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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31
~. EDE.E OF TIE PFRE0D---E.N.
THO P.4RTS,
BIZ G. A. BAKER, JR.

hr.--t--. !.
Come right in How are yon, Fred?
Find chair, and have a light,
Well. old boy recovered yet -.
g From the Mathers' jam last nlghtS"
80 Didn't dance-the Germans old"
Didn't you? / had 10 lead
Awful bore but where were you
"Sat it out with Molle Meade;
jolly lit lie girl she is
Said she didn't care TO dance,
ID rather have quiet chat
Then she gave me such glance,
So when you had cleared the rooni
And had captured all the chairs,
Having nowhere else, we two
Took possession OF the stairs.
/ was on lower STEP
Molly on the next above;
Gave me her bouquet to hold
Asked me 10 draw of her glove.
Then. of course. squeezed her hand,
Take d about my wasted me-
Said my sole salvation must
BE true and gentle wife.
Then. yOu know, I used my eyes
She believed me every word;
Almost said she loved me-JOVe
Such a voice never heard
Gave me some symbolic flower,
Had meaning, oh so sweet.
Don't know where IL IS, I'm sure,
Must have dropped IL in the street,
How spoOned, and she-ha ha!
Well. / know itwasn't right,
But she did believe me so,
That I-kissed her-pass light"
II.
- Molly Meade, will declare
Who'd have thought of seeing you,
After wha; occurred last night,
Out here on The Avenue.
CHI you awful awful grill
There-dont blush-I saw 1t ALL
Is Saw all whatgn "Ahem-last night
At the Mathers', in the halle
"Oh yOu hOrrid-whcre were you?
Wasn't he an awful goosel
Most men must be caught. but he
Dr. : 49, Il. -
- was almost dead to dance.
I'd have done il if cOuld;
But old Gray said must stop.
And I'd promised ma would;
Sol looked up, sweet, and said
That I'D rather talk with him.
Hope he didn't see my face,
Luckily the lights were dim;
Then how he did squeeze my hand
And he'd look up in my face
With his lovely, great big eyes
Really it's dreadful case.
He was all in earnest, too.
But l thought I'D have to laugh
When he kissed a tower gave,
LOOking-oh like such acalf.
suppose he has it now,
In a wine-glass on his shelves
It's mystery to me
Why men will deceive themselves.
Saw him kiss me ! Oh ! you wretch
Well he begged so hard for one,
And thought there'd no one know,
So I-iet him-just for fun.
/ know it wasn't really right
To tTihe with his feelings, dear,
But men are such conceited things,
They need lesson once year.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31

Tue following is the latest improve
ment in the "ay-trap business: Take
piece of stationers' elastic four or five
inches long; hold one end just out Of
soaring distance Of fly; pull the other
end back and let drive. A little prac
tice will enable you to smash lily twice
out OF three times trying; then exhibit
your proficiency to a small boy, and
make him present of box Of elastic
rings.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31

Beeeher says that men confess every
thing but their own besettiug sins. They
steer clear of these. Who ever heard a
man say. 30 Lord, / am as proud rs
Lucifer, humble me" or 20 Lord, am
SO mean and stingy that It's only with
great pain that | can unloose my fist;
make me generous"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31

Land Office to all Registers and Receiv-
ers, in regard to pre- -emptions under a
provision of the new Army bill:
| DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
i General Land Office, August 8. 1870
GENTLEMEN: The following is the
twenty fifth section of the act of congress
approved July Is, 1870, entitled " An
Act making appropriations for the sup.
port of the army, for the year ending
June 80, 1871, and for other purposes, !"
viz:
Sec. %. Ind be 1T further enacted:
That every private soldier and officer who
has served in the army of the United
States during the rebellion for ninety
days. and remained loyal to the govern.
ment, and every seaman, marine, n d
officer or other person who has served "a
the navy of the United States, OF in the
marine corps or revenue marine during
the rebellion for ninety days, shall, on
the payment of the fee or commission to
any Register or Receiver, of any Land
Office required BY law, be entitled TO
enter one quarer section of land, not min.
eral. on any of the alternate reserved
sections Of public lands along tho lines
of any one of the railroads of the United
States, wherever public lands have been
or may be granted by acts of congress,
and receive patent therefor under and
by virtue of the provisions Of tho act to
secure homesteads to actual settlers of
the public domain, and the acts amenia
tory thereof, and on the terms and con
ditions therein prescribed; and all the
provisions of said acts, as herein modified,
shall extend and be applicable to entries
under this act, anil tho Commissioner of
the General Land Office is hereby author
lied to prescribe the necessary rules and
regulations to carry this section into effect,
and determine all facts necessary there
for.
BY these provisions the Homestead
Law Of goth May, 1862, and the acts
ameudatory thereof, as to allow entries
to be made by the parties mentioned
therein, of the maximum quantity Of one
quarter section, or leo acres of land,
held at the double price of $3.50 per acre,
instead of one half quarter section, or
eighty acres as heretofore.
In case of party desiring to avail
himself thereof, you will require him to
file the usual homestead application for
the tract desired. if legally liable to en-
try, to make affidavit according to the
form hereto annexed. instead of the usual
homestead affidavit. and on doing so
allow him TO make payment of the $40
fee stipulated n the act of goth May,
1862, and the usual commission on the
price Of the land at 81. so per acre, the
entry to be regularly numbered and re-
ported to this Office in your monthly
homestead returns.
Regarding settlement and cultivation,
the requirements of the law in this class
of entries are The same as in other home.
stead entries.
Very respectfully your ohedient SER
want, JOSEPH S. WILSON,
Commissioner, Register and Receiver.
AFFIDAVIT.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31

