Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-03-09

EE Sol Smith, in his will, saws.
81 request that 10 one wi! wear
mourning for me, as / expect to 20
Immediately into q horld of happi-
ness, at which my friends should re-
loice. 1t IS my special wish that my
body may not be dressed up ID suit
as if alive, but that it be dressed up
in an oId>fashioued shroud. tho
head resting on q small pillow, if
conveniently at hand"
nAGov. Brownlow, Senator eleot
from Tennessee, arrived at Washing.
ton on Saturday. He was subjected
to various insults by the Virginia
chigalry on the way. At Charlottos>
vile a gang Of rowdies got into the
special car 10 which he rode. and one
Of them drew a revolver on the
Senator. lie was hustled cat IN
short order.
EThc Columbus, Wis, Eqqle
says mineral spring exists in Sparta.
Che waters Of which, according to
analysis, contain the carbonates Of
irch, magnesia and soda, iodine of
iron and chloride d soda. The ahaly.~
SO given proves the spring to 30
superior in many respects 81 any
a. { Of the kind yet discovered on
this continent.
EgThe bill for the issue Of S. 0OO-
600 thirty-year six per cent. gold
bonds passed 10 a third reading
in the Louisiana Legislature. The
bonds are TO be put on the market,
and the proceeds used in repairing
the levees. Both Houses ratified the
fifteenth 70 tho Constitution OF the
United States.
kDIho New York JForM says,
with proiale wit, of a proposition to
place % recognition If the Almighty
in the Constitution of the United
States Sumner will certainly object
TO tie whole propositioa, on the
ground that the obnoxious word
white is used in limiting and describ>
ing the throne Of the Almighty in
the Apocalypse"
salt is stated that there ARC II
this State IA daily, 146 weekly and
, monthly publications making a
total in the State Of 1872 publications.
These are also 81 Job printing Offices
where no paper is published. In the
United States there are 542 daily.
1926 weekly, aud 277 monthly pub
lications.-State journal
EgIn pegging boots BY steam
twenty cases or, 240 pairs Of boots
are a usual days work. One man
in Hopkinton, Mass, has pegeed
eignty-threo cases, / 1892 boots, in
two days. lie once pegged forty
eight boots, twice round, in fourteen
minutes and did one boot. in tri-
81 Of speed, in thirteen seconds
s|It is remarkable that of all the
meteorites of varying composition
that have fallen from the skv to the
earth, and which must have come
from far different regions Of space
not one has shown the presence Of q
single chemical element with which
we were previously unacquainted.
SEA huge rock, several tons il
weight, broke loose from the high
bluff at Raccoon Mountain, overlook
ing the Nashville and Chattanooes
railroad, Monday night, and rolled
upon the track. 1t bad to be drilled
on every side and blasted to pieces
before it could be removed.
4 Gs-A fog,whistle, to DO worked
/ By ten. horse power engine, is BE-
! ing constructed Tor Thatcber's Island
of Shlem, Mass. 1t will be ready
by the LIST Of June. This will be the
largest and most powerful log
whistle in the world.
rea- It is a fact well known to owns
ers of poultry that the occasional
use Of onions 10 be mixed and led 10
poultry with their other food i one
Of the surest ways Of keeping q yard
; Of poultry in health.
ey-Miss Susan B. Anthony lost
500 when starting from the Villa.
House, Madison, WIS.,, che sum paic
her by the agent of the party with 1
| view to the defraying of their ex
5 penses.,
E@ The Waman's Co-cperativ,
Union, in California, six months old
has already cleared $4,000 in stocl
on hand. Sewing gives employment
to 100 women.
5 BE- Rochester. formerly the eente
i of the famous New York wheat re