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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02
How a Young woman IdentIfled Her

Trunk. q o. ~ x
The Pittsburg Dispatch saws: Two
or three days ago a young woman. who
gave every indication of being abund-
antly able to take care of herself and
whatever might belong to her, arrived
in the city from the west, by the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago rail
road. She claimed her trunk on the
platform of the Union depot, but was
refused possession of it until she
should show her check. This she did
not do, and the trunk was wheeled into
the baggage room. Thither she fol-
lowed 1t, and again made her demand,
designating as her property a structure
big enough for a Saratoga" but of
antiquated build. She was again asked
for her check, and made vigorous
search for 1T. She seemed in momeu-
tary distress of mind as she became
convinced that she had lost the check.
but soon recuperated, and made a
and obviously honest
appeal to have her property restored.
at length it was agreed that the trunk
should be given her if she would faith
fully describe its contents. She straight
way commenced her inventory. The
trunk contained so many dresses, so
many night-caps, so many pairs of
stockings, so many bottles of ''yarb
syrups" in case of sickness, so many
etc, etc, and III the 'ttill'' of the trunk
had been placed three dozen and a half
of fresh eggs. The description having
been completed, the trunk was opened.
1t was hers, that fact became obvious
in moment. The eggs were there, or
rather mad been, though Just how many
of them it would be impossible to state
positively, for the whole trunk was
full of a vast Omelette. Dresses, stock
ings, nightcaps, and bottles OF syrup
were only so many articles beaten up
among the broken eggs. The baggage
was yielded without word of opposi-
ton. The owner accepted it with a
silent look of dismay, then closed the
lid, and ordered the trunk to be
wheeled away.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02
The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance
Company.
(Ofico 4I6 Main Street, Milwaukee,


$1,000 Members aud s2,5OO, 900 Assets.
EDWARD ILsLsY, Actuarv. 4. 8. DAGaETT, Priest
HEBEK NTH, Gen. Ag't. A. W. KELLOGG, Sec'y.
DIVIDENDS.
tbs evident that IL the rate of mortality
aud the rate of interest during the life of the
oldest member, and the amount OF expenses
necessary 10 cover the cost Of doing the bu-
siness, could be exactly determined, rate of
premium could be made which Would exactly
cover the cost of insurance, and which would
without doubt be the best rate for all, and
upon which there would be no surplus for
dividends.
Bat it is necessary to assume such rate
of mortality and interest, as will make the
premium sufficient to meet all the contingent
cies of epidemics and of the reduction of
interest. Hence arises a surplus, which is
evidently caused by the over-payments of
the members. 1t is equally clear that dis
tribution of this surplus, to be equitable,
should be in exact proportion to these over
payments. But these Over-psyments at the
various ages are not in proportion to the an
nual premiums paid. Consequently, dis
tribntion of any certain per cent. upon the
annual premium is necessarily inequitable.
This Company has therefore adopted the
method of distributing the surplus in pro-
portion to each members over-payment, OF,
in other words, to his contribution to the
surplus. This method also enables the Com
pany to make equitable dividends, as between
annual life, one payment, five and ten pay
ment, and endowment policies, which is i'm
possible under the usual methods.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02

A PROPOSITION TO LICENSE PRIZE
FIGHTs. The New York Tribune, as
Stunning that it has been found impos-
sible to stop prize-fghting by law,
asks if it would not be q good plan to
license the business. 1t suggests the
following made of procedure TO obtain
license and carry through the fight:
ssThey must file, within thirty days of
the fight, in some court of record, evil
dence of good moral character. No
fight shall be lawful unless attended by
two Justices Of the Peace, one doctor
and achaplain. No license for fights
on Sunday shall be issued; and stand
ing board of commissioners, consisting
of Joe Coburn, Mike Coburn, Jim Co
burn, Kit Burns, j. G. Heenan and
Barney Aaron, shall have power at any
time to stop any fight out OF which
they think It impossible to make any
money. The commissioners viii have
an office in the City Hall, will be al
lowed twenty clerks at $1,000 per an
nun each, and viii provide ropes,
sponges, fighting shoes, brandy TASKS,
and all other ring necessaries, at the
cost of the city, having first duly adj
vertised for contracts to furnish the
same. They shall be paid twenty per
cent. of all battle money, and as much
more as they can squeeze out of the
combatants,
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02
Ravage. Of the yellow Fever In Texas.

