Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-03-10
CLIPPINGS.


George Sand MADAM Dudevant)
has realized over $780, 900 from her
writings, which comprise about rs
volumes.
The Baptists in New England are
making efforts to raise $500, 600 for the
endowment of Brown University at
Providence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jesse Atwood, of New
York, have been married 65 years. Mr.
Atwood is 88 years old and has voted for
every President since John Adams was
candidate, and his wife is 81.
1t is charged upon the millionaire
Astor that he is the great bull of the
rents, aud has raised the price of his
1900 tenement houses ut one fell
swoop. There are mansions spoken of
as difficult of access to rich men, and
such acts as these show the reason.
1t is said to have been the request
of the late Bishop Fitzpatrick. just be-
fore he died, that when dead, no
flowers should be put around him.
devote flowers" he said, ''to the sane
tuary and to the young, but DO not
mingle theE purity with the earth's cor
ruption."
The Cleveland Herald reports that
on Friday night the earth in the vicinity
of East Cleveland, Ohio, cracked open
with loud dull report, like an earth
quake. The assure was two or three
inches wide aud extended into the
ground several feet. 1t damaged sew
eral honses, and alarmed the people
generally.
The Maine lumbermen have had O
convention to discuss the Reciprocity
Treaty. The quantity of lumber cut
and manufactured annually throughout
the State is reported at !, 150, 000, 900 of
feet; valuation of the same, about $780,
100000.
The Philadelphians are jubilant
over their business prospects. 5000, 900
have been subscribed for the establish
ment of a line of southern steamers,
and the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany have resolved to establish a line
of steamers between Philadelphia and
Liverpool.
The sum of $3.50 has already
been contributed and large portion
paid into the hands of the Western
Sanitary Commission, by the colored
soldiers and freedmen of the United |
States, for the erection of national
monument at Washington to the mem |
mory of Mr.. Lincoln "a spontaneous
offering to the great liberator of their |
race.
When Rev. Samuel Fiske Dunn
Browne was examined for ordination,
one of the innate theologians, sticklers |
for the straightest school of orthodoxy,
asked the candidate whether, in the case |
of the man who had the withered hand, it |
was healed by himself. or whether it was
the Lord that healed him. "Well," re-
piled the candidate, 81 always supposed |
the man had hand i'll it.
AT the United States arsenal at
Watertown, Massachusetts,, three hum
dred and sixty men are still engaged in
the manufacture of iron gun carriages, |
of the Rodman pattern, designed for the |
thorough arming of the forts of our
coast from the borders of Maine to the |
shores of California and Oregon. The |
carriages are chiefly for guns of ten or
fifteeu-inch bore, and at present orders |
are on hand for one hundred and fifty. |
The Empress Eugene is described |
as looking at late imperial bal Every |
lovely, but somewhat careworu. Trail |
ling evies fall over a tulle dress, of |
which the front is covered by the impe- |
rial bee-not golden bee, but brown, |
buZzing, working bee; scarf of golden |
tulle, worn sashwise, aud floating around |
her slight figure; while the crown dia- |
mond. is placed on her, and appears to |
have alighted on the coronet which en-
circles her exquisite head"
Some years ago a native of Newbu- |
ryport, now residing in Boston, met |
there a man intoxicated and in want. |
The man said he had been led away |
and was DESTROYS of assistance. He was |
taken in, and when sober, money was |
furnished him to return to his home in |
New York. Recently that man, ever |
sober and respectable, died rich. and |
recollecting the kindness shown him |
by the one who acted the part of the |
good Samaritan, bequeathed him $780,
900.
The enormous prices charged in |
this country for certain articles, are |
causing many to send abroad for them,
as it is found they can be purchased In |
London and Paris at retail, and import
ed at less cost and of better quality /
than the same articles can be bought |,
for here. French boots, shoes, gloves,
umbrellas, English boots, articles of
wearing apparel, &C., are ordered now
by individuals for their own use by
every steamer. Printers and publishers
are also turning their attention to the
importation of printing paper, and
large quantity will be imported this
Spring.
The Pope has lately uttered pro
phecy. According to his Holiness, the
year 1866 is to be full of horrors, the
abomination of desolation, and he is to
leave Rome in sorrow and dependence.
In 1867 the fierce struggle will still go
on between the Church and its enemies;
but in 1868 the Church will triumph.
and Pho Mono will enter Rome in the
plenitude of power. After living to see
the mighty cause of truth prevail, the
Holy Father announces that he will be
taken away from sublunary cares to sit
by the side of st. Peter. There are
several young Southerners in Paris en-
route to join the Papal army. They
must be greatly encouraged by this
fiattering prediction.
The Bunker Hill Aurora has this
story:
A few Sundays ago we heard a cler-