Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-06-06
Gleanings from Our Exchanges.

The great park of San francisco
contains 800 acres.
Philadelphia has 345 cigar fac
tories, representing $780, 40.
-Governer Leslie, of Kentucky
was woodchopper in 1888.
1t is estimated that the Darier
canal will cost $50, 100000
"A large party of London editors
purpose coming to America this sum
mer.
-Four hundred thousand peach
trees have been planted in Delaware
this spring.
Henry Ward Beecher is the very
latest candidate announced for the
presidency.
Eighty millions of bushels of coal
are said to be shipped annually from
Pittsburg.
June 9Th will be observed as a
day of thanksgiving throughout the
German empire.
Brick Pomeroy is going to Cal
ifornia; but that isn't his ultimate
destination Chicago Post.
Tie dry weather throughout
Central Illinois is severely injuring
the wheat and oat crops.
Three Vice Presidents have
died in office: George Clinton, Elb-
ridge Gerry and VIM. r. King.
-"Nasby" has Git is said) made q
contract with the Harpers to write
twenty poems for their Weekly.
Minister Thornton has no doubt
the treaty will be ratified without
delay by Her Majesty's Government.
The sessions of the United States
Senate for several years after the
formation of the Government were
all secret.
The bridge across the Mississippi
river, opposite Fort Ripley, was
swept away by a jam of logs on Tues
day morning.
Three Dubuque doctors have
lately removed from lady of that
city an ovarian tumor weighing
forty eight pounds.
Apples are now said to be sure
cure for the hog cholera. At three
cents per apple, hog can be cared
for about $500.
The $4,000 prize of the Milwau-
kee Musical Society concert was
drawn by w. j. Carver, farmer
residing at Reedsburg, Wis.
A Wisconsin Postmaster has
written to Washington for "som
eternal revenu stamps" saying he
had ''sevrel coils for them"
There are thirty thousand wo-
men and girls in New York who
earn their liven in the stores and
manufactures of the city.
Tho first of the years crop of
deaths from jumping the rope has
been harvested in Akron, Ohio.
The little girl jumped 40 times.
The Montreal Witness reports
that the Canadian Executive will
ratify the treaty of Washington
without asking the consent of Par
lament.
-Dore has a special liking for
rats, and uses them in his sarcastic
illustrations of diplomatic matters,
where cunning and hypocrisy are to
be delineated.
Henry Ward Beecher thinks the
weather has much to do with a mans
religion, as many people pray during
a thunder storm who never think Of
it on sunshiny day.
1t is said that the Quincy, Al
ton and st. Louis railroad will be
completed to point on the Toledo,
Wabash and Western railroad with
in the next sixty days.
= The Blue Earth City Post
claims that Milla Nilsson, employed
in the family of J. II. Sprout, of that
village, is cousin Of the celebrated
songstress, Christina Nilsson.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette learns
that cut worms are operating disas-
trously in many Of the fields in that
vicinity, and that nearly half of some
fields of corn have been destroyed by
them.
st. Louis has the boulevard"
fever, and has just opened new one
eight miles long and ono hundred
.aA
turnouts in the western world will
be exhibited,
Wild Bill the loyal scout, who
was killed in by Indians, in 1869, and
lynched by the Ku-Kluk last fall, and
shot dead in quarrel at Christmas,
is marshal Of the town Of Abilene,
Kansas.
Tho editor of the Glenwood
(Iowa) Opinion has been in various
parts of Western Iowa, Kansas, Me-
braska, ard Missouri recently, and
makes report of splendid crop pros
pect everywhere.
The revenue Of the post,office
department for the current fiscal
year will be 81, 900, 900 in excess of
that of last year, and the officials are
hoping that ere long it can be made
self-sustaining.
Ben Montgomery, the ex-slave
who bought the JEFF and 10 Davis
plantation, near Vicksburg, for $780,
900, has just bought another large
estate adjoining, and expects to make
$500 bales Of cotton this season.
New York has fresh horror.
1t is intimated that the beautiful
white toilet sponges peddled about
the streets of that wicked city are
old hospital sponges, boughtup cheap
and renovated by the use of chlorine.
When o man wants a smile, if
instead of going into a saloon for one,
he would go home to his wife and
little ones, he would get one of much
better quality and kinder influence
than is retailed over any bar.-Late
A. Taylor.