Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-11-02

AOOhj buCH DIS WOulu certainly nave
been observable under similar cir
cumstances at home, but every man,
soldier and civilian alike, looked dig
nified and grave"
Ten inches of snow fell in Lewis
Co., n. Y. on the 21st
Tho Wisconsin State Prison CON
taIns 807 convicts.
- Rochefort has fought fifty-four
duels up to the present time.
brigham Young is asserted to
be the richest man in America.
OF seventy women who went TO
Oregon from Massachusetts two
years ago sixty-nine are married.
The public debt statement for
October will show reduction ofS8,-
100000.
Dexter is so named from his
habit of putting the right foot fere-
most.
General Butterfeld United
States Assistant Treasurer at New
York, has resigned.
jay Gould has been reelected
President of the Erie Railroad Com
pany.
Miss Julia G. Addington has
been elected Superintendent of Pub
lie Schools in Mitchell county, Iowa.
Seizures of distilleries are being
made in Pennsylvania and Virginia,
for frauds Oh the revenue.
Washington Territory boasts of
an immense cranberry marsh. yield
ing 100000 bushels in single year
Ice was formed at Richmond,
Va, night before last, and at Angus
ia, Ca, there was a heavy frost
The elegant Fisk, Jr., says: "If
Vanderbilt lives two years longer, |
will bust the old cuss."
M. Henry Rochefort, of the
Paris Lanterne, is again candida
for seat in the Legislatif Corps
i is calculated that MI he -e]d
in the world could BE put Dfo &
space OF twenty feet square aad the
same height.
of seven hundred Baptist chur-
ches in Missouri, not more than
twenty-five have preaching regular
ly.
Six brokers are said to have
been sent TO the insane asylum from
New York since the late gold cor
ner.
--latest advices from Cuba indi-
cate that the revolutionists are be-
coming discouraged, and beginning
to despair of success.
Mr. Greeley, it is reported is
about to buy thousand acres of
land in Virginia and divide it up in
to ten farms for as many families.
1t is said that not enough wheat
will be raised in Great Britain this
year by $4,000, 900 bushels, for home
consumption.
"A statistician has figured out the
arabic land in the United State. 1t
amounts to 100000 farms of 60
acres each.
The Pail Mall Gaeette suggests
the shoeing of pointers, to prevent
the stubbe cutting their feet. A
steam dog is the next step.
Mrs. Stoves reply to her ass
ATLANTIS will probably make a small
volume. 1t will be published by
Fields, Osgood 4 Co.
Two more of the victims of the
boiler explosion at the Indiana State
Fair grounds have died-making
twentyfour in all.
The fashionable engravers say
they never were so busy with we'd
ding card orders as at present. No
indication of hard times this,
"A steam shovel, capable of do
ing the work of 100 men, has Just
been put in use on one of the Illinois
railroads, for the purpose of loading
cars with gravel.
The price of broom corn brush
has been rising yearly, and is now
quoted, wholesale. At this rate it
must be more profitable fibre to
produce than cotton.
In bayou near Natchez, a
short time since, two ield-pieces,
loaded with slugs. stones, balls, etc,
were discharged into crowd of alli-
igators fighting over the carcass of a
sheep, and twenty-one Of the rep
tiles were killed.
The genealogy of the Hall fam
lily, preparing in Portland, Maine,
shows that the whole number Of the
descendants of Hatevil Han, in 1876
years, will probably, reach the res
pectable figure Of 10000
sss- A Beloit CORES pondent says !:
Some of our fast men In Beloit are
making an effort to start club
The design is to secure rooms and
furnish them them with billiard and
card-tables, &C., and make it an in
viting place for men, young and old.
to spend their evenings. In a word,
they will ape the city clubs, and
make one more trap with which to
ruin men.' The project will probably
meet with tho cuncaro ~ Jaca,rae .;