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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-15

A Yankee having told an English
man that he shot on one particular oc-
casion 999 snipe, his interlocutor asked
him why he didn't make it thousand
at once. "No," said he. otis not like
ly I'm going to tell lie for one snipe."
Whereupon, the Englishman, determin-
ed not to be outdone, began to tell sto
ny of man having swan from Liver
pool to Boston. "Did you see him
yourself 7" asked the Yankee, suddenly,
" did you see him yourself !" "Why,
yes, of course l did. l was coming
across and our vesse! passed him mile
out of Boston harbor." Well, I'm
glad We saw him, stranger, coz yer a
witness that | did it. That was me p
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-15

In certain family, not long since, a
pair of twins made their appearance, and,
as matter of course, were shown to their
little sister Of four years. Now, it so
happened that whenever arather prolific
eat CT the household had kittens, one of
them, of course the nrettiest, was saved.
and the rest drowned. When the twins
were shown the child by the happy faith
er, little M---looled at them long
and earnestly, and at length, putting the
little finger-tip on the cheek of one of
them, looked up ana said with all the SER
iousness possible. Papa, I think UeU
save this one.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-15

When Ethan Allen was prisoner in
Canada, he was dining with party of
officers and their ladies, and seeing some
small red pepers on the table, Intended TO
be cut W with the meat to season il, he
picked up one aud put it into his mouth.
After chewing awhile on the tcagh skin,
be picked It out of bis mouth, and look
ing rather admiriugly at it, said, the tears
starting from his eyes:
"Ladies and gentlemen. if you hare
no objections, l will put this little red
thing back" and he Immediately suited
Tie action TO the word.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-15

A HIGH COMPLIMENT TO GE' ERAL
SHERIDAN.--The London Spectator
speaks thus of our General Sheridan
Every one who looks narrowly into
the facts will discern in the foresight, de-
cision, speed, audacity, resolution, and
wise caution of Phillip Sheridan some
thing Napoieonic. Had he been born
in France ninety years ago, he would
have become marshal and duke; had
he been born in England his fine militia
tary gifts would have been lost to his
country, or if he had entered the army.
he would have died at most sergeant"
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w Josh Billings expresses our view.

w Josh Billings expresses our views
on the subject of autographs, precisely.
He thus replies to an anxious correspon-
dent who asked for his autograph: ave
never furnish or:ograffs in less quantities
than bi the packig 1t is bizness that
CRATE men have got into, but it don't
strike us az being profitable nor amusing.
We furnished near and very dear friend
our ortograff, few years ago, for 90
days, and it got into the hands of the
banks, and it kost us $275 tew get it
back. We went out ov the bizness then,
aud have not hankered for it sinse."
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HOLMAN & GAUMON.

DEALERS in all kinds of Cabinet Ware,
IL Orange ST., Prescott, Wis. We keep
constantly on hand large stock of Cabinet
Furniture, and the public are invited to call
and see US before making their purchases
Charges reasonable. for cash only.
HOLMAN d GAUMON.
Prescott, Feb. SO, 1868.
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Pomp: "Cuff, can you tell me the
difference between an accident and mis-
fortune?" Cuff: sGives it up, Pomp
Can you" Pomp: "lf You should fall
into the rieber, that. would be an acct
dent; if somebody should pull you out
that would be a misfortune"
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House For Sale Cheap.

A GOOD HOUSE and two lots, in Scha.
IA GERS Addition House coIamodious,
with all the conyeniences. A good Garden
with abundance of Fruit of different varieties.
Situation desirable, Price low. Enquire Of
Lutte A. Taylor, or On the premises.
p. POTTS.
Prescott, April 10, 1868:
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NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given. that on the 3oth
day of April. 1868, I shall proceed to draw
the names of those to serve as GRAND AND
PETIT JURORS at the next term of the
Circuit Court OF Pisrce County, to be held
at Ellsworth, commencing on the fourth Mon.
day in May, 1868. CIV. BROWN,
Clerk Of the Circuit Court.
Ellsworth, April Sd, 1868.
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You ought 10 acquire a faculty Of be-
ing at home in the best society,"" said
a fashionable aunt to an homes: nephew.
81 manage that easy enough" by stay
ing at home W ith my wife and children"
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Don't wait for your fervor to cool be-
fore you act. The woman at foun-
dry might as well wait for the motion
iron to cool before pouring it into the
mold.
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Banking & Exchange Office of

MILLER d WESTFALL, Successors to
Ixl City Bank of Prescott, receive Depos-
its, Buy and Sell Excange. and do General
Banking Business, the same as an organized
Bank. 7-tf
III. MILLER, w. p. WEsTFALL,
Troy, New York. Minneapolis, Min
June Is, 1867:
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TIIAYER BROTHERS,
GENERAL
ENGRAVING. ESTABLISHMENT

