Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-11-26
miscellaneous Items.

Rev. Henry Boehem claims to be the
oldest Methodist preacher.
Hay IS being shipped from st. Louis
to st. Paul. Farmers, why are these
things tbusg"
A new town has been organized IN
Polk county and named Luck. Whether
it is good or bad we are not informed.
More RATS have foated down the
Mississippi river the present year than
were ever known in any previous season.
Edward Ketchum, the Wall street
forger, has been released from Sing
Sing, his term of service having expired.
1t is predicted in Washington cir
cles that the approaching session Of Con-
gress will be very long and exciting
one.
The Alabama Legislature has rati-
fed the 18th Amendment by vote of
"a to none in the senate, and go to 10
in the House.
JEFF. Davis does not intend to settle
in America. AS soon as his private
affairs are settled in Mississippi, he will
rejoin his family in London.
"A Boston Clergyman complains that
his people clasp their hands so fervently
in prayer that they don't have any luck
in eating them open when the deacon
comes round with the supper.
Fritz Martz, an old member of Co.
D., First Minnesota Regiment, was
drowned near Saltwater on Sunday
He was skating on lake st. Croix, and
broke through the ice.
There is now invested in the five
leading hotels of San Francisco no less
than $4,750,o00, producing rental of
s45O,OOO, while the hotels have an in
come of 100000, and employ more
than six hundred persons.
Some of the poorest female lectu-
rers in the field this season ask the high
est price for their services. A veteran
observer thinks that majority of lyce-
um lectures are purely sensational-mere
froth and rainbows.
-Jsdge David Noggle, formerly of
this state, but now of Idaho. recently
gave decision in which he characterized
certain law against the Chinese as
relic of that old fogyism which opposed
railroads, threshing machines and reap
ers.
Tho Red Wirg Republican says
the Indian name for Red Wing is Flhoo
pa-hoo-doo ia, the name of Dakota
Chief, literally meaning the Wing of
Scarlet. To l649 the site of tho city
contained village of 800 Indians,
The Red Wing Republican says;
We noticed lately that out Of few hogs
brought to market by farmer most of
them are at once bought by another
farmer and taken back into the country.
1t begins TO occur to some "all wheat"
farmers that it is rather dear buying
pork with wheat at the present prices.
Henry Ward Beecher expresses his
views of church organization in the fol-
lowing language: i have no over
whelmirg attachment to the church as a
physical organization. an rather I'M
der the line than over on that subject
| believe that the church is useful; but
do not believe that any particular
church onthe globe is ordained by God"
The last sickness of Robert J. Wal
ker was general debility, manifesting
itself in many WAYS, and said to be
caused by constant and severe application
to business. He had written a large
number of letters recently on statistics
and in favor of tho annexation of Can
ada and some of theiWest India islands.
The brain yielded day and half be-
fore he died, all of which time he was
unconscious. He passed away entirely
free from pain, surrounded only by his
family.
"A new counterfeit ten-dollar green
back is being put in circulation. 1t is
so well executed, and so close an imita-
ton of the genuine, that professional
experts can hardly detect the difference.
The letter A in "pay the bearer" has
an up stroke; in the genuine it has none.
The fine lines which form the shadow
around the eagles head, in the vignette,
are coarse and scratchy compared with
the genuine.
Ben. Butler Arrested.