Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-11-09
Miscellaneous News Items.

asA-At a recent wemen's rights
meeting in New York, the following
ideas were advanced: "a married
woman ought to have legal right
TO dispose in any way she may please
OF share of her husbands income
Another speaker contended that
children should be allowed greater
freedom-that no article belonging
to them should be touched without
their consent that any question
they liked to put, should be answer
ed, and that they should be accus-
toned to the idea that they are to
think and act Independently
seA- Moses," A. J. was not only
shocked by his unexpected defeat in
the contest for Senator in Tennessee,
but his feelings were deeply injured
by crowd that appeared before his
hotel in Nashville, bearing banners
inscribed, "Moses under a Cloud, I"
"fhe Real Dead Duck, Glow about
the PocketCopy of the Constitution"
"Swingin' Round the Circle" and
other notices. La his rage he is
contesting Cooper's election For a
real solid chunk of pure cussedness"
commend US to A. J.
The Now York Post recon-
mends the abolition of the collegiate
regulation, which requires that I'M
der graduates shall be unmarried
men. 1t declares that the practical
effect of this is tho increase of cell
bacy, and it farther says that the re-
cords of Yale tell mournful tale on
this subject, Fully one-fourth of the
graduates of that institution never
marry at all OF the graduates of
the Wesleyan University during 30
years of its existence, 535 only, out
of $40, are reported as having mar
ried
&c., The ten largest libraries in the
United States, with the number oil
books in each, are as follows Libra.
ry of Congress, 1873, 600; Boston Pub
lie Library. 1913 000 Aston Library
New York, 1873, 600 Harvard Libra.
ry, Cambridge, $4,000 Mercantile
Library, New York, 1O4, 500; Athen.
aum Library, Boston, 100, 1000; Phil
adelphia Library, So, 900; New York
State Library, Albany, 10000, New
York Society Library, $1,000; Yal,
College Library, $4,000.
s0- The new Union Hotel, in Sar
atoga, will be, when completed, tn.
largest hotel in the world. 1t will
have frontage Of more than thou
sand feet, and is to be five stories
high. 1t will be ready for guests BY
the first of June next. The hote
will be of brick, and will be so divi
ded into compartments that Their.
will be little danger of fire spreading
from one to another.
sa- We are assured that tobacco
smoked to great extent by persons
who do not indulge in alcoholic bev
erages, will produce partial ind of
tentimes total blindness. The anti
temperance idea that whisky is al
antidote for tobacco poison, is sough
to be inculcated by this foolish state
ment.-N Y. Express.
sas- Receipts of New York theater
for September: Booths Theater, $40.
900 Niblo's Garden, $50, sos; Wal
lacks Theater, $24,9lO /; Olympic
$40, $50; Tammany, $18.6O9 SAL
Francisco Minstrels, S14,O78; Fiftl
Avenue Theater, 81, 1881; Grand On
era House, 81, 059; Woods Muse
um, $11,117.
sas- The forests are dying out il
certain parts of Virginia. The chest
nut trees have already submitted t.
some deleterious agency, and thei
growth is nearly exhausted, ant
this year the oak, and in fact all tn,
trees of the forest in certain sections
are dying. No explanation of thi
disastrous visitation has yet beer
given.
GE The Central Pacific Railroad
managers have accumulated iror
and ties enough for 100 miles of tn,
California and Oregon road, who's,
franchise land grant they own. anC
which they will build. They expec
to reach Chico, 43 miles from Marys
vile, the initial point, in four months
ga The London Times in an arti
Gle on American finances says TIN
necessity of the advocacy of the pay
ment of the National debt in col,
shows the strength ofthe repudiates
1t says also that the only sound rul,
to follow is that "a bargain is bar
gain"
sa- Miss Helen Beagle recently re
covered $4,000 damages agains
Isaac r. Stowell for defaming he
character, Both the parties are re
sidents of Altoona, ILL., The trial las
ted three days, and 175 witnesse,
were sworn.