Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-02-25

Vocal and inNtfumehi a. street
music Is pr, hibiled IL Baltimore
The President has signed the act
amendatory OF the bankrupt law.
Vermont has but four persons
engaged in manufacturing liquor
The two Misses Greeley will
spend the summer a, Greeley, Col.
California is takir & measures TO
stock her woods with wild turkeys.
Samuel Sinclair, late publisher of
The Tribune, has gone into bankrupt.
cy.
Capt Halls skeleton has been
sent from the Arctic regions TO Eng.
land
Nilsson promises to bring her
dear Augustus to this country next
winter.
California bea's the world on
divorces. One for every two mar
riages.
An Oshkosh girl has hair five
feet long, and she never bought il,
either.
Twenty thousand persons have
migrate from Georgia in the past
two years.
There are yet % 600 600 acres of
unclaimed land open to settlers in
Kansas.
A boy of 10 and girl only Is
were married at Westerly, Il l., u
few days ago.
The first d@ily newspaper pub
llshed IN the United - ates was issu-
cd in Philadelphia 1854.
The sgitation for the abolish
ment of the Thanking privilege began
twenty five years ago.
1t is said that the present winter
is one of the mldest ever known up
on the continent Of Europe.
Only four noses in Duluth have
not been frost bitten this winter and
they belong to tea-kettles.
Tho State Capital Removal bill
has been tabled in the Nebraska
House, by vote of y TO IL.
There was one divorce granted
to every fourteen and half mar
riages in Rhode Island in 1872.
IL is expected that a fund of
100000 will be contributed in few
weeks to aid Cuban independence
Mobile papers want the public TO
understand that the word Mobilier
didn't spring from the name of that
city.
The Western Union Telegraph
Company has purchased a controls
ing interest in the Cuba cable for ST.
500, 900
1t has cost the Illinois Central
Railroad G mpany $40 600 TO keep
It's Iowa branch clear OF snow this
winter.
The President is regarded Of
q lite 10 earnest in his determination
TO secure the enforcement OF the law
in Utah
The State Senate of NJ ssouri has
passed o bill authorizing jurors TO
imprisonment for the death
penalty:
Nearly every Democrat in the
House Of Representatives voted 10
favor Of Increasing the pay Of Con.
gressmen.
The death of Mr.. Dixon, who
first asccrtained that oysters were
eatsblo, is announced IA having oc-
cured at CrisfieId Md, last week.
Among those who propose to
leave Germany this year for tho
United States are 10000 tobacco
growers and 10000 wire growers.
The German Admiralty have
decided TO build no more large IRON
clads at present, but strengthen the
coast defenses by Monitors add tor
podoes
Americans Rad more newspa-
pers than any other people. but do
not read more books Probably tho
az rage newspaper is better than tho
average book.
There is lady in Henry coun,
ty. No, five feet four inches high.
and when she assumes perpendicu.
lar position her hair drag4 on the
floor four inches.
An invoice of Wisconsin tobacco
of the crop of 1872 sold 10 New York
City recently for twelve cents per
pound, which shows il TO be Of a SUI
perior quality.
Georgia proposes to buy Stone
Mountain and build State Peniten-
tiary at the same time selling enough
granite to New Orleans-S2 900 600
worth-to pay the cost.
The budget of tho Russian En-
pire for the year 1873 exhibits not
only the unusual novelty of no de-
fcit, but Of considerable excess of
revenue over expenditure.
--latest advices from the fruit
regions of Michigan and Southern
Illinois leave no doubt that the re-
cent extreme cold weather has kill
ed nearly all the peach buds.
Castelar,, the Minister Of For.
eigh Affairs for the Spanish Repub-
lie, will soon put forth an address
explaining to other nations the for
eign policy Of the nov Government.
President Grant has recently
vetoed three separate bills passed by
Congress for reimbnrsing the own
ers Of property destroyed in the
South during the war of the rebel~
lion.
We see 1t stated as q remark
able fact that no murderer has been
committed in the German city Of
Frankfort~on-the Main for one huns
dred years Franstort has q popula.
tiOn of hboul 20 000