Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-09-01
CLIPPINGS.
MISCELLANEOUS AND NEWS ITEMS.

Eighty bushels of wheat to the acre
is the yield of u farm in Nebraska.
Two Canadian farmers have manu-
featured cheese weighing three and
one-half tons.
Peaches are abundant in some
counties in Texas, and sell for % and
so cents per bushel.
A man called at barber shop in
albany and ordered his head taken off.
He proved to be Gn escaped lunatic.
Two negroes fought duel in Geor-
gia last week. Both we've badly in
iured.
The viceroy of Egypt has abolished
pOligamy, and helretorth will content
himself with one wife. Family cares
are too much for the poor man.
-Adviees from Baden announce that
a Russian named Nariskine has for the
third time this season broken the bank
of the gaming tables there.
"A woman named Potter has been
fined by the Manchester (England)
magistrate, 40S and costs, for cruelty to
a cat, which she shut in heated oven.
The Board of Health of st. Louis
have prohibited the sale of green corn,
melons, cabbage and cucumbers, In the
St. Louis market.
The anniversary of the battle of
Bennington was celebrated on the 10th
of August, by horse and foot racing and
target shooting.
The geographical and agricultural
survey of the State of Mississippi, which
was interrupted by the war, is to be re-
sumed in the spring Of 1867.
Mrs. Martha Stewart and Mrs.
Roberts, of San Antonio, Texas, recent
" had an impromptu fight with revolt
vers. Mrs. Steward was badly winged.
Cleveland has foundries and FORCES
requiring an aggregate capital of So,
OO0,0 The iron used is obtained
from Lake Superior.
Queen Victoria manifested her roy
al displeasure at lady for appearing
at court in a very low-necked dress, by
ordering her never to present herself
again.
"A dispatch from Leavenworth,
Kansas, says large bodies of Indians
are encamped on the Smoky Hill route,
and threaten to wipe out all the whites
In that region.
The smugglers of Detroit have fall
en- out. The result is that the United
States detectives fall into possession of
valuable information regarding their
operations.
"A little girl in Philadelphia has
been arrested, charged with four times
attempting to fire her mothers house
The little one justifies herself on the
ground of ill-treatment.
An Alabama negress gave birth
TO four children, lately, at one accouch-
ment. '"rwo were girls, the Others
were boys. The woman was doing
well. She will probably never do any
better.
The dog catchers of Mobile use
scoop.nets with long pole handles fo1
trapping dogs. They pick them up with
the same facility that fisherman show in
catching minnows.
The monument to the memory oil
Col Colt, of pistol fame, is to be 8
splendid pile. 1t is 10 be of Scotch
granite, 60 feet high, and will cost not
far from $4,000.
"A little baby in search of father
has brought up at the poorhouse In
Richmond for the fourth time. 1t has
been reclaimed by young lady, who
leaves it at the residence of some of the
wealthy citizens. +.
Gen. Spinner, United States Treas
urer, has decided that the only protec
ton to the owner against the paymen
of a bond or seven-thirty note that ma,
have been stolen, is by entering cave
at at the Office of the Secretary of tn,
Treasury.
| "A French avsnt has discovered tn
means of rendering the hardest an,
toughest flesh soft, namely, by addin,
while boiling two teaspOonfulls of alec
hol to each killogramme and half o
flesh.
The number of divorces in Con
nectieut increased from 129 in 1860, t.
434 In 1864; and in 10 years the divorce
| nave SludlSu OD6-lWSDiSIu the numDe
of families in the state.
An Albany laborer found two green
backs, of 800 denominations. sewed u
in the sleeve of q second hand Goa
which he purchased from "a fashionabl
tailor In Chatham street. New York city
The Charleston Courier has lette
from a planter who expresses tn
opinion that the entire rice crop of Wac
camaw, Pee Dee, Black, and Sampi
Rivers, viii not exceed 5000 tierces, @
which about 4, 900 tierces will reach tn
market through the regular channels.
"A General in the regular army ha
received a statement of account iron
the custodian of the funds of a club 4
which he and hundred other officer
belonged when our troops occupied tn
City of Mexico, eighteen years ago. O.
the breaking up of the club it was vote
to invest its surplus money, abou
S1,700, till the members should NEE
again. The fund is reported at abou
| $500.