Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-11-07
Pen and Scissors.
Austria has q Cabinet crisis.

on the Atlantic coast are women.
Egyptian women are to be un.
yelled hereafter says the Khedive.
The bullion production of the
United States amounts to $50, 600, 900
a year.
Ben Butler is bottled up again,
and Senator Henry Wilson sits on
the cork.
Massachusetts had a compulsory
education law on its statute books
for years.
A two thousand-pound bar Of
soap is the sensation at the Atlanta
(GG.) Fair.
"A Virginia female has died from
the excessive use Of tobacco, at The
age of 100.
The aggregate value of the
churches destroyed by the great fire
is 100000
Eighty nino newspapers and pc.
riodical establishments were destroy
ed in Chicago.
New and rich mines of galena
silver have been discovered near Silv-
er City, Idaho.
Tweed, the Tammanyite, has
finally been arrested, and is out on
$1,000, 600 bail.
The Chicago Tribune calls Tweed,
Connolly, Hall and Sweeney the four
Caesars (seizers.)
The gold and silver annually pro.
duced upon the Pacific coast approx
mates S80,000,000.
--Mr.Seward is at home in Auburn,
n. T.. taking rest after his trip
around the world.
A paper is shortly TO be publish
ed in Chicago in the interests of the
coIored population.
The Republican majority in
Iowa at the recent election, Was
thirty three thousand.
We estimate that the pork crop
IF Grant county this season is worth
over million dollars.
Queen Victoria, toolishly said to
be insane, has contributed $500 TO
the Chicago Relief Fund,
M Rocheford is beguiling the
weary hours Of prison life by writing
a history Of Napoleon III.
At the Chicago relief meeting in
Detroit, a little ragged dirty boy
gave ten cents. 1t was all he had.
president Grant has appointed
Thursday, November 80, as q day OF
general thanksgiving throughout the
Republic.
Up to the latest accounts twenty
millions Of dollars, in money and sup
plies, bad been raised for the benefit
of Chicago,
The lands along tho Texas Pacif.
ic Railroad, from Fort Yuma to San
Diego, have been withdrawn from
the market
There arc more newspapers pub
lished in California for the number of
inhabitants than IN any other State
in the Union.
Mayor Ludington, Of Milwaukee
recommends a special city tax for the
benefit of Wisconsin and Michigan
sufferers by recent fires.
A Chinaman's account of the
Chicago calamity is as follows:
"Melican Iish boy AXE kelosine lamp
and milk cow up go Chicago"
New York's liberality for Chca-
90 relief is prodigous 81, 740, 900, in
cash, and 100000 in supplies, in all
five million two hundred thousand
dollars
Columns of hot water three hun
dred feet high are among the wonders
of the Yellowstone Valley in Wyom-
ing They surpass the geysers Of
California.
The Boston Transcript says -
president Grants visit to New Eng
land this week has been one Of the
pleasantest ever made by a Chief
Magistrate OF the nation"
Tho payment of tho November
interest on the public debt, amount
ing to $21, 100000, began on the 25th.
This will contribute largely to keep.
the money market from becoming
stringent.
"A petition has been received by
President Grant, fifey feet long, sign
ed by women of Utah, protesting
against poligamy and urging effective
measures to suppress the practice in
that territory.
A Duluth letter states that "thc
emigration agent now in Europe re-
port that there will be as many as
10000 emigrants arrive at Duluth
next summer, boun4 for Dakota,
Montana and Oregon"
Nevada is capable OF supplying
the world with salt. 1t abounds in
salt springs, salt marshes, salt noun
tains, and great plains where the
corporations Of ages has left depos-
its Of salt almost ilimitable 10 extent.
A nice point in insurance is bro't
out by the action of some Chicago
merchants, in moving goods to points
of supposed safety, where they were
afterwards destroyed. The policies
cover goods in specified building
only.
Ida Lewis is married, and her
legal name is now Wilson, but she
still uses her maiden name. She is
living at Lime Rock, where she made
her reputation, with her mother, who
is in i'll health. and of whom she is
very fond. The total number of
lives saved by Ida Lewis is eleven.
"A lady in Concord, N. H., has an
old black letter Bible, printed in
1902. Tits of an edition sometimes
called the "Breeches Version, be-
cause in the seventh chapter Of Cen
esis il il written: They sowed fgge
tree leaves together and made them
selves brooches, instead OF aprons
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