Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-01
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in six years 6,295 wild beasts
have been slaughtered in Algeria.
They are collecting money in
Texas to buy jeff Davis home
stead.
-Reverdy Johnson has Just closed
his six-times-ten years of active legal
practice.
I'm France there were at the end
of 1874 just $4,000 miles of railway in
operation.
Boston complains that of all the
great seaboard cities, it alone is withs
out park.
New counterfeit nickel coins
have been detected in circulation in
New York.
The Governmental geological
party does not find any gold in the
Black Hills.
philadelphia has 5000 profession
al beggars, whose gains average more
than SO per day each.
Hereafter the Scandinavia Ian.
guage will be taught at the State
University at Madison.
"A drunken woman was arrested
in Philadelphia the other day with a
dead child in her arms
-Grayson county, Texas, alone,
will have from 100000 to 100000
bushels of surplus wheat this year.
Newfoundland is to have a $780,
100000 railroad across the island, the
length of which will be about 800
miles
GAINESVILLE high-school boys fight
with knives. A boy named Holley
has been severely wounded by cons
panion.
Hartford, Conn, has abolished
its detective police force, and, strange
as it may seem, crime is steadily
diminishing.
joaquin Miller is another one of
those bad penmen among noted peo-
pie. His manuscript has to be read
with key.
Dark blue is the color of the new
fve-cent stamp, and the contractors
are ordered to commence printing
them at once.
The indications are that the new
census now in progress in New York
will not give that city population of
over a million.
Tho Buffalo police have been di-
rected to report all brewers having
men and teams engaged in the de-
livery of beer on Sunday.
They have snow yet at Virginia
City, New, and the people are be-
ginning to wonder if their Fourth of
July ball will be SNOWFALL.
And now they tell of a black
Spanish hen in Kentucky, who got
so frightened by a hog that her feath
ers turned white in single night.
Families in Spain are pretty we'll
divided on the question of parties, of
which no less than tweDty-six manage
to thrive and get along in the world.
When base ball first commenced,
it was played with bats and balls, but
now it has developed more, and is
carried on with bats and balls and
"rings."
of the graduating class at Yale
this year, SO per cent are destined for
the law, nine will enter business,
eight the ministry, seven medicine
and two journalism.
Western Iowa, which for the
past year or two has been devastated
by voracious grasshoppers, now prom
Uses to be blessed with the most
abundant crops ever known there.
No man can really know how
utterly poverty-stricken he is until he
has written to a watering place hotel,
asking what will be the expense of
weeks board for himself and family.
-Anson Goodwin, a Rocheste.
rough, lifted a quarter lager beer
cask filled with water above his head
several times to exhibit bis strength,
recently, and moment later he fell
dead,
1t is said that the young crops of
corn and cotton in the valleys of the
Ark ansas, White, Yazoo, St. Francis,
and along the main rivers south to
the gulf, were never more promising
than now.
About rs, 900 Americans annual
ly visit Europe These on an average
spend $500 individually, which foots
up to the sum of S37, 100000 of money
made in this country and spent in
foreign lands in a single year.
In an ordinary three-story brick
house 10000 gallons of water is alb
sorbed by the brick and mortar used
in the construction, and this immense
quantity must all, or nearly all, be
got rid of before they are safe as
dwellings.
Eight hundred thousand acres
of Indian soil is now under jute culti-
walton, producing nearly 100000
pounds Of fiber, which ultimately
takes the form of 32,767, $3.50 gunny
bags, and an enormous quantity of
mating, Irvine and paper.
The first sermon ever preached
by Baptist clergyman in Kentucky
was delivered in Harrodsburg just
one hundred years ago, and the Ken-
lucky Baptists have been celebrating
the event by series of meetings in
all parts Of the State.
There is one man in town who
has read all that has thus far appear
ed in print of the Beecher trial, in
GLIDING the lawyers opening speech
es, the testimony, the closing speech
es and all He looks pale and hag-
gard So says the Chicago journal.
The bankers of Kentucky have
notion that the James and Younger
brothers are loafng around there to