Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

people.
Tho Iowa school fund at last reports
amounted to 81, 1872, 626.O4.
Wisconsin will hol State temper
! ance convention at Milwaukee Sept. 9th.
The population of Oshkosh proves
to be IL, 675, and Of Fond du Lac 49,
I'll.
The Wisconsin Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows meets 10 Milwaukee on the 9th of
September.
Fred. Douglass is writing a new lee
ture on the "Sourees of our National
Security"
Ole Bull was married on the 29th
of August to the daughter of Hon. j.
G.. Thorpe Of Madison, Wis.
"A Java grandee is coming TO this
country with his eighty one children, and
wants to secure board in some quiet FAM
lily.
"A man in Muscatine county recent
" caught turtle upon whose back were
carved the figures, 1887" He register
ed 1870" and let it go.
Mr.. Robert Bonner recently drove
bis horse Dexter in Fleetwood Park to a
road wagon a half mile in the unequal
led time of | :63.
Out of the sixteen Republican pa
pers published north Of the Milwaukee
IL St. Paul railroad, only three are in fla
vor of Gen. Rusk's nomination.
The State Fair commences in Mil
waukee on the Goth of September. and
closes on the 3O,h. and the Army Reun
ion commences on the evening of the
26th, and will continue for three days.
The Wisconsin Publishing Associs.
ton, in which the old proprietors Of the
Janesville Gazette are interested, has pur-
chased the Milwaukee Sentinel; price,
$4,000.
"A Constantiuopls paper gives quo
talions of female slaves. A negro wom-
an, in good health. brings about $500, q
Circassian girl of twelve $1,000, and Of
sixteen $4,000.
Communication Of money instead of
artificial limbs will not he allowed to any
ex officer above the rank of captain in
the army, or lieutenant in the navy.
Miss Catherine E. Beecher becomes
principal of Hartford Female Seminary,
with Harriet Beecher Stowe as assistant,
and Prof. Stowe as lecturer on Biblical
history.
The word "kiIOmetre" is frequently
used in our dispatches. II is French
measure of distance, and covers about
three fiiths of an American mile. Five
kilometres are fraction more than three
miles.
The census returns now coming in
indicate that the population of the State
of Oregon will be about 100, 000-a gain
Of 100 per cent, in ten years. The pop.
ulatiou of Washington Territory, not in
Guiding the Indians, will reach 25 900.
The latest Washington rumor in re-
gard to the English Mission is that Ben.
Wade has been rendered the position of
Secretary of tho Interior, and that Sec
rotary Cox will be scut as Minister to
England.
Frank Ives and s. S. Watkins, Of
Red Wing, have caught in Lost creek
this season aud secured alive over two
thousand trout, with which they propose
this winter to start trout farm on q
suitable spring brook near Sabula, Iowa.
The st. Louis Times (Democratic)
unkindly remarks: at is to be hoped
that the Oregon Democracy will have
sense enough not to put forward the ven
cradle Joe Lane for the United States
Senstorship. That's lane which ought
to have been turned down long ago."
The Philadelphia Press states that
a dispatch has been received at that office
confirming the story of the massacre of
part of Duprez & Benedict's Ministries, by
Indians. while crossing the plains to Aus
tin, Texas. Among the three reported
killed is Hughey Dougherty, the favorite
end-man.
The United States navy at present
consists of ls4 vessels, 81 of which are
iron clad. Dat of the whole number
there are but 20 in active service, the
others being laid up at the various navy
yards repairing or on the stocks. There
are but three iron -clads in active service
the Dictator, Saugus, AMI Terror.