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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06
Local lettings.

Patronizc Porter's Circulating Library.
The city schools rs-opened last Mon
day.
--DalrynpIo wants 1000 fence posts.
See his adv.
The Mississippi is frozen over at
Pit. Douglass and teams now cross on
the ice.
-Seventy-ons marriages have been
recorded in Pierce county during the
year 1869.
State tax collected or suits and paid
county treasurer for the quarter ending
Dec. 3lst., 1869. amounts to $4,000.
Tho winter thus far in the north
west has been the mildest known to the
"oldest inhabitant" or any cf bis descen-
dants.
Read the prospectus of the Pdres-
illogical Journal printed on the fourth
page Of this paper. 1t is periodical
well worth its price.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06
Carpenter.


Following are 100 proper words formed
from The letters composing the word scar
penter"-sent us by our young friends
JENNIE and FANNIE:
AT, arc, ate, ape, ant, are, ace, sct,
acre, sn, cat, can, cart, cent, car Grape,
cant, csnter, carp, carpet, carter, care,
cape, center, cap, Carr, crane, cane,
creep, crater, ear, err, arrant, eat, eaten,
erect, enter, ere, eater, net. near, nap,
neat, nearer, neatei, nectar, nape, neap,
pen, part, pat, pear, pare, pent, pan,
pant, pirate, prater, prance, prancer,
pace, pert, pate. pet, PAGER, part, pence,
pea, Peter, peer, peat, par, peace, pant,
rent, rot, rap, rep, rate, repent, rape,
race, rant, racer, reap, reaper, near, ran,
recent, ten, tar, trap, tear, tare, tan,
tap, taper, tape, true, and terrace.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06

MORE TERRIToRY.-A proposition is
now being asItatel TO adjust cur claims
against England, for the Alabama dep
relations and satisfy the SHINE by the
ceding of that portion CT British North
America, lying contiguous to the United
States, between Hudson's Bay and the
Rocky mountains. By this arrange
meni it is expected to settle two trouble
some questions, viz: the Alabama claims,
susl the Red river rebellion, = canceIinc
the one, and quieting the other. Such
Is the geographical position of this vast
region that it is comparatively isolated
from the English government, and while
paying its share of English taxes, it re
ceives little or no benefit from English
rule. The business relations of the in.
hAbi,ants of that region draw them
strongly toward the United Safes, and
they would be even more intimate,
were it not for the oppressive duties
which England has placed upon thetran-
sit ofgoods across the line. The terrific
ny naturally belongs to the United States
AMI if it can be acquired IN payment for
Alabama claims, it will be stroke of
diplomatic policy worth two Of Stewards
Alaskan purchase of snow bills and ice
bergs.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06
Real Estate Transfers.

Report of sales rec ,rded for the week end
ing January l.. 1870.
Charles d. Parker to Michael Lee, so acres
sec. 4. Ell Paso. $500
PV Wise and wife TO Dansaith, Sc or of
sc or. sec sc town 81 range Is, 40 acres, $500
Wehrman to Henry Stark. e half of ne
Or of, sec 16, town &c, range 10. Sc acres
$1,000
II II VAIL to A Frederi :kson, sw or of
sw or of sc 6. town 81. range IL.
Ditto to ditto NV of NV sec 7, town 81,
range IL.
j s White and others TO Sarah J Carroll,
lots and 6 in blk 8. Prescott, $500.
j A Williams to III B Warner, ne sc OF sec
10, town 81, range IL, 40 acres. $3.50
E L Rouse to FL Lewis, lot in sec %,
town "a. range 10, 81 60-l00 acres, $500.
j NJ Bachelor to Lewis Mohler. 80 acres
on side Sc of Sc of sec L, town IA, range
Is, $500.
j NJ Bachelor to Lewis Mohler, IL acres
on east side of lot ?, sec II, town "a, range
10, 1892.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06
wisconsin AssocIstIon's soeisbIes.

