Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-08-12
General News.

k.---Iu6 NeNHuIyPOIb Aciahei "As oSt'ooD
female suffrage.
AT New York Friday, the bark Da-
honey, was seized as SLAYER.
Those who find it hard to be pleas
ed find it harder to please.
People oftener hate without reason
than love without it.
Miss L. MI. Alcott, author of
Moods, is going to Europe to spend a
year.
Several spouting whales were seen
off Marshfield, Mass, last Wednesday,
one of them 100 feet long.
Lewis Cass, who has had the re-
|1ntation of being worth several millions,
reported for 1864 an income of $50, TAT
The income of Elk Governor David
Tod, after making all legal deductions,
is $64, 209.
The new Hotel Dieu, in Paris, viii
cover $4,000 yards, contain 716 beds,
aud cost 81, 1000, 000or $5,0O0,OOO.
A census of Cleveland, just taken,
makes the actual population So In
1860 it was 43, $50, an increase, In i've
years, of 16, 006. - -. -
The Rev. Fitch W. Taylor, the old
est chaplain in our navy, and school
mate of William Writ, died in Brooklyn
on Monday.
MANY men don't sufficiently value
veracity in women. Some who wouldn't
take lady's word would gladly take the
lady herself.
IL always admire bushes, my dear
sir. ~ ''Well, there are very few of us,
Madam, that you can't make blush.
The Detroit city directory, just pub
lished, shows the increase of population
during the past year to have been 5000.
Many persons complain that they
wGen The real trouble is that they cannot
find thoughts for their words.
The Mormon merchants are doing a
big business. One of them has paid
freight bills this year to the amount of
$50, 900.
The city of Worcester has popu-
lation of 10000, and pays a total tax
this year of $217,S0O. Springfield, with
p, 600 inhabitants, pays $260.OOO tax.
| The Siamese twins, who have been
| farming in North Carolina, are about to
make new exhibition tourin the North
ern States.
Elisha Foote, of Saratoga, N. Y,
has been appointed, in place of J. j.
Coombs, as one of the Board of Exam
l .porc in Gh1nf Of ofanfS Office
In Philadelphia on Tuesday, dur
ing thunder storm, the lightning en-
tered house, knocking down young
woman and put out the fire in the kit
chen range as effectually as it could have
been done by dozen buckets of water,
but did no harm to the range or the
house.
The condition of George N. Sand
ers is said to be CHASTITY. He has gone
into the category of Cornell Jewett; the
Journals refuse his cards; he is without
friend in the British provinces, and
stands here in the category of Henry s..
Foote, both of them being beneath con-
tempt.
1t is said that the will of the late
William Robinson, of Augusta, Ga. who
| left, conditionally, S150,000 for the
| founding of female seminary at Ex-
eter, n H., is likely to be contested by
the heirs at-law, on the ground that the
magistrate before whom the will was
acknowledged was rebel
"A man noted for his calmness and
a scolding wife, was one night stopped
| in the woods by pretending ghost. 81
can't stop, my friend, said he. eff
you are q man, / must request you to
| get out of the way and let me pass. If
you are the devil, come along and take
supper, for married your sisterl'
The citizens of Galena have built
General Grant new house, furnished
it trom top to bottom, and laid side
walk in front. Now they want him to
come back home. The Philadelphians
have given him a splendid mansion, and
want him o stay there. He will have
trouble to decide. How happy he could
be with either, were t'other dear charm
er away.
Lily Cooper, good-looking Miss of
eighteen, dressed in boys clothes, got
on board sleeping-car at st. Louis in
berth above q rich old gentleman,
whom she plundered of watch and
wallet, was arrested in Chicago and her
sex discovered, and In a prison cell is
now musing upon the difference be-
tween yellow covered romance and hard
reality.
| in 1854 a trial took place in Con-
| necticut under the section of the Blue
Laws prohibiting kissing The often
ders we're Sarah Futile and Jacob New
ton. 1t appears that Sarah dropped her
gloves and Jacob found them. When
Sarah asked for them, Jacob demanded
kiss for his pay, and as the demand did
not seem extravaganza, she adjusted it
| forthwith. The facts were clearly prov
ed, and the parties were each fined
twenty shillings.
Among the episodes of the burning
of the ship William Nelson, is mention
ed that of young woman only few
months married, who, in the confusion
which prevailed while in the water,
chung to a seama am whom she mistook
for her husband The sailor swan away
with his burden to the boat, and they
were both picked up; but the young
wife's stupefaction on discovering her
error was painful to witness. There are,
however, still hopes that the husband
may have been saved in the other boat,
"A soldier returned to his home in
Fort Wavne Ind on Saturday last