Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-20

The condition of the sugar crop
of Louisiana is said to be very dis.
couraging. The buildings and mach.
inery essential to the cultivation are
said to be falling in ruins. The
crop has declined from 500, 900 to
less than 100000 hogsheads. The
failure is mainly owing to the ops
osition Of the planters to the terms
of the field hands and operatives.
The Grand Lodge of colored
Masoas was in session at Wilmington,
Del, all last week. Massachusetts
and fifteen other States were re-
presented. White Masons, who turn
up their noses at the colored brethren,
are not perhaps aware that the old,
est lodge in this country is colored
lodge in Boston.
1t is said, on good authority,
that Spain at this moment possesses
no less than 500 converts, with Is. 600
nuns. There are fifty-fve bishops,
$500 cannons and abbots, 1900
regular priests" $4,000 Wears, etc.
The budget for the Church is twice
as high in pain as in France.
RB-The Ku KIux democrats at
Memphis boarded Government ves-
sci and threw overheard many boxes
OF arms destined for Arkansas There
is big time about it. The govern
ment bad ordered these arms sent to
Arkansas to be used in protecting the
public property.
Besides five Republican mem
bers Of the present House of Repre-
sentatives who have already been re
elected to the next Congress, the Re
publican party has put in nomina
ton seventy-eight Of his present
memb ers.
The Church Monthly, an organ
of the Episcopaians, in its October
number comes out squarcly for ritual
ism, which, it says, sis system that
belongs to the church by right of
inheritance. Iii is no innovation. but
a resurrection from the dead"
The Waupun Leader says Mrs.
IL. Drew, Of that place. bad her
pocket picked while at the State Fair
at Madison, last week. The thief
only got some IS in available funds,
but carried off papers good for ST.
600.
Among the delegations from
! W Washington to the great demonstrate
ion Of "Boys in Blue" were the
"Printers' Grant and Colfax Club OF
the District Of Columbia" numbering
70 men-70 of whom carried muskets
during the war.
The Memphis appeal is true to
its record in the following passa re
The South is our land the North is
a foreign and hostile realm. The day
will come when the South will be
independent"
Last year, two thrifty Germans
purchased eighty acres of land in
Southern Tennessee. This season
they gathered strawberries enough
from four acres of it to pay for the
whole tract.
The new style of bonnet in
creoses those diminutive objects ii
size the whole sixteenth of an inch
Progressive movement. At this rate
they will be visible to the naked eye
in five years.
DR.. Grus, German physician
was the first TO introduce homeo.
pathic practiceinto the United States
A present, the number of homeo
! pathic practitioners in this country
is 3,637.
One farm in Wisconsin makes
$4,000 ladies reticules yearly, besides
5000 children's willow carriages
yearly. For these latter the firm
owns ninety acres of willow planta
ton.
De Quincy being asked why
there were more women than men
replied at is in conformity will
the arrangement of nature we al
ways see more of Heaven thar
earth"
Tho Wisconsin River Pilot, re
ports twenty~four hours rain a
Wausau last week, followed by snow
to the depth Of FIVE or six inches, ant
a freeze forming ice an inch thick,
! Mr.. Mag, the inventor of tn
STRENGTHENING machine, proposes t,
give Pittsburgh $4,000 for a news
boys and bootblacks' home. A mag
nificent proposition.
The New, York San wants t
know what will'eventually become 0
i Andrew Johnson, "who went in b.
actual murder, and goes out by pol
itical suicide"
/ Gen. F. P. Blair, Jr. is not vo-
tel in Missouri, He refuses to tax
the oath prescribed by the law on al
citizens who exercise the electiv,