Tho Wisconsin Association at Wash
ington hell sociable last wee k Mt Har-
monial Hall.
Among those present were Hon.
c. G. Washburn, lion. II. D. Barron
aud lady, Major Enoch Totten and lady
General Mansfield, Judge b. Rixford,
Judge I. Hood, J. Harris, Esq, and
lsdy, J. W. Medburry, Esq, ]. II. Her
iey, Es1.. and lady, Captain A. T.
LorgIey and lady. Captain E. Towne
and laly, J. Ii. Goddard, Esq. and lady,
and many others of prominence in this
community.
Letters from Senators Carpenter and
Howe, regrettins their inability to be
present, were read by the secretary. The
sociable was decided success, and will
be remembered with pleasure By all who
participated.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06
OBITUARY.

Again it becomes our duty 10 note
the ravages of death among public SER
wants in high places. kilograms bring
intelligence Of the death of Hon. Ban.
JAMrs, f. HOPKINS, on Saturday after
noon last. at his home in Madison, after
= long and painful illness. With a sigh
Of welcome 10 The New Year, his spirit
assembled to the Crest Giver. Mr.. n.
was member of the House of Represena-
tive from the Second Congressional Dist.
Of this state.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06
The town treasurers report that th,

The town treasurers report that the
people of this county never paid their
taxes more readily, or with greater
promptness than they are doing this year.
The total amount of fees received
by G. w. BRowN as Register Of Deeds
and Clerk Circuit Court, and paid to the
county treasurer for the months of Octo-
Der, November and December 1869 was
$265,74.
A party of our young folks took
sleigh ride New Years Eve to Mr.. ELI
ATwATER's in Oak Grove. where they
were warmly welcomed and happily en-
tertained till late hour. Such expert
ences are pleasant to recall.
"A chapter of Chronicles, received
from subscriber, in Ellsworth, We
should be pleased 10 published as re-
quested, ifthey did contain personal re-
Elections upon parties unknown to US,
which might produce i'll feeling. Though
in every other way worthy of publca.
ton, we must for this reason alone, de-
cline to insert them.
The fine Webster Unabridged Die
tionary which was presented to Mr.. r.
L. REED, county school supt., las: Christ
mas Eve, was gift from the teachers
OF the county and not from the teachers
OF our city schools only, as it might be
inferred from our statement last. week.
The Lyceum will meet this week
Friday evening. Subjects for discussion
Emusic, and dancing" All the members
are requested to be present as there will
be an election of officers, and any friends
who may take an interest ia lyceum ex-
ercises are cordially invited to attend.
The American Stock Journal
should be taken by every farmer. It's
price is 81 a year. BY a special ar
rangement we are enabled to send to all
subscribers of our own paper, who pay
up arrearages and a yesr in advance, a
copy of the Stock Journal FREE for one
year. Subscribers will get the first
number some time in January 1870.
Call and see specimen copy at this office.
AS the shades of night were falling
fast on New Years day the tall form of
man entered our sanctum, and his pres
ence was announced in this Wise:
-. o; who can hold IRE in his hand,
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
on cloy the hungry edge of appetite,
by bare imagination of feast?
Or wallow naked in December snow,
BY thinking on fantastick summers heat ?"
Who can puff wreaths of pearly smoke,
BY putting people in paper?
We confessed that We could Mt, where
upon WISE very gracefully deposited on
our editorial table box of A. No. c-
gars-the first fruits of the New Year.
The liberal donor has the thanks Of this
office. Let us smoke.
Twenty years successful business
has placed the "Manhattan Life" among
the leading companies, while its conser
vative management cotiimends it to the
confidence of insurers as the stronqes.
and best company in The country.
Dividends are made annually-the
first being payable at the time of the
payment of the second annual pre-
MUM. and annually thereafter. The
"Manhattan" has { on claims by death)
mainly to widows and orphans So ,O0O,-
900, and in dividends 100000.
B. N. MINER.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06
The Mail Service in Pierce County.


