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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20

A SINGULAR CoIECIDEECE.-The Par
is newspapers are filed with incidents
connected with the sensation produced
by the representation of Victor Hugo's
Hermann. One line, which was sup-
pressed at the first representation of
the play, had been restored. An at
tendant walks in, and addressing Don
Carlos says:
''The Emperor Macmillan is dead"
referring to some Old fellow whose very
bones had erurbled into dust ages ago
But the words ran through the audi
ence hike an electric shock. This was
on Thursday, June Goth, and perhaps
many of those present at that repre-
sentation viii hereafter connect the
shudder, caused by the recitation of
the line, with the fact that The body of
the unfortunate Austrian Prince was
then lying dead. and scarcely cold, on
the soil of Mexico.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20

ToMAH AND ST.. CRoIx RAILROAD
@. Proctor, postmaster at Tomah, writes
to the Hudson Star as follows in regard
to the work on this road
The engineers have been very busy
setting grade stakes, &C., and the con-
tractors have been getting ready as fast
as they can to work. They commenced
work yesterday-have not a large force
yet, but have advertised for five hun
dred men immediately, and they are
going TO push forward the work as rap
idly as possible. The prospect now for
the road TO be built Immediately is as
good as any one could wish. There
seems to be no doubt now about the
road being pushed forward to an early
completion and we congratulate you
in the prospect now of soon having a
railroad. The contractor here received
dispatch from the company at New
York city to push the work forward
with all possible speed. We assure you
that we feel highly elated with the
prospects of the road. The company
have purchased their depot grounds
go acres) and paid the cash for it, which
looks like business. They say they will
have the cars running to Black River
Falls within a year.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20
aemarkable case Of Hydrophobla.

From the Detroit Free Press, July ..
Sixteen years ago last Wednesday,
James Bay, then a rerident of Pontiac,
was bitten by rabid dog, but expert
enced no serious effects from the bite,
until one year from the day on which
he was bitten. He then felt some
symptoms of the terrible disease, which
soon developed into q most frightful
attack. For six weeks he was raving
maniac, and all hopes of his recovery
was abandoned; but an iron constitution
and skillful nursing, brought him out
of the shadow of death, and he rallied,
the disease finally passing of. he
pursued the even tenor of his way I'M
| til the second anniversary, when he
was again attacked, but with less Sc
verify than on the last occasion. The
Goth day of June in each succeeding
year has been the occasion Of hydro
phobia fit, the last of which attacked
him one week ago yesterday, at Sand
wich, where he was employed as
brick-maker. The usual symptoms
were felt during the early part of the
day, and Bay requested some OF his
| friends to tie him in order to prevent
personal injury. Being frightened by
his peculiar appearance, they re-
fnsed To do so, and be continued
at his work all day, and until mid.
night, his usual time for quitting.
Going 20 a neighboring barn he tried
| to sleep off the dreaded attack. AT ell
awhile his companions heard a noise
in the barn, and fearing that it was as
Bay had declared, went TO his aid. An
appalling sight greeted them. The
poor victim was foaming at the mouth,
! biting at various objects, and to all APP
pearance suffering the most horrible
! agony. As soon as he caught sight OF
them, with eyes glowing like firebalis,
and uttering an unearthly yell, he made
a rush FOR them. The party at once
retreated, leaving Bay alone in the
gloomy hay-lOft, wrought mp to the
highest. pitch of maniacal frenzy,
and battling with an enemy no morta
man can subdue. In one of his con
WILSON'S he lifted a portion of the rooi
completely off, which evidently ex
| hausted him, as nothing more was
heard, and when his friends finally ven
tured to look after him he was found
In a sound sleep. He was at once Sc
cured aud taken to safe place, where
he was kept for several hours. anC
when he awoke nearly all traces OF the
previous nights awful experience haC
| disappeared, and, with the exception
of the exhaustion produced by hi'
great sutierings, as well as ever.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20

