Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-27
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The experience of the past ten years ht
saws thai the fact that ri iaRGfe Since
the liquor shops were closed in April,
since left the poor house, and are now
supporting their families.
The Superintendent of Public In
struction, IN Kentucky, reports the
number of schools as 4, 1S9, attended
by an average of 104, 4S1 scholars,
while the whole number of children be-
tween the ages of sax and twenty years
is 33l 500.
Switzerland has about 3, 500, 900 in
habitants aud 345 scientific and liter
airy publications, while France, with
ten times the population, has but about
five hundred journals and maya
zines.
There is q religions persecution in
Egypt. The Coptic Patriarch has I'M
dertaken to crush ont the Protestant
missions, aud claims that he has the
authority of the Yiceroy OF Egypt for
what lac is doing.
"A fine alligator, seven feet in
length, has been brought to Liverpool
bv the African steamer Lagos. 1t is in
excellent health, Judging by the vigOr'
with which it snaps its jaws, and dur
ING the voyage was accommodated IN
luncheon, water being introduced oc-
casionally through one of tho slaves.
There is a French machine in the
Exposition that takes in chopped to-
bacco and turns out cigarettes at the
rate of sixty a minute the year round,
ringing a signal bell as often as there
is not enough to put in n package. -
This machine, about half yard square,
makes a saving of 70,000,0OO francs a
year.
A pastor in Sheffield preached a
sermon against the Outrages of the
Trades Unions. After doing so he re-
ceived numerous anonymous letters,
written apparently by workingmen, inn
ploring him for his own sake to conceal
his sentiments on the subject of the
Unions.
A Texas correspondent says that
state has all the advantages of the
northwest in cheap, rich lands, and all
the advantages of the south in a genial
climate. Many million acres are now
TO be had at 80 cents to 81 per acre. on
every part of which fifteen bushels of
wheat or a bale of cotton can be grown
every year.
1t has lately been decided 10y the
Supreme Court of Louisiana that ''sla-
very was never, strictly speaking, estab-
lished i'm this country by positive law. !"
This theory, often maintained by
Northern lawyers, IS thus recognized
in the South, and practically applied
to sustain the doctrine that notes given
to purchase slaves were void.
Charleston, S. c., was much excit-
ed the other day by the report that
"mermaid" had been brought in by the
high tides and washed ashore at the
foot of Tradd street. The shop of a
druggist, to which it was said that the
interesting stranger had been taken,
was besieged for some time by ''crowds
of freedmen land few white visitors
A Washington paper reports that
Runic inscription has been discovered
near the Great Falls in the Potomac;
that it records the death of an IceIandic
woman, named Susan, who died in
1861; that the discovery proves the
visit of the Mortimer to our shores
five centuries before the time of Colum.
bus, and that they made explorations
inland. 1t is also stated that fragments
of teeth, bronze trinkets, coins and
other curious thing, have been ex-
llumed from the grave.
- The Terre Haute Journal says that
a few days since woman, living near
Centre Point, Clay county, Indiana,
went to creek near her house to do
the family washing, taking with her
three small children. The two elder
while playing about the woods were
bitten by venomous snake, and their
screams attracting the attention of the
mother, she FASTENED to their relief,
EhoughtlessIy leaving the smallest
child, which, during her absence, fell
into the creek and was drowned. The
other children died the same nightfrom
the effects of the snake bite.
New York papers state that the
Hudson River Railroad Company IS
earning plump eight per cent. divi-
dend on the stock, which has been IN
creasing from seven millions to four
teen millions OF dollars, and IN addi-
ton from 500, 900 to $1,000,000 a year.
This latter sum is to be devoted to ex-
tingnish the debt of the company, and
the policy is to capitalize the annual
sums thus paid out of the income by
dividing corresponding amount IN
full paid stock to the stockholders, so
as to leave the whole property repre-
scented, as at present, by $40, 200, 600,
and in the course of few years entirely
in stock, and no debt of any kind
against the road.