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

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The Paris Moniteur has been re-
Gently sold for one million francs, or
two hundred thousand dollars.
Saturday last, an old lady known as
IS Granny Darling" died in Midway,
Mass, aged 102 years and months.
The author of "Mary Powell has
nearly ready " Miss Biddy Frobisher; a
Salt Water Story"
New York journalists are CO.
ing to organize INTO club. They have
been clubbing each other for years.
Why are Queen Victoria's servants
like some portion of the banks of the
Hudson Because they are palace aids.
Oil has been struck in paying guam
-tity on Highland Creek, in Clinton Co.,
XIV. It was reached at the depth OF 49,
feet.
The stormy weather which we have
experienced for several days past, pre-
JAILED from Boston to the Mississippi,
and as far South as the Ohio River.
The December Atlantic Monthly
will have a version by William Cullen
Bryant of the famous test passage Tor
| translators of the Iliad, of the parting
of Hector and Andromache.
The king of Greece was struck by
lightning on board of a Grecian frlgate,
near Corfu, but was restored to health
after having been insensible for some
time. n
The Empress Eugene has written
complimentary letter to the wife OF
the Maritime Project of Toulon, Ma
dame de Chabanne, in acknowledge
ment of her devotion to the cholera
patients of that town.
| The Hon. Henry Wilson celebrat-
ed his silver wedding last week at Nat
| lex, Massachusetts, where there was a
gathering of distinguished company
and a festive time generally.
Two Prussian officers, Captain Ca
low and Major Won Setback, fought a
duel, recently, at Magdeburg. They
agreed to fight till one of them was
killed, and twenty-eight shots were ex-
changed before Captain Calow was ia
tally hit.
Gen. Meade expresses the opinion
that twenty-five thousand men belong
ing to the army of the Potomac, are
living, who have been disabled by
wounds, and are incapable of self-sup-
port.
A matron in the neighborhood of
CORY proposes to call her infant son
Petroleum. She assigns as her excuse
for this, that whenever she spanks him
she will ''strike lie.
the Synod of Missouri joins that
of Kentucky in showing its love for
slavery. Well The Southern Church
worshiped slavery when living; shall We
object if it clings to the dead body?
A Young mulatto Kissed a secesh
song in Newbern, N. c., theatre the
other night, for which offense he was
seized by the police. taken before the
Mayor, and fined $40.
Queen Isabella, on hearing of the
fearful spread of the cholera in her cap
ital, Immediately left the palace of San
Ildefonso for Madrid, although in an
interesting condition, and notwlth-
standing the opposition of her ministers.
There is only one small contract, {"
says a young lady, that she could care
about EN- bracing or embarking in.
When John asked her what it was, she
retired decorously behind her fan and
maintained an expressive silence. The
contract was soon sealed.
Alexander Schraeder, a well known
jeweler of Albany, refused to support
his family, preferring to live with
harlot. His wife demonstrated to no
effect. She had him arrested and sent
to Jail. Served him right.
The grand jury of Queens county
have indicted E. ]. Race, conductor OF
the mail train on the Long Island rail
road at the time of the disaster near
Jamaica, for manslaughter in the fourth
degree, and also for causing the death
of passengers on his train by negli
gence. Mr.. Race gave bail i'll the sum
of $4,000.
There is at present an object on ex-
hibition on Boston Common of no little
antiquarian interest. 1t is the wreck of
the Sparrow Hawk, which was discov-
cred and exhumed in good preservation
of Cape Cod, in the summer of 1868.
The vessel was lost in 1896.
An elopement of two sisters with
two captains of the same regiment,
CHARTERED near fashionable watering
place in the south of England, took
place recently, and has caused consid-
ereble sensation among the residents of
that neighborhood. The young ladies
belong to good family.
A jackson, Mississippi, dispatch of
the 2Sth. says: The report of l.. L.
Swain, auditor of the treasury, states
that the amount of cotton bonds re-
manning unpaid is S3,O79, 564, 65.
,Ex- Governor Chas. Clark has arrived
here, and intends addressing the legis-
latuFe.
M. Theirs is actively engaged on
his history of Florence, which is to ap-
pear in ten volumes, and for which he
is to get 100000 francs, being 100000
francs more than Victor Hugo got for
his Les Miserables. 1t is rumored in
Paris that Theirs received compli-
mentary autograph and costly present
from Plus TX, in reward for bis recent
speech in favor of the papacy, and that
his new work will also support the
temporal power of the pope.
-Lamartine is publishing a 'Life of
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