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

--Adv1ceS from Cd'ah" - IL
Hon. Walter A. Forward, judge OF cue
Supreme Court of Florida, died at pa
yannah on the 10Th inst.
-Gottschalk has returned to New
York. He says the naughty story told
about him is not true. What it grew
from was an ''innocent Irritation.
The receipts of the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company, in round numbers,
the current year, are two miilons o.
dollars ahead of last year at correspond
ing time. and will reach at least elgh-
teen millions of dollars this year.
"A white man named Shower last
week married negro woman at Knox
vile, Tenn. The Chief of Police en-
tered his house. choked him thorough
ly, gave him Gaming, and ordered him
out of town.
"A laboring man, named John
O'Connor, who resided with his son at,
the corner of Tailor and DesPlaines
streets, was accidently run over and
killed by car, yesterday morning, at
the Twelfth street crossing of the Pitts
burgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail-
road, Chicago. .fas O. tsts ~
The long pending controversy rela-
tive to the occupation of the first forty
miles of the Kansas Branch of the Pa
cific Railroad, has been formally deci-
ded by the President in favor of its ac-
ceptance, and Government bonds,
amounting to 500, 600, will be immedi-
ately issued to the road. aH7
"A N. York correspondent says there
are SAC, 100000 unclaimed deposits in
the Savings Banks of that city. These
millions have been accommodating for a
century or more in New York, and are
now regarded as part of the capital stock
of the banks. since there is not the re-
hottest probability of any one claiming
the immense fund or any portion of it.
"A Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, paper
tells of a man that failed in business
four times; been upset in a stage coach,
and thrown down an embankment of
sixty feet; fell head foremost through a
halfway in store at Reading; has been
married three times and is the father of
twenty-one children. Yet he ''still
lives" and is in business at Harrisburg.
-Garibaldi offers himself as a can
didate for representative of Turin In
the next Italian legislature, with view
to preventing the annexation of Savoy
of France, and of Fastening the con-
quest of Venetia and the Papal States.
Lady Raglan, the widow of the
English commander-in-chief in the
Crimean war, died recently in England.
Since the death of her husband of chol-
era in 1856, Lady Raglan has been in
the enjoyment of pension of Ell 1000,
and e., 900 were settled by government
on her son, the present Lord Raglan.
Secretary Station has decided that
Capt Newcomb, who sometime ago
tried to take ship load of prostitutes
| from Nashville to Louisville, and was
forbidden to land there, and after feed
ing them a month, returned to Nash
vile, shall be paid for seeding the crea-
lures.
The Sultan of Turkey has shocked
all true believers of the innovation
which he is understood to have Just
perpetrated. He is sitting for his por-
trait to French artist. As all repre-
sensations of the forms of living beings
are prohibited by the faith of Islam,
this is naturally regarded with great
CONSERVATION by the Constantinopoli-
tans.
The French Government, with all
its well-known care for due information
of its subjects, publishes an evening pa
per at a sou per copy-rather less than
the cost of the stamp it bears. Still
further to maintain its desire of dissem-
mating authentic intelligence, the pa
per is carried into the country towns
and hawked about the streets by the
employees of the postoffice.
JEFF. Davis asked an officer at Fort
ress Monroe whether he thought that
the people at the North desired his ex-
ecution. The officer replied that he
had been SC long on duty he could not
speak for those at home, but the army
was unanimous in the sentiment that he
should be hanged!
Says Mencius: 81 am rudely treated,
let me examine the cause, and if can
not discover any improperly in my own
conduct, 1 may disregard the rudeness,
and consider him who displays it as no
better than brute, and why should the
conduct of brute disturb me.
AT funeral procession in Perry on
Sunday, a Mr.. Hough and his wife
were thrown out of a carriage by run
away horse. Mr.. Hough struck upon
his head on a sidewalk platform, his
brains being dashed out. Mrs. H. was
seriously, though not fatally, wounded
Eastern papers state that six inch
es of snow fell at Ashland, Aroostook
county, Me-, on Monday of last week,
and that snow in the woods, thirty
miles above,is fifteen inches deep, load
ing and breaking down the trees. The
lumber business this winter will be
quite brisk on the upper st. John and
Aroostook rivers.