Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-02-23

The Ohio and Mississippi rivers are
reported rising It Cairo. ~
A heavvsnarthwest wind set IN on
Saturday, during which boat was capsized
in the Baltimore harbor and six persons were
drowned.
The House Ways and Means Com
miftee havesgTeed TO leave the duty on Yoof
as it stood in the bill OF Last sessaion,ss Is
A communication from the Secretary
of War gives details of the enormous expense
of suppiies delivered in the Rocky Mountain
region. Hay $50 to $11O per ton; corn o4c
per pound.
The Patent Office is the only sell
snstainine branch of the Government. The
fund now on band for paying the entire ex
pense OF officers Is si5o,e0O, all pad by III
yentOrs.
In the Superior. Court, in Chicago, a
new trlaf has been granted in the Stewart di-
vorce case, and leave has been granted u
the complainant 70 amend the bill.
= Advices from Panama state that the
yellow fever was raging on the ship James
town, and that the deaths averaged one or
two daily. The fever was epidemic on the
Isthmus.
The Southern Relief Committee IN
New York have collected s2l, 600 Ordersshave
been given for the purchase OF 2oOOo bushels
Of corn, 1900 Of which goes 70 Alabama,
5,O01 to Georgfs. 3,oo0'tofNogth and South
Carolina, All win bs shipped from the west
ern mark6t, except last tosNorth Carolina,
transportation free.
The stesmer Peruvian will take from
Norfolk to liverpool 5000 bales OF cotton.
with naval stores, leaving IN Norfolk q fuli
cargo for the steamship Delaware, which Is
expected to arrive about the LIST or March.
DiTeetf trade rem Norfolk is fairly lneugu-
rated. ff.. .... 1888 --, s.,ir
The Joint committee on legislation IN
the Pennsylvania legislature reported unani-
mOusly thatuo evidence was found OF cor
-ruption on the part of any person named IN
connection with the United States Senator
ship, or any member Of the legielaeure. re.I
Fortifications for the protection OF
Montreal will soon be commenced at st. Ste
phen's Island, which is 70 be rendered, I'M
pre- enable Forts are to be erected at La
Prairie, Mt. Royal and several other points
on the south shore.
The river was so blockaded with ice
at West. Hartford Vermont, on the llths that
the water rose as high as the second Story
windows of the Williamson Hotel. The Oldest
daughter Of the proprietor was droWnea
while attempting to Escape. F-45 80 = Q
The steamer Die Vernon struck
snsg. below Memphis, Sunday morning ana
sunk out of sight. She had on boafd zSO
bales Of cotton. The boat and cargo are
total loss. She was owned by Captain FRANK
Hicks. Ri. Wall and j. G.. McCune, and was
vaiued az $4,000. Insured IN Cinctnn ati ana
81. Louis for SlS. 600.
The end wall of a newly completed
paper mill at Greenville, Connecuent, having
been undermined by freshet, Iell into the
Sbetucket liver on the 18th, damaging the
mill 500, coo Several wOrkmen had q narrow
escape. The loss by the ffeshet IN the re-
gion OF Norwich will I5sch 100000.
A large, beautiful meteor was OBJ
served in San +, aneisco on the lgth, at BIO
a. m Owing TO the sun shining Its size was
not clearly defined. The came meteor vas
seen. at Gilroy and WatrOnvlile, accompanied
by a tremendous noise and heavy ground
shocks.
The westward bound express train
on the Pacific Railroad was thrown from the
rack about twenty miles from Jefferson City,
Mo-, Monday night, and all the cars, except
the sleeping car, landed bottom SIDE up at
the base Of an embankment twenty-five feet
high. A number OF persons were badly
bruised, but none seriously hurt.
Heavy rains fell in Connecticut and
Rhode Island on the 9th, raising the streams
TO such a height a. to carry oil dams and
bridges IN the vicinity OF Norwich, and to
flood the lower part OF that city. A Provi-
denee dispatch says that the freshet sur
passes any that has occurred since 1887. The
damage in and about the cities named above,
il estimate at S35O,O0O.
A thunderbolt of binding vividness
burst from the clouds Saturday night, in
New York, while rain was pouring down in
torrents, and the darkness was so great as
to make il impossible to see across the street.
The church spires and buildings we're for an
instant rendered plainly visible in the glare,
IL was followed by heavy shock of thunder,
which seemingly made the earth rock as in
an earthquake. similar phenomenon oc-
CURED week ago Saturday night.
The lower portions of Boston were
flooded by the great fall OF rain on Saturday
On Church. Fayette, and other streets, houses
were flooded TO depth OF two or three feet,
causing considerable damsge. In Roxbury
the damage done by the streams was large.
yellow, and the foundry of Anthony Gar
rett and large number of dwelling houses
were flooded ard badly damaged. Buildings
in east Boston ana Cambridge were blown
down and unrOofed.
Col. A. p. Henry's marble bust of
Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated at the
Academy of Music, IN Louisville, on the 18Th.
The hail was densely crowned by select au-
dieDce, large number Of whom we're ladies'.
Governor Bramlette presided. The sculptor,
q native OF Kentucky, unveiled the bust,
which elected shouts or appreciation from the
audience a. a work Of art The President in
troduced Ex-AttOrney General Speed, who
made one OF the happIsst efforts OF his life
His eUiOgy vas appropriate, Impressive, and,
at times, sublime, 1t was received with I'M
bounded admiration. Generals Thomas aud
Davis followed IN & few appropriate remarks
The baud played dirges at intervals. Subse-
quentiy the bust wse removed to the Custom
House building, and placed permanently on
pedestal at the westerly end OF the library
OF the United States court, facing eastward.
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