Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1867-10-29

Rar Charles Dickens is to lecture in
GAINESVILLE during the winter, for
which be is to be paid $500.
sea- Brigham Young has been
scoldng his Bishops for drunken
ness.
aea. Noah was probably the only
person who ever went to sea for fear
of being drowned.
eg-The son who had fifty acre
lot left him by his father is said to
be ''contented with his lot"
SECRETARIES Dickens will take
steamer for the United States on
the I'd of November, arriving in New
York about the 18th.
seg-A thousand women marched
the streets OF Rome barefooted re :
Gently, as penitential service, on ac-
count of the visitation OF cholera.
soy The returns from Mexico i'm
dictate the election of Juarez as Press
ident ofthat republic-if such il may
be clled
aen- The Cincinnati Enquirer ofthis
morning names George Ii. Pendleton
rs the choice of the Democracy of
Ohio and the Northwest, fer next
President ofthe United States.
EF The English language has CO.
600 words-in the dictionaries. Good
! takers and writers use but 5000 in
all, and a foreigner can travel on
600
sea- Mrs. Hoffman, who was stab>
bed by her divorced husband, in
church, at Canton, Ohio, on Sunday
week, died on Sunday night, and
Hoffman hung himself in his cell on
Sunday night.
sen~ From the Yankton Ddkotidn,
of the 18th inst, we learn that the
returns from the various counties on
tie Missouri slope of Oak ota Territo>
ty indicate Republican victory in
the recent election.
aeA- Why are young ladies kissing
each other like an emblem of Christ,
ianity? Because they are doing unto
each other as they would that men
should do unto them.
aaS- The announcement that Chi
cago has been determined upon as
the place for holding the Matte
Republican Convention was prema-
ture. The matter will not be decided
till December.
ssS- Ohio is now the chief wool.
growing state, having 9,50S,058 head
ofsheep, out of 80, sos, 797 in the Uni
ted States. In 1866 the live stock of
Ohio was valued at $751; 100000, be-
ing greater than any other state ex-
cept New York.
A-The talors' strike in London,
which lasted seven months, has ended
by the men going to work on such
terms as the employers chose to give
them. They had been seven months
idle, eating up their savings and the
wages of their fellow work men.
5 asa great battle has been fought
{ near Pekin, China, between the reb-
4 els and the army of the Emperor,
is which the latter was defeated. The
dispatch adds that Pekin was in dam
ger of falling into the hands of the
rebels.
ESA correspondent ofthe Geauga
(Ohio) Democrat says that cows,
> which last spring, brought $50 to-S75,
: are now selling, on account of the
: drought, for $25. The cheese facto>
ries will soon have to suspend opera.
tions for want of milk.
! sas-T The Madison State Journal saws
r that on Wednesday of last week, Mr..
5 Timothy Manning and Mrs Dale,
who reside few miles from Orion,
Remand County, Wis, were both
killed by being thrown from wag>
on attached to a span of runaway
horses.
aes- The most intelligent Fenians
, in England are hopeful that the com
ing European war will give them
their s''opportunity." All Europe,
they say, is paralyzed with the GER
tainty that a. general war will break
out this autumn, or next spring at
furthest.
Bay Scotland, it is reported, has
been visited by symptoms Of severe
and premature winter. The cold
weat her has caught the oat crop be-
fore it ripened, and there are fears
that much of it will be lost The
farmers are in great alarm, for all
their crops are suffering, and The
winter prospects are gloomy.
nea-A correspondent of the St.
Louis Democrat says that at the late
Fair in Saline County, Mo-, the Amer
lean flag was not hoisted till the sec
ond day, and then was taken down
and torn in pieces at night-after
which no American flag was raised
at the fair.
aea- Henry A. Wise lately deliver
ed an address in Virginia, in which
he advised the young men of the
state to become farmers, do their
own labor, and get rid of the ne
groes and European immigrants"
This same Wise is a prominent
Democrat OF Virginia.
s@ The Captain>General of Cuba
seems to be afraid of Geographic
dispatches. A cable despatch, giv>
ing nows of Garibaldi's victories in
Italy, was published in one of the
Havana papers after the Captain
General had suppressed it, and he il
now after the offending operator who
sent it out.
rea-The new Silver Tips recently
introduced by the American Shoe
Tip Company are decidedly orna-
mental. A metal tip adapted to first
class shoes has long been needed, for
children will wear holes in the toes
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