Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-09-18
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE,


= Admiral" Semmes is now COM
modore of trunk factory.
Last year, in Connecticut, 49,.
600 children attended no school.
The Southern Methodists have
discontinued the probation system.
yellow fever is said to prevail at
Galveston, Texas, and Shreveport, La.
st. Louis cricketers beat the
Philadelphia club in a game Thurs
day.
The Subject of Senator Summers
new lecture is e.The Unity of the
Republic"
| Jefferson Davis has resigned the
Presidency of the Carolina Life In.
surance Company.
There are -four .een Admirals and
twenty-five Commodores in the
American navy.
The women of Ohio demand
That they shall be allowed TO vote on
the new constitution.
"A COW in Bath county, XIV.
gave Dirty to five calves, two of
which are still living.
RAISING and fatting hogs on
buffalo grass is the latest discovery
IN the farming line, out West.
The man who originated the
hrst Immigrant died poor and miser.
able, as he ought to have done.
- There is large increase in the
number of French-Canadian emf
grants to the United States this sea.
son.
Friday is the luckiest day OF
the week. Columbus sailed TO this
country on Friday, and struck land
on Friday.
Only twenty>one steamboats, are
now engaged in the Upper Mississ-
lppi river trade, while in 1860 there
were sixty.
Increased penalties against de-
serters from the United States army
have just been promulgated by the
Secretary of War.
Lord Shaftesbury says that the
deadliest stroke at the confessional
in England would be to make WON.
en- the confessors.
The Masonic fraternity have UNI
der way at least So, 100000 worth of
new halls, most of which will be
completed this year.
Eating an Indian turnip two
years ago has produced q mustaohe
and side whiskers on o 3.year.old
boy in Salem, Indiana.
Tho lady students of Edinburgh
University have to pay 81 241 costs
In the law suits to establish their
claims to medical education.
The average value of farm pro-
ducts in New Jeesey is $2S sc per
acre, or greater than that of any
other State in the country.
Anti Masonry is reviving in
Vermont. Vermont is the only
State that voted for anti-Masonio
national candidates in 1852,
-Pandemonium never exhibited
noisier scene than the present up
roar of the Canadian press over
their Pacific Railroad scandal,
Gen, n p. Banks will have for
a lecture topic, this winter "Will it
Endure, )" being review of the dan
gers that threaten the Republic.
-Apple>butter and corn-husking
parties arc coming on apace, and
then there will be lively times in the
country districts of Pennsylvania.
"A Detroit (Micb.) boy makes on
an average over S25 per week at
backing boots and selling newspa-
pers, and has now in the bank 81
100.
There were three railway acci-
dents in England on Wednesday land
the alarming frequency of this class
has become the subject of much COM
ment.
There is mule owned by sharp
ers travelling through Illinois that
can trot mile in 228. Five minutes
is considered good time for this spe.
cies of quadruped.
Forty years ago there were on
iy % saving banks in Massachusetts,.
Since 1888 $50 now ones have been
established, making the present num-
Der in the State 172.
Tho Attorney General states
that the recent Ku-Klux outi ages in
Kentucky will have the effect to
stay the pardoning of convicted Ku-
Klux now imprisoned.
Cincinnati has ordered that no
cushions shall be used in horse. cars
there, hereafter, considering them
the worst mediums Of transmitting
infectious or contagious diseases.
-SiZty-uine aspiring Joung men
received appointments to West Pnoit
last summer, but thirty seven of the
appointees failed to pass the rigid
examination required on entering.
"A Connecticut admirer of Alex
ander Stephens wrote to him asking
if sassafras was good for the blood,
and Mr.. Stevens wrote back on six.
teen pages of note paper that 1t was.
The call for Democratic State
Convention in New York is directed
"to the Democratic Republican cleo.
tors, and all others who favor the
restoration" etc. 1t is to be held at
Utica, October /.
"A Rochester lady wanted nee.
dies the other day. 1t ralned and
she could not get out to purchase, SO
she began an investigation of her
pin-cushions. The pairs of cushions
yielded 447 needles.
Our experience and the history
of the past eighteen centuries incline
US to the belief that no matter how
well you treat a shotgun, nor how
you bring it up, it will bang the
stuffing out of you the very frs.