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Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24

: A WOMAN SUBSTITUTED FOR AN Ok
BEFORE PLow, AND FATALLY INJURED.
Back of Maiden Rock in Wisconsin, at
a locality called Plum City Lives Swede,
who, having this spring but one OK, per
suaded bis wife to carry one end of the
yoke in blowing, while he held the plow
and their boy drove. The woman labor
ed at this extraordinary employment for
two days, but was then compelled to quit
it and take to her bed, on account of
having ruptured an internal organ in her
efforts to keep her end of the yoke even.
In two days after she died; the physicians
called by the neighbors finding it impos
sible when they reached her to do any
thing for her relief. The light Of civil.
cation must have burned dlmly in the
neighborhood where that husband was
born and bred; and it is evident that the
poor wife was unknowing of the rights
claimed for her sex by her stronger
minded sisters.-Red Wing Argus.
This family, we are told, formerly liv.
ed in the vicinity of Cannon Falls. few
miles back of Red Wing and have
been in Plum City but short time. AL
Of which accounts for the slight of civil
ization" alluded to above.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24

LoGs,-The sale Of logs is not very
lively at present but the demand contn-
ues steady and the price good. John
Stewart, of Marine, this week sold three
strings of choice logs to st, Louis par
ties at $l4 per NJ, and the balance Of
his marked to Schulenberg & Co. for
Sll.5o per NJ. on the stringer. There
have been several sales of small lots OF
ordinary logs at an average price of SO
per NJ. in the boom. These prices bid
fair to continue aud the prospect is tina,
nearly or quite all the log crop of last
winter will be brought to the Market
These facts promise money easy and
business brisk in the St. Croix Valley
this summer Tdylor's Falls Reporter.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24
Brick POmerOy's Ring
from the New York s ian. 18th. I

From the New York San, t5th.l
The Hon. NJ. NJ. Pomeroy is bitter
and nnralenting politician, but as al EN-
ployef and friend be is genial and liberal
His employees appreciate him. While
Mr.. Pomeroy was in bis business office
on Saturday, at noon, hi. publisher
superintendent, editorial staff, printers
clerks, mailers, aud others, entered in g
body, and Mr.. F. G.. Tisdale, Masonic
editor of Pomeroy's Democrat threw q
stone at him. 1t struck Brick on enc Of
his fingers. 1t don't hurt him much -
The stone weighed several carats and is
valued at $500. After recovering
from bis establishment, Brick gazed on
the jewel, saying that the present was
the most brilliant moment in bis career
He felt encouraged TO go on battling for
the right; be had never been ashamed
to show his hand, and now Exhibiting
the sparkIer) he should take greater
pride than ever in showing it. A beau
tifully engfossed set of resolutions ac-
companied the gift. At the conclusion
of the presentation speeches, the party
were entertained at dinner given by
Mr.. Pomeroy.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24

THE COLUMN VENDoME On the
outside of this paper is given brief &C
count of the destruction Of tbs remark.
able structure by the Communist MODS
of Paris. An act rs unreasonable as il
was mean, it will long be remembered
by the civilized world with feelings of
sorrowful regret not untinged with anger,
and The fanatical fools who consummated
its downfall win stand forth as examples
of the contemplate and detestable of
mankind in the superlative degree.
The Column Vendome was erected
by the great Napoleon. 1t stood in a
handsome square, in the central part of
thr city, laid out from the designs of
Mansard in 1899, on the site of.the house
and grounds of. the Due de VeEdome.
natural son of Henry w. A statue of
Louis XIV. originally occupied the place.
but this was was destroyed by the mob
in the first revolution, the base only
being saved. Napoleon then ordered
the erection of The column now destroy
ed, ia commemoration of his campaign
in 1905. 1t was begun in 1906 and
finished in 1910. 1t was of the Tuscan
order, in imitation of the columns Of Ira.
jan and Marcus Aurelius at Rome. The
shaft was stone, cased on the outside
with bronze. made in 276 plates, out of
1000 pieces of cannon captured from
the Russians and Austrians, aud repro
senting In a series of bas reliefs the
victories of the French army in the Ger
man campaign Of 1905. The figures
were about eight feet high and the whole
formed spiral rlband Of about that
width, and 500 feet long. The column
was l43 feet high, and the statue Of Ma
poleon at its top II feet. A former
statue of Napoleon was thrown down
and melted at the Restoration, and now
again the tickle descendants of the H.
Datics of former generation have
been moved TO cast down the idol of a
man whom ouly few years ago they
madly worshiped.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24
Pierce County court--In Probate.

