Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-06-13
from Our Exchanges.
South Shrewsbury, Mass, has
had only one fire since 1776.

WohueTlui pictures Oh peanut sheIis.
New York bellies pay accomplish
ed poodle nurses So week.
The less man thinks or knows
about his virtues the better we like
him.
There are now thirty-one Re-
publican papers published regularly
in Texas.
The floating capital upon the
Mississippi river is estimated at ST..
500, 100000.
The Massachusetts Legislature
has voted that cider is not an intox>
icating liquor.
"A couple of live young aligators
arc among the adornments OF Alex.
Mitchell's residence in Milwaukee.
1t appears that Mike O'connor,
who is whipping all light weights in
the West, was reared by clergy
man.
"A vandal in Kokomo, Ind, de-
stroyed 800 shade trees in that viii
lage, the other night, with drawing
knife.
Cholera bumshells in the shape
of southern watermelons, have made
their appearance in the Now York
market.
Cleveland has found q bed of gas
shale underlying the city. Both for
fuel andlight this discovery is invaln-
able.
The immigration to the United
Statas for the last fifty years is near.
ly $500, 900 or an average of nearly
l50, 900 per year.
1t is said that there is no city
or town in the United States where
the process of diamond-cutting is
carried on except in Boston.
The English sparrows have not
only established themselves in New
York, but they have driven all the
other small birds out.
Almost the entire Sophomore
class in Michigan has been suspended
for boiling recitation and attending
circus at Ann Arbor,
More than third of the men,
be,s of Congress are college gradu-
ates Yet it is said that only three
are from Harvard and six are from
Yale.
-Maine's glory as the Pine Tree
State has departed, and the Portland
Press complains that in the lumber
mans vocabulary there has been no
such word as economy.
The Cedar County Advertiser
says the people of that country have
organized a society against secret
societies. This is probably on the
basis of SinaiIi Similibus curdnter.
They do things with dispatch in
Texas. A man in certain neighbor-
hood, who had lost valuable mare,
received the following by telegraph
'Mare here, Come get her. Thief
hung"
A drcssmaker was poisoned to
death a few weeks ago by making
up green tarlentan dress. So much
of the arsenic entered the pores of
her skin that she died q few days az
ter ward.
There are 100000, cotton spin
dies now in operation in the United
States, of which over 100000 are
running on cloths for printing, and
produce 450,O00,00O yards per
annum.
Henry Bergh has been reelected
President, and Henry Clews Treas
urer, of the society for the preven-
ton of Cruelty to Animals. Over
$500, 900 in legacies, have been pledg-
ed to the society.
While it is represented that the
Cuban crop Of sugar will be much
smaller than ii usually is, this year,
reports from other sugar islands in
dicates great increase in the saccha-
rine article, SO we shall not be placed
on short allowance.
Oranges of the secret order of
Patrons of Husbandry have been
organized in various places in Wiscon-
sin. |. j. Hole, Oshkosh, is General
Deputy for the State. This order
seems to have made most growth IN
Minnesota and Iowa. We hear lit
tie of it in the East.
Racine gloats over a ghost,
woman in white, who visits the house
in which she formerly lived, because
her husband, who promised her on
her death-bed not TO marry again,
broke his word as soon as she was
comfortably planted in the cemetery.
The New York Tribune thinks
that the next amendment to the Con-
stitution of the United States which
will be ratified, will BIO one making
the maintenance of system of free
schools in every State and Territory
compulsory, and forbidding State,
county or municipal aid to religious
or sectarian schools of any form.
A Vermonter has had So damages
awarded him for being butted over a
fence by his neighbours bull. The
smallness of the sum is due to the
plaintiffs avowal that he was trying
to get over the fence as quickly as
possible, so that the bull only helped
him in carrying out an intention
conceived Of his own free will.
The Rev. William Robertson, CT
Eldora, Iowa, hearing that there was
a young lady in Dubuque who visited
the sick, gave the hungry and needy,
and actually sawed wood to raise
money for missionary purposes,
sought an interview with the divine
damsel, and succeeded in taking her
back as his wife.
A curious case of Enoch Arden
ism took place in Washington, ending
Sunday night. Twenty-eight years
ago James Harris, then slave thirty
two years old, found freedom in
flight, leaving his family. Eight
years after his flight, his wife took
her Philip Ray, and lived with him
l. NJ.