A SLIP ON THE STAGE. There are
other slips ON the stage than those made
by words. AT the beginning of the last
century. on the French stage, the slip
ping of Barons garter led TO tradi-
tional action observed in the
part by every succeeding player and
the other night only, at the varieties,
the slipping of Mdle. Chaumont's petit
coat produced an amusing unrehearsed
effect. In the first place, the great
French actor was performing the Earl
Of Essex" and his garter slipped from
below his knee, IN the scene where only
he and the traitor Cecil were on the
stage. Such "A person " Essex" might
treat with indifference or contempt ;
and accordingly he replaced the drop
ped band round his leg, while he con-
tinued to address Cecil in a disdane-
full tone. The effect was so successful
that succeeding actors adopted the in
cident of affecting to tighten the garter
as a good " bit of business" and the
tradition continued TO be observed as
long as lie Compile d'Essex" cOntin-
ued to be acted. Midle. Chaumont's
slip was of another character. 1t taxed
her readiness in an emergency, and did
not fiud her wanting. She was playing
a soubrette" in "Nos Gems" and was
engaged in running to and fro to col
Iect and burn the presents of various
old lovers. In the very middle of her
action she was impeded by her petit
coat suddenly falling about her legs.
OF course'it was very pretty article OF
it's sort, and she got out of 1t, and
of the mbsrrassment which had
come with it, by describing it as tri-
butte of admiration from one of her old
admirers, which must be sacrificed like
all the rest; and she thrust it into the
stage fire accordingly, with a merry
laugh, and amid the general hilarity of
the house.
The Baron mentioned above was one
of the greatest actors of his time but
when he grew old, the cruel French
audiences of the period, forgetting his
past greatness, b gan to insult him,
and as he was one night playing "Ne-
70, they even Kissed himl The aged
monarch of the stage folded his arms.
walked sternly down to the footlights,
and exclaimed, " Ungrateful pit! twas
L who taught your 1t was slip of the
tongue he used to say; but he was net
tied that they who had been made by
him judges of good acting should have
turned their knowledge against their IN
structor.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20
Unren In Death-The Rest After the Bat


The Louisville Journal, referring to
recent attentions paid to the graves of
dead soldiers, has the following:
In Gave Hill Cemetery are two large
burying lots thickly dotted with graves,
which always arrest the attention of
the visitor. In these two lots respec-
lively lie buried the Federal and Con-
federate dead, who, during the late war,
died in our midst, or who have since
been brought here for interment. In
strolling among these graves, the visitor
will see many unfamiliar names on the
simple head boards, with a brief in
scription under each, telling of some
distant home where sadness still reIgns
weeping over the memory of him who
here lies buried amid strangers. Again,
the plain, black letters will reveal an
old familiar name, and working them
selves into vision of the half forgot
ten past, will recall the memory of
some boyhood friend; and the mind,
leaping from the recollection of the
bright, joyous boy, so full of life and
brilliant hopes, will clear the unknown
intervening years of manhood, and
sink down In sorrow on the mound of
earth that POW holds him In the EN-
brace of death. Or, perhaps, the in.
scription may bear the familiar name
of one who was himself stranger; a
name that we have heard moaned out
upon the listening air by some sorrow
ing mother or broken-hearted wife
These suggestive recollections will so
work upon the mind that the visitor
linz In -
those whose names and lives were to-
tally unknown, and investing each with
strange interest, imagination will
work out life-history of each of the
silent sleepere. Each lived and loved
and is now mourned over. Each i'm
PEELED by the same impulse, rushed TO
arms. Each fought and fell. But those
who were once arrayed in deadly hos
tility to each other now lie peacefully
side by side. The slayer and the slain
may be mere together. but the past is
forgotten, and their dust commiugles.
To the warriors here gathered the bat
| tie of life is over; the truce Is sounded
and the peace of death is declared
Their spirits are enrolled IN one vast
army, under the mightiest OF leaders
their bodies are silently Wondering
away, side by side, in common dust.
A few weeks ago, over the graves of the
Confederate dead, gentle hands tender
ly strewed flowers IN memory of the
dead. More recently the same token
of respect was paid to the memory OF
those who had belonged to the Federal
army. In a few days more all of these
beautiful flowers will fade away and die,
and the gentle summer winds that
breathe upon all alike will watt them
off in a common thrODg, and fling them
in common grave, to perish together
like all of earth. This is the union of
death, and there is something strangely
grand in the thought that all of these
differences of life, which to us seem so
momentous, should SO soon sink into
nothingness III this great inevitable re-
union.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20

FRANCE ANNEXED TO TURKEY
Paris correspondent of the N. Y.TImes,
writing of the Paris Exposition, says
You Will think j ann writing of every
thing but the Exposition. This is
somewhat so, and not without reason.
Paris, for the time, is only a great an
nexe to the Champe de Mars. All those
world sovereigus, who have come aud
are coming, are drawn by the EXPOSE
tiOn, or make it an excuse. The Sui
tan could not have broken over the
custom of centuries, and the laws of
his religion, but for that. The Koran
does not permit the Commander of the
Faithful to leave his own dominions. -
1t is his duty TO conquer the whole
world and make it all Mahammedan,
and Earope has seen the Moslem armies
on the soil of France on one side, and
at the gates of Vienna on the other,
and but for Markell and Sobieski, Par
is might have been ruled by a Moslem
viceroy. But most things in this world
can be managed, and to allow the Sui
tan to come to Paris, it was only nee
essary to decree the annexation of
France, pro tenn, and then. when the
Sultan has finished lis visit, it will be
given back to Napoleon III. by the
grace of God and the will OF the
French people, its rightful owner.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20
Personal Items.

