Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-06-01
Miscellaneous Items.


was returned at $4,000
King William, of Prussia. is seg>
eniy~two years old, aud reads with
QUIT speciacles.
The Pennsylvania Central Rail, |
road has leased the Chicago, Pitts.
burgh and Fort Wayne line.
One fourth more land than last
year will be under cultivation in Iowa
this summer.
British shipmasters, it is SAID
arc reviving the slave trade for the
benefit of Australia.
A huge electric coil has been
made in London, which will send
spark through five inches of glass.
The price of passage from Calais
to Dover is So, but the Prince of
Wales was charged $3.50.
According to Philadelphia re-
porter, a recent rain descended alike
upon the just and upon Jersey.
MIR. Seward thinks Grants Cab
met is organized definitely, and that
it will merit the confidence of the
country.
%. l.. G. Hughes, colored man,
has started a weekly paper at Har-
risburg. Pa which is to be devoted
10 the interests of his race.
Rev. e. FL. Chaplin of New York,
had an income last year of $4,000,
an increase of $4,000 over the prev
ious year.
An extensive iron one mine has
been discovered in Dallas county,
Iowa, over seven feet thick, which is
assayed t ninety per cent. pure iron.
Mr.. C. III. Merry, of Dunlieth, is
said to own the indentical horse
which bore Sheridan into the Shen-
andoah fight.
The Memphis City election passed
off quietly on Wednesday. The re-
publicans elected their ticket by 200
majority.
There has never been collection
of Rufus Choate's writings published,
because no one could ever deeper
the marks.
There are |, 199 convicts in the
Illinois State Penitentiary, at Joliet.
The number has recently been as
high as 1904.
"A two>thirds majority of the
Canadian House of Commons have
decided that the salary of the Cover
nor General shall be $4,000.
Five hundred dozen pigeons
were caught in nets near Oakfeld
station, Fond du Lac county, Wis,
in one-day recently.
Rochester possesses clock which
will run for weeks after once wind
ing up, and will play forty~eight
unes.
/ Austria has 3 1000, 600 acres of
virgin forests, produced by planting,
which are estimated TO DO wori h
several hundred millions ef forms.
Tho Pennsylvania Central Rail-
road proposes to lease perpetualIy
the entire line Of the Pittsburgh,
Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad.
Susan Johnson, coIorcd, died in
| New Orleans May IL. aged rs. She
was born at Mount Vernon, and was
probably the last Of Washington's
household.
Olive Logan says no woman can
he an actress and retain her virtue.
Thereupon al exchangn unkindly
says that Olive has been an actress
several years.
Theodore Parker used to say
that women by our civilization "were
compelled to choose between mar
riage and nothing, which was very
often choice between two thin gs."
WIN. NJ. Browne, formerly of th Q
New York journal Of Commerce, and
during the war member,of jeff Da
Wis staff, has become editor of the
Augusta (Ga.) Press.
Gov. Fairchild has recei we'd from
Washington patents of 6, 600 acres of
/ swamp lands belonging TO the State,
developed by recent United States
surveys. eI
| II. Alexander, of Jacksonville
ILL.,. shipped to the New Y orki market
last year $4,000 beeves. He is prob
ably the largest cattle dealer in the
United States. ta
Imports last week very heavy
again-betweeh seven and eight
millions. The exports, though sill CHI
tly increasing, do not begin TO be
anything like an offset.
A Party of White Pine miners
occupy q house worth SIS, 900. Tits
built of chloride ore, and will be run
through the mill when the owners
are prepared to move. ~ dkl "a
Mickey, New York life insur-
ance agent, has nearly two hundred
thousand dollars insurance upon his
own life. He has twenty thousand
endowment insurance.
The REDUCTION of ten cents a
bashel of the cost of transporting
wheat from any points on the Missis
sippi to Chicago, by railroad, is re-
ceived as wise and excellent step by
the business public. as9a
1T is though that the production
or grapes in the Middle States will
be very much larger than ever before,
and that the vines will hardly be able
to sustain the weight of the crops.
Dan Costello's menageric and
circus started ON the 2Sth fromOmaba
tor California, by the Pacific Rail-
road. and proposes togive axhihitions
at all the principle points on the
line. .se
"A lottery has iast been drawn
In Vermont. and among the prizes
were 8 geo gilt rings, worth half a
cent, and $50 empty -four barrels,
while ono young man who held $500
IN tickets, drew o blue edged plate.
Tho best time ever made on q
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