Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-02-03
MIR. William Spra

MIR. William SpTague, the Rhode
Island Senator, and his brother Amasa
Sprague, employ six thousand hands at
their manufacturing establishment
At the Cranston Print Works alone
eight hundred are employed exclusive
ly in coloring, furnishing hundred
and twenty yards of clothing daily.
A man by the name Of Holiday is
ON trial at Toronto for defraudingY the
Canadian Government out Of 1886, 900.
He is a distilIer. and is accused of hav-.
ing, by false returns and collisions
with railroad agents, sent off, -
the last year, 200, 600 geilons os
without paying the duty 1t-rid las, :.
ed that most of this whiskey was sinag-
gled into the States.
A Spanish gentleman Studying
English in Bridgeport. CT, being at
the tea table and desiring TO he helped
to some sliced tongue-in doubt as to
the term, hesitated moment, and then
said II will thank you, Miss, to pass
me that language.,"
A Madrid letter states that M.
Monturiol, Spaniard, has solved the
problem of submarine steam navigation
by the invention of a vessel which can
remain for hours at a considerable
depth, can discharge cannons from be-
low and even act as ram for piercing
the hulls of iron clad ships
A letter written by Hon. A Ell.
Stephens, late Vice-President of the
Southern Confederacy, has been re-
ceived in Washington. Ee says that
tie original Union men OF Georgia
suffer greater persecution low On
account of their sentiments than they
did during the days of the Confoderaey.
Brigham Young has been made a
forlorn widower twenty-eight times
during his coniugal experience. He
endures his many bereayements with
the fortitude OF Dahomey Chief. One
hundred and eighty-five comforters are
still spared to him.
--''Ah, dear doctor, how is my wife
to-day?" The doctor shook his head,
and sid: You must prepare for the
worst" ''What % said the husband,
do you think she is likely to get over
it?"
"A new daily Republican paper is
soon to be started in Detroit, to be
named The Post, aud We see it an
nounced that Gen. Carl Schurz will be
the editor-in-cnief. and that Benz. #.
Taylor, Of the Chicago Journal, viii
also be one of the editorial corps.
Some queer developments in refer
ence to the conduct of 'ECaleb Lyons,
of Lyons dale" Governor OF Idaho Ter
ritory, have been made by the Indian
Bureau at Washington. among other
schemes was the building Of a very
large church of stone, and the using of
mud for mortar When rain came, his
church, which stood upon the side of
hill, was washed away, and the Indians
who built it were clamOrous for their
pay, and the Governor being out of
funds, the Indians threaten war.
Three venerable ladies survive who
were of the choir of young girls, who,
dressed in white, greeted Washington
as he entered Trenton, in 1889, on his
way to assume the Presidency, and who
strewed his pathway with flowers.
One yet lives In Trenton, another,
mother of the Hon. Mr.. Chestnut, for
merly Senator from South Carolina,
and the third, Mrs. Sarah Hand. re-
sides in Cape May county, New Jersey.
The following story is going the
rounds of the German press. After the
concert of the Prussian military in Paris,
before the Emperor, Napoleon entered
into conversation with Kapellmeister
Parlow. In the course of the talk, the
Emperor lifted one of the brass instru-
ments, found it heavy, and asked:
''Do your band people wear their
krapsacks in the field, as well as carry
those things?"
Certainly, SIre," answered Parlow.
"But how, asked the Emperor, "do
you manage to retreatg"
Don't know, your Majesty; that's
not practiced among our people. y