Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-06-25
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

-Rochefort says that American
hotels are the best in the world.
Vallejo, Cal, young ladies take
their excursions to the Yosemite.
The San Francisco Sun has risen
again after an eclipse of four months.
There is said to be bitter rival
~ in London between Nilsson and
|. Tietjens,
-Bostonians of the upper ten
have gone in summer quarters at
Newport.
"A Baltimorean. shooting at q
mad dog recently, wounded two boys
in the tace.
-Kite-hyingin Sacramento is pro-
hibited-there where Chinese kites
are so cheap.
The star-spangled banner of
which Key wrote, is still in exist
ence, in Baltimore.
Liberia now has q navy. 1t
consists of small steamer, which
was built in England.
The divinity lectures at Yale
are hereafter to include course on
the preservation of health.
The steamers running from
Liverpool to Quebec have reduced
Storage fares to Sl4 in gold.
Some base bail thief entered the
Hartford mines headquarters and
took away their silver trophy.
Detroit ruraists wash at the
public drinking fountains and COM
plain because there are no towels
The black stallion Stride Away,
the famous trotter, valued at $25, 900
died this week at Providence, Il. l.
Cape May has o roadster in the
shape of Shanghai rooster that
draws baby around in q baby coach.
The yellow fever, which appear
ed last week in New Orleans, has
now broken out in Pensacola, Flori-
da.
The veterans of the war for the
independence of Texas are fast dis
appearing. Over twenty died last
year.
An elk, weighing 600 pounds
when dressed, was killed near What
com, Washington Territory, last
week.
Ono of our editors who has had
the obituary of tho Pope written up
for several months is getting dis
couraged
How delicately Rochefort au-
nounced that American hotels have
no bed-bugs when he said, 81 was
not bitten once"
Tho body of an Indian woman
was found dead in the Union Pacific
depot-yard at Omaha, without gar
ment on her.
"A man froze to death one of the
hot days OF last week, up in the Blue
Ridge Mountains Of Virginia. 1t was
not hot there.
Ben Perley Poore writes to
Boston journal from Washington
that old naval officers commend haz-
ing at Annapolis.
South Carolina has negro who
has got down so low as to go about
dead beating his living, by passing
off as Ben Butler.
Tho supply of shad in Connect
icut is exceptionally largo this sea-
son. Some drag-net men have al
ready made $500 each.
"A New Orleans robber and thief
was recently seen in fourteen places
at once, which shows the energy of
the New Orleans police.
"A considerable number of Swiss
have arrived in Canada, and will
proceed TO Lake Nipissing, where
they will form colony.
Tho buffaIo are moving in inn
mense number west of Fort Dodge,
and hunters by hundreds are gather
ing for grand slaughter.
Tho operatives in the Langley
cotton mills at Augusta, Ga, have
struck because the company charged
them rent for their cottages.
"A coored man named Henry
Sanders was hold to bail in Little
Rock for stealing q house from the
grounds of the Pententiary.
Newark has organized, and will
open in October, female club "for
young women who have no pleasant
place to spend their evenings"
"A Hardin county (Ky.) farmer
proposes to fatten about sixty hogs
on onions alone, and for that purpose
has plantel large crop Of the escul-
ent.
A committee, consisting of the
British ard German Consuls at
Shanghai, has been appointed to con-
slider life boat system for the China
coast.
notwithstanding frequent exc
cutions and long sentences to tie
Penitentiary, crime is increasing at
an alarming rate among the negroes
of the South.
Two women are distinguished
especially among painters this year
an American woman, Elizabeth
Gardner,in France, and Miss Thomp-
son in England.
8 MIR. F. w. Williams, promi-
nent banker OF Charleston, S. c.,
made a speech recently strongly
urging young business men to "be-
ware of lawyers"
in the half-mile running race at
Grand Rapids, Mich, "Mountain
Boy" the leading horse, dropped
dead. He was an old and popular
fayorite Where is Bergh 2 y
"A novel burglary was commit
ted at Omaha A gang of burglars
entered the gambling hell of Dan
Allen and stole oil the chips and
other gambling implements.
Boston has not the only boy
murderer in America. In Cat.arsu-