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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-02-03
The kissing Deacon.

In one Of our puritanical towns Of
New England, says an eastern paper
lived Deacon Brown. very staid, digni
fed sort of christian, perfect model
of propriety. Deacon Brown had the
misfortune to lose his wife, and at the age
of forty found himself with family Of
four children, without mistress to his
farm house. As he could not immedi-
ately take another wife and avoid excl
ting scandal, and could not get along
without some ore to take charge of the
kitchen and nursery, he had recourse to
employ young woman as house-maid.
Nancy Sterncs was a laughing, romp-
ing beauty, who delighted in expert
menting upon the Deacon by way of test
ing his strength of human nature. For
some time the Deacon was invulnerable;
but at last, in moment of 'unguarded
weakness, he was led into temptation,
and committed 'sslight indiscretion "
with his beautiful house maid. When he
recovered his wonted GOODNESS and pres
ence of mind, he was Mortified at the
enormity of his sin. In vain he repen-
ted and grieved over lost virtue. Finally,
at last effort of easing his conscence,
at the services on the following Sabbath
morning he arose and requested the for
bearance OF. the brothers and sisters a
few minutes when he electrified them
by the following confession: p
MY christian friends, you all know
that lost my wife some months ago,
(sobs and tears) and that Nancy Stems
has been keeping house for me. Aud
that have little child not year old.
Well sometimes that child would cry in
the night, and it would be long time
before | could quiet it; and last Tuesday
God forgive me!-the child cried SO
hard that Nancy arose aud came into
the room and leaned over the bed to
hush the chid-and brothers and sis.
tiers, her leaning over me made me for
get Christ"
"What did you do?" demanded the
minister sternly.
!" I-I-ki- kissed herr' stammered
out the Deacon between his sobs. but
| have been very sorry about it, and
prayed to be forgiven, and l want you
to forgive and pray for me, brothers and
sisters"
As the'Deacou bowed himself upon
bis seat like the mighty oak before the
tornado, Deacon Goodfellow arose and
astonshed the audience still more by say
ing:
Brothers and sisters, you have heard
what brother Brown has said; now he
wants our forgiveness. For my part |
believe Brother Brown is truly penitent,
and am willing to forgive him with my
whole heart. And brothers and sisters
l win add still farther, that if I had no
wife, and pretty girl like Nancy Stems
should come into my room and lean over
my bed and lean over me, I'd kiss her,
sin or no SIM"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-02-03

We do not wish to inform you reader, that Dr.
Wonderful. or any other man. has discovered q
remedy that cures consumption, when the lungs
are half consumed in short, will cure all diseases
whether of mind. body or estate, make men live
forever and leave death to play for want of work.
and is designed to make our sublunary sphere a
blissful paradise to which heaven itself snail be
but side show. You have heard enough OF that
you have by this time become Disguised with It..
But when / tell you that DIR. Sage's Catarrh Rem
edy will positively cure the worst cases Of catarrh
/ only assert that which thousands can testify to.
Try il and You will be convinced. ] will pay $500
rewardfo lease of catarrh that cannot cure.
For saleby most Druggists everywhere
Price only so cents. Sent by mail post paid, for
for IS. Send two cent stamp for DR.. Sage's PAM
phlet ON catarrh. Address the proprietor,
35-3m DIR. r.. V.PIERCE, M. D.,
as@9teE Buffalo, N Y.
For sale by Carlos MeCray,, Prescott, wis.
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Mark Twain tells capital story =
Here is one of his best.
One day when and my brother went
into the woods, he shot chicken hawk
and crow, and while we were lolling in
the shade under tree, he pulled the
tails out OF the birds, and fooling round
and talking he finally built the crows
into the chicken hawks transom. When
we saw what neat job it was we thought
we would keep it. When we got home
we were late for supper and we just
dropped it on the porch and rushed in.
We had a sort of sneaking hope that the
old man and our uncle would get bit
with it anyway. because they were al
ways a pottering over geology or natural
history, or something they did not know
anything about. While we were at snp-
per they came along and found the birds
and we heard them discussing it and
talking all kinds of astonishment. Di-
rectlv the old man came Shaving the
bird by the leg, and says:
Boys, where did you get this bird q
Shot him in the woods, sir.
did you ever come across any other
birds like this around hereY
mo, sir; this is the first
Boys, do you know what you done ?
you've discovered something that will
make you known everywhere. The bird
is new Species
And he walked out, and we heard
him ard uncle conclude that thsy would
label it with their own names and send il
to Prof. Hagenbaum, at Albany. Pretty
soon, though, the old man took hold Of
the tail and it pulled ont, and we heard
them both swear little. When we
came out the bird lay on one side of the
fence aud the tail on the other. We did
not dare to laugh, nor to let on about
oyerhearing their talk either.
But about month after this there
came along one of the rattiest specimens
of boy you ever saw, and wanted to
stay with US. He was all rags and tat
tiers, and tired with running away from
his master somewhere. His shirt wa.
hanging at half mast through his trow.
sers, and two thirds of the tail of il
sewed on. While the poor fellow was
eating his dinner, uncle and the old man
were studying up what they had better
do with him. And finally they said
BY Georgep they did not know what
to do with him. Just then the boy arose
and swung bis colors into view, and
brother Rob says:
Father, you might send him to Pro.
fessor Hagenbaum, of Albany
1t was the first the old man knew we
had overheard the bird talk, and so he
whalcd us both. He says, tTll learn
you to play jokes on your old father
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-02-03

