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

1 $500 hN'Nf hO POtkOC DEtSeTVi
astrict silence as to how they wer,
obtained, but the general impression
10 they We're sent back as WORTHLESS
icing registered-and that tn,
oncers know nothing of whence fhex
came. - "n0',0o sn0)
The King of Prussia sent . 20
preventative to Rome to Offer ~.
congratulations to the Pope on th1
l1th instant. This special proof 0
respectful Difference given by a Pro,
testant monarch to the head of til,
Catholic Church." says Berlin pap
er, ''is here made the subject of mucf
comment"
Thirty thousand miners belong.
ing to the anthracite coal fields O
Pennsylvania have resolved to sus
pend work. This resolution, if ad
hered to, will have damaging effect
upon the people at large. but it will
injure the workmen more than any
body else.
somebody asks what becomes OF
our poor girls? Pretty much. The
same, we suppose, as becomes of our
rich girls. They marry, eat, drink
sleep, rear children and die. A poor
girls life, in the main points, is not
unlike that Of the girl born to wealth.
The end is certain to be very similar.
Chicago has only one fear on the
subject OF Chicago's becoming the
central city Of the world. So long
as railroads and steamboats, are the
means OF communication IL is all right
but if balloons become the medium
Of travel there is danger for Chica-
go
John H. Mills, brakeman on
the Central Railroad, residing in Uti>
ca, has received by the will of de-
ceased relative, city lots in Chicago,
covering about thirty acres and val
ued at from two to three hundred
thousand dollars.
"A French paper describes Eugene
as having lately appeared at ball
Gin toilette of tender yellow, with
verdure everywhere, including small
shrubs, so that she presented the ap-
pearance Of an animated flower gar
den."
A mass meeting was lately held
in London, under Tory auspices, in
opposition to the disestablishment of
the Irish Church, and resolutions
were adopted asking the House of
Lords to reject or materially modify
it.
DR.. Brown Sequard reports a
curious case of dog which had just
died, having fresh blood passed int
the carotid The dead animal was
revived, stood on bis feet, wagged
his tail, and lived over twelve hours,
when he died again.
The canary bird has been an OBJ.
ject OF traffic for five centuries. Five
hundred years ago there was but one
kind Of canary bird, but the original
stock has been SO mixed and adulter-
ated the varieties now number at
least so.
Water for making tea should be
used the moment it boils. The reas-
on assigned is, that if it is boiling for
some time, all tho gas that is in it if
escapes with the steam, and it will
not then make tea of the best fla
vor.
During the storm last Sunday,
hail four inches in circumference
fell and demolished q large amount
Of glass in houses, beside doing inn
mcnsc damage to other property, at
Clarence Cedar county.
European mail adviees state that
the whole length-33, 600-miles of
the core ofthe French Atlantic cable,
to connect France with the United
States, Geographically was complies
ed April 16.
The English Government con-
slider the African slave trade extinct,
and have withdrawn tie squadron
which they have maintained on that
coast for many years. For time
the expense was 100000 Q year.
--Larmajant, the Fronch engineer,
who has invented the ingenious one
rail system, by which tits thought a
complete revolution in railroad affairs
will be brought about, is young
man OF twenty-three-
"A week orgwo ago, the ordin-
ance of the Lords supper was cele-
brated in Madrid publicly by the
Protestants, for the first time since
the reign of Philip H., more than
two hundred and fifty years ago.
Upon petition of nearly 1000
ladies of Jackson, Mich, the Com
mon Council has passed q resolution
requiring all the saloons to be closed
on Sunday, and directing the Mar
hal to enforce it.
Pike bought out all his associates
on the Jersey marsh speculation, and
then announced that he had found on
it peat bead worth $40, 100000
He is getting ready to prepare the
peat for market. r
The monthly product in bullion
of the Gold Hill, Nevada mines,
which were lately devasted by fire,
was over $3.50, 900, and its loss will
seriously felt in the San Fran cisco
coin market
Josh Billings says: "BiIes are
the sorest things ov their size on rec>
kord. and az kross tew the touch az
setting hen, or a dog with fresh
bone"
An epidemic has broke out
among sheep in Vermont and New
Hampshire. Large numbers have
died in the central and northern parts
Of both States. I'll
-Wachtel, the tenor, asks to be
released from his engagement at
Hamburger, because his salary is only
$4,000 year. This individual be-
gan life as hack-driver.
William Carey, Esq, of Galena
ILL.,, who was appointed and confirm
ed for Internal Revenue Assessor for
the District of Utah, has declined to
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