Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-06-07
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Burlington, Iowa, celebrated its semi
centennial last Thursday.
The Iowa Congregational Association
was in session at Dubuque last week.
Mr.. Watterson asks what is the Demo-
cratic party here for except to reform
the tariff Why to get offices to be sure.
.Tourgineff, the great Russian novelist
is hopelessly insane. So much for hav-
ing to wrestle with barbarous tongue.
Mullet once more comes to the front
in the Hill investigation. Mullet will
be remembered as the man of magnifi-
cent failures.
The first National Free Trade Con-
ference was held in Detroit last week.
The conference made up in wind what
it lacked in numbers.
4 Hanlan won the five thousand dollar
rowing match at Point of Pines, with
Kennedy in the rafting time of nineteen
minutes and four seconds.
. Commissioner Evans has been in
stalled in his Office and the government
tai chariot has once more full set of
spokes to its official wheels.
| 10 he 10, ,,.t
of Claims doesn't understand its bust
ness. The Courts opinion of Mr.. Chan
: dler is yet to be expressed.
The negotiations between Germany
and the Vatican have failed entirely,
and the ecclesiastical fur will continue
E to be borne upon the breeze.
Their high nobs, the board of over
seers of Harvard university, refused by
vote of eleven to fifteen, to confer the
honorary title of LII. ID. on Ben Butler.
The Mexicans are said to be in the
I field. But as the Apaches are in the
+ mountains. the aborigines would appear
to have rather the best of the situation.
Gen. G. p. Buell., first cousin to Don
L Carlos Buell., died recently in Nashville,
Tenn, from the effects of an operation
performed ON his jaw which had been
broken by a fall from an Indian pony.
The Bay View Iron Mills, at Milwau-
1t kee, closed last week, locking out eleven
y hundred men. Low prices for the man.
4 ufactured article and high demands by
the workmen are the moving causes.
An Illinois State Senator was recently
to lnsulted by Mike Mcdonald. the Chicago
a gambler The Senator was wise enough
to take hint from the Jere Dunn trial
and exercise discretion in his replies
In 1862 five women inaugurated the
ceremony Of decorating soldiers graves,
at Arlington cemetery. OF these, two
y were present at the ceremonies in Des
Of Moines on last decoration day.
I congressman NuutSH las hiua1iN tOfue
down to business and Supervising Archi-
10 tect Hill is now squirming on the grid
in iron seven times heated which the
Maine man has prepared.
: The Nursery and Little Ones for June,
d. brings hosts of good things to the wee
mt folks, stories which they can understand
~ and pictures they can appreciate: Rus
or sell & Co., Boston.
The Rev. 10. Cook allows his secretary
n. to absorb the trash of the newspapers.
;. What delightful way this is for the
I'd Rev. Joseph to escape perusal of his
" own discourses.
1t took five pints of whiskey to kin 8
= Cincinnati man. Porkopolis is deteri
Grating. the time was when FIVE pints
wouldn't faze son of the modern
Athens.
in The late illness of JEFF Davis was
he caused by drinking water from well
be be in his house. This is not the first in.
Of stance where similar dangers have
. arisen from iadulging in strange
! drinks.