Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-08-10
miscellaneous items.

inhabitants.
The Connecticut legislature boasts
ten clergymen.
There are 2, 794 inmates in tue Phil
adelphia almshouse.
Booths theater won't be ready for
opening till Jauarny, 1868.
Bismarck recently confiscated eight
newspapers in fortnight.
"A lady of 80 married $40, 600 and a
man aged "a in Chicago lately.
-Brownlow expects 10000 majority
in the coming Tennessee election.
Boston has Is, 281 houses and Bun
ker Hill.
The Minnesota freshet washed away
$500, 600.
-Sldell says he expects to die in
France. Poor France.
The Chicago plumbers have had
their wages reduced.
Ten per cent. of coolies die during
the middle passage.
The Sultan's spree in London costs
India $500
Columbus, Nebraska, is claimed to
be the centre of the United States.
The foreman of Barstow's foundry,
Providence, is Offering ''bounty" of
| 500 to men who will leave their union.
The pecuniarY cost of the Mexican
! expedition of the French was over sixty
millions of dollars in gold.
Mule thieving, hen roost spolia-
| ton and suicide for love. are some of
the late Virginia excitements.
"A Kentucky peGch-grower has sold
his entire crop as it hangs on the trees
to house in Cincinnati for $14, 900, or
about $2.75 per tree.
"A colored woman, while gathering
whortleberries near the Dismal Swamp,
was bitten by black snake, which
caused her death in few hours.
"A Mississippi paper thinks General
Ord was omitted from the vote of
thanks because he was the only COM
mander who had failed to get up a
riot.
The American Watch Company,
| WatertOwn, Ct, turns out watch ev-
cry two and a half minutes during the
working hours of the day.
1t is said several New England man
ufacturers have project TO import some
| thousands of coolies for the rough work
of the factories.
The San Francisco Hrial steam
navigation company are constructing a
steam balloon, SO feet long, 20 wide,
and q high.
-Slanberry, according TO the Times
correspondent, says that Johnson has
made mp his mind at the close of the
term to take the field in Tennessee for
U. s. Senator.
-Pompey, an individual of sable
hue, said he once worked for man
who raised his wages so high that he
could only reach them once in two
| years.
"A cooperative furniture store, with
n capital of 100000 and employing
600 men, most of whom are stockhold-
ers, has gone into operation in Cincin-
natl.
German Baptist churches are null
| tiplying. There are now in the United
| States and Canada eighty of these
churches. Twenty years ago there were
only eight.
The San Francisco Water Company
have filed Articles of Incorporation,
with a capital of six millions of dollars,
and propose to supply the city with
water from the Santa Cruz mountains.
The New Orleans Crescent, refer
ring to the failure of another banker,
says there is now a chance on Camp
street for another enterprising soda
vender.
Between Memphis and Nashville
is the following inscription on sign
board at railroad crossing: look
out for the Ingine when the wisle bloes
or rings"
The natives of Palmer, Mass, are
exercised over a ghost story. A mans
dead wife is said to have appeared in
his house a few days ago, and blew ont
the lamp.
"A Methodist exhorter recently, be-
wailing the GOODNESS of his flock in re-
ligious matters, said very curtly, that
Che church members of late attended
too much to the conversion of seven
thirties.
An Indiana paper tells of a case
lately tried in one of the courts there,
where it was found, after proceedings
lad begun, that the defendant had
been sworn as n juror, and was actually
sitting on bis own case.
The cost of supporting the army
in the southern states during the pres
emit year is estimated by the Treasury
Department at $50, 900, 900 to 100000
600.
Concord, N. H, is greatly excited
at the prevalence of incendiary fires.
No less than half dozen have occurred
within the past few days, destroying
upwards of 81, 000,0 900 worth of prop
erty.
The brickIayers and stone masons
of Baltimore have ceased work until
tue demand of the bricklayers for So
per daY and of the masons for nine
hours to constitute a days work be
complied with.
"A missing Yale student, G. III. Up
ton, for news concerning whom a re-
ward of $1,000 was offered, and who
was supposed to have been identified in
body washed ashore at Stamford, CT,
has turned up at his home in Roches-
ter. Cause of strange conduct, unhap-
by love affair.
The census of Mississippi, taken
In 1866, shows a population of 724, us,
of which 343, AGO are whites and $751;
25S are blacks. This is a decrease of
76. $50 since 1860. The greatest falling
off has been among the blacks, amount
ing to &c, LAG, while the whites have
lost but 10,439. The blacks now ex