Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-10-23

quent in Texas.
Lincoln, Neb., has 500 children
in its high school.
The King of Ashantee, il is said
is allowed 333 wives.
The Mormons are building a
$1,000 church at Beloit, Iowa.
The legal tender notes now out.
standing amount to 1858, 649, OsS.
Schooling children in Kansas
public schools cost 81 80 per head,
England pays 9S,7ll for the ex.
penses OF the Geneva arbitration,
--Generai Massey is 40 years old,
He started life as London errand.
boy.
-Theae are now 1885, 900 deposit
tors in the postoffice saving banks in
England.
In San Diego, people battle in
the verbena water to keep of the
mosquitoes. om
Ned Buntline was fined 500 and
trimmings, at Louisville, for cruelty
to a horse.
Vice President Wilson AYERS
that General Butler is aiming for the
White House.
President Grant has not tender
cd the Office of Chief Justice to SEN
ator Conkling.
Australia now looms up as one
of the great wheat.produoting GEN.
ters of the world.
There are l08 theological semin.
aries in the United States, with 1851
students in attendance.
1t is believed that a secret ex>
petition for Cuba has slipped from
New York or vicinity.
John c. Heenan is perfect
wreck He is dying OF consumption
at Helena, Mont ana.
A Brooklyn man has cured his
liver complaint by turning hand
! springs over a chair
The working population of the
United States is estimated at 10000.
000-one-third of the population.
During the present century
there has been expended in England
and Wales for dwelling-houses 50, 900.
900.
Fifty of the first young ladies of
Macon, Ga, are to attend the State
fair arrayed in Georgia-made home
spun.
The complete change of gauge
on the Grand Trunk railway of Can
ada was effected in twenty .nine
hours.
An Indiana farmer has sold 100,-
900 watermelons this season, and
still insists that he ought not to be
hung.
Pope Plus TX, receives on an av-
erage one hundred letters per day,
and nearly all contain religious re-
mittances."
Mrs. Hall, of Darlington, has re-
Gently had a fifty pound Bavarian tn.
NOR ampuIated from her. She is GET
ting well.
The Odd FeliowsaDd the board of
of Trade in Chicago have appointed
committee, to solicit funds for the
Shreveport sufferers.
Daniel Webster stole a mule in
Alabama the other day, and has
since been pedulum swinging to
and fro from limb.
-CIews, the New York banker.
in trying to save himself offered two
per cent, day for money. This is
73O per cent. year,
The total amount of money re-
ceived at the Treasury for the last
fiscal year for deposit in the "Con-
science Fund" was $25 ,551.I1.
A Vermont octegenarian of in.
temperate habits is aggravating the
teetotallers by growing fresh head
of hair and third set CT teeth.
A Battalion of Greeks having
rendered their services TO the Span
ish Republic. President CASTER has
addressed them a letter of thanks,
but declining the offered services.
"A Kansas boy named Childs,
seeing his father in fight, got re-
volver, used both hands to cock il,
and shot the other man 10 the back.
1t is said that counterfeit nick
els are in vogue down South. That
man can have no desire for earthly
distinction who would counterfeit
paper collar or brass button.
Among the members of the last
Congress were seventeen persons
who either graduated or studied at
Oberlin College, Ohio Not one OF
the whole number voted for or took
the back pay.
JEFF. Davis, who has been ex-
tremely i'll at the Gault House. in
Louisville, for some weeks, has re-
covered sufficiently to drive out.
He talks of going to Europe for his
health this winter.
Seine one was displeased with
the late Treasurer Of Florida, and
charged him with dishonesty, where.
upon q Thorough investigation was
had, and the result showed that the
State owed him nineteen cents.
The Supreme Court of New
York has just decided that a man,
can pick all the fruit from tree
growing on his own land though it
hang over on a neighbours land
The question is an old and oft.disput.
ed one.
Among the feathered creation
| the eaOla the raven the annan and