Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-04-08
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Washington continues.
| Pho President viii leave for st.
Loais some time In April.
The bridge across the Mississip.
Pi ut Prairie da Chen 10 to be torn
down.
The Spanish Republic is not vet
recognized BY the leading Eu opean
Ipowers.
lit is said that Dickens cleared
sb26 600 in gold during his last visit
to America.
| The town of Canton, Miss, was
partially destroyed by . tornado on
Sunday night.
Hon. w. z. Sprsgue, CT Ohio, will
pay back to the Government his back
pay as Congressman.
A cog. wheel railway company
has been started in Switzerland with
. capital Of two millions.
| "A Norwegian woman, aged I07,
10 en- active housekeeper housekeep>
er in Kewaunee County.
"A Washington dispatch says the
Civil Service Commission has virtual.
ly ceased to be In existence.
Ida Lewis and her husband don't
live happily together. She lie 9 90.
uuetts. and be is jealous and cross.
Plus TX has witnessed the death
of one hundred Cardinals during-h is
pontihcA ate of q quarter of g century.
Southern planters and the pro-
duction of peanuts more profitable
than either wheat, corn or tobacco.
Queen Viotoria, says 9 recent
letter, is growing grey aud feeble,
and shrns society more than she ever
did.
General Sherman and Secretary.
Relknap are of the, opinion that sn
Indian war during the summer can.
not be sverted.
Congress recently appropriated
81, 900, 900 for hesdslones to mark
the graves Of Union soldiers Inferred
in national cemeteries.
1t is 9 noticeable fact that there
has not been q single strict party
vote in either branch of Congress
during the present session.
When the new postoffice in Bos.
ten is completed, the various news
papers will receive their exchanges
direct by pneumatic tubes.
Mics Sadie r. Wilkinson, Of
Bridgeport, CT, has gained verdict
OF S25. 900 damages against Brick"
Pomeroy, for breach of promise.
-Four government surveyors
were recently murdered by the no.
bic red men one hundred and twenty
miles southwest of Arkansas city.
Long rendant EARRINGS have Il.
nally gone out OF fashion. Now the
ladies are wearing studs on the lobe
of the car, or small drops of gold
abouthe size of . cherry.
"A young girl left Lowell, Mass,
two years ago with $500 10 her peck.
OF, and went to Kansas and turned
farmer. She could sell out her prop
erty TINS Jay Ior %ou,UUV.
Wisconsin he's eighty oranges of
the Patrons of Hssbandry. Rock
and Winnebsgo counties lead in the
movement, each being represented
bp thirteen fiourishing oranges.
The tenor of the news from
Spain are very warlike. The army
81 56ssu RRsp .95a, is. is demorali1ed by IN
pear to be gaining decided advanta-
ges.
The Congressional Official re-.
perters are now paid OIL o. per thou.
sand ems, printers measure, md
twenty per cent. additional. That
must make mighty fiat take" for
rapid writers.
The Kentucky giantess and her
husband were in Cleve Gland last Tues.
day week ordering furniture for their
new home in Ohio. The husband is
eight feet four inches in height--she
is one inch shorter.
Charles Summers "battle-fia
resolution" did not meet with the
endorsement Of the masses of the Re-
publican party, but that he ffered it
with the best intentions, and 10 true
patriotic spirit, no one doubts.
Minnesota papers, with the frost
five feet deep 10 the ground, dwell
upon the inevitable destruction of
potato bug as o Salts factory oom-
pensstion. The only doubt seems to
be as to whether the ground will
thsw out in time to raise any po>
tatoes this year.
Last week Detroit boy of ten
and girl of nine set out into the
country to get married. After walk
ing four miles they called at q farm,
er's house TO rent "the up stairs.
The farmer procured help, loaded The
kittens into the wagon, and returned
them to the city, Chicago may now
throw up the sponge on presocity.
They tell of woman, the fourth
wife ofs New Hampshire man, who,
while making . tour of her new
home, discovered . pair of wooden
horses in the attic, and asked her
husbe nd's little boy what they were
for. The boy promptly replied
Job, father keeps those 10 put his
wives oofina on"
important changes have been
made 10 the pension laws. Persons
who loet legs above the knee. thus
being so disabled that they can not
use the artificial leg, will receive S24
monthly, and persons who have lost
both arms will receive $l3 monthly.
Two years added to the limitation
within which pensions claimed may
be established.
George William Carts continues
to improve in health, though he sees
only bis very select friends, He at