Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-12-26

The Milwaukee Soldiers Home
now contains $40 inmates.
One of the most successful law
yers in Sacramento is blind.
An old lady of 40 is the chap.
lain of the Kansas State Prison.
France has over four hundred
manufacturers of beet-root sugar.
Baltimore has ten millions of
dollars invested in the oyster trade.
The Grand Duke Alexis is TO
visit Milwaukee on the Sd of January.
"A census of Fiji shows one
hundred thousand living -esters.
Memphis claims to have succeed.
ed Chicago as the divorce metropo>
lis.
! Governor Hoffman has renounc
ed his adherence to the Democratic
party.
Navigation has been resumed on
the Mississippi River, from st. Louis
south.
1t is now said the administra.
ton is to change front on the Cuban
question.
The Prince of Wales is now out
of danger, and is rapidly recovering
his health,
Ohio has fourteen hundred
blind persons, most of whom are cared
for by the State.
In the distribution of National
bank currency, Illinois has four doll
lars for each person.
1t is stated that General Sickles
will resign the Spanish mission on
his return TO America.
Andrew Jackson Davis proposes
book to tell the world what he
knows about insanity.
The Agricultural Bureau says
the area in corn was greater in 1871
than in any former year.
Journalists, as rule, are more
esteemed and regarded in Paris than
ir any other city in Europe.
Observation-Disclosures
arianism" is the latest religio. socio.
political sensation in Georgia.
A Missouri musician sat down
upon keg of powder and began to
smoke. They found one button.
William Writ Skies, O we'll.
known and brilliant yonng author,
is Olive Logsn's accepted "feller."
Portland, Oregon. has larger
number of saloons than any other
city of its size in the United States.
Returns received in Washing.
ton indicate that the cotton crop will
WELD three and one-third million
bales.
-Twenty-seven members of the
Mississippi Legislature are colored-
two in the Senate, twenty-five in the
House.
The English post-ofiice sends a
letter weighing an ounce for penny,
while we pay one-third more for half
that weight.
Olive Logan is about to lecture
on "Nice Young Men" but before do.
ing so, she has made arrangement to
marry one of them.
Because Bret Harte ia not fool
ish enough to overwrite himself, the
critics begin to cry "played out."-
Envy begets many sins.
The wool of the United States
for the year ending in June. 1870,
according to the census returns,
amounted to $101,284 678.
Oysters in England have reach
ed the enormous price of S55 O bushel,
consequent upon the almost complete
dredging out of the oyster beds.
A private letter from San Do
mingo says the two years lease of
the Bay of SANTANA having expired
the United States flag has been haul
cd down.
In view of the arrival of rein
forcements from Spain, the volun-
teers in Cuba are to be relieved from
service and the forts garrisoned with
regular troops.
Sentence of death has been pass
ed upon one of the three half,breeds
tried ct Fort Garry for participa-
tion in the late Fenian raid under
General O'Neil.
Duke Alexis positively stated to
Governor Geary that he would at
tend the centennial of American In
dependence, at philadelphia, on the
4th of July, 1876.
The message Of the Governor of
Kentucky admits the presence of or
ganized Ku-Klux bands in that
State, and calls for rigid measures
for their suppression.
The latest London announce
ment is a nose machine, by which
homely noses are pressed into the
most fashionable shape, according to
the taste Of the owner,
"A majority of the Ways and
Means Committee express their
hearty accord with the President in
his recommendations upon the res
duction of internal taxation.
"A few days ago a little girl in
Ithaca, just before she died, exclaim-
ed: Papa, take hold of my hand
and help me across" Her father
had died two months before.
More than Is, 900 familief, aver.
aging five persons each, have applied
for and nearly all of them arc still
receiving aid in a greater or less de-"
gree from the Chicago Relief Com
mittee.
An investigation by the Demo-
cratic Congressman shows that there
is not single one of the I39 Repub-
licans in the House who is willing to
squarely oppose Grant in 1872. This
leaves the Democracy in another
quaudary as to what course to pur>
sue.
The number of marie disasters
on the lakes during the present sea-
a0n 40 ran0rfad hv Giants Hall M a