Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-09-29
CLIPPINGS.
mIscELLANEoUs AND NEWS ITEMS.

= 1t is said that Hon. Charles Sum-
ner, will shortly be married to Mrs.
Russell Sturges,i wealthy widow of
Boston ~
The late John Laech received from
the publishers OF Punch more than
e40, 900 during the twenty-three years
he was connected With that periodical.
{ -On the 10th ult., 10000 ounces of
gold, valued at $4,000 were deposited
in the branch mint at San Francisco,
the largest amount ever received in a
single day. = -i-it- 'i'5
"A New York paper says that Mrs.
Lincoln, wife of the late President. has
secured rooms at the metropolitan
Hotel, New York, and will spend the
winter in the city. Her arrival has been
delayed by the accident to her youngest
son, at Chicago. e 81, 8
The exports from the port of sSa-
vannah for the last fiscal year amount
TO ST. S25. $50, and the imports to
S35O,9l5, leaving a balance in favor of
exports of 81, 573, 755. The tonnage
employed has been near 1000. 900 10
the foreign trade, and over 80, 900, :
900 in the coasting. @
a-The Cleveland Herald announces
that Mr.. c. @. Hinsdale, after expert
menting for many years, has discovered
the process of making Russian sheet
iron, which has so long been a secret,
and says that company is to be organ
lied in that city for the purpose of
manufacturing it.
The migration of squirrels west
ward, which was noticed all over Mich
Igan short time ago, is now being fol-
lowed by migration of bears. The
same reason accounts for both--a scar
city of mast, as both of these animals
depend alike on nuts, &c, for food. -
Bears are very numerous in the woods
west of Bay City. Persons employed
upon the Bay city and Midland plank
rcad report seeins bhem IN considerable
numbers,
john Clifton, d mulatto, and his
wife. white woman, are confined in
the Louisville workhouse for living to-
gether as man and wife, contrary to the
laws of Kentucky, which forbids. such
marriages. The case is to be carried
before the Court of Common Pleas, the
point to be decided being whether per-
sons legally married in Ohio are legally
married on removing to Kentucky,
where such marriages are forbidden by
the statutes.
The Detroit Board of Trade have
resolved to send as the contribution of
that city to the Paris Exposition half
barrels each of white fish. trout and
siskOwit. 1t is propos d to select first
the finest fish aud the best half barrels,
to pack them well in the packages, and
then recover them in barrels of oak
and sawdust, in order that the packages
may be bright and clear on their recep-
ton at Paris.
1t Is stated that company of Eng
fish capitalists, with capital of two
millions, are about to start in Charles
ton, :. O., an enormous cotton factory
establishment for supplying European
trade. They are backed by the wealth
lest firms IN England and France. Sew
eral other enterprises are under con.
sideratiOn, which, if successful. will
speedily render Charleston the LEADING
city of the South.
"A Massachusetts paper company is
dividing 100 per cent. ont of profits
made from newspaper publishers. The
price of paper is too high. The Boston
Transcript is. now printed on paper
imported from England. 1t is signifi-
cant comment on the manufacturers In
this country that paper can be imported
at saving to consumers. The propri-
etor of Lloyd's Newspaper in London,
has just imported two hundred and
seventy tons of Esparto grass from
Algeria for the manufacture of paper
for that journal. The cost of this kind
of paper is one half that of the linen
fabric. D; 7-T
The Nantucket Inquirer ridicules
the school committee of town in
the interior of the State, who advertise
for a teacher, competent to teach the
higher English branches, also Latin
and Greek, and offer a salary of $500
per annum; and the New Bedford Mer.
curry is reminded of the offer of a mer-
camille house in New York, whose nd
vertisement for clerk was something
like the following: "Wanted-A Young
man of liberal education, an accom-
plished accountant, who can speak the
French and Spanish languages, an ele-
giant penman, of pleasing manners and
OF established religious character, to
whom a small compensation will be
given"
Commander Albert n. Smith, Grief
of the Bureau of Equipment and Re
eliIiting Ia the United States Navy De-
partment at Washington, who died at
Boston on the Sth, was tine son of Real
Admiral Joseph Smith, now on the re-
tired list of the navy, and doing duty
as the Chief of the Bureau of Yards
and Docks ut Boston. A younger broth
er of the deceased was killed while
fighting the Ship Congress against the
Merrlmac, in Hampton Roads. by the
death of these two young men, Rear
Admiral Smith is left cbildless and
alone in the world. Commander Smith
entered the navy on the 25th of Octo-
Der, 1888, and was in active service at
sea until May, 1862, when an illness,
and the one from which he finally died,
was contracted along the coast of the
Gulf of Mexico.