Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-12-01
Personal Pot POurri.

Alexander II. Stephens is getting fat
He weighs ninety-four pounds.
Mr.. Gladstone's health is restored.
This is important-to Mr.. Gladstone.
Theirs the Kenosha forger was dis
covered and arrested in Chicago last
week
Mrs. Chambers, the "Theodoran of
Disraeli's "Lothair'' died recently in
England.
The Prince of Wales is partial to bay
horses. His royal highness shows great
good sense.
Mrs. j. A. Barber and her daughter
Miss Carrie, of Lancaster, are visiting
at DIR. Eastman's.
Judge Charles Andrews will be APP
pointed to succeed Judge Folger, by
Governor Cornell of New York
J. w. Ostrander, member elect from
Jefferson Co., is being urged for the
speakership of the assembly this winter.
H. Buchner, the gentlemanly clerk of
the county circuit court, with his wife,
is spending Thanksgiving with Mrs.
Bale.
Mrs. Mackey has just rented villa
near Nice at price which will continue
her husbands reputation as an owner
of bonanza mines.
Ex-Gov. c. c. Washburn has returned
from Europe somewhat improved in
health but has placed himself under the
care of Philadelphia physician.
Jay Gould has buught another rail-
road. This time it is the New York and
New England that has succumbed to the
golden blanishments of the great rail-
road sponge.
Miss Helen Taylor, just now the ablest
woman active in English politics, re-
Gently attacked Gladstone as a man
equally ready to support democracy or
despotism if it answers his purpose.
Judge Black, the manager of the
North American Review, and the APP
pleton's are having lovely little TRAN
gular row. So far the Appleton's have
scored the most points by refusing to
publish the Review after January.
DIR. Geo. Mcdonald, of London is en-
gagged in writing new story called
weighed and Wanting" for the Cot
tage Hearth. The first chapter will APP
pear in February number. This is the
only American publication authorized to
issue this story.
Jay Gould's green houses at his sum-
mer residence on the Hudson, which
are now being rebuilt after destruction
by fire, are 372 feet long by 80 wide and
take sixteen men, 250 tons of coal
and five furnaces to keepup the required
temperature.
May Fish, formerly a blonde actress,
has been refused permission to lecture
in Detroit by the virtuous council of that
city. They probably do not remember
the time when with double barrelled
lorgnettes they occupied front seats at
the show. And May claims to have re-
formed to.
Mrs. Christiancy was discovered one
night recently running wildly down
louisiana Avenue, Washington, bare
headed, bare-footed and scantily cloth
ed. The excitement of the divorce trial
in which she occupies so prominent
part had caused mental arrangement,
and it is now expected that she will
have to be confined in an insane asylum,
According to Mr. volk. the sculptor
who took the Lincoln life-mask, pic.
tured in the December Century, Old
Abe had decided preferences as to
preachers. He said
81 don't like to hear cut and dried
sermons. No--when / hear man
preach, like to see him act as if he
were fighting beesr And he extended
his long arms, at the same time suiting
the action TO the Words
The Galena Gazette refers as follows
to one of Grant county's prominent
citizens: Hon. C. Hutchinson, of Bee
town, Wis, was in Galena yesterday, on
his way to Shullsburg, where he had
arranged TO eat Thanksgiving dinner,
at the old family homestead. The gen.
tleman runs an extensive farm in Du-
buque county, Iowa, two stock farms,
two furnaces and a large trout pond in
La Fayette county, Wis. besides being
engaged in several other enterprises.
He is one of the representative men Of
Southern Wisconsin, and commenced
life in 1880 hauling mineral by the load
from Shullsburg to Galena"