Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-10-30
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The six chief officers Of the Erie
Railway divide $4,000 salary per
annum.
The Cincinnati Industrial Ex-
position was attended this year by
607,65s persons.
The first female graduate of the
University Of Michigan has married
one of her classmates.
Upwards OF 5000, 900 copies of the
Pilgrims Progress" have been sold
by the English Book society.
M. Thalberg has been embalmed,
by order of his widow, and is preserv.
ed "in the fresh state" in her saloon.
A New York editor says sugar
has gone up so high as TO induce q
slight increase in the price of sand.
Nineteen million cigars are an.
nualIy imported from Cuba. They
are principally manufactured in Con-
necticut.
The Polaris inquiry is nearly,
concluded without giving any proof
to warrant the charge that Capt.
Hall was poisoned.
Crowds daily watch with deep
interest the work of re. building the
grand Column Vendome, in Paris,
which progresses rapidly.
On Friday, October 81, The
Vienna Exposition will close. On
the evening of that day the city will
be Illuminated and grand banquet
will bo given.
George Peabody laid the founda.
ton of his great fortune during
financial panic in England, when
American securities were sold at a
very low rate.
England had TO protect about
thousand wives who were deserted
by their husbands last year. English.
men have been rather numerous IN
this country lately.
MIR. Young, of the Bureau of
Statistics, says that only $4,000
Americans went to Europe this year;
and our foreign obligations, all told
are 81 100000, 900.
Prof. Huxley is engaged In leet.
uring in England, and attracts largo
audiences. His work of popuIariz-
ing natural science seems to be more
successful than ever.
The authorities st Sing Sing,
finding that the lightning rods on
the prison conduct more prisoners
than lightning TO the ground, have
decided TO remove them.
Mrs. Brigham Young, No. IL,
backed by good friends and eminent
counsel, will soon resume the prose-
cution of her suit against the prophet
for a divorce and for alimoDy.
The new Illinois homestead
law exempts from reizure for debt
homesteads to the value of 81 900,
and adds sewing machine to the
list OF personal property exempt.
The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue holds that not only patent
and proprietary medicines are liable
to stamp tax, but that all medicines
put up in similar manner are liable.
The English government having
given consent, Sir Edward Thornton
has accepted the Office of umpire to
the American and Mexican Claims
Commission, and signed the required
declaration.
1t is reported that ex-Congress-
man Burdett, of Missouri, will be a
candidate for Clerk of the House Of
Representatives against the present
incumbent, Edward Mcpherson, Of
Pennsylvania.
-Mohammedanism is making rap.
i'd progress in India. Year after
year hundreds of thousands of Eng
lish subjects, and especially the ma
tives of Bengal, are converted to
the faith of the Koran.
Mr.. Charles Reed, NJ. p, who
figured in the Evangelical Alliance, is
IN this country for the purpose of ex.
aiming our common schools. He
likes the system, and will reccomend
its introduction in England.
Persons who have begun TO have
doubts OF the globulal form Of the
earth will be pleased to learn that in
England society has been formed
for the purpose Of demonstrating to
mankind that tho world is perfeotly
fiat.
They make short work of tho
postal.card difficulty in Russia. The
postoffice clerks, backed by the au.
thority of the Minister Of the Interior.
burn the cards when they are found
to contain any indecent or insulting
matter.
In consequence Of the decay Of
the stone it has been discovered that
tho ornamental stonework of the
smaller towers Of the British houses
Of Parliament is in such state as TO
cause great apprehension for the pub.
lie safety.
The terms Of Nast's Encouragement
with the Harpers arc said to be Sl0,-
600, with certain commissions on sales,
which will amount To 81, 900 or -. 600
more. Their Disagreement last year,
it is reported, was one of a merely pc.
cuniary nature.
An Oregon newspaper says
"Wheat is being sold so rapidly that
not pound OF it has yet been stored
in the warehouse at East Portland.
1t brings one dollar per bushel along
the line of Oregon and California
Railroad; so 1t is sold as rapidly as
possible.
"A very few years ago was essay.
cd practically IN the south what was
at the time deemed the daring expert.
mcnt OF cnltivating the olive for its
oil. The novel project was, neverthe-
less, put in practical execution, and
a single plantation in Georgia has