patent jack screw to raise his habeas
corpuslnp under the abbreviated extrem-
ity of his best cote.
The latest stile of neck tie is worn
with a not tide under the left ear
These are not generally worn as yet, but
l Good name few Of my acquaintanr
ces who'd look gallus' drest in this stile.
The bnty of them is, that person viii
never wear any other as long as be lives.
Fhey are becomin with a black cap
drawn poorly we'll down over the eyes,
to give Teller bully appearance
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-02-03
Homestead and Presumption

II HAVE compiled full, concise and complete state.
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To any person sending me rs cents. The information
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TO YOUNG MEN.-This country is being crossed
with railroads, reaching from every drec-
ton to Sioux City, Iowa, Six railroads viii be
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operation, connecting us with Chicago and the u p
Railroad, and two more will be completed before
spring, connecting us with Dubuque and Mcgregor
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offers such unprecedented advantages for business
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branch of trade. Eighteen years residence in the
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Address
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BEST CABINET ORGANS.
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That the Mason and Hamlin Cabinet Metropolitan
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Manhood: How Lost. HOW Restored,

just published, q new edition of
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~ Price in sealed envelope, only cents.
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~ This lecture should be in the hands of ev-
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Sent under seal in plain envelope to any adj
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Also, DIR. Calverwell's" Marriage Guide" Price
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TO CONsUMPTIVEs.

rTyIIE Advertiser, having been restored to health
1 in a few days, by very simple remedy, after
having suffered several years with a severe lung
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anxious to make known to his fellow sufferers the
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To all who desire it, he will send a copy OF the
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HE remedy, as IL Will cost them nothing, and may
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Parties wishing the prescription, will please ad-
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39-1y. Williamsburg, Kings County, New York
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-02-03
ERRORS OF YOUTH.

A GENTLEMAN who suffered for years from
n Nervous Debility. Premature Decay, and all
the effects of youthful indiscretion, wll for sake
of suffering humanity, send free to all who need
it, the receipt and directions for making the sim
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wishing to profit by the advertisers experience.
can do so by addressing, with perfect confidence,
JOHN b. OGDEN,
33-1y. No AZ Cedar street. New York.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-02-03

An Alabama editor, in putting gro
Gerry kept by woman says: Her
tomatoes are as red as her own cheeks
and her indigo as blue as her own eyes,
and her pepper as hot as her own .em-
per-" @ -t I
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wmrPRn..rElgRs.. Ire DIssIP.gTED.

