Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-11-19
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.
-, ooooGdaalnveston, Texas, has new

"A late dispatch from Ecuador
state that 3. 4. Wing, US. Minister,
is dead.
The Governor of syria ia ven.
pushing the Protestant schools from
ais land. G1c3L
The Maize papers are invesiigst
ng the results IT prohibition with re-
,ults pecul ar.
The excess of the German mill
airy estimates over last year amounts
TO 2 400, 900 .haIers.
-Argeutine Reph bic is deolayNs,
tn be in state OF seige, and thu, ~
are looking rather serious. Fsred at
When the Hoosac tunnel is inTI'
running order it Will take a train
'orty-two minutes to g through it.
The right to gather all the dead
leaves that tall in the public squares
of Paris sells for SIT 600 per amman.
The Humane officers of London
take hold of man if he goes to
scolding or clipping off dogs ear.
Another defect has been discov-
cred in the diroot cable, and is buoy.
ed to await the subsistence Of
storm.
-Seventy-five thousand dollars
have already been subscribed for the
new medical building of Harvard
College.
The steamer which is bringing
he new ocean cable from England
comes slowly in consequence ofheavy
fall gal g.
MAJ shall B zine and wife, under the
lame OF La Pena, have sailed from
Southampton, on the royal mail
steamship Neva.
In consequence of the protract-
ed absence OF rain in the northern
part of New York, the pastures are
becoming useless.
The proposal to convert the
tomb of Augustus at Rome into q
Modern theatre is said to be likely
,oon TO b6 carried out.
According to the new military
survey of tho Russian Empire, the
monarchy xtends over 400,0 900 geo.
graphical square miles.
The question of removing the
capital from NJ ntpelier 60 some 9TH
or place is now under discussion in
me Vermont Legislature,
California embraces over 10000.
900 acres of land suited to cotton
culture, or doubla the erea actually
employed in the Gotten States.
In the pressure of the crowds to
witness the Lord Mayors PROCESSION
in London, recent y, two persons
we're killed and several Injured.
There are 1899 watches taxed
in the county ana city of Milwaukee,
valued at S74 104 That same oity
possesses 368 pianos aud melodeous,
The marriage of the Prince I'm
perial to the daughter Of The Russian
Grand Duchess Marie, is mentioned
in B lnapartist circles as u probable
event.
"A bicycle race over 100 miles
has recently been run in T. gland.
The distance was covered by the
winner in five and half seconds less
than eight hours.
While firing q salute over the
Democratic victories in the East, at
Madison, O.. the cannon burst, in
stantly k ling young man named
George F. Martin.
Owing to the present inactivity
in lake freights, there are upwards
of thirty Captains who have retired
from some of the larger steamers re-
Gently laid up at different ports.
We shall hail the day of female
suffrage, for then the monotony of
seeing rooster at the head of every
victorious newspaper will be relieved
by the occasional intersporsion of q
hen.
In the Royal Mint at London
great care is taken of the ''sweep-
ings" Of the various roows and offices.
Last year the amount Of gold rescued
from these sweepings realized moro
than S11 476.
The first attempt of the Pruesian
government to have priests elected
oy their congregations has taken
place at Landsberg, and resulted in
an utter failure. Only eleven persons
offered to vote.
A Sunderland Town Councillor,
who had moved 10 committee that
the police be set to the work of hunt
ing up those who had no dog licenses
has just been fned for keeping dog
without a license.
A telegram from Rome states
that official returns fully confirm the
success of the government in the
elections of the ministerial candl-
dates, who have been elscted in 356
out of 500 districts.
The disin tegration of the Asian
tee Kingdom il now said to be COM
plste, and the King of Jaubin, for
merry under the RUE of King CJffae,
NAV be- considered the most power
full monarch of the country.
1T is said that another movement
looking to general shutting down
of d illIog and pumping oil wells IN
Pennsylvania will soon be initial, d
in order to force the price of petrol
cum up TO paying point.
A telegram received a. Hull
from the captain of the schooner
Samson, which has just returned
from cruise in the Arctic regions,
announces the discovery of large
beds OF coal at Spi zOergen.
The tomb Of Agassis is to bear
block OF granite, which is now being
extrac ed from point at the lower
Il .cier of the Aar, near the spot
where Agassiz. Dssor and Vogt pur-
sued their scientific explorations.