Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-04-09
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.
griffin, Ga, is to be sued for s4O,.


Ohio paper.
-Fernandina, Fla, is going to
have hotel.
Harrisburg complains of bad
drinking water.
Tennessee will elect ten Con.
gressmen this fall.
The Kansas wheat crop is in
splendid condition.
"A mission fair in Boston cleared
$4,000 in two weeks.
-Dueling is becoming popular in
and about Atlanta, ia.
A year old boy at Mt. Carbon,
Pa. ,ighs 100 pounds.
-Spinster City is one of the oldest
made towns in Missouri.
"A Brooklyn man calls Troy the
city OF handsome women.
The total valuation of the land in
Mississippi is sl9l,2lo,S47.
Ground has been broken in Sac-
ramento for smelling works.
A Yamhillian (Ore. has captured
half-dozen flying squirrels.
"A negro child was born in Hen.
derson, n. C., without any eyes.
Salt Lake City has new Danish
paper in the interest of Brigham.
The Pioneer wants St. Paul to
stop buying and go to producing.
The champion female club
swinger" is operating in Omaha.
The Savannah and Memphis
railroad will shortly be completed.
Miss Lee Randall has been ap
pointed Postmistress at Oxford, Miss.
Work has been resumed on the
Rhinebeck and Connecticut Railroad.
Wages are very low in Quebec,
laborers only getting so cents day.
-"The Order of Enoch is d new
society established by Brigham Young.
Large quantities of herring are
being trapped up the OGeechee, Geor-
gia.
jackson, Ala, is shipping large
numbers of beaver skins to New
York
Pacific coast editors are suing
each other for lib>l, to keep things
lively.
Large quantities of grape slips
are now shipped from Missouri to
France.
"A law should be passed to pro.
hibi, hotel walters from using per-
fumery.
Cory, Pa, taxes her Iiquor sell
lers $l5 each for the benefit OF the DO.
lice fund.
Manitoba demands on extension
of its area from 100000 TO 100, o00,-
900 acres.
--Twenty-six new lodges of Good
Templars were instituted in Canada in
February.
Jacksonville, Fla, has hal over
1850 visitors since the beginning Of
last October.
-Hartwell, Ga, has q man SO
years old that has just married for
the first time.
-Welland (Can liquor sellers were
last week warned TO desist on pain of
n wonen's war.
The managers of the Georgia
Stare Lottery have given 500 to the
poor OF Atlanta.
Snow on the mountains between
Bull Run and Powder river, Oregon,
is FIVE feet deep.
"A bed of oxide of iron has been
discovered a short distance south of
Sh@fferstown, Pa.
The Maryland peach corp has
been injured by The alternate cold
and warm weather.
"A gentle zephyr blew a hole
through a heavy plate glass doc, in
Erie, Pa last week.
About 100000 has been spent
in improving the James river, Vir.
ginia, since the war.
Iowa has a legislator who did
not know capital punishment was
abolished in his State.
-Curiously enough it was at Wag-
Wagga that the Tichborne tale
was first set in motion
The Turkish Government has
ordered a new 100000 ironclad. 1t
is TO be built in England.
The average number Of misdi-
rected letters sent to the New York
post Office, weekly, is $50.
A boy in Fillmore county, Mimi,
was lately sent to jail for Is days for
trying to boss the school
1t need only cost about 50 Ok TO
be cremated. How much cheaper
than even fifth class burial
"A new necklace ia made of blocks
of Roman gold. four inches square,
fastened by chains Of fine gold
The Levant Times, the English
daily of Turkey, now publishes French
and Bulgarian editions weekly.
There are 5000 head of cattle
and 10000 head of sheep in the Sa-
guache valley, Lower Colorado.
Cory, p, has a woman bill
poster, while McConnelsburg girls, in
the same State, steal door-scrapers.
Buffalo manufactures do an ag.
gregate business of 81 5000 annually
in the manufacture of lanterns and
lamps.
The number Of beggars to DO
found in New Orleans is greater now
than it was ever known to have been
before.
Senator Bogy says he is not dis.
posed to covet the stormy life and
frequently disputed reputation Of Col.
Benton"
Painters are said to be proving
about the different settlements in the