Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-09-04
Personal Items.

The Prince cf Denmark has invented
process OF refining coal oil.
Father Fischer will soon issue the account
Of Maximilian's life in Mexico.
General Sicklos' daughter is growing to
be an accomplished and very Interest," &
young lady.
mir. Samuel Eent Stone, aged twenty
eight years, has been chosen President 81
Hobart College, Geneva, I. /.
Two Vienna editors nave lost respectively
an eve and leg in duel about . young
actress. Verde, served them right.
Mrs Eunice Warner, OF Texas, became
grandmother ct the age of q. Sine lived to
be a great-great-great grandmother and
died.
The Marquis de Caux is head over ears il
debt, and it is to meet this state of things
that mis- VIII Is TO remain five years longer on
the stage.
press work entitled THE Early History Of
Vermont" to end with the admission of the
state into the Union, in 1871.
"A citizen Of Bedford Co., Va, named
Chaflin. is only q inches nigh, weighs but p
pounds, md is ~ years. cid. He is in the tx
hibiting business.
--Judel Apatow, of Wilma, Prussia, Jew,
who had been feeding at half price 300 fami
hes reduced to distress by the famine, has
Just died. His funeral was attended By 90
600 people.
Mr.. William Elsemere, who is about
eighty-two years Of age, trapped seven bears
in township No. Is, Washington county,
Maine, between January 1 and July TO- of tine
present year.
The Prince of Wales lately gave Mile.
Schneider, the French actress, pair of dia-
mond earrings which cost $1,000 Loyal
BritishgTs paid for them, and the Prince COM
plains Of being poor.
The wife OF a Charleston IS. c. police
man enticed boy of sixteen years to elOpe
with her few days ago. Before leaving, she
applied to the Giragd House and drew forty
dollars of her husbands pay.
James Hitchings, the oldest citizen of
Maiden, Massachusetts, died on the 18th inst,
aged 80 years. lie distinctly remembered
the battle of Bunker Hill, having seen the
smoke of the battle from hill in Lynn.
1t is said that French author being de-
sirous to write a biography of Charles Dick
ems, wrote to that gentleman for materials,
but received none, Dir. Dickens replying that
he s'had long ago formed the intention of
writing an autobiography.
DIR. Alpheus D. Crosby takes the chair OF
surgery in Dartmouth College, vacated by
his father, DIR. DIX Crosby, who in his thirty
years connection with the institution, has
been absent from his post on only one occa-
sion. The old doctor viii still lecture on OBJ
stetIics and have general superintendent OF
the school.
Commodore Vanderbilt had narrow es-
cape from sudden death few days since. He
was riding on special car, as is his wont, on
lne hudson road, when huge boulder was
discovered on the track a few feet ahead
The engineer barely had time to reverse the
wheels and stop the train. 1t was moving at
the rate OF 60 miles an hour.
The long litigation about the fortune left
By Eugene Sue, has at length been decided in
favor of Father Ferdinand Sue, Catholic
clergyman, who, besides the money LETT by
the great romancist, also inherits the copy
right OF the Wandering Jew the Mystic
ries of Paris. and the MTsteries of the
People" These copyrights are still quite
valuable.