Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-10-06
CLIPPINGS.
MISCELLANEOUS AND NEWS lTEMs.


The Fredericksburg (Va.) Herald
announces that steam sugar refinery
is in operation in Richmond-the only
establishment in the South outside of
New Orleans.
The Paris police have just GiscOv-
cred in the Rue des JardinlerS a clan
destine slaughter house for horses,
which daily passed its product OF the
-narket as beef. s.. O. 49,
saws that the phyAeiIX KnickeT6osh LEI
College in that city, in dissee Mehl q
body of negro convict few days ago,
found his heart on the right side and
his liver on the left. Oh -'-----@-
"A lucky man in Cleveland, made a
strike at a sale of unclaimed baggage on
Wednesday. He bought a rusty ola
trunk for two dollars, which contained
twelve pairs of new fine boots.
The bulk of grain at the ruins of
the Sturges elevator, Buffalo, is still
burning, although the fire occurred sew
en- weeks ago. On Tuesday the flames
burst forth as vigorously as on the day
of the fire. 81. ..-.-. -...-.-.-F
The Mississippi and Alabama Oil
and Mining Company are reported to
have struck oil, at the depth of two
hundred feet, near CORTLAND, Alaba-
ma, on the 9th instant. CORTLAND is
on the line of the Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad. ger
The scene of the battle of Sadowa
is being devastated by the cholera
There are not more than few thousand
of inhabitants in the whole district, and
of these two hundred died in a few
days. l. ~
In st. Louis on Wednesday man
named Unborn, seeing a wagon passing
covered with large piece of canvas,
lifted the corner of the covering, and to
his horror saw two uncoffined victims of
the cholera He was instantly taken
with the disease and died in few
hours.
"A Tribune st. Louis correspondent
says that the Tyler, Arkansas, pa
pers, of the 18th inst, say that a
under cont ntl of UAfted pStat States t tE3ars
were fired into by an Arkansian, who
was not aware that the war was over.
The six men who recently exploded
a barrel of gunpowder under a negro
cabin, near Vicksburg, were arrested
on Tuesday, on information furnished
by their colOred servants, by a small
squad of mill tary, who attempted to
take them to place of confinement,
when they were met by thirty men
armed with9revolvers, by whom the
prisoners We're liberated and the sol
dIers driven away.
"A Montreal telegram of the 18th.
says a raft, on Friday night, during the
storm and darkness, with thirty men on
1t, was driven into the Cedar Rapids |
from its anchorage, and the logs were
dashed IN every direction. 1t might be
supposed that there would be no hope
for any one on board, but four Indians
having reached an island.
rom which they were rescuednexa day.
Ten of the crew were Canadians, ten
IRISH and Seoth, and ten Indians. 1
Seventeen boys, committed for
heft, were confined in cell In the
POmbs, New York, on Wednesday,
light, and on Thursday morning. when /
'rought into court, one of them pre-
ented pitiable appearance. His face
vas gnawed and bitten in a dozen pla-
es by rats, more than a thousand lofl
7hich, he said, kept up spirited CON
est with the boys Tor the mastery iii |
light long. Three other boys were {
itten as well as he, but not so badly.
heir clothes and every exposed part
their persons were attacked by thesel
ermin, and The poor little fellows could
OF sleep. 7f"