"A Canada paper says Madame Pa
repa viii sing With Verdure Clad"
One of the Paris demi-monde re-
Gently won six hundred thousand francs
at play.
"A Texan Sam Patch is amusing
Houston by jumping into the bayou
from height of eighty feet.
The Gar pitched away his peoples
money in Paris with the generosity one
usually feels when drawing from an
theirs pocket.
"A girl of fourteen years of age car
ries the mail between Stone House and
Manassas Station, Va, q distance of five
and half miles.
Rev. DIR. George I'll. Calhoun,
notable for having been one of the two
who formed the first graduating class
of Hamilton College, died last week at
Coventry, Vermont.
Miss (" Buelah" Evans has been
dubbed Mistress of English Liters-
ture, by a Baltimore Female College.
She cannot prove the title by her last
book.
Young LOngworth, the son of old
Mich, young Holmes, the son of the Au-
tocrat, and a few other Seniors OF Har-
ard, gave sumptous spread on class
day, at an extravaganza expense.
"A mean hoteI-keeper in Springfield,
Mass, employed young man as bar
tender, and refuses to pay him his
wages on the ground that the employ
ment is illegal. A suit has been brought
to recover.
Rev. Charles Beecher, of George
town, Mass, has sent IN his resignation
as pastor of the old South Church. 1t
is rumOred be is about to join his Sis
ter, Mrs. Stowe, in Georgia.
The young King of Greece. who
is betrothed to the Princes Olga OF
Russia, has quite won the heart OF the
once reluctant damsel. They are said
to be paragOns of devotion now.
Rev. James Kent Stone, a gradu-
ate of Harvard, and for four years past
Professor of Latin in Kenyon College,
has accepted the Presidency of the
same institution.
Three children, aged respectively
s, and years, sons of George Har-
per. of Adams township, o., were
| drowned IN the river, about seven miles
above Toledo, last Wednesday after
noon.
Miss Traumanu has sued MIR.
| Adolph Krebs before a New York court
for services successfully rendered in
bringing about a marriage. Perhaps
Mr. Krebs ought rather TO sue Miss
Traumann fer bringing it abOut.
The Handsboro, Miss, Democrat
says that VIM. III. Henderson, n repu-
ted lawyer and consummate scOundrel,
eIoIe ed few days ago with his wife's
niece, having first robbed his sick wife
of all her valuable iewelry, and left her
destitute and heart broken.
The Prince Of Wales has called
upon the editor of the Punch request
! i'1a- Li''ata desist from caricatpripg his
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20


THE SLKwoBM DISEASE. silk
worm disease has shown itself in
France under new aspect. principally
In the reimbursement of Grenoble,
where it has been disastrous for the
breeders. The worm does not present
as in former years, any traces of the
malady, such as blacklist spots, &c. !;
but where it has arrived at the third
change it cannot go any further, and
dies of exhaustion. This is attributed
to the yellowish leaves of the mulberry,
which do not furnish sufficient nOur-
ishment. The evil has not been so
great, in fact, In the Ardeehe or the
Gard, where the weather has been less
rainy. Too much rain, it is knowns
proves Injurious to the nutritive quail
ties of the mulberry leaf.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20
TO CONSERVATIVES.

