Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-27

victim.
The cars are now running regu
larry to Belmont on the Plattevill
and Calamine Railroad, and quite ;
village is springing up. About thif-
: ty buildings are already finished o.
under way.
Following the example of Judge
Pierrepont, John W. Bennett, mem
Der of the Tammany General Com
mittoe, has declared in favor of Grant
and Colfax. Tammany stock is ra6"
idly declining.
-Irishmen of New York filed
Cooper Institute, the other night. to
listen to that noble Irishman, Sena,
tor CONFESS, and other Republican
orators. The most intense enthus~
iasm prevailed for Grant and Coitax.
Among the men who have been
discharged from the United States
Armory in Springfield, Mass. re-
Gently, for want Of work, is Mr.. vii
liam Bliss, who has been in the em>
ploy Of the Governor since 1920.
The Mineral Point Tribune says
the telegraph poles are set from
Warren to that city, and the company
intends to have the wires on them by
| the middle of this week, and an office
opened Immediately thereafter.
The petroleum of the banks Of the
Irrawaddy, in Burmah, is being
pumped up from depth of go feet
by the English, against the remon-
stranoes OF the priests ana people,
who look upon it as sacred oil.
-Orson Cone, of Wells, Vt, who
has been blind for number Of years,
recently husked sixty >t1ree and one
half bushels Of corn in one day lie
also threshed 100 bushels Of oats in
three days.
The New York IV.rid says the
October elections make il feel like
the owner Of a horse that failed 10
win the race by half neck 10 con-
sequence Of having slightly too
heavy rider.
There is a steam engine in New
York that runs l25 presses, prints 30
different newspapers, makes hoop
skirts, binds books and runs mile
OF shafting.
W. &. Camp, Democratic candi-
date for Sheriff OF Fulton county,
O., has been found guilty of counter
feiting, and is in Jail awaiting sen
tence.
A. II. Stephens initiates Dickens
and reads extracts from his own
works. He fails to extract any
comfort for the lovers Of The "lost
cause"
"A Mr. Otis, of Buchanan county,
Iowa, was robbed Of $1,700 and a
gold watch, last week, by n thief
who stopped over night at his house
in the guise OF a Methodist preacher.
The Indiana Legislature stands
Senate, 81 Republicans to 10 Demo
Gratis; House-55 Republicans to 43
Democrats-Rcpublican majority on
joint ballot, "a
Down in Georgia tho negroes
voted labels of '.Rat and Roach Elk
terminator," being told that the pic
ture Of a rat on the paper stood for
ratification.
Experiments show that sounds
upon the earth are distinctly heard al
a much greater distance by people in
balloons than by those who are also
upon tho earth.
The Introduction OF American
sleeping cars on German railroads
has been suggested, and the question
is being agitated.
The church in Tarsu5, the Apos
tie Paul's birth place, is hourishing
under the care Of American mission
aries.
The Alton, Illinois, Banner, a
German Democratic paper, on the
10th hoisted the names OF Grant and
Colfax.
While Mr.. Nixon was opening
the river bridge, in Dubuque, Iowa,
on the Sd inst, ho lost his balance,
fell into tho river ald was drowned.
Frank Blair visited the Soldiers
Homo at Dayton, o.. Monday, and
the vetarans Kissed aud groaued him
out.
The Joy Mill, erected in Della,
ware county, Pa, in 1873. manuiac.
tured printing paper used by Ben.
Franklin, and is still in operation.
From all accounts, the tobacco
crop in kentucky has been success.
and the damage BY frost is very
slight.
Out of some 500 votes cast by
the inmates Of the oldiers Home, ut
Dayton, Ohio, only two ballots bore
the name of Yailandigham.
Only 100 young men from YER
mont we've connected with any COLI
ege in the State or out Of 1t, last year.
Hon. J. NJ. Ashley ran SOB votes
behind his tick ct, 10 The city OF Toledo.
Hoag's majority in the district is II.
Sixty thousand gallons Of wine
will be made this year II the vicinl-
" Of Burlington, Iowa.
Fifty thousand Vermont chi
dren attend free schools at an annual
expense Of 100000.
The British royal family manage
, to subsist on $50, 5000
g Every man who has tho later
eats of his country at heart shoald
J be at the polls to>day and should re-
main there to counteract tho game
of Seymourites and their Rebel
/ friends. The outlaw sentiments OF
the Universe will be duly appreciated
by our people to day.
n@- The probabilities are that the
Republicans of Missouri will carry
the First Congressional District BY
500, the Second by 1000, the Third
by small majority, the Fourth by
5000, tho Fifth by 1000, the Seventh
/ go 4.