Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-07-05
General Items.

TOUR German princes, members OF
sovereign houses, are married to actress.
es
IHE latest use to which paper has
been put is for the lining of ice coolers.
A Texas paper records a marriage in
winch lady was fifteen years old and
The capital invested in vessels on the
mississippi river, and in the cargoes
they are constantly carrying, is estima-
ted at $1,000, 900, 600.
1T has been officially stated that the
! special memorial gifts made to sigma
LIE the reunion of the Presbyterians
amounted to S7,607, 500.
CAssIMEREs of decided excellence oi
material and texture are manufactured
at Oregon City, Oregon. Chinese labor
IS mainly employed in their produc-
ton.
THE State of Michigan contains ga
inland lakes, covering an area of 1114
miles, besides a water front on the
great lakes of more than 1850 miles.
THE cornerstone of $4,000 monu-
ment to the Confederate dead OF
Georgia is to be laid in Augusta on the
10Th of October, the ann iversary OF
Gen. Lees death.
CAssDIEREs of decided excellence OF
material and texture are manufacture
ed at Oregon City Oregon. Chinese lat.
Dor is mainly employed in their pro.
duction.
"GRACE GREENWOOD has transfer
red her correspondence from the New
York Tribune to the New York Times,
and will spend the summer in Califor
MIA and Colorado.
! CHAMPAGNE punch, dispensed by love
| ly girls in ringlets and decollete
dresses, takes the place of the in
spring strawberry and placid oyster al
New Orleans church fairs
A LARGE number of the dry goods
commission houses of Philadelphia
have agreed to close their stores at 4
O'Clock, and on Saturdays at o'clock,
during the Summer months.
The etymology of Sorosis is at last
| discovered. 1t comes from Soros, a
tomb, and refers to the grave character
of the proceedings of the society
| DURING the recent inundation at
New Orleans, three hundred swine
were run down steep place into the
river, but we're automatically res
cued.
a KENTUCKY paper notes a rapid de-
velOpment of the temperance reform in
that State through the exertiOns of the
Good Templars.
Mr.. BRIGGS, of Washington town
shipi near Iowa City, was struck, and
badly injured by lightning during the
storm Friday afternoon.
A PORTION of Clinton Mountain, in
Arkansas, including about one hundred
acres, has sunk, carrying trees entirely
out of sight, and the space is continu-
ally enlarging.
| FRANK Tracy, OF Contra Costa county,
California, last year killed 10, 900 SPUR
rels and received $1,000 bounty. He
then sold the skins for 81, 500 Total,
81, 500.
In Vermont all of the wife's proper
| ty of every description, and whether
/ in possession or in action, is exempted
from the husbands debts; and if he
absconds she may, by petition, take
and sell property as a single woman.
A NEW style of chandelier consists OF
double set of globes, the upper ones
being over the gas tubes, while anOtOel
one is suspended underneath filled
with goldfish and small fish of every
description.
A TIOGA County man has found Oh
/ his farm a quarry of stone slabs oil
uniform thickness, width and length,
every slab smooth and ready for use.
He thinks it very singular how they
came to be so true in shape.
FROM every section of Texas comes
| reports Of high water. The Trinity at
Dallas is nearly two miles wide. The
Colorado, the Brazos, the streams are
all high.
A YOUNG man of the highest respect
ability and connections in Savannah.
Ga., has been found to be a defaulter
to his employers to the amount of SO
600, all traceable to the gaming table.
VICKsBURG is fast recovering from
the almost demolished condition in
which the war left it. The havoc made
by shot and shell has nearly disappear
ed, and the city possesses a gay and
prosperous aspect.
AN association under the name of
the Carson Valley Tailings company
are now engaged in the erection of an
extensive works on the Carson river.
at the mouth of Six-Mile canyon, for
the working of tailings. They own at
this point, reservoir containing over
300, 900 tons of tailings.
THE present prophesies from Della
ware and Maryland are that the peach
crop will yield 100000 baskets
about 500, 900 more than were gathered
in 1899, which was the champion peach
year From 100000 to 100000 new
trees have been planted this season.
SIX years ago the Joyce children left
their home in Boston to visit Busy
woods, West Roxbury. Their bodies
were found In the woods on the 18th of
June, but up to this time their murder
er or murderers havenot been discover
ed.
The proprietor of the Clifton House,
Niagara, has been enterprising enough
to lay a gas pipe over the new suspen-
sion bridge to light his hotel with, and
the Canadian authorities are bothering
their brains to determine how they can
levy tax on his imported gas.
A YOUNG countryman, shopping in
Lawrence Mass, on Saturday, stole a
ride on the sprinkler of the watering
| cart. The driver pulled the valve lev
er aud the cOuntryman rose about
three feet into the air, coming down
wetter, but wiser.
A CARELESS fellow employed at the
HoOsac tunnel, was recently seen driv-
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