Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-10-26

EkA~NeW hampshire mas mile OF
railroad to every five hundred in
hsbitants.
uA- For the first time in eleven
years, the Republicans carried the
city of Lancaster, Pa, at the late
election.
sa- Cushman, Calkins & Co. lum-
Der mill at Manistee, Wis, was des-
troyed by fire Sunday morning
Loss, $780, insured for SIS, 600
a.General Sully telegraphs the
Interior Department that smallpox
has broken out badly, among the
Crow Indians in Montana.
ssa- The resurrection in Cuba now
extends over $4,000 square miles, or
about two-thirds of the area of the
island. Since the 10th of October,
6l6, $50, 500 men have been employed
to put down this rebellion, assisted
by fleet of thirty-fve vessels.
s@- The London Times, in an ar
ticlo on General Prim, says ne has
the army in his hands as long as
there is no King, and intends to hold
it until he can put in King Of his
own making, and that will not be
Montpensier.
RN-I In the Catholic Church there
is Just now q movement toward re-
form in litargical music. A great
number of tue laity unite with the
clergy in desiring that the music of
the church, the Gregorian chant, may
be come once more what it was in
primitive ages, the chant of the peo-
pie.
eA- The Freedmen's Bureau, now
confined to educational work among
the blacks, has made an annual report
which shows a steady and gratifying
advance in the cause of education
During the past six months there
has been an increase of 480 schools
and over l, 400 scholars, in the South.
sa. The Canadian authorities have
a report that the Fenians have char
tered and equipped gunboat to
lombard and burn Canadian towns
on Lake Huron and other lakes.--
Accordingly they have placed gun
boat in readiness for action in those
waters, manned with Toronto field
| battery.
RA Californian has on exhibit
ton Of copy the Declaration indie
pendence. written in Chinese, on silk.
The document is about twenty inches
wide and five feet long: There are
only three in existence one in the
consulate of Hong Kong one at the
patent office, and this one, which was
incribed and sent on by Glue A. Sine,
consular interpreter at Hong Kong.
w-A few days ago the Cincinnati
Enquirer Democratic insisted that
<'the paramount issue" now before
the people sis the national debt, and
the form of its payment, and that
the verdict of the Ohio election will
be recognized as the settlement of
national question" Well, how does
the Enquirer like the verdict? How
does it like the settlement?
s9The Irish Immigration Con-
vention, at St. Louis, adjourned sine
die, after taking steps to organize an
Immigration Association, capital 81
100000; to exist for twenty years,
and then the capital, which is to be
invested in United States bonds, and
only the interest is to be used, is to
be returned to the stock holders.
sg~A man near San Francisco has
built a barn at cost of SIS, 900. 1t
is finished with the most costly
woods of the country, inlaid and in
terlaced and instead of brass and
iron, silver has been as freely used
as in our most expensive dwelling
houses. Bergh should see to it that
this builder of palace for his beasts
has a monument erected in his hon
or.
sGIt is said that the grape disease
has almost entirely disappeared
from the Island of Madeira, and that
the natives are again devoting them
selves to the production of the wine
which once made MADEIRA so famous
in the annals .of gastronomy. For
many years past the genuine article
has been attainable only in the small
quantities yielded by the cellars Of
wealthy men, as they one after ano-
ther departed this life, and then it
brought an enormous price.
gTbe st. Louis authorities have
reeonsldered their former action and
have decided that the Artesian well
shall be sunk to the depth of 1000
feet, if necessary, before being aban-
doned. It's depth is now 1886 feet.
The water found in the upper part
has sulphur, and that from the low
er strata was as salt as brine. The
deepest we'll in Europe is that at
Rochefort, France, which is 2,677
feet deep.
aA-The Territory of Utah has
$4,000 square miles, population 120,-
900, not 5000 of whom are Gentiles
has under cultivation 1876, 900 acres
of land-80,00 acres are in cereals,
1000 in sorghum, 1000 in root crops
200 Gin the southern section) in cot
ton, 900 in apple orchards, 1000 in
peaches, IS in grapes, 1875 in currants,
and 80, 900 in meadow. They look
upon cotton as success, for their
own use. Ninety-four thousand
acres were irrigated, at cost, during
the year, in making canals, bitches,
ETC., of S247, 900.
sa- Among the debris of the New
port Suffrage Convention is found
this story, which is too neat to throw
away Mrs. Hooker, who is well
known as the late Towering but
fragrant aloe of the Beecher family,
was expatiating to select circle on
the imaginative view she took Of the
next world, and said when she reach
ed heaven her first wish, after seeing
her own family, was to meet Moses.
The fair-haired editor-paladin of the