Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-25

tnaU II l ever nave done aught OF
good, what | am and what. [ have
done, by the grace Of God, has boon
through theinhuence of that mother"
Tho following advertisement
appears in a London, paper. "a
young lady, who has received a good
education. can read and write and
is versed IN geography, history,
music, dancing, and elementary mats
hematies wishes a situation in a res
pectable family as washer and IRON
orr
A little boy and girl had been
cautioned never 30 take the nestegg
when gathering the eggs but one
evening the girl reached the nest
first, seized an egg and started for
the house. Her disappointed broth
or followed, crying, "Mother =
mother Susy, she's been and got
the egg the old ben measures by p
An echo in Woodstock Park,
oxfordshire, England, repeats sevens
teen syllables by day, and twenty by !.
night; but the most remarkable echo
known is one on the north side of
Shipley Church, in Sussex, which
distinctly repeats twenty>one syll-
ables.
The New York Historical Soc
iety, at its last meeting, came into
possession of Bible brought over
in the Mayfower by one of tho Pill
grims. and pocket book that once
belonged to Major General Israel
Putnam. Both the relics are we'll
authen tieated. =
Oshkosh, Wis, has thirty,two
saw and shingle mill establishments,
which consume on an average 5000
900 feet Of logs each during the seas
on, making an aggregate of160y0OO,-
900 feet. The price of logs per 1000
feet will be above two dollars less
than last year. Eeo Hosa93 ,Toi
Mr.. 0. A. Osborne, Of Cairo, has
invented spring to be attached to
the feet, by means of which person
is relieved of the labor of walking to
a great extent. He claims his invel-
ton will enable a man TO walk ten,
miles per hour with ease, --.r
Recent intelligence from North
ern Georgia represents that reign
OF terror exists in that region The
lives of Northern mon, or of those
sympathiZing with them, are no lou
ger safe. Assassinations by the Ku~
hlux are frequent.
Brigham Young, lately broke
ground for building the Utah Cen
trail Railroad. This road is to con-
meet Salt Lake City with the Pacific
Railroad, near Ogden City. It is an
ticipated to complete the read in Oc-
tobtr next. E.s
"A corresdonpent Of the Chico
(Cah) Coardnt, writes that the White
Pine country is great blk !" that
there are three or four good claims,
and acres of 'swild cat, and that the
money is made by selling claims to
"greenhorns." @
The first through passenger train
over the Pacific Railroad, from Sac
ramento, with about five hundred
passengers aboard, arrived at Oma-
ha on Saturday. The travel west
from Omaho is very heavy,
Chief Justice Chase has decided
that the city Of Richmond is not
liable for the shinplasters issned by
her during the war, as 4. they were
emitted for the purpose of aiding the
rebellion.
Commodore Vanderbilt, notwith.
standing the millions the newspap-
ers have alleged that he made from
railroad and stock speculations, re-
turns for 1868 an income of only S69,-
go.
/ Mr.. Perkins, of Fond du Lac.
Wis, has been offered $4,000 for
half the right of the States of New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut
for his patent fire proof window
shutter.
"A German banking house in
New York-Schelpher & Co.-haVc
failed, being short eight millions
dollars in gold, and one million in
United States bonds and foreign ex-
change.
Quite a sensation was created
in New York, last week, on account
of the arrest Of q prominent ward
politician and banker, who is proved
to have deserted from the United
States army nine years ago. :.
"A machine has been invented
and put in operation in California
which has cut threshed, cleaned anf
sacked the wheat from twenty acre,
in ten hours, with only three mer
to work it. s@
The San Francisco Herald at,
tributes the disasters at the COX
D Hill mines. to the firing Of the pow
Ger magazine. The assertion is tina
sixty kegs of powder were sent int,
the mine prior to the casualty.
Henry Ward Beecher has beef
r made member Of the New Yorl
Cuban Junta.