Pierce County Court--In Probate.
In the matter of the estate of Mary j. Boards
ley, deceased.
ON reading and filing the petition of Oar:
~ win w. Kinnie, administrator OF said
estate, setting forth the amount OF personal
estate that has come TO his hands and the
disposition thereof; the amount of debts
outstanding against said deceased, and a
description of all the real estate OF which
said deceased died seized, and the condition
and value of the respective portions thereof /
and PRAYING that license be to him granted to
sell the whole or so much of the real estate
as shall be necessary TO pay the Indebtedness
of said estate and it appearing by said Pc
tition that there is not sufficient personal ss-
tate in the hands of said administrator 10
paw said debts, and that it is necessary in or
der 10 paw the same. to sell the whole of said
real estate
1t is therefore ordered that all persons in
terested i'm said estate appear before the Judge
of this Court on Monday. the 26th day OF
June, 1871, at ten o'clock A. NJ, at his office
in the city of Prescott then and there to
show cause Why license should not be grant
ed to said administrator to sell said real es<
tate, according to the prayer of said petition.
And it is further ordered that copy OF
this order shall be published for four success
sive weeks prior TO said day of hearing. in
the PREsCoTT JOURNAL, weekly newspaper
published at Prescott in said county.
Dated May 5. 1871.
saw WIN. HOWES, County Judge.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24
The Lake City Leader says the North

The Lake City Leader says the North
ern Line Packets are having lively
squabbIe over the Lake City freights with
the Northwestern Union Line. Wheat
in store was sold on Wednesday within
10 cents Of the Milwaukee markets and
brought sl.2o. We hope they will
...jest continner that ere game" for the
next hundred years because it suits us.
The wheat market of Lake City has
been for the last three weeks from 5 10 9
cents higher than the market in our sur
rounding towns, and the story that Lake
City pays three cents more than Red
Wing for freights TO Milwaukee is not
true at present and probably has not
been true at any time.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24
miscellaneous Items.

Jefferson Davis has been offered s
So, 1000 situation in New York.
Dan Castello's beautiful performing
horse "Czar" died recently at Morris
town, New Jersey.
Washington gossips now have il
that Minister Washburne will return from
Paris in July and go into the Cabinet
"A Presidential election, a revolution,
an instruction, and several volcanic
eruptions, makes times lively in Mexico
just now.
There were in 1916 fifty post Offices
in the United States. There are now
twenty thousand.
The Emperor of Germany is prac
teal printer. All his family are obliged
to nave some trade. William chose Il
be typo and worked at the case three
years.
-Messrs. Atwood & Culver of tn,
Madison State Journal, and Taylor &
Cewel Of the Hudson Times drew s;
each in the Minneapolis lottery swindle
What a miracle ten years hay,
wrought. Fred Douglass is Vice-P resi
dent of the Council of the new TERRITORY
of Columbia Washington, and Horace
Greeley is being lionized in New Orleans
"A Peekskill man writes to the ed
itor of the local sheet that "youl gi
yur he'd punched il you print in you
paper that my yf had twins"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24
" DECORATION DAY" occurs this yet

DECORATION DAY" occurs this year
on the 30th inst. The st. Louis Demo
crat, in speaking of the occasion, says
Lot the day of decorating the graves
be observed. Let the embIems of ma,
ture's wealth of love and benefcence be
spread upon all the mounds. Death has
made peace between the fallen and hal.
lowed them all. The stiffness of these
graves should hush the selfish clamor
and discord Of the land. Could this ST.
lent eloqueuco be listened to as it should
be, the ku Klux bands would dissolve,
the rights of the humblest everywhere
would be reverenced, the sentiment OF
brotherhood and mutual trust would per.
wade all hearts. Therefore we say, lei
Americans of all parties 60 out together
TO the graves of their dead, and listen to
the still voices of nature.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24

