Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-05-24


located at Charleston, S. c.
The second one of the .Cavandish
murderers was hanged Thursday.
S. d. Hastings, Jr., has captured the
wool sack in the fourteenth judicial
circuit.
The ex-army paymasters are having
reunion. For obvious reasons Major
WATSON is not in attendance.
Washington has legal crank who
comes into court-rooms with only bath
ing costume much to the horror of the
.'sisternn of the bar.
Proctor Knott walks off with the
gubernatorial plum in Kentucky Thus
the nominating convention ended in a
single rather than hard knot.
President Grevy of France is serious
ill. AS the French people have terri
BILE aversion to cold gravy, more fav-
orable reports are anxiously awaited.
The Iowa state board of health have
notified the river towns to provide
against smallpox cases being put off
from steamers plying on the Mississippi.
The latest thing in bridal novelties
is the rainbow wedding" Contrary
to natural laws the rainbow in this in
stance comes before instead of after the
storm.
There is a threatened corner in lard
impending. A corner of this kind is
ordinarily too treacherous for the ma
iority and even the makers have to wear
spikes.
The blue fish in the bays of Long Is
land are beginning to run. There is no
reason for them to become thus alarmed,
the President will only go as far as
Brooklyn.
Jay Gould is said to wear "Jim
Crow hat when travelling. If the re-
putation of the wearer is any criterion
an apology would appear to be due
Mr.. Grow.
Thompson, the Kentucky shotgun
artist, has been acquitted of the charge
of murder under which he has been
laboring since his last artistic effort on
one Davis.
The brewers, in convention assembled,
have erected a platform. Considering
the amount of amber fluid resting upon
it the builders should see to it that the
under pinning is substantially put to-
gether.
There yet is hope for the country.
Mississippi Chalmers is about to fight
a duel. A little careful target practice
on the part of his opponent will confer
lively sense of obligation on the
public.
The London Lancet offers disser-
tation on chow colds are taken" AS
no one was ever known to be guilty of
this kind of larceny knowingly there
would appear no need for explanations
on that point.
A New York crank proposes to burn
Queen Victoria in effigy on her birth
day. Eiigies are poor substitutes for
the real article, but they are capable of
expressing the pure cussedness intended
just the same.
Cotton seed oil is largely taking the
place of lard, even for culinary pur-
poses. 1t is now in order for the Ameri-
can hog to show that he is fully alive to
the advance of nineteenth century civil
lization by going on strike.
One of the star route jury succumb-
ed last week to the terrible breeze in
Judge Wylie's court room. If the
court doesn't temper the flow of elo-
quence there is danger that a new
Jury will have to be empanaled and the
trial begun over.
Lydia Pinkham, whose benign coun-
tenance has so often smiled on readers
from the columns of the newspapers,
died recently, at her home in Lynn,
Mass, of paralysis. There appears to
have been one disease which the COM
pound could not cure.
England's neat little scheme for get
ting rid of her paupers has at last eX-
cited the attention of that array of old
J barnacles known as the state department
Still, bets are even whether the last OF
the paupers or q diplomatic note will
, reach their several destinations first.
A Connecticut man who was detect.
ed in the misrepresentation of funds, tc
+ the amount of ten thousand dollars
, went Immediately insane. This dis
tances all continuance lodges. BY the
: time that fortunate fit of insanity is re
! lieved the crime will have been for
J. gotten.
: Another instance of the subtleties o
!, Justice is contained in the acquittal o
= Jere Dunn, the Chicago gambler, VIII,
was on trial in that city for the murde
of Elliot the pugilist. Chicago had ;
hanging four years ago and since tina
! time murderers have had matters mucl