Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-10-28
CLIPPINGS.

--.Ilf66 JeQQ6r IanKe6 girls were
weighed at the Springfield arsenal, and
aggregated 557 pounds.
Travellers arriving from Nice, at
Mariseilles, are fumigated in a room set
apart for that purpose, so as to disinfect
them from the cholera.
AT Visalis, Cal, married women go
to school with their children. Some
times the mothers and the children are
all between four and eighteen.
Two German girls from Blooming
ton, ILL.,, who had been unwittingly in
weighed into house of i'll fame at st.
Louis, attempted TO commit suicide by
taking opium.
An affray occurred at Coultersville.
Pa, on Saturday night, on the occasion
of social party, in which one man was
killed and another MORALLY wounded.
A st. Louis street car conductor
was fined $25 for trying to put woman
off the cars, supposing she was negro.
She proved that she was an Indian.
For wedding coming off in New
York, one millinery establishment has
some sixty odd dresses in charge, which
will cost money enough to buy thous-
ands of acres of land in Nebraska, Da-
cotah, or Idaho.
The bloodhounds, Hero and Jack,
used to guard and rend the Union pris-
oners at Richmond and Andersonville,
have been bought by George K. Good
win, of Boston, for 81, 400. -.
"A lady in Philadelphia fell from "a
buggy the other day and struck the
back of her head against the stone
pavement. Had it not been for her
waterfall, her brains would have been
knocked out.
Edwin Forrest owns very valuable
estate near Philadelphia. There is an
oak tree on the premises which he has
declared he would not sell for So, 200, :
600.
"A Peoria fisherman caught 300 mud
turtles at one haul of his net the other
day, some of them weighing 90 pounds.
Turtle soup, as a consequence, is cheap
at present in Peoria.
Last Sunday young man named
Fay, while hunting in a cove of Fox
Lake, was shot by one of his compan-
ions, from the effects of which he died
about ten o'clock that evening.
The Rev. Mr.. Burton, of Hartford,
Connecticut, the witty and eccentric
congregational clergyman, who preach
ed for the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher
last summer, has received call from
the first Congregational church of Cali
fornia. Salary, $1,000 in gold; expenses
to San Francisco paid.
The rebel General Hood has recent
~ married Miss Preston, of Kentucky.
He is said to be preparing history OF
the war, and has gone to Washington
and Fortress Monroe, to seek an inter
view with JEFF Davis, to collect mater
ials for his proposed publication from
this very questionable authority.
"A Boston paper says that the de-
mand for goods is so much beyond
the ability of the manufacturers to sup
ply, that one of the largest calico print
ing mills in New England is importing
its printing cloths from England, while
there are other manufacturers in Mas
sachusetts who are importing very large
ly of brown sheetings, which they have
stamped with their own trade mark in
Manchester.
Lady L. Duncan was an heiress,
and Sir w. Duncan was her physician
during severe illness. One day she
told him she had made up her mind to
marry, and upon his asking the name
of the fortunate chosen one, she babe
him go home and open his bible, giving
him the chapter and verse, and he
would find it out. He did 80, and read
what Nathan said unto David, "Thou
art the man.
Nathaniel Hawthorne left several
volumes OF the every day record of his
life, which are now being put in order
for publication in the Atlantic Monthly.
The first instalment will appear in the
January number, under the head OF
Passages from Hawthorne's Diary. -
The journal begins with his college
days, and is said to be very full during
the period of his residence at Brook
Farm and Concord. His foreign diary
Is also very complete.
The President has restored the
property of DIR. Mercer, relation of
the Carols, of Washington; DIR. Camp
bell, and Mrs. Slocum, the beautiful
daughter of Mr.. Day, of Connecticut,
whose husband is one of the great
sugar-refners of New Orleans, and who
held prominent position on the rebel
artillery corps of that city. General
Sheridan and other United States off,
GERS, who had occupied some of the
houses, are obliged to seek other quar-
tiers.
The Constitutional, the official or
gan of Louis Napoleon, has been re-
quested by his majesty to deny the fact
of the publication of the empress book
on "Mexico from Providential Point
of View" AS on former occasion of
the kind, the emperor displays his ieal-
ously Of the literary genius of his wife
In this petty way, by causing the official
journal to deny Eugene s authorship as
soon as her production, as in the in
stance of that on Mexico, attracts the
attention of the public, and promises
to enhance the literary reputation of
her majesty.
The London Times says the cattle
plague has suddenly exhibited an entire
ly new and unexpected development.
A report of Professor Simmonds Just
issded to the Clerk of the Council,
proves that the disease has broken out
among the sheep, accompanied by all
its most fatal characteristics; end fur
Their, that there is every appearance of
the infection having been communicated
both from sleeps to COWS, and from
COWS to sheep.