Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-01-29
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE,

Virginia drinksSl2 600, 900 worth
Of liquor every year.
-Swiizerland is TO hold 8 worlds
lair at Geneva IN 1915.
Kentucky has finally abolished
the whipping of criminals.
Russell Quincy thinks American
morals need Improvement.
-Euglish railway travellers are
forming protection society.
New Jersey paid about 100000
last year for Legislative printing.
The President of the Swiss Re-
public receives $4,000 year salary.
The average pay to teachers IN
the State OF Iowa is $50 per month.
New York has ried horse flesh
and pronounce4 il superior to venisen.
The s44 600 600 reserve has been.
drawn on 10 the extent TT S27 OO0 600
Dinners are supplied to poor chill
dren, in London, at two cent per
head
-Clermont, Iowa, has a horse that
devours live chickens az every oppor-
unity.
In Japan, newspaper editors are
among tue class privileged to carry
swords.
Seventy eight American thestres
have been burned in less than as
many years.
The Independent newspaper
denies The report Of the sale CT that
establishment.
The Mikado Of Japan rejoices in
the possession of speciality imported
Georgia mule.
Oregon has more lunatics 10 pro-
portion to population than any State
IN the UGion.
1t costs four times as much post
age to France as to England, aud tor
half the quantity.
-Colored persons are excluded
from the grange movement in Mary.
land and Virginia.
One hundred aud thirty-siX lives
are aaid to have been lost in boring
the Hoosac Tunnel.
Twenty. three cars loa led with
god and silver pass, through Dav-
export, Iowa, last week.
The Ohio river is or the rise and
those inbabting houses along tho
leveo have been driven out
Virginia is manufacturing paper
from the reeds which grow SO abuud-
anuy in the Dismal swamp.
In E gland and Wales there arc
l9.483 places Of religious worship,
occupied by 1871 different denomina-
tons
Thirty seven persona were killed
lest year by other persons piayiaily
pointing supposed unloaded guns at
them.
The total value Of tho precious
metal, produced west Of the MIesou-
ri during 1873 Is estin a,ed at S72,
258, 693
ACCORDING to the Communists,
every man who saves money must be
made TO divide with every man who
saves none.
The Patrons Of Husbandry have
at last found their way into Z NADIA,
where the order seems to meet with
a good deal OF favor
Tho amount of bonds Of the loan
Of 1873 that have been thus for re-
deemed is S. 21I 900 and the amount
exchanged So 389 600.
The sui ect of woman suffrage
pas again discussed yesterday by the
House Committee on Territories,
without arriving at conelus on
/ A twenty-five inch vein OF coal
has hcen discovered at Walton, Kan,
on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe road, at depth OF thirty feet.
1t has been discovered that tho
sum Of Sl3 500. collected in Georgia
for the heather Of Africa, has built
house for one of the canvassing
agents.
A letter in the Moscow GAzatto
saws that 20 900 900 Of Russian PEG
nl5 iustinctively believe the cannon
ionnd in Khiga to have been supplied
by the English.
Tho Clshing-Davis letter was
not among those purchased by The
gov rnment, but was captured at
Richmond among other letters ad-
dressed to Jeff. Davis.
Somebody, who has taken the
trouble to compile the statistics Of
violent deaths in 1873 grauitously,
| fiods that more people died by drown
ing than any other means.
The negroes arc reported TO be
en,igrating from Georgia and Ala
hama in large numbers. Many 81
them 90 to Louisiana and Texas, and
some have gone 70 Kansas.
The Rev. E W Sch wefel, Pres
byterian minister of Athens. O5io,
was recently killed by the discharge
Of gun given to him as a Christmas
present by his congregation.
Emerson says that eve ride four
times 81 fast as our fathers did, grind,
weave, forge, plant. TIL aud ezcaVate
better, and have better shoes, gloves,
glasses. gimlets and newspapers"
Sleeping or taking tobacco on
,the Lords Day in the tine Of the
public exercise" in 1862 was punish
ed by tia authority of Portsmouth,
N. H, with imprisonment 10 cage.
The predictions have been full
filed and the prospect has become
reality with respect to the famine IN
India. Already in Bsbar and Be-
mares starvation is beginning TO az
it's terrible work
The amount of law making 80 be
dome in the next three or four
months in this country ought to con.