Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-04
HERE, THERE AND Ell SEWHERE.

A IS lbO kOulDs
Queen Victoria proposes to re-
turn the Cars visit next winter.
Two ladies have become insan q
from religious excitement at South
| Bend, Ind.
The human system has seven mil.
lions of pores and the warm weather
will proveit.
--Beecher says the United States il
England broke loose and growing in
the open air.
Mexican depredations on our
Rio Grsnde frontier are described as
worse than ever.
Lewis D. Cambell ia announced
to take the field against the new
Ohio Constitution.
-Mexicans like Texas. It's q
State in which they appear to take
considerable stock.
Fifteen bridges cross the Mis-
souri, river, including the one which
st. Louis is to have.
Buffalo has advanced as far on
the road to civilization as to forbid
smoking on the horse-cars.
On the Sd of next month the
National Association of Millers will
hold a convention in st. Louis.
The deaJh of Rear Admirable
Shubriek, senior on the retired list,
is announced from Washington.
The monument to the mother
of Washington, at fredericksburg, is
to be completed at cost of $4,000
p. L. Barnum has sailed for
America, and will occupy his resi-
dence at Bridgeport the coming sum-
mer,
Mrs. Van Colt is holding"daily
meetings in Omaha, at the new tent
of the State Association of Method
ist clergyman.
The second annual convention
of the Bag gage Masters and Brakes
mems Life Insurance Company is in
session at Philadelphia.
The United States Senate has
passed Mr. Ferry's bill setting aside
the island of Mackinac, In Lake Mich
igan, as national park.
The New York Police Commits
sioners have issued an order author
izing the arrest of all street-music-
iaus under 16 years of age.
-Summerstown, Lookout Noun
tain, 2,400 feet above the Tennessee,
commands a view of six States. 1t
is popular with Southerners.
The question of ousting the
polygsmous Mormon, Elder Cannon,
from bis seat as Delegation Congress
from Utah, is still undecided.
"A Mississippi man has recovered
s25. 600 from the Southern Railroad
on account of the death of his wife
from an accident on the road.
One hundred students of the
Bowdoin College have been sent
home by the faculty, for continued
refusal to take part in military drill.
There were several severe
skirmishes between the Republican
troops and the Carlists near BiIboa
on the 14th, with indesisive results.
Poor South Carolina At the
last tax sale 1900 pieces of real es-
tate 10 Charleston county was es-
cheated to the State for want of bid
ders.
Little boys at Erie spend their
Sundays in throwing stones at minis
ters, and the Pittsburgh Leader
thinks that missionary ought to BIO
sent 20 them.
Judge Love, in the great Texas
cattle case, on trial at Dubuque, de.
clared the Iowa law prohibiting the
importation of Texas cattle into that
State unconstitutional.
"A convention of delegates from
all the points and States interested
in tho early completion of the Fox
and Wisconsin improv ement will be
held in Oshkosh, June 24th.
An orator, 5 years old, Is pour
ing forth from the fund of his ma
ture experience graphic pictures of
the miseries wrought by indulgence
r----~~~o UOsoTaBcs at Portland,
--Advices from Southern InmUIS
indicate that there will be larger
crop of peaches, pears, apples and
fruits of all kinds, except strawber-
ries. than ever before produced in
that region.
Some unknown party, on Fri
day night, blew up Is drinking sa-
loon at Francisco, near Princeton,
Ind, by putting match to a can of
gunpowder. Nobody hurt, but the
building was demolished.
The hunters near Bismarck, OAK.
during The past winter, captured 26
elk, 10 white tailed deer, 4 black
tailed, IS antelope, 100 pounds OF
beaver, 25 wolves, 6 badger, 8 mink,
IL foxes and about 1900 chickens.
The monument to be erscted at
Saratoga in oommemoration of the
surrender of General John Burgoyne
to General Gates, October II, 1777,
for which the State has appropriated
$50, 900, will be of granite and $50
feet high.
"A dispatch from Gen. Stanly,
dated at Fort SulIy, May %, received
at Fort Lincoln, says 400 Sioux have
left there, to be joined by more at the
Grad River agency and Cheyenne.
They will try to intercept Clusters ex-
pedition when it starts out. A hot
time is expected.
MIR. Leland is gathering in oil his
outstanding funds preparatory to the
erection of the largest hotel in the
world in San Francisco. 1t will con-
tain accommodations for 1900 guests,
and will cost 81 10000; that is, just
$1,000 a guest. Gan Francisco win
now be able to do the biggest sort of
things on swell dinner days.
The Patrons cooperative store