Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-04-22

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him as lubricator.
Fourteen colleges will engage il
the next college regatta at Saratoga,
commencing July Is.
Horrors of horrorst the Welcf
: have begun to have spelling-matches
Spell OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
. --Revels, of Mississippi, the frat
colored Senator, has become ID. D.
and is pastor of Methodist church
Brigham Young has been re-
elected Prophet, Seer, Revelator and
President of the Mormon community.
| Professor Whitney, of Yale, is
on "the deep blue sea- en- route for
his travels in England, Scotland and
German.
A body of 500 Kansans, under
leader, will be the next to break or
ders by breaking for the Black Hills
in search of gold.
1T is rumered that the Pope con-
templates making another American
Cardinal, and Archbishop Bayley, of
Baltimore, is spoken of as the coming
man.
A Denver paper claims that that
| city is being literally overrun by SUI
perabundance of lawyers and doctors,
"Go West, young men," into the
mines.
Last Saturday week O'Leary, of
Chicago, walked 100 miles in %
hours, So minutes and IA seconds,
beating John Dewitt, of New York.
| and winning $1,000.
The Astor estate in New York
contains about 700 houses, which
cover forty acres in very desirable
localities. The Astor House alone
is worth 81, 100000.
-Austris employs travelling agri.
cultural professors, who go from place
to place delivering lectures and in
structing the farmers on topics con-
nected with their vocation.
Pullman, of car fame, has met the
Civil Rights issue at the threshold.
He has issued orders that colored
men be given equal accommodations
with whites for the same money.
AT the Atlas Works, Pittsburg,
Pa, they are making the largest
shears ever constructed in this coun
try. They will weigh forty tons, and
will shear cold iron five inches thick.
The Empress OF Japan has decid-
ed on the erection of college for
young girls who wish to devote them
selves to teaching, and has given q
liberal sum from her private purse to-
ward the expense OF construction.
The minstrel boys of the country
will dance their clogs, sing their songs
aud crack their jokes just the same as
ever, we presume, but poor Dan Bry
ant will never join them again. He
died Saturday week in New York.
The demand for India Rubber is
leading to a more complete explora-
ton of the forest of Darien, which is
resisted by the independent Indians.
The government of New Grenada
will furnish troops to protect the COLI
lectors of caoutchouc.
The liie-saving apparatus with
which the adventurous Boyton came
near swimming across the English
channel on the Sd inst, is described as
sort of water proof armor, so weight
ed that he stands perpendicularly in
the water, and partly submerged.
The pistols won by Major pitcaion
at Lexington, and from one of which
the first shot of the revolution was
fired, are in the possession OF the wild
ow of grandson of General Putnam,
and will be exhibited at the approach.
ing centennial exercises at Lexington.
Rowing royals: The Emperor of
Austria is visiting the King of Italy;
the Crown Prince of Prussia is on his
way to the same sunny CLINE; the
King of Sweden is about to visit the
Emperor of Russia; and the Prince of
Wales is preparing for a visit to India.
The Shaker Society at Mount
Lebanon, Columbia county, n. Y,
will send gratuitously the newspaper
they publish, the Shaker and Shaker
ess, to any public library that may re-
quest it, on condition that the library
will have the volume bound for pres
ervation.
There are now no less than 200
men in and on the road to the Black
Hills. II will take one-quarter of the
whole United States army or more to
drive such body out The soldiers
will be loath to fire upon miners, and
the miners will be slow to shoot at
soldiers.
Cooley Keys, the veteran gam
bier Of New York and Washington, is
dead. He was once partner of John
c. Heenan, and is the man who
couldn't get along without three ele-
giant suits of clothes per day. Poor
fellow! he will have to do with only
one now.
The New York Tribune celebrat-
ed its thirty-fifth anniversary by TAX
ing possession of its new building,
printing quadrupie sheet, Win
picture and description of the building,
giving the figures OF its circulation,
showing the average to be over So
900 daily.
The season is likely to prove an
unfavorable one for maple sugar maxi
ers. Not single tree has been tap
ped in New Hampshire or Vermont
Sap refuses to run until the snow is
melted around the trees, and at the
same time it will be sure to dry up
unless the nights are frosty.
WIN. Turner, colored, of Liver.
pool, n. s., probably the Oldest man
in Providence, r. l., being now over
lis years of age, is likely to receive
from the British Government back
pension for service in the royal navy