Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-10-09
Personal Items.

| The elder Dumas is writing a romance
from the incidents in the Menken's life.
Dan Cameron, brother of Senator Cam
| eron, has purchased an interest i'll the Phila
delphia Morning Post.
The well-known dramatic authorizes and
actress, Madame Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer,
died at Berlin on the 18th, in consequence OF
an apopletic stroke.
"A neice of Madame Sontag is spoken OF
as the next sensation at the COvcnt Garden
Theatre, London. She is said to possess a
wonderful voice.
Lewis GAYLORD Clark will commence &
series Of articles IN the November number OF
Packard's Monthly on Eminent Men of New
York"
General Sir A. Clifton is the high old HEN
presumptive to the Baronetcy of his nephew
tSir r. J. Cliftonl, having entered his one
hundredth year.
Carlton, the Boston Journals well known
war and foreign correspondent, Is going To
deliver a series of lectures to children on the
Religious Influence of the Holy Land.
In Milan, Italy, there is a man Go years
old, who married his fourth wife about year
ago, and during the last few days has had his
thirty-first, child baptized in the San Loren
20 church.
His Eminence Cardinal Bonaparte is
Iilil anu WORK, anu Ills lucuiCdl du-
visers suspect that the disease which carried
off his father and the Emperor Napoleon,
cancer in the stomach, has attacked him.
Rev. Mr.. AIilburn, the blind preacher,
will probably have his sight restored at
least so says Won Graefe, the Berlin Oculist.
The aggregate income of Adelina Patti.
from July /, 1867, TO June 90, 1868, was $4,000
francs. Her whole fortune is estimated at
$50, 900 dollars.
L, lei al he
right of suffrage in the new borough Of
Chelsea, is Miss Frances Power Cobhe, au-
thOress.
The residence OF James l.. Day, near
Stonington, Conn, which cost fully S175, 900,
was sold a few days since to George s. Scott,
of the Philadelphia firm of Jay Cooke u Co.,
for $4,000.
"A New Hampshire paper says: ''The
greatest age ever attained in this state by
any person whose age WAS positively known.
was that reached by Mr.. Lovewell, of Duns-
table, who died at 120. William Perkins, OF
New Market, reached ZIG; and Robert Mack
lin, of Wakefield, lis. Mr.. Perkins died ii
1872, and Mr.. Macklin in 17S7. The age OF
Flora Stewart, who died in Londonderry re
Gently, is not positively known. but was at
least 108.'
"A giantess is exhibited in Paris On the
show bills the manager calls the attention of
the public to the gigantic lady in the follow
ing witty manner: ''Is it true, Frenchmen,
that you have lost all appreciation Of the
truly great? l do not think that You have.
At all events you can prove that you have
not by coming and admiring the tall and
beautiful Adela, the great giantess, who
stands nearly eight feet in her stockings"
Tho National Labor Congress, when mas
been in session in New York, on Saturday
voted salary to its president The resolu-
tons relative to emigration were explained
as not being aimed against emigration, but
against the Emigrant Aid Society, which is a
monopoly, practically introducing white slay
cry into the country. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
made a speech fayoring emigration. The
President delivered his valedictOry address,
expressing the hope that the National Labor
party will elect a President of the United
States, and carry CONSERVATION into Wall
street. The convention then adjourned sine
mic