Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-11-05

STATE NEWS.

uO HoiS 20 uiScaSc uhS uTOken out
a. Green Bay.
Fires are beginning to break out
in the pineries.
A colt in Jackson Go. pastured six
weeks without water,
Monroe has twelve churches of
different denominations.
Otis Hill, of Tomah, lately killed q
wild cat weighing % pounds.
"a A starch factory will soon be
erected at Friendship, Adams Cour-
ty.
Bees stung a valu able span of
horses to death at Baraboo last
week.
There are twelve inme tes in the
Sank county Jail eight of whom are
insane.
The old Rasdall House, Madison,
is now known as the new Capitol
Hou Sc.
Gov. Washburn will soon erect
SlOO, 900 Touring mill at Minneapolis,
Minnesota
Hon. James Ross, of Madison, is
delivering his temperance lecture
through the State.
Peshtigo reports only three cases
of wite-beating by brutal husbands
during the past week.
The Milwaukee Olegraph Com
pany employ fourteen presses to
meet the demand for their chromos.
Knowles, the sculptor, is going to
Madison to live, so we are Informed
His bust of Purity will go with him.
The editor of the Beloit Free Press
has been presented with an apple
weighing twenty-one and half
ounces.
The Wisconsin tobacco product,
this year, is estimated at twenty
thousand cases, the best in quality
ever grown 10 the state.
A German woman in Calumet Co,
recently fell from load of hay and
broke her spine. She lived only two
days, and leaves five helpless chill
dren.
The horse disease is reported to
have broken out in light form in
Milwaukee, and some cases Of a
similar character have occurred in
this city.
The Prairie du Chen Union re-
ports the death on the 21st, of DAN
iel III. Smethurst, an old and prom
inent citizen of Crawford county.
lie was Ga years old.
Col. Edward Daniels, formerly
State Geologist of Wisconsin, and
now editor of the Virginia State
Journal, Richmond, is a candidate
for Congress in that district.
The work of digging the ship
canal to connect Green Bay with
Lake Michigan by way of Sturgeon
Bay is now being pushed forward
with heavy force of men.
General James K. Proudfit, recent.
~ appointed Surveyor General Of
New Mexico, has sent home several
valuable specimens of diamonds an d
other precious stones from that
country.
Sergeant Bates, who has sailed for
England for the purpose of march,
ing through that country carrying
an American flag. was soldier in
one of the Wisconsin regiments dur
ing the war.
John Mathews, of Darlington, Wis -,
took the second premium on sheep
at the recent Great Agricultural Ex-
position in st. Louis. The first
premium was taken by direct i'm
portation from England.
The Times notes, as showing the
value OF manufactures to the poor
of city, that not less than one
hundred and fifty girls and women
are constantly employed on knit
goods for the Appleton Wooden
Mill
Somebody having presented the
editor of the Menasha Press with the
"makins" of suit of clothes, he
says that it will probably be another
year before he is again compelled to
take to bed in the middle of the day.
to give his wife an opportunity to
do needlewOrk upon his unmentloDa-
bles.
The Chippewa Valley was the
theatre of a fearful catastrophe a
few days since in the form of a tor
nado. The Chippewa Herald esti-
mates the amount of pine thrown
down at 200,0OO,O0O From thirty
to fifty yoke of cattle were Destroy
ed, besides numerous houses, shan
ties, and other buildings.
The Portage Register reports that
on Friday last the Register of D eeds
in Columbia county recorded deed
from the Green Bay and Mississippi
pi Canal company to the United
States Government of its property
commonly known as the Fox and
Wisconsin River Improvement. The
consideration was S145, 900. The
title to this property is now absolute
in the u. 5. Government.
There is speck of war in Beloit
College. The faculty wanted over
sight of the register which the stu
dents are about publishing The
latter thought the demand unrcas-
enable, and refused to comply. The
faculty threaten to expel herubIish-
ing committee, and nearly all the
other students say they will go too
If the threat is executed.