Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-12-05
Pen and Scissors.

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IS already announced.
The Connecticut hogs have got
up something new-they have the
whooping cough.
-"Boss" Tweed and Mayor Hall
refuse to resign, notwithstanding the
ADVICE OF friends and the threats of
foes.
TO cure cough, an English wo.
mad gave her infant some syrup of
| poppies. Keables was the Coroner's
| name.
Nearly two millions of the inhab-
itants of the earth are still addicted
to baked missionary, when they can
get It.
Alexander III, the Emperor of
Russia, is said to have signed the
temperance pledge, at the request of
his wife.
The Darwinian theory has great
~ increased the number of people
who are thoroughly ashamed OF their
ancestors.
Its estimated that upward of
thirty thousand Southerners have set
tied in New York since the close of
the rebellion.
during its occupation of France,
the German army foraged only two
million five hundred thousand bot
ties of champagne.
"A Connecticut Enoch Arden re.
turned home, took in the situation
at glance, tearfully borrow we'd dollar
from his successor, and departed.
1t is recorded in a Baltimore paper
that Columbus West has been APP
pointed postmaster Of neighboring
village, vice Julia G. Henkle, married.
The Charleston Courier comes
out squarely in favor of repdiating
the South Carolina State debt. The
paper is ultra-Democratic in politics.
General Sherman and young
Grant go to Europe without pay, and
at their own expense, subject TO re-
call at any time by the Secretary of
War
The Catholic population of Amer.
lea is estimated at 5,500,000 with A.
800 priests, worshipping at 1850
churches and 100 chapels and sta>
tons.
The appointment of General
Walker, perintendent of Census. as
commissioners of Indian affairs, gives
great satisfaction to all outside Of the
Indian ring.
The Illinois legislature refused
to order the printing Of Governor
Palmer's message, and it now lies up
on the Presidents table, consigned
to oblivion.
-Ex.Governor Solomon is chair
man OF b-committee of the COM
mlttee of Seventy, on matters ofleg-
islation pertaining to the New York
city charter.
1t is reported that the owner Of
Goldsmith Maid has offered to wager
$50, 900 with Robert Bonner that the
mare can trot to II seconds faster
than the horse Dexter.
"A victim Of Mr.. Greeley's hand
writing says: IfHorace had writ
ten that inscription on the wall in
Babylon, Belshazzar would have
been good deal more scared than he
was"
A special to the World from
London says: "a distinguished Car
dinal authorizes the statement that
the Pope will not leave Rome unless
he is compelled to do 50 by physical
force or personal malice"
One of the "Lost Cause" adher.
ents, who lived on the line of Sher-
mans march to the seq, proposes a
novel subscription for Chicago. He
offers to give hundred bundles of
hay to the cow that kicked over the
lamp.
Tho Washington Chronicle, of the
30th ultimo, says that the decision of
the United States Supreme Court on
The legal tender question will be an
1ounced about the last week in the
present session, which will expire in
December.
Governor Fairchild has acknow!-
edged the receipt of about 100000
cash contribution for the relief of fire
sufferers in Wisconsin. The relief
Committee at Milwaukee received
about as much, and about $4,000
were received at Green Bay.
Governor Campbell read his
m essage to the Wyoming Legislat-
ure on Thursday. He recommends
retrenchment, a commission of emil
grafton, and that female suffrage be
not repealed. He says that women
have made good jurors, and honest
and competent office holders.
England claims to have solved
the great problem of road steamers,
having run one attached TO an omni-
bus containing .sixtyrfve people,
from Ipswich to Edinburgh, $50 m.
in " hours. The trip was made
without any accident or stoppages,
and is one nf the most successful on
record.
Among the assigned causes Of
insanity in patients received at the
Taunton, Mass. Lunatic Hospital
during eighteen years, spiritualism is
given in fifty-three cases religious
excitement in one hundred and fifty.
one; the use of tobacco in six nov
el reading in two, and intemperance
10 seven hundred and three.
1t is singular fact that the
ablest and most influential journals
now published in Italy are either ed
tied or controlled by Jews. In Rome
the liberal journal most read is edited
by Jew. They demand liberty of
conscience, and discuss the religious
questions now uppermost in Italy,
with great intelligence and perfect
freedom.
Victor Hugo has written letter
four columns long, on the state Of