Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-08-21
BreDities.
Miscellaneous Items.


The first house in San Francisco was
built in 1916.
"A new gambling-hou at Long Branch
has been fittedup at cost of $50, 600.
The disease of cattle called Charlton, has
reappeared in Louisiana, and is causing great
uneasiness to planters.
1t is noticed as an extraordinary fact that
there has not been an editorial duG in New
Orleans Tor nine months.
Young ladies' are now wearing neck
lockets of jet, instead of French gilt, which
is going out of fashion.
The bandits about Athens are worse this
year than ever, and several American travel
ers have been robbed by them.
The author of s'Debt and Credit Ger
man journalist, has made SAC, 900 by his wri-
t1ngs; large fortune in that country.
During racing week at Saratoga, the
glove shops are stripped of their contents by
sporting ladies for the purpose OF paying
bets.
One of the magazines is soon to publish
an article on the War Correspondents, giving
outline sketches of about twenty OF the
number.
-Sun-strokes have begun to be common in
London and other parts of England. The
papers complain that the country is becoming
Americanized.
1t is rumored that prominent democrats
have been trying to purchase the New York
u.
not entertainable.
i The Smith gold mine, in Spottsylyania
county Va, containing 100 acres, was sold at
| trust sale last week for -, 400. A year or
two ago northern capitalists bought it fcr
$4,000.
Several hundred families, styling them
selves Friends of Jerusalem" are going to
leave Wurtemburg in August next, and settle
IN Palestine. They base their creed ON GER
tain chapters OF jeremiah.
Wine il becoming an important article of
manufacture IN Kansas. The newspapers Of
the city of Lawrence state that the makers oil
domestic wine in Kansas are busily engaged
III gathering the summer grape, which is now
abundant in the valley of the Kaw.
-Hippophagy has failed in Paris. The
government WAS willing, the sdUdns urged
the people to eat and set the example, the
storekeepers added horse-fiesh to their stock,
but customers were lacking, and there are
indications that the movement will be aban-
doned
"A farmer who lives near Chevoit, Ohio,
driving load of hay into his barn few days
since, when the tar on the axle took fire from
friction. The fire was communicated to the
hay, and wagon, barn and all were DESTROYED.
The man and horses had very narrow es-
cape.
There are more Methodists in Ohio than
in any other state, more Baptists in Georgia,
more Presbyterians in Pennsylvania, more
Protestant Episeopalians in New York. and
ten times more Unitarians in Massachusetts,,
than in any other state.
The Waverly Magazine, the Boston
weekly that ma de Moses A. Dow so rich, is
one of the worst and trashiest productions
ever published in the country. 1t is made
up of unpaid-for articles of young people in
cfned to cheap sentiment and bad English
The stalk Of the hop vino, after the hops
are gathered, makes an excellent fibre for
coarse cloth and cordage. 1t requires to be
stepped in water till there is sign of loose
ming; then dried and beaten till the woody
centre separates from the centre fibre, which
comes off easily in long threads.
"A Southern exchange informs those az
hicted with the mosquito plague, that lamp
kept burning low in a chamber or closet adj
joining the sleeping apartment, with open
communication between, has been found an
excellent plan for diyerting the attention of
the mosquitoes from the couch of the sleep
en-
The California fruit crop was never finer in
quality, or larger in quantity and variety than
it is this summer Many large growers in
tend to pay more attention to drying and
packing for export this year. Ruling prices
are more reasonable to consumers, yet suf-
ieiently profitable to producers, and the me-
thods of forwarding to market show some
improvement.
Two more beautiful frescoes have been
Il
house in the Via Stabiana, in an excellent
state of preservation. They are supposed 70
be portraits of the master and mistress of
the house. The woman is seated and evil
IDENTIFY preparing to write. The frescoes nave
been removed to the museum at Naples.
An Northern Europe is languishing un-
der the unexampied heat OF the present sum
mer. During the discussion IL the French
Chamber on July 20, the heat was such that
the floor had to be ,sprinkled with vinegar,
and in spite Of this precaution, General
Meshn, So years of age, Who was de corated
on the field of Waterloo, tainted, and was car
ried away.
Artificial ice is manufactured on an eX-
tensive scale at New Orleans, and is sold at
three-qusrters of cent a pound. The man.
ufacture is said to be very attractive, from the
pumping of the water from the turbid river,
near at hand, to the slipping out of the pol
ished, glistening slabs of alabaster-looking
ice from the tin moulds in which they are
CONCEALED. The first works in this country
were established at Augusta, Ga, during the
war.
A young student of theology in Berlin
has shot his betrOthed, who was rather fast
and ridiculed his supphcations to lead more
moral hfe. After firing the fatal bullet at
her, he tried to reload the pistol with which
he had shot her; but before he could do so
and put an end to his own life, as he intended
TO do, he was apprehended, and the pistol was
wrested from his hand.
The people of Cohoes, New York, are ex-
cited by the discovery of huge skull, sap
posed to DO that Of another mastodon, lcdg-
ed on the centre rock of the Falls. Though
the water pours down on every side OF 1t, 1t
is, to all appearance, as firm as the rock it
self. l. win be released az soon as the river
falls, and then, perhaps, re shall have anoth-
or scientific wonder. The Cohoes family OF
these huge quadrupeds seems to have been
large one