Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-08-07
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Miscellaneous Items.

were III, promptly replied, SIC sum. 1873
Maine farmers in some places pay SIS a
month for help, and $50 is the general rule.
There is a negress in Jail at Davenport,
Iowa, who has whipped both the jailer and
Sheriff.
The graduates of the Sheffield Scientific
School OF Yale College, are about organizing
| an Alumni Society.
The Free Masons of Austria are seeking
| permission to reopen their lodges, which
have been closed since 1874.
The wheat crop in Ohio has been secured
in excellent order, and the supply is full
average.
"A beer saloon for ladies' has lately been
opened In New Orleans, and hundreds OF
them patronize it daily.
Morocco parasols are a Lew fashion in
New York, while silk parasols, square IN
shape, are the London novelty.
The first pier of the bridge that is being
built across the Mississippi at Dubuque, on
the Illinois side, Is completed.
Three members of WEIGH family, near
MequoketA, Iowa, were killed last week by
eating poisoned or diseased fish.
The American Library Gazette protests
against the acceptance OF Hans Brietmail's
poems as the best Philadelphia can produce.
Little Daisy's mother was trying to ex
plain to her the meaning of smile. sob, yes,
1 know" said the child, sit is the whisper Of
a laugh,
The Quakers, it appears from their annu-
al return, now number 13, 1S5 in Great Brit
ain, 1893 in Ireland, or little more than 5000
families in all.
An exchange says that the girls in some
parts of Pennsylvania are so badly off for
husbands that they sometimes marry editors,
lawyers and composirors.
"A Western editor, IN response to sub
scriber who grumbles that his morning pa
no xVaS MT ~ hat -
cause there is so much due on it"
1t is reported that number of Neapolitan
priests have lately abandoned their pTofes-
sions and married, and have established a
paper called the Catholic Emancipator.
The state census of Florida for 1867
shows population OF. q, 1874 whites, and ~
Cos negroes-tOtal 153, $50, an increase OF a.
236, or 42-10O per cent. on the census OF
1860.
Astronomers are now on the watch for
Encke's comet the time for whose re-appear-
ance has arrived; ard we may confidently ex-
pect very soon to hear of its discovery, either
here or in Europe.
The navy yard at Ch8rlestown, Mass.
has become too small for the purpose for
which it was designed, and 1t is proposed to
remove it to Kittery, Me-, and unite it with
the navy yard there.
The Davenport, (lowal Gazette states
that there were twenty-six deaths from sun
there were at least one hundred and fifty
more prostrated, who recovered
The Rock Island Union says the first OF
the new Government workshops on the island
is gradually nearing the second floor. These
buildings have q front of 90 feet, with
depth of 300 feet. There are to be ten such
buildings.
Eastern Florida is being laid out IN large
farms for the purpose of cultivating fruits
and early vegetables for the Northern mar
kets. Jacksonville, the chief shipping port
of the State, is but four days from New York
by steamers, and still less by railroad.
A clergyman observing poor man by the
road breaking stones, and kneeling to get at
his work better, made the remark, "Ah
John; wish could break the stony hearts
of my hearers as easily as your are breaking
those stones" Perhaps, master, you do not
work on yo1o' knees, y was the reply.
"A Salem merchant, while on Change in
Boston, last Saturday morning, mentioned a
remarkable circumstance: 'Fifty-three years
ago." said he, ''five young men sailed from
Salem together before the mast, and there
are three of us standing here now, one Of
whom have never seen since that voyage
till to-day"
"A young man named Patrick Shaughnessy
was shot and killed in Hamilton, Canada, on
the night of the 22nd, by John Slater whose
sister he had seduced a few days before.
Shaughnessy had boosted of his Infamous
crime, which so exasperated Slater that he
procured pistol, and, meeting upon the
street, shot him down.
Sc The Chemistry of a Cigar is the title
Of long article in the last number of the
Boston Journal of Chemistry by the editor
The writer ranks the tobacco plant among the
magistrates, all of which are powerful narcotic
poisons; and says that 1t is the greatest rob
Der Of the soil that grows-a ton of tobacco
exhausting the soil as much as fourteen tons
of wheat and fifteen tons OF corn.
On Sunday Mrs. Beardslcy was return
ing from church at West Goshen, CT, when a
tree near by her was struck by lightning She
became entirely deranged, was taken with Vi
olent vomiting, and physician was sent for
in great haste. 1t was forty EIGHT hours be-
fore she recovered from the effects Of the
shock, and before her reason was fully re-
stored.
A few days ago gentleman visited Woos-
ter, Ohio, looking for a sight on which to
build paper mill AS soon as his GRAND was
known the business men of the place, instead
of raising their rents and the price of lots,
at once proposed to furnish him, free Of cost,
a suitable site and a steam engine to run his
machinery. He accepted the proposition.
and will erect mill that viii cost about $685.,
600
In Salem, Mass, on Thursday, a runaway
horse was dashing up Central street at a
furious rate, when a well-dressed lady rushed
III front of him with her sun umbrella spread,
and fourishedit towards the frightened ami
NAL. The horse thus suddenly checked went
down on his launches, and was kept there
by the lady until the driver came up and took
care of his team. The lady quietly walked
OFF, as though nothing unusual had occurred.
"a fact just come to light" says the
Lloyd, of Pesth, twill not fail to produce q
certain sensation in Austria. For two years
the Bishop of Brunn has kept young priest
incarcerated in a monastery, no one ever be-
ing admitted to see him. After numerous at
tempts, the family have obtained from the
public prosecutor permission to commence an
action against the prelate for illegal impris-
onment. We can guarantee the authenticity
of this news"
On Wednesday night man was found
lying among the charred timbers of the re-
cent fire in Bridgeport, Conn. The proper
officer was Informed, when a jury was empan-
elled, who Immediately proceeded to the spot
to view the body, followed by large crowd.
While the jury and crowd were standing
around the remains, and as the oath was
about to be administered, the supposed de-
f1nct one, who was only tipsy, raised his
head, covered all over with charcoal dust, and
inquired what they were doing.
Personal Items.
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