Correspondence of the New York Times.l
INDIANoLA, Texas, Saturday, Sept.
Il, 1S67.-This coast has SO suffered
with that pestilence, yellow fever, that
there can be but little interest felt. ex-
cepting to know who is saved from its
ravages. The first cases were at this
place, and up to the present time. in a
population of some two thousand. one
hundred and fifty have died, or from
eight to ten per cent. of the inbabi-
tants. The disease appears to have
spread on the avenues of water com
munication, so that the small towns like
Texana, if accessible by water, suffered
equally with Indianola. The first cases
were soon after the first of July. and
srom that time 10 this the spread is un-
abated. Although the material here
and at the ports In the vicinity is ex-
hausted, other places are at the height
of suffering. Corpus Christi, the point
chosen years ago by Gen. Taylor to
land his "army of observation" has
been almost depopulated. New Iberia
is suffering from the ravages of the dis
ease, so the terror. stricken inhabitants
have called on neighboring cities for
aid. Galveston, the largest city in
Texas, is, at the present time, the most
afflicted of any.
The army has not been among the
least sufferers. The first officer that
died was Lieutenant Blockhaller, of
the Ninth Cavalry. then Lieutenant
BOnnafan, of the Both Infantry, at this
place. When the disease reached Gal
weston one of the first victims was
Lieut.. Col. Geo. Taylor. Surgeon U.
s. A., chief medical officer, followed
by Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. Albert, DIR.
Rowe and DIR. Adams, Mrs. Lieut..
Kirkman, Mrs. Gen. Potter, Gen.
Griffin's only son; last, Gen. Griffin,
commander of the district, who died
on the 18th. One company of the
Thirty-fiith infantry lost thirteen men
out of forty-fge within few days.
The disease has now spread into the
country, and the city of Houston, fifty
miles inland, IS now reporting from five
to ten deaths daily. The smaller towns
further inland have cases of the same
or like character.
SEPT. 24.-# Intelligence is lust
received from the interior indicating a
yet worse state of affairs. Brevet
Ooi' " OtHboI5 toSfShbeoubu ihihnbfy,
commanding the post at Houston, with
his wife and child, have died. Capt
Warren, of the same regiment, died
the day after. The applications FOR aid
on the part of citizens of interior
towns are numerous and very urgent.
The large cities and towns have alb
sOrbed most of the nurses, hence there
must be great suffering, as good and
experienced nursing is the only safety.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02

A ROMANTIC STORY. "A Vienna paper
reports that Six Viennese pretty waiter
girls have left that city for Paris to
take the places of those who have ex.
changed their humble positions at the
"Restauration de Dreher" in the
grounds of the great French Exposi-
ton, for more exalted spheres. The
following is the romantic fortune OF
five girls who waited upon the guests
of the establishment at The opening OF
the exhibitions:
One of them, a Viennese girl, is very
soon to be married to Spanish noble.
man. A second, Hungarian, has mar.
ried one of the prominent men in the
Faubourg 50. German, and is now on
her wedding tour. The handsome Po-
lish girl, whose appearance created such
a sensation, resides in beautiful villa
near Vichy, by the side of noble old
marquis, who has settled two hundred
thousand francs on her.
The fourth, Tyrolese, has married
one of our merchant princes" who
was charmedHby her imposing figure.
The last of this lucky quintette, also q
Viennese, has Just returned to her ma.
tive city the wife of a fortunate specu.
lator, who recently made a couple OF
millions on change.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02
10 Consumpnves.

