Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-01-12
MISCELLANEOUS AND NEWS HENS.

"A wicked wretch was asked why he
married so little wife? why" said
he, g the best way among all evils is to
choose the least. "
"A young lady, named Ellen Allicorn,
was burned so badly by the explosion
of kerosene oil, as she was pouring it
on the fire from the can on the Both, In
Brooklyn, that she died In two hours
Afterwards. She was 16 years old.
The following announcement has
been fished up from a Boston paper of
June 4th, 1889 ''Mr. N. p. Banks will
make his appearance on the Boston
stage this evening as Claude Melnotte,
in the play of Lady of Lyons. "
The recent census taken of the city
of Mobile shows it to contain Whites
males, 2,911 females, 2,615; total
whites, 1926 Colored-males, 3,1S1 /;
females, A. 1876 /; total colored, 1886.
Total population, 1902.
Forty thousand pounds of horse
meat is eaten every week in Paris
The trade is legahzed. In Newark.
n. j., butcher has just been fined S25
for selling 'fcorned" horse. Our peo-
Pile are not sufficiently horsified to fol-
low the Paris fashion in this respect
as yet
The exports of British manufac-
lures to the United States are double
what they were last year. For eight
months of 1866 twenty-five principal ar
ticles came to $40, 100000; this year
they amount to $80,000.000. $50 much
gain to both, says the free-traders; $50
much loss to you, say the protection
lists. d"
"A subscription has been started in
Denmark, to present the Princess Dag
mar with a souvenir of her native coun-
try, consisting of splendid ebony book
case, richly inlaid with silver and moth
er-of-pearl, and containing the choicest
works of all the great Danish authors.
Another part of the present will be a
beautiful album, with pictures of the
finest views and landscapes in Den
mark.
"A letter from Venice says: ''An
immense flock of pigeons OF the Place
st. Mark had been from time immemo-
rial, as is generally known, fed at the
expense of the republic. They still as
semble from all directions at two in the
afternoon. and, alighting on the pave
ment of the square, take the food
thrown to them. No one ever disturbs
them, and they do not fear even the
children. They know that they are
sacred.
"A mysterious murder is. exciting
the people of New Orleans. Miss Dora
Hendricks, a young lady of unusual
beauty, who was boarding in the family
of Mr.. McLinn, and attending school
in the city, was the victim. Her room
was entered very early on Saturday
morning, December %, and she was
struck behind the ear with blunt i'll
strument, from the effects of which she
died. Nothing is known of the perpe-
traitor.
ALL the water used by the inhabit-
ants of Massaya,-a town of 2,O6O,-in
Nicaragua, is brought from lake in
the mountains some two miles distant.
1t has been the custom for the past 300
wears TO convey the water to the town
in FIVE gallon earthen jars, which are
carried on the heads ct women, about
coo being thus employed. A company
is forming in New York to supply the
town and erect water works.
At the execution o f the two negroes
Lewis and Augustus Williams, at Will
mington, on Dec. 81, the fatal rope at
tached to the neck of Augustus became
misplaced in the fell. and gave rise to
horrible suffenngs, which were painful
" indicated by the fearful and madden
ing struggles he made. In about half
al hour he, too, ceased to struggle, and
the crowd dispersed, awfnlly impressed
with the horrible spectacle.
Some thirty men do the business
of putting gold up or down IN the gold
room in New York. When they be-
come unusually vociferous, yelling at
the top of their lungs this figure or that
in their offerings, the word goes. ont
''market excited" Millions change
hands in that noisy gold room daily,
prices are affected throughout the conn
try by these operators-and yet 10 the
uninitiated visitor the scene appears
more like, "bedlam broke loose" than
the important transactions of business
men.
Philip Dorsheimer, of Buffalo, N.
Y, while revenue collector of the Buf
falo district, levied on contraband whis-
key to the value of about 5000, 900. The
Secretary of the Treasury compromis-
ed the affair with the owners, Sturges
a. Co., on their payment of $3.50, 900,
Il, 80 hal 1f
the latter going TO MIR. Dorsheimer as
the informer. Mr.. Dorsheimer claims
that one half of the value of the con
fiscated article, amounting to $500, 900,
is due to him under the law, and the
case is now before the Court of Claims
at Washington.
The Jefferson county Mo Leader
says: "The statement has reached us
several times that there are several
families of negroes still held as slaves in
this county. The way the system is
still continued is by the deception of
their old masters, who inform the
ignorant blacks that they are to be free
at 81, and as they are ignorant of their
ages, their liberty is kept well out of
sight. How long this will continue, or
whether any one will succeed in maxi.
ing them believe that they are actually
free, it is to us, of course, unknown.
"A dispatch from Cairo, dated Dec.
20, to Cincinnati paper says: "Since
the close of the war a large number of
negroes have lived at or near Mound
City. A portion of them have been in
the habit of crossing the river, shooting
hogs, and carrying them home. The
farmers in x entnckv at lanrih fnrmad /