A certain typo, whose nose shown in the dark
lske lighthouse-the effect of steady and copf-
Gus libations of notwithstanding been asked
why printers were dissipated.l astonished ths
Questioner by the following neat answer:
When others stunned the murky sky, s. i
Where fash on lash was bright ming,
Great Franklin we Mt to fly his kite,
And bottled up the lightning.
And since his time, when cares oppress, 4
And the hard times are tightening,
The Printer seeks to drown his woes
~ In draughts of "bottled lightning"
When badly tattered-his warm heart
A place forgrief TO ranklc in
lie takes his :. lightning" flies his kite,
And thinks himself Franklin.
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WORDS OF WISDOM

FOR YOUNG MEN
ON the Ruling Passion of Youth and Early
" Manhood with self help for the erring and
unfortunate. Sent in sealed letter envelopes,
of charge. Address, HOWARD ASSOCIATION,
Box p, Philadelphia, Penn. Sly
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1870-02-03

A horrid man down east says he be
! ieves in the woman's moyement-on
washing day.
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And depend getting best of each variety
Anything you substantial articles to the lighter
! CASH ALWAYS PAID FOR GRAIN.


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desiring 4 !. -
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BIooMrNeToN. I'LL. NURSERY.

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The proprietor would respectfully inform the
public that he is the only keeper of livery horses
in the city who pays license. But for the inforna-
tion of all whom it may concern, he would state
that other persons can be found in the city who do
not keep livery and pay license, but who have
teams and drivers to furnish traveller merely a. an
kccoMMoDATIoNlt
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FARMERS HELPER.

GH0WS how to double the profits of the farm, and
- how Farmers and their sons each make 800
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Prescott, Hudson and River
Falls Stage.
j. R. RICE, Prop.

This stage leaves Prescott daily at a. m. 70
River Falls and Hudson, returning the same day
1t goes via Clifton Mills Tuesdays and Saturdays
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RICE'sLIvERY STABLE

First-class turnouts, single and double carriages
eady for customers at the shortest notice and sun
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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-18
mUsICAL AND DRAmATIC.

The Concert of the Beethoven Society.
Last evening the Beethoven Society gave its
first concert ct the Foyer of the Academy of
Music before a select audience. This society
was organized for the purpose of cultivating
taste for the best music, and during the past
season it has been laboring zealously, under the
leadership of Mr. Carl Wolfsohn, to get Its forces
in training, with the hope and expectation OF
making an appeal for the favor and appreciation
of the public at an early day. The society is
largely composed of cultivated amateurs, and If
it follows up strictly the aims which 1t now has
in view, 1t will doubtless be able 10 do much
towards inspiring a love for the finer
forms of musical expression among the
people of this city. The entertain
ment last evening was of semi-pablic
character, the audience being largely composed
of the friends of the members. 1t was considered
as an experiment to test the proficiency of the
society. and the decided success that was
achieved cannot but be stimulant to further
exertions. The programme was one OF unusual
merit, and embracing as 1t did compositions OF
Raft, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Bach, Mozart,
Schumann, and Gounod, 1t was at once varied
and select. The society had the assistance oi
Mr.. wenzel KOpta, Mr.. Rudolph Hennig and
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CITY ITEMS.
Our SPRING STYLES

