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


Some fifty unpublished letters of
Voltaire are said to have been disoov-
cred in Belgium.
Leonard Case, Jr.. young man
not much over 90 years Of age, is the
wealthiest man in Cleveland.
The disgraced italian Admiral
Persano, has become insane, at his
country seat in Piedmont.
MIR. Foster, colored celebrity of
Philadelphia, regards Wendell Phillips
as a ''leetle impracticable."
General Howard does not drink
whisky, and of course the President
will remove him.
"A young colored Methodist preach
er in North Carolina, named Brodle,
is said to rival Beecher in pulpit elo-
quence.
Bishop Joseph @. Talbot, of In
diana, will soon leave to attend the
meeting of Bishops at Lamberts. Eng,
in September.
The FIRST hearty laugh Napoleon,
ever INDUCED in was observed at the
performance of Sothern in Paris. So
says a Paris letter.
1t is said that Prentice hasn't writ.
ten much of anything for the Louis
vile Journal for a year and half.
Once in awhile. he tries his prentice
hand on a paragraph.
-Horatio Seymour-the greater,
not the less-has quit politics and gone
to farming. We hope he may find it
more profitable to raise radishes than
riots.
The New York Evening Post styles
the engagement of Major Rodman and
Miss Dahlgren, the daughter of Admit
raj Dahlgren, ga happy combination
of artillery" aafa
Miss Mary Cleveland, a rebel
young lady of Randolph County, Mo-,
who was banished and sent South dur
ing the war, returned to her home
and friends few days since.
--"Carl Benson, (Charles Astor
Bristed) was married at Stockbridge.
Mass, last week, to daughter of the
late Charles Sedgwick, of LeAox, niece
of the late Catherine M. Sedgwiek.
IA lady who got lost in the White
Mountains last week was sensible
enough TO sit down and wait. until
morning, when her friends easily found
her.
In noticing the fact that FL G.. gets
800 column for his "Reeollecilons
of "A Busy Life" Il. w. expresses the
conviction that writing it must be more
profitable than reading it, 9s
IS Rev. MIR. Wehdt, the Philadelphia
Lutheran minister, besides his crimes
committed at the Orphan asylum at
Germantown, is discovered to be a de
ifanlteFin the sum of $4,000.
- George Peabody has lately given
$4,000 each to the Peabody aud Holton
high schools, Mt Danvers, the income
Of which is to be used for giving med
ais and prizes to the pupils.1si 1nG i
The will of the late Rufus H. King,
of Albany, has been admitted to pro-
bate. The property bequeathed
amounts to $500. 900, and all goes to
his family.
Rev. Il. X. Beecher, of Elmira. N.
Y, brother of Henry Ward, has recent
~ returned from journey of fourteen
thousand miles, in which he passed
completely around South America.
Mrs. Frances ID. Gage, well known
as an authoress and poetess, and as a
noble, true hearted woman, in all the
northwest, has been stricken with par
alysis. -.
Henry III. Brown, of Detroit. for
merly Cashier of the Michigan Insu-
rance Bank, has received from the
Treasury Department the appointment
of ',Bank Examiner" for Michigan.
The New York Gazette says the
wife of an ''absdrdly fionized professor
of natural science" of Harvard college,
recently declared. in company that she
did not know who was President OF the
United States.
Druid 90. @. Flint. who ran
away from Norfolk with $4,000. has
been caught at New Orleans aud
brought back. We hope there will be
nothing to prevent his full enjoyment
of Druidical rights.
Madame Anna de la Grange, the
celebrated cantatrice. will arrive In
New York from Europe by the French
steamer Europe, in the early part of
September, when she viii make her
adieu to the stage. ~ o1sd 5s34 u
D -+Rev. George GiIfllan was charged
before the Dundee Presbytery, Scot
in public duty. confessed his guilt
and expressed sorrow. and was unani-
mously rebuked by the presbytery.
--Chas. A. sBeeson, wealthy mer-
chant of Uniontown, Penn, went to
Pittsburg on "Wednesday last, got in
toxieated, wandered into a paper-mill
at night, drank quantity of sulphuric
acid, or blue vitriol, and died on the
following day inggreat agony. 972 9l}
..n-The late DIR. j. Mason Warren, of
Boston, was the sonssof DIR. John o.
Warren. who was the son of DIR. John
Warren, who was the brother of DIR.
and General Joseph Warren, who was
killed at Bunker Hill sra gr1 49,
|. We read that MIR. Morris, the au-
thor of thernew poem .'Jason." about
which some small critics are sdisputing,
is in business in London as a pattern
drawer for manufactnrers. He is a
middle-aged, short-sized, thick-set, lol-
" looking Erglishman. ID saft
Accompanying the new Turkish
minister to the United States arc his
wife, two secretaries and two purely
oriental servants, (Nubians,) the dress,
features and manners of tue latter car
rying one back to the land of the orr.
emit. His first wife was daughter of
DIR. Valentine Mott, of New York, and
his nreaent one ia = French lady.