Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-11-18


Of Montbard. France. The unveiiing
of II was the occasion of three days
popular festival.
A Young Scotch nobleman, still
minor, has been lately playing alta Ger
man watering place, losing on an avar-
age e1, 500 day! An English paper
hopes that he at least respects the Sun
day, and thereby saves something by
his good bringing up.
A blind highwayman is among, the
recent novelties in crime. He has been
operating in the vicinity OF HALIFAX,
England. He has prediction for
knocking down folks and robbing them
of their watches. Pity the sorrows OF
blind old mani
DIR. Hollands life of Abraham Lin
coin, Just issued, is dedicated to Andrew
Johnson ''with the prayer that history,
which will associate their names forever,
may be able to find no seam where then
administrations were joined, and marx
no change of texture by. which they may
be contraSted."
An old farmer, aged rs, living near
Indianapolis, having been missed for SIX
weeks, was found dead under the floor
of his own house. His young wife and
Juvenile farmer living in the neigh
borhood, have been arrested on suspi-
cion of knowing something about the at
fair.
President Falcon, of Venezuela, re-
signed on October Sd, on account of the
bad state of his health. On the same
day General A. Guzman Blanco assumed
the office of President. He at once ap-
pointed General Falcon as Commander
in Chief
Il. III. Walker, a clerk in the Com
missary Department at Washington,
was instantly killed by falling down the
spiral stair case at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. He lost his balance while trying
to open door.
"A correspondent of the Little Rock
Ark Unconditional Union, states that
while travelling through West Missis-
sippi lately, he stopped at the village of
Rodney, Jefferson county. On the al
ternoon of his arrival great excitement
was caused by the announcements that a
party of Jayhawkers had crossed from
Louisiana, with the avowed purpose of
burning and sacking the town. The
Sheriff, with ''posse" well armed, went
in pursuit, and in the action that en-
sued the guerrilla chief, Wilson, was
killed, and his lieutenant, Victor, NOR
tally wounded. Two were captured,
and the remainder of the gang fed. The
fight lasted half an hour. This is the
only instance of brigandage that has
occurred in that section of Mississippi
since the surrender of the department.
We hear with qualification, that the
immense peat beds in this State are
now used with great success, both as
fuel for making steam-which IS said TO
be equal to coal and also for all domes-
tic purposes. The vast Cayuga marshes
are reported to be, below the cane bot
toms, which are used to make paper of,
and for which they are excellent mate
rial, enc vast peat bed, and this lying
upon the top of good salt lands. If
the report is correct, the 10000 acres
of these marshy lands will not only
prove fortune to the owners, but OF
great practical benefit to the people,
NeD York Elrp7 eSs.
DIR. Velpean, a distinguished French
Surgeon says:
Il am obliged to avow that it is not
always in our power to point out an eff
ficacious a remedy. The cholera is no
doubt caused by the introduction of a
poison into the organism. If the spoi
sonous element is in small quantity,
and the organism is strong. it makes no
ravages, if the contrary be the case, the
danger il real. Also when the patient
absOrbs what is administered to him,
his cure is probable. But sometimes
the stomach refuses to absorb anything,
and in this case recourses should be had
to external means. which are often in
sufficient. In word, the malady al
ways commences by characteristic sym
toms, such as premonitory diarrhea.
The preventive treatment is easy, and
it is for each person to guard himself.
Excess of every kind shouldbe carefully
! avoided, and the rules of salubrity care
fully observed. The means of arrest
ing the malady at its outset are very sim
pie. My advice is this-pour from three
, to four drops of laudanum on lump of
sugar and swallow 1t. Repeat in two
hours afterwards, and SO on until the
cholic and vomiting pass away. Take
also very small injections of starch, pop
by flowers with six, seven, eight, or
ten drops of laudanum. This treatment
will almost always suffice to stop the
diarrhea, and guarantee against the
malady."