A country paper says that paitraillear
1.-THE name Of Napoleon's artillery inven-
tion) is English for meat Fiddler.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31

The Home Diary pleasantly alludes
to group of venerable Madison men as
follows:
Almost any pleasant day, in passing
through the Capitol Park, you can see
four old gentlemen ranged together on
bench, and engaged in earnest discus.
sion. The Bible, politics, eternity, heav
en- and he'll, are the general topics car.
gaed Ger" The aggregate years of
these venerable patriarchs reaches almost
three hundred. Enos Clifford, born in
Bennington county Vermont, is 79 years
of age, and looks hale and strong; Bee
aleel Wright, father of Mr.. David II.
Wright, was born on the classic Hudson,
in CattskiIl, Green county, and is "a
years old; Daniel Bowman, first saw
light at Springfield, New Hampshire, in
1895, and Charles Warner, the young
est Of the party, was born in Suffolk,
England, in 1904. These men have
witnessed many great changes. Three
OF them observed the rise and fall of the
FIRST Napoleon, and they may live to read
the closing chapter of the eventful life of
Napoleon III. All have lived to see the
ensign of the United States far advanced
among the nations of the earth, steam
and the telegraph, during their day, have
revolutionized commerce and intercourse
and SO mighty have been these changes
that were it not that their aged vision
witnesses the rising and the setting Of
the sun, they might we'll imagine that
they had already passed from the earth
upon whose surface they first trod nearly
century ago.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31
HOTELS.
FARMERS HOME.
Broad street,
Prescott, Wisconsin,.
JOSEPH FREAs, PROPRIETOR.

HAVING leased the Farmers Home formerly
kept by Charles Nierling) / have repaired
and Fefittcd il for the accommodation of guests,
and am now prepared 10 entertain those who
may give me call
reasonable.
convenient stable also attached to the the
establishment. A
Farmers will find it TO their interest to give
me call JOSEPH FREAs. Prop.
Prescott, March, 5th 1870. a.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31
w. HI, WEIGH,

sGENERAL dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Wines,
" Liquors. Paints, Leads. Oils Varnishes, Glass
Putty. Toilet Articles. Fancy Goods. Stationery,
-BrOad-st.
sg- Physicians Prescriptions carefully pre-
pared. 81
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31
ST. NICHOLAS hotel,
... (On the Levee,)
Prescott, wisconsin.

FTNliIS hotel is pleasantly located, commands a
4 fine view up and down the river. and is espe-
cially adapted for those whose homes are in the
hot and dusty city and who desire a summer res
idence in tue country,
respectfully invite the farmers OF Pierce and
surrounding counties TO give me g call when in
town. Good stabling attached.
May II, 1869. 4. GEO. SCHASER.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31
ADVERTISING RATES.

A square will be counted the space Of one inch.
Business cards. 5 Tres or less, $500 a ear
Legals charged at the rates prescribed by statute.
Special notss Is cpnts rer line for first insertion,
and 10 cents for each sub seque insertion.
Transient advertisements must be paid for in adj
vance; all Others quarterly,
Advertisements not otherwise ordered Will he rom
tinued until ordered out, and charged accordingly
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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
General Land Office, August 8. 1870.

