Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-09-21
News of the Week.
Russia is to adopt our jury Il, g

VI WI HE.
1t is proposed to hold a great
Exposition OF the Worlds Industry
at Chicago in 1870.
subscriptions in New York city
for Mrs General Rawlins now *
ceeds $4,000.
If Gen. Sherman is the "comiao
man." the Georgia papers would IL
obliged, they say, by his selecting
another route than his first.
Amongst the chivalrous things
Kentucky does, is to present oil
for full tolls..for the Union annie
passing ever her turn-pikcs.
The expenditures of the Govern
ment for the fiscal year just en- ted
were less than $685., 000,0 900, againsl
81, 070, 600 900 for the year before =
The total amount Of claims ilod
| against the government for tho cap-
ture and destruction ofprivato prop
erty during the late war is 500, 600
900.
The State of Iowa, according tc
to census recently taken by th,
Town Assessor, contains a popala
ton Of 1,011,952 being an increase
of 100, 9O9, in two years.
The late disaster at Avonlal,
leaves seventy three widows, and
one hundred and fifty four fathorcse
children The number of the lnite
will be increased to two hundr, 4
Horace Greeley will ventilate ii
the next issue of Hearth and Home
his views upon the woman question.
being impelIed thereto by the break.
fast recently given him by certain
strong minded women of New York
city.
The pastor of the Avondale
Welch Baptist Church, who deliver
ed the funeral discourse over the
sutfocated miners, stated that
all but three of the male members Of
his church had persisted in the mine
Our national taste for lager is
becoming so settled that it has ma
terially affected the market for bar
ley. We do not raise enough Of
that grain, and last year more than
three and half million bushels were
imported from Canada.
Lieutenant Governor 10
son and sixteen members of the Ar
kansas Legislature have called a
Convention to meet at Little Rock
in October, for the purpose Of form
ing liberal Republican party on the
basis ofunlversal suffrage and univer~
sal amnesty.
Since the Government began to
print currency, Treasury detectives
have captured about one hundred
counterfeit plates of all kinds. Or-
ders have been given to melt them,
with the exception of two or t. ec.
reserved on account of uaasual foa-
ture.
"A telegram from Peubla says
Wild Bill, noted character, who
has 6gured as the hero of several
| sketches of life on the border, 90, 10
to row on election day, and whils
being taken to Colorado City i.il
was fired upon from the brush and
killed.
"A Maryland convict has fallen
heir to $4,000, and can't get out Il
spend it. Were this fellow in thc
Illinois Penitentiary, the Chicaso
grais SPECTATORS would have hn
out in no time, merely for 81
amusement of plucking To'.io
Blade.
The one hundredth annivegsars
of the birth Of Won Humboldt. the
German philosopher, was extenfio-
ely celebrated by his fellow-conn,
trymen and scientific people gener
ally, in various parts Of this coln
try on the fourteenth inst.
-Ex,Secretary Stewards sp, ech
at Sitka has been published. II
gives complete review Of the res
ourcos and productions "f the new
Territory, expresses sangaine hohes
of the future prosperity of AlsGa
and says the people need Terri;tr
ial Government.
Tho Scotch system of allowing
a jury by vote of the majority, to
return vote Of "not proven" in cas-
es Of great doubt, is more sensible
than the English and American plan
Of compelling ltho entire jury 10
agree either to the conviction o. the
acquittal Of the accused,
SO conspicuous was General
Rawlins at the battle Of Belm mt,
and so quiet his chief, that cores.
pendent of Harper's Weekly, coming
on the ground, mistook him for
Grant, and caught his daguorrco
type and was published as that OF
General U. S. Grant in Harper, and
thence multiplied throughout the
country.
Res Our Eastern exchanges are
filled with accounts of damages by
the late great storm. Hundreds Of
vessels were wrecked, railroad
bridges and depots, churches, etc,
destroyed, many lives lost, and tho
damage to property can only be- es-
timated by millions.
ssa- There is new fact for Trask
the anti-tobacco apostle. Napolool's
illness has been, it is said largely oc-
casioned by excessive smoking
Some time since he smoked sixteen
cigars day. By the advice OF biz
doctor he dropped down to six day
which some people would consider
excessive. Thus the Napoleon dy-
nasty is likely to end in and from
smoke. Peace to its ashes.
@-A combination of New York
and European fnanciers, who pro-
pose to buy up thirty millions q
gold, and then, having control Of
that commodity in the market, pui
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