Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-12-09

CLIPPINGS.


has not only fallen at Moscow, as al
ready stated, but at Kief and Riga. At
Pernau (Livon:a) sledges have been
used for some time past.
"A tender-hearted railway engineer
on a certain railroad says he never runs
over man when he can help il, because
sit muses. up the track So"
The uniform charge throughout
Belgium for telegram of 20 words Is
only one franc, aud even that low charge
is to be reduced at the close of the year.
The official report just published
at Constantinople, states the mum.
Der of victims to the cholera IN Turkey
this year to have been nearly eleven
thousand.
The owner of one of the largest
estates in Virginia recently offered to
mortgage the whole of it for money
enough to buy seed wheat with. This
shows the restitution there.
An English doctor WHO has investi-
gated the matter, declares that 1t is safe
to eat beef-stea cut from animals in
which the cattle plague has been fully
developed. y.
The Richmond Enquirer urges the
establishment of circulating libraries in
that city, the inhabitants generally be-
ing very much behind the times in their
reading, and too poor to buy books out
right.
So many Americans are IA Canada
buying cattle that the Toronto Globe Is
afraid the farmers will be tempted by
the high prices to sell all the stock they
have.
Mrs. Deets. the widow of Prus-
sian artillery officer, who afterward be-
came lieutenant colonel in he Mexican
army, has recently been relieved from
her poverty, which compelled her to
live in the work house, by the receipt
of pension of eight hundred dollars
from the Mexican authorities.
Many railway travellers in England
now carry keys to lock and unlock rail
way carriages, so that they may let
themselves ont in cases of great emer-
gency, and lock themselves in. The
keys carried by some nOblemen are
made OF silver.
"A London reporter says that the
Thames police have remarked, as a char
acteristo circumstance, that nearly
every female who throws herself into
the water, is careful to divest herself of
her bonnet and shawl, which are placed
on the ground in such manner as not
to be the least damaged,
General Longstreet says that on
the first of April, 1865, the Confedcr
ates had under arms but two hundred
and fifty thousand men, while the fed
erals had in actual possession ninety
eight thousand Confederate prisoners
Of war. We had over a million men in
May last, and now have about one hun
dred and fifty thousand.
Over 800, 600 have been contribu-
ted in London towards the cathedral
which it is proposed to erect in London
TO the memory of the late Cardinal
Wiseman The Pope has contributed
towards the memorial magnificent
silver-gilt monstrance of large size, set
with three precious stones, and with APP
propriate medallions III mosaic.
"A party has been boring for oil for
some months past, at PekiD, Niagara
county, New York, and is still boring.
The drill is down one thousand feet,
and there are no signs of oil. The work
still goes on, the enterprising men en-
gagged insisting that they will put the
drill through to that other Pekin in
China, and pump tea, if nothing better
comes.
In a recent medical report upon the
ravages of Asiatic cholera, we find the
following facts: OF three hundred
medical men engaged in practice in
Bengal during the epidemic but three
took the disease. At Bombay none of
the hospital attendants were attacked,
though they commonly occupied the
same bed with the patients, when off
duty. Those who escaped the scourge
followed the medical directions to pre-
vent it, Ct which the principal ones
were cleanliness and proper diet.
A lady in Philadelphia, who had
been separated by the vicissitudes of
the war from her husband for four
years. was driven by want to part with
her jewelry and other fiuery. A few
days since she received letter from a
gentleman residing in Mississippi, in
forming her that her husband had late
ly died there, leaving fortune of over
$50, 900, to which she was the sole
heiress. A check for 500 accompanied
the letter.
Sir James Macintosh invived DR..
Parr to take ride in his gig. The
horse became FESTIVE. Gently, Jem-
N.Y." said the doctor, ''don't irritate
him; always soothe your horse, Jenny.
You'll do better without me. Let me
down, Jemmy?" Once on terra frma
the doctors view of the case was
changed. ''Now, Jenny, touch him
up. Never let horse get the better
of you. Touch him mp, conquer him,
don't spare him-I'll walk back"
The women on the Canada frontier
are engaged in new branch of the
"baby business. Thirty-two of the
motherly creatures were detected ON one
railway train with baby shaped tin cans
filled with whisky, snugly wrapped up
in their arms, with the intention of
smuggling it into the United States in
violation of our revenue laws. Thirty
Of the women have been arrested, and
the whisky confiscated.
Last week a merchant in New York
brought an action against telegraph
company to recover damages arising out
of a mistake IN transmitting a telegraph
dispatch to town in Massachusetts. -
The message ordered party to stop his
manufacture of certain article until
the sender saw him, whereas the dis.