Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-12-30

is not dead, as HAS DSeA, ISpOIbcu, at'lAu
proposes soon to disclose his real name.
Rich gold lands have been discov-
cred in Oregon from which three
hundred dollars per day is the common
yield z-aa. a--s-sssess-s-s s,as----4.s-sa.
j "A chair in the, college of France,
once occupied by Ampere, is now occu-
pied by o son of Guizot.
H-Why are washerwoman, the most
unreasonable people? Because they ex-
pect soft water when it rains hard. =
In raising the heart above despair,
an old fiddle is worth four doctors and
two druggists shops. III
1T is said that the war claims of
loyal citizens for damages to property,
will amount to 5000, 900, 900.
The population of Cincinnati has
increased forty times in forty-four years.
jeff Davis. has had q clergyman
With him in prison an entire day. and
the sacrament was administered TO hiD.
Hon. Bradford H Pruyn, Minister
to japan, and Hon. Bradford r. Wood,
Minister to Denmark, have returned
home.
The Collector of Internal revenue
for Montana Territory, stated that the
product of the gold and silver mines of
that territory, for the year 1865, will be
upwards of sixteen millionsof dollars.
Roman tombs more than 1,500
years old, containing cinerary urns and
fragments of pottery, have been exhum-
ed close to Queen Victoria's palace at
Windsor. .
DIR. Gwinn, who was arrested some
time since on his return from Mexico
to the United States, is confined at Fort
Jackson, below New Orleans. @
An incurable old bachelor, and who
seemingly reioices in his infrmity, de-
scribes marriage as ga female despotism
tempered by buildings.
The Oil City and Pithole railroad
intend using Myers patent rotary oil
car. by which oil can be transported to
market without barrels, saving the leak
age and cooperage of barrels, and the
freight on the returned barrels.
Joe and Bill Benton went to New
Orleans with fiat boat of corn. Joe
wrote to his father thus:
sNo Orleen, Gune 5.-Dear Dad,
markets is dull and corn is mighty 10
aud Bills dead. 81. B,
"A young lady at Chesterfield, Nor
gan county, Ohio, was recently shot
dead by the accidental explosion of a
gun, just as she was kissing her lover to
bid him good-by.
A Western editor, speaking of a
quill driving contemporary, says: His
intellect is SO Dense, that 1t wonld take
the augur of common sense longer to
penetrate it than to bore through Mount
Blanc with boiled carrot.
The noble wife of the Count de
Chabannis, Project Toulon, has receiv-
ed a gold medal from the Empress Eu-
genie as memorial for services render
ed during the cholera In that city.
The population of Iceland at the
beginning of the present century was
81, 900, and is now $1,000. The popula-
ton of the Farce Isles and Greenland
has increased in the same period by 10
and go per cent. respectively. In 1900
the Farce isles had 5,265 Inhabitants
and Greenland 5000.
In 1910 Newburyport was larger
and weather. than Portland, and to-day
Portland has thirty thousand people
and twenty eight million dollars worth
of property, while Newburyport has
only thirteen thousand people and
seven million dollars worth of property.
A wealthy planter near Memphis,
who has been living with q mulatto
slave girl, has just married her, rather
than lose her, as she was about to marry
colored man. T
Some of our religious exchanges
tell a story of a woman being relieved
from speeches. grief by hymn. We
have known great many of the sex to
be strongly affected, and greatly bene-
fitted by hims before this.
A wag speaking of the cruel treat
ment of a child by its mother, says:
s'The child should at least have the
careful attention of some one, or it will
be prematurely added to the kingdom Of
heaven, and thus, perhaps, permanently
separated from its kindred"
Mr.. Josiah Pierce, Jr., of Portland,
went to Russia some time ago to put
the railroads there. He has been quite
prosperous, and has been knighted
recently by the Emperor of Russia, so
that he now bears the title of Sir Josiah
Pierce. 80. TNG.A g EGC = io -
Ten editions of Jean Ingelow's
poems have been sold in London in the
last two years. Such success is un=
paralleled since the popularity of some
of Bryton's poems, fifty years ago
Margaret Zuike has recovered
So, 500 from the Kuickerbocker stage
company in New York. Her dress was
caught in an omnibus which started
while she was getting out, and dragged
her a considerable distance, infiicting
serious injuries. =, go
"A decree of the, King of Prussia
has founded second class OF the Order
of Louisa, to be conferred on women
or young girls who may have distin-
guished themselves by theft attention
to the sick, or by striking acts of
humanity and eelf-devotedness in time
of war. s s
The swain who proposed marriage
to young lady and was rejected, but
who was afterwards accepted on max
ing similar proposal to a widow, re
garded the result of his first effort as
singular illustration of the truth of
Scripture, since he "asked and received
not. because he asked a-miss.
The Earl of Dudley was lately
married to Miss Georgiana Moncrieffe.
The bride wore dress valued at e., 600,
which had been originally designed for