Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-21
GIeanings.

GIeanings.
General Saxton, at Hilton Head,
has married one of the schoolmlstresses
OF the coiored schools.
Great Britain now produces, an
nually, ninety-three. million tons OF
coal.
Somebody asked Bennett the other
day. if i'm his trouble with Maretzek he
hadn't got himself into box NO,
indeed" replied Bennett, Il wish
had p ~ IN u kIT
William Cullen Bryant will be
seventy-one years old on the ID OF
November next, but bears his age well,
and is stronger and more active than
MANY men with half his years. He
uses no spectacles to cid his vision.
The story that Gen. Fremont is
going into the iron business seems to be
Confirmed. He is to he chief officer of
n large company, which has purchased
Chatineau. Prison & Valle's iron works
in st. Louis for 1850, 600. r ,4
There has been an anti negro mob
near Jonesboro, Union county, Illinois,
some worthless whites driving the col
ored laborers from the cotton planta-
ton of a Mr. Fenton. Mr.. F. has APP
piled for military protection and Will
receive it. Iiw a a.Ff I
Mr.. Benefits architect advertises
for proposals for a fire-proof building
for the New York Herald establishment,
to be erected on the site of the burned
Museum, on Broadway, Park Row and
Ann street. fa H,af i.r- eaa -le
-The most valuable cargo of cotton
ever shipped from the United States
was cleared from New Orleans for Liv-
erpool, on the Both ult., by ship Elmer
aid 3, los bales, worth S637 900. Al
though a previous vessel took $3.50
bales. the total weight was less, and the
value less by $4,000.
The Saltwater Messenger says: Mr..
F. w. Treager, of Denmark, in Wash
ington county, has just harvested and
sold, at 81. 10 per bushel, 5000 bush
els of wheat.
A grand landscape in mosaic has
been made by clerk in the French
War Office. 1t is composed entirely of
insects-of beetles alone there are more
than As, 0O0-of nearly 1000 different
species, and took four years in making.
A shark, measuring eight feet in
length, and between five and six feet in
its greatest girth, was lately caught in
the herring nets of one OF the crews
fishing at Wick. 4#
A grand -neice of Captain Cook, the
great circumnavigator, died in Sunder-
land, England, last week, where some
of her relatives still reside. The de.
ceased was in her seventy fifth year.
A southerner of distinguished an
tecedents, reduced to poverty by the
war, remarked, a few days since, that
he wouldn't always be poor. He had a
plan. He said I'm going to take one OF
my old college sermons, put on shad-
belly, and go to Henry Ward Beecher
and get letter of Introduction to a
petroleum widow and marry her.
A bright little girl, named Sarah
Ann Young, aged four years, recently
died in London, from the fright of see
ing an Episcopal clergyman suddenly
emerge from the vestry into church,
robed in his white SUPPLIES. The child
screamed, was carried to the church in
commissions, and died the next day.
The New York Herald says: Sir
Morton Peto and his brother capitalists,
propose to expend hundred millions
in this country in double tracking their
own road and all its branches, and do
ing the same for the New York and
Erie, beside shortening it seventy miles,
and building bridge over the Niagara
River at a cost of four millions.
Late travellers assert that gold is
more plentiful in Virginia than it ever
was in California. IF that be SO, Vir-
ginia will have her population. increased
to one hundred thousand during the
coming year. Gold is more attractive
than loadstone, and is full of tempta-
ton, as belle at Saratoga with low
necked dress on. a5s''9 % - =
"A society has been established in
Liepsic, to teach INDECENT children of
from six to nine years of age, garden
ing, and make them sustain themselves
by industry, instead of begging. Rear
ing flowers is believed not to tax their
strength too much, and the, result has
been success. 81 IS tavBzs ode -os a2eas
Hon. Samual @. Pomeroy, United
States Senator from Kansas, was mar.
ried in Boston on Wednesday of last
week, to Mrs. Martha s. Whiting, of
Boston. This is the third marriage Of
both parties. Mrs Pomeroy is gradu-
ate of Mount Holyoke female seminary,
and her first husband a graduate of
amherst college, was killed by steam
boat explosion while resident of ST.
Louis, a short time after their marriage.
Her second husband, a Mr.. Whiting.
of Boston, a wealthy banker, died Of
apoplsxy,s four = months = after their
marriage. ss-jzrfta WINK
"A late English work on diamonds
and other precious stones, says that
but small portion of the gems sold
and worn are genuine. 3 The diamond
mines of Golconda have given out, and
those of India are rapidly falling. The
scarcity of real gems has been met by
the Ingenuity of sceupterfeiters, who
manufacture spurious gems that fire.
quently deceive expert connoisseurs. -
Large quantities of false gems are made
in Birmingham and Paris, and shipped
East, where the Orientals sell them to
credulous European travellers as the
real article. Nine tenths of the dia-
monds now Haunted by Shoddy and
Petrolia, are mere paste ornaments, for
which their wearers have given fabu-
lous sums.