Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-05-18
HERE THERE, AND ELSEWHERE.


of The 100000 people in Mexi.
co more than 100000 are non pro-
ducers.
Communication with Europe by
the Anglo-American cable is again
; restored.
| Georgia now claims to hold the
political place in the South once oc-
cupied by Virginia.
| The estimated income of the
parochial clergy of England and
Wales is SIS 00O, 900.
Twenty thousand i've hundred
and sixty-four more males than fe.
males in Philadelphia.
AN oil pipe from the Pennsyl.
vania petroleum fields direct to New
York city is talked of.
The largest insurance policy In
New England is for $4,000, 600, on
the Central Vermont Railroad pro.
perty.
"A new counterfeit FIVE dollar note
on the FIRST National Bank of North
ampton Mass, has just appeared in
circulation.
The Eve cent nickles cost the
Government only half q cent each.
That is making money. Let's stop
taking them.
The growing of wheat in India
for expectation promises to become
quite an important factor in ruling the
price of that staple.
The Titusville Herald says the
production of petroleum this year will
probably fall short 100000 barrels
of the actual demand of the trade
The young ladies of La Grange
(Ga.) Female College have unani-
mously resolved to wear dresses of
calico at their next commencement.
Gov. Smith, of Georgia, has spent
$1,000 more than his salary during
his term of Office in defraying the ex-
penses of official duties and courtesies.
Men who never had q whols dol
lar in change in their lives are now
beginning to complain that silver
specie is too bulky for practical uses.
The Russian Government has in
contemplation railroad through Gen.
trail Asia 1000 miles in length, the
estimated cost OF which is 5000, 000,.
600.
A conscience stricken woman
has returned $500 to the Hartford
and New York Steamboat Company,
which, she says, rightly belongs to
them.
An aerolite, weighing nearly
ton, is being brought from chihuahua,
Mexico, to be exhibited among the
curiosities at the Philadelphia Exhi-
bition.
Steel shells, the latest improve.
ment in ordnance, weighing LOO
pounds each, have been sent from
Governors Island to the Centennial
Exhibition.
When Fitzpatrick was in Wash
ington the other day, he said that
his lecture receipts had nearly doubled
since Hill and Blaine brought up the
treatment of Union soldiers question
in the House.
-Advices concerning the Turkish
insurrection continue to conflict. At
| last accounts both The Turkish f1rUos
and the insurgents were claiming the
same victory.
"A very wonderful folding ma
chine is now at work in the London
Times office, which folds the paper
iuto four folds at the rate OF 5000 TO
1000 per hour.
"A number of Cinnamon in Solano
county, California, have acquired pose
session of about 10000 acres of land
and are going. into farming on the
coolie principle.
"A bricklayer recently died IL
London who was found to have the
heaviest brain on record, it weighed
sixty-fve ounces. The man could
neither read nor write.
"A young lady In Somerset coun-
ty, n. j., who took chloroform before
submitting to a surgical operation
two weeks ago, has ever since been
blind, deaf and dumb.
There is a rumor that Jay Gould
has at last got the "bulge" on the
great Chicago 81 Northwestern rail
road, and that as consequence an
entire change of management will take
place in short time.
Over sixty Indian agencies
which have made their annual report
to the Board of Indian Commission
ers, twenty-ssven have military forces
within their reservations.
1t is proposed to re-establish the
whipping post in North Carolina, for
the purpose of relieving the Peniten-
tiary, which is now becoming 80 full
as to make its support burden to tho
State.
| Seventeen Wisconsin men, who
rode to the Black Hills from choice,
and are now walking home for the
same reason, probably, were booked
at a st. ll'police station for lodg-
ings one night recently. :" 80 -
"A canned-meat panic is imminent
at Boston. Two or three cases OF
poisoning have lately happened from
eating this kind of food; the last a
pretty serious one, and there is
growing lack of confidence in it.
The consumption of eggs in the
manufacture of calico is almost in
credible. No albumen is equal TO
that contained in an egg-and it con-
sumes the lay of 800, 900 hens to sup
ply one of the large calico manufac-
torres in France.
The investigation OF the acts of
the late great and good Democrat,
ex- Governor Taylor, is developing
the beauties OF reform Democratic
administration in way that must
make the people weep that they have
not had more of it.
Secretary Taft is the latest Presi-