Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-02-15
LAMENTATIONS.


to leave this country for England before
the first Of May.
The Maryland Legislature has ap-
propriated $4,000 for the purpose Of
stocking the waters of that state with
fish.
The following were the balances at
the close Of business at the Treasury De
partment, OH the 4th inst: Currency,
S22,5ll, 900; coin, S99,l27 900; GER
tiicates, So .2l5,236.
Five hundred respectable persons Of
African descent have, within the last
month, made application to the American
Colonization Society for aid to go to Lii
IBERIA. The demand for passage is greater
now than ever before.
Gen Sibley, IN recent lecture at
Minneapolis, on "Early Times in Mime
sota," says the first man who appeared
within the present boundaries Of the State,
came by way of Lake Superior in 1869
two hundred and twelve years ago.
"A dispute has arisen in regard TO
the boundary line between Tennessee and
Virginia, the latter State claiming a
small portion of East Tennessee. The
Legislature of Tennessee has had under
consideration the question of appointing
Commissioners to settle the matter, ia
conjunction with Commissioners from
Virginia.
Previous to the admission of Frank
z. Blair. Jr., thirty seven members Of the
United States Senate "a majority-were
born in New York or New England
OF the United States Supreme Court,
six of the nine Judges and, of the Cabi
ret, five of the seven members, are ma
tiyes of the same States. A like pro
portion of American Ministers abroad
came originally from those seven States
"A BIZ has been introduced in the
Illinois House of Representatives for an
act to fix the salaries of State officers,
etc, as follows: Governor, $4,000;
Lieutenant Governor, $500; Secretary
of State, $3,OOO; Auditor, $4,000;
State Treasurer, $4,000; State Superin
tendent of Public Instruction, $4,000;
Adjutant General, $1,000; Attorney
General, $4,000; Circuit Judges, 81.
500; Supreme judges, $4,000; State
Attorneys, $500.
The Seattle (Oregon) Intelligencer
of December 10, says that the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company have purchas
ed the entire property of the Beling ham
Bay Coal Company for one million of
dollars Payment is to be made by a
transfer of railroad shares of that amount
to the owners of that valuable property.
If such transaction has taken place, it
would indicate an intention on the part
Of the Railroad Company to extend their
road down the entire coast of Puget
Sound.
"A correspondent of the Boston
1raveler says he is well acquainted with
two ladies who have received eight de-
grees as Free Masons, and who are the
shining lights Of furnishing lodge in
Vermont. Their initiation, he says, was
the same as that undergone by men. ex-
cep, in few particulars of dress, which
was slightly altered in Difference to their
sex. He says that for over year they
followed the fortunes of Vermont rcgi.
ment in the late war.
The ST. Louis Republican says !:
General Blair, of Missouri, and General
Logan, of Illinois, each commanded a
corps of Grants army at Vicksburg.-
Both had been members Of Congress.
Logan went into the war Democrat,
and is now elected Republican Senator.
Blair went in Republican, and is nov
elected Democratic Senator. THIS is
what might be called a singular coinc-
dence but for the fact that the singularity
doesn't coincide"