Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-11-17
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BY the Governor:
THOMAS 8. ALLEN,
Secretary Of State

sY-A census taker recently asked
servant girl how many regular,
steady boarders they were in the
house. She Informed him that there
were fifteen boarders in all, blu! "not
more'n four of EN- is steady the rest
is Dimmecrats."
ssg-A vast deal of land remains un.
pl oductive on either side of railroad
tracks, everywhere. A French com
pany proposes to utilize this land in
France, and has leased for sixty
years the land of a railroad company,
to plant fruit trees.
psa-A certain little damsel, having
been aggravated beyond endurance
by her big brother, pumped down
upon her knees and cried 90 Lordl
bless my brother Tom. He lies, he
steals, be swears all boys do; Is
GIRLS DON'T. Amen.
sos- Woman suffrage has been dc.
feated in England. La the case of
Miss l.. Brecker, the Court of Com
mon Pleas, at London, has rendered
a decision, in which all the Judges
concur, that the common law of Eng
land gives women no right to vote.
r@-Tho cultivation Of tobacco in
Virginia, says the Richmond Enqutr>
er OF the 9th inst, is SO rapidly de-
clining, that it will in all probability
DO discontinued because of it's IN
proitableuess.
szg- At least two States, Indiana
and wisconsin, have Grant " coun-
ties. Her eater we may expect to
see many new towns, counties, base
ball clubs, ships, and young hopeful
rejoicing in that mono-syllabic name.
A German in New Albany, Ind,
has what he calls q dumping clock"
in his window. On Its top is fat
and jolly'looking Teuton, who holds
a fork in his hand By an ingenious
continuance the fork, at the end of
each minute, dips into dish of dum>
pings, and carries one of them to the
mouth of the Teuton, who swallows
it with choking gurgle and q queer
motion of his glass eyes.
AT the recent New York tate
Fair, a Rochester firm exhibited q
circular saw eighty inches in dame
ter, made from plate that was on
exhibition at tho Worlds Fair, Lon
don, az the largest plate of steel ever
rolled.
"A religious paper is announced in
Montreal, entitled the =" Aue Mdriq,"
TO be published in the interest of the
Holy Virgin. A grand mass in re-
QUEEN and a certain number of com,
munions will be given to persons sub
scrlbing twenty dollars.
1t is said that the three highest
mountains on the globe are Gaurisan-
k ar OF the Himalya range, go, $50 feet.
Dapsang, in Western Thibt, 2S,730
feet, and Ranchininga, in the Eastern
Thibet, 28,600 feet.
An exchange paper says two
posts split from the same log were set
for gate posts, one top end in the
ground, the other but end in the
ground; the first lasted seventeen
years, the other ten years.
The Church Monthly. an organ
Of the Episcopalians, in it's October
number comes out squarely for Rit-
uaiism, which, it says, lis "a system
thai belongs to the Church by right
of inheritance
I: has been discovered that Ben
jamin Franklin published the first
Methodist book in this country, in
I740. 1t was Wesley's sermon upon
free grace, and Franklin printed
many editions of it.
The New Hampshire Democracy
have just suffered their eighteenth
successive defeat. This time thew
are buried under a Republican MAJ
jority of about 5000.
Seven years ago last Saturday
Grant fought his first battle OF the re-
bellion, at Belmot, Missouri. He
had only $500 men, while Cheatham
had 1000 rebels.
General James Shields, who was
at one time United States Senator
from Illinois, is elected to Congress |
from Missouri. He's a model "carp.
and a copperhead.
Webster City and Fort Dodge,
Iowa. have voted a five per cent. tax
IN aid of the extension of the Du>
buque and Sioux City Railroad to
those places.
Hon. John A. Griswold, defeat
I'd for Governor of New York by
Democratic frauds, will contest the
election of Hoffman before the State
Court of Appeals.
The New York city Republicans
ire proud of steady gain in the
Presidential vote. from 17.771 for
Fremont, 10 1856 to 47,778 for
frant, in 1868.
Since the overthrow OF the
monarchy in Spain, FIVE
undred Jessuits have fed across the ;
rontier to Portugal.
Dubuque has new gas works
apable of supplying city having a c
opulation OF $4,000.
Seventy counties give Demo-
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