Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-11-26
MISCELLANY.

| agite OK now speeds the
mails from the depot to the Chicago
post Office.
The radical papers of New York
are calling upon Fenton to resign his
seat in the Senate.
There are altogether triae over
slxty.one thousand merchant vessels
in the world.
The Prussian government will
use only American paper for its bark
notes hereafter.
-Tllton repents. He is buying up
and burning all theeopies OF his life
of Vic. Woodruff he can find.
up in the Lake Superior iro re-
gion they have got the epizootic bad,
and thlrty,eight inches of snow along
with it.
The New York World has no
longer any use for H. G., and pro-
ceeds to read him out of the Demo
cratic party.
Forty German farmers form the
Sank County Beet Sugar Company,
which expects to use 1900 tons of
beets this winter:
New York city officials have for
hidden the construction of any more
mansard roofs in the metropolis, un-
less they are made of fire proof ma,
terials.
-Four hundred miles of narrow
| guage railways are TO be built in Cal.
itornia, and company with seven
millions of capital has been organized
TO do it.
Who can say the Chicago Trib-
ane exerts no influence st home
Contrast the Republican majority OF
10000 with the result of former cleo
tons and see for yourself
-.Congra:ulatory messages were
exchanged on Friday between the
Mayors of Adelaide, Australia, and
New York, upon the completion of
telegraphic communication.
During the Boston fire, fire
engines were run through from
New York to Boston in six hours,
over 245 miles of road, and FROM
Worcester to Boston in about one
mile minute.
1t IS said that Gratz Brown has
his eye on Frank Blairs Senatorial
seat, which expires in March. Blair
was the making of Brown at Cincin-
natl, IS Brown was the making Of
Blair two years ago.
Rev. Robert Collyer wishes "ev.
cry gin-mill chained 10 the bottom.
less pit Of hell" Mr.. Collyer does
wrong to wish anything which would
encourage emigration IN that direc~
ton.
The Chicago Tribune is just now
working hard to regain it's lost popu.
larity. The cornerstone on which
It's new fabric of greatness is to be
builded is the falIacy that lager beer
will not intoxicate.
Near Carbonate, Illinois, lies
one of the greatest coe! deposits
known. For a distance of five square
miles the earth is underlaid with
bed of almost pure carbon, nIne feet
and two inches thick.
Mr.. Beecher is reported to have
vindicated himself in these terms:
eli you are walking down the street,
and chamber-maid empties slop-
pail on your head, what can you do
about it but wash Yourself and move
op?'
The Government has ordered the
breakwaterat Daluth to be repaired
and work upon it will be commenced
Immediately. Only the superstruct-
ure was swept away by the storm.
This will be restored aud made
stronger and more secure than be-
fore.
Some of the early English Bibles,
as Mr. Disraei states, contain as ma
ny as 5000 era a, all Intentional,
consisting in passages interpoIated
and meanings forged for sectarian
purposes. sometimes to sanction the
new creed of half>hatched sect and
sometimes with the intention to de-
stroy all Scriptural authority by the
suppression or omission Of texts.
Oshkosh is out with new edi-
tion Of EnOch Arden-but the first
husband didn't come back and gaze
through the window at the felicity of
the reconstructed household and then
90 into the green and yellow melan-
choly business not any, he kicked
the new husband out, sorted over the
children and sent his brats after him,
and then, after thrashing his wife,
settled down into peaceful and hap
Ply head of the family.
"A Michigan schoolmaster says:
81 viii spell emmy man woman or child
in the hull state for dickshunary or
kash priz Of one hundred dollars aside,
the money to be awarded by kom>
mittee of clergymen or skool direk-
tors. There has heen a darned site
of BLOWN about my spellin, and now
want them to put me up or to shet
up. wont be put down by passed.
of ignaramusses because differ with
noah webster's stile OF spellin."
Last Winter the Iowa Legisla-
ture abolished the death penalty and
substituted Imprisonment for lifo,
and the Northern Synod of thc Pres
byterian Church, passed resolution
at recent session, saying that the
aforesaid legislation was unwise.
They want the old law restored.
Their action has been endorsed by
most of the leading papers of tho
State One journal says that crime
has increased enormously in six
months, and inrsome places there is
talk OF resorting to Lynch law.
The Racine Journal says. 1.-TWO
men in this city made q bet on the
election between Grant and Greeley,
making the following horrid condi-
tions: If Grant was elected, the
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