Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-17
BreUities.
Personal Items.

Helmbold has bought 200 cottage at
Long Branch.
Philadelphia boasts of two hundred and
seven John Smiths.
PROT. Ford, with sixty-6ve young ladies
from the Elmira Female College, is visiting
Washington.
Gov. Fenton has been trying the New
York Elevated Railroad, which is pronounced
a success.
Queen Victoria takes snuff The En-
press Eugene likes cigarettes-in other peQr
ples mouths
George Sands income is said to be loo,
600 franks, large part of which he spends IN
charity.
Edward A. Pollard has a new work IN
Cartoons press, entitled - ne Lost Canse
Regained."
-Lamden z. Milhgan, the notorious lndl-
ana g Son of Liberty" has joined the Catho-
lc Church and been duly baptized.
,-old King Louis of Bavaria, left diary
which contains SO many shocking things that
1T can't be published.
The Rev. Col. A NJ Dickey, of Bradford,
Vt, practices law during 1.-THE week, and
breaches on Sundays.
Hon. Ira Harris has been elected tenn
pofary President of the Union College, and
Gen. Howard the permanent President.
Walter Scott's son never read one of his
fathers novels. Who Will say after this that
clever men do not have clever children!
Tho estate of the late Ex-President Blu
chanan is estimated at $780, $50. Not single
govern ent bond was found among his pos
sessions.
Mr.. Henry W. Shaw ('sJosh. Billings')
VIII publish IN few days his new book Josh
Billings on Ice,' with comic illustrations by
Howard.
The New York Tribune saws it is rumored
that Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton is to be
appointed deacon in Henry Ward Beechers
Church.
Mime. Lagrange has entered into a CON
tract with Max Strakosh to return to this
country in the Fall, and engage in an extend
ed operate tour.
-Janauschek and Dawson are coming to
America together, and we do not believe that
two finer interpreters of the drama ever trod
the boards together.
English journals announce after the fash
ion of fashionable marriages, one between
James Grimshaw, the famous jockey, and a
daughter of the trainer employed by Baron
Rothschild.
-Loame Jenyns said of Gibbons Decline
and Fall that he couldn't understand how SO
homely man could write so good book.
The jest was that Jenyns was even hOmelier
than Gibbon.
A Mrs. McArdle, i'll the Iowa Penitentia-
ny, who confessed the murder of her husband
four years ago, has been proved to be inno-
cent, she having sacrificed herself to save a
guilty son from the gallows.
Victor Emanuel has received the heart of
a Venetian patriot who died fighting for his
country 1t is beautifully dried" and bears
the inscription: ''Sire, this heart, too, desir-
ed you for its king"
Efforts are being made to induce Miss
Charlotte W hQG in n
this country from Rome, to re-appear Tor a
brief time on the stage, in few Of her great
tragic characters.
1T is said that a young heirass is working
lncognjtG in one of the Meriden manufactures
in Connecticut, in order to escape from for
tune hunters, and be woOed and won for her
self alone. Now there will be rush to con-
nectlcut.
The Countess Guiccol having been asked
how she could have married the old Marquis
de BOissy, replied, did he not tell me that
he hated all Englishmen, save Lord Byron,
whom he admired? How could l help liking
him."
In Floyd County, Indiana, there is a fam
lily which consists of father, mother and nine
teen childTen-seventeen boys and two girls.
There are eight pairs of twins. There has
never been death III the family, and both
the parents and their children are remarkably
vigorous.
-1nb DOblOH lIdN6nci edNb- IHo nun
Caleb Gushing Is now deyOting his time and
his great abilities to the interests of his eli
ents, and seems to have withdrawn altOgeth-
er from politics, but We believe his sympa-
thies are, and for some years have been, with
the Republican party.
Why Hon. Nathaniel Holmes, of st.
Louis declined being candidate for re-elec-
ton as one of the Supreme Judges of Nilsson
II, is explained by the fact that the corpora
ton of Harvard University have appointed
him Royal Professor of Law III Harvard. The
Judge graduated from Harvard iii the year
1887.
Gen Cluseret, formerly chief of staff un-
der Fremont, who edits a French paper III
Paris called the Journal of Art, has just been
fined one thousand francs, and sentenced to
two months Imprisonment, tor publishing an
article not pleasing to the authorities. 1t
will be remembered that he was editor of the
New Nation, Fremont organ, in 1864.
-Wyman E. Dott, of Boston, drunk, went
into a stairway III Chicago, Friday night, de
hberately undressed himself and went to bed
on the stairs. While he was sleeping the
placid sleep of the virtuous, somebody stole
his clothes, containing 81, 100 cash, and the
checks for his baggage which had gone on,
ahead of him to Kansas. He awoke in the
morning, naked, penniless and penitent.
The daughters of General Scott are
about to erect over his remains, at West
Point, a simple monument, consisting of a
block OF polished marble resting on granite
base, and containing the following inscription:
winfield Scott, born, Dinwiddie county, Va,
June q, 1856; died, West Point, N. Y, May
81, 1866. History records his eminent servi-
ces as a warrior, pacifcatOr, and General-in
Chief of the armies of the United States.
Medals and an equestrian statue, ordered by
Congress III the Capitol of his country, are
his public monuments. This stone is a mark
of the love and veneration Of his daughters.
Requiescat in pace"