Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-03-11
NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS,


TEN of foItresses.
Duluth has raised subscriI tion
ofsil9 900 10 aid IN building blast
furnace In that ity.
The death rate ct Red Wing last
year was almost twice the proportion
OF the State at large.
The new railroad bridge 81 Is,
Crosse, to CO.. $500 000, NIL, Is
pleted early in the GUNNER.
There is arumor al at proha
oily untrue-the post Broh q & in
leads 10 WISH this q, un,ry soon
Two bunters recently killed + ar
lack bears IN alsxtItsl b., ma <
Grove, Pa, after an excltii 4 contest
Green Bay has organized siI-
yer mining company, with cslilSl
.,ock Of $40 900 10 operate mines 10
Utah.
The labor market in Texss is
laid 10 be ovtIstoCktd ty the i'm
migration from other southern
| States
In the streets Of Paris Is 90
vehicles annually Iup ever lS
people, OF wb' m lwelye per cent arc
MORALLY il jured
A Minnesota bushsnd WAS obiig,
I'd TO pay fine OF $50 which be bad
caused TO be imposed on his wife tor
assauItirg him.
Seventeen black walnut trees on
farm near Liberty Mills, Wabash
County, Indiana, were sold the other
day, for $500.
-Manistee River, Nj, big, n, is
repoi ted 10 be literally filled with
logs for a distance OF thirty miles
from its mouth.
The net value of the lead mined
at Dubuque this winter will sggre-
gate 81 a dav for each Of the 900 mi
ners employed.
All the Iowa delegation in the
Honse voted against increasing tho
pay of Members OF Congress Aud
therein they did well.
Grief knits two hearts in closer
bonds than happiness ever can aud
common suffering is q tar stronger
link than conmon joy.
-Four 6tths of the chamy a0ne
sold in New York City is made in
New Jersey, from various chemicals,
tut principally from cider
"A public meeting to raise funds
tor the erection OF monument to the
poet Campbell was held at Glasgow
recently, and 81 500 subscribed.
Seven greet windmils, each OF
twenty horse power, are sent from
Syracuse, n Y, to the Caribbean
island of Omba, TO crush gold quartz.
One mouse catcher in AarburR,
in Swil xerland, caught IL 3Sl nice ia
the last three months OF 1879, for
which he received bounty OF three
cents head.
Rubber thimbles are among the
many arucles TO which caoutchoue
has given rise. They are said TO DO
better than those made from any 9th.
er material.
"A man of Houston. Texas. want.
ed TO give something toward paying
off the church debt, and not having
any money, be laid u ak shooter on
the contribution box.
The State Grange of Patrons of
Husbandry reports that $50 subordi-
nate oranges have been organised ia
the State, with On aggregate mem.
bership of nearly 5000.
Mrs. Knowles. widow ~ The IN.
fated Captain of the Northfset, has
been visited by the Queen of England,
who left with her . substantial ex-
preston OF her sy mpalhy.
"A couple of good Samaritans ia
Bridgeport, Conn, offered to sit up
with dying neighbor last week,
and found profit in their ph.!An-
thropy by pocketing his spoons.
Sydney Smith once commenced
CHI rity sermon by saying: Be
nevolt nee is a sentiment common to
human nature. A never sees Is in
distress without ssking G to relieve
him."
Eleven small but practical jokers
at Niles, Mich daubed the door,
knobs Of popular church with
printers ink lately. The shops did
lively trade in kid gloves the next
day.
-Ex-Governor Magoffin and Con
gresham Beck. OF Kentucky, will
open brown.stone quarry near the
present Eastwood Island quarry,
early next season.-AShinnd { Wis }
Press.
The Jewish Chronicle has inior-
nation that The famine Ia Persia and
its accompanying pestilences have
completely subsidized, the crops being
abundant and the prices of provisions
uucommonly low.
The thieves who committed the
express office burglary and robbery.
at Charlottesville, became alarmed,
and one ight last week slipped the
money back into the safe, where il
was found the next morning.
Samuel Minturn, being aojudgsd
on general principles hard case,
was tarred and feathered a Mechau-
icsville, Iowa, last week, by a self
constituted band of regulators, who
chose the nigh. time for their work.
Patrick Joyce, an old orange
hawker in Liverpool. was knocked
by passing cart into the open man
hole OF a sewer, fell thirty feet, and
was swept away by the current 80
quickly that his body was not found.
There have been successfuly
hathched at the Red Wing trout
pond this season 235, 900 imported
eggs, and at least 100 900 of the min.
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