Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-08-19

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crease Of nearly one thousand in five
years. In 1860 it lad 60, SCI.
Patti is not. as has been widely re-
ported ,affianced to a merchant of Milan.
Her brother-in-hlw, Strakoseh, VIII look
out for her matrimonial interests.
We find In the New York Herald a
report that the Hon Chauncy Vibbard,
of the New York Central railroad, is
about co marry the daughter of the Hon.
Amasa Parker, formerly democratic can
didate for the office of governor of New
York. --- ------
Newborn, before the war, had pop
ulation of 5000. II now numbers 80, :
900. and Northern enterprise is increas-.
ing. its population at the rate of 10, 600 a
year. Do - WDss - S46st
Mrs. Sigourney's effects were sold
at auction at Hartford, Connecticut, on
Tuesday last. The articles sold well,
though the nicer furniture, and all the
keepsakes had been taken by her
friends ~ %sEkfEts
in the course of the present month
the new addition to the Government
printing office at Washington will be
completed. Fifteen new steam power
presses are added to the already large
establishment. sZA
, st. Thomas church, corner Broad
way and Houston street, n. Y, has
been sold for one hundred and seventy
five thousand dollars, and is to be torn
down next spring, for the purpose of
erecting business houses on the site.
The Board of Trade of Chicago,
which expects to occupy its new rooms
in the Chamber of Commerce Building
the last of this month, is inviting ten
delegates from ali similar organizations
in other cities of the United States and
British Provinces to meet with them on
the OCCASION at their opening ceremo-
MES.
The cholera has reached England.
and is now prevailing among the poorer
classes of Manchester. A number OF
persons have already died. The pau
pers and those living in tenement houses
are the most subject to it.
William I'll. Gordon, a citizen of
Selma, Alabama, who was lately tried
before a military commission at that
place, has been found guilty of cruelty
treating negroes, eng causing one Green
Hooper. a negro, TO be drowned, and
sentenced to be hung on Friday, the 4th
inst
The following is reported as hap
pening at an exhibition in Harvard Col
lege: Examiner-''Why did Moses
leave Egypt? Undergraduate with
hesitation-''Wh sir. hem-hem-well,
sir, suppose that little affair with Poti-
phar's wlfe!
The colored population of New
York celebrated the emancipation in
the West Indies on the LIST inst with
great deal of enthusiasm, at Myrtle Av
enue Park. Fred Douglass addressed
the sable crowd.
"A teacher In a contraband school ask
ed a young darkey what a certain letter
of the alphabet was The darkey look
ed at it earnestly for short time, and
said: II know. dat well enough by sight,
hat am Dressed if / can cali it by name"
He was told he could take back seat.
The Carlisle Pa Herald learns
that the family of Judge Onld, late
rebel Commissioner of Exchange, who
have been for some time boarding at the
Carlisle Springs, left the other day in
quite huff. The cause of offense was
that on the 4th inst. Mr.. Woods, the
proprietor of the Springs, had his house
decorated with quite display of nation
al flags.
AT "Pious" Hollow, in Oswego
county, New York, dance was given
for the benefit of sick man, at which
one of the guests stabbed another. .s
s'Pious' Hollow must be near ''No
God" in Jefferson county, in the same
State. The late Rev. Jedediah Bur
ahard vas about the only clergyman
that ever was allowed to tarry, even
over Sunday, in those regions.
There are two ways, says the New,
Albany Ledger, OF making blackberry
wine-one to boil the juice, and the 9th
er TO set it away for fermentation with
out boiling. Two years ago both plans
were tried in one family. The wine that
was boiled tnrned sour and unfit for
use, while the other was delicious, and
is SO yet-what little is left.
The Empress Eugenia and Princess
Metternich are said to be the two best
sportswomen in France. The Empress
has little shooting box near ST Cloud.
where the two royal ladies frequently
bagg as many ns seventy birds EACH
The Princess Metternich is said to be
the best shot, but as matter of ETH
quette always lets the Empress beat her
by a couple of birds.
I'm all parts of the State of New
Jersey the the peach crop promises to
be larger than it has been for many
years past. Large orchards, which were
set out three years ago in Hunterdon,
Morris and other counties, bear for the
first time this season, anu the fruit is re-
ported to be of the finest quality.
Mr., Erskine s. Allin, master armor-
er at the Springfield armory, has been
commissioned by the War Department
to visit the various arsenals in England,
France and Switzerland, and to be pres
ent at trials of breech- loading firearms
soon to take place in EnglaEd and Switz-
eriand. so6a
Randall Jaggard, of Pittston, Penn
SvlVanIa iS a slff..sees f1tI snake hT1ntar