Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-01-05

EksAs ldtuCT u DdO BtdtC dDGiic
ia certain portions of Baldwin Go
Ala in reference to the institution
Of marriages Quite number have
been spliced By the Justice of the
Peace. who. it turns out. was never
qualified, and hence the marriages
are null and void A bona fide Ju ,lice
has been procured and the work Of
reconstruction il progressing To
The credit of the Baldwinites be it
said not man availed himself of the
Ioophnle of escape made by the law.
ssy- A Washington dispatchinforms
q. of u d.abolica plot concocted by
Mississippi Ku-KIux to asSassinate
General McGee. member of Congress
from the Fourth District of that
State. He was shot at while on
steamer near Natchez, Miss, by
gang OF de4peradoes headed by one
Bill Hewitt. who was short time
ago sentenced to Jail for participating
IN u tar and feather outrage, and
subsequently released on writ Of
hdbeaS corpus.
seA- The inhabitants Of tho Upper
Peninsula Of Michigan have held
convention at Honghton, at which
resolutions were adopted, stating
that il is the desire OF the people re-
siding there to be separated from the
State of Michigan and organize into
Territory and ultimately to become
a seperate State. The principal rea
>or for this change consists III The dis
similarity of Interests between the
Upper aud Lower Peninsuas.
sea. California proper produces
about half Il million dollars worth OF
gold week, but the total product
If gold and silver tor The Pacific
coa~i at the presen. ime il estima cd
10 De about 500 coo, 900 per anuum.
Il wou!d be interesting 10 know
where all this goes 10. " rat usea IL Is
.u 10, and what tnaliy becomes OF
it. It's increasing quantity will ulu~
mateiy we think, unsetlle values ali
over he world.
~ The Cincinnati Enquirer mas dis
covered FRAT Lieutenant General
Sherman -insulied the doclrlao OF
ate Rights" in his army reuoion
speech IL Chicago He insuted that
tociriup every lay while on his march
from Chattanooga to the sea.
ss2s he popniuliau 81 The United
States Is nearly 80 geo 600 If it
Increases IL the same talio as Il mas
}n preceding y RODS, il viii be ~
900 GOO b 1870 and III, 000, coo iu
I9Uj
s<ss 4 combination of railroad com
ianle> are abonl To erect Ii great vi,
ion cep N Baltimore, tor hich The
cost ot grading and excavaJing alone
VIII nmount tu three and half mil
hon dollars.
nea~ Ex Queen Isabella makes her.
sell quite at home in Paris, and is
frequently seen in the streets, walks
ing in company OF friends or her
family, and followed by two footmen
wearing the French imperial livery.
- Emile Castelar,. The welI-known
Republicans of Spain, says he Re-
public has been morally formed
already in Spain as the Republican
party carried all the great cities in
:he country, except Madrid, in the
lac elections.
In recent French press trial.
one OF the lawyers urged that there
should be more calmuess and gravity
in French polillcs, saying that in
America the people prepared them
selves for election by several days OF
fasting"
n9- After signing with his own
hands Treasury wants for more Than
three thousand millions of dollars,
Secretary Stanton goes out Of office
aud retires from political life, poor
ei man than when he went in.
seq The fruit crop il the Bahamas
is extremely plentiful this year, out
there are no inquiries after it Tor
ransp"riatnn, ana millions of or
anger will rot on The trees.
anderbilt made SO. 900, 900 by
his movement Monday. and 1t is said
some OF bis victims propose TO put
him through for swindiing.