Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-12-04

region around Galena have Struck IL
rich
1t is proposed to abolish the of.
| fee of Railroad Commissioner in Yer
mont
An unknown disease is depopu-
lating the homes in Buchanan county
Iowa.
America consumes annually g..
ooo,o 900 pounds Turkish figs, in round
numbers.
The possibility of cultivating silk
in England has recently received new
attention.
The Canadians are endeavoring
to stop the wholesale destruction Of
their forests.
The Post'ofiice Department has
concluded a postal card arrangement
with Germany.
Colorado will be knocking at the
doors of the Union again for admis-
sion this winter.
Richard Thompson, aged 10, was
frozen to death in Waterbury, Conn,
on Friday night.
"A Washington dispatch says Sen.
ator Morton is preparing bill TO re-
peal the bankrupt act.
Tweed wanted TO know once
"What they were going to do about
it?" lie has found out.
-Bismark does not object to duel-
ling among army officers. He SAYS it
rids the service of fools.
Nearly 1000, 900 bushels of grain
are locked up in the Erie canal III
boats caught by the ice.
The politicians of Alabama are
agtating the question of removing the
capital from Montgomery.
They use carrier pigeons in the
interior counties of New York to OBJ.
tain early election returns.
The United States alone has s..
81 journals and periodicals, while all
the rest of the world has but 1892.
Secretary of War Belknap has
awarded the contracts for furnishing
headstones for the national cemeter-
les.
Mr.. James Parton has Just put
the finishing touches on his life Of
of Jefferson" for publication in book
form.
Chicago has four large silver
smelling works in operation, and will
ask Congress 70 establish U. S. mint
there.
Florence Nightingale thinks
whipping the proper punishment for
men who offer any kind of violence
to women.
The Sioux Indians now want
peace. They would also like rifles,
powder, lead aud blankets for the
winter campaign.
Speaker Blaine is said to be bust.
ly engaged in making up the commit.
tees of the House, it being evident
that he will be reelected Speaker.
The object glass of the new
Washington telescope is twenty six
inches in diameter. This is the larg-
est rejecting telescope in the world.
The Madison Democrat, in com.
mon with the Milwaukee News, holds
the Republican party responsible for
the panic and for the short potato
crop.
"A good deal of the fleece of the
Cashmere goat, bred on the Pacific
slope, is now being brought to the
east and some Of il is worth 1920 per
pound.
An Indiana postmaster has been
arrested for ombezzling $l.77. An
other illustration OF the dishonesty
rampant under this corrupt admins
tration.
Brown, a Georgia negro, who is
TO be hung next month, has sold his
body to doctor for $40, and is in
vesting the money in hair oil, cuffs and
fine shirts.
The expense of running railroads
in Italy is enormous. Every ton of
coal is bought in England costing $40
(gold) per ton, and transported at an
enormous cost to Italy.
The Toledo Blade inquiries "what
is the use of sending missionaries of
to foreign countries, when there is q
whole township down in Auglaize
county in which not Republican is
TO be found.
One effect of the panic in Spring
field. Mass, is shown by reduced
consumption Of gas. The gas com.
pany now make only 10000 cubic
feet daily against 100000 at the same
time last year.
1t is stated in connection with
life insuranc that in 1872 more than
fifteen times as many policies in life
insurance companies were dropped by
parties holding them as expired by
death or limitation.
-Four hundred and sixty thous.
and immigrants arrived in the United
States for the year ending in June
last. This shows an increase of co.
900 over any previous year. OF these
1900 were from Ireland, 25 900 from
England, and $4,000 from Germany.
The sudden sealing of the Erie
canal by frost has locked up an enor-
nous amount of produce. There are
100000 bushels held in the canal,
besides a large amount of miscellane-
Gus freight The result mas been
rise in wheat in New York Of five to
eight cents bushel.
The November statistical report
OF the Department Of Agriculture, now
in press, shows large falling of in
the volume of the corn crop, compared
with that of last year, in the great
corn. growing States, as follows, in
percentages: Ohio, IL; Indiana, %;
Kansas, "a; Missouri, 80; and Illinois,