Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1866-06-19

nsa- MAJ. GEN RosEcRANs, late of
Ohio, has taken up his permanent
residence at San Diego, California.
B3~ Hon. James w. Patterson has
been nominated as United States Sen
ator from New Hampshire.
DarJosh Billings remarked, with
as much good sense as truth, that
in the good old daze there was
more fun in 80 n than there il
now in 7 dollars and a half"
faa-The Hannibal (Mo.) Courier
says the crops in all that section of
the State will be a failure. The sea
son is unusually backward, but the
corn begins to look well, and there
IS abundant sign of an ample yield
from the apple orchards.
asaLUNCH parties, for ladies ex-
clusively, are the fashion at San
Francisco. The guests assemble at
one in tho afternoon in full dress
and stay until four. The refresh
ments are handed round en- walters.
The sun is excluded and Ire gas
lighted.
sg~On Mr.. Suliivant's monster
farm in Champaign county, H.,
(Which embraces over 20 1000 acres of
corr planted this spring, and the
crop is not yet all in the ground.
Other grains have been sown in
proportion.
es~The Philadelphia Inquirer has
this telegram from Washington
The Johnson Club here have aban-
doned all hope Of defeating General
Geary in Pennsylvania, and freely
concede he will be elected by q large
majority.
sSg 1t is stated that Mr.. T. T..
Furlong Of GAINESVILLE, who is tempo
rally doing business in st. Louis,
has secured letters patent for a new
safe which is so constructed as to
float in case of marine disasters.
This is a deSiderdtum that ship and
steamboat n have long been
looking after.
eG~ The French Transatlantic
Steam Navigation Company made a
demand for 100000 as indemnify,
for the refusal Of the Austrian Gov~
eminent 10 allow the steamer Timpi-
co, containing recruits for Maxmilii-
an, to proceed to sea.
ET The President and Secretary
Of the New York State Agricultural
Society have issued a circular, in
which they make known the exis-
tence Of the rinderpest among COWS
in the stables at New York and
Brooklyn, and cautioning purchasers
Of stocks to examine all offered.
B@-J. II Eddy Of Waukcgan, H.,
has sheared thirty-tour pounds Of
wool from two lambs, a few days
yer fourteen months old. The
bucks fleece weighed eighteen and
a half pounds, and that Of the eve
fifteen and a half pounds.
ses~A correspondent recommends
the stalks and seeds Of the common
sunflower as fuel on the Western
prairies. He says they burn well.
and that a large amount Of fuel can
be raised from a acre Of ground
The sunflower is considered a very
e~Xhausting crop to the ground.
nsA-The Southern journals are not
very happy in their illusions to the
demise of General Scott. The Rich
mond Enquirer remarks: 1.-The pa
pers Of the North are sounding his
eulegies. To the citizens of his
mother state, it belongs only to re
peat the proverb, De mortujS MI niSi
bonum. Let him sleepin peace"
A NOVEL KIND OF FuEL.-The
Cleveland (Ohio) Herald asserts
that the lake steamboats, now use
fish tortuel. Huge sixty pound stur-
geon are flung head foremost into
the furnace. The oil assists the
combustion of the wood, twenty
sturgeon being equal to a cord of
wood in the production Of heat.
Gr"THe Bearer Dam CGtjeen and
JoneSrjUe Gazette both note, with
rejoicing, that the chinch-bug, which
was very numerous at this time last
year, is entirely invisible this year.
We have heard no complaint of it's
appearance anywhere"
ess'The Darlington Union contains
the following:
Gus. GodelI sold to O. NJ. and J.
I. Richards of Elk Grove, one hun
dred Chester White Pigs, from six
to eight weeks old, for the nice little
sum Of $3.50. Who can beat that
sale? We were shown by Mr.. Ed
wards lately, a hens egg, weighing
four and one-eighth ounces. This
beats all the hens eggs yet. The
recent wet weather is SunnoSnI to bo