Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-02
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General News.
The Chinese Embassy arrived in London
last week.
The Ohio state fair is in session in Toledo,
andi pronounced the best ever held in the
state.
The subject of an air line railroad between
Omaha and st. Louis is being agitated by the
two cities.
A shock ofan earthquake was experienced
on the 18th at Silver Mountain and Sonora, IN
California
The foreign importation in New York for
the week ending the 18th amounted to 30, OOO,-
600.
The Hungarian Diet proposes to estab-
lish universal religious federation throughout
the Kingdom.
An Academy of Music has Just been
opened in indianapolis, Ind, which is pro-
nOunced the finest IN the state
"A revolution has broken out in Spain,
and is reported TO be very extensive. IL Il
reported that the Queen has abdicated.
A boiler in Murray x AndersOn's foundry
in London, Canada, exploded Monday after
noon, severely injuTIng three workmen, one
of whom has since died.
Governor WarmOth, of Louisiana, has
issued a proclamation calling for the election
of Presidential electors and members of Con-
gress, on the 2nd of November.
A shooting ARRAY occurredat Fayetteville,
n c.. on Friday. between Robert NmshIp
Stedman and William S. Morrow, T. S. Dep
uty Marshal, in which both were killed.
-Boer Brothers, dry goods dealers in
BROOKLYN. we're arrested ON the Dist, the
police finding over a thousand dollars worth
of stolen velvet goods IN their possession.
G.. UPTON, while endeavOring to get upon
a train of cars at Newark, \. j., while IN mo-
ton. fell under the wheels, and his head was
completely severed from his body.
"A drover named Washington Marsh fell
from a stock car Saturday night ,.on the Pitts
burg Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad, near
MassilOn, Ohio, was run over, and instantly
killed.
New York PAPERS are reassuring fearful
ovster-lovers who fear that the Supply will
fail at some future period There Is SAID TO
be not the slightest danger OF such caIaIa-
ity.
Tho post-office authorities are investisat-
ing the defalcatiOn of Disbursing Clerk Olm-
stead. The amount unacc0unted Tor ON the
books is S47. 600. Olmstead has not, as yet,
been arrested
The South Carolina Senate has suspended
one Of its members Leslie by name, Tor con-
tempt. He Ii white man, and no4nnaily
republican, but votes with democrats ON
questions of color.
\ sad accident followed the celebration of
the republican victory ut Bridgeport, Me-, ON
Monday evening. The cannon which was be-
ing nreu burst, ana instantly hiiiCu ohC man
and injured two others.
Both Houses of the Nova Scotia Parlla-
mcnt have passed bill providing that the
militia shall not be compelled to serve ont
side the province without the consent OI the
local government.
Edward Bradley and Eugene Mccarthy,
while unloading coal At East Cambridge,
Mass. ON the Dist, were both Killed by the
falling of the platform connecting the vessel
with the wharf.
The residence and out-buildinss of ID. L.
Ruggin, in ~. Adams, VT, were entirely de-
str0yed by fire on tho2Ist. Loss estimated
at twenty thousand dollars; insured for
seven thousand dollars.
A man named Murdy COnl ey was pToba-
bly fatally shot, in indianapolis on the 2lst,
while at work, by John Haggerty, an Irish
man. The only prOvOcatIon WAS Conleys re-
fusal to drink beer with Haggerty.
w. f. Paige, 4 commission merchant of
Chicago. was attacked by highwaymen Friday
night near RingOld, III Cook county, and
robbed of % 500. No clue to the perpetrators
of the outrage has been ascertained-
Three cOnvicts at sing Sing State Prison,
on Thursday. seized powder boat, and after
OverpOwering the guard and locking them IN
the hold, they started across the river with
the vessel. landed at the foot OF Rockiand
Mountain and escaped.
Seven dwellings, and stores in Clermont,
Fayette county, Iowa, were recently entered
nv burglars in enc night and eight hundred
dollars in money and iewelry stolen. Among
the spOis were nineteen twenty dollar gold
pieces. The thieves escaped.
On Thursday the Sheriff Of Scott county,
Iowa. arrested J. IL. Blake and J. II. Henry,
two burglars who recently effected three
thousand dollar robbery III Cleveland They
had engaged a stand for shoe shop at Da-
venpOrt when arrested.
Alta meeting Of the Roman Catholic cleT-
oF Tsa1-r Iceland resolution
adopted piedging those present To oppose all
candidates for Parliament who do not sup
port Mr.. Gladstone's resolutions for the dis
establishment of the Irish Church.
Shortly after his arrival at trieste, Nd
miral Farragut received and entertained
party of Austrian naval and military officers
an board of his ship. the Franklin. The adj
iliral subsequently made visit te Mlramar
the res dence pfthe late Archduke MaximliIan.
The trottin-; match Monday afternoon on
the Island Park Course, Albany, between
Mountain Bow and Lady Thorn, was won by
the former taking the first, second and fourth
heats. Time: 2:27, 2:25, 2:25, 30. The
track was heavy, owing 10 the rain the day
before.
The Secretary of the Treasury has order
ed to h issued to the Central Pacific Railroad
Company 81 100 600 IN bonds on account OF
the completion of thirty miles of that road,
extending to the 290th milestone east from
Sacramento. The bonds bear interest from
September 18th.
An apparatus used TO hoist bricks and
mortar ut the building corner Of Cambria
street and Broadway, New York, fell Satur-
dav evening, in consequence Of tackle
block becoming unlocked, and Killed Jas.
TOdOn and L. Shay, both laborers. A boy
standing ON the walk was also struck by
falling brick and badly injured.
Saturday morning the tug-bOat Tigress,
bound from Cincinnati to PlttsbUrg with
tow of empty coal barges, when near Chilli
coatbe. on tho Ohio River, collapsed two fiues
in her starbOaTd boiler A cOlOred fireman
named Duckett, of Allegheny City, was blown
overheard and lost; two other cOlored men,
also of Allegheny City, were badly scalded.
Two teams driven by travellers We're
drowned, and tho contents of the wagon up
set while attempting TO ford Clear Creek, a
mile and a half from Talleyrand, Keokuk
county, Iowa on the Sth inst. \ German
named Lcichner was saved by keeping atioat
four hours with the aid of large kerosene
can. A babe was drowned. coat with
three hundred dollars in pocket was lost.
Joseph Goss, from Paterson, n. j.. an
engineer on the GAINESVILLE Division OF the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad, was run
over and killed on Saturday night, by the
south-bOund express, at ROckheid, Ky. He
freight, delayed, and waiting for the passen-
ger train, unwittingly sat down on the main
track and fell asleep.
Mike McCOol has expressed his willing
Ness to enter the ring with Heenan for a
stake of five thousand dollars, provided that
any man in America be selected as stake
holder other than Frank Queen. John Frank
lin. of Cincinnati, holds the first deposit of
two Thousand dollars, and Mr.. HAYS is ready