oUR SPRING STYLES
ALL KINDS,
MEMS. YOUTHS, AND Bors
READYMADE IN THE PIECE,
TO ORDER.
FIFTH AND SIXTH sTREETs} No. sis MARKET STREET.
COMPOUND OXYGEN TREATMKNr.-we notice that DIR.
Haxtwe long and favoraby known in Philadelphia
the originator and dispenser of the COMPOUND OXYGEN
TREATMENT has transferred his entire interest and bus
in this city to G. R. Starkey A M, M. D. If the
business must needs change hands, are glad that
fallen into those Of competent and reliable Dr.
s.. That the Compound Oxygen is a wonderful curative
agent evidenced hundreds of who from hope
less states Of disease have been restored 10 genuine health
BY the OF its numerous friends and by the
crowds of patients at his Office. Three out of
four who able to visit him he is confident of
being able 10
derfu rapidty Ozena offensive Catarrh. that loath
affection be promptly cured. Tho other dis
which this treatment will certainly relieve Dr.
Starkey ready to tell Send for circular No. 1l6
Girard street. Office hours, "A. NJ. to4P.M.
BEAUTY AND cApAc1rY--Evsry Philadelphian and its
surroundings know the beauty and capacity Of Rockh
Wilson's store is the most beautiful structure in the
world II the admiration of all strangers whe visit the
city Fifty feet Ohesnut street, running back Sixth
100 feet The floors supported by tremendous
lion girders consequently the interior presents an
broken view Not post pillar to obsruct the sight 1t
Ia said to be the only store In this other country of
its width that erected without iron wooden pillars to
support Its upper II is always filled with the
largest fashionable. and cheapest stock of goods
both and TO be made to order offered to
the public. Gsntiemen's, youths, and boys. One hun
dred customers be accommodated at time the
floor We invite all strangers visiting the city to call
and lock upon this beautiful structure and magnificent
stock cloths, cassimeres, vesngs, and ready made
clothing contained within its walls
RocKHnL 4 Wilson'S
GREAT BROWN STONE HALL,
Nos. sos and COS Chestnut street.
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other well-known instrumentallsts, whose per-
formances added greatly to the enjoyment Of
the occasion.
The concert opened with an adagio-allegro"
by Raft, which was admirably rendered on the
piano, violin, and violoncello by Messrs. Wolf
sohn. Kopta, and Hennig. This was followed
by Beethoven's devotional Song No. d." finely
eung by the society, we're also Mendelssohn's
cave Verum" and "Gipsy Life" which con-
cluded the first part of the programme. The
"Gipsy Life," in particular, was applauded with
great enthusiasm, and an encore demanded.
In the second part the society sang Beethoven's
s'Deyotional Songs" Nos. aud 81 Schumann's
soTraumerei:" Gounod's "Ave Maria" by the
soprani, with piano, organ, violin, aud violon-
cello accompaniment; and Mendessohn's "On
the Sea-"
The other features of interest were an ''Air
d'Eglse," by Bach, performed by Mr. Hennig
on the violoncelo; "Andante and Variations,
by Beethoven, given by Messrs. Wolfsohn aud
Kopta on the piano and violin; ''Romanza" by
Beethoven, rendered by Mr.. Kopta.
The success of the Beethoven Society is In a
great measure due TO the exertions of Mr.. Carl
Wolfsohn, the musical director, and at the last
rehearsal on Monday evening, the members
gave him o substantial token of their regard for
his services by presenting him with a handsome
silver tea service. The society has reason to
be highly grati6ed at the success of It's concert
last evening" and we hope that it will be en-
couraged to give more public performance al
M distant day
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The t,,rv Amu-emeuts.

AT THE WALNUT the military drama of Not
Gully, with its great battle scene and other
sensational effects, will be repeated this evening
AT THE ARCH Mr.. Joseph X. Emmett will
appear this evening as Fritz, in the drama of
Fritz Our Cousin German.
AT THE ELEVENTH STREET OPERA HoUsB
songs, ballads dances, and Ethiopian burlesques
are announced for this evening.
THE PENNSYLVANIA POLYTECHNIC AND ANA
ToMIcAL MUSEUM is now open at No. 1905
Chestnut street.
THE WEST PHILADELPHIA CHORAL SOCIETY
will give its sixth concert at Musical Fund Hall
tomorrow evening. A very interesting enter
tainment may be expected.
THE CLERGY of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of this diocese are expected to be pre-
sent this evening at Concert Hall to witness the
representation of the Pilgrim. This wonderfully
successful exhibition has received the unquali-
fed endorsement of all religious bodies. This
evening will witness Concert Hall filled with
clergy and laity of this denomination.