Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-01-20
HERE THERE, AND ELSEWHERE.

-Co6I Is being discovered in about
every county of Kansas.
The rebel General Hill is sorely
troubled with chill-Blaine.
Switzerland possesses 168 cotton
mills, running 2,O5s, $50, spindles.
The belle of Washington on
New Years day was the wife of the
Chinese Minister.
King Kslakaua has acknowl-
edged the receipt of a fine barrel of
whisky from friend in St. Joseph.
Isn't it strange that one of the
healthiest States in the Union should
be named ColoradoP
On Christmas day Green Bay
was as free from ice as In midi
summer
| "A lady wss lately Rugged to
death in Minnesota another "illus-
tration OF the power of the press"
Prince Frederick William saws
that he cannot visit our Centennial.
DaS iSt Sehr schlecht.
The public library of Menomlnee,
has over one hundred books drawn
out every week.
| In Washington they say that
Lees army never took the federal
capital till this winter"
A Marinette man committed sui
cied by stuffng half a pound If
tobacco in his throat. He died happy.
Nine Jurors in panel of twelve
will be permitted to return verdict
accordi ne to the new Constitution of
Texas.
-Randalls Christmas present to
JEFF Davis coat the country good
many dollars, and the arch-rebel
didn't get it, after ALL
Libby Prison, which was once
used for annihilating Union soldiers,
has been converted back into u
tobacco factory and warehouse.
The Chicago 81 Northwestern
road are said TO own more miles of
road than any other corporation in
the world
-Dueling has again broken out in
the South. Why not vaccinate these
fellows with virRs taken from some
healthy 4-year old bull
The Mormons have bought, and
equipped and dispatched from
London, steamer for the use of their
missionaries Oh the coast of Central
America.
Susan B. Anthony says male is
only an incorrect way of spelling
"mule,' Any school boy knows
that if male is "mule," female is
muller
The counsel for Joseph Loeder
ia making preparations for salt
against Henry Ward Beecher claim
ing damages for malicious prose-
cutlon.
The ladies of Richmond treated
their New Years callers to buttor-
milk and several young men largely
increased the number of their calls IN
consequence.
Trying to do business without
advertising is like winking AT a
pretty girl in the dark you may
know what you are doing, but no
body else does.
AL that is known about the
coming President is that be will DO
short man. The proof of this is that,
as coming event, he does not yet
cast his shadow before.
The far-seeing Catholic Church
is educating American coIored young
men at the College of the Propa-
ganda, for work among the colored
people of the South.
The Legislatures OF Massachu-
sets, New York, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Kentucky,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Minnesota
Iowa, and Wisconsin, are now in
session.
Under the labors of Rev. e. p.
Hammond, at Harrisburg, Pa, the
revival continues with increasing sue.
cess. The whole city is moved. and
a dozsn meetings day are held in
different places. Nothing like it was
ever known there.
The new line Of Notifications
around Paris is rapidly approaching
completion. 1t extends over one
hundred miles, and includes many
detached forts as impregnable as
modern military science can make
them.
The Unitarian Church at Peters
boro, N. H., which was originally
orthodox Congregational, will cele-
brate the completion of its 200th
year in February next. Rev. James
Freeman Clarke will deliver the adj
dress. Daniel Webster was q mem~
Der of the parish in his time.
AT Rawlins, w. T., new conner,
went up to one of the young ladies
who were sitting on the gentlemen's
laps, and, inviting her TO dance the
next set with him, was taking her
away, when the pard from whose lap
she bad risen, pointed his revolver at
the new conner and said stranger,
sot her back"
"A Louisville girl was shot in the
foot day or two ago, and the doctors
are now engaged in mining tor the
ball. One of them has worked his
passage into the foot for 30 great
distance that they are obliged to let
his provisions down to hun by
rope.
A New Orleans paper thus dis
courses elf men are the salt OF tue
earth, woman are sugar. Salt is a
necessity, sugar luxury. Vicious
men are the saltpetr9 hard, stern
men the rock salt nice family men
the table salt; pretty girls the fine
pulverized white sugar old maids
are brown sugar; good aatured mat
rons the loaf-sugar and young men
are losfers."
An old negro living in Columbus,