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


The trial Of Judge Tory for killing Bro
derrick, has been postponed ill June.
There are indications ola full cld-iash-
ionod peach crop il New Jersey.
The new planet Of DR. Lescarbaut re-
wolves round the sun in ! Of our days.
Rather short year that
Tho famous comet Of Charles NJ, ofl55s
Is announced 81 Bone, the Dutch astrono-
mer, for August next
Governors Randall, Of Wisconsin, Ram
sey Of Minnesota, and Denuiaon Of OHIO,
worei il Washington last week.
! Helper is getting up a new book, to BE
issued in May, and intended fora Republi-
can campaign document
S. G. Goodrich (peter Farley iae popu-
lar hstorian) died III New York, on the
9th inst, il The eth year Of his age.
The lsrgest circulation Of any one bank
in the United States, is that Of the Citizen
Bank, New Orleans, viz: @5,535,00a
I Calhoun Benhaln, second fer Judge Ter
w, in the Broderick duel, has been nom.-
mated for District Attorney for California
The Venerable Littleton Waller Tazewell,
formerly U S. Senator, and Ex-Governor
at Yirginia, died il Norfolk, Oh Sunday
May 9th, aged s..
VIM. Babcock, aged l06 years, died in
Hope township, IN. j., a few days since
He was a soldier in the Revolution, ard
served at the battle Of Stony Point.
The Petersburg TatclIiqeacer figures up
the actuol State debt Of Virginia, to be APP
wards Of $4s, 100000, and with no pros
| pect Of speedy diminution.
Judge T,ney is again very much debili-
tateil, and il is thought he viii not again
\ be able to take bis seat in the Supreme
Court.
1 Its estimated that tho value Of exports
from Superior and vicinity Tor the year go,
viii amount to ST4,S50. They will con-
eiat oflumber, latha, shingles, fish, potatoes,
cattle, &c.
4 At the Republican Convention Of the Alb
4 Congressional District Of Illinois, held III
/ PEORIA, On Monday last, Hon. Nm. Kellogg
was nominated for reelection by acclama-
ton. The Convention was very large, ey-
cry county being represented.
4 Tho Common Council Of New York,
have resolved, in response to a mercantile
petition, to direct the Mayor to invite the
/ Young Prince Of Wales to come on from
Canada, and pay visit to this city, as the
guest Of the Corporation
There are in Paris, at the present time,
nineteen Protestant churches, in fun opera
ton, ninety-seyeu Protestant clergymen, and
! $500 children regularly attending Profess
tant Sunday Schools
A shocking calamity occurred near Cam
den. S. O., on Saturday the '..th inst. A
party Of boys and girls on picnic were
drowned in 4 rliltpond. Nineteen bodies
had been recovered, and tits thought ten
more, making tNyenty-nine IN all, persisted.
We are to be suffeited with international
matches. The sporting papers announce
an international sculling match-all inter
national billiard match-an international
\ racket nateh-and an international ggacht
match.
The family Of a, +. Cornwall, of Upton,
Iowa, was poisoned Last week BY eating The
leaves Of pie-plaEt cooked for greens. On
/ ~ Mrs. G., is I'll D dangerous coudition.--
Let il he remembered BY al, that the le6
Of the pie-plant i very aangerors food.
Al careful examination Of the condition ofg
! tic Treasury, shows tliat there VIII ~ de-
felt IF, 1T least, ss,o00,000 at the close Of
/ The fiscal year, on the soth Of june, on the
basis Of Secretary Cobbs receipts, which
must be supplied, either from loan or treas
Jury notes.
a fund Of $4,000 Is being raised il
Massachusetts, to compensate farmers for
cattle which it is deemed necessary to lill,
in order to chcch The Fayages Of the caitle
disieinner bnown.as pleurop neumonia,w
! is proving So disastrous among the herds Of
sadt State.
Rev. Daniel Wentworth who was for
SONS months, incarceratsd IN prison, iii
North Carolina fol having sold four copies
Of the Helper book, is out OH bail, lecturing
IN the Northern States and raising fundsto
indemnity his bondsmcn,
Al new thermometer has been invented
bY M. Victor Beaumont, which y said lobe
far superior to the mercurial t1erneEscs7s.
( 1T consists of strip 81 steel and ono Of brass
sodered together. end bent IN the form Of
segment Of circle. Brass i affected
twice as much as steel ~ the temperature,
Ana hence, by graduating the movements
at the end of the compound strip, the va
riations Of temperature are recorded
Eive hundred aud cighty-ihfee persons,
disciples IF Joe Smith, LETT Liverpool on the
30th ultiino, for New York and Salt Lake
City. The greater part d them were Eng
lish, the Scotch being next in number
Only one was Irish and seyenty-four were
foreigners, chiefly Germans. II said that
they appeared highly intelligent persons,
and seemed to ia Of The class Of substantial
farmers and oSeTatiyes.