Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-05-04
miscellaneous items.

haCA1e-
Virginia has an emigrant agency
in London.
= Nearly ten thousand swords are
awaiting reiuyenation at the Springfield
Armory.
= The Governor OF Holland has ord
cred several new iron -clads to be built.
- The King of Prussia has handed
over to Count Bismark $3.50, 900 as his
share of the spoils of Austria.
= Flour which once cost s2S hun
Hired at Salt Lake City now sells for
Rhree dollars and half sack.
= The tower of the Chicago water
works building is to be 40 feet high
hnd "a feet square.
- England uses more shoddy than
I'VE grow wool, or sixty-fve million
pounds year.
- The income returns, so far as sent
lin, average about one-half of those of
last year.
= Fourteen freedmen in Pulaski,
Tennessee, own real estate and stocks
of goods valued at $4,000.
= An ole man of eighty-four has APP
piled for divorce In Michigan. He
complains of system of "general tyr
amy and Encouragement,
- The printers in the South agree to
set thousand ems each towards Arte
mas Wards monument, and ask their
Northern brethren to do the same.
A baggage master on the Little
Miami Co.. railroad had to pay seven
thousand dollars for assaulting one of
the passengers with a Ratchet
= Two hundred women have gradu-
ated from medical colleges IN New
York, Philadelphia and Boston.
= Forty-two steam boats are adver-
tised to leave st. Louis for Fort Ben
ton, the head af navigation on the Mis-
souri,.
A law library has been established
at Erie, Pa. The fund is derived from
fines imposed by the court for violation
of the Excise law.
= In December last there were 904,
500 paupers in England and Wales, $50,
025 of the same period the previous
year.
- The London Spectator alludes to
the withdrawal of the last French SOL
dier from Mexico, "as the great victo-
ry of the Union"
- Numerous Indian -outrages are re-
ported in Texas, and the New Orleans
Times earnestly begs the Government
to send more troops.
= An idle fellow who has been max
ing anagrams on the names of publIc
men, says the best he can do with
is-Salubryus.
Paris has upward of eighty free
schools, employs more than two hun
bred female teachers, and edueates
annually some fifteen thousand poor
girls.
The Paris horse-meat- butchers sell
about eighty horses a week now, and
expect during the exposition to double
the number, as foreigners will indulge
freely in that as IN other Injuries.
The Houston (Texas) Telegraph
says that the fruit In that state has been
destroyed by the recent cold
weather. The loss of cattle has also
been enormous.
The Bishop of London has written
to thank Louis Napoleon for the allot-
ment or a site for an English and Amer
lean place of worship during the Expo
sition.
The Secretary of the Interior has
received information that the third sec
ton of twenty miles of the central
branch of the Pacific Railroad formerly
known as the Atchison and Pixies Peak
road, has been completed.
The number of interments in Chi
cago for the year ending March 81, was
!, 937, which is 2,235 more than the
previous year, the cholera claiming $40
victims.
Maine in 1860, had nineteen cotton
mills. with an aggregate capital of S.,
016, 325; number of spindles, 2Sl, 056,
and giving employment to 6764 males
aud females.