-, nt -, having filed my
application, No.. for an entry under
the provisions Of the act of congress ap
proved May 90, 1862, and desiring to
avail myself of the 25th section of the
act of July Is, 1870, in regard to land
held Mt the double minimum price of
$3.50 per acre, do solemnly swear that
| Am the Identical , who was a
-in company commanded by
Captain, in the - regiment of -
commanded by III the war of
1861; that | continued in actual service
for ninety days, and have remained loyal
to the government; that said application
No. - is made for my exclusive benefit
and not for any other person or persons,
and / have not heretofore hal the bene
fit of the homestead law.
Sworn to and subscribed this-day
Of, before ---, Register and Re
ceiver of the Land Office. Approved.
(Signed. ]. d. Cox, Sec'y.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31
Interesting to Soldiers.

The following is the text of the in
structions forwarded from the General
Land Office to all Registers and Receiv-
ers, in regard to pre- emptions under a
provision of the new Army bill:
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31
DRUGS. MEDICINES. &C.
CARLOS AIeCRAY,

D CARLUS McCRAA,
nEALER in Drugs, Medicines, Pure Wines and
- Liquors, Notions, &c. Brick block, foot OF
Orange-st. 81
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31

*Where the party was a regimental
OF staff officer, or was in different
branch of the service, the affidavit must
be varied in form according to the facts
of the case.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-08-31

These goods have been boughtfor cash at low
ates and they viii he sold at prices which cannot
railto suit customers.
Call and examine stock and prices before pur-
chasing elsewhere DID, DILL.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-01-07

peasants thought that another OF
his companions had seized him by
his furs from behind. Without
having the slightest idea of the
wolf, helput his hand behind him in
a mechanical way, and seized the
brute, accidentally, by the throat.
Simultaneously. he saw one of the
fore-p&ws at his side, grasped this,
and knew what he had to do with
the dreaded monster. He managed
to press the brute's back against
the trunk Of a fir tree, and held him
there until his fellow peassnts-who
in the first fright had run away
came to his assistance, and killed
the animal with their hay and ma
nure forks. The dead wolf was
found to be Of extraordinary size,
and light in color. The awl with
which he was stabbed the night be
fore was found embedded in his
carcass, proving that it was the
same animal that had already com
mitted such havoc. The peasant
whom the wolf had last seized was
only slightly wounded in the back
Children, fortunately, had not been
bitten, for at the late hour when the
wolf made his appearance and
sprang into the houses, they were
all asleep in their accustomed pla
ces-on top of the great ovens. A
number Of other wolves were seer
in the neighborhood at the same
time, but their pursuit proved with
out result.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-01-07
Frightful Ravages of a Mad Wolf.

! Russian Lithuania has ALWAYS
been the favorite haunts of wolves
Stories abound Of their ravages
while the rude inhabitants believe
that wehr wolves-beings who
som etimes wear the form of men
aud sometimes that Of wolves
perpetrate slaughters worse even
than the lupine species. At Sofki,
little village, a wolf recently killed
three persons, and wounded, more
or less severely, thirty one persons
and fifty foul head of cattle.
But this by no means describes
the injury done, for to all appear
ances the wolf was affected with
hydrophobia. All the wounded per-
sons agree that the animal had
foam upon his mouth, md the tail
was hanging down. Only when at
tacking any one did he raise the
latter, and sprang upon the hind
legs, always aiming at the head.
The strength of the spring may be
inferred from the case of young
peasant, who had five teeth knocked
in by the jaws Of the wolf. 1t is a
very suspicious circumstance that
the wolf did not eat the bodies, but
fell upon them from pure madness.
All this happened in the night; the
people were seized perfectly una
wares, and could do but little in
their own defense. True, one peas
ant managed to shoot the wolf
through one of the hind legs, and
another to drive q shoemaker's awl
into his carcass during an attack,
and though neither Of the wounds
were fatal, they contributed much
to weakening the beast, which was
killed on the following day in re
markable manner. A great hunt
was arranged, and peasants from
all the surrounding neighborhood
streamed toward the rendezvous,
near the forest of Sofki. Not far
from this place, in the middle of the
fields, there is small patch Of for
est, called the Dombrowa. In order
to approach this, a division of the
peasants crept amid the young frs,
endeavorirg to approach without
being seen. Suddenly one of the
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-01-07
The South--Conversion ola Demo
crat.

