Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-03
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Illinois has lao, 800 more horses
than any other State in the Union.
Tho three Atlantic ocean cables
are now reported in successful work .
ing order.
--"Airy and attractive" are the
adjectives applied to new hearse in
Indianapolis.
"A careful calculation foots up
the number of colored voters in the
Union at 879, 10.
Over one hundred thousand dol
lars is offered that Goldsmith Maid
can beat Dexter's best time.
Virginia is returning to her
early civilization and erecting whip
ping posts all over the state.
The boil worm has DESTROYED
the Gotten maturing this month in the
cane brake region of Ale bama.
Two Englishmen have been eat
en- by the Fijians, who speak highly
of their tenderness and gamey flavor.
Olive Logan says that in Europe
the woman suffrage movement is gem
orally classed with Mormonism, Onei-
da-communism, and free-loveism.
Where it that democratic pyra-
mid" with California at the base and
Maine at the apex, which so often
has made its appearance in Septem>
Der.
The weather prophets have come
out with the assurance that the COM
ing winter is to be an unusually cold
one. They said the same last win
ter.
The Boston Times says; 1--WE
have new Presidential ticket to
suggest: For Presiden t, Victoria G.
Woodruff for Vice President, Theo-
doro Tilton "
"A Paris dispatch says Rochefort's
trial has been concluded, and he has
been sentenced by the court martial
to transportation to a penal colony
for life.
"A colored jury, the first in tho
Pacific States, was summoned in San
Francisco on Thursday. They were
empaneled in the case of a colored
boy, drowned.
"A red-hot copperhead out West
Indignantly refused to allow a physic-
ian to attend him in a bad case of
foyer, because he promised to effect
"a radical" cure.
"A Kenosha mother advised her
daughter to oil her hair and tainted
fiat away when that candid damsol
replied ooh, no, ma, it spoils The
gentlemen's vests"
A new union of liberal Republic
ans and Democrats in st. Louis, un-
der new name, and under the lead
ership of Senator Charles Schurz, is
regarded as one of the present posi-
bilities.
e. NJ. Yerger, who murdered
Colonel Crane, in Mississippi, IS pub
fishing a Democratic paper in Balti-
moro, and takes, as may be supposed,
strong grounds against any "new de-
parture. .sa..
-England's impending crisis
There are but thirty thousand land
owners in all England, and one hun.
dred and fifty of these own moro
than one-half of the territorial surface
of the kingdom.
"A high instep suggests good
blood, and even the ladies of shoddy
can now convert themselves into
blooded aristocrats by the adoption
Of tho padded instep boot which has
become the fashion.
In Tammanny affairs
are in bad way. Mayor Hall re-
moves Connolly and appoints Gen.
Mcclellan But Connolly wont give
up the office, nor Mcclellan take any
hand in the muddle.
The national association Of spir-
tuslists is in session in Troy, N. Y,
aud large number Of delegates were
present Mrs. Victoria G. Woodruff
was elected president for the coming
year, nd has accepted.
Tho La Crosse Democrat reports
the water so low in the Mississippi
river that steamboats, have to keep
whistling to keep the cows out OF
the channel. Many captains are hav-
ing cowcatchers put on their boats.
What can be wetter than wo-
man with a cataract in her eye, a wa
terfall on her head, creek in her
back, forty springs in her skirts, and
high. tied shoes? Why, one with
notion in her head, and swimming in
tears.
A correspondent who has been
sailing along the Massachusetts, coast
wonders why Gloucester is spelled
the way it is; and if that is right,
why shouldn't lobster be spelled dob
cester? He thinks of consulting Mr..
Wholesalers dictionary on the SUBJ
Jet.
The Vendome column is to rise
again, but there has been some doubt
as 10 replacing the figure of Napoleon
over the crown. Theirs has now, it
is said, decided to have a statue of
Napoleon in a cooked hat and grey
clothes placed there, instead of the
same Napoleon in imperial robes.
"A National Convention of color
ed people is in session at st. Louis.
A resolution has been adopted re-
commencing that the Fourth of July
be set apart to commemorate the
several events which have culminat>
ed in the present smeliorated condi-
ton of the negro race in this coun-
try.
a@-A contract has been made be-
tween the Oshkosh and Mississippi
Railroad Company and the Milwau-
kee aud st. Paul, by which the Sec
ton from Oshkosh to Ripon is to be
completed in sixty days and oper-
atsd by the latter company. The
grading is being rapidly completed,