Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-03-24
MISCELLANEOUS.

%, lOt enliSFaulr. hhiiN SNai"y
supplied III $40, nearly twice as many
and England 33,712. or more than
half AS many. Poverty and hard,
ships are at length telling on the fer
tility of the Celtic race in their native |
land The number of children In
families is declining to an average Of
two or three. In few years the |
Irish in America will outnumber
those remaining in the Emerald 1sle.
sA-On Monday next Connecticut
is to elect state officers. We have
doubts whether that state will yet |
return TO Repnblicanism-not till
next fall Last year the demeeratsi
carried The state by, nearly 1000 ma
jority. But in 1866, in consequence
of Lees surrender the state went Re.
publican by over i1000-the demo-
cracy being terribly demoralised as . |
result of the failure of their great
southern rebellion.
ssss- The Rev. Dr. Van Vecnten,
clergyman Of Alabamy is regarded
Us remarkable man, he has house
for sale. aud intrusted the negotiation
to an agent, fixing the price at Sc
600. The agent sold it for Sc 800
and the Doctor refused TO take the
extra $500, and ordered it To be re-
turned To the purchaser Very few
persons would transact business in
this way,
sS- Richard Bullymore, Buffalo
pork dealer, and having read a state
ment Of his business fer the past yea,
first deducted ten per cent for the
capital invested, and then divided the
profits between himself and twenty
two of those who had been longest
iii his employment. Tue sum diyi>
ded amounting in the aggregate to a
months salary for each.
ES-A correspondent to the Chica-
go Post says Senator Wade has not
received single letter based upon
expectancy OF his own occupying the
Presidential chair. He has received
one persond application only, and
that by colored person who was
DESTROYS Of becoming chef cook of
the kitchen department at the White
House, if Mr. Wade should relieve
President Johnson.
aA.The Minnesota Democrats
adopted the Ohio platform entire,
though one member denounced it as
"a timid. iockjaw, scary, cowardly
policy" The President of the Con-
ventiOn took the same view He was
Gin favor of getting back to the
irreversible decree of the Almighty.
who had established and ordained
slavery.
AID TO RAILRoADs.-We are glad
that the assembly had the good sense
to indefinitely postpone this danger
Gus proposition. When people want
a railroad built let them put their
hands in their pockets and pay the
money for it, end not attempt to vote
it out of those who have no interest
in the matter. -Janesuille Gazette
nA-C assius NJ. Clay, Minister at ST
Petersburg, has rendered his resigna
ton, at the request of the State Dc.
partment. A Frankfort, Ky, letter
says he will take the stump in that
State during the next Presidential
canvass, adding; He will go into the
rebel strongholds, and speak, peacea
BILE if he can, but he will speak"
aM.A man in West Penn, Schuyl-
kill county, Pa, finding some blast
ing powder he bad purchased toe
f coarse for his use, attempted to grind
it finer in coffee>mill. Result
noise, room filed with flying frag
ments OF coffee mill. window glass
furniture, crockery add badly burn
ed and worse frightened Dutchman.
np Connecticut is said to, be, in
proportion to it's population, the
richest State in the Union the az
erage pro perty of every inhabintant is
over 5000, which is abont one huns
daed dollars higher than the average
in the State next highest-Rhode
Island.
sas- Helena Montana Herald says The
yield of gold in that territory in 1867
was s20,000,000, instead Of S12.000,>
00a, as reported by the government
commissioners appointed to collect
statistics of the mineral resources
of the West.
sa- eddo is the largest city in the
world! 1t has one million five hun
dred thousand houses, FIVE million in
habitants, and has the largest traffic
by sea of any city in the world.
Many of its streets are twenty-five
miles long.
nea- The preliminary steps have,
been taken to build second brio. ore
across the Ohio river at Louisville
1t is designed to make TRACKS over
this purposed bridge for street cars,
wagons and carriages, and for
foot passengers,
R Matt FL. Carr,enter, of Wiscon-
sin, who has just argued the McCar-
die case in the Supreme Court, on be-
half Of the military authorities, is GO
ing to Connsticut to make speeches
for the Republicans.
The Baltimore Commercial says
Northern Democracy have, in New
Hampshire, only repeated some of
their former palpablc plumbers, in not
J making the Presidents cause their
own"
eSpThe New assessment law will
appear in the Herald in good time,
with carefully prepared criticism
of the same by gentleman who rare,
ly mistreats anything he sets himself
about analysing.
p0Two fine cows were killed in
! Belmont county, Ind, by drinking
brine in which meat has been pack
ed. aud which has been carelessly
| Iaft in "a farmers wear.