Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-01-23

The stock of the Erie Road il
rising rapidly since Fisk's death.
"A Des Moines lady compostor
earns an average OF 1924 q week.
Joseph elliott the manufacturer
OF the famous elliott pen, is dead
One hundred years ago there
were but four newspapers in Ameri.
Ca
The Russian Grand Dukes have
only s25, 600 year for spending mon
ey.
The London Times thinks three
men-of.war ships could capture that
city.
The Grand Duke has returned
from his buffalo hunt and gone to
Denver.
1t is reported that the life Of the
late James Fisk, Jr, was insured for
100000.
A wealthy colored man in South
Carolina has bought Jno. c. Calhoun's
plantation.
Citizens Of California will petit.
ton Congress for coinage of twenty
cent pieces.
The Foot aud Mouth disease il
reported to be rapidly disappearing
in England.
Sank County has clear surplus
in her treasury Of $4,000 over and
above debts.
There is imminent danger that a
war with Spain will grow out of the
Florida affair.
-Parton's life Of Jefferson is to be
printed as serial in the Atlantic to
run through the year.
The California convicts relieved
the tedium of confinement by digging
out of jail with a spoon.
= Ono hundred thousand pounds
of tobacco will be shipped from
Whitewater this winter.
The United States contains 400
Incorporated cities, Of which ST. Au.
gustino, Fla., is the Oldest
Maine has reduced her public
debt $4,000 during tho past wear
Maine is Republican state.
1t is rumored that Gen. McClel-
Ian will be the successor of Fisk AS
the Vice President of the Erie.
The annual sermon before the
Massachusetts Legislature was from
the text, Thou shalt rot steal"
A late Cairo sensation is an inc
tant that came into the world posses
ing twonty-one pounds Of humanity.
A Des Mons female compositor
whose name is not given, earns an
average OF twenty-four dollars week.
During the twenty years from
1899 to 1871 no fewer than 1867 500
Gcrmans emigrated to this country.
The silver ore dug in the vicini-
ty OF Racine is reported TO yield IF,
teen dollars worth of silver to the
ton.
Upward Of one thousand books
and pamphlets have been published
in Germany on the infallibility ques-
ton.
1t is said that the subject upon
which Horace Greeley is to lecture
at Atlanta is "tho proper time to act
out bee trees"
-Parson BrownIow, in a letter to
the Knoxville Chronicle, writes that
"Grant is stronger to-day than when
he was elected"
Senator Carpenter declares the
proposed civil service reform TO be
unconstitutional and "the latest DC.
litical delusion."
Tho London Times thinks that
Catacazy, as Russian Minister to the
United States, served his country
zealously, but not judiciously.
Cholera has broken out in Per-
STA, adding it's horrors to the many
caused by the famine now depopulat.
ing that unhappy country.
= 1t has been decided to hold the
next Republican National Conven-
ton, for the nomination of President
and Vice President, ut Philadelphia.
"A lady in New York recentlv
broke off her engagement to a gem
tleman, because he had shown lot.
ter she had written him to his moth.
err.
- y large number Of petitions for
the reduction Of tariff and the repeal
of productive duties on salt, iron.
coal, &c, have been presented to
Congress.
The Legislature Of Illinois has
passed resolution endorsing the
one-term amendment to the Constitu,
ton Of the United States now pend
ing in Congress.
"A handsomely-b bound book with
out q single idea has been exhibited
in London. Its contents are: "Thir-
ty-three thousand, five hundred and
thirty-fve ways Of spelling 'scis>
sors."
Seven expeditions are now en-
gagged in Arctic researches, two from
Uermahy, one from sweden, one from
Scotland, one from England one from
France and one from the United
States.
Several Georgia papers strongly
protest against the custom Of carry
ing pistols, and allege that the tear
fully large number of recent homi>
cides in that State is almost solely
caused by the custom.
DIR Schweinfurth describes peo-
pie in the interior Of Africa whose
average height is but little, if any,
greater than that Of the Laplander.
lie supposes that they may belong to
the race described as pigmies by
Herodotus
The following is the statute in
tho old Saxon code referring to leap
wear. "a lbeit. as often "a leana