Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1876-05-25
HERE, THERE, AND ELSEWHERE.

| tntS year until september.
A Salt Lake City paper asserts
that the recent gunpowder explosion
caused 100 premature births.
There arc thirteen bridges and
one hundred steamboat landings be.
tween St. Louis and ST. Paul.
The sixty-five hotels of Philadel.
phia have accommodations for 81, Ss5
guests The rates are from 81 to
So day.
The Supreme Court of Massa.
ohusetts has decided in q test case
that the ten-hour law OF that State
is constitutional.
| st. Louis is threatened by flood
in the Mississippi not equaled since
ls62. Portions Of the city are com.
pletely submerged.
JEFF Davis has sailed for Europe.
And now if the great Atlantic will
but do its duty, the world will be
well rid of the arch fend.
Thus far the United States
Treasury Department has paid out, in
exchange for fractional currency, S4,-
500, 900 in the new silver coin.
The Louisville Comier-Jomnal
has printed extracts from fifteen
democratic newspapers at the south
that are satisfied Mr. Tilden is the
man.
w. f. Cody, "Buffalo Bill" de.
MES the story that he recently shot a
Sheriff in Texas. He says that the
blood of no white man is upon his
hands.
a great physical change has
come over Brigham Young within
the past few weeks, aud the doctor
thinks that he cannot live much
longer.
The criminal trial of General
Belknap in the courts at Washington
will probably Q postponed until fall
on account OF the pressure of court
! business.
Mr. Moody says that the question
of woman preaching is complicated
point. But he says: 81 don't care
about my wife going around and
preaching"
Church choirs in Bro, klyn have
been costing from $1,000 to $1,000
per year Thore is a disposition be-
ing manifested not to pay such prices
in the future.
The Emperor OF Brazil gives thir-
ty minutes to his dinner, and insists
that everything shall be placed upon
the table at once, instead of being
served in courses.
Fat men, and people with tight
boots, will be gratiied to learn that
there are only thirty-eight miles of
walking required to obtain full view
of the Centennial.
Thousands of pounds Of old bull
let's and pieces of battered lead have
been picked up from tho old battle
folds around Marietta, Ga, and taken
TO that town for sale and shipment.
A eminent physician says
cone of the cheapest and most ettic-
lent chest protectors, when unex-
pectedly exposed TO cold, raw winds,
is filled newspaper inside tho
vest."
The Saltwater NeOS says: "rhe
ponto9n is almost ready for financial
business. 1t swings correctly, and
quickly, and all that now remains is.
to adjust the two approaches at the
ends"
-"Ono good turn deserves anoth-
err" rs his mother said to the boy
who turned a SO nersault in the front
parlor, when she grabbed him, bent
him over her knee and piled her
slipper.
Five dollar notes of the Mer-
chants National Bank of New Bed
ford, and of the First National Bank
of Northampton have been so skiIlful-
ly counterfeited that even experts
may be deceived.
"A Yonkers girl who refused to
marry respectable young man be.
cause he was a mechanic, is now the
wife Of janitor in New York, and
cleans out eight offices after four
a'clock in the afternoon.
This pigeon shooting business is
a growing one. The Livingston, On.
Y.) Sportsmen's Association alono
has contracted with q Michigan par
ty for 10000 live birds, to be delv-
cred by the 18th instant.
From official returns, it is found
the hotels and boarding houses of
Philadelphia were not by any means
fillod by the rush of the opening day,
and it is believed they will afford
ample accommodations this Summer.
-Pickpockets reaped harvest on
the opening day of the Exposition at
Philadelphia. Among the victims is
Rev. A. McKeown, OF Boston, who
lost the valuable gold watch and
chain given him by his congregation.
Now is the time when the Office
seekers throughout the land begin to
prick up their ears, put their fingers
into honest mems button-holes, talk
with their friends in whispers, and
twist their eyes askow, like General
Butler.
"A new cap has been adopted for
the officers of the navy. 1t is of ex-
traordinary shape, and resembles the
Scotch bonnet or Glengary cap with
cape and eyelet holes behind, differ
ing from it only in being of regula-
ton blue cloth.
-Unless the Centennial reStdurd-
tours at Philadelphia modify their
prices, lunch baskets will become
universa ly popular. One don't like
to psy thirty cents for a plate OF
soup, and ten cents more for having
ii brought TO him.
An old lady, over hundred
years old, came into Troy the other
day, and skipped playfally around
tbrou0h tho mtlliner shODs examin-