Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-07-06
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


(Baptist) says: We have lately had |
some interesting discussions in our
Monday morning meetings on the
subject OF church organizations.-
All the advantages and disad- |
vantages of the various modes of |
Episcopacy, Presby terianism and |
Congregationalism were presented |
and discussed and one brother an
nounced it as bis opinion that there |
was 80 much good about each form,
that the best sort of church organiza,
ton would be one compounded of |
the whole three. When asked wha, |
he could term such compound, be
replied : Why, Episcopresbygdtionat-
ism That is.the,best form OF church
government.
tsA-A printing telegraph machine
has been recently invented in Troy,
N. I. which any one of average
capacity can learn to operate in a
few minutes. The receiving instru-
is put in motion and entirely
controlled by the sender, recording
the message sent, in plain type upon
a strip of paper as well during the
absence of the receiving operator as
if he were present
a6r The German tavern keepers, of
Pittsburgh, seem to have adopted
General Grants theory regarding the
enforcement of obnoxious laws.
They are still urging the enforce
ment of the Sunday law as against
all classes of pursuits, and the news
paper men are in quapdary as to
how they can manage to issue their
Monday editions.
nds- Among the recent discoveries
at Herculaneum, in the excavation of
the ancient city are fourteen vases
of different sizes, candelabraum, o
lamp, several dishes of glass and
burnt earth, the marble statuette of
fawn,. and two broken tables, one
of marble and the other of slate.
s@~ Five sixths of the sun will be
obscured in this vicinity, by the
great eclipse which is to take place
between FIVE and six O'Clock 2. NJ,
on the 7th day of August next. No
eclipse of such extent win occur
again in this century hence let every
body observe it.
Eg Advices vi0 st. Louis, repres-
emit the injuries done by the recent
storm in Kansas as even more SER
ious than first reported. Whole
sections of country have been laid
waste, houses, fences, crops and stock
swept away, and in some localities
serious loss of life has occurred.
n@- Reports from Connecticut show
that very severe damage was infiict-
ed by the storm in that quarter
Railroad bridges and embankment
were swept away, villages were par>
TALLY submerged, and much pecun.
larry less entailed.
I0~A terrible explosion of nitro
glycerine has occurred in Wales. A
railway station, cart, horses and
drivers were blown to atoms. The
shock was felt in village quarter
of mile away.
| "A San Francisco paper remarks
that the wheat crop is exhausting
the soil of California, and the yield
per acre yearly diminishes. The
yiela of the grain>growing districts
of Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Mimi
esota, is also perceptibly less than it
was few years ago. Rotation of
crops, and the utilization of present
vegetable wastes, will ere long come
to be an absolute necessity.
The Conservative party of Vir-
ginia have concluded to disregard
Gen. Cambyls order relating to the
iron-clad oath, and will retain their
present candidates in the field. Chief
Justice Chase, it is said, privately
sustains them in this view of the
case.
The theatrical censors in Paris
have summarily ordered the manag.
ers of the the theaters in that city
not to have any more of Victor HUI
COS plays performed. Similar or
ders have been issued in the other
large cities of France.
The recent abolition of slavery,
by.royal decree, in all the Portuguese
colonies, is another admonition to
Brazil to follow the example of the
mother country, and to give the
death blow to that inhuman institu-
| ton.
Thirty miles of the Lake Supe-
rior and Mississippi railroad are com.
pleted, and the remaining 115 miles
is being pushed with so large force,
and with such financial arrangements
as assures its completion within a
year and half.
A gentleman of Rochester saw
an advertisement that a cure for
dyspepsia might be had by sending
a postage stamp to the advertiser
He sent his stamp, and the answer
was, "Dig in your garden and let
whisky alone"
AS some curiosity exists regards
ing the full name of the new Naval
Secretary, here it is-George Max
well Robson. 1t is not true that he
is descendent of Robinson Crusoe.
--Shelburne Falls, VT, has a citi-
zenawho claims to be the "champion
horse snapper" He is forty years
of age and has traded horses over six
hundred times.
Young Carr, who killed Miss
Fox, in Belmont county, West Vir-
ginia, some months since because
her parents opposed his marrying
her, has been sentenced to be hung,
The uncoined gold in the vaults
of the Bank of England ON January
LIST, last, amounted to 98,760, 397..H
Of uncoined silver there was none.
VIM. B. Astors annual income is
81 900. 900. vet he never assisfs anv