TEHE ADVERTISERS, HAVE+G BEEN
restored 70 health in few weeks bya very
slraple remedy, after having suffered for several
years with severe lung affection, and that dread
disease Consumptlon--ls anxious to make known
to mis- fellow sufferers the means Of cure.
To sli who desire IL, he viii send copy Of the
prescription used fres OF charged with the direC-
tions for prepariIg and using the same. which they
win find SURE CUBE for CONSUMPTION ASTHMA
BRoGoaIIIs. OoueHss CoLDs, and all Throat and
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sending the Prescription Is 10 benefit the anct-
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be invaluable, and he hopes every sufferer VIII try
his remedy, as Il Will cost them nothing, and may
prove 3 blessing. Parties wishing the prescription
FREE BY return mail, pill please address
REY. EDWARD A. WILSON.
may7cwIv Williamsburg, Kings 90, n. =.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02
Singular sulcIde--A Man Ruined by
Novels

j. IL. White, young man about
twenty-five years of age, committed
suicide at the Bates House, Indianapo-
lis, on Sunday, by taking morphine
He was from Greensboro, KY, and left
letter to a brother residing in India
napOlis, in which, after giving some
messages TO his friends, together with
directions for his funeral, he said:
II believe, with due respect for the
memory of our mother, that l have
inherited this desire for death from her,
for you know that she attempted sui
eide on one occasion at least. i be-
lieve in the old maxim that the sins of
the parents are visited on the children.
would give great deal TO see you,
Carrie and Mainee, but L know you
would want TO know why / was here,
andsI don't know what could tell you
that you would believe. L believe,
brother, that if / had never read a nov
ell | should now be on the high road to
fame and fortune, but, alas ! / was al.
lowed to read the vilest kind of novels
when was eight or nine years old. /
always loved to read, and before / ever
saw novel had read what few books
there were at bone. If good books
had been furnished me, and no bad
ones, L should have read the good
books with as great a zest as did the
bad ones. Brother, persuade all per-
sons over whom you have any intlu-
ence not to read novels"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02
POETRY.
TWENTY YEARS.

She nears the land-the boat hat brings,
NV wand'ring boy sgain to me;
The sturdy rOWers lend her wings,
And now each suuburnt face 1 sees
Among them all marked not him
Ii IL not that with rising tears
MY watchful eyes are weak ana dl ms
1t is the lapse OF twenty years.
He left me when little lad,
A lad a babe; / see him now,
hear his voice so frank and glad,
/ strcks the eurls upon his brow
NV son returns across the main,
But brings not back the time that's hed
1 shall not hear the voice again.
shall not pat the childish head.
Perhaps a trace yet may find
of bovhOod an his look or tOnes
A glauce-an accent to remind
Ne still Of hopeful VISIONS gone.
His mothers smile may greet me, when
we hold each other hand-In-hand;
His mothers voice may echo then
A blessing from the spirit land.
The boat comes on: 8 minute more
She'll CRATE upon the beach. And see,
Who rises now to spring on shore
Who waves his cap aiOft lis hes
No more look IN wistful doubt,
Asin the man the child appeaTsi
His earnest gaze, his joyful shout,
Have bTidged the lapse OF twenty years.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02

GENTLEMAN, WHO SUFFERED
~ for years from Nervous Debility, Premature
Decay and all the effects Of youthful indiscFefon,
viii. for he cake of suffering humanity send tree to
all who need It the recipe and directions for maxi
ing the simple remedy by which be ives cured
Sufferers wishing to profit by the advertisers ex-
perIence cat do so by addressing in perfect conf
dence, JOHN b. OGDEN, AZ Cedar St, New York
maY7cWly
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02

AN EGG or AN EXTINCT BRD.-M.
Grandidier has presented to the French
Academy an egg of the remarkable ex-
tinct bird, the Epiornis, of Madagas-
car. Having lately returned from the
island, he says the eggs of the Epiornis
are found on plain at one side of the
island, and at height of several
metres above the sea level. Strange
that though numerous eggs have been
discovered, the bones of this creature
are rarely found. From what NJ
Grandidier has learned from the ma
tiyes, there seems little doubt that the
EpiOrDIs is extinct.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02

METcALFK's GREAT RHEUaAIIo REMEDY is truly
the wonder OF the age. Cases OF Hheumstism that
have bssd the skill of the first doctor of this city
have been completely cured by a few doses, and II
lie as inf4llible as anything prepared BY human
hands can be. Sold by all Druggists. II. Boz
WORfu & SONS, Wholesale Agents, Milwaukee
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02

power. Each workman produces 2, 900
eimers, or 10000 gallons of beer year
ly. The workmen's wages are to l
IL forms per day $50 to rs cents) with
board and lodging T. Ere. Posi-.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02

