIomini, it is said, has given all
Of her professional earnings, amounting to
more than 100000, to her parents.
The census Of Clerks Just takeninW Wash
lington, shows this industrious little army 70
number 9o8 MEN.
The Wheeling Kpteltigencer, an ear
nest Republican paper; has the largest cir
culation Of any paper in Western Virginia.
= Victor Emanuel has concluded for
the present not to assume the title Of King
Of Italy. Fran &c has 90 advised him.
The 18th Of June, the day to which
the Douglas Democracy have adjourned
their Convention, is the Anniversary Of the
Battle Of Waterloo.
w. G. Fullinger, chief clerk Of the
Union Bank Of London, has defrauded that
institution Of the enormous sum Of Sl,2l5,-
900.
"A young lady Of Jamaica has just fin
ished quit which has 3,432 pieces, and
on which there are very nearly or quite
100000 stitches.
"A sudden darkness enveloped the city
of Pittsburgh, Pa, about o'clock Monday
morning, May 7th, rendering the whole city
as dark as night.
-Twenty-eight valuable horses were
destroyed by fire at the burning Of Steton's
livery stable, recently in Philadelphia
Some Of them were very valuable.
The New York Court Of Appeals has
decided that ale and beer are "strong or
spirituous liquors in the sense those terms
are used by the license law of the State
The thermometer seldom falls below
20 degrees Of Fair. and the wild camelias
are never out of bloom in Japan. The
coast storms, however, are frightful, and
very destructive to shipping.
Specie is again leaving this country in
large quantities, two steamers having sailed
from New York, May 18th, for Europe,
with upwards Of two millions Of precious
metal.
An Immense bed of marble has been
discovered in Michigan, in the county of
Presque Isle, comprising apparently a sol
id mass of $50 acres, and rivaling The fin
est foreign marble.
The Iowa City Reporter Ie:rns that
a Justice Of the Peace, in that city named
Malcolm Murray, has, by the death of an
uncle, fallen heir to an estate in Dublin,
ireland, valued at $4,000.
At a recent sale Of autograph letters
in London, letter Of George Washingtons
written when subaltern in the service of
the colonial government, to the Governor
Of Virginia, sold for Els los.
In recent speech in Congress, Mr..
McClenand Of Illinois, comparing Judge
Douglas to an eagle, INDUCED in this flight
of rhetoric: ''As he scared far above theI
heads Of his enemies, lis tail Qai0ered al
he air il proud defiance Of them.
The steamer r. T. Sass, Capt. P. Hill
lips, with one hundred and fifty passengers
from New Orleans to Cincinnati, snagged
and sunk fifty miles below Memphis, Tenn,
yesterday. The boat and cargo were a to-
tai loss. Seventeen lives are known to be
lost.
1T is said that the Quakers are grad
uallg disappearing from England. Two
hundred years ago their proportion in
Great Britain was about one in every oneI
hundred and thirty inhabitants. At the
present time they do not count one in a
thousand.
The summer residence Of E. w. Nor
gan, situated upon the very handsome emf
nence at the right Of the Michigan Central
road, as you approach Ann Hafbor, was
by fire on Saturday night. with
us COHtCLiiS. MI. M ldIllllY were dBSeDt.
1t is evident that it was the work of all in
cendiary.
--Petronella Boxer Dean has announced
her intention not to contest the will of her
father, cutting her off with shilling. -
She lives at WilIiamsburgh with her hus-
band, who enjoys good salary, says she
is as happy as if she possessed the wealth
Of the Indies. Petty got rid Of an unpleas-
ant home, and made good bargain.
There Is story Of one of the hangers
on at Washington. who get offices because
they need them, and had been appointed
engineer. business of which he had no
knowledge. Thcday after his appointment
4 gentleman and tvs ladies had the curios-
ty to look at the engine room and its ma
shinery, where they found the new officer
On duty merely as gentleman usher, practi-
cal engineers doing the real duty Of the so
called assistant engineer" "How many
horse power is your engine n "Horse
power" replied greeny, with a look Of min
gled pity and contempt, "Don't you know
the machine goes by steam!"