Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-24
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consisting of five physicians.
A portrait of john Brown is to be
/ hung 10 the Kansas State Capitol, at the
expense Of the Commonwealth. -----s---v-
The largest Sunday school 10 the
world is at Stockport, England. 1t has
800 teachers and 5000 scholars.
| Cultivate not only the corDhelds of
the mind. but the pleasure grounds also,
was motto of Dr.. Wbately.
! 1t is estimated that about $4,000
freedmen in Texas can read. Most OF
them have learned since emancipation.
The annual expenditure in the
British Consular Service 10 Greece, is
$50, 900; and in the United States, S32,
500. aratt aa
/ The Old School Presbyterian
Board of Domestic Missions closes its
financial year with 100000 in its treas
ury. - .ssrtq $685. :.
1t is estimated that one ninth of the
population of Southern Arizona have
been murdered by Indians in the past six
months. ..-.... ...a.
! An exchange speaks of "the Ian.
guage of classical BORE" and the Bos.
ton Commercial Bulletin thinks this
must he the " hog latin" we read about.
james R. Dooliltle, of this state
Las formed a law partnership in Wash
irgton, with Reverdy Johnson, of Mary.
land, and James H. Embry, of Ken
lucky. @
"A Connecticut man got up 10 the
dark the other night aud gave his little
daughter some bed bug poison for worms.
1t cured them. The funeral was gener-
ally attended.
-C@let Quincy Gilmore, son of Gen.
Gilmore, dis6gured the face of Cadet
Grant, son of President Grant, in quar-
rel in which they were engaged on
Thursday last at West Point. l
A sign 40 feet long and S feet
wide, containing 1853 feet OF lumber, is
about to be put up on machine shop
in Worchester. 1t is heralded as the
champion" sign of New England.
"A Berkshire, Mass, divine recently
deducted ninety cents from the wages
Of a servant girl who was working at
$3.50 per week, because she had EN-.
other servant girl lodge with her one
night. % .''' y q
4 Ticket, sirf" said railroad conductor,
passing through one OF the trains the other
day. to q passenger. my face is my ticket"
replied the other. a little vexed. "Indeed I"
said the conductor. rolling back his wristband
and display ing a most powerful bunch OF
fives; well, my orders are to- punch all
tickets passing over this road
"A correspondent of the New York Tri.
5une relates that when Whittemore was ar.
faigned for peddling cadetships, lady in the
saiIery exclaimed. Il do hope they'll expel
him! It's time that clergyman we're taught
that they must be honest and moral, as well
as other people," 'f T''1 tf.H
The Cumberland Presbyterian de-
nounces the practice Of licensing colored
preachers TO preach, custom just intro
duced. as unchristian and unauthorized
by tie Bible, Confession, or Form OF
Government. .'' .''
Twenty. three thousand acres OF
wood and mineral land in West Virgin
n we're recently purchased by the Intsr-
national Land and Labor Agency. Biz
miugham, England, by Atlantic tele.
graph, the first sale by cable. s..
"A man in Somerset county, Del :,
who bought bis coffin twenty years ago,
became discouraged on Thursday, feel
ing that he was losing the interest on his
investment, and with knife cut his
throat. His wounds are not fatal.
The best gymnast in each gradual
ing class at Princeton College is hercaf-
ter to have prize of ring valued at
$3.50, and the junior who passes the
best examination is to have 5000. These
prizes are offered by Mrs. John r. Thorn
son of Princeton.
Coffee county, Ga, is suffering ter
ribly from meningitis. spinal complaint.
One hundred and fifteen persons have
died of it recently, and in one family Of
nine persons eight have died. There
were but two physicians in the county,
and those have both left. 49,
Last week ss7 disciples Of Escula.
plus were graduated from our medical
colleges in Philadelphia, rs follows: JEFF
ferson Medical College, 160; Medical
Department University of Pennsylvania,
l13; Hahnemann Medical College, so f;
Woman's Medical College. IA.
--Edw. A. Pollard, the Confederate
historian, has written letter to the 1yi