Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-19
HERS, IHERE AND ElstwasaE

| -One 10 Ion pe0Ele Ia Indsb are
In o starving condition.
"A thin lice lemo on Ia supposed
TO help The favor of tee.
"A NashVilie editor say the "dip-
theory is baptist disease"
| An old lady 10 Avocs, so years
Of sgr. Is culing new set OF teeth
| The story Of Kossutb's poverty
and misery is all q hoax. So ssys The
son.
A Keokuk butcher gives away
a chrome with every ten pounds OF
meat.
"A dog acts as mail carrier over
twelve mile route in Minnesota, and
he is always on time.
The Iowa Senate has passed to Q
third reading q bin prohibiting the
sale of wine and beer.
The Rhode Island Republican
State Convention nominated Henry
Howard for Governor.
The Congressional library cow
consists of 250,0)0 volumes, the larg.
est In the United States.
American newspapers and maya"
zines are nov generally taken Of the
leading clubs 10 London.
The House Committee on Rail-
roads has decided that any aid grant.
ed to ra lroads is inexpt dent.
According to an Ohio mathena.
ticisn, one man dies from the use Of
alcohol every seven minutes.
"A proposition is before the Ohio
Constitutional Convention 10 tax
church and c. llege properly.
-President Grant is said to be
heartily in favor of free banking ard
az early resumption of specie pay
ments.
"A coul |, at WoodviIle, Iowa. it
il said, have been divorced four Times,
and are now bent on marry ing the
fifth time.
Minister Schenck returned from
England on the lib. aud Minister
Caleb Gushing sailed for Spain the
same day.
-Neoraska ia much troubled lest
people should b eve there sre In
dian troubles there aud Immigration
be checked
MaIred ladies now I'll W their
husbands names to appear on their
visiting cards, because il is the fash
iun "abroad
1t i believed in New York city
that Sunset OK is striving tor the
ID mocra:ic nomination for Governor
of That STATE.
The temperance reform has bro
ken out IN ca ! lootho, The ladies
commenced their operations against
The drug stores.
"A proposition has been msie in
Congress TO divide the statetf rexas
10 two sta. %, the division To be made
by north and south line.
In Albany the lady temperance
advooa @, propose to begin At the
founta head. and hold their first
meetings in the breweries.
There is a tendency 10 the West
to make marriage laws more string.
ent. Colorado has adopted the Ii.
oana@ spstem for ma.rimony.
The total PIvd~e.s~- IS -....I;.
this country asst year was ia 700"
900 pounds. against l60 100000 tor
1872 and 146,600,000 tor 1871.
Mrs. Green, Kansas widow,
wants TO marry again, and as re-
com mendation she says she has used
one broom for fourteen years.
"A correspondent of the Turf,
Fold and Farm says the horse Sleepy
George paced mile recently in 2:lS,
after running ont for five months.
"A Western enthusiast excliims,
"l'd rather be doorkesper in the
b, II of the grangers than TO shovel
sugar in the stores of the middle
men.
There are ninety-one women in
the Michigan I'm versity. Seven arc
studying law, thirty-six medicine,
and t1rty- eight are developing their
genius.
"A correspondent OF the Janes-
will, Gazette, writing from Milton,
figures tho cost of growing and cur.
ring tobacco 1T i've and one-haIf cents
u pound.
"A b / has passed the Col fornia
Assembly making it q misdemeanor
o invite any person TO drl"k, ar 10
accept an invitation to drink, liquor
at any puolic bar.
An Indiana man, with turn for
statietics, Q. l;ulAtes that his faithful
dog 10 years of age has cost him
| S23f % Ir hash aud S35 for cense.
The dog IS now tor Sal,. Pros, len
| Csuts.
"A fashion editress says that coon
INV must come in somewnerc.
| When ladies wear 20 much Co and
silk about their ne Ks and collars,
dfes kIrts must be- nsoessar nar-
row and scsut.
The Ohio Cons tuition I1nven.
ii n har, oy vote OF 43 20 80. rstu--
d 20 suomIt the Question II v ana
suffrage 10 tins people Fly. nree
votes we're required TO ~ nmII 81 o
sepa a,e section.
Eastern papers are now boast'ng
Of families sending the greatest num-
Der OF s0ns TO the war but The exact
numb Der Of sons who went ~ subsu
u es aud who jumped The bounty are
carein IL cOncea ed.
The railway war anticipated be.
| ween the Ba timore and Ohio and
| Penns1 ,ania Railroads will be like
ly to involve $50, 900 900 to $50, 000.-
900, and be one OF the grandest cor
pora ION contests known 70 the Re-
public.
The Atlantic Monthly says the
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