The mail routes in this county need
correction. An increase of service is re-
quired to adapt them TO the growing
wants of the community. If semi
weekly mail from Prescott TO Ellsworth
was required two years ago, triweekly
is necessary now. Prescott is the point
from which most of our county mails are
distributed, and outside mail matter for
Ellsworth, for the most part comes to
Prescott. Ellsworth being the county
seat, it frequently occurs that legal pa.
pers of importance are transmitted to
that poirt and in many cases of this
kind the delays incident TO want of postal
facilities arc exceedingly dangerous
Hence It is of the utmost importance
that we should have rs frequent mail
communication with Ellsworth as the
department can possibly permit.
The eastern portion Of this county
the towns of Rock Elm and Ell Paso-
stand greatly IN need of increased postal
facilities. The route from Durand to
Ellsworth, which supplies those Offices,
should be semi weekly at least. That
portion Of our county is being rapidly
filled with settlers and when the railroad
lands are brought into market, the i'm
migration into those and other adjoining
towns will be still larger, and the i'm
portance Of the mail route greatly en-
HANGED. We hope to see the citizens of
those towns most directly interested make
an effort to secure an increase of service.
With Diamond Bluff, one of the most
important shipping and business points
in this county lying on the river.
we have DO direct mail communica-
ton during the winter months. The
round bout way by Hastings and Red
Wing. circuit of nearly so miles. is the
only way letter can he sent to tie Bluff
from this point, while the distance direct
to the Bluff from Prescott is only twelve
miles over an excellent and well travelled
road. Efforts are being made to estab
lish Fri weekly mail from Prescott to
r d Wing, via Diamond Bluff and Tren.
ton. This is certainly service that is
much needed, and if granted, will prob
ably lead to the establishment of post
office at some point in the town of Oak
Grove about midway between Prescott
and the Bluff.
We presume there are other routes in
this county that need revision, but they
have not been brought to our notice
There ought to be men in every neigh
borhood sufficiently enterprising to agi-
tate these matters. If a mail route is
worth having it is worth asking and
working for. Tue government don't
heap many favors upon communities
that sit down and do nothing for them
selves. We must not only watch and
pray" a good DEAL but We must occa-
sionally fight little in order to get that
which by right belongs to US. The gov
eminent is on the eve of letting the mail
contracts for another term of four years,
ard while the proposals are being sent
in, i, the proper time 10 make known
our wants aud ask a recognition.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06

MILwAcKEE AS A GRAIN Market
The total receipts of flour at Milwaukee
for the year ls69 have been 765,042
barrels; Wheat, Il, 7ys, 567 bushels
Reducing -four to wheat. shows grand
total of 81, $685. III bushels Of wheat.
The shipments for the year 1860 have
been 1,2l0.19O barrels Of flour, aud a.
27l,s60 bushels OF wheat. Reducing
flour to wheat, makes a grand total of
shipm ents for the year of 20. 1922, slO
bushels. There was in store Dee. 81,
1855, 600 bushels of wheat, and st the
beginning Of the year there were On hand
eli ,76l bushels.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06
PSssO;suI.

FsrsOauI
G. w. BRowN, of Ellsworth, who di
rectetl the affairs of two county offices
with a single arm, and does it well, was
in town on Monday last, and gave us a
pleasant call.
Hon. Z. TT. IVES has been in town
reveral days this week.
p. V. WISE and bride arrived in
this city New Years Eve, and are stop
ping ut the 81. Nicholas.
Judge HoUGH and lady, we believe,
were the only ones who kept "open
house" New Years.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06

"Shrley Dare" says: . l hate woman
lecturers in general, for they are too
much scolds, and the strongest impulse
they give is TO leave my seat for some
body else. 1t seems that nethsr genera
lions of culture, nor a parentage in
Church or State, arc sufficient to over
como the washerwomaH within US which
is often as potent as the divinity ti.ere."
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06
.ViEsr0,sace Sentinel.

The prospectus Of this valuable paper
will be found in another column. The
weekly has recently been enlarged to a
fortycoIumn paper. The Sentinel has
always enjoyed the confidence Of the
people, for its advocacy Of sound Repub-
ican doctrine with spirit, candor and
Justice that raises it above mere parti
san sheet. It's family reading is carefully
selected and its market reports are cor
rect and reliable. 1t is in all respects a
good paper to take.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06

EDITORIAL AssocIATIoN.-Pfesident
CHAs. SEYMoRE, has selected GEO. VAS
WATERS, editor of the Lean Wolf at
Durand, to deliver the annual address,
and H. N. Ross of the Sheboygan Times
the poem, at the next Editorial Conven-
ton, to be held in Prairie du Chem next
June.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06
MARRIED.

