Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-07-21
MISCELLANEOUS.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Five cases of cholera were reported
IN Brooklyn on Tuesday morning.
Chung Wan, the first Chinaman ever
executed ia San Francisco, was hung on the
9TH for murder.
Senator James III. Lane died at Leav-
enwOrth, Kansas, on Tuesday, shortly after -
O'Clock. His remains 90 To Lawrence, TX is
yet uncertain who will be his successor.
Over S33, 900 have thus far been sub
scribed In the city Of New York for the relief
Of the sufferers by the Portland cOnfagratiOn;
IN Chicago SD, 600.
A Washington dispatch says that the
weather there is the hottest known for some
years. The Thermometer stands at 100 de-
grees in the shade.
A dispatch from New York saws:
-Four ship loads of MIormOns have arrived
there within the month past, and five more
vessels with similar loads are now on their
way.
The Chicago Directory for this year
has lust been issued. Ii contains over seven
ty-fOuT thousand names being, an increase
over last year Of over twenty thousand.
Governor Marshall, of Minnesota, has
appointed Colonel III. Mattson, State Emil
grant Agent. to go to Milwaukee and Chicago
10 assist emigrants from Europe, Who are de-
Stltu1 "a AucAlAAit5 III MlhutSOAa.
The work of dredging the harbor of
Michigan City, Ind, has commenced, and il
IL expected that, by the middle of August
next, vessels OF eight to ten feet draft will be
able to enter.
A fatal case of what is called the Ash
attic cholera occurred at Cincinnati, Tuesday,
IN the same locality in which it first broke out
IN 1919. Two cases Of cholera were also re-
ported in Brooklyn Wednesday.
The Nebraska Legislature in Joint
ballot ON the nth elected Mai. Gen. John NJ.
Thayer and F. W. Upton to the United
States Senate. Both are republican. The
Legislature has adjourned sine die.
The Portland Mutual Insurance Com
pahy, which has been reported as losing only
100000, cannot lose less than $4OaO00. IL
will be able to pay about 20 per cent. on the
loss. This will fall very severely upon wild
ows, orphans and the poorer classes, who in
sured IN the company.
An American family who were living
fourteen miles from the Rio Grande, were or
dered TO leave the country, as they were sus-
pected or holding secret communication with
the French. Not complying, their house was
burned, and the inmates, not being allowed to
leave were burned 10 crisp. The family con-
sisted Of man, his wife, and two daughter.
At a railroad meeting at Council
Bluffs, lows below Omaha, the citizens voted
to accept a proposition from the Chicago
and Northwestern Railroad Company, to ex-
tend that line to that city, and the amount of
money asked for was subscribed on the SPOT.
DR.. Mack has been requested, by the
stockholders Of the Chicago Republican. to
resign the management of that paper. He
viii probably be succeeded by J. ?. Luce, late
Of the La Fayette Journal.
The consent of Congress is asked by
Thomas A. Scott and other eminent engineers.
to tunnel the Mississippi at st. Louis, instead
OF bridging IL; wrought iron to be used in its
construction; cost not to exceed three mill
lions; time within three years.
A letter from Capt. Fisk's emigration
expedition. dated 50 miles beyond Abercrom-
be July End. says game is abundant and
grass, water and wood plentiful. Everything
IL going on finely. They had passed several
of Gen. Sibley's Notifications, erected against
the Indians in 1868.