Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-01-25

name of a new Democratic paper in
Illinois.
The Church OF England means to
establish a Southern University in this
country.
Henry Ward Beecher has given
| 81, 1000 to fund for the benefit of Gen.
Lees college.
There is man in Boston, Mass,
who kills rats with his teeth--a queer
rat terrier.
The latest fish story is that the
Partisan ladies wear gilt Holsters in
their hair.
The Girard estate at Philadelphia
yielded to the city over a million dol
lars last year.
Aaron Jones has abiured the prize
ring and keeps drinking saloon in
Cincinnati.
The New Years Address of the
New York letter carriers was written by
Alice Cary.
Moose are very plenty this winter
in the woods of Nova Scotia and New
Brunswick.
Philadelphia is still discussing the
expediency OF establishing a paid fire
department
Cholera has carried off $4,000
Arabs in Algeria, and famine threatens
TO take the rest.
Mrs. Stonewall jackson has re.
ceived $4,000 from the sale of the life
of her husband.
There is no Canadian duty on
horses of cattle imported for the i'm
provement of stock.
The first marriage in New England
took place between Edward Winslow
aud Susannah White. No cards.
General de Trobriand has published
IN Paris "RecollecticDs of -Four Years
Campaigns in the ARMY of the Po-
tomac.
"A negro IN jail at Gainesville, Fla,
set fire to the establishment few DAYS
since, and succeeded in making his es-
cape,
"A young man named Hale is under
arrest at Spencer, Massachusetts, for
writing and circulating anonymous
letters.
Certain Northampton, Mass, la
dies drew barrel of -four on a sled to
the door of their pastor, on Christmas
eve.
An EDglishman, named Pritchard,
recently starved himself and his fami-
", rather than apply to the parish for
relief.
Grace Church could not find rec
tor at $15 600 per year, so she has Sc
cured Rev. I'll. G. Potter, of Troy, for
SO, 900.
"A rich old lady recently died in
Somersetshire, England, who for years
could only sleep when riding in her
carriage,
General Phil. Sheridan is paying
attention to a young lady in Albany,
said to be one OF the Governors near
relations.
st. Louis supports almost twice as
many liquor shops as school-teachers,
and six times as many as the clergymen
of the city.
Napoleon has 81, 800, 900 a year for
spending; Francis Joseph half as much !;
King William S3,000,000, and Victoria
even less.
The Bennington and Rutland Rail-
road Company announce that ''dead-
heads" have nothing to expect from
them this year.
Moses Nye once took dinner with
George Washington. He is now in the
poor house at Sandwich, Mass. Such
is tickle fortune.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher now
breaches in q pulpit made from wood
brought from the Mount of Olives, in
the Holy Land.
"A woman at the Preston, o., work
house has given birth to a female
child without legs or thighs. and with
only one arm.
Since January 18th, the postage to
Great Britain being reduced one-half,
the foreign mails have become unpre-
cedentedly heavy.
In Cincinnati, on Friday, Mike
Lipman, the circus-man, filed a petit
ton in bankruptcy. rendering his liza
bilities at $50, 600.
/ "A marriage license, issued by q
magistrate in the city of Washington,
has been returned endorsed, "She
wouldn't have me"
"A Mr.. Nathan Parrish, now resid.
ing in Michigan. who applied for pat
emit for ''fan-fower'' % years ago,
obtained it last month.
IA man in Pennsylvania got angry
with hisson at dinner and stuck his forh
into his breast. Not an agreeable way
for father 30 "fork over"
st. Louis has had sudden spasm
of virtue; the waiter girls have been
suppressed and the most fashionable
gambling establishments broken up.
"A collection in the Washington
Avenue (Brooklyn) M. E. Church on
Sunday yielded Sc, ITO, and utterly ex
tinguished the church debt.
An iron dealer named Ziegter has
just died at Berne, Switzerland, leav
ing a fortune OF 100000 francs for the
foundation of an asylum for the poor.
Nearly every paper from the inte-
rior of Alabama contains a cali for the
white men to organize for the defeat o.
the constitution, at the election on the
4th of February next.
The Post says that MOL pros. hai
been entered in the case of Hon. Z. o
j. Smith, on an indictment for aduI
terry, which has been in the courts
number of years, in Boston.