FENHE ADNEfGftSEh, HAVING BEEN
n restored Ia health in a few weeks by a very
simple remedy, after having suffered tor several
years with severe lung affection, and that dread
disease COnsumpton-is anxious to make known
to his fellow sufferers the means of curs.
To all who desire it, he will send CODY of the
prescription used free OF charged with the direc-
tons for preparing and using the same. which they
VIII md SURE CURE for CONSUMPTION, AsrHHA
bI.oNCaITIs, COUGHss Coles, and all Throat and
Lang Affections. The only object e The advertiser
in sending the Prescription is benefit the aficf-
ed, and spread information which ne concelves TO
be invaluable and he hopes every sufferer viii try
his remedy a II will cost them nothing, and may
prove a blessing. Parties wishing the prescription,
FRRl. bv return mail, pill please address
REg. EDWARD A. WILSON.
mayTcw1y Williamsburg, Kings 90, n. Z.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20

"A large meeting in Charlottesville,
Va, July 1, adopted resolutions rec
ommending cooperation with the Re-
publican party. The gentlemen fore
most in this movement are Thomas
Wood, VIM. +. Gordons Jr., VIM. Il.
Early, and DIR. Randolph, former mem
bers of the Virginia Legislature; Capt.
John Il. Cochrane, formerly of Long
streets staff; Col. r. Il. w. Duke, for
merly of Wise's Brigade; Rev. VIM. p.
Parish, &c. DIR. Randolph is a broth
er of the late Confederate Secretary of
War. -
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20

A GENTLEMAN, WHO SUFFERED
"a for years from Nervous Debility, Premature
Decay. and all the effects Of youthful indscretiOn,
wi for the sake Of suffering humanity send free to
an who need it the recipe and directions for max.
ing the simple remedy by which he Was cured
sufferers wishing TO profit by the advertisers
perience. can do so By addressing imperfect conf
dence. JOHN B. OGDEN, 42.Cedar ST., New York.
may7egly
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20

eafnIuz- - a ~ WY ADT
Banker Barker-''Why did you moi
apply last week for your money ?"
Madame Caprell-''Beeause 1 did
not know yonr bank wonld fail.
Banker Barker-'.Fhen you can't be
much of a fortune-teller.
"A curiously wrought water jar and
part of human skeleton have been la
ken from an ancient grave about nine
miles from Nashville. There are some
hundreds of similar graves in the vicin-
ity, of which the Indians informed the
early settlers they knew nothing. The
jar closely resembles similar utensils
now used by the Indians of Central
America.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20
PRESCOTT
L Am . OFFIC =

~ WILL PRACTICE LAW IN ALL
COURTS.
cE- Lands for Sale in every township in
Pierce County.
n- Interest paid on School and UNIVERSE
ty Lands. Also, Patents obtained on State
Lands.
s Several hundred acres of the best tim
bered lands in Pierce County.
- Agent for the old Aetna ms. Co. Of
Hartford. The Underwriters and Security OF
New York. The New York Life Mutual, ths
Connecticut Mutual, and the Provident Ins
Co. against Accidents. The best Companies
il America.
s|TAXES PAID. 81
p. V. WISE.
Prescott, Wis. Dec. 6, 1865. "a
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20
seheneA's seaweed Tonie.

This medicine, invented by DIR. J. Fl.
SCHENCK, Of Philadelphia is intended to dig
solve the food and make il into chyme the
first process Of digestion. By cleansing the
stomach with Scbencks Mandrake Pills, the
Tonic soon restores the appetite, and the
food that could not be eaten before using it
will be easily digested.
Consumption cannot be cured b. Schenck's
Pulmonic Syrup unless the stomach and liver
is made healthy, and the appetite restored,
hence the Tonic and Pills are required in
nearly every case of consumption. A half
dozen bottles of the SEAWEED TONIC and
three or four boxes of the MANDRAKE
PILLS will cure any ordinary case of dyspep-
sia.
Or. SCHFNCK makes professional visits in
New York, Boston, and at his principal Office
in Philadelphia every week. See daily papers
Of each place, or hls pamphlet on eOnsump-
ton for his days for visitation.
Sold by all druggists and dealers; price
$3.50 per bottle, OF $3.50 the half dozen. All
letters Tor advice should be addressed TO DIR.
SCHENCK's Principal Office, No. IS North 9th
street, Philadelphia, Pa.
General Wholesale Agents: Demas Barnes
y Co., q Park Row, N. Y; 3. S. Hance. 108
Baltimore St, Baltimore, Md; John ID.
Park, N. Il. corner Of Fourth and Walnut St.,
Cincinnati, Ohio; Walker & Taylor, I34 and
1876 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, H.; Collins
Bros, southwest corner of Second and Vine
Sts., st. Louis, Mo.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20

The New York Tribune says: "The
Arabs visited the Tribune press room
and offices on Wednesday. Their
proposition to stand on their hands and
let the hollows of their feet be used as
inkstands for the rest of the day was
declined with thanks. Having ascen-
ded to the topmost floor, they gravely
nodded their turbans aud departed for
other climbs.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20

