Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-04
CLIPPINGs.

JEFF. Thompson tells the editor Of
the Louisville Journal that the only
persons in the Sonth who wish to do
any more fighting are those who didn't
do any when they had chance.
AT Gen. Grants reception in Gin
cinnati, the other day, tall, lank, sun
burnt man pressed forward to take Gen.
Grant by the hand, and said to him
with marked emotion as he did SO,
''When Lee surrendered to you was
in his army, but you are my General
now"
The New York News sets it down
confidently that the crime of infanticide
began and grew with Puritanism, anG
that wherever Puritanism fourishes
there infanticide prevails. It seems
then. great pity that the parents of
Benjamin and Fernando Wood were not
Puritans. Bulletin.
The archduke, Maximilian.isp pre-
pairing for speedy return from Mex
leo, to Judge from the fact that he has
recently forwarded 5000, 600 to Austria
for building fine palace for himself
and his wife, in the island of Lacroma,
near Ragusa, on the Adriatic.
1t was announced by one Of the
savans at the late meeting of the British
association, that the Staffordshire coal
fields in England will probably be to-
tally exhausted within twenty years.
Facts and figures apparently of the most
convincing character, We're cited in sup
port of this theory; and eight mines
were indicated by name which give I'M
mist lkeable signs of speedy exhaustion.
The King of Sweden, who had one
child, the Princess Louise, born in
1851, had son born to him recently,
who will be the successor to the throne
of Sweden and Norway. The alliance
between the Princess Louise and the
crown prince of Denmark, which had
been advocated by the champions of a
Scandinavian empire after the kings
death, is not likely to be effected now
that there is an heir To his throne.
"A woman in New York, while
drunk, beat and frightened her hus-
band to death. The jury found that he
was consumptive, and that her treat
ment ''only fastened his death, and
so she was discharged. Lucky muir
deress.
"A fellow in London forged bills of
exchange to the amount of $40, 900, and
gave the entire amount to fascinating
Young actress for the pleasure of her
acquaintance for one day. He is in
difficulty on account of it.
The important trade of the United
States for the quarter ending October 1,
Inns been very large, amounting to
800, O76,074. The yield in customs
receipts at New York from October 9,
to October Z were So, 800, GIG. The i'm.
ports of silks, bonnets and such things
from Paris during the last quarter
amounted to over so, 600, 900 in gold.
Louis Blanc relates, in one of his
contributions to a Paris magazine, La
Petite Revue, his experience during the
time he was connected with the press.
He states that his handwriting is per-
fectly clear, but that of his collabora.
| tor illegible. Yet the latter's contribu-
tions were always printed correctly,
and his full of blunders On remon
strating at the printing Office, the reply
was that careful attention is bestowed
upon hieroglyphic manuscript, which is
never given to a good specimen of pen,
manship. Louis Blanc adds that from
that time he endeavored to write as IL
legibly as possible.
A favorable question of the young
men to the young ladies of Mobile is
HAS your father been pardoned yet?
finding out from the answer whether OF
not he comes under the $4,000 clause
of the amnesty proclamation, and thence
calculating the probable amount OF the
damsel's solid charms.
Professor Smell, of Amherst, who
has kept meteorological register for q
years, states that he never recorded sc
small an amount of rain for a single
month as in September last. The water
that fell measured only thirty EIGHT hun
dredths of an inch.
DOUBLE HEELING STOCKING. -
Knit the first stitch, slip off the next
without knitting, knitting every alter
nate stitch on the right side of the heel,
and every stitch when knitting on the
wrong side. This makes the heel very
thick. 1853
The Sunday evening concerts at the
Boston theatre have wisely dropped the
tern. "Sacred." The last programme
was made less secular by the introduc
ton of parts of Beethoven's 9Th and
9Th Symphonies, and a Mozart Concerto
by Mr.. Wehli, although the left
hand" played "Sweet Home" By request.
The Rev. Jeremiah Day. ex-Presi.
dent of Yale College, is the oldest man
in New Haven. He is in his ninety.
third year, and visited Hartford the 9th.
er day, where he astonished the young
men by walking all about the city and
up Asylum Hill, where younger men
prefer to take horse cars.
MIR. Mexican Buchanan being in.
terrupted in soliloquy on the stage Of
the Springfield theatre, on Friday eve.
ming, by man in the audience, stopped
soliloquizing long enough to say that il
nobody else would put the man out, he
would. No one can put Mexican Bu-
chanan out of his own conceit.
Harriet Martineau is in her sixty.
fourth year. She was deaf from child
hood, and is now almost blind, yet re-
talus her mental powers, writes able ed.
itorials for the London Daily News, con
tributes to various periodicals, and has
L. A.. &c IL,