Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-02-26
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

49, O'AA~~H
Cure.
Jefferson Davis, late President
of the late Confedercy, has gone to
Europe.
Reports from the Indian country
continue to show that hostilities are
lmminen'.
of the thirty-seven States of the
Union, ihirty-two have the County
Superintendent system.
The Western military prison will
probably be changed from Rock Island
TO Leavenworth, Kansas.
Chief Justice Waite will take bis
seat on the reassembIing of the Sn-
preme Court on Monday next.
There are said to be eighty three
members of the new British Parlia.
menl pledged to home rule in Ireland.
General Sheridan said, while 10
Omaha, last week, that be believed
we were on the verge of an Indian
war.
The amount of grain in store at
Dubuque is estimated a. 10, 900 bush
els of oats and 10000 bushels of
wheat.
The whiskey war in Ohio and
Indiana continues TO spread. and il
b ing carried into Illinois, Iowa and
this State.
The bill offered by Representa-
tive PeudIeton increasing the tax on
dlstiI ed spirits, fixes the taxes at 81
per gallon.
The Illinois Board of Charities
report 5000 insane in that State, OF
whom 2 400 are miserably confined
in poor houses and jaiIs.
The Massachusetts, Supreme Ju-
diciai Court decides that, under the
Constitution, II woman can be mem
Der Of School Committee
Since the lst day of last Novem-
her Chicago packers have slaughter
81 l 500, 437 hlga, against 1921 600
for the same period last season.
The mail service between Amer :
ca and Europe, both ways, costs, ir
round numbers, 81 700 900 annually,
OF which we pay about one-third.
The southeastern portion of Eu-
rope has been visited by very heavy
gales Numerous disasters TO ship
ping on the Black Sea are reported.
Kerosene is only 10 cents a gal
lon in New York ; SO that houses Can
be burned at very cheap rates, and
suicide is within the reach of the very
poorest.
The women of Ohio report that
in twenty five places in that state log
liquor saloons and % liquor selling
drug stores have been closed by the
efficacy of prayer.
The House has passed the bill re
ducing the army, but the Senate vii
| probably refuse TO concur until The
army reduces the Indians who are
new on the war path.
Tho estimated annual increase OF
revenue in the event of the passage
of the bill abollshing the tax Ok
matches and increasing the whiskey
tax to rs cents gallon is $3.50 900.
Philadelphia elected the straigh,
Republican ticket on w dne-day last
by an average majority of about IL
600. Pittsburgh followed suit. the
majorities ranging from l 200 to !, !
800.
d sraeIi is now British Premier
He formally accepted the imp"rtan,
office on Friday last. rhe probable.
ties are that S aft prd Morthcote wi
be made Chancellor Of the Exche-
quer.
1t is an honor TO womsnhood
that not dollar has ever been miss-
ing from the Department of the
9 ,mptroller of the Currency where
women are excInslvely employed as
| clerks.
Judge Howe, of the United
States District Court, decides that
whore o married woman endorses a
note as an Accommodation. the debt
does not become q charge upon her
ScRhAd Cob0NV
There is ladles' movement in
ST. Louis against the social evil.
The plan of tbe campaign is not yet
agreed upon, put it il determined oy
those at the head Of it that it shall
be vigorous one.
Postmaster General Cresswell ad
vncates the estabI-hment, on all raj
roads Of the u lied S ates, of spec
al mail train, to be run at high IA, @
of speed, for The sole purpose Of trans
hitting mali atter.
A B ooklyn papes asserts that
million ear has been stolen from
she people of that city by the riog
for ten years past, and the sum
already said 10 be confessed amounts
TO at least 81 100 000
The Unit.d S ates Senate La
expressed itself IN favor If an increass
of the national bank currency to an
aggregate Of $500 600 600. The pres
ent amount OF national bank currency
Is about $3.50, 900 900.
Many Of the Connecticut farmers
will abandon the cultivation Of tobac-
co. Last summers crop did not prop
erly mature. and still remains on the
hands OF the producors, although in
some cases offered al half the usual
price.
In the lower house of Congress
General Butler has introduced q bill
providing for the abolition of The pen
sion agency system, and substituting
therefor the pos tmasters at each
county seat, CT ating them ex officio
pension agents.
There is report that the United
States Consul General in Cuba has
been driven out Of Havana by a NIB
md been obliged TO take refuge on a
British steamer The United States
war steamer Dispatch has gone