Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-12-18
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE,


The weather prophets are pre-.
dieting an open winter.
Sen. Carpenter is reelected
President pro tenn. of the Senate.
Hartford. Conn, is Mortified at
a proposition to start q Sunday pa.
per:
A Bangor man has a Gagged
mouse which sings like a canary
bird.
-Perfumed milk baths for the
complexion are advertised in New
York.
-Soundings have been made for
telegraph cable between California
and Japan,
Farmers insurance companies
and church reyivals are monopoli-
zing Iowa.
1t is said that General Fremont
has cancer in the stomach and
cannot live a year
Its said that in Colorado last
year 100000 buffalos were slaugh.
tered for their hides.
The long strike at the iron mills
in Troy, n. T., has ended, and 1900
mon find employment.
The Kearsarge cotton mills at
Portsmouth, n. H., have resumed
work at reduced wages.
Several car loads Of Christmas
trees wers shipped from Two Rivers
to Chicago last Monday.
The building of the New York
State Capitol at Albany, has been
suspended for want Of funds.
The best thing ia the world IS to
take things as they come, take them
easy, and take good many of them.
The "little difficulty" between
Republicans and Messrs. Sumner
Schurz and Fouton has been adjust
ed.
An attempt to pass another
resolution r3cogniz NJ Cuban belli-
gerenoy has been defeated in the
House.
"A Florida colored boy, in the
act Of eating sugar, was stung ia the
mouth by bee, and died from tho
effects of the sting.
"A Des Moines dispatch says Gen
eral Baker continues to send large
supplies Of fuel and provisions to tho
needy homesteaders.
In order TO unite the waters of
tho kanawho and James rivers it
will be necessary to boro through
five miles of solid rock.
AT the Democratic caucus, OF
Congressman, at Washington, Peter
Rupp, Of Fond du Lac, Wis, received
the vote for Sergoant-at.Arms
ten. Howard having rendered
bis resignation rs President OF tho
Howard University, Prof Langston
has been appointed provisional Pres.
ldont.
-tireat Britain, with population
CT 10000, 900 contains but $4,000
Quakers, while in America, in a pop
ulation Of $4,000. 600; there are over
224, 900
The decreased demand for coal,
owing to the stoppagc Of mills and
factories everywhere renders il Ger.
tain that it will be a cheap commodi-
" this winter
Tho standing walnut trees On
half section OF land in Miami, Ind,
sold for SIT, 900. Twenty years ago
these trees were tho greatest incum-
brance the settlers had,
The sensation which has agita-
ted Indianapolis concerning foul play
at the Home for the Friendless az
that city was dismissed by the Mayor
as a story without foundation,
Correspondent corrccts tho
statement that both CASTELAR, and
Gambetta are Jews; tho former is
Catholic Spaniard Of Irish descent
and the latter an Italian Protestant.
The editor Of tho Yicksburg
Heraid spent $500 on a church fair,
hoping to get tho prize Of $4,000 in
gold and he drew brass chain and
a photograph Of George Washington.
"A young man about twenty
years old, peacebly walking along
the road in the town of Brilion, Gall
umet county, was shot and instant
~ killed last Sunday by drunken
Belgian.
Since the year l848, in which
gold was first discovered in Caifor-
MIA, that State has produced $780,
100000 worth Of the precious metal
The greatest yield was in 1859, in
which year the product was sG3,o0o,-
600.
"A determined effort VIII DO
made in Congress to rcenact tho
ranking privilege IL ia asserted
that many Representatives will not
vote for repeal Of the higher salary
bill unless the ranking privilege Is
restored
The House Committee in Post
Offices have decided to recommend
q bill for the free distribution Of pub
tic documents under certain condl-
tons, and for the free transmission
Of newspapers and exchanges
through the mails
All the heavy ordnance which
has been stored in the arsenal at ST.
Louis since the close Of tho war is
being shipped to Pensacola. Among
the gunsin course Of transportation
are numerous hundred-poander Par
rots and largo mortars.
The Oldest known rosebush in
the world covers one Of the walls of
Hlldesheim cathedral. 1t is over
one thousand years old. The main
stem is one foot thick in diameter,
and separates into six large branches