Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-03-30
HERE, THERE, AND ELSEWHERE.

-Lonoon pays nearly one-third Of
the whole income tax of England
/ Wages are lower in New Eng.
land thanin the West
"A newspaper is to be started in
tae heart of the Black Hills. April |.
The general reports from the
Black Hills are anything but encouf-
aging. 8kg Hsfg
| 1T is estimated that 1877 little
| hatchets C. W's) are on their way
for the Centennial.
They are talking about sending
| Doolittle TO Connecticut, to stump for
the Democrats.
"A Utah miner says it takes q
heap of dirt to make an ounce of
gold in tho Black Hills. Fa
The Government Centennial
Commission intend to ask for $500,
600 more of Congress.
Secretary Bristow weighs about
225 pounds and stands about five
feet and elsven inches in height.
The third Congress of the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church will be
held in Boston next November
The Massachusetts Legislature
has repealed the law allowing cities
to subscribe railroad stocks.
Five States have now totally
abolished the death penalty, viz
Maine, Rhode Island, Michigan, Wis
consin and Iowa.
Statistics provo that the frail,
broken down American woman lives
longer on the average than her
round faced English sister.
Roberts, the ex-President of
Liberia, died at Mourovia on the
10Th of last month, and was buried
with military honors.
Tho Cincinnati Commercial il
quite sure that nine ont Of ten Of ten
of the Republicans of Cincinnati are
for Brstow for the Presidency.
There is little doubt that the
New York delegates to Cincinnati
will be instructed TO vote for r scoe
Conkling for candidate for Presi-
dent.
Reynolds Newspaper, London
publication devoted mainly the abuss
of royalty. declares that the Queens
hogs are better cared for than many
of her subjects.
--Halleck, who stole the S47, 900
package from the cash room in the
Treasury at Washington, about q
year ago, has been sentenced TO four
years Imprisonment.
Recent inventions in machinery
for gathering and preparing dax
will it is thought, make flax culture
in this country much more profitable
than it has been heretofore.
The illegitim ate births registered
in Boston in 1874 were per cent.
of all the recorded births in Suffolk
county the percentage was 2S, in
Paris q per cent, and in London 4
per cent.
The following advertisement
lately appeared in an English news
paper "a piano-forte to be sold,
genuine Broad wood, By lady
about to leave England in q rose
wood case on mohogany castors."
The Surgeon of the Turkish
army recently estimated that the
Turks had lost, by battle and by the
disease incident to war, a total OF
81, 000 men since the beginning of
the Herzegovinian insurrection.
A man fell down a shaft $50 feet
deep at Gold Run, CAL, the other day,
and was washed through the big
tunnel distance of 1000 feet, yet
had life enough left to crawl out up
on the bank, where he was found
dead.
MIR. John Hiestand, Of Chester
county, Pa, though 81 years old, is
able to read without speotacles,
count out money, write his name in
a bold, firm hand, and bids fair to
live many years TO come. He is
a Mennonite.
--Pendleton swore that he did not
give Mrs Belkpap cent of the
money be got out of the Kentucky
railroad "swag,' but spent part of it
travelling in Earope. And Mrs.
Marsh and Mrs. Bowers Travelled
with him.
-Four hundred wind-bound ves-
sells left the River Mersey, England,
the 9Th, inst including 1873 bound to
foreign parts. The spectacle was
unprecedented. The vessels formed
procession, sometimes ten abreast,
which occupied two hours in pass
ing.
AT Dangille, ILL.,, Monday night,
a young gentleman from the country
by the name of William Craig, went
TO bed and blew out the gas. Eight
cen hours afterwards his door was
broken in, and Craig discovered al
mos! lifeless. By the aid Of physi-
clans he was rosuscitated, and will
probably recover.
A telegram from (Napl5s, Italy,
reports that the long expected erup-
ton of Mt Vesuvius commenced
Friday night. Lava is f)wing to-
wards Pompeii A large column of
vapor rises from the basement, and
reflects the fire beneath Vast guam
titles Of lava are thrown upward.
The sight is magnificent.
-" PfeBbyterians, Methodists,
Catholics, and other Christians"
says the Jewish Messenger, scorn-
fully, "have been convicted of MUIR
ders, bot never Jew Until Ra ben
STEM From this it would seem
that denominational "honors' are
about easy now-the last of
church murderers being completed
by Rubenstein.
--ftis now publicalIy announced
that the hardware merchants, John
Nazro l. Co., of Milwaukee. Wis,
failed to meet their terms of exten>
aiop and that fhav have faiIad