Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-05-04

REDIsTRIBUTING THE NATIONAL
CuRRENoY.--The bill passed the Uni,
ted States Senate, taking $40, 000,0 00
of currency from New England and
distributing it in the Western and
Southern States. 1t is a just bill,
and should have passed long before
OF course New England will
feel the blow, and Senator Sprague
was particularly gloomy in his pro
phecIes of ruin which is TO result
from the bill.
Rhode Island has more than she j.
entitled to, and must yield up some
of her profits in banking. This j.
the shoe which pinches Senator
Spragne The New England bank :
are allowed the period OF one year to
withdraw their excess al currency
-Mit,oaukee EUenlng Wlsconnin,
s@rA "calico-dress party" vas
recently given at Plymouth, Mimi.
A prize in greenback offered to the
lady wearing the best>worked and
neatest dress, was Judged by cons
mittee of three dress, makers as right
fully belonging to Mrs. s. FL. Little,
of Worthwhile, and was presented &C,
cordingly. The dress was composed
of figured pink calico, gored make,
waist and sleeves pulled, and trimm.
ed with light pink white center
stripe, and three rows on the bottom
and sleeves.
EM Mr. Greeley does not seem
satisfied that his 500 prize for the
best grape was awarded to the Con.
cord. At public meeting in New
York, he recently said, call my
money did was to advertise grape
already known; thus Improvement
was checked, not stimulated. [ am
little discouraged by the result,
and do not propose to offer another
bapk-note for plate of
common grapes"
s~The body of Mrs Thomas Tefft,
said to have died of tricbinosis, at
Elgin, ILL.,, was exhumed, and thor
ough cxanin alton ofthe remains made
by Drs. E, Winchester, Tefft, Bur-
lingame, and Clark. The examina>
ton demonstrated the existance of
trichn@ spiralis in the body in i'm
mense quantities. Parasites, it is es.
timated to the number of 5000 to
the cubic inch, were found in the
portion of the romans examined.
s@-A Shelbyville, Tenn, paper
says the cold weather has killed all
the fruit in that neighborhood. The
prospect for a fine wheat crop is good.
From present appearances, there
will be At least third more wheat
raised to the acre than there was
lsat season, and there was at least q
third more wheat sown last fall. than
the previous one.
sA- Recently an Irish woman call
ed at the Lewiston Post Office and
inquired if there was letter for her.
She was told there was letter for
her from the dead letter office, when
she at once burst into tears, saving.
"An' sure | thought some Of EN-
been dead that | didn't hear
from them before" An explanation
dried her tears.
@-Grape vines, strawberries. rasp.
berries apple root gratis and almost
anything IS inches in length, can be
sent by mail, at s cts per ID ar 2 cts.
for every 4 ~ or fraction. to the
amount of Abs, any distance IN the
United States where letters are sent
by mail and nearly as qaick as BY
express.
re The Secretary ofthe Treasury
has issued an order directing the
hereafter all property belonging n
the Department, offered for sale.
shall be sold by public auction or un~
der sealed proposals. Heretofore it
has been the custom dispose of old
carpets, ETC., at private
sale to chance purchasers.
aM-O skaloosa (Iowa Conservator
says Robert Sewers, of that city, is
successfully destroying the canker
worm on his fruit trees, by smeariug
the trees with molasses, thus prevs
snting the female from climbing up
hem to deposit her eggs. Coal tar
S also successfully used tor the same
purpose.
nay Early April in Italy was unus-
'ually cold. Snow had again fallen |
n the neighborhood of Florence, at
Milan, and in several districts of |
Iombardy, and the banks of the
Lake of Como and of the Lake of |
4ugano were white with snow.