Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-04-04
rELgcRAPHIc SUMMARY.
GnNEitAl. NEWS.


ridge is in New York, incognHo.
The banking house of A. @. Kings
land Il Sons was broken into Sunday and
robbed OF 100000 in bonds.
The great storm at the east ended on
Sunday morning, and the railroad trains are
now running regularly.
1t is stated that Gov. Fenton of New
York, has decided to pardon young ketchum,
he forger.
The steamship Arizona arrived 10
New York on the 2lst, from pinwail, with
81 1853, 900 ia treasure.
The Office of A. Il. Rogers, on Pine
street. New York was enter-d by burglars
on Tuesday evening and rooted OF SzO UOO
in railroad bonds.
Navigation on the Mississippi is now
opet. from Lake Pepin down. The steamer
Diamond 10 arrived 81 "inors, rom La
Crosse, on the zlst. she vac the hfst DoaV
IN 4 the season. 4s5t...
Representative Mullins, of Tonnes
sec. has received through tie mails threat
ening letter, purpOrtipg 90 come irGIn se
cret society designating Itself Tie " hukInX
A bill il. now in course of IT-psra-
tion bv the Canadian g. veTrBtnt which wall
enable American in gentors TO take out pat
ents IN the Dominion on e e same terms
that Canadians obtain Patents ~ the United
A fire on Benneboff Ran, Sadday
mornpg, destroyed 40 barrels tsnLirs
ar q 100 barrels of or. The Pnlladeiph a,
SbEndon. Steele and Getty wells are the
principal losers. 4t.sa t--
Theshoemakerso Of Marlborough, Mass,
who have been on strike for lew days,
attacked man who attempted TO go 10 Wol
| against their wishes on SATURDAY, anu peat
/ him in a shocklug manner. de died soon
after =,
An Influential meeting was held IN
| T.ondon on the 23d, TO urge forward the work
| ~ constructing a telegraphic line To India,
| Caiua and Australia. The Engiisn Govern
ment will b asked to aid the enterprise
Emeuetes are reported to have occur
1ed al Bordeaux and conspicuous placsTds
have M ade their adpsarsnos at Paris, Ly one,
| WsrseilIea and Rennes The reforming OF ths
Guard Mobile i. assigned as the cause OF zee
/ disturbance.
Two men, named Jacob Sadler and
lanes Pettigrew, were killed at Pittsburg Oh
| the 23d. By the caving in Of clay bank ~
! the works of the superior Pressed Bflch
Company. They had been employed by the
| company but few dsys
fire la Warrensburg, Mo +, on the
| gao burned a row OF frame buildings u
Holden street, used as stores. Inc to.sl
| loss is about $40 coo, on which there Is ali
insuraBce of "a GO. The principal loseTs
are, are r. \, shore, A. t. Bales, ). G. Cougdon,
| james G1llett.
Government officers have seized the
| Nj .tilleries of Bradley and Hitchcock IN
| Montgomery county, Tenn on charge that
their owners have deirsuded the govern
ment; the frauds OF The FORMER are said 90
| amount to O,'UO.
/ Cora James, notorious IN Chicago
and St Louis for bringing suits for breHch
of pronise and for Libel, has been arrested
m the latter city on ,h.Tge of beIrg cam
mou &C, Id; and in defauit OF bail, ste was
/ .cked up.
Adolph NJ yer, a German merchant,
was arr sted on the steamer City Of Cork, at
New York on the 24th, under the extradi,t" n
t,eatv. charged with Swindling bank AZ
Hrss4 Darmstadt, and mixer there OF
$4,000 guiders.
Alta meeting of the Erie Railway
directors on the oath, a resolution was unan-
Imously adopted making a reduction in ta1e-
70 Buff 10 of 80 per cent. and Corresponds
REDUCTION in fares to ali points west
Judge Monroe, of the Dallas, Ga,
Circuit Court, nov ia sesriUn here, received
official notice ca the "a b, that ubles7 az
of registered voters without references tn
color, he VIII be promptly removed from
Office.
The Court Hous at Eutaw, Ga, one
| Of the fiuest in the state, was burned last
Thursday night. All the county books and
re- ords were loot The fire was the work OF
| An inceudiarv The COnrt HoUs- al Gre Il
| borO was fired Oh SATURDAY night, out no
harm was done.
A valuable sword presented to Com
| m ,dore Biddle by the Peruvian Government
| stolen from the Patent Office about week
| since has been recovered by the detectives:
| The diamonds five or SIX in number, had
4 -
/ have been recovered.
The Erie directors are at Taylor s
| Hotel. Jersey CITY. No further attempts
/ have been made on their liberty. An in-
| junction has been granted by Judge Clarke,
| rest raining the receiver appointed by Judge
Barnard iron acting, but has not been
| served,
John W. Arnold, secretary OF the.
Hope Insurance Company, at Lonlsvile, has
been arrested on warrant served out oy u.
g. Bly, president OF the company charging
Arnold with the embezzement of $1,000 OF
the company's funds. Arnold gave bail 20
the amount of IS 900.
A fire Saturday night on the second
floor of No 451 Broadway, occupied by Mall
iory g. Hewitt, New York city, dealers IN
cloaks and mantillas. although promptly ex
tinguished, caused damage to the building
ana stock by fire and water OF Si2,OOO, fully
Insured
The Jury in the libel suit brought by
NJ. W. Myers, claiming $40 900 damages
against NJ. II alstead, one of the proprietors
III the Cincinnati Commercial, failed to agree
and we're discharged. IL il understood that
the Jury stood eight for defendant, two foT
one cent damages, aud one for rger
amount.
A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark,
Jaws the election ls completed in but few
couuties Partial returns show large falling
off in the negro vote. The majority against
the constitution will ee larger than antlapa-
ted. The whites voted almost unanimously
against it.
In the Superior Court of Baltimore,
the i1ry returned verdict for the defend
ants in the cose of AdOlphus Brandles and
VIM. W. Crawford. OF louisville, against the
Baltimore Ohio Railroad TO recover 81 500
damages. for alleged failure in 1865, to de.
liver 800 barrels of -four and l2S tons OF
ship stuffs in Boston in seasonable time.
The ronte from St Louis to New
York by way of New Orleans. for the trans
portation of ersin in bulk, is becoming
more popular daily. The tow-boat Kellogg,
which lett st. Louie Saturday evening, had
eight barges in tow, with soven thousand
tons of freight, among which was $4,000
bushels of corn for New York. Another
barge. with &c 600 bushels OF corn for the
same destination, will leave soon. ALI this
corn came from points on the Illinois river.
FOREIGN.
The captain and crew of the schoon-
er Marion Rennv we're msssacred at Solomon
grOup Islands by the natives.
Captain Mackay, the Cork FeniaD,
has been sentenced to inpri sonment for
twelve years.
The Pope gave very gracious re-
canton Tn Admiral Farragut and suit on the