Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-01-14
NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

4 NA"@>S HSAIo PteSSd0E.
Railroads have now three
gauges-bread gauge, 9 narrow
gauge and a mort gsge.
A Portland (Me) man bss
shipped over half million orange
and lemon boxes to Sicily.
Secretary Fish has been :, n.
tined 10 his house for several dnvs
by an attack of chils and fever.
"A Mr.. Whiting lately rode
bicycle fifty miles al West Brompton
England n three hours and thirtys
five minutes.
Mr., Ttomes McSpedon, Fire Mar.
shall Of New York, has come to the
conclusion that steam pipes will set
fire TO buildings,
Two boys have been expelled
tIom the Normal School at Rock.
port, n Y for cutting curl of hair
from young lady's bead,
-Lopgfellow isn't O bit poetieal
over the Boston fire.. He owned .
good deal of insurance stock which
was oadly damaged thereby.
Twelve years ago the motor
ious Mrs Woodruff used to run a
fashionable millinery store at Me-
gaunee, on the Mich gan peninsula.
"A scientist, who has made in
designations into the breaking of
iron rails during frosty weather. con.
sIders that good iron is not affected
by frost.
"A bad sidewalk il Council
Bluffs broke mans leg, and be re-
covered IL cents damages. That
was rather a cheap leg, or preiud-
iced jury.
-RufiaEs and rowdies took
possession of Charleston, S. @. on
Christmas, and the business housee
were closed, after receiving q good
deal of damage.
South Carolina has q clergy
man named Thomas, who, when
visited by the Ku- Klux the other
night, took an ax and made hash Of
two and wounded the third.
A Mrs. SewelI, Newbury's MAS
saohusetts) oldest, died recently, aged
ninety-seven. She was one of
choir Of girls who greeted Washing
ton with song, upon bis entrance
into Ne0buryport.
Tho new management Of tile
New York Tribune should look wei.
90 their work. else, Gro long. undo.
the words "Foanded by Horace
Greeley" will be written Founder.
ed by Whitelaw Reid"
1t seems that Mr.. Orton's nom.
inal purchase Of the Tribune shares
was a very ehrewd speculation, a. he
made for himself one share WORT
about Sl3 600, and for his principals,
$50 600, or thereabouts.
According TO ST. Paul paper.
noses ears and fingers, which havo
been broken of while in g frozen
and orisped condition, may be picked
up in large quantities from the side
walks of that frosty city.
The late King Of tho Sandwich
Islands weighed 800 pounds, and his
coffin weighed 900 HIS rightful
successor, William LunaIlo, ID an
inveterate drunkald and worth.
less character generally.
Tho yonng Emperor Of China
just married, sent presents to his
bride and her pareHts, which occu-
pied Fl Q days in delivery. between
FIVE hundred and q thousand men
being employed each day
The students Of the Michigan
University concluded not 10 pay
Hcnry Ward Beecher 81 600 for one
lecture. teeing that said sum would
purchase 20 600 glasses Of beer and
other brain-m making material.
-Chlds ofthe Philadelphia Ledesr
attributes his success 10 the rellabili-
" and sDectabiity OF his paper.
lie asserts that be will not allow q
line to go into the paper that ia unfit
for tho eye Of tho moet refined
woman.
The ice gorge ct Madison. Ind,
broke carly Saturday morning,
sinking several eamboEts. Tue
loss js as follows: General Buell..
$40 600; Nat Williams, SO 600; ferry
bc at, So 600; coal and bargee, $50.
600 Tolal, S74 600,
Statistics Of murder Ia New
ok show prosperous develop.
nent OF that occupation. Three
years ago hero were 40 murders, 45
the next year, and in 1872 th,ro
were 56 No statistics of hanging
accompany ;hese fgurea.
Tho claim of Mrs. Fitzhugh. OF
Virginia, Tor 1916 600 against the
government TOR wood cut On Der farm
for tae army, appears 70 DO near
settlement. The justice Of tho claim
il already established, end az that is
lacking 10 satisfactory proof Of The
loyalty Of tho claimant
-B lrnam does not seem to b.
dismayed at all by the destruction OF
his museum by Ere. lie telegraph
&C from New Orleans to Europe foY
more attractions, and gays that he
wilt have ready G more o.tractiva
show than ever by the 1st Of April
"A Grm in London hae iust failed
for the nice ltiio sum Of Gftoen mil
lion dollars. When such a thing hap.
pens On this side Of the ocean, Eng-
li-h journals charge their hack Phar-
isee with the duty Of writing NOR
al eermon on the Sins of America.
Tx Emperor Napoleon has been
suffering for some time from aymp-
toms of stone in ms bladder, the
presence Of large atone having been
dem pnstrated by means Of rsound
On Thursday tho patient underwent