Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-03-18
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

| Union.
A bill to punish the baggage
smashing is before the Missouri Leg
islature.
A man in New York city was last
week sentenced for three months i'm
prisonmnet for killing cat,
Kansas horse-thieves threaten to
go on strike if the price of horses
does not advance pretty soon.
A man leaped from the dome of
the Frederic Capitol the other day
to cure alteration. of mind.-It cured
him.
MIR. VIM. Whitney, deputy con-
sui of the United States st Burmuds
was married there to Miss Frances
Mary Hill.
--Flory Temple is 30 yesrslold, and
her kind-hearted owner is doing all
that he can to smooth her pathway
to the glue factory.
1t is noted that all great humor-
. list are sober sedate, with melancholy
cast of oountenanee. 1t is rather
serious business to be funny.
| Rochester is trembling in antici-
patton ola disastrous inundation, and
attempts are being made to blow up
the ice in the Genesee river with tor
pedoes.
"A recent confagration at Port
au Prince, Hayti, burned over an
area of half a mile square. Four
hundred buildings were consumed, at
loss of 1900, 900.
Tho United States Pension
Agent in Washington has received
information of the death of pens
sioner in Georgia, aged SO years who
left son 1t years of age.
The Italian Government, having
refused to permit the coming of any
more money bearing the etfigy of the
| Pope, the Papal coins will be in fu
ture struck at the Brussels mint.
There is twelve year old girlin
Pennsylvania who mastered logic
rhetoric, geology, botany and men
tai and moral science. But she is in
the graveyard now, resting from her
studies.
1t is curious coincidence that
the two mon who were elected Vice
Presidents Hannibal Hamlin, and
when Mr. Lincon was elected Presi-
dent, Andrew Johnson-should now
be members of the National Senate.
The potato bug otherwise known
as Colorado beetle, has made it's APP
pearance in ireland, and an Irish
mumuor OF the British Parliament
asks that body for legislation to pre-
vent the bug from doing any damage.
AT London, VT, one day last
week gentleman opened fish-hole
in an eddy, and removed with his
hands NEARLY 800 pounds Of pickeral
and suckers. The fish crowd up to
the hole for fresh air, and arc cap
tured.
"A case came up in the General
Term of common Pleas, New York,
last week whereby it was decided
nat when generally docile horse
suorenly causes damage through
fright Al righteousness, the otDner is
not liable.
-Calilornla T-Ys unmoved the
first female student {" medicine with
in her borders. She, OF @ourse il a
Now Englander by BIRTH Nd has
taught school. She has gone inv.
medical department ofthe University
of California.
In Utah condemned murderer
is SLOWED by new law to choose
between being hanged, shot, or guillo-
tined. Philip Shafer, the first Gull
prit given chance for preference,
has refused to make a choice, and
will be hanged.
-Toxas is going largely into the
hog growing business, and it is pos
sible she may presently take the lead
of other States, for her climate is
exceedingly favorable for it, while
her soil is adapted to the raising of
corn successfully.
--There are only five States in the
Union where the Governor receives q
salary OF but $1,000. These are
Michigan, Nebraska, New Hamshire,
Rhode Island and Vermont. Louis
lana and Indiana pay $4,000 and
Pennsylvania $4,000.
Lake darkness is q body of wa
t0Gntee, UG atfl, by Professor haRkBgas,
1880 feet above the level Of the sea.
The outlet is into Warner valley, over
decliyity of some 1000 feet.
"A telegram from ireland informs
Us that blind boy led into court by
his father, has been sentenced to for
ty-eight hours imprisonment by the
Mayor of Drogheda, for obstructing
the throughtare by sitting on stool
and reading from an embossed Bible.
Plymouth Church holds morning
pray to petition strength
and sustenance for the pastor. No
one prays for Tilton, and he has to
rely for his strength on Mocha coffee,
porter-house steaks, fricas-seed oys.
tiers, and such common things as that.
-Four German laborers crossed
Lake Champlain on the ice, from
| New York side TO Burlington, lately
and missed the stage going back. La
attempting to return on foot, one OF
the men was frozen to death and tho
other three severely nipped and frost
bitted.
"A Pittsburg paper remarks that
the annals of execution will show
that the great majority of criminals
about to be hanged pass the night or
two previous to their taking off in pro-
found sleep. The last night on earth
especially ia apt to be passed in dream
less, peaceful slumber.
The shipment of silver bullion
| from Utah have increased from
8,547, 720 poundsin 1872 to 16,559,000
in 1873 and 28,o3O,757 pounds in