Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-12-10
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

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BILE quantities of honey to the East
ern market.
| The Molly Msguires of the an
thraeite region are now called Penn
sylvania Ku Klux.
| Los Angeles, Cal, people get
their oranges for about SO q thousand
from October to May.
| Those American gas fixtures
have been introduced into the I'm
perial Palace in st. Petersburg.
| AT recent fire 10 Ira, N. T..
house was saved by deluging it with
whey from q cheese factory near by.
The California grape crop is so
large this year that the wine-mskers
have been embarrassed by its plsnti.
tude.
| The cultivation of Jamaica GIN
ger has reached q stage in Florida
where it promises to be OF surprising
value.
The abandoned gold mines of
Dablonega, in Georgia, have been re.
opened and arc being successfully
| worked.
The Chinese Government Ia
about to begin the work of develop.
ing the mineral resources of that
vas: empire.
Societies are being organized in
various cities for furnishing work.
| ing girls q breakfast of bread and cof.
fee for FIVE cents.
| Tho Oregon Legislature has
passed bill enabling any person who
loses money at gambling to recover
| the amount so lost.
A Chinese Young Mems Chris.
tian Association has been established
in San Francisco. Its name is Yam
Hok Chong To Ut.
The assessed valuation of the
real estate of the entire village of
Saratoga is not as great as the real
worth of three of its hotels,
Somebody maliciously out sever.
ropes belonging to derricks ut the
new STATE House in Hartford, c mn,
recently, causing damage of 81 600.
The Tichborne estate in Surrey,
Fog, are to DO soli 10 accordance
With be will of Roger Tichborne;
made by him just before he left Eng.
land.
The estimates for the public ex-
penditures of Phll4deIphia the COM
ing year are 81 900 900 more than
last year, and the city debt is $780,
900, 900.
Representative of thirty--six
counties in Texas are canvassing the
South for immigrants. They expect
TO gather in 10000 souls within
ninety days.
"A woman in NORWOOD, N. H.,
has q pair of shears that her mother
bought on the day of the battle of
Bunker Hill. and that haven't been
sbarpened since.
Great Britain is building an 30
ton gun. 1t will carry l ,600.pound
shot ten miles if it can have about
800 pounds OF powder to give it a
boost at the start.
A marriage in high life lately
took place in Buckingham county,
Va, between a colored bridegroom
seven feet tall and ditto bride six
| feet SIX in altitude.
The authorities OF st. Johnsbury,
VT, have closed all the billiard "a
looms and DO Wing alleys in that town
in consequence of several rows which
have occurred in those places lately.
"A compilation of all the rules
regulating the steering and sailing OF
vessels and relating to lighte, torches
and signals to be exhibited by them,
is about to be issued by the Treasury
| Department.
The defalcation Of c. P. Knights,
a wool dealer, of Bethel, Me-, ap-
pears to be much larger than was at
first supposed. 1t will amouat to
about $40 900. 1t is not known
where he Is.
The excitement created in New
England town by the report that a
vein of copper mad been discovered
-ubsided when it was ascertained that
the "vane of copper" was an old
weather cock.
The Sacramento Union asserts
that clergy man who passed through
that city the other day, en- route for
San Francisco from the East was vic
Limized by monte operators to the
extent of $3.50.
In New York city rents have
declined on an average to about one
third of the rate they were three
years ago, both for places of business
and private resIdences, and a still
further reduction is probable.
The hair brush which cost you
doll ar last wock, and which is now
DOLLY fiji for kindling- wood, had bris-
ties which came from q Mexican
plant called ystIe, wretched sub
stitute for the genuine irritant.
The Sauduskv, o.. water-works
will probably cost $500 900 or $780,,
900. The laying of The pipe will be
attended with much difficulty, since
much Of the excavation will have to
be made by blasting the solid rock.
1t is stated that pine. tenths of
the New York operative class live
up to each days wages, no matter
how large the same may be, during
the busy season. and are compelled
10 exist on credit when the idle days
come.
A Massachusetts paper says that
Governor-eleot CASTOR is one of the
solid men, because it only takes half
of him TO make atom. But even
that don't amount to anything 80
long as the other half of him is sim
ply Gas.
Out of total area in the Phila-
delphia Exposition building Of 900,-