Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-02-04

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$500 in slate pencils annually.
Dakota Territory says she will
not pay TO transport articles TO the
Centennial
-The population of Nebraska ia
now 800 600, having doubled in the
last two years.
lion. John Morrisey, of New
York, has opened a club house at
Jacksonville, Fla.
The loss 10 merchants and busi-
ness men OF Marysville, Gal, nv the
recent food, amounts TO S465 CTS.
The great-great-grand son of
Dtti.i De Foe, author Of "Rohirson
Crnsoe, is an idiot in an English
asylum.
Bret Harte is sorry to state that
The report about his having obtained
lucrative Custom House position is
| not true.
Cannon, the Mormon delegate,
has taken bis chair 10 Congress, and,
backed by all the saints" proposes
o b. ii il.
Boston and Brooklyn are both
alarmed about water famine, since
their sources of supply are gradual
iy diminishing.
Some days the waters of the
Seine at Paris are peroepiibly color
ed, owing to the mixture of con-
demned claret.
The English Catholics are earn
estly and quietly pushing their
missions among the negroes of the
Southern States.
Senator Logan and OSlasby are
doing the best they know how to
have branch OF Uncle Sans mint
established in Chicago.
Over 10000 Mennonites have
already their homes with US. and
their immigration to the United
States is on the increase.
1t ia estimated that it costs the
newspapers of New York and Brook.
lyn SO 600 day to publish the de.
tails of the Beecher trial.
During the last month the Uni
ted States Recraiting Agency at
Indianapolis has received about
twenty applications per day.
"A H. Stevens is getting thinner
and smaller every day, aud he never
takes bath without the fear of be-
ing drawn through the waste>pipe.
-Presbyterians of New York are
discussing the question whether it is
not idolltry to sing as religious
hymns the compositions of unin-
spired men.
They are having snow-sldes out
10 Utah which fill up canons fifty
feet deep with snow and rocks, never
needing the houses, men or mules
underneath.
Just &c 10000 cards, in 9,147
packages, were shipped from the
postal card factory iu Springfield,
Mass, during the quarter ending
January |.
Daniel Boone, the old Kentucky
hunter, is represented in the Mus,
ouri legislature by his nephew, Ben-
ton g.. the newly-elected Speaker
of the House.
-Primus wilson killed his wife,
in Liberty county, GA, last week. by
tripping her up and placing his knees
on her. He is 80 years old, and she
but few years his junior.
"A generous Terre Han'e butch
err, in friendly scnffe, cut cash in
in the hand of a companion. To
show his regret he Immediately turn
ed and FLASHED bis own thumb off.
-Snsan e. Dickinson, sister of
Anna has appeared upon the ros-
trum in Pennsylvania this season.
She wi | probably graduate on the
stage, as they all do sooner or later.
A Democr>>ic Justice of the
Peace in Connecticut recently refused
to entertain point made by an Mt
torney, on the ground that it was
not justified By the resolutions Of the
Democratic State Convention.
james Bryce, generous farmer
of Sturgis, Mich, lately donated
100 cords of wood to the needy of
Grassland accompaniment, itleading
the procession OF teams, and playing
"Home, Sweet Home"
MIR. Frank Jones, of Portsmouth,
n. H.. has had his life insured for
100000. This is said to be the
Iarges; life insurance carried by any
individual in New England, except
Charles G. Storrow, of Lawrence,
who is insured for S250,0O0
"A Richmond (Va.) letter says
ex-Confederate officers in that city
are quite stirred up by liberal induce
ments offered them to go to Egypt
to take service under the Khedive,
and a number are likely to go over
and try the service for while.
President Grant will have the
longest period of service at the head
of the nation ever held by any man,
the next Inauguration day falling on
Sunday. thus postponing the entry
of the new President and giving Mr..
Grant third term of one day.
The drouthiness of the present
winter near La Sale, H., is almost
without parallel in that region OF
country. Nearly all the cistcrDs and
many wells in that city are empty,
and the farmers of contiguous lati-
tudes are much perplexed to procure
water for their farm stock.
The grand staircase of the new
Opera House in Paris. though effec-
tive and striking is said to be greatly
overdone. II is litera ly one mass of
gil, bronze, marble and onyx, com
bined with the richest draperies, with
statuary and huge mirrors, and
everything that the most lavish ex-
peuditure and elaborate Ornamental