Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-04-16
miscellaneous Items.

Neo. L. NcSoitt, oL Nv" n, INV
man who printed tho first postage stamps
for Uncle Sam, is dead.
jeff Davis writes thai he will return
to this country in The Spring and engage
in some business.
-Geueral SickIes has accepted the
Mexican mission rendered lin some days
ago by the President.
Mrs. Stanton tells Tilton that when
be goes to the Senate, " some wise wo-
man will sit on his right hand and some
black man on his left.'
The Memphis Avalanche says Of
Andrew Johnson that, /" God Almighty
created Kim peculiar genius and set
him down on stump there to tn!k. :"
The Canadian newspapers complain
dolefully of the French emigration to
the United States. The habitans Of the
country districts are leaving in great num-
bers.
When Guizot was boy, an ole
gypsy woman prophesied that he would
live 10 be over one hundred years old.
The prediction bids fair to be fulfilled.
The Mitchell (Ind } Commercial
says there lives in that county q Miss
Ritter, who is only twenty four inches
high, and weighs but thirty three pounds!
She is forty one years old.
The Postmaster General has writ
ten a strong letter on the subject of
ocean postage, showing that the whole
inflacl ce Of bis department will be used
to bring about cheaper rates.
1.-The Louisville Journal cannot
see why John c. Breckenridge should
be cast down. Neither can we. On
the contrary there are many reasons why
he should be strung up Detroit Tri-
June.
Elk President Johnson is still in
Nashville. He has abandoned his trip
to Europe, pfeferring, he says, to de
vote his time and enc gies in behalf t
the DISTINGUISHED of the South. He will
speak in all the Southern States.
-Douglas Jerroid was rude enough
to say that when once woman's fingers
are dipped in the ink pot, she never gets
free from the stain, she is always dipping
them again. Victoria seems to exempt
fy this, as she is about to publish two
more books.
- The resolution offered 10y Mr.
Banks rendering sympathy to the Cuban
patriots. and promising support to the
President whenever republican govern
ment has been established, he may deem
it expelient to recognize their inlepcn-
dence, WAS adopted by tho following vote
yeas %, nays "a.
- The Winona Republican makes a
happy hit at a class of "spongers," in
the following manner
The frequency with which public meet
ings, associations, and other similar bo-
dies, resolve SO coOIly to have their pro-
ceedings published in tho papers, with
out providing any compensation therefor.
induced member o. the editorial frater-
nifty to try if the rule could not be made
to work both ways. He wrote ont a
resolution after the most approved style
of modern gatherings. declaring his in.
teutIon to dine at first class hotel, aud
handed the document to the clerk in pay
ment for his dinner. The amazed clerk
replied that good resolutions were entire
Iy thrown away upon him. He wanted
money. A similar attempt was made
with the grocer, the tailor, the butcher,
and SD on through the whole fraternity
of caterers to the wants of the human
hol.. Resolutions were not in demand
with sny of them. No one could be
found who was wiling to trade on the
ba is of resolutions, and the editor med.
i;ated on the one sideedncss Of his rela-
tons with the public Exchange.
I'VE are of the opinion that it is as
great benefit TO editors rs i; is to 9th
ers that resolutions of public meetings
should be published