Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-06-17
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

nllls suHerers at Sioux City.
The Hebrews of Baltimore are
aboutto erect a $4,000 orphan asy-
lum.
Il La Crosse hasn't had big oele.
bration on the Fourth of July in sew
eral years.
The American residents of Ber-
lin, Germany, gave Carl Schurz a
banquet last week.
| A good many people with the
Black Hills fever have got well since
Red Cloud started back home.
The wheat prospects in the coun-
try tributary to Memphis are said TO
be the most promising since 1860.
| Mrs. Myra Bradwell of the Leqd
NetOS, has been elected Vice Presi-
dent of the Illinois Press Association,
-"Red Cloud" means war cloud
a thing which seems to be rapidly
rising over the horizon of Indian at.
fairs.
The German Government re-
serves the right to hold another in.
quiry in reference to the Schiller dis
aster.
The corporation of Dublin petit.
tons Parliament to prohibit the sale
of intoxicating liquor on Sunday in
Ireland.
The Pope intends to create three
new cardinals on the oath of June,
and every archbishop hopes he may
live to do it.
Rev. VIM. Johnson, a Brooklyn
colored divine, has sued the principal
of grammer school for refusing adj
mission to his son.
"A colt with FIVE legs and no eyes
was born in Portage county last
week, and the owner killed it, instead
of sending it to Barnum.
London market gardeners pay
5000 per acre, yearly rent for the land
they cultivate, and their average
profits are $500 per acre.
1t is not an infrequent experience
of churches in New York, in these
times, to be obliged to sell out for
debt. This was the fate of two last
week.
"A man named Otis, living in
Dekora, Columbus county, aged SO or
SO years, and in good heslth, has had
a complete third set of natural teeth
come in.
George CLARK, criminal convict
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nent member of a church, Masonic
body, an Odd Fellows lodge and
temperance society.
The Bowdoin College class of
rs, in which were Longfellow, Alb
bolt, Hawthorne and others who have
gained note, will hold semi.centen.
NAL reunion on July 8.
Bennett, of the New York Her
aid. appears to have gone to Europe
to buy dogs, as he is announced to
return with four pointers, at an ex-
pense of $4,000 apiece.
The merchants OF Philadelphia
have decided to send the lst regiment
of Pennsylvania infantry to the Bun
ken Hill centennial, that Philadelphia
may be well represented there.
The potato-bug has frightened
Europe, and Russia has now joined
Germany, England, Belgium and
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The New York Commercial Adj
vertser hits the man that furnishes
its editors rations thus: an straw>
berry short cake it isn't the cake
that's short, it's the Strawberries"
More Americans than foreigners
were committed to the city prison of
Boston during the month of May,
which has never occurred before
since the establishment of the prison.
Sergeant Bates may be great
flag-carrier, but it is suggested that
If he really wants to be noticed, he
try carrying the Pope's flag through
Germany and past Blsmarck's house.
The general news from Nebraska,
Kansas and Missouri is to the effect
that "the grasshoppers have taken
unto themselves wings and are flying
away" to the great relief and JOY of
the people.
"A gentleman of Atlanta, Ga,
learning that the widow of Stonewall
Jackson is living at Charlotte, n. c.,
in straitened circumstances, has offer
ed to give her an interest in a pros.
porous cotton factory.
1t isn't often that any ordinary
person accumulates board bill of
100000, but a San Francisco man has
brought suit for this amount for
boarding the wife of a relative from
March, l849, to July, 1852.
On Tuesday last, Father Boehm,
a Methodist preacher of olden times,
celebrated the centennial anniversary
Of his existence, at Jersey City, N. J.
The whole Newark Conference joined
in the exercises of the occasion.
-Two-thirds of the American
manufacturers of knit goods have
agreed to a general suspenion of bust
ness for the next two months, and it
is said that over four fifths of the
number will ultimately fall in with
the arrangement.
of $50 bodies exhibited at the
Paris Morgue in 1872, 555 bodies were
French persons. In 1873 there were
5O7 bodies, of which 400 were French.
There were no Americans. They can
find other amusement in Paris than
jumping into the river.
New York is given to thinking
that there can little of merit come
out of what it is pleased to term
provincial towns; but some Of the
''country" bands of music at the Ma
sonic ceremonies fairly surpassed the
noted bands of the metropolis,