The Boston Traueler says: A
well known Democratic lawyer in
this city has recently taken up his
residence in a formerly most aristo-
cratic Southern city, and from the
subjoined extract from a private
letter recently addressed to q friend,
it will be seen that his experience
among the chivalry has made him g
convert to pretty good Republican
doctrines. He says:
eff anybody wants to get mod
ern Democracy knocked out of him.
just let him come South and stay
one month, and if he can find any
of it left he may have my head for
a foot ball, on call. I fully believed,
as you know, before I came here,
that the Southern people were all
ready to come into the Union as
good, peaceable citizens if they
could be met on kindly terms by
the North. In some cases it is so
1t is so among the best thinking
people, but such men are the excep-
tons The rule is otherwise. The
masses of the whites are ignorant
and brutal. You might as well at
tempt kindness with lot of Gagged
hyenas, as with the masses of the
Southern people. Nothing but the
power Of the general government
supplemented with the ballot in the
hands of the freedmen, led by
Northern men Of intelligence, can
keep them in tolerable public order
for generation to come. Were il
not for this, murder, arson and al
kindred crimes would run riot al
through the South. This may
sound strong to you, but [ speak
what 1 know, and am compelled to
do so against all my previous pref
udices. The blacks, Of course, are
ignorant and not particularly hon
est or truthful; but they are rapidly
improving, They are very anxious
to obtain education, and are begin
ming to learn that they must carr
their own living and keep their con
tracts. The white owners of the
land take advantage in every way
in making contracts, and then force
them to the strictest compliance
AS an illustration, [ defended a fel
low the other day before a magis
trate, on a suit brought by a woman
on a contract for the use CT twenty
five acres of land, on which she had
already received in cotton and corn
sufficient to bring her in cash Sill
IA per acre, and then sued for S10C
more. And yet just two weeks
before she sued she had sold the
same land for S5,25 per acre. This
is fair sample of the contracts
they have made and enforced, and
then they complain that the poor
creatures are lazy and poor"
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-01-07
LORILLARD'S .'EUREKA"


Smoking Tobacco is an excellent arti-
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Orders for genuine, elegantly carved
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If your storekeeper does not have
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They are sold by respectable jobbers
almost everywhere.
Circulars mailed on application.
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5-m3. NFW YORK.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-01-07
The Old Maid Miser.
New Facts Relative to her Early
HistOry-A Life Embittered by
Disappointment in LOVe-A
Second Offer of Marriage Fall
ing on a HeartOf Stone.

"Locny Ostrom," the Poughkeep-
sic miser, died about four weeks
ago, worth $40, 900, leaving behind
no blood relatives. How she lived
upon others nearly fifty years has
already been recorded. Scraps OF
her early history are daily coming
to light. Lochy Ostrom was born
in 1892. She met her first and only
love, if letters found in her trunk
may be taken in evidence, in Pough-
keepsie, when she was scarcely fif-
teen years of age. They went to-
gether to a bali, the invitation to
which was found on carefully hid
den in her trunk.
A few years later her lover asked
her hand in marriage, was accepted
by Lochy, but was turned away
broken-hearted by her parents. He
left for the then Far West, Cincin-
natl. Three years later, in 1918, he
wrote her letter from that place;
informing her ,that he chad mar
ried pure and yvirtuous woman
who supported every relation in life
with dignity and propriety,'' and
whom it had pleased Providence to
remove from him.
After having received this letter
the fate Of Lorchy Ostrom was seal
ed. She walked forth into the world
a disappointed being, and from that
time to the end of her life she hard
ly knew happiness. Her. temper
became soured; she grew avari-
cious and grasping. she became
miser in every sense of the word
she earned money, and saved every
cent of it. always quartering herself
on her neighbors, seldom, if ever,
knying even the necessities Of life,
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1870-01-07
The Female Seducer

| Through so many ages man has
been the acknowledged seducer Of
woman, the fact has been overlook
ed and forgiven that woman is often
the seducer of man. I know such
a woman-a woman of fashion, al
lied to man high in position. She
is woman Of large personal and
mental magnetism. For what good
purpose does she use it? She uses
it to "attract'' men from their al
legiance to duty, honor, and a pure
love-! She boasted in a drawing
room that s'she never saw married
man whose love she could not win
away from his wife, ifshe choose"
"My dear husband" said fond lit
tie woman, "you could not, nobody
could, take him from me-" "The
little simpleton" !" declared the La
mia, to me, crying, begging me to
give her husband back to her; that
he neglected her, that he upbraided
her constantly because she was not
more like me. 1 don't want your
husband, said. / only wanted to
show you that I could do what I
pleased, and to teach you not to
trust in any mans love-" There is
many atlanta. She stands the CEN
trail figure of many a social circle
In silken attire, in luxurious home,
surrounded by all alluring accessors
les of wealth and cultivation. her
self fascinating, if uot beautiful,
what wonder that she draws within
her charmed sphere the many home
less, wifeless, dissatisfied men of
her acquaintance! The power of O
woman thus poised and surrounded
can not be estfmated.-N. 7. hide
pendent.