S. W, Corner Broadway d Main Sts.,
r. o. DRAWER, A. AURORA, ILL.
CEALS AND PRESSES, Steel Stampa
- Door Plates and Numbers. Gold and Sill
yer Badges, Ribbon Cancelling Stamps. Ini-
tiaI and Monogram Presses, Insurance Plates,
Embossed Brass Ornaments, Burning Brands,
Steel Dies. Stencil Tools and Stock, Baggage
Checks, Rand Stamps. DC, DC.
Gold and Silver Plating in every variety.
Gold Pens repaired and repointed. Orders
respectfully solicited from distance.
j. NJ. Mckee,
44w Agent at Prescott. Wis.
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When man and woman arc made
one by clergyman, the question is, which
is the one. Sometimes there Is long
struggle between. them before the matter
is finally settled.
None but the brave deserve the fair,
and mono but the brave can ike with
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ELACKSME

CARROLL. VIRGINS. CROSS & co.
"AVE formed a partnership in the aboyo
Ii business. and are prepared TO do any
thing in the Blacksmithing and Wagon Ma
king limo in good substantial manner, and
will guarantee 10 customers superior work at
as low figures as any firm this side of La
Crosse Give Hs a trial Shop on corner of
Broad and Orange Streets. Prescott, Wis.
March Is. 1868. 56-m3
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-15

REAT RUSH AT McKEE's. to see his
" stock of Wall Paper, Curtain Paper,
Bordering. Rustic Blinds, Bird Cages, Toy
Carts, Cabs, Baskets, DC.
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BOOTS g. SHOES.

THE undersigned is receiving from the
u Eastern market his Spring Stock of Boots
and Shoes, which he offers to the trade much
cheaper than any other firm in Prescott. The
best of Custom Work constantly on hand
and made to order. Repairing done neatly
and promptly. Call and examine my stock.
G.. #. Eckstein.
Prescott, April IL, 1868. 5I-m2
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OUR CHIP BASKET.


