Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-07-10

stopped their works for a rise in pri.
ces.
Eight thousand five hundred
emigrants arrived in New York laast
| week.
| Five lines of street railway have
been, under one MANAGE
ment in Cincinnati.
Chicago has one saloon for every
140 of her population, including
women and children.
Ida Lewis, the light house her.
oine, has left her husband, and again
paddles her own canoe.
During the fiscal year which
ended June 80, 107 new National
Banks were authorized.
Woodruff and her friends, Blood
and Clafin, have been indicted under
the obscene publication act,
Tho value of the silk raised am
nually in the United States is from
thirty to forty million dollars.
Massachusetts has nineteen OTIS
les now, the last Legislature having
granted them three new city char
ters.
- Up to the 1st inst, 20, 480, 600
postal cards had been issued by tho
Post Office, and 40, l29, 900 had been
ordered.
In Sewer County, Tenn, an an
cient silver mine has been discovered,
with all the old appurtenance for
working.
Mrs. Thomson, daughter of tho
poet Burns, died, on the 18th inst.
at Crossmyloef, near Glasgow. She
was 81 years old.
Tho Khedive of Egypt visited
our Minister, Mr.. Boxer, at his resi-
dence at Therapia, near Constantin.
ople, on the Goth ult.
"A Japanese translation of the
textbook of chemistry by Professor
Barker, of Yale, has been introduced
into the college at Yeddo.
Thomas Mast, it is said, has been
engaged to deliver 100 lectures. to BIO
illustrated by sketches drawn in the
presence of the audience.
An Alabama lawyer. defending
q murderer, spoke nineteen consocu-
tive hours, and the jury convicted
the client in seven minutes,
The English uncrimped and un>
frizzed style of wearing the hair is
again coming into vogue. 1t is class
ical, sensible, and not false.
Good Templar lodges are now
being opened in England at the rate
of ten per day, and 100000 people
have joined IN twelve months.
= The Philadelphia Methodist
Clergyman have resolved that it is
wrong to run excursion trains to
camp meetings or anywhere on suns
day.
1t was the rare fortune of Jesse
X. Grant. lately deceased, to be the
only man who ever lived to see his
son elevated to the Presidency of the
nation.
"A stuffed eagle, seated on a ball
lot-box ditto, is reported to be the
most conspicuous object in the Amer
lean department of the Vienna Expo
sition.
The graduating class at Harvard
University last week, numbered 100,
that at Yale college 113, that at Yale
College 113; that at Cornell Univers.
ity, 100.
Tho City of ST. Paul has pur-
chased 200 ceres of land for public
park, at an expense of S91, 000--the
seller taking city bonds at so cents
on the dollar.
Tho Post Office department has
received from Norway the detailed
regulations in execution of the con-
vention of treaty between the U. S.
and Sweden and Norway.
Dover, VT, has not had death
for five years, and the town hearse
was put up at rattle the other day
and won by man who is going TO
alter it over into a milk-cart.
Con. Beauregard is reported to
be growing ola very fast. His
health is quite infrm, too, owing to
the severe taxing of his physical and
nervous system during the war
Tho wheat crop is nearly all
harvested in Kansrs, and is saved
in good order. LaBelle county alone
will raise 100000 bushels of wheat
this year, against 10O, 900 last year.
Dover, VT, has not had death
for five years, and the town hearse
was put up at rattle the other day,
and won by man who is going to
alter it over into milk cart.
Tho earnings of tho Central Pa
cific Railroad for the last month are
said to be the largest since the com.
pletion Of the road, aggregating more
than 81, $50, 900; and yet allasion to a
reduction of freights and fares makes
the company unhappy.
The total absence of boot-jacks,
pomatum pots, and other household
missiles in the remains Of the Swiss
lacustrine villages, leads DR.. Hart
mann, the distinguished ethnologist,
to the conclusion that the domestic
cat was unknown to prehistoric
man,
Lovers of claret and Burgundy
will be pleased so learn, on the au-
authority of an eminent French
chemist, that red wines nowadays
are commonly colored with rosani.
line, which contains arsenic enough
to cause symptoms of poisoning fit