Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-07-03
News Items.

| Boston has ffty.three national
banks.
Stokes new trial goes over till
| October.
Tho wheat harvest has COM
menced in Southern Illinois.
The Chicago brewers have start
ed paper advocating their interest.
Mrs. c. III. Pennington commit
ted suicide at Dubuque, Iowa, OF the
18th.
A New Hampshire judge has Go.
clded that railroad ticket is good
until used.
A Chicago man got mad because
his wife used his razor to open can
of peaches.
Tho United States steamer Juni-
alta has started on its voyage in quest
of the Polaris.
All the Modoc prisoners have
been rsMoved to Fort Klamath un~
der strong guard.
Five of the nine members of
President McMahon's new Ministry
are journalists or authors.
1t is proposed to write messages
upon postal cards with invisible ink,
as is the practice in France.
A New York man has a dog
kennel with Mansard roof, plate glass
windows and Brussels carpets.
The average business of the New
York pickpockets is said to amount
to from s15, 900 to $4,000 per week:
The Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad has declared a dividend of
3 l 2 per cent. on its perferred stock.
Senior CASTELAR,, il is reported, is
drawing up constitution for fed
eral republic similar to the United
States.
Tho President is reported "a hay
ing said that he will not appoint
chief justice form the present judges
of the Supreme Court.
The New York Court Of Appeals
has decided that civil Justices are en-
titled TO $4,000 per annum, which
costs the city $4,000.
There is Il movement IN New
York against fashionable funerals.
1t is thought that with less expense
bara nn,lJ no ~ ora nf than
Duncan, who was hanged at
Paris, Kentucky, the other day, call
cd for strawberries and cream Just
before he assembled the scaflold.
"A two year old child in Iowa
lately fell into well A. feet deep,
landed right side up in Is inches of
water, and was fished out unimpaired
The soil in Nebraska froEe To
the depth of eight feet Tho potato
buN oh! whore wae he2 He was nine
feet down, and is now coming out
gay and lively.
"A notle pr0SeqW has been ebtored
by the United States District Attor~
noy in the case of the fourteen wo-
men indicted with Miss Anthony for
illegal voting.
The illness Of Emperor William
his withdrawal from the throne, 10
which case the Grown Prince will
be made Regent.
The Massachusetts legislature
which has adjourned, wound up by
voting itself an increased salary dat
ing back to the beginning Of the Sos
sion, Ia congress.
"A Cincinnati baby, which was
dropped from third story window
to the pavement the other day, "look-
ed up and sweetly smiled, suffering
nothing but bruise.
Col. Chas. A. Hamilton, an old
resident of Milwaukee and gallant
soldier during the war, has determine
cd 10 leave Wisconsin and take up
his residence in New York city.
-. G. G. Candy, brother OF the
late G enerGl Candy. died in the Miss
souri, State Lunatio Asylum, on the
9th inst. He became insane on
learning of the Generals murder
An Indiana editor advises his
cotemporaries to keet q corn-cGtter
in the sanctum. He uses one, and
he says it's wonderful how quick II
man will got down stairs before it.
Ocean freights on grain have
been advancing at New York for
some time, and have at last reached
thirteen pence sterling per bushel to
Liverpool. This is equal to twenty
six cents i'm gold, American money.
The reason for this advance is The
insufficient supply of vessels.
Mr.. d. G. STAN, Of raspberry no.
toriety has discovered an insect in
the raspberry leaves and laternals,
is the form of an egg. The damage
ia done by the cicada semptem decem,
which stung the cane cane last sea-
soD. The remedy is early pinching,
whiea will harden the canes before
they commence their work.
"A Duluth editor publishes STA
tistics to prove that within nine
years that embryo city viii need
fifty elevators, 1000 steamers and
tens Of thousand OF railroad cars.
He sees it all ain minds eye" and
so confident all this will come to pass
he will sell his halfinterest in print.
ing office for q new mich COW.
The jury in the United States
court, at Madison, on Monday, ron-
dered verdict OF eleven hundred
against the GAINESVILLE Gazette in a
libel suit brought by one VIM. IL.
Whitney. The Gazette, however an.
nounces its intention to deal with
offenders in the future as in the