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

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1Madams Methua Scheller is now PLAYING
at Helena, Montana.
,,IE;BIroWning's great poem, longer than the
lhiad, VIII see the light this wear
One of Mr.. GIatlstone's sons i e. ..t-o
rate at Lambeth. ou
-One OF the finest weddings i'm Iondop
this year was that of Sir Ivor Guest. a rioh
Welsh iron master, to a daughter of the Duke
of Marlborough.
~ The mother of the notorious Reno broth
ers, who arc charged with the express. car
robbery near Seymour, Ill, died last week Of
a broken heart.
Patti and her jolly old husband drive
about i'll a chocolate-cOlored carriage Hne1
with cloth and silk of the same color, with
servants with dark green livery trimmed with
silver lace.
George Crabtree, brother of Lolita the
actress, was run over by Hudson liver rail
road tram on Saturday at fremont and so
severely injured that one Of his legs had to
be amputated.
Matilda Heron has concluded to devot,
Aer entire attention to the instruction of
young ladies' for the higest rank Of the
drama. Terms from one to five hundred dol
lars quarter. Poor pupils will ba instructed
for nothing.
We learn from the Princeton Standard
mat there Is new young millionaire in New
York. His name Is LOUIS L. Nu.ent. and h.
IL heir to the great Nugent estate He has
siOO,0OO IN cash, and is about "a years old
and very handsome. Not engaged
Lord Dudleys present wife, to whom he
was but recently Married, was a Miss Mon
crief, great beauty. She has SEX sisters
one Is Duchess of Atholc: another. Mrs
Forbes, the wife Of millionaire: another.
Lady Mordaunt; and the Younger ones are
getting ready to make rich maria ges.
Miss Saliie Brownson Goodrich, an ac-
n ess, has been performing Il drama in the
Eastern States, which she advertises as writ
ten expressly for her by the late T. Starr
King. The Boston Transcript denies by aJI-
thOrItv, that Mr. King ever wrote play for
Hiss Goodrich or anybody else.
On January /. 1863 when the Washington
National Intelhsencer changed proprietors.
Thomas Donohuc, who for fifty years had
lccn the chief boOk-kceper retired Before
leaving, however, he obtained the old sign
board of the office. and gave directions that
when his coffin should be made. this old sign
should form part of it,
Mile Iinowska a good looking Young
PoLs woman, Is travelling i'll France and Civ
Ing lessons in swordsmanslliD. Whenever
she arrives IN a city whore she Is not vet
known, she challenges all the experienced
swOrdsmcn of the place to fence with her.
and She generally beats them all.
DIR. Leonard Woods. ex-PIesident of
Bowd'uin College, who has been III Europe
fifteen months engaged III hist orical research
cs relative to Maine, has Just arrived home
lie intended to c1ntinc his Investigations to
the facts concerning the early Mason and
Georges settlements, but was led into much
wider field
-Deserters from the POntificial army are
continually passing through Verona. They
are mostly Germans and Irotestants The
cause of their desertion appears to be the
n"n-fultillment OF the promises made to them
at the time of their enlistment,
"A new story of Robert Hall is going tie
rounds of the English papers, to the effect
that one Of his congregation took linn to task
for not preaching more frequently on Ig,edes-
'iHf'O". Hall was very indignant. He look
cd steadily at his censor for a moment, and
replied: Sir, i perceive y0u are predestined
t. DC an ass, and what is more, see Won are
determined to make your calling and election
sure
GEORGE FRENCH, IA negro log years old
died in Poughkeepsie last week. At fifty
Years Of are being a slave, he fed from
Virginia aud was pursued for two days
armed with huge horse pistol and two
81 .nllcT ones, being pursued closely by two
men. He managed to reach Pennsylvania
and stald there II few years, when he moved
to Eewburgh and opened shoe shop under
the Orange Hotel He remained there till
1910 when he moved to Poughkeepsie
At the battle of TIppecdn0e he was ser
want attached to General Harrison's staff
He was also at one time the confidential
servant of Bishop White of Pc nnsylvania.
IN HONEST PRINCE. The correspondent
of London paper has the following item: