Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-04-15
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

-Smiler Colfax has made $4,000
lecturing this season.
Lancaster county, Pa, had twen-
| ty.three candidates for Sheriff in the
| field.
Tho Green Bay Savings Bank is
now in operation having commenced
business recently.
| Mr.. Lanpher of Milford, CT, 90
years old, ''swore off" chewing to-
bacco, last week.
Andy Johnson has returned to
Tennessee, taking "the Constitution
and the flag" with him.
A man named Bailey dropped
dead while chopping wood near Fond
du Lac on Monday.
The currency of Cuba is getting
to be worth so little that it does not
pay to counterfeit it.
Hon. G. w. Hazelton Is moving
from this State to Washington where
he will open law office.
1t is estimated that Gen. Spin
ner has handled more money than
any other one man in the world.
At the spelling school in Indiana,
polls all the lawyers, editors, clergy
men went down on "ipecacuanha."
The Smithsonian Institute has
eight Alaska mummies taken from a
cave on one Of the Aleatian islands.
Mr. Caperton, the Senator from
West Virginia, is described as look
ing like the pictures of Old Father
Time.
-Newbern, N, c., has a paper call
ca the Mt Shell, and its editor is
very appropriately known as tie
"Colonei."
-"Sweated" double eagles are in
circulation in Nevada, some OF them
having been split and as much rs ST.
substracted.
In Russia a commission is to ex-
anime the expediency of reducing the
number of holidays enjoyed by that
too happy people.
A negro lawyer is gaining an inn
mense reputation at Richmond, Tex
as, having thus far won nearly every
case he has undertaken.
MIR. McCarthy's team ran away
in Fan Claire a few days ago, smash.
ed the cutter and killed his child, an
infant, in its mothers arms.
The condition of Frank ii. Wal
worth, the parricade, who is in tie
Auburn Insane Asylum, is said to be
SO bad that his friends deapair of his
life.
The Rev. Dr. Hatfield, of New
York has offered 800 for the best
home mission hymn sent to No. 40
West thrty-fourth street before next
July.
General Spinner has handled ov-
ar $4,000, 100000 in the fourteen
years Of his official term, and The loss,
IS amount to less than one dollar on
million.
Senator Howe, of Wisconsin, who
bus been quite Ill, at Washington, is
permitted to enjoy the sunny side of
The piazza, and shake hands with his
friends again.
A million dollars worth of silver
has been forwarded from the Pacific
coast to the Philadelphia mint, and
will be coined into scent pieces and
20 cent pieces.
The public debt of France now
stands at Sf,5oo,0oO, 900, and Tie in
crest is over $t65, 100000, being con
tho largoet which is pa,d on
any debt in the world
"A Nebraska youth lately picked
up a common-sizcd clod, took it into
The house, warmed it by The fire, and
b! there were "mllions ia it," Mil
ions Of young grasshoppers.
The Pennsylvania Society for pro-
noting the Abolition If slavery and
he relief Of Free Negroes, viii cele-
orate their centennial anniversary on
he 18th inst, at Philadelphia.
Not less than $50,00O,000 are
said to have been stolen by New
\ ork canal contractors and officials,
brouoh the AGENCY Of the nefarions
;vstem inanonrated in the lettino Of
.ontracfs
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six smalI nuggets Of gold, affirmed,
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BIS ARRIVAL, ana snake ms mana just
as warmly as ne would that OF any
other immigrant
When the Treasury Department