Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-01-11
TELEcRAPHIc SUMMARY
mIsCELLAEEoUs.


The Russian American telegraph en-
terprise has been formally abandoned.
Orders have been received at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard to discharge thirty PEI
cent Of the force employed In the 'aechsn-
cal department.
The extensive works OF the Camden
Polling Mill Company, in Camden, n j., was
.ryanlSfeIv destroyed by ire on the 2Sd. Loss
s7O.tOO: insurance $40, 900. -s a.-rea
The banking house Of Lessen, Son
4 Co, in Sc. Louie, suspended on the ed
N IA understood that a large amount of their
paper was protested IN New York.
A. W. wyman, assistant cashier OF
the United States Treasury, has resigned, to
take effect on the Let Of July next. de goes
into the banking business at Omaha.
't Fanny Wright, who killed policeman
McChesney in New York last fall, has been
convicted OF msnslaughtsr Ia TIE second ds-
gree. and sentenced TO State Prison Tor me-
The question of the transfer OF the
Dan1sh West India Islands TO tue United
Sfates will he submitted to a popular vote OF
the inhabitants in those colonies an January
the amount of fractional currency
issued daring the week ending the 2Ist was
$40 zoo: amount forwarded, s45S ,60i; ma
tional hank notes issued, Slf5 $50; fractional
currency destroyed, S264 $50.
Gen. Z. ". Sweeney, who was tried
by court martial and suspended frOm rank
and nav for six months, has had his sentence
RENTED by order OF the President and or
dered to report to Gen. Pope for duty.
The Cabral government of st. Do
uufpeO has been defeated, the organization
of his troops being defective. A prOnuncis-
mentO of the people against him has been
issued and Baez proclaimed president
A fire occurred Monday morning In
NOrdheimer's Hall, Montreal, occupied as
billiard saloon by DiOn. The building was
DESTROYED. Dion lOst six billiard tables.
Messrs. Gould s. Hill, music store, ana VIM.
Peele, tObscOnist, aud Others lost heavily.
A Montgomery. Ala, dispatch says
that q Freedmen's Bureau officer who vas
irving 10 collect dollar and half apiece
from negroes whose contracts he had APP
proved in Alabama, was recently tarred and
vanished by negroes.
The Assistant Commissioner for Lou
isiana reports to the Freedmsn's Bureau that
the number Of labOreTs OF all classes, male
and female, 10 that state, l. stated to be
994 600, and sged end helpless, both sexes,
1876 00O-
A memorial is in circulation among
the leading cotton factOrs IN Charleston, s.
c., praying Congress IN view of the PROSTATE
condition OF the planting interests, 10 make
an appropriation TO assist factors IN making
advances 20 planters
The express train from New York for
Boston ran into q freight train sunday morn
ing near Natick. james McCurdy brakes
man, IL supposed to be fatally injured -
Several passengers we're more or Less hurt,
but none seriOusiy.
A fire broke ont in the village of
Chateaugsy, Franklin county, n. Y, Sstur-
day night. burning the store occupied by John
hughes Hale CO., A. h Miller Dr. Mel
hinge, r. Mclean and DR.. George House
Loss SIS 900, insured for Sl5COO.
A AsmaIl block of stores on Essex
street, Sslem, Mass. was destroyed by fire
600. Among the sufferers are G. 5 DoyeT,
G. I. Rogers, 7. W. futile aud G. A. StOwsll.
The property was partly insured
A locomotive exploded its boiler In
tbe lower depot of Reading, Pa, Monday
morning, killing Albert Kline, engineer, snd
Jobn SchmOkle, fireman. Tue conductor and
two brakemen we're thrown some distance,
but escaped material injury
The Michigan Southern Il Northern
Indiana railroad company's grain elevator in
Toledo was destroyed by hre Saturday night.
AbGut eight thousand bushels of grain, most
Iy wheat was consumed with IL. Loss $500
coo on which there is an insurance OF SOS,
OO8-nearly all IN New England companies.
E. J.. Mattison, of Auburn, n. i
suppose&to have been burned at the recent
railroad disaster, az Angels. is alive and
well. The body thought TO be that OF Nor
man WOhls was identified to be that of Nor
man Nichols; place and residence unknown.
Eighteen charred skeletons 6rs still unrec-
Ognized.
The Canadian Parliament adjourned
on saturday to the 18th OF March. Among
the bills assented to by the Governor Gener-
al. are the following: To prevent the unlaW-
full training OF persons in the use OF firearms
and military evOlutiOBs; 20 authorize justices
of the peace to seize and det5i arms col
lected or kept for any purpose dangerous 10
thepublic peace; to authorize the arrest OF
persons suspected OF committing scts of hos
tllttv or conspiracy against Her Msjesty's
person and government.
The residence of Prof. Jones. of the
Nashville Medical College, Church street,
Nashville, was burned Saturday morning. IL
was owned By n. E. AllOway.. IL embraced
a couple of stores. one occupied by dry goods
merchants the other BIZ Mrs. Highly, milliner.
The residence was badly damaged, and is
insured for IS, 900. Prof Jones lost all his
furniture, papers, SC, and valuable library
A gentleman who TOOmed IN the building lOzt
many valuable papers. Crane d Co are in
sured for $4,000. Mrs. Highly Is insured for
$500. She lost al her stock