Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1869-06-22


posed to be killed and wounded, and
We're borne off the field. The ambu-
lances were all equipped, the army
surgeons were on duty and watching
over the carriage of the wounded
men, as if the field of battle was
real one. To test the medical ar,
rangements, the number of men sup
posed to be wounded was made
greater than would actually be the
case, and wounds of all kinds were
supposed to be inflicted. Every
wounded man was attended to on
the field.
nara "Gentile" lately bought
coal mine in Utah, near Echo City,
and was about to go to work, when
six armed men pulled down the tim
bers, caved in the entrance 10 the
mine, carried the tools down to the
Weber, and left them beside the road,
saying that mo Gentle could own
or work any coal mine there; that
mine and all that valley belonged to
tho Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints"
n@-Since the French discovery
that sewing machines can be econ
mically run by an electro magnetic
engine, parties in Hartford have
been experimenting upon miniature
steam engine, to be used in the same
way. 1t is expected that a single
engine will furnish power enough
for several machines and at the same
time be so cheap as to be within the
reach of every one.
a@- AT Glandorf, Pu tnam County
Ohio, lately a son of Mr.. Kemper, o
wealthy citizen, was in a saloon
drinking, and his brother was sent
to get him home. Words followed
concerning division of property
which tbs father had previously made
when the young man who had been
drinking drew knife and plunged
it into his brothers neck. The
wounded man died in about thirty
minutes.
s4-In Fayette comfy, Ohio. on
Wednesday last waterspout was
observed. having the appearance Of
of dense body Of whirling smoke.
about ten or twelve feet through thu
lower end, resting npon the creek
and extending above the tops of the
trees IL mads noise like a thres.
hing machine, only much louder,
and whirled the wafer out of the
creek furiously, draining it almos
dry.
BREACH OF PROMISE The Jury
in the case of Miss Amanda S.
Craig, the Cincinnati sehool-teaoher,
and E. G. Sprague, the owner of the
Sprague Block, in this city, for breach
of promise of marriage, yesterday
afternoon brought in q verdict of
100000 damages to comfort the
feelings and heal the wounded hon.
or Of the plaintiff, that being the
amount of damages claimed by her.
SUNSHINE IN SHADY PLACE
Nine colored mon have just been
elected to office in Washington.-
How is it about John Browns soul
marching on? The Democrats begin
to think the soul aforesaid must have
gone into permanent quarters in
Washington, and are immensely disS
gusted.
A LOVE LETTER send u
bi the buoy bucket offlowers-They
is like mi luv for u. The niteshaid
menes kepe dark. The dog fenil
menes | am ure sleiv:
'Rosis red and posts pail.
My love for u shall never phale.'
The Californian complaint
against the Chinese is that
they bring with them their customs,
their manners. their idolatry and
iheir vices, and they do not give
them up.
Nelson Walker, an intelligent
colored man, announces himself
candidate to represent Nashville in
the next Legislature. His platform
is universal suffrage and general
amesty.
John Russell Young thinks that
Kansas is noble, wild free country,
radical down to the grass reots the
germ of mighty nation. and says be
sees everything but trees and old
men,"
Mr.. Chester M. Butterfeld, of the
town of Fairfield, Iowa, killed snake
the other day, which measured nine
feet four inches and half Circum-
frence of body, ten inchesl
The New York people are to vote
at the November election upon the
new Constitution, framed BY the Con
vention Of 1867 They will vote up.
Sta il ~ four parcels.
For the purpose OF testiDg tbs
y, wcr ~ Feench railroads 10 concen-
tratr large nnmber of troops at
given p"int quickly. two hundred
thnnsar.d soldiers are to be moved To
Srrasburg this month.
The stakeholder of the River
slde Rae, course. of Boston. bas dis
APPEARED with the stakes which con.
filing betters put up on the various
trois
Pollard. IN his new book on
Jeff. Davis, says Yancey's life was
shortened By his hama TO hand fgh,
in the Confederate Senate with Hill.
1t wrenched his spine.
The Presbyterian Church SOC
iety of GAINESVILLE, has voted to make
the slips of that church free.