Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-22


to be marked by cast iron head block
weighing not less than twenty pounds
covered with a solution of zinc, t.
prevent rust. with the name of the sol
der, his rank, regiment, company, anC
date of burial, in raised letters, cast OF
the top. and the number of the grave
on the side.
The Bastrop (Texas) Advertiser
says that thousands of pounds of cot
ton will be lost in that neighborhood
for the want of hands to pick it out
The negroes about Bastrop have called
a mass meeting for the 9th of Decem.
Der, for the purpose of establishing q
regular system of labor, and adopting
measures for the general good of the
race.
"A heavy defalcation has been dis
covered in the Albany City Govern
ment. James Mcintyre, lately Occu-
plying the position of Receiver of Taxes
is charged with abstracting city funds
to the amount of So, 548 II. A million
of money has passed through his hands
yearly. Tie city is secured from any
loss, as his bondsmen are responsible,
although. qualifying only in $4,000.
The Louisville kentucky Courier
says that the glass works of that city
employ fifty-five hands, aud turn out
fourteen thousand pieces day. The
daily consumption of material is ton
and half of sand, twelve hundred
pounds of soda ash, twelve bushels of
lime, two of salt and one hundred OF
coal. The present annual value of the
products is about seventy five thousand
dollars.
In view of prospective annexation,
it Is a matter of congratulation to know
that Upper Canada is making rapid adj
vancement in educational matters. The
school report for 1865 is just out, and
from it we learn that In 1865 the num-
Der of pupils in attendance of school
age was 361, 617, and of other ages
% ,095, making a total of 383, 652. As
the whole number reported is 426, 757,
this leaves 43, los that fail to attend
school.
Suit has been brought in the
Fourth District Court of New Orleans
against Col. Oscar Burbridge of Ky, to
recover $1,000 900 as damages for the
wrongful seizure and forcible capture
of 758 bales of cotton at Shreveport,
La, on the LIST OF November, 1865, by
said Burbridge, who was Special Super
vising Ageut of the Treasury Depart
ment of the United States. Robert G..
Carter, Jerome Bradley, and William
S. Chapman are parties to the suit.
- 1t is a singular coincidence that
Major General Grant, a Scotch officer
la the British army, III ITS, defeated
General Lee, in command of the Amer
lean forces in New Jersey, and was af-
terward promoted to the rank of Lieu
tenant General, and subsequently to
that of General, in the British army.
He died Every old" at his seat at Bal
lendallock, near Elgin, Scotland, in
1906.
The Boston Commercial Bulletin
states that although the business of
that metropolis might be made TO adj
vance more rapidly, 1t is by no means
declining. In support of this state
ment, so far as relates to foreign trade,
the Journal says the receipts at the
Boston custom house during the cur
rent year have averaged million and
half a month, or twenty per cent.
more than any previous year.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad,
which, although starting at st. Louis,
is really the Southern Pacific, has re-
Gently been permanently organized,
with General Fremont as President
As sketched by the President, the road
| is laid in Southwestern Missouri and
the valley of the Canadian, and gener-
] ally along the thirty fifth parallel to
+! the head of navigation on the Colora-
do, and thence to the Pacific coast
1t is the shortest route by five hun
bred miles of any surveyed for that
purpose, and presents the fewest diff
culties.
A New York correspondent says
People who have journeyed to Phila-
delphia may remember good-looking,
well-dressed man, who comes aboard OF
every train few miles this side of the
city of Brotherly Love, with a basket
of peculiar kind of candy which he
hawks through the cars. He has fol-
lowed this business many years, and up
to 1868 had auassed thirty thousand
dollars. He then invested the whole of
this sum in petroleum well, and ere
tired from the road" Like other oil
spectators, however, he soon lost ev-
cry cent, and is now back to his ola bu-
| slness.
| Violence against citizens not In
sympathy with Mormonism is becom-
ing quite common in Utah. Men who
give utterance to their disapprobation
of the practice of the Saints, are
warned to leave the territory. Prom
inent men among the ''Gentiles, as
all anti .Mormons are called, live IN
constant danger of the assassin. As
saults and murders are of frequent oc-
currence, but in no case are the Grim
inals sought out and punished. The
law officers are Saints of the Church OF
Joe Smith, and seem to regard violence
done to "Gentiles" as no offence against
the law.
In Detroit, on Wednesday, highly
respectable lady was arrested and tried
or the charge of stealing pair OF boots.
Being In a store to buy pair OF shoes,
she was about to leave when the mer-
chant followed and accused her of TAX
ing a pair of boots. She offered to pay
for the value of the boots, but the mer'
chant called the police, and she was
taken TO a station. AS soon as the case
was heard, it was dismissed, 1T being
considered to be one of attempted extor.
ton. But the merchant made a more
formal complaint and the LADY was