LIeHt T. n. GiIIiland, of Paducah,
Ky, who was confined for eleven months ia
the Libby Prison, and was there attacked by
ted that he could not walk one square, states
that he has been entirely cured by Goes DyE-
pepsia Cure. Let the suffering toy it.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02

1T has been observed that as civil
ization creeps westward ON the Plains,
the "buffalo grass" recedes correspon-
dinghy. Within the last few years it
has disappeared entirely from Eastern
Kansas and Nebraska. 1t is certainly
accommodating on the part of the grass
to go after the buffaloes.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02

The grape harvest is beginning on
the islands of Lake Erie. Over so tons
were received at Sandusky for shipment
the first three days of last week.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02
Semi-Weekly Wisconsin.

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MiIwauk e. October 10, 1867.
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a GOOD OFFER.

We will send the V eekIy
or Semi-weekIy Wisconsin
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date OF receipt OF money till
January LIST, 1869, for the
regular yearly single and
club rates below.
Under this offer those
who subscribe now will
get the Wisconsin FOURTEEN
MONTHS and over for the
regular price. This offer
to hold good until January
LIST, 1868.
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BEER AND WINE.

While the manufacture and consump-
ton of beer is rapidly increasing, wine
is as quickly decreasing. Twenty years
ago there we're in Lower Austria $4,000
yochs or 120,O 900 acres of vineyards un-
der cultivation. which produced an
nually 100000 eimers, or 10000, 900
gallons of wine. There are now only
sc, 900 yochs of vineyards, producing
/, 046, 900 eimers, or 10000. 900 gallons.
During the same time, the manufac-
ture of beer has increased from /, 400.
900 eimers, or $1,000, 600 gallons, to
2, 900, 600 eimers, or $4,000, 900 gallons,
being more than double. This last
quantity was brewed in 1865; and by
the former years rate of growth, it may
safely be calculated that the consump-
ton now amounts to fifty-two millions
of gallons.
There are at present ia breweries at
work, employing 1,500 workmen, and
have 30 steam engines of 750 horse
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-11-02

In Munich there are sixteen brew
cries in operation, two of which are
worked for account of the King of Ba-
varia, thirteen belong to private indi-
viduals, and one to a monastery. MIR
amburg has twenty-four, and Augsburg
seventy-one. In point of quantity of
beer Munich outstrips all her competi-
tors
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-15

Gen. r. E. Lee writes to friend
in Louisville: 81 am glad to inform
You that Washington College is pro
crossing as well as could be expected.
We have now $40 academic students,
and twenty-five i'll the law class, with
an able corps of Teachers
Mr.. Sherman announced in the
Senate, on Monday, that he had re-
ceived Il letter from Governor Patton,
OF Alabama, stating that the Shcr-
man bill would be favorably acted
upon.
III view of the large number of
divorces in Vermont, Il newspaper in
that State suggests q tax of 81. 900
upon every petition for separation, lis
a sinking fund for the debt Of the
State
The homestead OF sam. Houston.
IN Houston, Texas, which he built
himself, some twenty five years ago,
has just been demolished.
The Eastern Railway Company,
France, has adopted third-class car
riage. 1t is two stories high, and con
tains seats for eighty persons.
The Mississippi Legislature has
appropriated $4,000 for the defence
Of Jefferson Davis.
1926 miles of railroad have been
built IN Texas, diverging North
South, East and West from Houston.
The negro Bradley is on his way
North, to collect martyr money"
New York dances away $4,000, OOO
In season.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-15

nifty for doing so; but it is a time for
the exercise Of sound Judgment, in
shaping our own destiny and that of
those who come after us. Precipi-
tate action or rash counsels can only
aggravate the evils which have fear
fully multiplied and pressed upon
the Southern people. Let them do
all that within them lies for the resto-
ration OF peace and harmony-all
that they can do under the adverse
circumstances in which they are
placed. Let us hope that time, .he
great mollifier of passions, combined
with patient endurance on our part,
and sense of returning justice on
the part of our adversaries, will de-
monstrate the necessity of a return
to constitutional principles.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-15
All Wrong.