MAN is not the powerless slave of
either Nature or Passion. If he cannot
imparatiycly rule. he can at least par.
TALLY control them both. The sun goes
down, but we light our lamps and make
circle of brightness in the wide sur
rounding and close pressing night; and
SO, when the death of great hope or the
wrecking ola great faith darkens life
with loves eclipse, we may yet make it
tolorable, perhaps comfortable and Sc
rene, by the aid of smaller joys, lesser
faiths, and homely duties faithfully per-
formed.
HERE is pleasant paragraph which
we excerpt from the letter of a friend
Heis speaking Of the time-seven sum-
mers ago-when his wide reading, schol-
arly attachments, his genial hunor and
great fellowship made him many friends
in the Valley of the st. Croix, and his
pleasant pen picturesquely portrayed its
beauties.
"These days seem almost a dream
now, Lutte. The war clouds which then
hung darkling over us, have died out in
The distance Of the past. Then the Pa.
cifc Railroad was a thing of words
merely; now the snortings of the " iron
horse startle the silence of tie Plains,
and his laundering tread shakes the
ground beneath the feet of the Red Skin,
warning him that the land of his ances.
tors is falling from his grasp. Their the
Lightning had no path beneath the Ocean ;
"greenbacks" were not invented ;
and Andrew Johnson had not begun his
reign ofasue obstiuacy.
Verify, the days of the grants are not
yet over. We live as long in ten years
rs cur grandfathers did in thirty, rating
years by results. But seven years since
we met, and did ever seven years bear
such harvests of events.
Times change and men change with them.
Each to-day bears ever onward toward the
morrow
Never to reach it. Swift events crowd in
And jostling each the other, so fill mp
The wondrous record which the present
bears"
A curious commentary on the events
which have taken place since we met, is
now being made at my side. My little
girl is sittin G on the floor, playing with
a six FOUNDER shell, one of the relics Of
the war. One bright summer morning
that same shell came screacbing through
the air as we moved in bloody fight
against the defences of Petersburg. Now,
in the baby's hands, it might form a
corollary to the lamb eating grass at the
lannon's msuth, in LASDsEER's picture
of " Peace" -"
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We have heretofore on several occa-
sions expressed ourself in favor of some
provision, legal or otherwise, by which
chilcren might protect themselves from
the necessity of being born unless they
chose to be. We do this from no pref
udice against any one living, and we
have no i'll viii towards that indefinite
personality 1.-THE child unborn" but from
settled conviction that in :the lottery
Of life very many draw blanks or worse
and at least to our finite vision, existence
is version burden here, with no bright
outlet into the hereafter.
We are glad to see that others are be
ginning to be interested in this matter
ard are taking the correct view of it.
Just to Tommy Taft, the old sailor in
BEEcHER's Norwood" while he talks to
the minister:
Parson Buell.. it's the unaccountablest
thing what the Lord sends children into
this world for, considerin' what sort of
place It's, and what time folks have in
gsttin' thro' it. Lord. They died off
like apple blossoms, half on 'em, afore
they're bigger'n mice. And the rest of
'em have hard time gittin' grown. and
when you've got 'em growed, half the
folks are padding round as ifthey didn't
exactly know what they come on earth
for; and nobody can tell 'em. for that
matter. I never see babies but | think
how we used to haye birds come aboard
ship, way out to see-land birds, and
so tired, poor littlc things, and hungry.
You could go up to 'em and take 'em in
your hand, and they turn up their bright
eyes with such piteous look at you. as
if they had come from ever so far, and
lost their way, and didn't know wher Q
they were. Wall, that's about what /
think of babies. Weat do they come off
to this ERE world fora
Our basket is nearly full. We toss in
final chip of good advice-thus clos
ing as the Sunday School novels do,
with good "moral."
1t is not great calamities that embitter
existence; it is the pretty vexations, the
small jealousy, the little disappointments,
the minor miseries that makes the heart
and the temper sour. Don't let them.
Anger is pure waste of vitality; it is
always foolish and always disgIaceful,
except in some very rare cases, when it
is kindled by seeing wrong done to an
other. But even the noble rage seldom
mends the matter.
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TURNING from the thought of death to
that of life, we give paragraph on ed
ucstion-a passage Of wonderful truth
and power. The conceit Of tie 'player
on the other side" is peculiarly striking
and happy, and the eternal calmness
aud unverying course Of Nature is put
in way to arrest the attention of the
most thoughtless.
"Suppose it were perfectly certain
that the life and fortune of every one of
US would one day or other depend upon
his winning or loosing game of chess.
Don't you think VIC should all consider
it to be primary duty to learn at least
the names and moves of the pieces; to
have a notion of gambit and keen
eye for all the means of giving and get
ting out of checki Do you not think
that we should look with disapproba-
tion amounting to scorn npon the father
who allowed bis son, or the state which
q! W d its members to grow up without
knowing pawn from knights! New.
it very plain and elementary truth that
the life, fortunes and the happiness of
every one of us, and more or less of
those who are connected with US, do de.
pend upon our knowing something of
the rules of game infinitely more diff
ficult and complete than chess. 1t is a
game which has been played for untold
ages, every man and women of US being
one of the two players in game of his
or her own. The chess-b board is the
world, the pieces the phenomena of the
universe, the rules of the game are what
we call the laws of nature. The player
on the other side is hidden from us. All
we know is that his play is perfectly
fair, just and patent. But, also. that he
never overlooks mistake or makes the
slightest allowance for ignorance. To
the man that plays well, the highest
stakes are paid with that sort of over.
flowing generosity with which the strong
shows delight in strength. The one who
plays i'll is checkmated without haste,
but without remorse. My metaphor will
remind some of you of the famous pic
ture in which Betzsch has depicted Sa-
tan playing with a man for his soul.
Substituting for the hooking fiend in
that picture calm, strong angel, who is
playing for love, as we say, and would
rather lose than win, and / should accept
it as a picture of human life. Well, now,
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rules of this mighty game. In other
words, education is the instruction of the
intellect in the laws of nature, and the
fashioning of the affections and of the
will in harmony with those laws"
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WALL PAPER Wall Paper | i! Cur
w tain Paper, bordering. Rustic Blinds,
Curtain Fixtures, de-, d., in any quantity de-
ired, at MokEE's.
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UNION REPUBLICAN TICKET.
FoR PRESIDENTIAL ELrcroRs.

St Largs-S. S. BARLOW, of sauk.
HENRY D. BARRON, of Polk
Ist Dist-ELIHU ENOS, Of Waukesha.
Cd -CHAS. G. WILLIAMS, of Rock
81 a. WORDEN. of Lafayette.
4th LIZ. FRIsBY, of Washington.
5th w. C. RITCH, of Winnebago.
9th "-WM. T. PRICE, Of jackson.
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HERE is touch of pathos from the
same pen. A young lady had died from
taking morphine for quinine, through
the carelessness of a druggist. Wcgive
no names, for the fact has limitation of
interest but the feeling is universal;-
Il have seen men die in the worst
sgonies, Lutte, torn, shot and trampled,
till hardly enough Of the frame was left
Cor a tenement Of life to dwell in, but !
never felt as | did when / stood by that
poor girls bedside, and felt the last few
beats of her pulse flicker and die out
under my fngures. "The black camel
must kneel at all our gste,," but to see a
life, adorned like hers by youth, beauty,
intelligence and education, full a sacrifice
to criminal negligence, wasa hard, hard
sight.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-15

