Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1868-05-26


The language of the sole
creaking boots.
sM- One horse power mo wing ma
chimes are coming into use.
n@-A blue horse with buff face
is exhibited in London--not by Bar.
mum either.
You may joke when you please, il
you are careful TO please when you
joke.
Tell man in q single word that
be took late breakfa At-ten-u-
ate.
BY some singular hocus pocus OF
fate there is not single lawyer a
mong the 1877 convicts in the Iowa
Penitentiary.
s0-The President of the Fruit
Growers Association estimates the
value. of tie fruit of the Ohio valley
at IS, 600, 900 year
ID- Great floods prevail in South
Carolina. The rice fields on the San
tee river ere covered with water to
the depth of seven feet.
sea.Mr. Ross, the Kansas Senator,
was foreman of the Milwaukee Sen
tiael in 1855, and in that year ennis
grated to Kansas.
49, The Cork 1reland) Herald
! tka4 Of hO Il
young Irish men and women left
Queenstown for America on April
so.
sas-The st. Louis Board OF Trade
has voted an appropriation of $4,000
to entertain the Wisconsin and Min
nesota editors upon their visit to that
city in June next,
nEAdvices from Idaho state that
the grasshoppers threaten great
havoc in Cedar Valley. Reports
from the mines are good, and labor is
in demand.
In the Old School Presbyterian
General Assembly, now in session at
Albany, N. Y, colored delegate
from Georgia was admitted to seat
this morning. The world does move.
m-Another ungarded individual
undertook to blow out the barrel of
his gun the other day, but the gun
got in the first blow and blew off the
top of his head.
gY-The Treasury Department has
received offers within a few days,
from German bankers, for the pur-,
chase of all of the 1910 bonds re-
naming to be issued under the law.
| s@-KossUTH has resigned his seat
in the Hungarian Diet. His friends
called for the reading of his resigna-
ton but it was opposed by the Ministe
rial party, ard was not permitted.
No. MRS. Jessie Benton Fremont is
to unveil the statue of Thomas Ell.
Benton, her father, who is to be put
in position in ST. Louis, on the 9th of
this month.
s@GEN. Utley, of the Racine
| (Wis.) Journal, gets off this: "Well
if Andrew Johnson gets clear, it will
not affect our politics. but it will give
our religion an apful strain"
pn-A. Fl. Lee, Esq, of Randolph
county, Illinois, the man who drew
he Crosby Opera House, returns an
income for 1867 of s213,031 so, on
which he pays an income tax of$10,.
691.59.
FTHE Air Line of railroad from
| New York to Washington is to be
brought up again in Congress, aud
the II. Y. World thinks it will pass,
Notwithstanding the opposition of the
monopolists.
sss-A raft containing 1000, ZOO
feet of lumber and 1000, 900 latin and
shingles is noticed by the Sank Cen
ter Wis., Herald as probably the larg
est ever floated in one body in that
State. r
nN-Outward politeness cannot be
learned in set forms at school, for, at
the best, it will be hollow and decep-
tive genuine politeness, like every.
thing else genuine, comes from the
heart.
| EA Democrat paper in Detroit
proposes that the party nominate foI
President the Hon. Hole>in the Day
| of Chippewa, and for Vice President
the Hon. Hole-in>the' Sky, of Massa
soft.
William K. Dodge is the most
presidential man in the country
Among the institutions over which
he presides are the New York Chris
tian Association, the National Tenn
perance Society, and the Dodge fam
lily.
When a gentleman who hao
been accustomed to give money by
thousands of dollars. WAS asked by
bis presumptive heir. where bis prop
erty was to be found, be replied, "lr
the pockets of the INDECENT and laid
up in heaven"
s~THR editor and publisher o.
the Radical paper in Pesth, Hunga'
ry, which published Kossuth's letter
to the electors of Waitzen, have beer
condemned by the jury to one years
imprisonment aud fine of 2,00i
forms.
sA-A writer in the GALAXY 70
June urges the adoption in this coun
try of the railroad system that prev
ails in Belgium, and perhaps in som
other European countries, namely
their purchase and coatrol by tn
general Government.
pa- George Washington Francis,
colored boy, who formerly lived i
Bridgeport, is now His Imperia
Highness." in Hayti. He is q cousin
of President Jeffard. George Wash
ington is good name for an "lm
oerial Highness."