Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-08-18
CLIPPINGS.
MISCELLANEOUS AND NEWS ITEMS.


The Georgia Diamond mines are
re-opened.
Hair, suitable for toilet purposes is
worth seven dollars pound IN gold.
"A machine at Montgomery, Ala,
turns out $4,000 bricks per day.
The prizes at the Paris Exposition
will amount to 100000 francs.
"A family, consisting of five persons,
all died in New York last week of cholera
Carpenters get $3.50 per day at
Portland, Me.
Water has heen selling in Norfolk
at % cents gallon.
Thread is made in New Orleans
from the Stalks of the cotton plant.
Heinrich Richter, well known
writer, was killed at one of the recent
battles in Silesia.
Over $3.50, 900 in counterfeit money
recently discovered near Memphis.
The Amoskeag, IN. I'll manufac-
turing company at Manchester, has de-
elared a dividend of 500 per share.
1t has been reported in st. Louis
| that the Southern Hotel in that city has
been sold for S520,000
The Toronto papers announce the
arrival in that city of Major General
Early, late of the. Shenandoah Valley.
Gen. M. L. Smith, of the late rebel
| 1a1 in 81 Caf
urday, after an illness of "a hours.
During the month of July the num-
her of deaths in the city of Chicago was
706
-S4,OOO per day is the income of Mr..
Horace b. Clafiin, the New York mer-
chant.
Prince Amadeus has recovered
from the wound he received at Gus
to2za, and resumed his post.
1t is estimated that s., 900, 900
changed hands at Saratoga last week in
the various turf transactions.
Raw meat, mixed with sugar and
alcohol, is now advocated as u cure fer
consumption.
Another alum strike has been made
on the surface of the rocks at New Leb-
anon, New York
The internal revenue receipts con
tinue to average over $1,000, 900 per
! day.
"A vein of lead ore, six feet thick,
estimated to yield ninety per cent.
metal, has been opened at NewberTy,
Green county, Indiana.
The ironc clad frigate Re dItalia.
which was sunk by the Austrians, off
Lissn, was built by William Ill. Webb,
of New York, IN 1868.
The most lucrative office in Cincin-
natl is that of Judge of the Probate
Court. 1t has been known to yield
$40, 900 in one year.
On Wednesday last a disastrous
hail storm passed over Middleton, Ct,
and the towns In that vicinity, doing
damage to the amount of over 500. 900.
AT ball given at Saratoga Springs
on Friday night, the Countess Romero
of Havana, wore diamonds to the value
of $4,000.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
states that the wheat crop of the cOun-
try, though deficient in quantity, is of
a quality making it equal in value to
the crop of last year.
"A sunstruck laborer In Hartford
revived just as his coffin was going into
the grave.
"A boy named Job Dickson has been
arrested in Detroit for shooting a man
named Wilderspir on the Fourth of
July last.
Miss Kitty Fyffe, the actress now
in Washington, has come into a snug
little fortune Her grandfather, Of
Parkersburg, Va, left her $75, 600
The wife of John G. Breckenridge,
residing at Niagara Falls, Canadian
side, presented him with twins, a few
days since.
"A company of negroes left Calves
ton, Texas, for Liberia, Africa, ON the
26th ult. 1t is said that many more
are preparing to emigrate.
"A German paper says that man
recently married q widow twice his age,
and subsequently ascertained she had
been his wet nurse.
The ShaMdoah Herald says that
most of the mills burned by ''little
Phil" Sheridan, are now ready to grind
wheat and other grain.
"A company, with SO, 900 capital, has
been formed at Sandwich, Mass, for
the manufacture of peat. and will COM
mence operations soon,
AT a ball given at Saratoga Springs
on Friday night the Countess Romero
of Havana, wore diamonds to the value
of $500
The heaviest business house in
Philadelphia is that of James, Kent,
Sauter q Co., who last year sold goods
to the amount of 50, IFS, 900.
Works for the manufacture of gas
out of pine wood, bones, and animal
and Vegetable refuse. were started in
Detroit, Michigan, on Wednesday eve
ming.
AT the Fourth of July dinner given
on board the steamer Scotia, the follow
ing toast was offered: stEngland and
America-Mother and child; both doing
well. "
The total number of alien emil |
grants that have arrived In New York |
thus far this year is 1877. Ssl, being So |
900 more than during the same period |
last year.
1t is estimated that there was an
average of 5000 persons on the race
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