Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-03-21
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There are several woman-rights
newspapers in France.
Calico coteries arc the most pop
ular parties in New York.
"A Duluth, Mimi, lady goes out
calling behind dog team.
Winnie Ream is announced as the
latest candidate for the lecture field,
Wisconsin furnished nearly 900,
year.
New York now has the Sun the
World, the Globe, the Galaxy. aud
the Star.
The Mississippi Legislature will
not prohibit the running of trains on
Sunday.
The production Of lead from the
Missouri mines in 1870 was IA, 128,721
pounds.
d. Aubigne is now so years of age,
and is bright, vigorous and industri-
Gus as ever.
Missouri wives can now hold
property independent OF their bus.
bands liabilities.
-Niuety.six paper mills have been
destroyed in this country by fire,
during the last year.
In Peoria coal is sold for eight
cents bushel. In Rock Island the
same quantity costs fifteen cents.
The circulation of Eoery Satuv.
day is said to be increasing very rap
idly, and has at the present time
about 10000
An improved dove-tailing ma
chine has lately been patented, which
is capable of making four hundred
drawers per day.
Somebody asserts that more
than half the hotels in this country
are kept by natives of New-Hamp.
shire and Vermont.
Ohio towns are rather OVERRIDING
the spirit-photographs on window
panes. Sandusky reports two, and
the village of Milan three.
The largest church in America
is the First African Baptist Church
in Richmond, Va it has thirty dea-
cons and over 600 members.
The laboring classes of Massa
chusetts have laid up, against q rainy
day, in the savings banks, the sum
Of one hundred and forty millions cf
dollars.
Nebraska is growing with steady
and prosperous pace Lincoln, tho
Capital of the State, although scarce
ly three years old, is already quite
city.
General Banks has just received
a letter from the well-known painter,
Bierstadt, in which be is quite out
spoken in his praise Of Miss Ream as
an artist.
"A College in Kansas has twelve
fullblooded Indians among It's stu
dents They are studying with re-
ference to preparing for the Presby
terrain ministry.
The Smithsonian Institution or
tcrs to send packages to European
institutions free OF charge. provided
they are forwarded to Washington
at tho sender's cost
Capitalists are now talking OF
building thousand mile railroad
across the Andes, at cost Of $50, 000.-
600. 1t ia to connect the Argentine
Republic with Chill.
king William of Prussia is q
practical printer. All that family are
obliged to have some trade. He
chose to be printer, and worked at
the case three years.
The Tallahassee Sentinel thinks
Florida ia looking up-that it il
about TO enter upon a new, golden
era. Northern capital and Northern
energy are to effect it.
Dean Smith said: at is with
narrow-souled people as is is with
narrow-necked bottles-the le. they
have in them the moro noise they
make in pouring it out"
--Gencral VIM. s. ROsecrans is out
IN q letter favoring the building by
Government Of railways, North and
South, and declares them necessary
to complete national harmony.
Cesar is now declared by class,
zeal student to have been tho first
editor Of newspaper, having fulfill.
ed the journalistic function for
regular MSS. issued at Rome for
public instruction.
The latest dissipation of Victor
Emanuel is said to be tenpins, to
which be is much devoted. He en-
Joys the game, for he believes il post
pones the approach of apoplexy with
which he is now threatened.
The Massachusetts Legislature
is considering the advisability of
allowing persons to vote when first
naturalized, without compelling them
to wait two years, as is now requir-
ed. 1t is high time the Know Moth
ingism of the Bay State had been
sloughed off.
"A man and wife doscd .hoir two
children and themselves to death.
with laudanum, at McHenry, ILL.,, on
the 4th inst. under the hallucination
Of so-called SpirituaIism. Tho infat-
uated parents left word that they
desired to take their children with
them TO 50 better world"
An ignorant man, unable to read
or write, has lately died in Cincinna-
ii, leaving an estate Of $25O,000, in
steam boats and things. What les
son this circumstance is to those who
will fritter away their time learning
to read and write, when they might
be laying up steamboats, for their
heirs and assigns.
"A young woman from Boston,
the wife of an army officer on the
frontier, became much interested
in noble savage until he stole all
her jewelry, got beastly drunk with
the proceeds, and was found half-bur-
ied in fha mud ono roorn;no, =, crorf