Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-12

The temperance question agi-
tates Barnesvilles, Ga.
| Sixteen passengers died on g
Melbourne ship lately,
| About per cent. of the citizens
OF Berlin attend church.
Ohio has 2,1o0 miles more rail.
road than Massachusetts.
Potatoes are worth more than
wheat in Kansas and Iowa.
New Haven has had its first
thunderstorm, this summer
The Nova Scotia fisheries were
valued at &c. 200, 900 last year.
Morgan county, Ala, has been
settled by Northern Germans.
The municipal dept of Richmond,
Va. is stated 10 be S3,6OO,000.
The people of San Rafael, Cal,
have cucumbers fit for the table.
They found cork leg lying In
q Detroit street, the other day
They want to improve the State
seat of government in Missouri.
Church property is taxed in Cali
fornia, and ell sects are satisfied.
AT Pixies Peak, when the baro-
meter rises the temperature rises.
The young men of Fulton county,
KY, are laying Ku-klux tor fun.
"A woman 81 years old is the
most adroit thief in Albany, N. Y.
The Streets of Virginia City are
sheathed in Joe from June to July.
Two men in Wilmington, Ohio,
cut up 100 hogs in thirty minutes.
No liquor has been sold in
Orient, Il. l., for twenty-eight years.
The majority of drunkards are
made at home, in domestic bar-rooms.
DIR. Franklin proposed the tur.
key as the national emblem of AmeF-
ica.
The annual income of Trinity
Church, New York, is about $780,
00U.
France exported 1923 horses
duringthe first three months of last
year.
This country has sown q terrible
amount of wild oats since its father
died
All kinds of small fish are rapid
ly decreasing in the bay of San Fran
cisco.
The learned Atlanta editors are
said to coin twelve now words every
week.
--Roumania is Disguised with the
jury system, and has resolved 10 abol-
ish it.
The umbrella makers Of New
York propose to establish a secret
society.
There are now fifteen young
ladies in the Yale Art School in New
Haven.
Augusta, Ca, has contributed
$40, 900 to the Westinghouse Uni
versity.
California exported last year
over 100000 gallons of wine and
brandy.
Spain has the largest legation ia
Washington. 1t consists of eight
members
The old style Of oombing the
hair over the ears is revived among
the ladies.
Lewiston, Me-, has 1864 of it's
Inhabitants engaged in the different
factories.
California proposes to try it's
hand at suppressing "short sales"
and usury.
For an English sixpence and
handful of powder one can buy wife
in Ashantee.
Philadelphia capitalists have been
building railroads in Maine and far
Their down East.
Mrs. Polly Powers turns her
beauty and her wit to account as
Topeka lobbyist.
1t will take 81, 100000 to provide
for the annual interest on the funded
debt of Tennessee.
Tho Mayer of Vioksburg, Miss,
has salary OF $4,000 q year, and the
City Judge $500.
"A vein of coal eleven feet thick
has recently been discovered in Fay
cite county, W. Va.
DIR Francis w Upton, formerly
of Tslmadge, Ohio, committed suicide
at Santa Barbara, Cal
1t is fashionable for Boston faith
ers to give their daughters checks
for $50, 200 when married.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says
that the Philadelphia papers are the
most dignlfied in America.
AT Mardi Gras time In Calves.
ton, the graveyard yawned and
graves gave up their dead.
-Four California stage robbers
have been sentenced to the State
Prison for twenty years each.
--Hyacinths and other early fow-
ers are blooming in the open air in
the southern part OF Kentucky.
"A soldier of Wellington's Water
loo army died in the Poor House at
cambridge, Ga, few days ago.
1t is not an uncommon thing to
see sixteen wagon loads of peanuts
ON the streets of Nashville at once.
-Cincinnati boasts of 5000 shops
where liquor is retailed, which fur
nishes support for about ID, 900 tamil
lies
Georgia negroes haven't that
faith in saving banks which they
once had, and they now trustto sand
hills.
The Masonic Temple in New
Haven has become the property OF
Henry and Edward Morgan, of New
York.