Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-08-21

Edwin A. Stevens. of Hoboken. n. j., died
in Paris on the 9Th. He was commodore of
the New York Yacht club, was one OF the
principal owners of the Camden aud Amboy
Railroad, owned nearly all OF Hohoken and
the principal works of the public improve
ment there. He was engaged in Paris in ne
gotiating for the foundation OF a great rail-
way company to extend to the Western
States. whose eastern terminus should be at
the Elysian Fields.
On Friday evening a man named d. @.
Shields. of fredericksburg, Va, went into
The iewelrv store of E. packard & Co., in
Kansas City, Mo-, with friend from st. Lou
is and were waited on by W. Haig, junior
mariner OF the firm. While these men were
IN the store Haig missed two plain gold rings,
and accused Shields OF taking them. Some
high words followed, and Shields struck Haig.
Tho latter then produced q revolver and or
dered the parties to leave The store. More
angry words passed between them, when
Hang shot Shields through the head, killing
him instantly. The affair has caused much
excitement.
Mrs. Mary Woodward, of Harvard, Mass,
trial on the charge of inhumanly treating her
steI-sou six wears of age. 1t was testified in
Police Court that the child had been whipped
by the hour at time with heavy stick.
One day in July, the woman drew three buck
cts of cold water from the well, and Selling
the child removed his clothes, and placing
him in a tub. dashed the water upon his
head. then took him by the feet and held his
head in the water as long as she dared; that
recently a cat brought meadow mole in the
house, which the mother cooked and compel
led the boy to eat. Mrs. Woodward, in the
court. said it was not mole but a rat
FOREIGN.
DIR. Pussey, the High Churehman, has be-
come a convert to Roman Catholicism.
The Emperor Napoleon has established his
court at Tontainebleau for a short season.
The Paris Moniteur says the French trans
Atlantic cable will be finished by the 18th of
August, 1862
The Italian Parliament has passed bill
according pensions 70 the widows and orphans
of doctors who died in attending cholera
patients.
The entire provinces of Spain are suffering
severely, and threatened with famine, the
distress being greater than at any other time
for half a century.
Cholera prevails alarmingly on the Barbara
coast. In one place $50 out of a population
of 5000 had died. There is great havoc in
several other towns.
J&E Corduroy s. Co., OF London, in the
provision trade, have suspended in conse-
quence of the suspension Of firm in New
York, largely indebted to them.
Osborne Ward, delegate from the associated
workmen of New York, has arrived in Paris
on a tour of Euro e, for the study of the sit
uation of the laboring classes, and the deyel-
opment of the cooperative system.
Violent demonstrations have been made in
Prague in the name of Bohemian nationality.
Placards threatening Beust and insulting the
Emperor. are posted in several places. The
garrison is about to be reinforced.
Nine Christian churches of the Primitive
Byzantine style of architecture have been
discovered at Sallisbala, the holy city of Alb
yssinia, which had not been visited by Euro
peans for over three centuries.