Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-09-04
Geographic Summary.
General News.

~leut @.So9 lAAHA5faitts aiItheu Al new
York On the 24th.
The city of Cambridge entertained the
Chinese Embassy on the Gath.
There were 311 deaths in Brooklyn last
week, one-half of which were infants.
Edward Jones, OF Brooklyn, after dispute
with his wife on Sunday hung himself.
Senator Conkling, of New York, and party
are IN Missouri, and viii 90 thence to tho
Pacific coast.
Ebenezer Irving. brother of Washington
Irving, died Sunday at Sunny Side, aged
ninety-three.
Prot. Geo. A. Adler, the well known author
of several German school books, died in New
York on the oath.
Roark's planning mill, with large amount
Of lumber was burned at Albany Saturday.
Loss, $4,000
stairs of the New York Democrat Office on
Sunday and was picked up dead.
A new railroad route has been formally
opened between New York, Boston and Mon
treal, via Rutland. Burlington and Platts-
burg.
The gas works at South Bridge, Worcester,
Mass. were blown mp Saturday night. Seven
men are reported killed and four seriously
injured.
Patrick Murphy, fireman, was acciden-
tally knocked of an express train on the
Hudson River Railroad, last Saturday, and
killed.
The Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
bridge at Sterling, H., three hundred feet
IN length, was destroyed by fire Friday night
1t viii be replaced at once.
Several persons vino attended the Metho-
dist camp meeting at Sing sing. are said to
have died since arriving home, from eating
meat OF diseased cattle sold them
DR.. c. P. F. Peters, Of Litch1ieid obserys
tory, Hamilton College. Clinton, New York,
says that new planet OF the group OF ''Aster-
oids was discovered by him on Saturday
night.
4 difference Of opinion on political qucs-
tons led Peter McAvery on Sunday 70 beat
ne Is not expected TO recover hc-ATery was
arrested.
The number Of deaths in New York for the
week ending the 22d was T3l increase Of
nca II loo over last week. owing mainly to
disease brought about bv eating diseased
beef.
Michael Cariov and Charles burke, VINO
were sentenced Il b. hung on the 2Sth INST
have been rCspited till October 9th. They
assisted ct tho murder Of Miss Hicks, near
Fort Schuyler.
Friday evening Miss Isabella Smith, aged
seventeen wears. daughter of Cen. Eilby
smith. United States Consul at Panama, was
accidentally drowned at lQnesdaie. on the
Delaware River.
A man named Nicholson assaulted John
JudsoE. and wife III a tenement house on Navy
street. Brooklyn Saturday night In defend
ing themselves, unison and wife killed Mich
olson. They nave been arrested
Tn petition of II. T. Lester, claiming the
seat i'm the Alabama Senate. made vacant by
the resignation Of Bradley. of the first dis
trict was granted hy vote 81 Is yeas 10 ii
nays. IL. Lester was sworn IN and took MS
scat
Andrew J. Iel.au. q real estate broker OF
Boston Is under arrest, charged alth de-
fraudiag an old gentleman by passing to him
three bonds Il 900 each. pgrpOrting to be on
the Brooklyn Steamship transportation Co.,
for lot OF land.
The fight between coiIvcr and Edwards for
the championship Of hgdt weights took
place at ten O'Clock Monday forenoon. on
Traverse Island. Coon River. NOrthumbeT-
and county, Va. Collyer vas whipped il the
47th round. The hight lasted one hour and
fourteen minutes.
The commissioner If the general land Of
fee has transmitted 10 the Governor ii Della
ware sta picccs # agricultural college scrip,
issIedsuudcr the act oi Congress approved
July 2. 1862 and its supplements. The scrip
embraces 50 0d0 acres, being the iuli quota to
which that state l. entitled under the laws
The explosion u the South Biidge gas
works az Worcester, Mass, on Saturday even
ing. was caused by the careless use OF a ian
tern IN the hands IF Martin White. who had
charge Of the works Mr. White was tho only
person instantly killed. Two Of the injured
men, named Jas. Irogan and Jno. Brown,
have since died. The gas woeEs we've newly
erected.
BY the report OF one OF the health inspec
tors Of New York. It appears that several dis
eaSed cattle have been sold TO butchers, who
have sold them cor meat to citizens. One
man who keeps dairy IL Duchess county con
tIuued 10 send milk fof several days to the
city, knowing thar tie COWS were sick, and
even sent it from some 0f them on the day
they died. h has now been prohibited from
sending any mIli- TO the city.
Nsy light has been thrown upon the alb
sstTaction u rational bank n0tes from the
s1ffice OF tine Comptroller Of tEe Currency.
Tue wife 81 tie culDfEd messenger, who Tor
SeveFas ssonth< has been awaiting trial Tor
tho Cfen-s, attempted u pass a fittv dollar
nute "a the Il-S. National Bank Il Jersey
Civ. which proved - = ole IT the stolen
ones She Was arrested and he'd Tor further
examination.
The comnii--isnrI ii tine general land Of
fee Of New 4-IE, IN making mp ms animal
statement Ter the fiscal year ending June 30
1865, la. a~cor taIned that 81. 10 bounty land
=
isfied by locations eov,TIng an aggregate Of
ever 5lZ COO acres II land The lands thus
taken we're generally b. actual settlers An
Missouri Michigan, Iowa, wisconsin. CaIItof-
MIA Minnesota, Oregon, Kansas and kebras
ka, and the territories Of Washington Dakot
and Colorado.
Secretary SchofeId received a special dis
patch from General sherman, dated Omaha.
August 10Th in which he announces that be
had iast received dispatch from Gen. Sher-
idan in which he confirmed the press dispatch
es about the Indian nutrag eS- Gen. SheT1dsn
saws the OutTages are too horrible to detail
Gen. Sherman orders Gen Sheridan to con-
rsnBe pursuit and drive the saFages from that
section Of the country, and when captured to
give them summary punishment. The .secre-
taFy of War communicated the intelligence 80
tine President, vino acqulesccd III the stringent
measures which the Secretary OF var and
General Sherman were taking IN the matter.
F0aEIGS.
Admiral Far1asut was in CoEstantinople on
the 23d inst.
Douglas Cooke, editor OF the Saturday Re
view, j. dead.
4 telegraph cable Is to be laid between Den
mark and Russia
News has been received of the death of
Gen. Dulce one Of the Spanish officers re-
Gently sent into exile on the Canaries.
ccunt von Bismarck, while riding ont near
nIs castle IN Fomerania, SUNDAY ives thrown
iFoEs lis horse and received some bruises. 1t
As rePortcd that has injuries though painful,
ere net 81 serious character.
Vim. Smith and James Richardson. -cm-
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