Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-25

my German friend, how long have
YOU been married?" ''VeL dis is a
ting vot 1 seldom don't like to talk
apout, but ven does, it seems so long
as it never vas"
"A man in Louisville, Kentucky, re-
Gently robbed his own mother, a poor
woman, of a barrel of flour and a barrel
of potatoes, which she had inst pur-
chased with her hard earnings.
Fifteen thousand acres of land, own
ed by Waldo p. Johnson, formerly u.
5. Senator from Missouri, is being sold
for debt in the southwest part of the
State. Mr.. johnson is in Europe.
Buildings to rent are so scarce in
Portland, says the Argus, that family
is living IN an old fish market on one of
the wharves. They take boarders, who
room in sugar boxes.
In the course of last month por-
ton of the fifty-second parallel of north
latitude was measured at Orel. This
operation has been undertaken by Rus
STA, Germany, Belgium and England,
in order to determine exactly the form
and dimensions Of the earth.
The murderer of Grove, the photo
graphic artist i'll Baltimore, which crime
was committed few days since in his
gallery, has been arrested in Washing
ton. He is young man by the name
of John Clare The evidence against
him is conclusive, as many articles be-
longing to the murdered man have been
traced to him.
"A Boston gentleman has recently
imported watch made in Switzerland
from an original design of the Boston
owner Its cost is $4,000, the works
alone costing 81 800.
Professor Hoffman, and his wife
having some time ago mysteriously dis
appeared from Munich, and supposed
to have gone to Spain, the King of Ba-
varia has authorized Lieutenant Frey
to 60 TO that country on a search after
this gentleman and lady, whose fate is
subject of great anxiety with many
of the learned and higher classes of the
Bavarian capital.
The Detroit street railroad company
charge double fare on I'll extra cars
furnished after ten o'clock in The eye
ming, on the ground that special cars
furnished for the accommodation OF
not meet the extra expense OF regular
fares.
Asa Fitch, of Fitchville, Conn,
died recently without having made a
will, leaving over five millions of prop
cry to be divided among relatives, some
of whom are very poor, and are antici-
patipg jolly times from the cutting up.
From Italy we have advices that
the reservoir of petroleum, the basin of
which is under the mountains of Abruz-
ri, and the gushing forth of which at
the village of Zecco was mentioned re-
Gently, has undergone chemical analy-
sis, and is found to be vastly superior
to the same product in America.
The telescope is following up the
| Star of Empire" Chicago boasts of
the largest instrument in the world for
searching the heavens. It has outdone
Boston in its magnificent astronomical
apparatus, and can now beat anything
on land or afoat, in taking ''observa-
TONS" setf..
1T is perhaps worthy of interest, as
settling any controversy that may arise,
that the word Comprehend" was first
used in political sense by Mr.. John
Russell Young, now of the Tribune, in
delphia Press. This occurred in Au-
gust, 1861.
The Boston Journal says:
A lady in Boston now nearly seventy
years of age, can repeat all the Psalms
of David and Solomon's Proverbs by
heart. No matter at what verse you be-
gin, she will take up the cue and pro-
coed TO the end of the chapter. We
were reminded of this singular fact by a
notice in contemporary of the widow
of Nicholas Chase, an old lady of eighty
seven, who lives at Cuttyhunk, who can
repeat page after page of the books
which interested her in her youth, and
is never better pleased than when. she
can get some young person to listen to
her.
AT London police court singu-
lar charge was recently disposed of. A
gentleman named Bordenaye charged a
young lady with stealing his writing
desk and contents. 1t was elected,
however, that the defendant took pos
session of the writing desk in the hope
| thereby she might recover some letters
OF nefS OF WHICH Mr. DOrUeDaNe Iau uu-
warrantably become possessed. The
prosecutor admitted that he did not
think that the young lady had intended
to steal the desk. The magistrate Sc
verely commented on the case, and sug-
gested that an action of false imprison-
ment should be raised by the young
lady, who had previously been locked
up at the police station. +.
The Esterhazy picture gallery,
which possesses some remarkably fine
specimens of Mnrillo-large pictures of
the holy family and scenes from the life
of the virgin-has been removed from
Vienna to the museum at Pesth, the fine
collection having been given by its pos
SCISSOR to that town, as the nucleus of a
gallery to be formed thereI The enof-
nous possessions of the Esterhazy
family have for some time been put I'M
der sequestration, and 10 was feared by
the parties most nearly concerned, that
this rich gift might after all be withheld,
and the collection sold TO help to re-
move some of the load of debt with
which the estate has been burdened.
But it. has been safely lodged in the
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