Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-04-01
GENERAL NEWS.

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Pomeroy and York own lots in the
same cemetery.
Castelar, viii probably retire from
the Spanish Cabinet.
Wilkie ColIirs, the nov slst, is com.
ming to the United States.
Canada wants to exchange wealth
er observation with the United
States.
. Thomss Mast, the caricaturist Aof
Ha,per's Weekly, sailed for Europe,
Wednesday.
"A treaty has been signed for the
com olete evacuation Of France by
: the Germans .gsasssas
! The Cuban insurgents are repre-
sented as having plenty of arms an d
in good spirits. a
Printers throughout the country
are subscribing literally TO the Gree
ley monument fund.
The District Court of Polk county
has decided that a woman can hold
an elective Office in Iowa.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has
passed bill appropriating 1,000,-
900 for the Centennial Exhibition.
Mrs Van Colt, the revivalist, has
converted about 400 persons since
she begun preaching in Milwaukee.
The Senate of the Uoited States
adjourned sine die on Wednesday
afternoon, after session of twenty
two days.
A Republican Convention held at
Warreo, Ohio, asked Congressman
John A, Garfield to resign because
he voted for back pay.
People who read the newspapers
and keep posted as to what is going
on in the world, are to be allowed 20
sit upon iuries 10 Illinois hereafter.
A new horse disease, aft sctng the
legs of The animals and ma ing them
so weak it is difficult for them To-
stand, has appeared at Portland, Ne.
The Cleveland Pldindedler anpoun.
ces that the Hon. w. III, Epson, ex-
| Congressman from the Eighteenth
Ohio District, has refused to accept
his $1,000 of back pay.
There is now prospect of the estab-
lishment at an early day of telegraph.
ic communication with the oonti-
nent by cable from Portugal via the
Azores to this country.
Gen. J. b. Gordon, of Georgia, pre-
sided over the Senate, during the
Vice Presidents absence, on Monday
OF last week, the first ex-rebel in the
Chair since the war.
The Postmaster-Ge General decides
that Congressmeu-elect, as we'll az
members of the last Congress, are
entitled TO the frankiug privilege W
Ill the 1st of July.
Minister Sickles telegraphs to Sec
rotary Fish that the government of
the Republic has ordered the liberia
ton OF 10000 slaves held in Cuba in
violation of the law of 1870.
Bradlaugh, the English Rep ublcan
! is about to visit this country, to
study at first hand the institutions
which he has so long upheld as q
model for British imitation.
Congressman Sprague. of Ohio,
, who voted against the salary steal.
offers 10 return the money TO the
: Treasury, or use it for the relief Of
the tax payers of his district.
Women who hold $4,000 worth of
y nd
! declared by the Judiciary Committee
: of the New York Assembly to be
entitled TO vote in election in
that State.
, A list of failures throughout the
Q United States, for the past three
9 years, shows the total number for
0 1870 to have been 1851, amount,
S88 242 900; 1871 number, 29l5,
! amount, $S5 252 600; 1872 mber,
. 1909 amount, 1921, 056,OOO
! One of the curious lessons of the
. census reports is the tendency of EN-.
igrants from the eastern states TO
keep on or near certain parallels of
latitude. There are for instance,
more settlers from Maine in VISION
sin than in any other state except
ing Massachusetts,
There ia q member of Congress
: from New York who is altogether
TOO modest. He sent the amount of
his back pay, received under the late
law, to the conscience fund of the
Treasury on Thursday, requesting
that his name might remain un,
known.
The Misses Ida and Gabrielle
! Greeley propose making tour of
, the Great West, this summer attend
ed by Mr.. Cleveland, of the New
) York Tribune. They own an exteno
sive tract of land in Colorado, a por-
ton of which is in the town Of Gree
: ley, where they will spend some
, time.
The bill increasing Congressional
salaries, which makes the salary of
the Speaker Of the House $4,000,
was so amended, by the request OF
Speaker Blain, as to make it apply
to the Speaker of future Congress, is
thus cutting himself off from the
benefits of the increase for the Con.