The Winnsboro Nems, of yester-
day, had Il rumor that mob pre-
vented the regular term of the Court
of General Sessions and Common
Pleas, in Yorkville, from holding it's
sessions
The Ne'cs, in a postscript, says that
there was strong indication that
the court would be prevented pro-
ceeding, yet the interposition of a
few stopped violent action that was
anticipated.
We deeply regret to hear of this,
the first symptom that has shown it.
self in this State OF opposition to law
and order. We presume that the
general sueing for debts, or to pre-
vent judgments being obtained, was
the cause of this ebullition of popu-
lar feeling, which, fortunately, was
prevented from developing itself into
an act of violence, which would be
dissgraceful to our people, and would,
furthermore, be trumpeted in blazing
capitals il every radical newspaper at
the North, as verifcation of the
preamble Of Sherman's bill, (now a
law, that whereas no adequate pro
lection to life and property exists in
the rebel States, and that, therefore,
peace and good order should be en-
forced in said States,' &c. AS we
have said before, obedience to the
law-State or Fedcral-is the first
duty Of the good citizen AS it is
the first manifestation Of disorder in
this State, SO we hope it will be the
last
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-15

REcoNsrRUcTIoS IN SIGHT. A sig
nlticant acknowledgment was made
yesterday, even by so determined an
ultraist as Mr.. Boutwell,, of Massa-
chusetts, which ought not to escape
the attention of the people of the
South. Replying to Mr.. Bingham's s
reminder that the constitutions
adopted by the Southern people
would still have to come before Con
gress for acceptance, he declared that
Congress would be under the IL
resistible pressure to accept any con
stltution SO adopted as the work of
the people of the State" This was
urged by Mr.. Boutwell, as a reason
for having the preliminarics so ar
ranged that no needless question
should be raised in Congress sub
sequently about the admission of a
State. National MteMgencer, 1911.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-15

HE FLOODS IN THE SOUTH. -Vir-
glnia, Tennessee and Georgia, have
recently been visited with the heaviest
freshests that has occurred within
the memory of the Oldest inhabitant.
The whole valley, from Lynchburg
to Chattanooga, has been swept by
the swollen streams. The Virginia
and Tennessee Railroad is badly
damaged, and two bridges on the
East Tennessee and Virginia Railroad
are gone. The Richmond papers re-
port 4 heavy rise in the James River.
At Rockets all the wharves were sub
merged and many cellars inundated.
The freshet in the vicinity of Peters
burg caused some damage. Through
ont Georgia and Alabama, bridges
have been swept of in every direction.
A despatch from Chattanooga, Ten
nessee, dated the 10Th, says the water
was four feet deep in the depot, and
over seven feet in the car-shed. The
damage and sufferings OF the people
OF Chattanooga and the surrounding
country are immense. Nineteen dead
bodies We're seen by one man while
passing from Lookout Mountain to
the city in q skiff.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-03-15

REPORT OF Cor. BoN1FoRD. This
excellent officer, Military Command
ant of the State and who has won
largely on the esteem of our people
since he came to Raleigh, has for
warded to Washington his report
for January, as Assistant Commits
sloner of the Freedmen's Bureau.
1t shows that during the month the
officers and agents of the bureau in
many parts Of the State were busily
engaged to the full extent of the
powers delegated them, for the ale
Walton Of the destitute. The suf-
fering arising by reason of want of
clothing and food-the result of
causes heretofore reported-are still
prevalent, but it is hoped that the
spring will, to Il great extent, lessen
the number of dependents The
work Of breaking up settlements of
freedmen under the charge OF the
bureau progresses favorably, and in
very short time the Government
will be relieved from a avery enormous
burden.
The most gratifying feature of
this document is the statement that
no arrests were made by the Bureau
and not an outrage reported. This is
official testimony to the tranquility
of our people, and argues well for
future harmony between whites and
blacks. .--Raleigh Progress.