Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-12-03
MISCELLANY.

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Eight hundred persons in the
bureau of printing and engraving
are employed day and night in print.
lhg fractional currency and revenue
stamps.
-Germany cleared a billion dol
lars by the Franeo-Prussian war, at
ter paying all expenses according 10
the way the Army and Nary Journal
foots it up.
The police of Chicago report but
sixteen arrests for violation of the
Sunday liquor law, and it has become
evident that it is possible 20 enforce
the ordinance.
| In answer to numerous inquiries,
We again announce that Greeley car
ried only six states, namely: Mary
land, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia,
Missouri and Texas.
Samuel Austin Allibone, author
Of an enormous critical dictionary of
authors, making 3, l40 pages, is sec
rotary and editor of the American
Sunday school Union.
Alexander Mitchell, President of
the Dubuque and Monroe railroad,
has signed contract for the con
struction of the Shullsburg division
of the road for 5000, 900.
Mrs. Laura Fair the acquitted
murderess advertised to lecture ~
San Francisco, last week subject,
Wolves in the Fold" Tere was
great indignation at her audacity.
DIR. Pettigrew says that if the
arm bones OF bird are perforated
lis windpipe may be tied up without
producing sutfocation, respiration 60.
ing on by the opening of the bones.
The bodies of j. IL. Straight OF
LIE Mars, Iowa, and Sparks, colored,
were found upon the east shore OF
Lake Michigan. They were drown
ed by the sinking of the Lac la Belle.
The seven female students in the
University of Vermont, at Burling~
ton, are reported as holding their
own very we'll, and fully equal in
scholarship to most of their class
mates of the other sex.
A bill is introduced in the Indi-
ana Legislature to modify the jury
system SO that majority can decide
the cases except in capital otfenses;
in civil cases eight votes determining.
and in felony cases nine.
Some 300 or 400 citizens of Du.
buque, including the municipal au-.
thorities, left that city Nov. 25th, on
an excursion to Chicago over the new
direct route by rail. They stopped
at CliDton, Iowa in the evening, visited
Chicago AMI returned to Dubuque.
Warrants are issued for the inc
spectors of election who received the
ballots of Susan b. Anthony and her
| friends. The examination in the case
of Miss Anthony was postponed by
agreement to the 29Jh. She says
she is pleased to have her case
brought properly before the court.
Prof Hayden writes TO the Sec
rotary of the Interior that the survey
of the Yellowstone region this year
has been very successful that every
step has been one of scientific ad-
vancement, and that be will return to
| Washington laden with treasures in
the way of choice mineral specimens.
The first suit in Sterling ILL.,, for
damages under the new liquor law
was tried lately. A teamster got
drunk and his horses ran away,
breaking the wagon to pieces. His
employer brought suit against the
saIoon-keeper from whom the whisky
was obtained and recovered S45 dam
ages.
During the past two years thou
sands of cattle have been driven into
Montana from Texas, Colorado and
Wyoming. II is estimated that more
than hundred thousand head are
now in the Territory, the owners in
tending To let their herds increase
until tho Northern Pacific railroad
gives them an outlet to market.
The horse disease is rapidly dis
appearing in the East, in Michigan,
in part of Illinois, and in Ohio.
ln Wisconsin, Indiana and Iowa it ia
becoming general, as it is also
throughout the South. The other
disease-horse dropsy--is also disap-
pesring in the East, and has not as
yet made it's appearance in the West.
Martha knight, Of Amherst,
Mass, invented machine for manu-
featuring paper bags, and has been
written up by the New York Sun.
| The authorities at the Patent Office,
Washington, say this is the first com.
plete invention got ont by a woman.
A fortune is predicted for the invent.
ress in comparatively short time.
Emilio Castelar, and King Amad-
Gus of Spain met recently, ia a side
path in the Madrid Prado. The
King, who had never been introduc-
ed to Castelar,, approached the great
Republican orator, and, shaking his
hand, said to him: "Senor, / adj
mire your genius" Sand | replied
CASTELAR,, admire your Majesty's
courage"
The trial of the Woodhulls is 90.
ing on in New York for the utterance
of gross libel upon Mr.. Beecher and
others but 1t seems TO have no effect
upon Mr.. Beecher's ministrations, or
the devotion of his Society to their
Pastor. the last evidence of this is
the determination of the society to
erect memorial missionary building,
at the cost of $50 900, and give it the
honor OF his name.
"A pearl fishing expedition is ft>
ting out at Melbourne, to test the
pearl fisheries on the southwest coast
ofthe Australian Continent. The ex-
pense Of twelve months expedition
is set down at s. 900, and the expect.
ed net profits at s22, 900. The pro.
jectcrs of the enterprise depend
mainly on the mother of pearl, which