Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1865-08-26
General News.


at Detroit, as benefits his ripe age of "a.
He resides on Jefferson avenue In q
handsome modern-built brick house,
while his son Major Cass, formerly Uni
ted States minister at Rome, occupies
the family homestead two squares dis
tant. The Major drives fine horses, al
ways appears in yellow kid gloves, and
is great favorite in fashionable socl-
ETY..
"A soldier who was guilty of gross
cowardice at the battle of the Wilder
ness, was tried by court martial at New
York for the offence and sentenced to
be shot. He was taken to Broome
Street Barracks, but had not been there
half an hour when he sent polite note
down to the officer below for pass.
Those in charge of the Office failing to
keep a correct account of their prison
ers, gave the pass, and the result was
the fellow walked out and has not been
seen since.
THE Worcester Spy prints a gen
uine curiosity in doctors bill, dated no
longer ago than 1880. The price of a
visit in those days was fifteen cents, but
when the conscientious physician took
one ride to see several patients, he di-
vided the price among them, SO that
the most frequent item In the bill is s'to
part visit, .0S. - The charges for medi-
cine range from five to twenty cents,
and the highest amount in the column
is ''to sundry medicine, compound tine
ture, and the box, 39.Ha The total OF
the bill, which is for constant attend
ance and medicine for period of eight
months, the visits averaging as often as
once week, is less than five dollars.
Betsy Wilder, negro woman, died
in Ri, hmond, last week, aged los years.
She was presnt at Yorktown, Virginia,
when CORVALLIS surrendered his army,
and used to relate with peculiar pleasure
many incidents connected with that
memorable event. A son ninety years
of age attended the funeral of his ven
cradle mother. This old negro man
resides at Petersburg, and apparently
bids fair to attain even a greater age
than his mother.
in Wiltshire, England, the authori-
ties adopted singular method of keep
ing the peace at the elections. They
picked out two hundred of the worst
rowdies and made them special consta-
bles for the day, to keep all the people
in order. The ''roughs" were delight
ed with the job, and with the pay at
tached to it five shillings each.) The
chief constable got them all together,
marched them to the public hall, and
there locked them in till the election
was over. The consequence was that
everything passed off without distur-
bance.
Miss Edmonia Lewis, the colored
sculptor, who so beautifully executed
the busts of Colonel Shaw, 54th Massa.
chusetts colored infantry, and John
| Brown, has been teaching school In
Richmond, the past month. She, how
ever, leaves for Florence, Italy, by the
steamer from New York, on the 10Th In
slant, intending abroad to complete hel
education, at the same time chiseline
busts of Abraham Lincoln, Horace
Mann and others, for which she now
holds orders. EIR
The Escaut of Antwerp relates an
| incident which occurred recently In the
geological Gardens, in that town. In
the evening, one of the keepers, armed
with long whip, entered the large cage
of the monkey tribe, for the purpose of
driving them to their respective com
partments. All the inmates scampered
off to their respective cages, with the
exception of one of the Oldest and lar
gest, which obstinately refused to come
down from his perch, and on receiving
a sharp lash with the whip, it lesped on
the keeper, got astride on his shoulders,
and began to scratch and bite him with
great fury. The keeper beat the monk
ey with the handle of the whip, and
would soon have got rid of him had not
the other monkeys come to their COM
panion's assistance, and joined in the at
tack. Thus assailed, the man was oblig
to cry for help, and several keepers has.
tened. to the spot, and on their approach
the animals took to flight. The man.
who was terribly scratched and bitten IN
twenty-three places, lost SO much blood
that he was obliged to keep his bed foi
two days.
A New Fowi.-A fearful giant in the
shape of a barn-yard fowl has been in.
troduced into Scotland from Central
India, called the Begun Gayusa," O
crt of which is given in the Angus,