Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-12-17
HERE, THERE AND el sEWnsRE.
-Pennsylvania hasthirty.one coI,
leges.


immigrants from the Northern
States. sn rHr y
Ar Atlanta (Gs.) man has two
daughters, 10 and l6 years old, who
are widows.
| The peol l. OF jamestown. N. Y,
| got up fireworks the other night ia
honor Of first omnibus.
Il cost D<nver sport S4S to cat
off he pig tail ornamsnt OF u C,l@s-
lial resadel t in that c Y.
There are now l746 veteran
soldiers at the Dayton. d., He me.
Or these 435 are 10 the hospital.
The oyster beds of France and
England, in spite of artif ial propa.
gations are practically exhausted.
Mrs. Fitzgersliis thriving rast.
way contractor, at whose enterprise
add extensive resources Texas won4
ders.
| -Op Cuban hotel tables butter ~
served in bottles and is not often
reached for by North Americen
guests.
The elergymen of Schenectady,
| N. Y, are out in a card, requesting
that funerals may not be held on
Sunday.
The Commissioners of Patents
has decided thai physicians pre-
seriptipns or compositions are nos
patentable.
There are now 5,029 national
banks in this country, having an ag-
gregats CIRCULATION OF S35 ,927, 246
in bank notes.
San Antonio, Texas, has a no.
gro theater. White men are not III.
lowed TO attend, and it is rare that
they want to.
The courts of Northumberland
county, Pa, have been pelitioned to
grant j bounty for the scalps of
hawks and owls.
A railroad ticket agent at Ss-
vannah has been presented with q
watch for his civil answers TO the
public. Served him right.
II zing is being put down in
the British navy. Aud when the
BRITISH attempt to put such things
down, they put them clear down.
The proprietors of the London
Times now cast their own type, and
| the plan is about TO be adopted by
all the leading dallies OF that city.
There are at present 5000 pris-
~ ri
the penalty of their crimes most OF
them from New York and Brooklyn.
The making Of d Is shoes has
grown Thin the past six or eight
years into buoiness of sufficient im-
porrauce to occupy several manufac-
tories.
Florida papers predict that at
,ast 1000 pl.ces to plant orange
groves will be- purchased along the
S.. Johns during the next three
moths.
There is vast amount OF smug~
Cling on our northern frontier, and
seven of the most skilled agents of
the Treasury Department have gone
TO see about II.
baltimore levies tax of one
cent passenger on her street rail
WAYS. and out of this fund has pur-
chased, constructed aud keeps in re-
pair magnificent public park.
Silk culture in California seems
| TO be considered failure. The idea
prevails that the climate is 10 fault.
Mulberry trees thrive, but lk-worms
persia before maturing the cocoons.
In the last five years no less
than forty-three life insurance com~
panies 10 the United States gave up
the ghost. There was very little life
| or insurance TO BIO found in the con-
Germs.
BY order of the German Crown
Princess the female clerks and tele-
graphcrs employed by the German
Government were directed TO set
aside all extravagances in dress and
| toilegs.
The total number OF French SOL
diers killed, disappeared or died OF
wounds and diseases in the late war
is now given from statistics at 1885,
871; willis the Germans lost but
$4,000.
The buffalo of our plains are
emigrating at the rate of 100000
Der aunum, via the dead-shot line.
Aud nothing is being done to check
this terribls loss of the most kingiy
of /, Il game.
The authorities of Danbnry,
Conn, have required the owner OF
every building 70 provide il VITA a
strong ladder, under penalty OF one
do.ll r month You need not look;
there is no joke mi this.
The oonstitutionaIity of the law
forhidding the ssls of liquor within
two miles of the University OF CaI-
foruia has been recently tested, and
the unfortunate tester lost bis case
and had TO pay the costs.
The Hudson Bay Company's
land sale at Fort Garry, BRUSH
America. has been very successful,
about 800 600 worth OF land having
been disposed OF. Lots 80 feet by
100 went for from 5000 10 800.
Bishop Dame lately arrested 10
southern ULah and confined at
Beaver, has been taken to Salt Lake
City for safe-keepiug. He is charg-
ei with having b en- connected with
the Mountain Meadows massacre.
A well-known San Francisco
Judge says that there is regular
Board of Grand Jury brokers 10 that
city whose services can be had at all
times TO fix up q Grand Jury TO suit
the emergencies of any particular
case.
Tho nnmhar of neople who have