Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-11

euitOf Vi Cnlca8O paper VINO IL Ou |
a visit to New Orleans, after des-
cribing the elevator built there by |
Mr.. Highly, Of this city, goes on to
cay: eft few millions of bushels of |
western wheat and corn would take
this route to the ultimate market, it
would have an excellent influence in
cheap ening railroad freights from
the Mississippi River to Chicago, and
therefore / wish the New Orleans
elevator great success. DAILY Wis
consin.
ty- Here is an item for the Chi
cago scoffers at the Mississippi grain
movement. 1t is from the Dubuque
Times of the 18th ult. "The Mo.
hawk got off last night with her five
barges containing As, 900 bushels of
wheat, and $50 barrels of -four from
Lansing and about the same quantity
of oats, wheat and -four from here
in all about 100000 bushels of grain.
She will receive more at Galena."
AvFEcTING.-A gentleman passing
by the jail Of country town, heard
one of the prisoners through the
gates of his cell, singing in the soft
est and most melodious tone that ia.
voritc song. Home, Sweet Home"
His sympathies were very much ex-
cited IN favor of the the unfortunate
tenant OF the dungeon, and upon in
tNr. L..
ton was informed that he was put in
jail for beating his icfe.
Eg The daughter of the owner Of
fifteenhundred acres of beautiful land
in Virginia and On heiress Of untold
wealth" is SAID habiiualIy to be seen
with dirty hands. dozy eyes, towsly
red hair, an old homespun, ragged
dress, form which indicates the en-
tire absence Of bustles. hoops, paper
collars, cotton and paint her toes
out and driving mule with one rein
| to wO-wheeled mule carr.
Boa. TheFates on the Atlantic tel
egraph cable will be reduced on June
l, to ten dollars, gold, for ten words,
from New York to London, with five
words allowed for address and sigma
ture, and one dollar for each addi-
tional word that message may con-
tain in excess of ten words. The
present rate is S1.67 in gold per
word, or S1670 for ten words.
s@~The Independent, referring to
the common way of calling reform
ers, long-haired, gives the names
of the principal American and
shows they are all deficient in hair,
or else keep it closely cut Garrison,
Phillips, Greeley, Theodore Parker
and Butler have very little hair
Summer and Beecher are close crop
ped.
@-The Stockbridge Indians in
Wisconsin are rapidly disappearing.
This tribe once numbered 10000
warriors. They immigrated from
Massachusetts to New York in 1889.
to Ohio in 1909, and to Wisconsin in
1921. They are now suffering for
food, and number about three hum
dred men, women and children.
n@-A woman was victorious in the
struggle for the Hatfield postoffice, at
Greenfield, Mass, recently. Com
gress man Washburn, before whom
the case was heard, decided in favor
OF Mrs. Ursula B. Graves, widow of
the gallant Sergeant Graves, of the
Thirty"seventy Massachusetts,, who
was killed in the Wilderness.
s0- The New York Journal of Com
merce submits the following theory:
"The aurora borealis is the silent
discharge of accumulated electricity
in the atmosphere, furnishing the
same relief to nature as flashes of
lightning under other conditions"
s@-A party living ten miles north
OF Chilicothe, Mo, has been Offer
ing, until recently, his land at two
dollars per acre, and no buyers
Since the location of the railroad
near his place he sold forty acres at
eight dollars, and is offered still
higher price for another tract.
49, Gold has been found in New
Hampshire. but the report adds thai
The quartz v hen ground up, is found
20 be most valuable manure. aud
worth more tor this purpose than the
gold found in it.
s@- The real and personal proper
" At Cuba, exclusive of Government
and Church lands. il estimated at
81 324 600, 000-and the annual in
conn from investments of all kinds |
at 1892, 100000.
sa- Gen'l Parker. The newly ap-
pointed commissioner OF Indian Al |
fairs and himself full blooded Indl. |
an, late of Gen'l Grants staff. entered |
upon his duties as such on Monday |
the Goth nit.
n@-Scientitic men say that the |
time O! the diurnal revolution of the |
earth is gradually being shortened. |
on account of the shrinkage of the |
earth by cooling in the interior.
"A century plant in the posses |
sion of the Messrs. Frost, Rochester, |
will be in blossom in a few days.
Only three or four of these plants
are known to have blossomed in the |
United States.
Verify the world moves. Spain
the home of Inquisition--is to have |
liberty of worship. In the Cortes, |
the article securing this boon was
passed by vote of l64 against 40.