Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-11
HERE, THERE AND ELSEWHERE.

oeen devonred at Berlin by one OF
bis own lions.
"A church at Windsor Locks,
Conn.,, has adopted as doctrine o
mixture of Roman Catholic and Ad-
ventist beliefs.
1T is said that Charles Sprague.
the banker poet who recently died
in Boston, bad only been on q rail-
road train once in bis life.
In New York, recently, William
Walsh was awarded So 500 damages
for Injuries received from snow tLll.
ing from the roof of house.
"A Newburyport (Mass.) young
man has just sold for $4,000 a patch
OF land that cost him but $500 q few
years ago. Cause, the siIver-mine
mania.
--Abuer Sheldon, of New Hamp-
shire, has discovered his long-lost
brother, formerly of the same CITY.
living like wild man in q cave near
Dingman's Ferry, Pa.
Lewis Hermanson, well known
on the frontier as an Indian inter-
prefer, was found dead in the street
at Springfield, d. T. The circum-
stances indicate case of suicide.
The Praying Women's Temper
snce Union of Worcester furnishes
the firemen of that city with hot
coffee at every fire, the aim being to
forestall the demand for Intoxicating
beverages.
William Hewitt, the English
Quaker author, is now 50 years of
age, yet be is well and vigorous, and
walks daily from his home ia Rome
TO the Pinoian Hill and back again,
a considerable distance.
1t took twenty full-grown Sara
toga trunks to transport the trous-
seau of Senator Jones' bride from
San Francisco to Washington, and
yet who believes that she does not
complain of "nothing to wear 2"
The French committee on the
liquidation of Napoleon Ills civil
lat proposes to give his heirs 4,0O0,.
900, the State retaining the mu-
seums of Pierrefonds and Fontain-
bleau, and the pictures and work of
art.
1t is estimated that in the hills
of Columbia county, New York,
there is supply of at least 90 000,-
900 tons of iron, which could be
mined and delivered in boats on the
Hudson river at the cost of not over
81 ton.
There is q man in Chicago
hospital, victim of railroad acct.
dent, whose head is alive, but his
entire body seems to be dead.
Knives have been stuck into his
body, but they produce no effsct
upon him whatever.
Sir Henry Elliot. the British
Ambassador of Constantinople. has
lodged comrl lint with the Porte
protesting against the increasing
slave trade which is being carried
on in various parts of the Ottoman
Empire in Africa.
Two great hotels, the United
States at Saratoga aud the Pacific at
Chicago, have gone into bankruptcy.
Both have done a profitable busi-
ness, but complications arising out
of debts contracted in their construc-
ton have proved disastrous.
Estimating ice to be worth half
cent q pound, or ten dollars q ton,
the ice crop OF 1000 900 tons just
harvested on the Hudson is more
valuable by two million dollars than
either the wheat or the corn crop OF
the entire State of New York.
Under the conditions that the
United States will embrace the
Catholic faith, adopt moDarchial
form of Government, pay a billion in
gold and indemnity for the Virgin
luz, .AIphonso will cede to us the
island of Cuba-provided, however,
that we will take it away as soon as
purchased.
One Of the gardeners at Old
Montrose, in Scotland, had female
fox In his possession for eight or
nine months. 1t was secured by
chain and strong leather collar. The
animal disappeared the other night,
and it was discovered that q dog-fox
had got over the garden wall, gnaw-
ed through the collar, and carried
off his mate in triumph.
"A very important discovery has
been made on the Esquiline Hill,
Rome, consisting of seven statutes
in fine preservation. There IS o re-
markable bust of Commodus, several
heads and many other fragments.
AL of these have been found in one
room not entirely eycaVated as yet.
There are indications of the pres
eDce of other objects.
"A New London paper points to
the fact that, "wEile people are
crossing over from Brooklyn to New
York on the ice by scores and huns
dreds, while the Delaware is frozen
from the capes to Philadelphia, the
hsrbor of New London is as free
from ice today as summer sea-"
as an "unanswerable argument in
favor of the Thames as a great navy
yard"
An American, who has been
travelling at night on q Mexican
railroad, says be was astonished at
the amount of cock~crowing along
the line about the hour of day break.
His first impression was that the
tram must be passing through end
less rows of roosters, but he discover
ed at last that every other Mexican
on the cars had game-cock under
bis serape.
The "wickedest man in the
world" has been found. His name
is WeIker, of Fremont, Ohio. He
went West, and swindled his partner
10 Toledo out of all the goods he had
taken with him to sell be deserted
his wife, who has a young baby;