Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-04-11

Five million; bushels of wheat are on their
way from California to New York.
The Empire is Peace, said Napoleon.
France now wants 2,5ss, 500 powder boxes.
The late Louis of Bavaria left a fortune OF
twenty millions of forms. Before his death
the Pope blessed him BY telegraph.
/ Silm-Sllm is in Brussels, charged with the
last messages of Macmillan TO Oarlotta.
! Sixty thousand tons OF pig iron are annu.
ally produced within three miles of Colum
bia, lancaster county, Pa.
10 Washington, the bricklayers have fixed
a. so day as their wages for the summer,
and are receiving it.
A Boston match manufacturer paid the
Government, last year, $500, 900 for one cent
stamps. ID
The manufacture of cotton batting viii
soon be commenced in Aurora, Illinois, by a
party from the east. dr
West Virginia has dispensed with the lash
as a means of remedial Justice. Now for
Delaware
The leading eopperhead organ of the conn
try calls Seymour and Tilden wolves in
sleeps clothing"
The Maryland legislature has passed the
| law fixing ten hours as days labor in tie
factories in the state.
Since the new army law has been put into
operation the Garde Mobile of France has
been increased to 100000 men.
Connecticut is to have fast day on Friday,
the 10Th of April. This will about coincide
with the time Mr.. johnson is deposed.
The Republicans of Camden, Maine, have
redeemed themselves from the dishonor of
having Democratic ofiee-holders in power.
The Episcopal church of North Adams,
Massachusetts,, has been presented with S1s,-
| 600 by Mrs. Hiram Libby, of Rochester, New
York.
Ia the Massachusetts, House of Representa-
tives, on Thursday, the license bill was order
ed to a third reading by yea aud nay vote
of l39 TO SO.
2. w. Strader, of Cincinnati, has purchas-
ed 90 Mr.. Gould, of Lexington, Kentucky, for
the sum of $4,000, the celebrated stallion
Cassius NJ. Clay.
To day, according to Agassiz, is to be the
coolest of the season on the Atlantic coast.
Agassiz's almanac evidently don't work out
in this direction.
Graf, Bennett & Co.. mill, in West Pitts
burgh, was destroyed by fire last Saturday
evening about 9 o'clock. 1t was insured to
the amount of $4,000.
Doolittle and his friend Randall are selling
copperhead speeches, franked, at $12 thous-
and. Poor Uncle Sam has to contribute,
agily nil'y, to this enterprise.
There are twenty-five State Senators to be
elected in Indiana this fall. Twenty of the
districts are Republican. Fifteen Republi
cans and ton Democrats hold over.
1t is intimated that the value of the i'm
mense Government warehouses and their
contents, at Jacksonville, Ind, is about
25,0O0,0oo.
The New York Sun says Admiral Farragut
is ''great personal friend of General Grant,
and more outspeken Radical than General
Grant is
The Chicago Tines puts down Michigan as
a doubtful State in next falls election. 1t is
doubtful whether it will give Gen. Grant
twenty-five thousand or forty thousand major
| ity.-DetrOit Post.
The Buffalo Commercial says the stock of
the Buffalo and Erie Railroad Company has
multiplied the capital invested in il, ten years
ago, more than foWrJoldi
The Michigan Southern railroad earned the
third week in March $9l ,000-an increase of
S3,477 on the earnings for the corresponding
period in 1867.
The old Presbyterian Church, at the cor.
n1r of Grand and Crosby streets, New York,
was sold at auction on the oath inst, for
$1O3, 900. 1t was purchased By the Trustees
of the Masonic Home and Asylum Fund.
There are POS, 900 salt marshes in New
Jersey and, as &c, 900 acres have been re-
claimed and proved the most productive land
in the state, it is strange it is not all improV-
ed.
| Charles Francis Adams has discovered a
bran new principle in diplomacy-that of
doing to your neighbor as you would have
him do to you" No wonder Adams didn't
succeed as a diplomat.
The Haytien Government has sent fifty
bronze cannon to the United Statesmen
cely's Foundry at West Troy-to be cast in
to church bells. Poets are called for to forge
this fact into poetry.
Tbs United States Grand Jury, at Rich.
mond, Virginia, has found new indictment
against JEFF. Davis. IL covers fifty pages,
and details all his offenses since the opening
| of tho E~beJlan
A Kentucky statute gives the widow and
minor children of a person killed by the
careless, wanton or malicious use of deadly
weapons, an action against the person COM
hitting the killing.
Anti-Prussian riots have taken place in the
n0r thoru part Of Bavaria. Crowds gathered
at several places and made violent demon
STATIONS against Prussian influence and the
Union with the Northern Confederation.
/ The Annual. Report of the Superintendent
of Public Schools of New York city, shows an
average attendance of sc, 294 scholars during
the year past, the whole number taught being
226, 1S7-an increase of nearly 1000 as com.
parad with the previous year.
California farms average nearly 700 acres
each, while in Massachusetts the average is
but "a acres New York has the largest
number of farms, 10000, while Rhode Island
has the smallest, her total being less than
| 5000.
The Meneelys, OF Troy, n. Y, have just re.
ceiVed some fifty cannon purchased from the
Hsy tien Government, which will be cast in
to bells. They were made in France over
one hundred years ago, and the metal is first
ella ss. % j, a
There is some talk OF bringing to England
" Cleopatra's Needle" the PROSTATE obelisk
at Alexandria, Egypt, which Ali Pacha gave
to George ". about forty years ago. II
would cost ego 600 to transport it, and John
Bull doubts if the relic is worth the money.
In India, it is announced, as an evidence
of human ability to produce fine work, thPt a
native has woven piece of lace ten yards
long and yard wide, which weighs butG triae
more than two ounces, and can easily be pass
ed through small lingering.
The louisville Courier regrets to learn
that hundreds of young men are leaving the
interior portions of the state for the mex
haustible fields of wealth in the far Vest"
f. Some l 200 Eastern mechanics, who had