Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-07-29
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of $4,000.
The Importation of breech load
ing rifles and ammunition into Alaska
has been prohibited.
Marriage at the reyolver's mouth
is not valid. So the New York SUI
prone Court decides.
Samuel p. Taylor, the oldest or
ganist in this country, died in Brook.
lyn recently, aged 90.
Cambridge (O.) saloons, are by
ordinance, compelled to close up
every evening at $50 o'clock.
Welsh singers to the number of
100 are being picked ont TO sing at
the great Centennial next year.
lightning is said to have made
deaf a number of horses in stable in
Lancaster, Pa, one night lately.
Mrs. 4. L. Stewart is about the
most elegantly-dressed lady at Sara
toga, her dresses being all imported
In Baltimore there is an alarming
prevalence of diseases amongst chill
dreu, and of malarial fevers amongst
adults.
-Tweed's lawyers have already
bled him to the amount of $4,000
and they have scarcely begun with
him vet.
At laundry near Jersey City,
5000 pieces are washed daily, and
100 barrels of soap are used per week.
big washing"
Yes, they do believe in England
that Americans are trained up on fire.
arms from infancy And it is about
SO.
The rebel General Longstreet
complains that his Confederate as.
sslants are charging him with having
purpossly lost the battle of Gettys-
burg.
A project is on foot to erect a
mammoth hotel in Reading, Pa, for
the accommodation of visitors to the
Centennial. If built, it will be the
headquarters of the German visitors
Mr. Beechcr has made contract
with a Western agent to deliver four
teen lectures at various points in the
West during the coming season. His
price is $500 a night and expenses.
Many young British naval officers
who have served from six to nine
years at sea are being dismissed the
service, as they fail to reach "a new
standard of theoretical knowledge"
An immense amount of ivory is
daily consumed in the workshops Of
Europe and the country. Africa fur
nishes seven-eights of all that is
worked up by the artisans OF various
nations.
The thorny cactus, heretofore
worthless, IS about to become thing
of much value. 1t has been ascer-
tanned by experiment that its pulp is
especially adapted for the manufacture
of paper.
The bone of contention at Gal
weston, Texas, is whale-bone. They
are quarreling over who shall have a
large whale which drifted in that har-
Dor and was killed by a legion of
wharf-men.
There are still standing in Read
ing, Pa, part of the walls of jew
ish synagogue built century and a
half ago. There wero a great many
German Jews among the early settlers
Of that section.
A Berks county Pa.) boy has lost
one of his eyes lately in a singular
manner. He was engaged in picking
potatoe bugs, when one of them flew
into his eye, binding him, despite
the best medical aid.
A fox recently found in the Maine
woods, caught and entangled in a trap
set last fall, had within reach Of him
thirty.four full-grown field mice,
which must have been caught and
furnished him for food by other foxes.
The Mormons have established a
colony and branch of their church at
Clarksburg, w. Va. They have also
a weekly newspaper. The number of
the Mormons in West Virginia is
said to be considerable and increas-
ing.
The consumption Of snais in the
South Tyrol is constantly growing;
but the Italians and TyroIcse are not
the only people who appreciate the
merits Of these clean-feeding molusk;
in Paris Burgundian snails are worth
cont ap loco
The St. Regis tribe Of Indians,
living on the borders between Frank
lin county, N. Y, and the Canada
line, are increasing in numbers, the
census showing them to have nearly
doubled since the last enumeration
ten years ago
"A market for the sale of old
clothes was opened the other day in
Glasgow by municipal authorities.
The market is the largest Of the kind
in Great Britain. The rent is f2,0 900
and the receipts amount to $1,000 per
annum. The trade is chiefly in the
hands of the Irish people.
"A man was recently discharged
from the Berks county pa J prison,
where he has been serving a term Of
thirty days for vagrancy, who is only
thirty-eight years Of age, and has
been in twenty-seven different iails,
spending twenty-five years of his life
in them and learned five trades.
One Of the greatest curosities in
Japan to the stranger is the wonder
full variety of coins that are used
daily. In some instances it takes
1000 pieces to make 81. These arc
called "cash," and are seldom re-
ceived by foreigners, who, as gon-
eral rule, refuse to take them in
change
Peter Coffee, the venerable pilot,
who ran the Nassau, the first ferry