Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-06-12

gress has rejected the treaty for the purchase
Of the island. The news caused great ex-
element, but business is improving.
The President Tuesday informed the
House that the ten days constitutional limit
having expired, the bill to make approprla-
tions 70 simply deficiencies for the execution
Of the reconstruction acts had become a law
without his signature.
Iaborers ON the Southern Boulevard,
westchester county, NJ Y, have struck for
an advance in wages and made riotous dem
onstrations which were suppressed by the
nolice. and several of the ringleaders ar
rested
The Senate on Tuesday, after debate, re-
ieeted the nomination of Hon. Henry Stan
berry as Attorney General. IL Is understood
that his re-appointment to that office was OPP
posed by Senators principally on the ground
of his hostility to the reconstruction acts.
The steamer Ben McCulloch took fire
while living up for Monday night on the Qua
chita River between Trenton and Camden,
and burned to the waters edge Tnree hves
were lost namely: VIM. Scott, OF arkansas,
and Mrs. Ryan and daughter, OF Alabama.
During the rain storm last Friday, wa
ter spout swept down Moodys Mountain, IN
Hope township. Knox county, cutting three
ravines down the side of the mountain, one
of them four rods wide and eight feet deep;
Also uprooting in its course trees ten inches
in diameter; raising Linconyllle pond IN one
night three feet higher than ever known.
The following officers of the National
Typographical Union are eie T I rres1aeni
dents. Girard Smith, of New Orleans, q. w.
Mcdonald. of Chicago; Recording Secretary
and Treasurer. John Collins, of Cincinnati;
Corresponding Secretary, VIM. A. Turner, OF
Philadelphia.
There was q large meeting of Merchants
at St Louis, Monday, relative to reopening
the BAYOU Marchoe, giving st. Louis and the
Northwest direct route to Mobile harbor.--
Resolutions were adopted welcoming the Mo-
bile delegation, recommending the enter
prise and appointing committee to accom-
pany them to Louisville, Cincinnati and cities
in the Northwest.
The bids for the purchase of $3.50, 900
of the Chicago workhouse bonds bearing in
terest at $40 per cent. for twenty years
from June 21st, 1868, were awarded to the
Bank of the Ohio Valley at 107 per cent. pre-
MUM; and Johnson Bros, of Philadelphia,
for s25, 900 at par.
Joseph Brown, the murderer of Angie
Stewart, alias Brown, was executed at Hud-
son. n Y, on Saturday. He left a written
statement covering the events of his life, but
making no confession of the crime He made
a speech on the scaffold strenuously DENYING
his guilt, or any knowledge of the fire which
caused the death of the child.
A frightful case of rape and intended
Murder, is reported from Arthabasville, Can
ada A girl named Maria Paisson, aged IL
years, while passing through some bushes,
was attacked by a man named Provinchear,
who brutally violated and then beat her, till
he supposed her dead. Provinchear was ar
rested.
Two men had fight in barber shop in
Memphis, Monday afternoon. They attacked
each other with knives, when the one assail-
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through the arm. The ball then struck a
negro named Edwin Davis, in the forehead,
killing him instantly. Davis was passing,
and hearing the difficulty looked in the door
just as the shot was fired.
On Tuesday night last Mr. Crabtree, the
father of Lolita, the actress, had some diff
Guilty with his wife at st. Louis, which result
ed in taking from the wifcis trunk S25, 900 in
government bonds, and $4,000 in green
backs, the earnings of his daughter, and
leaving the next morning for New York. He
also struck his daughter. and carried off all
her jewelry, leaving her and her mother with
out any money, and an unpaid board bill.
The Worlds special reports the utmost
CONSERVATION and alarm in consequence OF
the receipt of information of the gathering Of
bodies of Fenians at Buffalo and at st. Adams.
The volunteers along the frontier were under
arms all day Saturday in anticipation of an
invasion. The battery of the ROYAL Artillery
has been ordered to the front. Barracks for
5000 men have been erected at st. Johns
Two companies of the City Guards have gone
there.
The House Military Committee Tuesday
| day authorized Gen. Logan to report bill
transferring the Indian Bureau to the Wal
Department. The committee also agreed to
report bill containing the 80 per cent. IN
crease of pay to officers of the army; also q
bill to paw non-commissiOned officers who
were commissioned but not mustered into
service during the war; also a bill to con
struct bridge across the Missouri river al
Fort LeavenwOrth for military purposes.
In the Republican caucus at Washington
Monday night seventy members were pres
emit All resolutions relative to the tax bill
were tabled, including one that the House
should only consider the sections concerning
whisky and tobacco, it being considered un
fair to shape legislation on the subject in q
party caucus. No day WAS set for adjourn
ment, but the general impression is that the
The general sentiment favored the reduction
of the tax on whisky.
FOREIGN BY CABLE.
Prince Napoleon has left Paris ON visit
to Baden.
The Grand Jury has offered to bring in q
bill of indictment against Ex-Governor Eyre,
of Jamaica, on the evidence adduced by the
prosecution.
Dispatches received by London journals
from Abyssinia, state that Gen. Napier reach
ed Senate with the rear of the expedition on
the 26th of Nav. The widow of the late King
Theodore is reported to be dead.
Advices received from Athens state that
the representatives of foreign powers in that
city have formally protested against the adj