Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-06-03
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

| Somebody wanted relic.
| TO the most important step in
his life, man is oftentimes blind.
| President Grant and family en-.
tered their cottage at Long Branch
| this week.
| The Constitutional convention of
| Nebraska has dispensed with the
services of chaplain.
| The latest vanity out in Paris is
"History of Fans Among all Ma.
tons and in all Ages"
The skeleton of a giant eight
| feet in length has been found lately
in Tuscarawas county, Ohio.
The Duke Of Edinburg is the
only male member of the British roy
al family who is not Freemason.
| Baltimore has new marble city
ball, which occupies an entire block.
1t was furnished at a cost of $S,00o,-
| 600.
There is great excitement a.
Exeter, N. H., and vicinity over the
| discovery of rich silver and lead de-
posits.
A Lowell, Mass, man is building
big hen house, which will enclose
three acres and accommodate about
1000 hens.
-Ex-Queen Amelia, widow of the
late King Ohio, of Greece, last week
went the way of all flesh, of which
royal are not excepted.
Philadelphia claims that 1T fur
nishes. employment to not less than
10000 women, exclusive of those en-
gagged in domestic service.
An old cannon has Just been dug
out OF the mud off wharf at Boston,
near the spot where that gunpowder
tea was thrown over board.
jay Cookies splendid country
seat, "Ogontz," near Philadelphia,
was recently sold at public sale. The
place cost Mr.. Cooke sl,oOO,ooo
In the South seas there is a little
spot ofland called Ysable Isle, divid-
ed among several savage tribes that
are continually at war with each
other.
The Maryland Agricultural Col.
lege is in bad way, with an iadebt-
edness of some $4,000, aud an at.
tendance of only about thirty-fve
pupils.
The l66th anniversary of the
General Association of the Congrega-
tional churches of Connecticut will
be celebrated at Danbury, Conn,
June Is.
There are eight millions of Ger
man-speaking people in the United
States, and they have 800 newspa>
pers and periodicals in their own
language.
Some of the leading business
men of Hartford, Conn, are attempt
ing to start q temperance reform by
agreeing not to employ anybody who
uses liquor to excess.
The South Australia wheat re-
port shows that there will be 100000
tons of surplus wheat. About $1,000
tons have already been exported, and
the balance is ready for shipment.
According to letter from Mos
COW, the union Of all the United
Greeks in Russia with the Orthodox
Church will soon be accomplished.
President Mac Mahon, of France,
has sent a subscription of 100 francs
to the committee formed at Nancy to
make researches into the history of
America before its discovery by CO.
lumbus.
"A movement is on foot to estab-
lish colored colonization society for
the purpose Of organizing parties for
emigration to the bottom lands on
the Colorado river, in the Territory
of Arizona.
The University of North Caro-
lima will be revived this year. A
faculty is to be elected this month,
and the institution will be opened to
students on the first Wednesday in
September.
An attempt is making at Har-
ward to improve the political educa-
tion OF students. A club, to be open
to the whole college, for the discus
sion of political questions, is the
means suggested.
The westward train on the Kan
sas Pacific road, the other day, was
detained two hours by running over
grasshoppers. Sand was used on the
oily rails, and even then portion of
the train was left.
The Chicago Journal says: "Let
the fellows who persist in publishing
the paragraph, commencing with
Chicago has overdone the building
business this last year, come here
and try to rent house"
"A house between Rockville and
Toland, Conn, Is shown as one
where Washington once slept and
was visited by Lafayette, and where
English officers were held prisoners
during the siege Of Yorktown.
Mrs. Lincoln, though insane, will
continue to draw the pension of $3.50
per month from the Government
sympathy and regret, on account of
her sorrowful condition, are being
expressed in all parts of the Union.
A manufacturing company at
Meriden, Conn has been annoyed so
much by injunctions and suits brought
by people who complained of the
noise of their drop-hammers, that
they have decided to leave the place
and locate elsewhere.
"A young lady at Newton, Mass,
who retired, one night last week, in
her usual health, awoke, after several
hours of undisturbed slumber, to dis
cover that he abundant hair had turn.