The total number of persons regis
tered in Savannahs is 2,529, of whom
Lib are colored.
Hartford, Conn.,, is making an eff
fort to raise monument in memory of
Mrs. l.. FL. Sigourney.
Three hundred and sixty tons of
meat are daily consumed in New York
city alone.
The Smith family in New York city
number 1880, showing an accession of
ten over the number of last year.
"A new five-story hotel, to be called
the atlantic" and to cost 800, 900, is
to be built at Norfolk, Va.
"A country lady was very much
shocked when told that President Andy
johnson was taken into Boston by the
Neck.
The Cleveland directory contains
20, 175 names-an increase of 4, 040 over
last year. The Leader therefore esti-
mates the population over rs, 900.
The vigilance committee of john
son county, Mo, is striking terror to
the horse thieves. They have already
hung three and are close on the track
of some others.
The Atlantic cotton mills of Law
renee, Mass, employ 1000 hands, and
turn out 60, 1000 yards of cloth daily
The payroll of last month amounted to
$50, 900.
"A match is on the tapis between
the celebrated INNING horse Kentucky
aud the renowned trotter, Dexter, for
SO. 900, the former to run four miles
while the latter trots three miles under
saddle.
An exchange says that salt in a
kerosene lamp is great saving in oil
Fill the lamp half full of common salt,
then fill up with oil. II burns with a
clearer flame, and is saving of more
than twenty-five per cent.
The Albany (Ga.) News has been
shown an ear of corn, by j. r. Hill,
measuring one foot in length, and con
tanning 500 grains. This is but sample
from field of forty acres. 1t is called
Pennsylvania yellow corn.
The New York Central railroad has
purchased for So, 100000 the extension
from Schenectady to Athens, on the
Hudson river, issuing therefor 10000
shares to Messrs. Vanderbilt, Drew, and
others, vino built the extension.
"A poor woman and her daughter
were FRUSTRATED with the heat in
Buffalo the other day, and inquiry
elected the fact that they had started
from the central part of Pennsylvania
with the intention of walking to Idaho,
where they have friends living.
The port of Savannah now holds
the second rank as a cottonport. Form
erly New Orleans was first rs place of
export and Mobile second. but now
Savannah surpasses Mobile by an ex-
cess of 5000 bales, and is 100, 900 bales
ahead of Charleston.
Two hundred years ago Scotch
emigrant carried to Canada thistle.
Intentionally or otherwise planted in
biS r,ar1an Its seeds took rOpt i'm biS
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20
The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
anmnanN- HiEuns.Enn

Atsc NeEtHAesteEE MUTUAL Lie tnSur anee
company Milwaukee.
1880 Members and s2,OOO,OOO Assets.
5. s. DAGGETT. President
A. W. KELLOGG, Secretary
(Ofice 4IG Main Street, Milwaukee.)
RAPID ACCUMULATION At THE WEST.
This money is IN greater demand here, and
will secure better interest and more constant
investment with equally good security, for
people can afford TO pay more for it than in
the older States.
The advantage of such investment to the
Company, (Which means all the insured,) ap-
pears in the following startling figures:
The amount of 81 600 invested for so years a t
6 per cent. compound interest is SIS, 42O.15
s do do do do 46 .9Ol CT
10 do do do do III. 3gO. 81
THE LOW MORTALITY AT THE WEST
Is accounted for first by the fact that las
inhabitants are composed of the active, enc
terprising and vigorous of all countries, who
are attracted hither by the opportunities for
advancement; and secondly, by the salubrity
of the climate and comparative exemption
from that scOurge of the older States, con-
sumptiOn.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20

AN afflicted editor, who is troubled
with hand organs under his window,
longs for the 'evil days mentioned IN
Ecelesiastes, when ''the grinders shall
cease because they are few" and ''the
sound of the grinding" shall be
Glow
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20

SUSPENSION OF AMERICAN BANKERS AT
PARIS. -Messrs. Vanderbrock Brothers,
American bankers have suspended pay
ment in Paris. They ask from their
creditors year to enable them to pay
to each one-half of the money due to
them. The depositors having money
in the concern suffered very much. The
Messrs. V. were favorite bankers with
American rebels of the southern states,
and the leading men of the JEFF. Davis
confederacy during the war In the
United States.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20

AN exchange misprints an aphor-
ism that San angle without money is
not thought much of nowadays" But
many sseorner" isaof that sort.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-20

Cherokee county, Ga., Will harvest
wheat enough for the whole State, it is
said.