Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-06-24
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

This CThursday, June 2G is the
one hundred and twenty-second day
of the Tilton-Beecher trial.
Japanese law requires that when
person cuts down tree he shall at
once plant another in its place.
The New York Graphic is accus-
ed of printing cut of Harriet Beecher
Stowe, and calling 1t Red Cloud.
1t is l, 900 years this year since
the first naval victory of the English
was gained by Alfred over the Danes.
I'm word" say the Texas
papers, "there is a promise of year
of plenty such as has never been Wit
messed"
Rev VIM. Arnott, the eminent
author and divine, died on the Sd in
slant, at his residence in Edinburg,
Scotland.
For the first time in the annals of
the judicial history of Montana, a man
has been found guilty of murder in
the first degree.
The average Chicago boy would
rather chase a ball for White Stock.
ing than be presented with scholar.
ship in Yale College.
The salary of the Postmaster of
Magnolia Cape Ann, is $40 per
annum; including the carrying of the
mail to and from Manchester, daily.
The old engine-house at Ifarper's
Ferry, in which John Brown and his
party were stormed ana captured, is
now used by an undertaken as a hearse
house.
The Salt Lake Mining Gd>ette esti-
mates the gold and silver production
of the States and Territories during
the past twenty six years at $780,.
$50, 4S5.
The Colored Masons of Boston
are much rejoiced over the recogni-
ton extended to them by the conven-
ton Of Grand Lodges recently held in
Germany.
1t looks very much as if Great
Britain was drifting into a financial
crisis. Heavy failures in commercial
and manufacturing circles are becom-
ing frequent.
Considerable damage has been
done to crops and other property in
Missouri and Southern Illinois by
series Of severe storms of wind, light
ming, rain and hail.
The Ottoman Government, in
view of a diminishing supply of
horses, has issued peremptory edict
that henceforth no Arab horses shall
be exported from the producing PROV
inces.
The faculty of Yale have ordered
the Sophomore societies to suspend
all proceedings in the initiation of new
members until further notice. 1t is
thought that the societies will be dis
banded
The library of Congress at Wash
ington has a copy of the first book
ever printed in the United States. II
is Eliot's account of his Iabors among
the Indians, a thin volume Of twenty
pages, dated 1860
A letter from Acapulco, Mexico,
reports that at Morelia a woman died
lately at the age of 1872 years, being
attended at her funeral by over 200
of her nearest relations, among whom
were two sons Of 90 and 100 years.
"A New York paper says a trip to
Europe has become so cheap as to be
plebeian, and people of superior clay
arc beginning to hesitate about the
propriety of going there. They can
fall back with confidence upon Mag
ara Falls.
The Walnut Valley (Kan) Times
says that "23, $50, ,745, 99S, 574,-
$40, 984,4 3G 275 grasshoppers passed
over Butler county last week, on their
journey North and East. A few
camped over night, and left their sick
behind"
The Rochester Board Of Educa-
ton, by vote of II to 2,on motion of
Commissioner Michaels, a prominent
Israelite, has adopted a resolution
prohibiting all religious exercises of
whatever nature in the public schools
of that city.
In 1920 the average individual
consumption of wine in France was
81 quarts in 1865, 81 quarts, and in
1869, 100 quarts. In Paris the aver.
age has more than doubled; each
Partisan drinks on an average 217
quarts Of wine annually.
Judge Williams, of the Circuit
Court of Cook county, H., has fined
the whole common council of Chicago
800 apiece, and six Of their lawyers
$500 each, for disobeying the injunc-
ton against canvassing the vote on
the adoption Of the charter.
An adventurous pronant in Lon
don has expressed his intention of liv-
inS for week in balloon. 1t will
be captive, but the ropes which con-
fine it are to be unusually strong, and
his aerial home is to be moored at
good height above the earth.
The Viceroy Of Egypt is about
to astonish the world again. lie has
resolved to build a railroad along the
valley to the Nile, in the interior of
Africa, and as he has plenty of money
and thousands of serfs at his COM
mand, he will no doubt accomplish
his purpose.
jonathan Clifford, a Vermont
veteran of the war of 1912, contrib
utes to the Centennial curiosities in
Boston powder-horn Of antique pat
tern, which has smelled the smoke of
three American wars-the French
and Indian, the Revolution, and the
War of 1912.
The gold of California was MOTTO
ed by early Spanish explorers, and
was again discovered on the Colorado
river, just century since, in l775,