Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-03-22

PUBLISHED AT LANG
The Missouri legislature passed {
high license act recently.
There is happiness in Maine. The
legislature adjourned last week.
An exchange says they dance on g
volcano at Dublin. This is something
new, but plainly must be very warm
work.
In the annual boat race between Ok
ford and Cambridge, on the Thames.
Oxford won by three lengths, taking
the lead from the start.
Rutland, Vermont, has sample
woman town clerk. If the sample
proves satisfactory more of the same
brand will be ordered.
A girl of sixteen has recently married
n man of seventy, in Rhode Island
She is probably looking to a season as
a dashlng young widow
/ Vicksburg can never DE satisfied In
the face of the Mississippi pouring in
angry floods, that city has entered into
a contract for water works.
| The Georgia Republicans have APP
pointed a committee to conduct a cam
paign for governor The faith of those
individuals is beyond comprehension.
Rats have their uses. One was re-
Gently captured in San Francisco that
had diamond in its stomach which
had been lost by the mistress of the
house some time before.
i The Missouri legislature is working
for dollar day. The celebrity with
which work in that Legislature is tran
sacted lsuggests the propriety of plac-
ing other bodies, of similar nature, on
the same per diem.
/ Pat. Grove, the Peoria, H., skir-
misher, would place two hundred men
IN London with petroleum barrels on a
windy night, instead of coquetting with
dynamite. Mr.. Grove will direct their
movements by telegraph.
An Iowa county minister, with an
eye to the main chance, has filed claim
against an estate for five dollars for
preaching funeral sermon. The gen.
tleman is plainly of the opinion that a
good send off is worth its price.
In noting the departure of the Mis-
issippi river commission, an exchange
says "they will do nothing at Cairo"
"or any where else" would have
rounded out the sentence finely and
covered all future contingencies.
| Certain importers are talking of test
ing the constitutionality of the new
tariff laws No doubt these parties
would, on occasion, attempt the expert
ment of seeing what impression their
head would make on a stone wall
Supervising Architect Hill is marked
for the tender mercies of an investigat-
ing committee before whom he will re-
late his story of how government build
ings are erected. This is an unheal thy
time of the year for government officials.
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Mr.. Brady thinks Rerdell is "a crea-
ture of low degree" The Star-router
should have furnished his standard of
measurement, when an anxious public
would have had chance to better size
up the position which Mr.. Rerdell really
holds.
Brady has been put on the witness
stand and denies everything. In his
position Mr.. Brady could hardly do less
but he will have hard time convinc-
ing q waiting public that he had not
out-lived the years of kittenhood when
the star-route frauds were being perpe-
TT ated.
Tennessee has a legislator who would
make the heart of Oscar Wilde turn
green with envy. This dear creature
apes femininity in the dressing of his
hair even to bangs and hair pins, which
5 hold the curling locks that would fall
to the waist if uncoralled. He is just
3 too nice to live.
Ben. Butler is in hot water once more
He has been to Washington to argue in
defense of illicit distilleries and now
the Bay State commonwealth is all
broken up in consequence. Ben as a
! governor is as bad as fourth of July
toy snake. There is no telling where
he will 60 next.
On the occasion of the marriage Of
J his son to the step daughter of the late
c Chas. r. Thorne, Jr., by Mayor Edison,
of New York, George Francis Train
a sent the latter a bouquet and an origin.
al poem. Considering the day it seems
: as if George Francis might have post.
D poned this unusual punishment.
A Mr.. Crawford and the dowager
duchess of Montrose have made "mu-
tual Wills" by which the survivor
receives the property of the other
Hardly any one would refuse to make q
n mutual will'' with dowager duchess,
b but as the crop is short we are afraid
! Mr.. Crawford has corner on the deal.
President Arthur must learn to be
more careful than to leave Frank Hat
. ten cooling his heels in the ante room
at cabinet meetings. The first thing he
knows Mr.. Hatton's paper will have the
administration down and be walking
all over it. Men of Importance sell
!. Importance, are dangerous articles t.
trifle with.
: Came from Green County.
: The Monroe Sentinel states that the