Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-08-26
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

gain.
The President of the Republic of
Ecuador, South America, was recently
assassinated.
Southern California has recently
had lots of brilliant meteors, with
long, flaming tails.
-Waukegan, ILL.,, calls herself the
"Spring City," and expects to be the
Saratoga of the West.
The apple crop of this State, if
not OF all the country west Of Michi.
gan, may be recorded as failure.
Duncan, Sherman & Co. propose
to settle with their creditors on tho
basis of $50 per cent. on the dollar
joaquin Miller says that such
writers as Buffalo Bill" bring the
Language of nature into disrepute."
The principal article in trade in
Boston this season is ice. cream. The
hotels there consume at the rate of
100000 gallons of it annually.
The Confederate General Basil
Duke was elected Prosecuting Attor-
ney in the Ninth Kentucky Judicial
District at the recent election.
GA mourning concourse of men,
women aud children, horses and vehi-
Giles, followed her to her last resting
place, says Southern exchange.
In Nevada the law of imposing
tax of 500 every three months on
every gambling place, has been sus.
tanned by a Supreme Court decision.
The counties of Franklin, Jack
son, Williamson and Randolph. in
Southern Illinois, are infested with
armed pulnderers and murderers.
The Green County, Wis, Agri-
cultural Society has erected on the
fair grounds large, fine wooden
building, which cost $4,000, for
floral hall.
"A Louisville girl covered her face
with both her hands when she thought
her lover was about to kiss her, and
then she complained 40, my hands
are too small"
Watermelons from the South, by
the thousands, and peaches from Del
aware by the hundreds of basketsfull,
arc now among the daily arrivals in
the Chicago market.
Says the Sacramento Record "Or>
ange trees in this city are bearing an
unusually heavy crop this season, their
branches bending under the weight of
the fruit now half grown"
1t is stated that the worm is at
work on the cranberry marshes near
Berlin, and that the prospects for
heavy crop are not near as good as
they were few weeks ago.
DR.. Stephen Ingham and wife,
of Elkhorn, this State, have com
memorated the I'D anniversary Of
their wedding. The doctor is in his
95th year, and the age of his wife is
90.
The Pittsburgh postollice recent
ly received package containing two
scalps, two arrow heads and little
bell. The postmaster is frightened,
and would only like to know what it
means.
The prairie-chicken shooting sea-
son is at hand. and the cemeteries
are receiving their annual harvest of
people who pick up guns to see if
they are loaded, and find out that
they are.
"A novel feature of recent enter
tainment at the Grand Opera House,
Cincinnati, was the pertaining of tho
house with geranium and bergamot,
while the programmes were rich with
the odor of white rose.
The appointment of jeff Davis
as the orator at the Winnebago Coun-
ty Fair, at Rockford, ILL.,, having
been Cancelled, Hon. J. Il. Doolittle
has been invited to deliver the ad-
dress, and has accepted.
The United States hotel, at Sara
toga, contains 908 rooms, and one
night last week, for the first time in
the history of the house, every room
and bed was occupied, and in most
instances with two persons.
| Moody and Sankey might have
had $25, 900, legal copyright on their
hymn books, to bring home from Eng
land with them, but they wouldn't
touch it. They only ordered it to be
used for spreading the Gospel.
Lord Dudley, of England, wishes
people would not tell how much he
won on the turf, for no sooner does
he make a few thousand than crowd
of women and ministers come to him
begging him to build church with it.
"A frog nearly az large as a cows
head has made its appearance at Mon
treal, Can. Its croaking is as loud as
the bark of dog, and when pursued
it makes for deep water and remains
perfectly quiet for few days and
nights.
-'No, my boy" said an opera
singer to a poor young man who
wanted her to give up singing and
marry him, "there would come times
when | couldn't take ysur appetite
away be warbling an air from Lohen-
grim"
-Danbury Ne,0S: At a funeral of
woman in Slawson, the other day,
neighbor in attendance, feeling il.
necessary to say something sympa-
thetc to the afflicted husband, kindly
observed: you've got a splendid
day for the funeral"
The second trial of Wintermute
for the murder of General McCook,
at Yankton, Dakota Territory, begun
last week at Vermillion The Chicago
Journal says the murder was unpro-
voked, and the wealthy murderer
ought to have been hanged long ago"
"A Brooklyn sick girl cleared
space around thirteen ears of green
corn at one meal the other day, and,
picking the fragments from between