Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-07-08
General News.

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-From Bengal paper we learn tina
it cost the young Maharajah of Putial
lah half million pounds sterling TO ge
married.
-Mollie Baker, of Cincinuati, wen
out for fast drive on Monday; got he
horse, spirited animal. xclted, backed
him over precipice, and was taken HON,
with broken neck.
a file of the Richmond Examines
since the beginning of the war, has beer
sold to Boston library society for five
hundred dollars, as a literary curiosity.
-Guizot, the French author, was re-
Gently severely con fused by running in
the dark against piece of furniture in
his house.
The wife of Senator Sprague OF
Rhode Island formerly Miss Kate
Chase-has presented him with healthy
little son. .a5s4
The First National Bank of Ia
Crosse. Wisconsin,, capital $50, coo, and
the Union National Bank. capital $780,
600, have been authorized by the Sec
EStdl y Vi Tic IICtLou1 "
There have been large floods in
Western Missouri. washing away the
Grand River bridge of the Hannibal
and st. Joseph Railroad, at Utica, Mis-
souri,.
Light travels slow in some parts of
Pennsylvania. A large and handsome
house in Norristown III that State stands
empty, because it has the reputation of
being haunted!
David Werner, keeper of board
ing-house In New York, has been al, est
ed for kicking and throwing Josephine
Cohn, an emigrant woman, down stairs,
breaking her neck, and killing her in
stantly.
- The water in the Hudson river is
extremely low. The Albany Express
says passenger and tow boats are con-
stantly grounding between that city and
Van Wie's Point.
-Mr. Sherman of New York. the
of the fund collecting for Mrs
Lincoln, announces that about $4,000
has already been subscribed, and says
the plan will not he abandoned until
500, 900 has been secured.
= William Wilkins. who has been
Senator in Congress, Minister to Russia,
Secretary of War, and United States
District Judge for Western Pennsylva-
nia,. died on Friday, aged eighty-four
years.
George Francis Clay, said to have
been one of Napoleon's soldiers and
participant III his most famous battles,
vas accidentally drowned at Philadel-
ohia on Monday. He was II years old.
-"Mrs. Wales" in her Interesting
lffairs," does things up without much
fuss. 1t will be remember
"a that "Olive Branch, No. /, came in
hurry, before baby clothes could be
got ready, the secord princelet has come
N somewhat similar manner, the hap
" mother having attended a concert |
he previous evening. If maternity is |
"honOfs are easy" with her.
The Emperor of Russia, on the |
of the General Director of the |
Post, has authorized the employment of |
in telegraph offices. This is the
extension of an authorization given last /
Il
md the experiment is to extend over q
period of three years.
Gen. Andrews, In command of Mo:
)ile, has issued an order that In all |
courts and judicial proceedings in the |
district the testimony of freed or color |
I'll people will be received and admitted |
according to same rules of evidence
hat apply to white persons.
Tho Washington Star SAYS that
President Johnson granted the apphca-
ton of the colered people for permits
sion to celebrate the Fourth of July on
the White House grounds, and they are
making arrangements to do SO. This
'act will spoil some enthusiastic en- ogi-
ans from the Democratic press.
Eight thousand applications for
from disabled soldiers and the
amilies OF deceased men, are now en-
lie at the Pension Bureau. and are at
ended te in order of application, rs
'apidly as possible. by Secretary Harlan,
who has crowded an extra clerical force
n the business of overhauling, and ex-
them.
Ad NcW lTlOliH0 SAYS n pslT-
y who has patiently read the 46 pages
If Alexander Stephens labored plea for |
pardon, assures us that he insists upon !
he righteousness and necessity of Sla- I
yery as persistently as in any of his
ormer letters or speeches. He shows \
title or no contrition, and seems to con- |
'ider the rebellion as dice legitimately
brown, and, having lost, the Southern !
people are entitled to gracefully retire (
md submit. SIS. -an
Caleb Lyon, of Lyonsdale, Govern
II of Idaho, Is in tronble. The resi- |
Tents of that Territory have driven him
way, because in pursuance of an act of |
he Territorial Legislature, he under
5ook to remove the capital of the pros
1ective golden State from Lewiston TO |
Boyce's City. The unfortunate Cover
lor is at Washington.
"A ferocious elephant has been com
hitting frightful ravages in a north
western province of Hindostan. He |
vas taken fora marriage procession, but !
became wild and pulled down a num-
Der of huts and trees. The next day he |
become wilder still, and one of the m a.
roots in attempting to chain his legs
vas seized by the trunk and trampled |
lnder foot, the elephant keeping the
corpse of the'man under his feet for two /
DAYS, actually grinding il to (