Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-08-24

miscellaneous Items.

"A Boston boot-black has banl
account of $4,000.
The Southern novelist, W. Gil
more Simms, is in Boston.
The debt of Chicago is about So,
200, 900.
There are 4, 900 female office-hold
ers in Italy.
Edward J. Boyee, the new Lib,
rian President, was once an OhiObarbeI
New York city receives about
800, 900 a year for liquor licenses.
Forty million bushels of coal are
now shipped yearly down the Ohio.
Bread in New York is 70 per cent
higher in price than it is in England.
MIR. Webb makes about 100000
profit on the Dunderberg.
Elk President Buchanan is at Cape
May.
Frederick Seward is rapidly recov-
ering.
Bis lop Hopkins will sail for En-
rope next week.
-Bourcicanlt's plays average him
81, 900 week.
Henry A. Wise is practising law in
Henrico County, Va.
There are fifteen hundred orphans
by the famine in Orissa
"A Vermont railroad has declared a
dividend.
Grant and Fessenden is the Mobile
Times ticket
Salvador has had the shakes. There
were four shocks of an earthquake there
on the Both of June.
The Mobile papers learn that Ed
win Booth has made an engagement to
appear there about Christmas.
w. J. Bullock, one-armed Con-
federate soldier, Is teaching n cOlored
school in Brookhaven, Mississippi.
10000 German emigrants have been
booked for passage TO California the
present season.
DR.. Carroll, the Roman Catholic
has been elected Lord Mayor
of Dublin, for 1865.
New York has over 1000 lager beer
and these never did SO much
business as at present.
The taxable property of Illinois,
as per assessment returns of 1866, is
S4il, OOO, 900.
Miss Smith is at Long Branch.
Her name appears IN the papers as
Mis- S-h; so Miss cuts dash incog.
Governor Burnside is one of the
Directors of the newly formed Ply
mouth lind Railroad Company.
-"Nobody's Daughter" is said to he
quite "a successful damsei on the boards
of New York theatre.
Returned emigrants from Califor.
mia complain that their worst enemies
were white horse thieves.
During the war we had no Rear
Admiral, but we had plenty of rear
Generals.
Jupiter, with his satellites invisible,
can be seen any time with the naked
eye.
Horace Greeley is sought as Presi-
dent of the New York anti gambling
society.
Tho Buffalo police are confiscating
bread of light weight for the benefit of
the poor.
Jack HAMILTON wants to go to Con-
gress rather than to Texas. Not much
choice.
In Virginia there are 80 cOlored
and 49, white teachers engaged in
teaching colored schools.
-Eighty-fve per cent. of the mortal
ity at st. IOnis is among children un-
der five years of age.
--Mad'lle Finette, who can kick your
hat off six times running, is writing her
memoirs for Paris.
One man boasts in Indiana that he
gets new wife and new divorce every
quarter.
"A moving machine took off John
McKee's arm and his sisters foot, while
operating in Ohio recently.
Hon Benjamin G.. Harris is men
toned as the next democratic candidate
for Governor of Maryland.
The wardrobe of Henry A. Wise
was stolen from the chamber of his
house in Richmond the other night,
Lancaster, Pa, has a natural
bridge which it matches against that in
Virginia. They both claim to be with.
out a peer.
The lager beer gardens in New
York on Sunday evenings substitute
soda water and cider for lager and weis
beer.
The hero and heroine of a runa-
way match in Indiana We're a middle
aged man and widow with five chill
dren.
The late fair for ( benefit of the
Girls Catholic Protectory, in New
York, yielded upward of one hundred
thousand dollars.
In Preston, England, young man
was lately bought out of the army by a
maiden aunt, and IN return he married
her.
Col. J. l.. A. Bonher, a distin-
gnished officer of the French Zouaves,
was married in Paris last month, to
Clara Louise Edgerton of New York.
The Old Mems Home, at Boston,
has Just been enriched S25, 900 by the
death of one of the wealthy men of that
city.
"A bill has passed the Connecticut
Legislature to punish factory owners
who employ minors under fifteen, by a
fine of $50.
English papers are remarking upon
the large number of prizes awarded to
American exhibitors to the Paris Expo
sItion.
The largest 1866 income reported
in the New Orleans district, is that oil
Thomas z. May, S63, 81; p. 4. Bean.
regard reports $5,742.
"A life convict in the Illinois State