Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-02-15

two weeks, and shut off from communi
cation with all the rect of the world.
William Gilmore Simms. the
Southern novelist, is nearly so years
old, and in destitute circumstances.
Commodore Vanderbilt has cur
tailed the free pass privileges of the
members of the New York legislature.
The widow of the late Commander
Dray6on has been married in Paris to
member of the British Legation al
Berlin. sese.1s $50
Even the greatest men have their
weaknesses. Thackeray's daughter is
named Euphemia Ella Victoria Regina
Sarah.
Two Julesburg desperadoes had
a duel about woman, revolvers and
fourteen PAGES, and each shot the other
dead.
The Gloucester Advertiser says the
cod fishing business from that town will
be extensively prosecuted the present
season. i.f
Over 1900, 600 acres of land in
Mississippi, one-seventh of all In the
state, is advertised for sale under exc
cution.
The New York police report shows
only 523 hOuses of prostitution, 81
houses of designation and 1907 prosti-
tutes.
-Thirty-five persons died in Chicago
during last week without medical attend
ance, being too poor to employ ply
| sicians. eas
Mrs. CzarOvitch, (the Princess
| DaemaIl, is now considered the hand
soonest woman of royal lineage in all
Europe.
The highest Partisan authorities
afirm that fiat, gored skirts are soOn
to be superseded by ample flowing
garments.
Watts, the English kssinter, has
been picturing death on the Pale
Horse" which one of his critics calls
dyspeptic.
---Katee, the famous apple-Woman
who stood IN front of the Tribune
buildings, died recently, leaving 81. 800
in the bank.
Two months after Dana had pur-
chased Tammany Hall he was offered
$40, 600 for his bargain by Commodore
| Vanderbilt.
Three hundred and twenty eight
thousand and ninety dead OF the Union
armies now lie buried in the national
cemeteries.
Mrs. GLENN. the mother-in-law of
Edgar A. Poe, is so very poor that she
| is supported in charitable institution
in Baltimore.
The Scranton (Pa) papers an
nounce that portions of that city are
visihly sinking into the depths of an
Old coal mine.
The story about its costing78 cents
to get a dollar to the heather Is denied
by the A. b. o. +. NJ, who show that
it costs cents.
Mrs. Yelverton has commenced a
new action In the Edinburgh Court of
Sessions to annul some judgment and
reopen the case.
The girl who tried to poison her
parents aud brothers and sisters, in
| Chicago, has been put under the heavy
bonds of S400.
The first steamboat on the Ohio
reached Cincinnati November 81, 1911,
was called the Orleans, and excited
great attention.
Mrs. Stephen Marsden, of Galena,
ILL.,, killed her infant by kindness, on
Monday last, smothering it In a shawl
while sleigh-riding.
"A young clerk in New York, who
married about Christmas on 81 900
salary, had his pay reduced about S4O0
on the LIST inst.
The panic of last week in the
New Workers into talking about the
dangers of fire.
"A New York servant girl spread
rat poison on bread for her mistress
children, and spanked them because
they wouldn't eat it.
In Norwich, CT, a merchant re
Gently ended a love letter to his sweet
heart with the words received pay
ment, and signed his name.
"A man In Bridgton, Maine, cut
his throat few days since because he
was troubled by evidence ne had given
in a petty case between two neigh
bOrs.
Il. d. Smith, of Muscatine. pub
fishes table showing the losses by fire
in Iowa, for the year 1867. Total loss
in the state, S73S. 600; insurance, S471, :
600.
The French Corps Legislatif have
donated 3 zoo, OOOf. in aid of the dis
tressed poor III France, and 400, DOOR
for the relief of the Arab population of
algeria.
The gas company in Jackson,
Miss, cut off the supply of light from
the reconstruction convention, because
it would not furnish security for the
payment of the gas bill
"A list of failures IN New York
city for the four weeks ending January
%, exhibits aggregate liabilities of over
eight million dollars, of which the as
sets will amount TO about one-fourth.
The foreman of one of the New
York fire engine companies a few
years ago married fortune of $40, 900,
ran through it, and is now sued by bis
wife for the allowance of $50 month.
When "MaFk Twain" spoke of
George Francis Train as an ''eminent
old lady," we don't suppose he had any
idea that Francis was going over to
England to be confirmed.
The New York Independent has
added the new compound word ''com-
worcestershire" TO the English language. |
Whether it will be adopted remains to
be seen. At first sight, it seems little
clumsy for use.
"A New York paper, in announcing |
the death of James Mott, says he was
kha busband of Tmeratia Mott ThiS /