Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-01-25
News Of the Week.

eht AZ Inc Iuneral OF Victor Noir in
Paris.
The Rothchilds have recently
purchased enormous quantities of u.
S. bonds.
IA bill has been in the Ohio House
OF representatives, prohibiting the
reading Of the BibIein public schools.
-McFarland's trial will not come
off until March. His counsel have
decided to enter plea of insanity.
"A majority of the House Postal
COMMITTEES are said to be in favor of
the abolition of the franking privi-
lege.
The Legislature of Tennessee
has passed law forbiding the bring
ing of Chinese laborers into that
State.
The Pope is reported TO be dis
appointed at the drift of the Ecumen-
ical Council, and its dispersion is al
ready talked of
WIN. Cook United States Vice
Consul at tho port of Glasgow, has
been sentenced to seven years impris-
onment at hard labor, for forgery.
The Kansas Legislature has adopt
ed a resolution recommending the re-
moval OF the National Capital to the
Fort Leavenworth Military Reser-
walton.
Mrs. Stowe has written reply
to the criticisms upon her origin al
article published in the atlantic
Monthly. 1t is mainly an elaboration
Of her previous paper.
Tho London ,Saturdav Reuie,C
thinks that the chances are against
the United States repudiating the
rational debt, because its payment is
easy and profitable.
Judge GIG. Wright and Hon. ].
b. Howell were last week nominated
10 represent Iowa in the United
States Senate, the former for the
long the latter for the short term.
Letters from Rome say the
American bishops object to the dec
laration of the dogma of infallibility
on the ground that it will tend to
check proselytism among Protes-
tants.
"A meeting of 20, 900 Republicans
in Madrid. by unanimous vote
sent congratulations to the Republi
cans of Paris and to Deputy Roche.
fort, the devoted cham pion of De.
mocracy.
"A delegation has arrived in
Washington from Utah to look after
the interests of the Territory in
Congress. They say that the pas.
sage of measures to punish polygamy
will result in civil war.
Minister Washburne recently in.
formed az American traveller in Paris
that the Emperor Napoleon was new.
er stronger in power than now, and
therefore has sufficient force to sup
press any disturbances.
The Georgians are not so bellig
erent as they were a few weeks ago
The act OF Congress requiring ths
state to be reconstructed, has hac
v cry salutary effect upon some o.
the recalcitrant members of the Leg
islature.
A sensation has been created
out of the elopement of the Rev
Horace Cook, of New York, with {
Miss Matte Bushnell, of his flock, the
former deserving his wife and family
all of the parties having heretofor,
stood high in society.
--Trumbull's bill making it a mis-
demeanor for Congressman or Sen
ator to recommend a person to th,
President as fit for appointment t.
official position is now considered aI
buried, without hope of resurrection
in the tomb Of the humbugs, where
nothing can warm it into maturity
Resolutions have been introduced
in the lower house Of the Kansas
Legislature asking Senators Ross
and Pomeroy and Representative,
Clark to resign, as their influence
has been impaired by circumstances
growing out of the late Impeachment
trial, and disposition for lavish ex
penditures on the part of one O
them.
The feet with the remains O
George Peabody will be due at Port
land on the 2Sth. Governor Cham
berlain, of Maine, will pronounce the
funeral Grafton at that city two days
after the arrival of the vessels. The
monitors Terror and Miantonomah
have sailed from Boston to act as an
escort. Admiral Farragut will have
charge Of the naval ceremonies
which will be very imposing
The Ecumenical Council is to
decide, among other things, the price
Of masses in France. The number
ordered in Paris alone is so grea,
that the priests cannot perform them
and send the orders out to the coun-
try clergy, who have less work
The ordinary low mass costs only
thirty cents, and the rural priests
complain that they are allowed only
one third of the price. The demand
of the whole country is about 4 O0O,-
1000 masses annually.
Governor Stevenson's message
on the 10Th toLegislrture of West Vir-
ginia is very able and thoroughly
matured review of the State. His
presentation of its growth since 1860
is very strong, and at;ests a great
!, deal of patient investigation. The
finances of the state are in a very
satisfactory condition. She has
made rapid progress in material de-
velopement and increase of popula-
ton, despite the losses of war.
"A Washington dispatch of the
18th says: "The Bureau of Educa-
ton is in great danger of being over
thrown, and can hardly be saved ex-
cept by vigilance on the part of the
friends of education Throughout. the
country. The feeling is pretty
widely prevalent among members of