Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-09-14

The greatest musical event of the
West, this fall, is to be the annual Ma
tionai S@ngerfest Reunion at Indian
apolis. commencing Tuesday, Sept.
3D., and continuing during the week.
Forty-four societies will be In attend
ance, including three from Chicago,
four from Louisville, five from Cincin-
natl, two from st. Louis, two from
New York city, sc.
The n. 7. Gazette saws that be-
tween Canal street and Grace Church
there are over fifty stores ''to let-'-
From the six story marble palace to
the dark shop beneath the sidewalk,
there are empty rooms, as silent as the
tomb, waiting for occupants. Never,
In the history of the street, has such a
TACT been known before.
"A tannery has been put in opera
ton at Rockford, ILL.,, in which the
new patented process for exhaustiDg
the air from the vat. is employed. It
takes by this process only twelve hours
to complete the tanning, and about fif-
teen minutes for sheepskin. The
weight of the leather is increased ten
per cent. over the old process, ard the
cost of the works is but ten per cent.
more than that of the old, and it is al
so claimed that the leather is superior.
The Troy Times says that both the
Hudson River aud the New York Cen
tral railroad companies are greatly re
ducing their expenses by discbarging
large number of employees. 1t is said
that twenty-five conductors ON the Cen
trail have been discharged, or put in
subordinate positions, while, IN addi-
ton to the removal of every surplus
man on the Hudson River, the signal
men are also being removed.
The great curiosity of New MARI
borO, Mass, is the clipping rock, +"
which is as large as load of hay, and
weighs about fifty tons, but is so nicely
balanced that it can be moved by the
hand, and is even made to vibrate by
the wind. It stands upon round
topped hill, where there are no other
rocks except the one it rests upon,
which is even with the surface, Is bal
anced upon three points, and like a
table on an uneven floor, it can be
tipped up till it touches a fourth pro-
lection.
The great railroad bridge across the
Mississippi at Quincy, which was begun
in December last, is being pushed
ahead, and it Is expected that it will be
completed by September, 1868. It is
to be the longest of its kind in the Uni
ted States, measuring one mile and four
rods from shore to shore, with a main
draw $50 feet in length, aud a smaller
one eighty feet in length-bOth worked
by steam. The estimated cost is ST.
$4,000
In Louisiana, the war against the
cotton worms has assumed a new type,
and the 81 situation has thereby become
more promising. 1t appears that the
worms, as is their custom ut a certain
stage of their career, have webbed
themselves on the upper branches of
the plant, and the plan is to go through
the fields, with shears in hand, cut off
the branches on which the cooOoned
webs are attached, and burn them on
the spot.
There was terrible murder COM
mitted at the village of ROslln, n. Y,
on Sunday evening. A man named
Conkling harboring an i'll will against
one of his neighbors, determined on
waylaying and killing him. While in
wait for his intended victim he met two
men, one of whom he fancied was the
person he hated, into whose breast he
plunged a large knife TO the hilt. This
man proved to be a William Bryan, who
fell dead on the roadside. He then ran
away, but has been arrested and lodged
In iail