Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-25

MISCELLANEOUS AND NEWS ITEMS.

Detroit lately, aged LOG years.
Mary Schell, of California, wants
$4,000 for breach of promise.
Indians, it has been decided, arr
not subject to taxation.
Vessels from New York are quaran
i tined for fifteen days at Charleston.
"A sum of 100, 742 thalers has beer
collected for thewounded at Berlin.
-Middlebury College has made JOIN
CT. SAKE an LID.
Rev. DIR. Harvey d. Kitchell, Of
Detroit, has been ipaugurated President
of Middlebury College.
| One of the latest arrivals at SaraHo-
ga was lady with eighty dresses and
thirty-six bOnnets.
The Provost Marshal Generals Bu.
reau is to be at once abolished and mer-
ged into the War Department.
An English officer of artillery will
/ for the future be permitted to accom-
pany the Prussian forces.
According to the census just taken,
the population of South Australia is
just over 100000.
"A national memorial to the late
Captain Spoke is to be erected In Ken
sington Gardens, London.
The Academy of Music in Quebec
is to be opened for the season with a
ball in honor of Mr.. George Peabody.
ID. Hostetter, Pittsburgh, manufac-
turer of bitters, returns an income of
1924, 735--a monument tOshdyertiSing.
General +. Sicl1les, retaining COM
mand of the Department of the Carroll
mas, is the only volunteer general officer
left with a command.
Queen Emma says that Greenwood
is the most beautiful cemetery she has
ever visited, excelling any in England
or on the Continent.
The Washington papers say that
Secretary Stewards sudden call to An
burn was on account of sickness in his
family.
M. Renan, author of the Life of
Jesus" is still rather a young man; he
was born in 1923, in Tregnier, in Brit
tany.
Mr.. Oscar Pfeiffer, pianist. and his
wife, Mime. Altieri Pfeiffer, a very fine
vocalist, are ON their way from Buenos
Ayres TO New York.
Henry Fitzhugh, President of the
Mount Carbon Coal and Railroad Com
pany, died of cholera at Centralia, ILL.,,
on Friday night.
DIR. Stone, of Washington, has been
commissioned to make marble statue
of Alexander Hamilton, to be placed in
the Capitol.
The National Intelligencer thinks
that the Hague mission, declined 10y
General Dix, may be offered to Mr.. l..
G. Adams, of Washington.
The Mobile Times says Grant did
not whip Lee. but smothered him to
death with a quarter of IL million of.
Irish and Dutch.
1t is understood that the staff az
pointments authorized by the new Amy
bill, will not be distributed according
to States, but will he selected from the
staff officers of the regular and voUn-
teer army, according to merit.
The first bale of new cotton receiv-
ell at Macon, Ga, has been purchased
by the citizens of that place, aud ship
ped as present 70 President Johnson.
Speaking of Saratoga, the Utica
Observer says that ''the great Watering
place is getting to he the great fire
place. "
A whisky Indian has been arrested
in Washington for stripping himself in
the street and stoniug folks. He did
any quantity of the gutterhA, and III
sisted on being a sign tor tobacco shops.
There are no less than thirty differ
ent varieties of plants used as snbsti-
tutes for green tea, and probably twice
that number Of substances are subati
tuted for coffee.
"A youpg widow OF Memphis alver
tises fer furnished rooms for two small
children and herself, in payment for
which she is willing To board with the
family.
"A st. Louis prostitute has sued and
recovered Judgment from the son of Il
rich banker, for money she had lent him
to buy his wedding suit and to supply
his dissipation since his marriage.
Queen Victoria is going to allow
Prince Christian and other youths who
have married into her family, to smoke
around the house, and has ordered
smoking.
Jane G.. Swisshelm is shedding lus-
ter and gall on the pages of the Cham
bersburg (Pa Repository. She has
soured even on the conservatism of
Congress.
Abraham Lincoln. when a youth,
wanted to marry Miss. Wood of Gen
tryville, Ind, but she declined on ac-
count of his being $50 awkward, lazy,
and overload of book.
Work on Che Alexandria VA canal
has been suspended, and several hun
| bred workmen discharged. This is a Sc
we're blow to the city of Alexandria, as
high hopes hung upon the success of
this enterprise.
Miss Alice Cary writes to deny a
report, extensively copied an the West,
| that she is the wife of a certain citizen
| in Michigan, and says she never was in
Michigan. and never even heard the
name of the gentleman mentioned.
"A member of theatrical company
at Cincinnati recently died of cholera,
and another member became SO alarmed
over the sudden loss of his friend, that
ne got drunk, fell accidentally from u
fourth-story window. aud was killed.
AT the Stockholm Exhibition the
first prize for breech-loaders was
| awarded To the Harstrom needle-pun.