Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-10-14
HERE, THERE AND FL SEWHERE.

4 -Iuree oHe-logReu men wave tue
| flag at three Terre Haute (Ind.)
railroad crossings.
| Detroit has tried she experiment
of closing the, saloons on Sunday.
It works well there.
| The national debt was reduced
| in the amount of s3,342,5626l du.
ring the month of September.
| The New London, Owls. Ners
states that venison is plenty in that
market at six cents per pound.
The last surviving child of John
IC. Calhoun, the South Carolina
statesman, died recently 10 that
State.
The hog crop for this year is
estimated at 100000 head, and it
will soon be time to begin sailing 1t
| down.
AT last peaches have been sue.
cessfully exported from New York
to London, where they arrived in
good order.
of the entire population of Lon.
don, 1t is estimated that over one>
fourth. or 100000 of people, never
attend church.
-Californians think that in few
years they will realize more money
from their exports of fruit than from
those of wheat.
-"Mush and milk festivals and
"apple.but parties" are social
events frequently chronicled of late
in Pennsylvania papers.
| Another land excursion to Iowa,
Nebraska, Kansas and the Western
Territories will start on the 18th of
October from GAINESVILLE.
-Hogshesds of squire German Co
logne" are manufactured in Con-
necticut. 1t is sometimes exported
in quantities to Germany.
The Prince of Wales eldest son,
Prince Albert Victor, is a great big
boy, and dances at the court balls
with Queen Victoria, his grand
mother.
Edgar A. Poe's grave at Balti.
more is now crowned with q monu-
ment-plsced there recently by
friends. The rem aims of Poe were
disinterred for rebarial.
The leather dealers are going to
have an Exhibition of their own at
Philadelphia, and have obtained
lot 200 by 800 feet facing the main
Exhibition, for that purpose.
The summit of the White noun
taIns Is deserted by all. save two
Signal Service officers, who remain
to observe, and feel, the cold and
storms of the coming Winter.
The pension claims of LOO
Cherokee Indian soldiers, for service
in the war for the Union, are being
looked up by Government agents in
the Indian Territory, and will be
presented to Congress during the
approaching session.
Rev. Mr.. Mobiles is Portage
| (Wis) Free Methodist preacher,
who is running his business by steam.
He has purchased a steamboat, and
with it travels up and down the
Wisconsin river holding revivals and
blowing the gospel trumpet at every
landing.
"A test was recently made of the
buoyant power of leaf of the wa
ter lily know as the Victoria RegiR,
in the botanic garden at Client.
Bricks were heaped over its entire
area, and before it was submerged
in the water q weight of 76l pounds
was foated.
Chief Justice Waite is at present
holding courtin Lynchburg, Va, and
the Lynchburg Vlrgtn'Gn says that
this is the first time Chief Justice
of the United States Supreme Court
ever presided in that city, and proba-
bly, the first time one was ever in the
in the city.
"A great oil painting, the "Siege
of Paris" which is one thousand
feet long and fifty feet wide, by the
Partisan masters, is now on its way
to this country. 1t will be exhibited
in our principal cities, and fnalIy
} transferred to the Centennial at
Philadelphia.
Professor Tyndall recently said
that the shock from a single Leyden
jar was very unpleasant, but
heavier discharge, such as he once
received from battery of fifteen jars
is painless; he felt nothing, but was
simply extinguished for q sensible
interval of tiEe.
United States Treasurer New
has sent 10 relative in Indiau apolis
what will some day be a curious
relic Of soft money" It consists
of cinder about the size of an
apple, and was formed from the
chemicals in So, 000,O of Treasury
notes which were burned some time
ago.
"A Texas Judge is credited with
the following decision: "The fact is,
Jones, the jail is an old rickety
affair, as cold as an iron wedge.
You applied to this court for release
on bail, giving it as your opinion
that you would freeze to death there.
The weather has not moderated, and
to keep you from freezing l will di-
rect the Sheriff to hang you at 4
O'Clock this afternoon"
Some ofthe people living near East
Rock, the boulder of the crest of the
mountain on the Housatonic river,
opposite Great Darlington, Mass,
which probably weighs fifty tons;
express fear that it may fall and
crush the dwellings below it, 1t ia
600 or 700 feet above the valley,
which it overhangs by two-fiths of
of its weight, and its foundation is
growing weaker every day.