Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-02
Literary and Personal items.

Mass.
azine.
3spurgeon, it is said, is coming to America
Mrs. Mary L. Dodge is to publish another
DOCK this autumn.
"A new weekly paper, The Argus, has been
started IN the Eastern District of BROOKLYN
Philadelphia Telegraph
Gail Hamilton has made ND with Ticknor
~ f1eld-possibly kissed
-haekett will commence an engagement
IN London next December.
-BroWning's great poem, longer than the
Had, will see the light this year
jean Ingelow's father was barber and
her mother was Scotch woman.
Louis Z. Nugent is a New York million
are. BE has s70o, 900 pocket money.
John Brougham viii go into his new the
alter about the first of November.
Parton viii go through New York mo
briate asylum IN the October Atlantic
Toy Fenton's daughter was the belle at
tho Stetson House Ball atLong Branch.
Fifteen new publishing houses have start
ed up in New York within twelve months.
Florence AveneI,n of Demorest's. SIM
ports her husband and her family with her
pen. WIN iiei
Mr.. Justin Mccarthy, editor of the Lon
don star, Is about to pay visit to the United
States.
.--Adeline Peek, once a rich merchants
wife, died of delirium tremens a few DAYS
since. '@7
IA rising member of the English p p h,
the name OF Bob Brettle, has lust arrived in
New York. ~
"A Kentuckian calculates that no hos
chewed 1925 pounds of tobacco In the last
forty years. -"''
The Norfolk Virginian has bccn sued for
twenty thousand dollars damages bv An Of
Tended foreigner.
-Mademoiselle st. Elmo Evans is busiIv
engaged upon another novel, to be issued
during the winter.
-One Howe has undertaken to nav,oato
the Erie canal in tub from Buffalo to Alba
ny III eighteen days.
5. T. Clark, financial editor of the New
York Tribune, was formerly voIuminous
contributor to the Waverly Magazine.
The Pope, according to report, was adj
yised not to visit the recent encampment of
his soldiers for fear of the brigandsi
Coates Kinney, author of .'Rain on the
Roof, and other poems of merit, has again
| become proprietor and editor of the Xenia
(O) Telegraph.
The recent warm weather has caused the
season at the VIII Mountains to be unusnaI
~ protracted. The principal hotels were last
week abundantly supplied with guests.
The well known chemist. Schonbein. has
Just died in Baden. He was 90 years of age
having been born at MitZingen, in Wurtcm
Der, in 1893. For many years he had resided
at Basel. His name is famous as the discov
erer of ozone and the inventor of gun-cot
ton.
1t is stated that NJ de CHAMPS. the
French interpreter who accompanied the Chi
nese Embassy, viii return to Boston within a
few months to ratifY matrimonial engage
ment made during his stay in Boston.
Sir Rodcrick AIurchison, Sir John Her
schel, and Sir Henry James are a board of
trustees for a fund to survey the peninsula of
Mount Sinai, to determine the true line OF
march of the Jews, and the true mountain Of
the law.
Rev. Professor Taylor, the new Professor
at And0ver Theological Seminary, in his in
angural address, SAYS men at thirty or forty
are often still Young; some are Younger nj
fifty than others at twenty. IF the spirit
keeps young, no matter for the years.
The wives of the FicerOy of Egypt in
Paris recently gave a splendid ball to the
wives of the higher Turkish functionaries.
At this ball all these ladies appeared unveiled.
drank champagne, danced and tailed to gem
tlemen without blushing The woman's rights
movement will soon be heard Of in Turkey.