Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-04-25

Gently exploded on the Ohio. was Gen.
Grants headquarters before Vicksbure.
in 1868.
The proposed new opera house in
Louisville will be four stories in heioht
will comfortably seat ], 800 persons, and
will cost $125, 600
The railway from Athens to the
Pn@us lin Greece) viii be opened in
August next Tue distance is four
miles.
"A French paper states that an an.
alysis of suicide shows that married
men and women are more liable TO make
way with themselves than bachelors
and widows.
"A flock of pigeons covering a space
of IL / 2 miles in length, and 50feet
in breadth passed over WellsviIle.
Tioga county, Pennsylvania, one day
last week.
"A recent New Orleans suicide left
the following written explanation: II
have seen enough of To world, and
am curious to know what there is IN the
other one"
The Deseret News urges the Saints
to withstand the temptations of the
newly discovered gold mines on the
Sweetwater, and give their attention to
agriculture. The mines, it says, are
no place for man protesting to be a
Latter Day Saint.
John A. Brown, of Philadelphia,
has given $40, 900 to Lafayette college.
at Easton, Penn. Mr.. Pardee, of PEN
nsylvania, recently gave the same In
stltution 1920, 600, and number of
other citizens of the same State have
given sums ranging from $50, 900 to
S25, 900.
AT hotel dinner table at Tuscum-
bia, Alabama, two gentlemen" seated
Opposite to each other simultaneously
arose ard commenced a duel with rev
divers. One was shot dead aud the
other wounded. The room was full of
people at the time. Is the heroic age
of Alabama indeed returning?
Mrs. E. Widner, aged g., of Rut-
land. Illinois, was brutally murdered
on Friday evening last by man named
John Furness, who was working the
farm of her husband on shares. He
had lawsuit with Mr.. Widner at Ell
gin on the same day, and killed Mrs.
Widner in revenge for his defeat in the
trial. Furness has been arrested.
The horn of sea unicorn was late
~ extracted from the side of the ship
Pocahontas, now at Boston. 1t had
passed through thickness of 4 1 2 in
ches of Southern pine, and about 20
inches in length was left in the ship,
showing that it must have been driven
with tremendous force.
The sugar crop promises unusually
well in Louisiana. A planter writes:-
''The freedmen are working better and
more cheerfully than at any time since
the war. If only let alone, they will
naturally fall into line as laborers-
help themselves, and save the planter
They make their own contracts, and,
so tar as they are concerned, the SOC
cupation' of the bureau agent SIS
gone.
The Toronto Globe asserts that the
attempt TO establish an independent
government called Manitoba, In a por-
ton of the Northwest Territory, has
attracted unnecessary attention. The
inhabitants of this new candidate for
DCAt AllblC
than 400, according to the communion
tioh OF Mi. Spence. the President of its
Council, to the British Secretary of
State for Colonial Affairs.
"A telegram from Pesth, published
in the Vienna papers, says that hardly
had the night train of March IL enter
ed the station of Szegedin and the ira
velers alighted, when all the gas lamps
were suddenly extinguished; the post
office agents were then seized, bound,
and gagged, and all the letters, the
value OF which has not yet been ascer.
tanned, carried off. The authors of this
audacious act disappeared without leav-
ing the slightest trace.
MIR. Conrad Poppenhusen, propri-
etor of the extensive India rubber
works in College Point, l.. l., has made
the celebration of his fifty-frst birth
day the occasion of princely gift to
that town OF 500 600 in cash, and
vast area of property for religions, edu-
cational. and social purposes. He has
refrained from giving any directions
about the disposal OF this great amount
OF property, leaving this to a board of
trustees, TO be elected by the citizens
of College Point.