Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-03-03

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Prince Pierre Napoleon, says Rad cal
paper published at Ajaccio, in Corsica Is
known in that island to have killed or wound
ed no fewer than dozed peasants. who Oh.
ljected to. his riding across their fields during
his hunting excursions. m ! ITeo rEa .
The New York Sum says: "The Prince
has left. after dining with a lot Of old fogies
and dancing with their dowdy wives and
daughters, and will carry away with him the
impression that our men are all sixty years
, of age and upward, and that there are no
women here younger than his mother" .ai
+ "A woman, who says she is medium
by BIRTH" writes to Cincinnati paper a
card defending herself against the charges
made against her and. among other things.
says: 81 earn my living by clltiyating in-
sanity to usefulness. ] call it metaphysics"
The English courts have recently decided
hat newspaper has 6 copyright in every
word and letter of every original article COR
tanned in its pages; that no other person has
right to reprint them without permission.
and that copy is not legalized even by ac-
knowle,iging its source. f.Ia.
"A handsome, tall. and finely developed
girl, at a recent masked ball in San Francis
co, who made herself particularly obliging in
the ladies dressing turns out to be a
beardless young man about town, to the hor-
ror of corpalent lady. whose corsets he had
helped lace, and many others. .ra,y !.
Wells county. Indiana. has got some OF
the soonest women YET discovered. A youag
man from the East married one of them a
few days since, and in forty-eight hours by
the thermometer. she gave vent to her teel-
ings, which was boy. The man says he
has learned something that he never knew
| before.
The men who participated in tho riot on
the steamer Dubuque last summer on Mississ-
| ippi river between Rock Island and Clinton
| by which five or six colored men were Kill ed
are now on trial at Rock Island.
"A man in Hampshire county. Mass, re.
Gently subscribed one dollar for the support
of his minister, but. finding that his wife a
a donation party had squandered twenty
cents in the same object, he refused to pay
but eighty cents.
just before leaving Boston. Prince Ar.
thur sent to Miss Minnie Sherman, daughter
of Gen. Sherman, chaste and costly gold
medallion, having his Ekness on one side and
that of Queen Vicotria, on the other. Ac-
compsnying the gift was a delicately worded
note. in which the Prince begged that Mis-:
sherman would accept the medallion as 8
token of his appreciation of the gencrou.
Inequalities he had experienced at the house
of her father. and as a slight tribute to the
beauty of American women, of which she
was so striking an exponent.
Woman Suffrage has achieved triumph
in the Senate of this State. On the 10Th 9
joint resolution amending the Constitution
by striking out the word ''male" where it i,
used to limit the right of suffrage was passed
by vote of % ayes to Q nays The political
complexion of the vote is as follows: A We.
Is Republican, Democrats, and Indepen.
dents Noes. 2 Republicans, 6 Democrats
and Independent. 1t is thought that ths
resolution will be con:urred in by ths
House.