Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-03-03

| Gteanings.
The celebrated thug, Choga Sonar.
who so long infested central India, has
been executed, by order OF the Mahar-
aiah Holker, for some murder commit
ted at Indore.
There is a great drought in the
Rhine district, and in the river itself
there is so little water that several YES
sells have been stranded near Dussel-
dorf.
MADAM" said gentleman to his
wife. s.let me tell you facts are very stub
born things" ''Dear me, you don't
say So" quoth the lady, 'what a fact
You must bei'
Three applications for patents for
paper bosoms, are now pending at
Washington. by Springfield, Massachu.
sets parties.
"A very volatile young lord, whose
conquests 10 the female word were num-
berless, at last married. ''Now, my
lord" said his wife, 81 hope you'll
mend" Madam, said he, 'this is my
last folly"
The Prince of Wales has seat a
handsome bridal present to Mrs. Henry
johnson, nee Harriet Lane, I'm acknOwl-
edgment of the courtesies rendered him
at the White House while that lady pre-
sided there.
-Frof. Wheatstone, of England, has
made great achievement in electro
telegraphing. With his automatic in
strument, he can transmit quo distinct
~ legible signs or letters in minute.
Queen Victoria was shocked the
other day, at finding the Prince of
Wales and "Mrs. Wales" smoking cigar
cites together.
A New York lady, with fortune of
800, 600. recently took a fancy to a
poor but handsome barber, and married
him.
A son of Justice Grier, ofthe Unit
ed States SUI rene Court, was killed by
the explosion of the steamer Miami, Mt
Vicksburg. He was surgeon in the
army.
The Young lady students of the
Seneca Falls. N. Y, Academy, have or
ganized literary society, which meets
once week, and, call themselves the
go Home Alones.
At Staufferstown, franklin county,
Pa, the other. day, a little girl named
Eberly, swallowed button, while at
school, and was almost instantly choked
to death.
"A young German girl, going to
California to Join and be married to a
lover from whom she had long been
parted, became so nervous as the voy-
AGE neared it's end that she would nei-
Their eat nor sleep, and she was landed
at San Francisco, craving maniac,
John G. Quigley, who dropped,
supposed to be, dead, at Norwalk, Sun
day, was being shaved in preparation
for the grave, but In the operation his
the blood flowing, and Mr.. Quigley,
arose, resumed his garments. and went
about his business, just as though he
had never been dead.
The first bale of cotton goods
manufactured on the Pacific has arrived
at San Francisco, from Oakland, on
the opposite side of the bay. The raw
material was obtained in Mexico, but
enough is expected to be raised In Cal
ifornia to supply the demand this year
A lady named Carrie Bradley, aged
twenty-three, was awarded fourteen
thousand dollars for breach of promise
in the Luzerne Qll.) county court, last
week. The naughty individual who tri-
fad with her affections was Chauncey
a. Reynolds, aged sixty-three.
-Workmen began removing the pa
per from the walls of the executive de-
partment in the White House on Tues
day, for the purpose of putting on new
paper. Five different layers were
found. That next to the wall was very
heavy velvet paper, put on during Mad
ison's administration. The new paper
is of a purple hue.
Lord Norbury was celebrated equal |
ly for his wit and his severity as Grim |
inal Judge. At one time, as a special
commissioner appointed to try the cul |
prits in one of the Irish rebelliOns, he |
had in the course of his sitting convict |
ed a great many. "You are going on |
swimmingly here, my lord" said coun- |
sci for the prisoners. ''Yes," answered |
his lordship significantly, ''seven knots |
an hour"
When Rev. Samuel F1Ske dunn
Browne) was examined for ordination,
one of the innate theologians, sticklers |
for the straightest school of orthodoxy, |
asked the candidate whether, in the case !
of the man who had the withered hand, it |
was healed by himself or whether it was !
the Lord that healed him. ''Well, re- |
Piled the candidate, 81 always supposed |
the man had hand in it.
A Paris paper stated that bevy of
ladies, closely yelled, recently passed
along the Boulevards of that city, max
ing purchases at the most modest |
stores and leaving the articles to be |
sent for. They paid in gold. 1t was
subsequently ascertained that the party |
included the Empress and ladies of her
court, who adopt this mode of giving an |
i npetus to the retail trade.
An extensive business is going on |
in Maine in the smelt fishery, and the |
express companies daily bring into
Boston from ten to fifteen barrels of
fish from Bath. One day last week the
number reached ninety barrels, and the
day following, forty. The demand in
New York is large, and the greater part
of those arriving at Boston are imme-
diately shipped to that city.
Nice continues to attract, by its