Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1869-04-30
miscellaneous Items.

sub mission.
The latest name for matrimony is
committing twoicide."
-Sixty-tive thousand miles of cotton
cloth are produced yearly by the Fall
River mills.
Since the slave trade has been abol
ished, the tribes in Africa eat their pris-
oners, as they cannot sell them.
Col. Robert johnson, son of ex-
President johnson, died on The 23d, at
Greenvile, Tenn.
A large number Of Quakers have
been nominated by the President fol In
dian .uperintendencies.
The Methodists paid $4,99l, 900 to
their pastors last year, and expended
S6,724.0O0 in building churches.
The number of side-wheel anu
screw tugs employed on Lake Winneba.
90 and the Fox and Wisconsin river is
about 35.
"A severe drouth prevails in Austria
liza and the sheep are dying by thousands
in consequence. One man lost $4,000
out of $4,000 head.
The Chinese tolerate every religion
in theory, and practice none. In Pekin
one may attend service in as many differ
ent forms as any city in the world.
-Menard, the colored man who failed
to secure a seat in Congress, has estab
lished semi weekly paper-the Radical
!Standard--iu New Orleans.
Mrs. James Rice, of Greensboro,
VT, 7s years old, has woven during
the winter over 200 yards of cloth
and carpeting, and done some house.
work.
"A Western editor, in commenting
upon the large amount which Queen
Victoria saves annually from her salary.
remarked, "Thar's a widow worth going
for"
Texas has begun to grumble loud
ly over the crop prospects. The grass
hoppers are already destroying the corn
by wholesale, and there is little hope
that cotton can be successfully planted.
"A line in one of Moores songs
reads thus: {" Our couch shall be roses
bespangled with dew" To which a
sensible girl replied: "Twould give
me the rheumatic. and so it would yon."
In twenty -four State prisons in the
United States there were in 1867 an ag-
gregste of l0.s35 prisoners. These cost
the States the round sum of 1866,
9s2, and their earnings amounted to L.
O92, $50.
The Widow Van Colt" the Meth
odist revivalist, has joined the Stone
Ridge, Ulster county, Sons of Tempe
rance, and is strongly advocating the
adjustment of wine iu administering the
sacrament.
"A bee master Of Indiana has sue
cessfuIly protected bis bees from the dis
ease which has swept through the hives
in that State, by feeding them with salt,
rye flour and sugar boiled to the consist
ency of honey.
Until Gen Stoneman's recent re-
moval of one Turnbull from Office as
clerk of Brunswick county, Va, the
TurnbuI family have been continuously
clerks of the county since l7S6-one
hundred and thirty-three years.
An undertaken in Vermont has turn
ed shoemaker and invites the custom of
his old patrons. The Montpelier think ks
a compliance would occasion an astonish.
ing rattle of old collins about the cob.
blel's door.
Ruby Valley, in Nevada, is so call
ed on account of the immense number
of rubies found in the sands of the
mountain streams flowing through it.
These gems, although very beautiful and
perfect, are too small to be marketable.
the largest being only the size of pins
head.
Rev. I. B. Taylor Of Indianapo
lis, writes that as he was recently sitting
hunming two lines of hymn the
disembodied spirits of his sister and
son presented themselves to, and con-
versed with him. If he bad +" hummed"
four lines they probably would not have
come.
Our hotel keepers are all lively this
Spring in repairing and refi:ting their
houses for the coming season, and Mr..
P. NJ. SIMON is not behind 10 the way
of improvement. The Prescott House
over which he presides, is in complete
order and the door is always open to the
travelling public.
Mr.. Motley will be the sixth Mas
sachusetts man who has ranrese nted