Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-12-31
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WHEELING IRoN MILLS CLOSED.

WHEELING IRoN MILLS CLOSED
We We're told yesterday that all
work had been stopped at the Whit
aKer Iron Works, and noticed that
all the Wheeling Iron Works were
dark and cold. Only the nail ma
chimes We're in operation. We trust
that these suspensions are but tenn
porary as thousands of laborers are
thus thrown out Of employment
With no work and just entering up
on winter, the prospect is anything
but pleasant to the workman, and we
believe our manufacturers would very
willingly continue their operations
did the circumstances justify.
THE MILWAUKEE SENTINEL" We
would like to say word or two in
reference to the best paper published
on the shores of Lake Michigan for
North Iowa to patronise, the Mil
waukee Sentinel There is no trucr
Republican paper in the West In
its editorials, it is equal to any, and
much better than many. Its news
department is full, It's markets com,
plete, and from the locality III which
our people are most Interested =
-NcGregor Ne@s.
een-A lad the Gardiner, (Muine)
journal says, who recently visited a
c melery with her little daughter,
observed one Of tie stones meats
~ cut figure of horse Wondering
why such an emblem should be used,
they examined the inscription close
ly, but could find no clue to its appro,
pria.eness, when her little girl re-
marked u presume she died oftbe
nightmare"
Sey@ Mary Harris. the young wo-
man who Shot Burroughs, her former
lover, in Washington, and was after
ward acquitted on the ground Of in
sanity, is now il the hospital for the
insane, at Washington At periods
her madness takes very violent
form On one occasion She broke up
every thing destructive in her room,
and more than once has attempted
suicide.
rea-Slavery still continues in Ken
lucky. They call it apprenticeship,
but it is not worth while to differ
aboutnames. Colored persons, most
~ children and youth, bound as APP
prentices under the Kentucky laws,
are watched, worked, whipped, de-
graded and brutalized, precisely as in
the old days When the other name Of
the system was legal.
THE EGYPTIAN MUMMY-Prof.
Czermark of the University Of Jena,
while examining the stomach Of a
mummy, found a roll Of something.
which under the microscope, proved
to be skin OF the soles Of the feet
Further investigation shows that this
disposition Of the sole was common
practice, ard it is supposed to be
symbolical Of the eternal separation
Of the dead from tlfe earth.
G4g He Who shaves himself and de
sires to make the operation % co
Portable as possible, will sharpen his
razor Immediately after using it. This
is an idea OF Sir Humphrey Davv,
and when that philosopher was asked
why that time is better than any 9th.
er for the act, he replied: because
you then know how much sharpen.
ing it wants.
es- The rumor gains strength that.
johnson intends removing General
Pope from the command in the Dis
trict OF Georgia and Alabama. aad
that the delay is occasioned only by
the inability 10 find successor who
will do what Johnson wants done in
thepremises.
nen- Up to the End OF Decem Der,
T'rites our correspondent, FIVE hun
dred shocks Of earthquake have been
felt at 81. Thomas. The man who
says that Secretary Stewards last
purchase Is no great shake is clearly
mistaken.-Ne,C York Tribune.
pa 4 wit ohce asked a peasant,
what part be performed in lhe great
drama oflite? II mind my own bus
ines" was the reply.
R1g~ The Wisconsin, Grand LODGE
OF Old Fellows will meet in Mil
yankee January 10.