Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-01
miscellaneous Items.

by honey bee in August last. The
poison of the sting caused severe
swelling, and so Frustrated her nervous
system as to confne her TO bed, and
eventually caused her death last month.
The coal fields OF America cover
| 22F, 900 square miles, an area equal to
twenty-eight such states as Massachu'
sets. One cubic mile will furnish
seven millions of tons annually for q
Thousand years. At this rate our GOA
will last sixty thousand years.
The total losses from the destruc.
ton of oil b., fire within the last year
will scarcely fall short of $1,000, 900,
which would build over 1000, 900 bbls OF
iron tankage. Producers have at last
come TO a realizing sense of duty, and
the majority of them are erecting iron
Turks, the capacity of which they vary
from one to $4,000 barrels.
The Six Nations tribe of Indians
of New York ask that they may receive
an equivalent for 500, 900 acres of land
in Kansas, which was secured to them
upon the cession to the United States
of their rights to land in Wisconsin,
| Very few of the Indians removed to
Kansas, and their lands there were at
last thrown open to settlers, yet they
never relinqaished their ownership OF
them.
"A valuable cobalt and nickel mine
has been opened in Madison coun ty,
Mo. This ore is worth, In Birming-
ham, England, $400 per ton. 1t is es-
timated that it can be dug from the
mine and delivered at st. Mary's land
ing, on the Mississippi river, at Sc per
ton; from thence to New Orleans for
so; thence to England in cotton ships
as ballast,
The once powerful six Nations have
dwindled down to population of about
4, 900, residing at different places In
Southwestern and Central New York.
They generally cultivate farms with in
dustry and success, the valuation of
their property amounting to 1910, 900,
and that they appreciate the benefits of
civilization is seen by the fact that they
have eight hundred and seventy-two
scholars attending 80 schools.
- Peat is said to exist in Crawford
County, Ohio, in inexhaustible quanti-
ties. 1t is found to abound in Conneaut
marsh and Pymatuning swamp. In
many places it is said the deposit is
twenty or thirty feet deep. The land
has hitherto been considered wo' thless.
Peat is cheaper than coal or wood, and
as there are no coal deposits therea
bouts, and wood for fuel is becoming
scarce, these peat boys may yet become
a wine of wealth to their owners.
In Pittsburg, Pa, few days since.
a lady left her infant of three days old
sleeping in her chamber while she pro-
ceeded to attend to some domestic
duties in an adjoining room. Hearing
q piercing scream from the direction of
the chamber, she FASTENED to the side
of the crib, where she discovered to her
horror a large rat leap from it and dis
appear in a closet. On examining the
child, she found that the rat had eaten
the flesh entirely off three of the fingers
of the right hand, rendering it necessary
to amputate them.
"A piece of work, which is intended
for exhibition at the Paris Exposition,
has just been completed at Washington.
1t is large portfolio. forty-eight by
thirty-fve incnes, and it contains full
set of the United States coast survey
charts. 1t is of Turkey morocco, green
on the outside. and lined with red. with
four clasps of gold plate on silver. The
cover is arranged in panels, in the CEN
tire of which is the inscription, "United
States Charts, Coast Survey Office, Trea-
sury Department, Washington, 1866.
In the other panels is the finest scroll
work.
The Atlantic cable is now in toler-
able working order; the line from San
Francisco to Russia, through Siberia,
and across Behring's Straits, is rapidly
approaching completion; and now we
are to have a new line of communica-
ton between the old and new worlds.
This one will go via Scotland, the Fa-
roe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and
the coast of Labrador. Its length will
be ], $50 miles, divided as follows: From
Scotland to the Farce Islands, $50 miles;
Farce to Iceland, $40 miles; Iceland to
Greenland, $50 miles; Greenland to
Labrador $40 miles. 1t is to be known
as the North Atlantic Telegraph.
"A clerical law suit is at present
exciting the interest of the people of
New Haven, Conn. The Rev. Chaun-
cey Murray, a young Congregational
minister of that city, and formerly of
New York, has sued, tor SANDER, the
Rev. W. Il. Eustes, also of New Haven,
and pastor of one of the wealthiest
churches there. Mr.. Murray lays his
damages at ten thousand dollars. Mr.
Eustes' alleged offence was charging
Mr.. Murray with forgery and having
been in Jail. He had refused to with
draw the charge or apologize for It,
The case will be tried In December.
A London letter writer says that
Lord Francis Russell, brother of Earl
Russell, was lately brought up before a
magistrate on the charge of cruelty to
his horses. The cruelty was amply
proved, and the noble lord was fined
about seven dollars. He went out of
the court telling the magistrates that if
they came in his path the next time he
was driving, he would drive over them.
Within the same week a laboring man
was brought up on similar but milder
charge. and he was sentenced to four
teen days of hard labor.
The news by the last steamer says
that the health of Mrs. Charlotte
Macmillan, now ex-Empress of Mexico
has materially improved. A cores
pondent of the Independence Beige
says:
The improvement is remarkable, so
much so that the august patient was
able to hear mass in the chapel of the
chateau. Her physician has succeeded
in nearly altogether dissipating the