Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-05-27


The season at Saratoga this summe
promises to be very gay. The hotel
have received great improvements.
Connecticut is richer State thar
Massachusetts. There are S980fo eaci
linhabitant there; only $500 in,Massa
chusetts.
A family of seveDa persons wef'
cruelty murdered 10y some bush whack
ers in Baily Springs, Ala, on thu
| 18th inst. -------- -,---------
The next annual session of thu
Medical Society of Pennsylvania viii b,
| held at Altoona, the I4th of-Jun'
next.
The first crop of hay, and good
one, too, has been taken from the Pab
lie Gardens Mt Boston. Seven fan
crops were taken from the same las
year. q Eo'l"s 81
Resolutions and addresses of con
dolence with the American people, con.
tinue to pour in from organized asso-
Citations and public meetings through
out England and the Continent.
! The cattle have been turned out to
pasture in New hampshire for week,
aud the farmers are busy putting IN
their potatoes The season IS cOnsid-
cred three weeks earlier thar, last year.
"A marriage ceremony was recently
performed at CRANKY, Connecticut, dur
ing which the officiating Clergyman
forgot himself and prayed that ''the
family and friends of the deceased
might be watched over.
"A number of spectators, 7suppos-
ing Mr.. Lincoln's body was to be buried
ON the -Mather estate at Springfield, IL
inois, bought up all the land adjoining.
They are now greatly depressed in
spirits because, the remains have been
deposited in Oak Ridge Cemetery.
IF there could be any excuse for the
fair sex for donning the bloomer cos
tune, they certainly now ishaver it, as
petticoatS have been so tlisgraced by
the arch-rebel and braggart, JEFF. Davis,
10 his inglorious fight. ,Hf q sai 2F1
An. exchange speaks of pig7et,
born In Bath, Me-, having five earsr7
four ON one side OF his head and one on
the other. Pigten We suppose he
would call our young Johnnie "a baby
let.
The last place named as the sesting
place of call that remains of Booth the
assassin, is under the flooring of a
store room III tine old spenitentiary
in Washington.
p. in the Valley of the Var, the prin-
cipal perfume-bed in France, the animal
harvest reaches, in orange blossoms,
], 475, 900 pounds; roses, 500, 900 pounds;
jasmine, 100, 00e pounds; violets. 70, O00
pounds; acacia, 40. 600 pounds; gera-
MUM, 80, 900 pounds; tuberosc, "a, 600
pounds; jonqull, 1000 pounds.
Some citizens Of Troy, on Saturday
last, forwarded to General Grant a pres
ent that will take hrs fancy. 1t is a
box of cigars, 100 in number, OF the
finest braad, and costing 500. Each
Cigar has q paper. holder, and the box
itself is got up regardless OF expense.
"A eeld-bIooded attempt was made
recently TO take the life of the editor
of the New Jersey Volksman, at New
ark, New Jersey, by shooting at him
while in his sanetms. Two shots were
fired, put neither took effect, and the
would-be assasslGs made their escape.
quite recently the remains of a
man who had been buried in the
grounds of the AsburY Methodist
Church, Philadelphia, were takenu for
removal to the Mount Morian Cemetery.
Upon being taken MP the body was
found to be petrifed, and, with the ex-
.ception of the eyes, was in aaperfect
stats. SCI .-ae
Great efforts are le;ng made to Sc
cure jeff Davis petticoats for the Chica-
go fair. Let them have 1t by all means.
The Chicago Fair, or any other fair,
would not be presentable to the public
without petticoata.
There will be a great rush of foreign
travel this summer There is q great
call upon the State Department at Wash-
ingtoh for passports. The prospects OF
a very heavy emigration are very good
also.
i'm st. Lopis. on the 18th inst, the
entire police force appeared on the
streets arrayed in their uniforms, and
with the new style of stars fastened TO
the front of theif caps. The corps nums
bered over 200 men. zr.a-a : $685..
e. "A writer In the Prairie Farmer
thinks. that buckwheat should not be
sowed earlier than the Goth or .3Oth of
Jnne, either for feeding bees or for
grain. He also says that bees DO not
feed On buckwheat blossoms in the ,afs
teraoopsA4 zgEb wc
+, The theatrical actors found cham
pion the other evening in the person of
the Rev! Hy. Blanchard, Sof the Church
Of the aRestoratiQn, Brooklyn, FYho de-
Tended them body from the aspei'-
sions recently cast upon item, and as
serted that thei dramatic instinct i'm
planted in the human breast ought to
be encoHragedi aid guarded, not re-
pressed. ,.gr.
p, The Montreal Witness. says that
emigration to the United States and
other causes have combined to greatly
depreciate the valne of property in DaIiI
ada, and IN niany localities farms are
unsaleabie at any price Real estate
throughout Canada is heavily mort,
gagged. 'oaH odl 70 ono gH.so '-'is
IA large emigration is taking place
from Great Britain and Irelandg Crowds
are waiting at Queenstown for the
steamers to carry them over TO Ameri-
ca. Considerable numbers, are leaving
the mining and iron DISTRICTS of Eng
land, ninety, per cent. Of whom ere go.
ing to the Northern States. fsn
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