Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-03-04
LATE NEWS IN BRTlr


The aggregate of appropriations
!. ov WI me present Congress will be anon,
$3.50 600 600. % Aoou'
- 10 rep"rt"d that Henry Clews
will scuceed b ,utwell as Secretary
Of the Treasury.
Senator Summers health is ma
improved, snd be is now
pronounced out OF danger.
The leading & lVernments of En-.
rope have agreed TO protect Portuga
against aggresslons from Spain.
The new national flag of Chin,
is said to resemble an old bed quill
with Holsters running around tn,
edge.
- Portugal ia arming. 10 an,icipa-
zion OF civil commoLion. The Fed
eralists are every where in the as
cendent.
--Oakes Ames is preparing long
statement, giving what is described
as his whole connection with the
Credit Mobilier job.
Tin ore is announced as new
discovery near the shore OF Lake Su
perior. This ore has been worked
80 far only in England and Ger
meDy.
There is said TO be- serious sp-
prehensIon of coal famine in Eng-
land. The prices have been so high
already that the poorer classes have
had to do without il.
Rev. w. J. Ellis, a prominent
Protestant Episcopal clergyman OF
Nashville, bias Withdrawn from thai
church because its dogmas and &C.
clesiastical restraints curtailed biz
Christian liberty.
The prevailing sentiment of Con
gress iavors the establishing OF the
principle that no Congress
can take an official cognizance OF
fraudulent acts of it's memb hers com
mitted during former Congress.
Prussia has Credit Mobilier on
it's hands. Il seems that several Of
fcers of the government, who were
charged with protecting its interest,", +
10 contracts made by the State al
ways, have permitted or contrived
gross frauds.
1t is charged that the liquor
dealers of Indiana raised $3.50, 900. 10
be spent on the Legislal ure to defeat
the stringent Temperance law lately
passed. One Senator was offered
81 600 To absent himself from the
vote. The Senate has ordered tn
facts TO be Investigated.
1t is stated that the Pres iden,
will re-nominate for confirmation b,
be Senate, on the 4 b of March, ev
Try member Of his preseu Cabinet
including Secretary Boutwell,, whe
will neverth, less resign. if elected tC
the Senate. Secretary Fish has re-
| solved 10 remain another four yea r.
in the C.bInet.
"A Washington dispatch say,
{ hat the attitude of the Administra.
ton il understood TO be- that OF cor
dial friendship to that of the Spanish
Republic, and at the same time avow
its expectation and desire that Spair
will, at the earliest moment, proceed
10 put in train policy favorable t,
the settlement or pacfication of Gu
| ba
The Ministerial crisis in Spain j.
over The National Assembly ha,
elected u rev Ministry, which lea' e.
President FIgueras aud Minister Gas
ielar and their associates in the De-
partments of Justice and the interior
untouched. The Chiefs of the Ma
rine, Finance. Public Works, Cllo
MES, and War Departments ar,
changed
Large sums OF money have beer
appropriated 10y the Mormon church
authorities TO il fuence public senti
ment and to induce the govern mem
10 let Utah alone. IL is stated thai
delegate Hooper admits having dis
bnrsed money to newspaper CORES
pondents and other parties, where III
fiuence could be boaght, but say,
no.hing has been paid TO or for any
Senator or + preventative.