Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-06-24
General News.


A silver cradle has been presented
by the town to the Lord Mayoress of
Liverpool, for her infant.
Government has fined Boston
distiller SIS, 900 for trying to cheat in
taxes. -
/ .-Th banisters of the grand stair
! case of Baron Rothclild's new mansion,
in Piccadilly, are made of gold and
platinum.
s. Mr.. Gladstone estimates that every
Englishman drinks two quarts OF beer %
day, at cost OF 5000, 900, 900, per annum.
Princess Gabrelli, daughter of Luz
Glen Bonaparte. died recently at Rome,
at the age of 73.
In England there are large numbers
of ladies who have put on mourning for
the American President.
..-Ex-Secretary Usher has returned to
Indiana. In the meantime, many of his
contractors and appointees are suffering
from lack of recognition at Washing
ton. eHH $50 s#"@ 80
| Tho FreeJmen's Schools of Ricn-
mond heve been closed on account
of the maltreatment and intimidation
of thesblack children by the whites.
| = General Haileck, in his reply to
General Sher mans criticism, puts the
responsibility on the shoulders of Gen
eral Grant. res ut
Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas gave a
brilliant reception to her friends on
Thursday night, at Washington, for the
first time since her husbands death.
The matter of raising the sorghum
or sugar cane is attracting the attention
among the agriculturalists of Wisconsin.
! Sir Thomas Staples, who is des-
cribed as the last surviving member of
the Irish house of commons, died at
Dublin on the 10Th ult. He was IN his
ninetieth year.
"A superior sheep, in Licking coun-
ty, Ohio, sheared a fleece which weighed
% lbs. 2oz., and had left "a frame OF adj
mirable capacity for mutton purposes.
Where soldiers have lost legs, feet
or arms, in the war, the Government
helps them to this extent in getting ar
tificial ones: S75 for legs; $50 for arms;
$50 for feet.
Letters from the sultan of Turkey
have been handed to the empress, ac-
cepting the decision of Napoleon in his
quality of arbitrator upon the Suez ca
nal question.
The notorious guerrilla, Quantrell,
died in the Louisville Military Hospital,
on Wednesday, from the effects of
wound received on the 10Th of May
last.
1t is said that Booth, Orsini and
Char otte Corday, all selected April 18th
for their assassinations, completed or
purposed.
AT MarseilIes the number OF rats is
at present so great that the Municipal
Council has voted credit of five thou
sand francs to be expended in attempts
to extirminate the myriads of those de-
structive animals.
-vallandigham says that the Demo-
cratic party lived only eight days after
the Chicago nominations, and then died
of circumcision. This is very ill-tem-
perered reference to Belmont, and Nc
Clellan's letter of acceptance.
The Knoxville Branch of the Bank
of Tennessee claims the 5000, 600 seized
at Augusta, where it had been left by
the flying Gov. Harris. Gov. Brown
low refuses to delivered mp the money.
He says it is the property of the State,
and he will put military guard over 1T,
If necessary.
The frog-trade is getting to be quite
a feature of Sandusky. 1t is not q re-
markable circumstance for a single
house, and that not the largest, to ship
three hundred dozen of them in a sin
gle day, to tickle the tastes of the cpl
cures of Pittsburg and Cincinnati.
1t is a fact that President johnson
has directed suspention throughout
the South OF the sales of rebel landed
property for non-payment of direct
taxes, ordered by the Tax Commission
ers IL the several States. 1t is not
known whether such interposition i'm
plies remittance of the penalty of
contiscation, or merely postponement
of sale.
The youngest daughter of Harriet
Beecher Stowe was married'at st Johns
Episcopal Church in Hartford, CT, on
Wednesday morning, to a wealthy
Episcopal clergyman from Boston,
The ceremony was performed by
Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island.
There are now twenty thousand
Polish exiles scattered over Western
Europe who are looking wishfully
across the Atlantic for a new home =
They would be valuable acquisition to
a thinly settled country, since they are
generally northumberland shepherds by
training. J
Tho Tribune publishes formal
statement of a Secesh plot, connected
in Canada, to blow mp the Croton Aque-
duct. The piotters said they would
make glass of water as dear in New
York as a glass of whisky was in Rich
mond.
1T is stated that, at u recent meet
ing of the French Cabinet and Privy
Council, NJ. Fould advocated the imme- |
date withdrawal of the French forces
IN Mexico, and stated that he had felt it |
his duty to send a dispatch to the En-
peror Napoleon, in which, he urged the |
necessity of taking this step. ..t,
Mrs. General Sherman. has special
department in the Chicago Sanitary
Fair. A short time ago she sent an APP !
peal to the pastors of Catholic churches ]
In New York to aid the Fair, and in re- |
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