Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-07

-Praising people is like the great
opiate-Laudanum.
Twenty persons at St. Paul, Minna
were poisoned by eating cheese made
in copper vessels.
"A man in London died from CLAN
ders, contracted from washing a diseas-
ed horse, when he had an injury upon
one of his fingers. -------
"A British feet has been ordered to
cruise around the West coast of Ireland
to intercept the Fenian fiotilla said to
be threatening descent on the coast
from America. There is nothing like
being ready in time.
The Boston lancers are to visit Chi
cago next month. They come in full
uniform and bring their well trained
horses with them. During their stay,
they will be the guests of the Ellsworth
Youaves.
The western iron dealers had con-
ferance at Pittsburgh, on Friday last, in
consequence of which the price of iron
was materially advanced. Nails are
also higher.
Jefferson Davis has received the
present of a case of choice liquor from
some friends in Richmond. He can
now "drown his sorrows in the flowing
bowl .afea srr8
Clarence J. Prentiss, 1.-THE rebel son
of George d. has withdrawn from the
Louisville Journal, andis about to leave
the country.
Josh Billings says that opera music
don't have any more effect upon him
than castor oil would have npon a gra-
ven image.
Thomas Carlyle is travelling in Scot
land. He is in search of relaxation and
rest, his Life of Frederick the Great"
having. it is said, involved the investi-
CATION of years, and well-nigh the health
of the illustriors author. ssoieioa
1t is estimated that the sum of fif-
teen thousand dollars will be required
to put the streets of Petersburg, Va,
in order. w -~.aS
"A French photographer has made
arrangements for descending to the bed
of the ocean in a submarine vessel, pro-
viled with the electric light, and ma
king submarine photographs.
The bloodhounds Hero and Jack,
used to guard Union prisoners at Rich
mond and Andersonyille, have been
bought by George K. Goodwin, of Bos-
ton, for $l,400.- a
Sidewalks cost $1,000 per hole III
Elmira. A man who fell through q bro
ken sidewalk there has recovered 81, 600
of the city for damages sustained.
The popular fury against Rachel's
brother, Raphael Felix, the manager of
the Lyons theater, ran so high that he
was compelled to take fight to a neigh
boring village.
George w. Bungay, the editor and
poet, has accepted a professorship in
Eastman's National Business College at
Chicago. He will preside over the de-
partment of commercial law, political
economy and ethics. --.-.-. ..tta
9 -Ifyou love others they will love
you. If you speak kindly to them they
will speak kindly to you. Love is re-
paid with love, and hatred with hatred
Would you hear sweet and pleasant
echo, speak sweetly and pleasantly
yourself. .r I~Y 81
The ianitor of the Old Bowery Thea
ter in New York, fell, on Wednesday,
from the roof of the building, to that
of the Atlantic Garden adjoining, strik-
ing his head against an iron shutter.
He died almost instantly.
Letters recently received from the
family of Judge Bates, late Attorney
General, represent the health of that
distinguished gentleman to be such as
to create the most serious apprehen-
sions. 3tt3
The Lynn Mass Bulletin says
that the value of the shoes sold in
Lynn dnring the month of July, was
but little short of 100000. while in
June over million dollars worth were
sold, and in May last 81 100000 worth.
Last months returns, when published,
will probably come up well to the latter
figure. 1si 81 q u ssib
The managers of the street railway
lines in Chicago have raised the single
fares to six cents, and placed the rates
of tickets at twenty-f five cents for five
rides, and twenty rides for ninety-fiye
cents. They also agreed to advance the
wages of conductors and drivers twenty
per cent.
The alleged discovery of petroleum
In Lake Superior seems to have attain
ed some degree of probability, in spite
of the geological objections to its exist
ehce. A company has been formed to
test the existence of petroleum at On
tonagon. q 2rHre
ID
Benz. G.. Green, postmaster of Mys-
tic, Conn.,, stole 5000, and was senten-
ced, by United States court, to 10 years
In the state prison. Jeremiah Town
send, of New Haven, stole 800, 600,
and Connecticut jury gave him but
seven years.
AN ancient colored gentlewoman in
Chattanooga, ascertaining where the
Freedmen's Bureau was kept, called in
the other day and astonished the clerk
by her confidential disclosure, to wit:
81 have come for my bureau; now give
me pretty large one, with glass top;
/ have .washstsnd at home, but it is
too small to put my fixins in.' ~
Mr.. A. Il. Stewart, the rich dry
goods merchant, is building house in
Fifth Avenue, New York, which is to
COST $500, 900. In order to clear the
site, he tore down the famous mansion
which Sarsaparilla Townsend built some
ten years previous at cost of about
SOC, 900. Mr.. Stewart is married, but
has no children. s.
lit is stated that Plus TX, on being
called upon to make regulations for the