Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-10-13
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

we now pay, anu must continue to
pay SO long as reputation, partial
or total, open or covert, is threaten,
ed or suspected"
"A New York city dispa tch says
appointment Democrats here, mem
bers of the City Hall ring among
Others, privately admit that they
have no hopes of electing Seymour.
All they expect is to carry the State
for Hoffman, aud so gain the spoils
ofoiiicc. Republican still feel confd.
ent of electing Griswold by 10, 0O0 TO
10000"
A new colorod orphan asylum
at New York, bulls te replace that
destroyed by Governor SEYMOUR
friends, III 1868, has just been com
| pleted, and is partially occupied. l.
is near the upper end OF tho island,
three stories high, and 234 by 125
feet.
Olive Logan has expressed in
the SIN her views on the wiclycdest
man. question. She thinks Allen is
sincere, says he looks like Beccher.
and adds that man who is humbug>
ging his brethern cannot cry as nat
urally as John Allen does.
The New York Insurance 1Ioni-
tor says that there are secret organi,
cations now existing in the North,
whose mission is to intimidate men
and destroy property, and warns in>
surance companies to be on their
guard.
"A correspondent of the Liring>
st0a County (Iil) Democrat suggests
that meeting Of the grain growers
in that county be called for the pur-
pose of taking measures to eradicate
that dreadful pest to farmers, tho
Canada thistle.
The Memphis Post says Gen. Z.
c. Hindman, lately assassinated at
Helena, Ark, is represented as an
arbitrary and cruel commander,
and hundreds of his subordinates
were sworn to take bis life."
Shall Rebels rule or not rule the
country they tried SO recently to
destroy? This is the great question
TO be decided in November. Who
doubts what tho verdict Of the Amer
lean people will be?
"A cone of 100000 silver fige
franc pieces was the main attraction
at Fair III Marseilles, Franco. The
height was sixteen feet five inches,
and the circumference at the base
forty five feet.
Some half a dozen girls in
convent in Cincinnati climbed the
walls and ran off the other night
One broke her ankle in making
long jump, and was caught.
The managers and contractors of
the Pacific Railroad promise that we
shall have an uninterrupted road of
iron from the Atlantic to the Pacific
by the 4th Of July, 1869.
Mr.. Alexander Dumas will not
visit this country until next year, in
consequence 9th Presidential elect
ion. The terms OF his contract with
Ulman, the manager, were peculiar.
After the 1st of January next.
the registration fee on all letters
registered in and addressed to any
part of the United States, will DO
fifteen instead Of twenty cents.
In the Washington, Tenn, Cir,
cult Cotrt, the other day. A, Sikking
recovered SO. 900 from the Louisville
and Nashville RAILROAD for breaking
his arm.
-Messrs. Ducharmc & Proutiss,
of Detroit, on Friday received from
England forty one tons OF chain,
seven miles in length, and All in Que
peice.
In 1868, when Abraham Lincoln
was calling for five hundred thousand
men, Horatio Seymour was making
speeches III behalf Of ''conciiatory
policy"
-General Sigel resides at Morri-
siana, N. l., and is President of their
Grant and Colfax Club. Plenty of
Germans arc lighting nit Sigel"
this year.
Miss Gorchal1off, o young lady
from kaIuga Russia, has just rcceiv-
ed the degree Of Bachelor Of Sciences
from the faculty Of the University Of
Paris.
Captain Mayne Reid is to publish
magazine in New York, to be
called Oarard aud to be Illustrated
by English artists brought over for
the purpose.
Already the Union Pacific Rail-
road is dispatching snow pIows to
the several important points on tho
line, to fight the great storms in tho
mountains.
The Upton AdDerttser regards
the prospect good for silver in Cedar
county, Iowa. The silver bearing
rock is reported to be regularly stra>
tilted.
AT tho late reunion of the Thir,
y-ifth Ohio Veteran Infantry, a
poll was taken, which resulted in go
Republican and 2 Democratic votes.
When the Democracy lose the
Irish vote, they lose the only prop
that has hitherto, IN some measure,
stayed up their sinking cause.
An elder bush near Garfield,
Ohio, ten inches in circumference, two
inches from the ground, produced
385 lunches Of berries this season.
Tho gate receipts OF the Ohio
State Fair amounted to $4,000.
The total receipts from ell sources
were $24,500.
Knoxville is the most prosperous
city ia Tennessee. Carpet-bag en-
terprise IS protected and encouraged
there.
Bishop Quintari, of the Protest.
ant Episcopal Church, Of Tennessee,
has interdicted ritualism in his
diocese.
in the Cincinnati House of