Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-10-24
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| -Noal mas Deen discovered in the
northern part of Minnesota.
The loss by fire at Manistee is es-
timated at one million dollars.
The British Government has de-
termined to release no more Fenians.
The Mississippi pine lands are
worth three hundred dollars per
acre.
The Colorado narrow-gauge
railroad achieves thirty miles an hour,
easy.
The Chicago banks are all sound,
and are paying every dollar on de-
mand.
10! the poor Indian, numbers
just $4,000, according to the last
census.
Three hundred and fifty million
pounds is the grape crop of Calls
fornia.
The Illinois State Fair, at Du-
Quoin, was a failure financially and
otherwise.
The town of Wickerville, Ala,
is announced for sale at the rate of
81 per acre.
1t has been estimated that the
new crop Of cotton will amount to
$3.50 500 bales.
The wheat crop of Great Britain
averages from twenty-six to thirty
bushels per acre.
The hop-growers of this State
are elated over the prospect Of re-
munerative prices.
Henry Davis, Of Waukesha, rails
ed some white dent corn this season
which yielded 100 bushels to the
acre.
Prompt relief for the Chicago
sufferers is promised by cable from
England France, Germany aud
Italy.
The French election returns are
still. incomplete Prince Jerome Ma
poleon has been returned form
Alsace.
President Grant took premiums
for colts, in class Of horses of all work
and for thoroughbred stations at the
st. Louis Fair.
The internal Revenue Bureau es-
Inmates that the Chicago fire will re
duce revenue receipts to the amount
of four millions.
-The total loss of property by the
Chicago fire has been reckoned down
to $3.50, 000,0 900 Houses burned,
number about 10000.
Hawthorne said that Miss Brem-
or twas a most estimable little wo~
man, worthy to be the maiden aunt
of the whole human race"
Mark Twain's new book, to be
published by the American Publish
ing Company, will describe a journey
to California in the "fush times" of
1849.
-Washington's servants having
departed this life, the servants of
Andrew Jackson have now now be-
gun to die off in various Western
towns.
-Governer Brown, of Missouri
has issued a proclamation, calling out
the militia in Dunklin and Stoddart
counties for the suppression of the
Ku-Klux
There is much excitement on
the western coast of South America.
in Peru, over the discovery of rich
deposits of gold and copper at differ
ent points.
A dispatch from Rome says
many Of the Catholic communities of
that city propose emigrating to Eng
land and America, where they will
found converts.
The trial of Senator Clayton, of
Arkansas, on charge of fraud in tho
Congressional election Of 1870, has re-
suited in his discharge, without going
into the testimony.
Private letters from Chicago
state that ladies Of wealth are send.
ing what remains of their rich ward
robes and jewelry to New York, for
sale, to raise money to aid the suffer
ers.
The Committee of the Chamber
of Commerce announces that in fu-
ture the contributions received by
them will be devided among the
Chicago, Michigan and Wisconsin
sufferers.
Col. Lewis w. Washington, the
head Of the branche of'the family TO
which the first President belonged,
died on October l, after brief
illness Of congestive fover ut his
residence near Harper's Ferry, West
Virginia.
There is heavy Democratic
movement in New York for the nom
nation Of Chase, who is said TO be
willing, He has already made a
platform, and can show, he says,
that the Republicans have deserted
him-no be the Republicans. That
is what every renegade deserter
says.
1t il reported that Horace Gree
ley has got into a muss with Texas
editor. 1t appears that in an agris
cultural essay on tobacco, Mr.. Greedy
asserts that fpe-cut will not ripen
well unless the tin-foil is striped from
the growing buds early in the spring,
and that plug tobacco ought to be
knocked off the trees with clubs, in
stead of being picked by hand. This,
the Texas editor says, was nonsense.
s@A letter states that for years
past Queen Victoria has believed
that the soul of Prince Albert is in
variable present with her, and that
she can hold communion with him.
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