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


Nashville, Tennessee. Scarcely day
passes in which the Recorder does not
impose fineon half dozen or more
men for beating defenceless females.
The brutes are In all cases fined fifty
dollars the extent of the law.
George A. Toby, of Whitneyville,
accidentally discharged pistol in his
pocket, in New Haven, recently, while
talking with some lady friends. The
ball passed through his clothes, grazed
his skin, and struck in q neighboring
wall. Pretty hard sparkling to explode
a pistol in a mans pocket.
In the East, especially in Syria,
where the poorer inhabitants believe
thatwhatever misfortunes sbefalf them
are sent by Allah, and where, therefore,
physicians are not employed, the chole-
ra is making fearful ravages, without
any hope of an ameioration until the
natural food for its ravages is con-
sumeui -sf,.N ,ss4fv~n TRE .ss. is'a
The, official announcement just
made by the Moniteur, that the French
army is to be withdrawn from Rome,
that the withdrawal is to to take place
by instalments and to commence this
year, has given immense satisfaction in
France and Italy, but as to Rome and
the Papal party, We have yet no report.
Tt is generally believed, however, that
the Pope intends to organize an army
sufficient to preserve order, and to trust
himself to the safe keeping of this
army.
Considerable excitement has been
occasioned in New York by the publica-
ton of sanitary map, which is said to
show that in case of visit from Asiatic
cholera, the districts in which it is most
likely to rage are among the fashionable
quarters OF the city, where houses are
built upon made land, where the sew
erage is exceedingly imperfect, and
where all conditions are favorable to
diseases of malarious character.
The manager of the New Bowery
Theatre, in New York, recently had his
pocket picked of valuable watch and
chair which had been presented to him
by his company. Instead of confiding
his loss to the police, he applied to the
leader of gang of East Side pickpock-
cts, whom he happened to know by
sight, and presently recovered his watch.
The chief of the thieves was paid one
hundred and twenty-five dollars for his
trouble and influence.
A number of musicians, their fam
lilies and friends, made a party, in the
last week of September, to Rittau, Sax
ony, where lie buried the remains of
Sontag, and Countess Rossi. Six OF
them seated themselves at the door of
the chapel Michael, in which is the
tomb, aud played an aria from the Sta
bat Mater of Rossini, sit is ordained by
God, and "Cease not, o gentle tears y
| At the conclusion the abbess permitted
the musicians to enter the vault, where
| they beheld the coffin of Sontag lying
| beside that of her husband. A wreath
of gold, placed there by the Duke OF
Neutrality-suspicious., was lying on the
| lid.
An insane man stole steamboat al
Evansville, Ind, lasT Wednesday, and
by casting off her mooring let her float
down the stream, where she lodged on
bar. For some time he successfully
repealed the boatmen who came out to
board her, but was finally overpowered
Among the contested seats in the
next Congress will be that of the Hon.
James Brooks, (of the New York Elk.
press, who ran against Mr.. William E.
Dodge in the Fifth avenue district, and
was declared elected by majority Of
not far from 200 votes. Mr.. Dodge
claims his own election by about the
same majority.
Alfred Locke, a negro, was hung
at Salisbury, North Carolina, on Tues
| day, for violation of a white woman
He wrote a letter to General Heth
pleading for life, and asserting that he
had long been on terms of criminal
intimacy with the woman, who was his
masters wife.
The most valuable lot of furs ever
brought to st. Paul, was received last
week from the Hudson Bay Company
5000 mink skins worth $4,000. The
skins filled II ordinary sized boxes, and
the st. Paul Press says they are worth
more than their weight in silver. The
ladies' know how valuable they are.
"A dentist, of Edinburg, has pat
ented an ingenious modification of for
ceps, which admits, artifcially, cooled
| air through its points to the gum, so as
to deaden sensation previously to the
extraction of the tooth, and thus render
the operation painless.
"A young lady from Massachusetts,,
| daughter of clerk in the Treasury De-
partment at Washington, mysteriously
disappeared on Thursday night, much
| to the sorrow of her father, and of a
man to whom she is engaged to be mar.
ried. No explanation.
Utica rejoices in the possession OF
genuine "Wooly Horse" The ami
NAL was a cross between a buffalo and q
mare. While it had the form and size
of horse, its hide was that of buffalo
and its tail ditto. The animal is owned
by j. III. Hawthorne, of Deerield. II
was bought of the Indians by Mr.. H.,
recently, in Canada, about fifty miles
north of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
The Siamese Twins and their chill
dren are giving exhibitions in Western
| New York. They haven't attained sufi-
cient dramatic versatility to appear in
1.-TWO parts yet.
"A New Bedford lady, who was in
Boston on Saturday, astounded female
pickpocket, who in a crowd had thrust
her hand into the lady's pocket, by
turning and cody inquiring, "Why dc
you put your hand in my pocket, when
have my purse here in my hand?"
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