Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-01-01
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.
Tweed calls this his off year in

AEe-ptoOt shutters.
Again have they refused Susan
b. Anthony's vote.
The wife of the late Gov. Harvey
is leoturing this winter.
"A mine of pure gold bas just
been found in Colorado.
The mission schools in India
have about 10000 scholars.
"A superior vein of coal is said to
have been discovered in Nebraska.
The Supreme Court of New
Hampshire has young lady clerk.
Atlanta viii! endeavor to rival
the New Orleans Mardi Gras this
winter
1t has cost $4,000, 900 in cash,
ana 139 lives, to bore the Hoosao
Tunnel
The South Carolina Legislature
has refused to restore the usury law
in that State.
OF the 200, 900 people inhabiting
the city of Edinburgh, $4,000 are OBJ
jeots Of charity.
john L. Pennington, OF Alabama
will be the successor of Mr.. Burbank,
who has resigned as Governor of Da.
kota.
There is no truth in the report
that the British war,ships in the
waters.
I'm Cincinnati the number Of
hogs slaughtered since November l,
is $40, 600 during the same; time last
year, PCS 900.
There is every prospect that
nearly the entire amount of the loan
of 1858 will be exchanged for new
five per cents.
Emperor William is lying very
i'll from an attack Of apoplexy. His
real condition is being concealed
from the public.
Secretary Richardson has again
declared green paints free OF duty,
and duties paid under previous rul-
lings will be refunded.
Fifteen pounds of dried apples is
the minimum charge Of an Iowa edl-
tor for a first-class marriage notice.
One with poetry costs more.
Col. Thomas A, SCOTS project
for a Government loan in aid OF the
Southern Pacific Railroad, will meet
with but little favor in Congress.
Dinners arc again being supplied
in Loudop 70 poor children at two
cents per head. Last winter the
number of dinners given On this plan
was l01 1856.
$50 far during the present pack
ing season, Chicago pork-packers
navo handled 1885, 900 hogs, against
400. 400 head for the corresponding
period last season.
Spain is in a sinking condition
financially. Her aunual-deticit IN
revenue. as compared with tho re-
coipts, is S35, 000, 600, and she has ad-
ded S211,O00,0O0 to her debt in the
Lass four years.
--Bazaine, the fallen French mar
shat, whose sentence TO death was
recently committed by President Nc
Mahon, 10 seclusi0n, is to be domiciI-
cd ut Santa Marguerite, an island of
Cannes, in the Mediterranean sea.
The Prot. Bascum OF Williams
College VINO has been called 10 the
presidency Of the Wisconsin Cnivar-
sity ia not the gentleman whom Mas
bYspeaks OF, but person well qualiti-
cd to succeed the present able occu-
pant.
An English Judge has decided
that thread manufacturers who mark
200 yards on spools having but
100 yards arc guilty Of nc offence if
they ship the spools to America.
Can't we ship them another load OF
wooden hams and natmegs?
"A topor The other night got at
the yeast jug and took swig. Pat
ting il down he called out to his wife,
Say, Jano, | wish you wouldn't mix
that chicken feed over the cider jug,
it's 'nuff to mako hog sick" The
yeast made him hop soon after.
The Wisconsin State Grange Of
the Patrons of Husbandry, holds its
annual meeting at GAINESVILLE, Janu-
airy 20. Ali masters of Oranges and
their wives will DO admitted as mem
bers. and will have their hotel bills
paid for them during the session
The st Paul Press calls Mac
Mahon the. champion salary grabber
Of the age. w hen he was chosen Die
tator, his salary as President was
about $40 900 per annum, but it has
been increased by the National As
sembly to 100000, which is a grab
worth having.
From present indications, it APP
pears that Plymouth Church, OF
Brooklyn is to BIO ostracized
by propely constituted council.
Plymouth has stood firm as the his-
torlcal rock, in the face Of number
less shafts, and will rather relish its
ostraclsm than otherwise.
Telegrams and letters from
Spain state that the government is
determined to bring the question Of
slavery in Cuba before the cortes,
but desires the slave owners to pro.
pose a plan insuring the abolition Of
slavery without seriously injuring
tho agriculture Of the island.
There is a "new departure" in
the Episcopal Church of the United
Statea. They have got up what
they call "Reform Episcopal Church
and Rev Charles 4 Cheney, who
had such long contest with Bishop
Whitehouse, Of Chicago, two years
ago, is made Bishop Of the new
church 10 the west,
Il. appears that the homestead
settlers in Florida. either through
carelessness or ignorance Of the law,
have failed to make the necessary
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