Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-09-30

A valuable Deu OF allm las DcCA
discovered near Blairsville, Pa
There are four hundred oil wells in
Canada, thirty of which are In working
order.
: In st. Mary's County, Maryland,
they are manufacturing brandy from
watermelons.
Mace and Wormald are going to
brrise each other for the champion belt
of England, on the LIST of November.
About 20 persons have been bitten
by dogs at Indianapolis In few days
Most of the dogs are supposed to be
mad
Fanny Moore, woman of ill-fame at
Louisville, was arrested the other day
at the complaint Of the boys father.
charged with sedueing a young lad to
leave his home. She was held to bail
TO answer.
DIR. Joseph Fell a physician of II
dianapolis, has been arrested on a
charge of procuring an abortion on his
own wife.
A correspondent, writing at De-
troit, declares that there are ''now no
less than two hundred young women in
that city undergoing the treatment that
directly begets infanticide," besides
many married women in like condi-
ton. soy
"A young coIored man of ability
and good character, Richard T.. Green
er, of Boston, has Just entered the fresh
man class at Harvard college.
Punch says that his holiness the
Pope has given positive orders that all his
bulls shall be kept within the precincts
of the Vatican while the cattle disease
is rife.
The st. Louis Democrat of the
20th.ult says: Mr.. Laws. formerly a
Presbyterian clergyman at Fulton, Mo-,
is President of the new New York gold
board, at salary of five thousand dol
lars per annum. Before his departure
from Missouri he was incarcerated for a
time in Gratiot street prison on a charge
of entertaining sympathies with seces-
sion. ~
-Drulop, an inventor of France, has
designed a new umbrella, which is 81
simple walking stick without any COW
ering, from which the rain spreads out
to the form of an umbrella. The prin-
ciple is now secret, but is supposed to
be a new application of electricity.
BY the census of 1860, sugar refin-
ing in the Western States is represent
ed by five establishments, with an in
vested capital OF S1,175, 600, paying for
raw material g, 519, 600, for labor. $780,
600, employing 374 male hands, and
producing annually products to the
amount of S3,089, 800.
"A Ball was given at Brest, during
the presence of the French and English
fleets, on board the vessel, Vile de Ly-
ons. The lady who did the honors was
the Marchioness di Chasseloup-Lambat,
an American.
George Augustus, whose surname
is Sala, will deliver three lectures at
Glasgow towards the close of September,
on "Three Phases of Civilization: the
United States, Mexico and Algeria"
John Leonard, of Genesee, n. Y,
attempted to kill his daughter because
she visited at the house of a negro
neighbor. He attacked her with bay
onet. and stabbed her several times, but
not fatally.
A swamp in Tewksberry, Massachu-
sets, has been on fire for some time,
and the combustion having worked into
a peat bed, eighteen to twenty inches.
continues to advance. The roots of the
trees are burned off and they ,topple
over, adding fuel to the fame.
The Emperor of Russia is, it is said,
convinced that the time has come for
adopting milder measures In Poland
than heretofore. He has found that the
great scheme of reconstruction meets
with insurmountable obstacles, and he
is disposed to modify it. By way of
the me-. and more merciful
regime, it is rumored that he young
Czarewitch Nicholas, will visit the coun-
try. t.
The Raleigh Standard urges that
the questions of paying the rebel States
debt, and of giving the negroes suffrage
and allowing them to testify In courts,
should not be discussed at all in the
Constitutional Convention; the wise pol
icy being to pass them over to the Lee
gislature. The idea is to get the Con-
stitution in such shape that it will be
adopted by Congress; then the State
will be perfectly free to legislate as it
pleases.
The Herald's Washington special
says: ''The whole number of negro
troops mustered into the service since
the commencement of the war is, In
round numbers, $50, 600. The deaths
and causalities among them greatly ex-
ceeded the proportion among the
whites, and amounted to over $4,000.
Sixty thousand of the remaining $780,
600 have lately been ordered mustered
out in the several departments.
Mr.. Shaft, one of the publishers of
the Lockport Bee, democratic paper,
disappeared suddenly last week, after
borrowing various sums of money,
ranging it is said, from SIS to 81, 500,
and negotiating note which the sup
posed endorsers pronounce a forgery
His suffering friends have got out war
rant, and will send for him. ,9m
A curious protest against capital
punishment has just been offered at Pa.
lermo. At a recent execution, the space
in front of the scaffold was almost de-
l.