Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-06-25
News Paragraphs,

News Paragraphs.
The contract for dead horses in the Federal
army has just been let for $4,000.
The Count de Paris was married to Isabella
of Spain, at Kingston, on 30th ult.
New Jersey expects to raise more peaches
this year than ever before.
Louis Napoleon wants his cousin, Cardinal
Bonaparte, to be Pope when Plus TX dies.
California sends $4,000 in gold to the
Christian Commission.
The International Hotel at Niagara Falls
has been sold for $4,000.
The daily attendance upon the Philadelphia
Sanitary Fair averages about 10000.
The senior class of Illinois College having
enlisted as hundred-day men, the commence
ment exercises are necessarily omitted.
The graduating class at West Point, this
year, entered with ninety-six members, and
graduates with twentv-seven, the result of
rigid wedding out"
The R,Tdl New Yorker advises the women
to wet the broom often when sweeping car
pet, so as to keep down the dust. Don't you
do it. Two or three such sweepings will
fade carpet more than year of sunshine.
The Albany argus announces that Cover
nor Seymour "desires, above all things, to
seek, at the close of his arduous administra-
ton, the repose of private life" "No objec-
ton being raised, the motion is carried"
Among the Royal collections at Windsor
map has been discovered, which has on it
the earliest known instance Of the word
America. 1t is a mappemOade, or map of
the world, by Leonardo da Vinci.
special to the Post says Mr.. Chase urges
amendments to the tax bill which will add
largely to the revenue. He is known to favor
tax of 81 on whiskey and 10 per cent. on
incomes 4A
The Memorial Diplonaati9ue says the proba-
BILE result of negotiations will be that Hol-
stein and southern Schleswig will be de-
tached from Denmark and united to Ger
many, and northern Schleswig incorporated
perpetually with Denmark.
One of the most extraordinary sensations
is ballet-dancer (male) with one leg only,
who is nightly bringing the house down
at the Josefstadter Theatre, in Vienna. The
phenomenon's name is Donate, and Italy is
his native place.
The Commercials special says the Circuit
Cour: has given final decision to the effect
that bankers are not obliged to pay out spe-
Gle when specie has been deposited, even for
deposits made prior to the law of June 18th,
1862.
A discovery has been made in the art of
ice-making by a Londoner, which has been
put into patent, and will soon figure as a
company. The inventor will out-sell nature,
his artificial ice being so cheap that it will be
less costly to make than to lay in store in
winter.
The HeralFS correspondent says Sherman's
losses have amounted to 10000 wounded,
all of whom have been taken to Nashville and
Louisville. The numerical strength of the
army has not been reduced, but has increased
from the time it left Chattanooga, and it is
believed he is many thousand stronger now
than at Resaca.
The daughter of wealthy Fifth Avenue
man in New York, 20 years old and pretty
eloped with young man of rather weak in
tellect and only seventeen, last week. She
insisted on having the matter done up by
| elopement, and the swain consented. But he
| is in trouble now, as he cannot support him
SELF much less his wife, whose angry pate,
| fanailiaS don't give her cent
| A special to the Tribune says: 1t appears
that it was Gen. Wadsworths intention, al
| the close of the war, to pay over sum o.
money equal in amount to that he received
| from the Government to some permanent in
stitution founded for the relief of disabled
soldiers "This," he said, "is the least in
vidious way in which l can refund pay fol
| fighting for my country in her hour of dark
| ness"
The 13Qth Ohio, one hundred day troops
having in its ranks lawyers, clergymen and
others of the best men in the State, on Sat
urday voted unanimously to go to the front
They then marched to the White House and
had an interview with the President, who
addressed them, and thanking them for their
prompt response said, "Wherever you go
know you will do your best"
The Posts Baltimore correspondent say:
the Blairs have been beaten in getting up the
electoral ticket. The electoral convention
had one majority anti-Blair and admitted the
anti-Blair contested delegation, thus securing
| an anti Blair Lincoln electoral ticket Mean
time the Fremont men are moving, and viii
put tFeir electoral ticket in the field at the
proper time. The free constitutional con-
vention has got through the whole forty-twC
articles of the bill of rights, having the par
amount allegiance and abolition of slavery
articles yet to act on. These will occupy
| two weeks of debate.
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