Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-15
mIsCELLasEoUs AND VIEWS ITEMS.


fore he was discovered and rescued.
The amount of glass desired iol
the windows of the Paris Exposition, il
so, 00O square meters, which is a suffi
cient quantity to cover nearly twenty
acres of land.
- In Mobile, last year, there was one
income over $50, 900, three over $50, 600,
eighteen over $4,000, eighty-fve over
s., 900, and seven hundred and seventy
one over 81 900 and under SIS, 600
"A man having died of delirium tre-
mems in Lewisburg, Ohio, his wife
brought suit against the two persons
who had sold him the liquor and recov-
cred damages.
\ = There are So Protestant churches
In China, and 50 Protestant mission
aries are also settled in Nagasaki and
Yokohama, In Japan. Many of the rich
Japanese are learning from the mis-
sionaries the languages of the Western
nations.
"A colored man created a sensation
in Richmond the other day by driving
through the streets in an open, one
1OAnO VI DIOOLu
straw, with the exception of the running
gear, the wheels being sawed out of the
solid timber, Is inches in diameter.
a-Englishmen drink much beer, and
also pay much money for it. A Man
chester paper says that a hotel aud res
tuarant keeper in that city asks e24,-
600 for the good will of his business:
his profits are 60, 500 per annum, and
the profit on the sale of beer is $50 per
cent, and on stout 200 per cent.
Orders have been issued for the
practice of running drill in the British
army. For the fortnight, the distance
run is not to exceed 300 yards; second
fortnight, the distance may be increas-
ed to 600; third, 900. The distance may
be increased to 1000 yards daily, with
arms and accoutrements carried on alter
nate days.
The pressure in Salt Lake City in
regard to the recent assassination of
DIR. Robinson has become SO strong that
the city authorities have offered a re-
ward of g, 900 for the apprehension of
the murderer. The citizens have added
to this Sc, $50, and if there is any virtue
lie
Brigham Young headed the subscrip-
tion list.
- The San Francisco Bulletin SAYS
that larger fortunes are now being made
from quartz mining, than were ever
made in the palmiest days of the pla-
GERS. This is owing to the increased
experience, cheaper labor, and improv-
ed machinery. Quartz mining is a per-
manent industry, and affords capitalists
a safe and very remunerative field for
investment.
1t is stated as fact, known to but
few, perhaps beyond his own family,
that Mr.. Peabody has just given fifteen
hundred thousand dollars to be divided
among his relatives, In sums varying
from fifty to one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars; thus being his own
executor while living, instead of leav-
ing a legacy of lawsuits to his friends
after his decease.
The Buffalo Express says that
leading English wooden manufacturer,
Mr.. Carmichael, is about to remove his
entire mandatory. including ma
chinery, capital and operatives, from
England to this country, and will locate
in Buffalo. He makes a speciality of
plaids and Balmoral skirts, but will
enter on the general manufacture of
wooden goods upon an extensive scale
1t is reported that the cattle dis
ease is raging with singular fatality in
all those counties of Kentucky where
the Texas cattle, imported there during
the summer, have been herded. Thou
sands of native cattle have died, and
the citizens are signing petitions to the
Legislature to pass a law preventing
the importation of Texas into the State
On some farms in Shelby County every
head of cattle has died. rs
"A boId burglary and cold-blooded
murder were committed at Omaha on
the 23d ult. The store of W. b.
King Il Co., wholesale grocery estab
lishment, was entered, the bookkeeper
murdered while asleep, the safe broken
open and robbed, and the building then
fired. The fire was discovered and ex-
tinguished after heavy damage to the
store. The burglars secured about fif-
teen hundred dollars. The name of
the murdered bookkeeper is Wesley
Higgins. formerly resident of Water
ford, Penn, - III .t,.se.
The overland mail between the At
lantic coast and California has at last
been transferred from the Kansas to the
Omaha and Union Pacific Railroad
route. The first installment, weighing
some ZOO pounds, arrived at Omaha,
from the East, on Tuesday night. The
Western Stage Company have contract
ed with the post office department for
the carrying of 500 pounds of mail mat
ter daily from the western terminus of
the Chicago and Northwestern railroad
TO Omaha, until that great thorough
| fare shall be completed to its connec-
ton at Omaha with the Union Pacific
railroad - ,.....
A Baltimore paper of the 25th ult.
says that some weeks since, in case
before the Circuit Court of Anne Arun-
del county, Judge Magruder refused to
allow the evidence of colored woman
to be received, stating that according
to the laws of Maryland, no negro could
testify in any case where one of the
parties to the suit was a white person.
He also declared that the civil rights
bill was unconstitutional. On Saturday
he was taken before United States Com
missioner Brooks, on the charge of vio-
latiDg the provisions of this act, He
declined all examination, and gave a
bond TO await the action of the United
States Grand Jury, in December. 1t Is