Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-07-13
Personal Items

capt. II. B. Ward, of Detroit, had
only 1925, O25 to live on last year.
-Garibaldi has issued invitations for
Free Masons' Congress at Naples. to
be held at the same time as the centen-
airy of st. Peter at Rome.
Mrs. Elizabeth Loehman died a
lew days since in Bethel township.
Lebanon county, Pa, at the extraor-
binary age of los years.
The Scranton, Pa, Republican
hoists the name of Ulysses S. Grant.
the great soldieFssfor President, and
Andrew Ct. Curtin, the soldiers friend,
for Vice President, in 1868.
''Burleigh,' the New York cores
pondent of the Boston Journal, pre-
diets that Horace Greeley will be the
next democratic candidate for Governor
of New York.
Brigham Young, Jr., and his com
panion, Richards, are living gaily in
| Paris, the former with two wives and
nine children, the latter with nine
wives and no end of children.
"A Detroit man held q reception
party the other night TO receive com
ordinations upon having visited Chica-
go and returned safely.
Mrs. Sarah Hand, the mother of
the clerk of Cape May county, N. j.,
is still living and in good health. She
is 80 years of age. This lady is one of
the girls who strewed with flowers the
pathway of Washington, as he crossed
Trenton bridge on his return to New
York.
The President of William and
Mary College cOrrects the report that
MIR. A. Il. Stewart is the largest bene-
factor of that institution, and explains
that, though MIR. Stewart gave twice as
much as any other New Yorker, Mr..
W. W. CorcoraD, of Washington, made
the largest donation yet obtained.
John Mills, who enlisted in the
regular army in 1908, and attained a
Second Lieutenantcy at the age of IS
years, in 1865. died last week at Brad
ford, Mass. He was fife-majOr of the
| Fourth and subsequently of the First
Infantry served under Gen. Harrison
at Tippecanoe was included in "Hul's
surrender - went through the Florida
1
in Texas at the outbreak of the rebel
lion, but, with two companies, escaped
the consequences of "Twiggs' surren-
der" On the 9th of April, 1866, in
recognition of this almost unprecedent-
ed term of meritorious service, he was
commissioned a Second Lieutenant,
and put upon retired pay.
Albert Pike, despite his support of
Etheridge for Governor of Tennessee,
has taken another tilt at cOlored suf-
frage. He says ''If there be indeed
any objectionable sin, any crime as
! founding in. its magnitude, and for
which the golden gates of heaven will
be eternalIy closed against the perpe-
traitor, it is that of being principal or
accomplish, alder or abettor, under any
inducement of profit and advantage, or
any plea of necessity or policy, III Civ
ing the right of suffrage to the negro.
To give them that right, and put the
destinies of States In their hands, is
| the most damnable crime that any part
OF the human race has ever committed. "A"
eTbe Houston (Texas) journal pub
| fishes Gen. Longstreet's letter, and
SAYS 1--WE find in The New Orleans
Republican a letter from Gen. Long
street, which we think should be read
with great care, and its cOunsels re-
ceived by the people. The main point
in the letter is its correct reference to
the Democratic party, regarding that
party at the present time as Offering
nothing but prejudice. As we have
often contended, through the columns
OF The Journal, there is nothing tan
gible about it, except what Was staked
on the war, and there lost We agree
with Gen. Longstreet that the South
must seek some other standpoint upon
which TO base her future action than
the Democratic party. 1t is now obso-
lete."
The robbery of the steamer Brooks
at the St. LOuis leVeee, Sunday. June
%, was very bold act. The boat ar
rived from Arkansas river about three
O'Clock a. M, the captain going ashore
soon after landing, and leaving the
boat in charge of mir. Ritter, one of the
owners, who was asleep in a state room
next to the office, with the key OF the
safe under his head. Soon after some
one went into Mr.. Ritter's state-rOom,
stole the key of the safe, and getting
into the office, unlocked the safe and
took therefrom over $4,000 in money,
a gold watch, and some other valuables.
After committing the robbery, the thief
set fire to some bedding in the office
and escaping unObserved. One OF the
passengers is suspected OF the crime.