Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-12-09
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Senator Ferry will not draw the SAL
airy of that Office.
Bishop Wilmer, of Louisiana
has confirmed 500 Roman Catholics
voluntary converts TO Professionalism.
Mrs. Moulton, having been dis
missed from Plymouth church, is said
to have Joined DR.. Storrs' congrega.
ton.
The greatest mill-owner of the
Union is General Washburp, of Min.
nesota. He is at present visiting
Paris.
Won Bulow, the great German
pianist, now performing in this coun.
try, receives $1,000 night and his
expenses paid.
i The Astor House, New York.
bearing the name of its founder
John Jacob Astor--was originally
opened in 1888.
The female servant to whom
Thadeus Stevens left S., 900 in his
will, is now suing the estate for ser.
| 'ASSo SihAS hio QChIus
Some people are estimating the
Astor property at 100000, 900, but,
somehow, no one steps forward and
offers that for it in cash.
The nonsensical story that j.
Wilkes Booth is alive--reclothed by
a sensational New York LADY writer
| now goes the rounds again.
Centennial balls in Centennial
costumes will be the rage among the
heightened terpsiohorean devotees.
next Washington's birthday.
The export of American leather
is increasing to substantial figures.
1t has risen from 100000 sides two
years ago 20 100000 this year.
The young Prince of Grana Para.
BRAZIL, is to be christianed in De.
cember, and il is understood, will re-
ceive the ancestral name of Pedro.
Permission has been granted to
the Dairyman's Association of New
York State to erect building on the
Centennial grounds at Philadelphia.
"A newspaper bedded in gravel
and turned into stone was lately found
in Hartland, New York, the printing
being plainly visible to the naked
eye.
The Presbyterian Board of For
eiSn Missions must have immediate
help TO avoid great embarrassment.
1t is deficient to the amount of $780,
00O
During the last twenty-six years
seventy-nine newspapers have been
published in Sacramento, Cal. Thir-
teen are now living and sixty.six are
dead.
1t is not worth anything, but
there is a dispute between Indiana
and Kentucky about the ownership az
q small island in the Ohio river, near
Evansville.
Vice President Wilson left ans etate
which will hardly reach an estimate
Of $4,000, but the riches he left in q
good name and worthy example are
inestimable.
Paul Morphy, of New Orleans,
once chess-player, but now q lawyer,
gives announcement of his surprise at
learning that he has become insane,
as also do his friends.
"A fresh temperance crusade has
In several tHTtd ioR%Xn.sh &c onqeeticutl
have already been forced to buy by
the quart and imbibe in private.
There is said to be in Paris at
the present time, an Alsatian peasant
woman who carries her hair on her
arm like a train, as it is u feet in
length. She is SO years old, but her
hair still grows.
General James S. Brisbin assures
an Omaha paper that the crops in
Nebraska this year have been enorm.
Gus, and that the State has been fully
restored to the prosperity it enjoyed
before the grasshopper plague.
Thirty Chinese boys, who are to
be educated in Hartford, Conn, aud
Springfield, Mass, are on their way to
those cites from San Francisco.
They will remain there fifteen years
for the completion of their education.
The Albanians, of New York, do
not propose to establish any soup
houses this winter. The experiment
was tried last winter and found to
work poorly, the unworthy being fed
while the worthy poor remained
away.
About these days, and for a
week or two to come, you will find
the newspapers numbered up with
heavy Official reports, with statisti-
cal trimmings. Like a rail fence,
these documents are more useful than
ornamental.
Wild bears are reported to be
approaching continually nearer to
Paris, France. A battus was organ
lied, week or two ago, and, within
forty miles of the city, killed fifteen
of the animals in two hours. They
weighed from 100 to 500 pounds.
The students at Harvard will GER
tify to their attendance at church
hereafter by filing blank certificates
and fling them with the register, and
the old custom Of employing marking
monitors at the college chapel and at
the Cambridge churches will be dis
continued.
The farmers of Chester county,
Pennsylvania, are going very extern
sively into sheep-feedng, stimulated
by the prospect of the Centennial,
when it is expected that the demand
for mutton in Philadelphia will be
unusually large, to feed the numerous
guests at the great exposition.
The fact that England has pur-
chased from the Khedive of Egypt q
sufficient amount of the stock OF the
Suez Canal to give It the control of
that important commercial channel,
causes much interest and comment in
Europe. 1t seems to indicate settled
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