Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-09-25
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Miscellaneous Items.

:, nO Niitc mountains nave mad f,UOU Wis
itoTs this season.
F-Ihe cotton crop in Florida is failure this
season Cause, the caterpillar.
The Irish Methodists have established
college OF their own at Belfast
-One quarter of the whole population of
Manic are deposltors in savings banks.
l., i ne Italian government has sold the to-
/ Oacco monopoly tor twenty years for s40, 000,-
-Peaehes were selling last week in Eastern
bushel.
The Chff copper mine on Lake Superior
IL Il now LOCO feet deep-below the bottom Of
! the lake.
! Silver and golden anklets for laclie. are
dooht 70 become fashionable. They will be
worn outside the stockings.
1t Is estimated that one of the Long
Branch hotels took this season upwards of
! quarter OF million dollars.
a favoritc style of dress for gentlemen in
l taIlh TINS summer has been coats, vests, and
tro"sers OF white silk, with blue cravats.
surprise weddings are the latest nov
eity 10 cleveland, Ohio. They take place at
/ like
! An omnibus, drawn by steam power and
containing thirty-tive persons, was recently
Paris.
-Monr9c county, Mississippi, has a cham
ploii via loS which gnaws down trees or up
footh them, and throws down whole strings
of fence.
a lady IN East Bridgewatsr, Mass. was
recently severely burned in the face by the
/ explosion OF 4 sealed can OF tomatoes left on
| the stove.
The new Homeopathic Medical College.
NJ Philadelphia, viii commence ope ratiOns on
the 2Sth Of September with Dr. q HeTriuo
at tho head of the faculty.
Il young woman in Tennessee after being
comfortably buried, was brought to life I,y a
resurreo tlonlst, who cut off one of her fingers
10 get gold ring.
"A grand convention and tournament of
! all the brass bands iii Indiana, is announced
Ii Is suggested that it be held in the immC-
date vicinity of the Deaf ami Dumb Asylum
MIS-. c. T. Peck, mother of Rev. Alonzo
and George Peck, committed suicide at Rot
terdam, Schenectady county, y. Y, Wednes-
day, by hanging herself in barn.
One of the pleasant WAYS they have in
Texas Is to publish notices of political barbc-
cncs warning persons Of the opposite party
that II they appear on the ground they will
be instantly shot.
Tho mail agents on the Union Pacific
Railroad have been armed with Spencer car
blnes, with which to defend themselves
/ against any attacks the Indians may make on
mail trains.
-Boston's taxable property now more
than Si95, goo, 900, exceeds that f any one Of
of the twemty-one States i'll 1860. Ward Four
IS now as rich as Oregon, Kansas and Min
nesota combined, were Ill 1860
"A large needle or bodkin was removed
from the limb of Young lady i'll Raleigh, by
Dr. T.. Burke Haywood, a few days since, from
the effects OF which she has been suffering
for the last twelve years, beng compelled to
use n crntch.
The charges at some of the mountain no.
tf.l- a1n tltnT
berry of bedding, towels, &c, causes Int little
excitement, a he guests think it no more
than 1lir that the parties should receive an
equivalent for then money.
joe G. Mccoy a Kansas stock-dealer, has
now on exhibition at St. Louis three large
buftlloes which lie will take to New York by
way Of Chicago, and eventually present to
the Central Park, III the former cItv The an
lmals were caught with lasso.
A Tiprerary Ireland) paper notices that
this year, for the first time in that quarter
the farming classes nave become recOnciled
to the uso Of roaping machines, owing, no
doubt, IN s0mo degree, 10 the increasing
scarcity of IaboreIs and the high wages de
handed
The Roman Catholics arc building, III Co
lumhuF, Ohio, cathedral one hundred hv
one hundred and eichty-seven feet IN dimcn-
slOn=, with tower two hundred and nifty
feet IN height. The style will be that known
a. the Early English.
Tho Rockbridge Alum Springs, Va. were
recently sold at public auction for 1896. 600 !
james Frazure, Jr. was the purchasor--a
Young man about twenty-five Years of age. !
He inherited q portion of the property. ana |
l. low the sole proprietor.
A man who made an exhibition OF per |
forming bears III the streets of Quebec. was /
recen ~ complained of and taken before the /
courts fur ondangerng the lives of citizens. /
He took his animals into the court and proved i
lldpG al Dis
they happened to be boys disguised in bear
skins.
"A culorcd man named Henry was taken I
from his house near Olive Branch, DE Soto
county Mississippi Ivy .ome white Tutfians,
IN !he night OF SATURDAY,, August 29th and /
nothing was known Of hls fate until his body /
was found on Sept. 9Th, in we'll not far /
from his house. No arrest has been made. /
Successful experiments, it Is reported /
have recently been made at Konigsberg, I
Prussia, with new tirearm having 81 bar /
rels From 222 to 1913 shots can be fired per /
minute, and the balls carry / 500 PAGES Ono /
man can manage it, firing from rest and the !
rccOil is counteractcd by powerful spring. /
Seven per cent OF the shots struck the target 1
at 500 PAGES.
1t is stated that on the occasion of the .
late review Of the National Guard by the En-
peror, there was n very large number of Sc (
crct police agents scattered among some bat
tallons to repless hostile demonstrations and /
lead the applause; also that two batteries of /
artillery were kept IN reserve. and that the /
regular soldiers we've armed and ready to act /
if occasion required.
Three cnrerprisinS members of the Eng I
fish 'Alpne Club" have been gratifying their
mania for climbing lay ascending some of the
loftiGst peaks of the Caucasus, one of which,
Elbrouz, reaches an elevation of 1896 feet,
and is much the higest mountain in Europe.
They appear to have formed much more
favorable opinion of the mountains than Of
the mountaineers.
The proprietor of one Of the most mag
nificent estates in the suburbs of Cincinnati,
on leaving the citr Tor the soashUre, gave his
gardener orders that twice each week all the
roses on his place sh0ud he gathered and
summer the patients have all the time had
spread before them, for their qualification,
some Of the rarest of flowers.
Mr. Palmer, OF Groton, Conn. in re
cent trip on a Sound steamer, occupied, with
another gentleman, q state-rOoIl that had
ekyliSht. During the night they were
clothes through the skylight with hook and
line. The Iascals had already rified Mr..
palmer's clothing of a gold watch, but he
awoke III season TO save a roll OF bills amount
ing to $500.
The railway from Sucz 10 Ismaiia was
opened on August 10, and IN honor Of the Oc-
casion, NJ. de Lesscps gave grand banquet.
The accounts Of the progress of SueZ are fiat
terug Its population. which was only 1900
4 few years ago, now amounts to $4,000. The
French colony, which the creation OF the
maritime canal has attracted u the place, Is
vcT,. numerous and il generally IN a pros I