Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-09

MISCELLANEOUS AND NEWS ITEMS.


Leonard w. Jerome, the million
ARE, was once proprietor of Roch-
ester paper. Editors will not need to
be informed that he did not make his
fortune in newspaper life.
Mr.. Lester Wallack has rendered
/ the services of himself and company
and the use of his theatre for the bene-
fit of the families of the men lost from
the Fleetwing.
--"My DEAR" said smiling spouse
to her other half, 81 am going a shop
ping to-day, and want little change. Z"
''Pooh!" responded the ungallant man,
''that would be no change at all; you
go shopping every day"
according to the Boston Journal,
the peculiar people of "the Hub" are
returning to THEN old ways. 1t says
that parties are now given to grown
people which are announced on the
cards as commencing at three O'Clock
P. NJ. and terminating at eight o'clock
PM
Hatch, the cheerful young man
from New Hampshire, who shot a wo-
mans corset, while inhabited by the
owner, but which stayed the bullet, and
who afterwards more judiciously shot
himself, is unhappily still alive, and is
nursed by the same woman he tried to
shoot.
The following is the conclusion of
an epitaph on a tombstone in East Ten
nessee: "She lived life of virtue,
and died of cholera morbus, caused by
eating green fruit, in the full hope of a
blessed immortality, at the early age of
Il years, months and 16 days. Read
er, go thou and do likewise, %
"A desideratum in photography is
said to have been reached in Paris
Specimens are shown with the yarions
colors reproduced by the simple effects
OF light, without after touches. The
impressions produced are warranted
not to be liable to changes by the effects
of time AID exposure.
On Tuesday pickpocket was OBJ.
served IN the act of operating on one of
the New York ferry boats while it was
in the middle of the river, and he was
given his choice of disgorging his
plumber or going overheard. He at
once disgorged.
st. Augustine, Florida, is said TO
be delightful residence. The Exam
liner, of that place, speaking of the
great crop of oranges, says that GO. 600
will be picked from one grove. A GEN
tleman there writes that ''they hang in
rich yellow clusters from trees on the
sides of the streets, and the soft al is
redolent of their rich perfume"
FNlara So -.
Or. Howe's volunteering to go again to
Greece with a ship load of supplies. if
Boston contributes $4,000. He is still
full of energy and enthusiasm, though
forty years ago, after first fighting with
the Greeks, he came home and obtained
from our fathers and mothers those
large supplies which, more than apy-
thing else, gave to Greece hope and
eventual independence.
Rev. Mrs. DIR. Buddington. of
Brooklyn, now travelling with her hus-
band in Palestine, writes home that the
sea is so rough near Joppa that it is a
matter of no surprise that the whale
was unable to stand the double agits.
ton of Jonah and the pillows, and view
ing the prophet as conundrum, chad
to give him up"
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office has received q communi-
cation from ST. Paul, Minnesota, dated
the 18th, stating that assays were made
on quartz rock discovered in Charleston
county, Minnesota, with favorable re-
suits, showing the existence of both
gold and silver. The veins were we'll
filled. Shafts are sunk and work per
formed, sufficient to give assurance
that the locality is rich in mineral.
During the past two weeks the Com
missioner of the General Land Office
has transmitted to the several land
offices, for delivery to grantees, one
Thousand four hundred and fifty-six
patents for locations made with military
warrants and for cash, He has also
just transmitted to the register of the
land office at East Saginaw, Michigan,
$50 patents for locations made with
scrip, covering about $4,000 acres, for
delivery to grantees.
"A meeting was held in Shreveport,
La, on the 9th inst, with view to or
ganize cotton factory in Caddo Parish.
The cost of putting up such factory,
with 5000 spindies, was estimated at
300, In gold. Eighteen thousand
dollars were subscribed on the spot,
and resolution was passed to open
books of subscription until the capital
should reach one hundred thousand
dollars.
The exigencies of the war have
rendered the public school fund of
North Carolina totally inadequate to
the accomplishment of anything. The
Literary Board are unable TO make any
appropriation for the revival of the
public schools. aud unless the Legisla-
ture makes some appropriation for the
purpose, the public schools, once the
pride of the state and an incalculable
blessing to the poor, will remain closed.
The American colonization society
has had five presidents since its first
organization, viz; January /, 1877, Hon.
Bushrod Washington; Jan. Is. 1880,
Charles Carroll, Esq. Jan. 20, 1888,
Elk President James Madison; Dec. 10,
1886, Hon. Henry Clay; Jan. 10. 1858,
John III. b. Latrobe. The amount of
receipts since the organization was
| 81, 140, 286. 10, and the receipts by state
associations, SAT-, 399. 20, making a total
of 81, 557, 665.52.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed slight change to be made in
the reverse of the nickel and copper
five cent coin authorized by the act of
May, 1866 The ID stars in circular
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