HIGCINS-RAPPLEYE. At the resi-
dcnce of the brides father. Harrison Rap
pleye, Esq in Roch- Girls, by J. B. Har-
Harrison. Esq on the 9th Dec 1869 Mr..
A. N. Higgins. of the Adams Coraty Press,
aud Miss S. e. Rappleye, all of Adams Co.
Well done, old friend ALI May you and
yours live long and prosper" Is our most
earnest. hearty wish.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06
DIED.

the evening of Friday, the
oath day of December, during the hour of
Christmas Eve service, Henrietta Eliza.
daughter of the late Hon. w. H. WEIGH, Of
Red Wing, and sister of W. H. Welch. of
this city, in the 29th yea" of her age.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06
City AND COUNTY.
Religious Serrices.

The Rev. d. G. Lyon, of st. Paul,
will preach>in the Presby ierian church,
next Sabbath, Jan. 9th, at lO9 o'clock
A. NJ, and in Big River Presbytefiad
church at o'clock II. of the same
day.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06

A FiEE.-N should DO remembered
By those who are IN the habit of oeeas
iOnaHy tying the knot matrimonial. that
for net reporting the same 10 ihe clerk of
the court in due time, they are liable TO-
s fiae. The penalty VIC believe Is $50.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-01-06
CAPITAL, 81, 372. s76.O3
Am't Of Losses Paid In 1895.
SsI,O91.5O.
OFFKCERss

JOHN w. BOYD, Treasurer.
DAVID ATWOOD. Vice. President.
SAMUEL ID. HASTINGS. Treasurer.
DESsrsoN WoRTHIsGToN, Secret5ry.
SAMUEL @. BEAN. : General Agent.
JAMES X. PRoUDFIr, Assistant.
W. II. H. CLEMENTS Agent,
silly Prescott, Wis.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-03-23
CENTRAL PRESB YTERIA n T..

CLOVER plowed in has three effects. 1t
gives vegetable mould. The roots bring to
the soil plant food out of the subsoil; and
the acid, produced when the decay is going
on, aids in diSSolving the mineral parts of
the soil. In granite lands this last is of as
much Importance as either of the others.
The REPORT of the Agricultural Bureau
at Washington, shows that the average yield
of wheat per acre in Maine, during the last
two years, has been within one bushel and
eight-tentbs of that in Wisconsin. In Maine
the straw is always marketable, while in
Wisconsin it is frequently burned on the
ground to get it out of the way,
ECONOMICAL RICE PUDDING WITHOUT
EGGs.-Two large tablespoonful of rice to
one quart of milk, one small cup of white
sugar, one cup of cut-up raisins Let it
stand in a warm place three hours, and bake
one hour. However paradoxical it may ap-
pear, the addition of one or two eggs spoils
the pudding, rendering it firm and dry.
Half dozen eggs and half the rice, previ-
ously boiled, will make delicious custard,
with few grains of rice at the bottom.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-03-23
Waste of Labor in Building.

Of all the painful sights we are called up
on to witness in this day of steam engines,
and labor-saving appliances, none strikes US
as being so absurd and unnecessary as the
waste Of human toll in building as it is gen
erally conducted. Hodmen crawling up
long ladders with small burdens of bricks
and mortar, carrying at each trip some sixty
or seventy pounds of building material, with
thirty or forty pounds of bod, and one hun
dred and sixty or more of flesh and blood
not to mention beer-seems something so
foreign to this age of machinery that we
should scarcely feel it more incongruouS to
see the stocks and pillories restored to our
market places.
If huge beam or grder is to be raised,
we see the crane, tackle, and steam engine
employed, but the ordinary carrying is done
by human legs. These legs, although they
can do climbing passably, are certainly in
ferior in this respect to other legs designed
by nature to make climbing speciality.
A ladder is very serviceable appliance
in its way; we however, believe it to be as
hard road to travel as ever the genius of
man devised. The nod belongs to an ancient
and honorable family of implements, but it
does not seem the most agreeable companion
in the world to clasp in afectionate embrace
or place ones cheek fondly against.
Therefore we say down with the bod; let
it take its place with the host of implements,
on the tomb of which modern progress has
written the epitaph-" PLAYED OUT"
Let us suppose the two side pieces of a
ladder to be replaced by iron rails and the
rounds by ties, and let US suppose some ge-
MUS to conceive the happy idea of causing
locomotive to crawl tediously up this heavy
grade, drawing after it load of one-third its
own weight. What gbings, what laughter,
what derision would such scheme excite
among mechanics Yet we are importing
annually large numbers of locomotives to do
the same thing; only these locomotive run
on the ties instead of the rails.
They do these things better in France
Either derricks are employed, or the brick
and mortar carriers are used as stationary
engines, rather than as locomotives. In
passing building in process of erection in
Paris, one may often see number of men
stationed one above the other along ladder,
each of whom passes his load TO the next
above him, until the load reaches its deStina-
ton. In this way continuous procession
of materials is kept up, and large quantity
may be elevated in short time.
This is an improvement on the climbing
process, but there must even in this way be
enormous waste of power. And this waste
is not only useless, but so easily avoided
that the continuance of the employment of
human power to perform such rude work, is
disgrace to modern civilization. 1t can be
demonstrated that small one-horse power
engine, with suitable tackle, and the employ
ment of a single man to attend it, will do
the work of six men at elevating bricks and
mortar, at a cost of less than the wages of
two men.
No mechanic who reads this will fail to
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-03-23
The Rose Telescope.

