Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-08-18
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


in two with his scythe. On tht ro-
turn swarth, he took hold of the piece
to which the head was attached when
he was bitten on the thumb. a piece
of tho flesh being taken completely
out A bandage was placed tightly
round the arm, when the poison
caused the hand to burst, and could
not be prevented from penetrating
beyond the bandage and reaching
the heart.
--Upshire county, West Virginia,
claims to have the largest and r; chest
iron mountain in the world, not ex~
cepting that of Missouri, underlaid
by vein of bituminous coal twenty
five feet in thickness, X is only one
hundred and fifty miles from Pitts
burg. and railroad is already pro-
Jected to run to it.
1T is estimated that in a hot day
$50, 900, glasses of soda, costing the
drinkers $4,000, are Consumed" at
New York. The entire expenditure
for one season is about $1,000 900,
half of which is profit to the seller
Several large drug firms pay their
store rent and running expenses by
their sales of soda.
The Baraboo Independent reports
that Pat Wilnick, the notorious rob
Der, broke out of jail the other day
in the absence OF the sheriff, by
knocking down the jailer's wife
when giving him cup of water, but
was Immediately pursued and cap>
tured.
-Cabtian Daniel Webster, OF La
Crosse, has been appointed Special
Treasury Agent for Wisconsin, under
the State enactments of 1867 and
1868, for the purpose of receiving
peddlers licenses and collection of
fees, also for licenses for the patent
right dealers.
DR.. Woolsey, President of Yale
College, in an article designed to
show the necessity Oft revision of the
loose legislation governing the mari.
tai relations, says that in Connecticut
during the last eight years there were
2,OlO divorces, or nearly one to every
eleven of the marriages in the State.
The number of threshing mach
ines in the country is set down at
$4,000, and it is estimated that they
save five per cent. more of the grain
than the fail. This would save to
the country more than 100000
bushels of grain. worth at least $780,
100000.
Captain Heaney, of Rochester,
MIMI, has fifty thousand dollars
worth of horses in his stable. He is
the greatest horse fancier in the
State, and his horses are all valuable
ones-either for speed or stock get
ing.
A case to test the right of Chi
nese to testify in the California
courts under the fourteenth amend
ment to the Constitution, will be
made up at San Francisco immedia-
tely, with the intention of carrying
it to the Supreme Court.
1t is Stated that General Robert
r. Lee, the leader of the armies of the
lost cause, will spend this month at
French Lick Springs, in Orange coun
ty, Ind, as the guest of DR.. William
Bowles. the leader of the Sons of
of Liberty.
William B. Astor, Of New York.
is reported to be worth one hundred
and twenty millions of dollars. He
pays tax on one half of that sum.
and his real estate is worth double its
assessed value.
Hamilton, Canada, has achieved
the reputation Of having the most
corrupt government in the Dominion,
having outstripped Montreal, which
has heretofore enjoyed, or otherwise.
that pre.eminonce.
"A deadly feud exists in Fcntress
county, Tenn, between families
named Hatfield and Beatty on one
side an Piles on the other. Five or
six of them have been killed, and
uuOIS DlOOuSuOu Is expected.
A little girl at Durham, Me, cou,
ghed up an acorn which she swallow
ed last winter, and which had sprout.
ed and would soon have become O
vigorous young oak.
John Walter, who as publisher of
the London Times, holds some rela-
ton with literature, will contest his
native county Of Berks against the
Tories.
"A Jew and Catholic were re-
Gently married in Liege, Belgium, by
a Protestant clergyman, me parties
having in vain applied to rabbi and
PRIEST ~ unite them.
Lawrence, Kansas, has voted
tor subscription of $500, 600 to the
Denver. Lawrence and st. Louis
railroad The vote was 900 for, and
AZ against.
Some the seditious Southerners
declare ifSeymour is not elected they
will leave the country. That is one
OF the strongest arguments for the
election Of Grant.
--The revenue returns show that
Caiifornia's production Of the pre-
cious metals is decreasing, but that
is agriculture is growing largely in
Importance.
Kentucky, il is reported, has not
a single daily journal outside ofLou.
isville. No wonder il gives 10000
Democratic majority.
Matt. II. Carpenter is going to
Maine about the middle of this month
to make some Grant and Colfax
speeches there.
"A man was picked up in the
streets of New Orleans, the other
day, who was formerly a Senator
in Congress. Whiskey ruined him.
Prof. J. G.. Pickard of Madison