Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-10-08
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

The eolored people of Savannah
are to have Freedmen's bank on
their own hook.
Smallpox is abating in tie Island
of Jamaica, where it has been raging
with great severity.
The woman's crusade has reached
England, and does not seem to be
greatly admired there, either.
1t is stated that, owing to the
alarming increase Of brigandage in
Sicily, trial by jury win be suspended.
The owner of the humbug Cardiff
Giant made lots of money, but away
it went, and now he has gone into
bankruptcy.
Mrs. DR.. Walker and her follow
ers are anxious to 60 with Stanley to
Africa, because it is such a splendid
place for pants.
-Telegraphic editors have added
new box to their desks, in the pros
pect of having the Beecher scandal as
a steady thing.
"A jury composed entirely Of ne
groes was impaneled in Portland a
few days ago-the first case of the
kind in Oregon.
The vibration of the big st. Louis
bridge from passing trains, and even
teams, is exciting considerable com
ment in that city.
Niagara county, New York, ex-
poets to ship 100000 barrels of apples
this season, and realize nearly a mil
lion dollars therefrom.
The detectives of the country
count that day lost whose low, de-
scending sun brings not record of
another Ross boy won.
A photograph privately circulated
in Paris, contraband of course, repre-
sents the ex Empress opening her
arms to embrace Ba2ine.
"A Georgia paper says it would
cheerfully suspend publication for one
day in order that all hands might at
tend Bob Toomb's fure ral.
The new postal law makes it ne
cessary for the post office department
to furnish about 1000 post offices of
| the country with new scales.
The Brooklyn Heights female
seminary opens with falling off in
attendance this year, for which the
managers blame the great scandal.
"A Boston court has decided that
if woman lends money to her hus-
band she cannot get it back. The de-
cislon will not be new to many wives.
The long. disputed question of the
boundary line between Connecticut
and New York is about to be settled
by a suit for the benefit of the oyster
| men.
The level of Lake Constance,
Switzerland, recently went down eight
feet in two days. Cause unknown,
unless it was that piece of the bot
tom fell out.
The Paris Figaro made the as
tonishing statement, the other day,
that all the servants in America,
whether male or female, insist upon
being called 'ladies."
New York policemen have, in a
general order, been instructed to
"wear the prescribed uniform at all
times" Like obedient children Of the
city they sleep in them.
The construction of the outer
girdle Of forts for the defense of Paris
will be commenced next November,
and they will give employment to
nearly 1000 workmen.
An English writer thanks the
American newspapers for telling the
British people that the Prince of Wales
owes G640,00o. 1t is not mentioned
over there for pollcy's sake.
Boston in one year contributes
nearly $3,50O,00O for the poor, or
enough to board all the poor at the
leading hotel the year around. But it
does not all reach the poor.
Pennsylvania claims to have Civ
en- the United States the first turnpike
road, railroad, water works, locomo-
tive, hospital, law school, public mu-
scum, music hall ard free library.
A wealthy church in Massachu-
sets has been without a pastor for
two years, during which time it has
heard eighty five different ministers,
and is still looking for the right man.
The Brooklyn Almshouse receiv-
ed thirty-three foundlings last year,
and only six are alive at present. The
secret of this alacrity in making little
angels of foundlings is to be investi
gated.
Coal has been discovered in New
Zealand in such quantities that the
colonists are joyously predicting the
approach of a day when they shall no
longer import their fuel from New
castle.
If Brigham Young is to die OH
the 18th Of December, we would like
to have him first take Ann Eliza on
his knee and forgive her for tearing
around the country with Major Pond
and that lecture.
Alderman Ropes, Of Brooklyn,
threatens to resign because every time
any money is missing the citizens say
the city council are learning the Ropes
and getting rich off the public by their
diaboIical thieving.
The time for the beating Of swords
into ploughshares is still in the future.
Last year Christendonl paid, for the
support of the war system S2,000,000,-
900, and for missions, during the same
time, only $5,ooO,OOO.
The mushroom crop in Anglesey,
Eng, is so heavy that for three days
the London & Northwestern railway
company were obliged to run special
trains for the conveyance of the crop
to the London market.