The great Rose telescope, with its monster
tube, down which tall man can walk up
right, and with light gathering power so
enormous that even by day the stars seen
through it shine like miniature suns, has not
remained idle since the lamented death of
the astronomer who constructed it. Not
only has the work to which Earl Rose de-
voted 1.-THE delineation of those strange
steller cloudlets that feck the dark vault of
the heavens-been continued with unremit-
ting assiduity, but its unrivalled powers have
been devoted to aid the progress of those
new and subtle modes of research which have
recently been invented.
The task was no simple one. The gigantic
tube, with its ponderous six-feet mirror, had
been poised so Skilfully that child could
guide its movements. But for the new work
which it was to be called on to perform,
much more was wanted. A new power had
to be given to the telescope power of self
motion so exactly regulated that the gigantic
eye of the telescope might remain steadily
fixed on any given star or planet, notwith
standing the swift rotation of the earth, by
which, in the ordinary condition of the tube,
the celestial objects were carried in few
moments across its field of view This power
has now been given to the great reflector,
and thereby the value of the instrument as
an aid to scientific research has undoubtedly
been more than doubled Already it has
solved question which had been found to
lie far beyond the powers of inferior instru-
ments; and what it has done is, we believe,
the merest foretaste of what it is likely to do
in coming years.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-03-23
Accidental Discoveries.

Some of the best discoveries and happiest
experiments in the various branches Of
science have been made by chance. Watts,
the engineer, took the Holsters tail for his
model, when he was constructing pipes to
convey water to Glasgow from the opposite
side Of the Clyde. Brunei, who constructed
the tunnel under the Thames, took his first
idea from the ship-wOrm, as he observed it
perforate, with its well armed head, first in
one direction and then in another, till the
arched way was complete, and then daub
over the roof and sides with a kind of var
nish. The art of pOrtrait-painting is be-
Geved to have had its origin in an accident.
Corinthia, a young girl of SycOn, discovered
her beautiful lover asleep; the lamp which
burned beside him cast the shadow of his
profile on the wall; struck by the likeness,
and inspired by love, she traced it, and thus
produced the first specimen of that delight
full art. The hammer of blacksmith sug
gested a subject for one Of Haydn's best
compositions. An artist in vain tried to
give the drapery about which he was en-
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1870-03-23
Aunsehu1d attnras.
Walking with Jesus.


"Iwant to live like one of Jesus's chill
dren," said young girl to her teacher
"but it seems to me l don't know how.
thought l had given my heart to him, and
yet every now and then 1 wake up to find
am not doing as ought. He's so far off,
How can l make him seem nearer? "
"When you are at school, or away from
home, do you not often think or speak Of
your mOther?" asked the teacher.
"Why, certainly; every hour in the day,
I suppose" replied the pupil, wondering al
such question.
"Do you recolect what is said about the
disciples as they went from Jerusalem to
Emmaus?"
81 don't think l do.
"Then turn to the last chapter of Luke
and read from the thirteenth verse.
"Ah, there is your answer, interrupted
the teacher, as the fifteenth verse was read
eff we would have Jesus walk with us, we
must have him in our thoughts and on our
lips. "-Ameriean Messenger.