Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-04-11
Personal Items.

- JEFFERSON DAVIS bias gone to Canada.
--GUsTAvUs KGsNER declines to be a can
didate for Governor of Illinois.
1t is reported at indianapolis that Hon.
SCHUYLER CoLFAx will not be candidate for
re election to Congress.
GEO. PEABoBY's first return of personal
property is still extant. Il is dated Newbu-
ryport, October 90, 1914, and exhibits 5000.
CHRIS. o'CoNNoR, the billiard player, lies
in New York at the point of death. His
malady is Bright's disease of the kidneys.
- JOHN JoLLIFFE, noted lawyer at Wash
ington, D. c., and an old resident of Gin
emmett, died at Washington, Saturday aftor-
noon.
= Gen. REYNOLDS, cheated out of his com.
mand of the Fifth Military District by the
breVet swindle, left New Orleans for Texas,
on Saturday.
Mrs. DR.. MARY WALKER wants to marry
her husband who has been divorced from her
several years. Unfortunately he has another
wife
- Mrs. BURDELL.C UENNGHAM, aeeompa-
MED by clairvoyant physician, has left San
Francisco for Loreto, Lower California, where
she is interested in mining property.
AN exchange, alluding to the fact of
ADELINA PATHS being twenty-five years old,
says it would be pity PATTI should die an
old maid.
JOSEPH SMITHS widow pretends to have
received revised edition of the Mormon
Bible, communicated to her by a spiritual
revelation from the deceased prophet.
- Mr.. CARLYLE says of DIsRAELI, that "on
the whole, he is the fittest man for the place,
because he is the honestest. He is a scoun.
drel, it is true, but he never pretended to be
anything else"
- The New York correspondent of the
Chicago Journal says that WV. NJ. EVARTs,
one of the Presidents counsel, is wholly in
sympathy with Congress, and will PROBABLY
rejoice as much as any one on the Presidents
removal.
Senator SUMNER sent tickets of admis-
sion to the Senate galleries, in the impeaoh-
ment trial, to the daughters of GEo. T..
BROWNING, the well known oyster dealer of
New York The young ladies are brunettes
in complexion.
- Rev A L. STONE, DID,, formerly of
Boston, is suffering from impaired health, In
San Francisco. His indisposition is severe
rheumatism, which SO affects him that he has
to hobble around on crutches, and has some
times to be lifted into his pulpit
Rron-rD w. enHnmAE, tho veteran CAP.
tain, well known in river circles, died at
vergennes, Vt. He has been Captain of
both Hudson River and Lake Champlain
boats. His father was in the employ of ROB-
ERT FULTON. al
- The Chicago Tribune calls on Senator
YATES to resign. 1t says it is evident that
his appetite for strong drink is unconquera-
BILE, and that Illinois wants a senator who
will attend to his Senatorial duties. The
Tribune originally opposed the election of
YATES on the score of his Incorporate habits.
1t has often been said of 10 Howard,
| jr., the author of the forged proclamation,
that he writes more than any one on the
New York press; GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND
pours out an endless stream of words, and
Miss OLIVE LOGAN runs pen race with
SKIES. 0ssIkS E. DoDGE used to say no per-
son should write more than four pages OF
foolscap per day, and an EDglishman is con-
tent WITH two or three good articles year.
THEoDoRE PARKER used to write day and
night, with his feet in cans of hot water to
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warm. And it has been stated in the paper 8
that Miss CARY writes, on an average two
poems day.