MosT of our readers will remember of
the murder of Hon. THOMAS DARCY
MCGEE, a few weeks ago. His memory
should be held in grateful remembrance
by every woman for the exquisit lines he
wrote to his "Irish wife," of which the
following is the concluding verse:
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-05-15

My Irish wife has clear blue eyes,
Ny heaven By day. may strs BY night,
And twin-like truth and fondness lie
Within her dwelling bosom white
My Irish wife has golden hair
ApolIos harp had once such strings
Apollo's self might pause to hear
Her bird-like carol when she sings.
The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-29

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Price, 81 per Box, or Six Boxes for s5.
Ask for Dolnmarro's Specific Pills, and take no
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on receipt of the specified price by any advertised
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JOHN BENGSTON, G. A. BENsER,
Agents for Rock Island, Ill.,
BURNHAMS 4 VAN SCHAACK, Chicago,
Wholesale Agents for the Northwest.
jan2dly weow.
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"A standard Rcmedu."

Such an article is "Dr. Tobias Venetian Lini-
mont.' II has stood before the public for q
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ing 20 its rare virtues. The great sale for DR..
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unPnnepled persons to counterfeit this valuable
remedy. Purchascrs cannot he too careful to see
that "Dr. Tobias Venetian Linmcnp' is stamp
cd on tho glass, done up in yellow paper, and
signed IS. /. Tobias" All others are dangerous
counterfeits, and although they nay resemble the
Venetian Linimeut in color and SMELL beware Of
them.
Sold by the druggists aud storskeepors
throughout the United States. Price 80 cents
and one dollar per bottle. Depot 10 Park Place,
New York.
0etl6dwlm.
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Course of Sfndins.

PRIMARY DEPARTMENT.-Spclling, Read
ing, Writing Arithmetic, Geography, History,
English Grammar, German and French
INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT. - En-
gish Grammar, History, Geography, Penman-
ship, English Composition, Elocution, Arithme-
tic, Algebra, Geometry, Latin, French and Ger
man.
COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT. .- English
urommar Composition Penmanship, Epistolnry
CorresFondcnce, History, Geography, Arithmetic,
Monsqraton, Book Keeping, Commercial Law,
French aud German.
LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC DEPART.
MENT.-llstory, English Composition, Rhotor.
c, Literature, Elocution, Higher Arithmetic Al
cobra. Grometry, Trigonomctry, Calculus Sur
veyiug, Navigation, Chemistry, Natural Philoso-
ply, Astronomy Architectural Drawing, French,
German, Latin and Greek
For additional information apply to or address
BRO. FRANCIS bESALES,
Director Of the Christian Brothers
o M
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TWO PASSENGER TRAINS LEAVE ROCK
L Island daily, at 54J A. Nj. and 44j 7. NJ,
making close connections wlh trains as follows /:
AT PORT BYRON, trains on this road leave
Immediately on arrival Of trains from Rock
Island, making close connections at the foloW-
ing points
AT FULTON, with trains from and TO Cedar
Rapids, BOrnsboro, Marshaltown, Council
Blufs, Omaha and all points On the Union
Pacific Railroad.
AT SAVANNA, with a daily line Of Packets to
and from Dubuque and all points on the Upper
Mississippi River.
AT FREEPORT, with trains on the Illinois
CentrPl Railroad for the North and South.
AT CLINTON, with trains for Janesyille, Madi-
son, Prairie du Ohien, Lacrosse, Watertown,
Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Green Bay, and points
in Northern Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
AT RACINE, with trains for Milwaukee, Keno
shs Waukegau and Chicago. Also with
"Belle City Line Steamers for the East Time
Rock Island 10 Dubuque, hours.
Passengers by taking this route will snve both
time and money.
Il, G. TATE, sup't.
J. A. COTTON, Asst Sup't.
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BATCHRLOR,s HAIR DIE

This splendid Hair Dyois the bestin the world;
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ACADEMY
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS. 4!
90 East Van Buren, st.,
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

I'lIE Academy was opened on Monday, March
i goth, 1885, and its career, thu, far. has
been remarkably successful. Indeed, the largo
amount Of public patronage which it has ALREADY
gained, 10 the best recommendation that we can
give to Parents and Guardians.
Students Of MI denominations arc admitted,
and thoiT religious opinions arc unrestricted.
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DRANING.

Payments made quarterly, in advance. School
Books furnished at current prices Hours Of at
tendance from . q. m. until ?. m. Recess from
u to 1880. No student is allowed to leave the
recreation grounds during the time Of recess
In ea'e of late attendance, or absence from school,
note OF excuse is required from the Parent or
Nuardnn
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Es'aystor young men on the interesting relation
OF bridegroom to Bride ii the institution Of
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true happiness Sent by mail in sealed letter
envelopes free Of charge. Address HOWARD
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