Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-09-07

4 TWENTY-FIVE Thousand tons Oh Ocran
ton coal were sold 1T auction on the 28th, j
New York, at s3.75S445-a decline from las
month.
The German societies of Buffalo held
4 on the 26th and 27th festivities, the proceed
of which are for the benefit of the Germal
poet Freiligrath, now IN exile IN London.
/ A man named james Kersser, while
laboring under an attack of delirium tremens
died suddenly in the Bridewel, Chicago, Sun
4 day afternoon.
| A Chicago paper says that grain t.
the amount of nearly half million bushel
was received In that city by railroad and cans
during the twenty-four hours ending at sever
O'Clock Saturday morning.
! A man named Fritz Huber fell dead
i'm Chicago, Monday morning, after having
swallowed glass of ale IN saloon. disease
of the heart is believed to have been the
cause.
/ Over half million dollars has been
subscribed by Virginia counties to the Chesa-
peake and Ohio Railroad. Greenbrer county
voted quarter of a million dollars.
/ Orders from the headquarters of the
/ army reyozesa General Order No. 4, of 1867,
relative to tie punishment of soldiers for de-
sertiOn, and restores paragraph Si5 of the re-
yised army regulations.
| The returns received at the Stats
/ tlcal Bureau show 667, 1877 $40 pounds OF cot
| ton, including Sea Island, exported during
| the year ending June Both. Value S2O2sSe7,-
| go.
The trot on Friday at Detroit between
Patchen and Fearless 10 harness, best three
in five. was won bv the former. Best time
two thirty and half. Patchen lost shoe on
the second heat, while scoring, which proba-
bly, accounts for the SLOW time.
The bark Marginihoe, soon to be
dispatched from San Francisco to Borneo
with California -four and other stores, VIII be
the frat vessel ever sent thence 10 that
island, which is now largely under the con-
troll of American capitalists.
Walter Brown, the rover, dislOcated
his ankle while exercising in Portland on the
Gath. 1t is feared that he may be unable to
meet his engagement with Hamill on the 9th
of September.
The Lake Shore Grape Growers AS
ISOLATION held their third annual meeting at
North East, Pa. on the 9th. Three hundred
persons were present. Inc reports snow
better than average crop OF grapes TINS year,
though there is some rot and mildew.
The Comptroller of Currency gives
notice that the circulating notes of the Ma
tional Unsdilla Bank, of New York, Will be
paid in lawful money upon presentation OF
the same at the Treasury OF the United States
It appears from an official announce |
ment that Gen. Hitchcock, on the 22d, turned |
over the property Of the Office Of Commlssary /
General of Prisoners to BreVet Brlgadler Gen- |
eral Breck, of the Adjutant Generals Office, /
ia pursuance of an order from the Adjutant |
General, dated the Goth.
Prof. j. c.. Watson, of the Michigan |
University, announces the discovery of a new |
planet hitherto unknown, which was first |
seen by him Saturday night. IL is situated !
in the right ascension one degree and forty |
minutes aud in the declinatiOn three degrees !
and ten minutes north. IL was moving wesI !,
and south.
Great excitement prevails throughout |
Canada over the election in South Riding |
Ontario. for a member of the House of
Commons, the contest being between George |
Brown, leader Of the opposition, and ThOs. |
N. Gibbs, local candidate. On the hrst day |
a tie vote WAS polled, and the second day |
gave Gibbs "a majority OF 20 out OF 1880 |
votes.
During the year ending June 80, |
1867, there we're OF total imports uf foreign |
and specie S4l2. 23S. 1913; less for
eign merchandise aud specie exported Sl9,- |
9ii ,227; not imports, 1892, 29i 500. On this |
amount $40, 54S 447 remained in warehouse |
on the Seth of June. Domestic exports for /
the same period we're 1884 ,004 9Oi. All these /
values are IN gold.
At the horse fair in Minneapolis, |
Mimi, on the Esd, in the double team race, |
Grey George and Mollie DeShon, of Minneap- |
oils, took the first heat in 2:56 2 5. The Sec |
ond heat they distanced Whitcher'a St Paul
team in 2:59, taking the race. Mac, of Mime |
apOlis, won the $500 race from Sleepy I'm,
OF Dunleith. Time, 2:37 30, 2:32 and 2:i3 =. o. |
Seven steamers sailed for Europe !
Saturday, taking $3.50 GOO Among the pas |
sengers wero Baron de Ia Go, late Austrian /
Charge a'Af1airs at Mexico, Juhus Lane. /
Swiss Consul at st. LOuir, L. NJ. Kennett and |
family, Major Berger and fifteen officers OF |
the late imperial army aud $50 Austrian |
officers of the same, who arrived from New /
Orleans.