The ERIE ROAD BoUGHT BY WANDER
BILT.-The New York Sun says it is
now generally believed that the contrac;
between Gould and Fisk and Comma
dore Vanderbilt for the transfer of the
control of the Erie road has been def
nitely concluded. Both parties to the
transaction have made and are still max
ing every effort to keep it secret, but its
extraordinary nature and magnitude
make further concealmeut impossible.
1t is claimed by friends of the Erie
party that the present management has
been compelled to the recent action by
the..attack of foreign stock holders who
serve as catspaws for combinations of
spectators legal sharks which have SO
long preyed on this company.
Gould, it appears, would never have
abandoned the idea of running the Erie
in competition with other trunk lines but
for the fact that his health has been so
seriously affected by the incessant labors
of the past two years, that his physicians
have united on insisting on bis relieving
himself from all business anxieties for a
while. The disastrous diminution of the
receipts of the road, occasioned by the
existing coal trouble, added largely to
to the embarrassment under which the
company is labor;ng. Scott. of the
Pennsylvania Genital, JOY, of the Michi>
Central, and others, are reported to have
made liberal offers, but Vanderbilt finally
succeeded in effecting the arrangement,
by virtue of which the Erie will be reor-
gained and incorporated with the lines
already under his iron rule. 1t is con
fidcndy expected, by parties who are
supposed TO have good opportunities to
know, thar RS soon as the new arrange
ment is officially announced there will be
large Increase of Central stock, which
may have effected the placing of Erie
on par.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24

REUNION OF THE FIRsT.-The officers
and members of the old First Minnesota
regiment are to hold their next reunion
in Red Wing or the 18th of June. We
understand it to be the intention of
those who have the matter in charge to
make this memorable occasion. Gov.
Austin and Gen. Hancock are to be in
yited. acd DR.. Stewart, DR.. Murphy and
Gen. German are expected to be present,
had preparations are being made for
something loud.-Red Wing Republican.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24
CoxDIrIoN OF THINGS IN SoUrH CAR

CoNDITIoN OF THINGS IN SOUTH CAR
oLINA.-A private letter from Columbia,
s. c., represents the country in such a
condition Of lawlessness, that no North
ern man or Republican can live theIe.
The writer says his father has been hid
ing in the woods for weeks, and he him.
self had TO be guarded by Union soldiers.
Many Northern families are returning
home bankrupt, only too glad to escape
with their lives.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24
circuit court---Pieree County.

John W. Lalor and Ellen G. Grant. againat
John W Barnes and Sophronia G. Barnes,
NOTICE is hereby given that 1.-the UNDER
In signed sole referee for the purpose aps
pointed by decree of the'court above named,
rendered in the above entitled action, at the
general term of the said court, held 10 the
9Th Judicial circuit. in and for the county OF
Dunn, at the court house in the village OF
Menomonee, on the second Monday OF March,
A. D.. 1871. present aud presiding. Hon. d.
L. Humphrey, circuit judge. will sell at pub
lie auction to the highest bidder. at the 'front.'
door of the court house in the town of Els
worth, on the 23d day of May, A D. 1871, At
the hour of IL o'clock, noon, all the mort
gagged premises in said decree and hereia
described as follows to wit: The northwest
quarter of the southwest quarter OF section
number thirty-foar. in township nrmbeF
twenty-seven, OF range number nineteen west
of the fourth principal meidian. lying sltu-
ated and being in the county of Pierce. state
of Wisconsin, under and by virtue OF said
decree and pursuant to the authority IN ma
by said decree vested.
Dated, March 81. 1871.
ALLEN p: WELD, Referees.
GLOVER, CLINTON It MATHEWS,
Plaintiffs Attnrne5G
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24

The person appointed to look after
the estate of Mrs. Laura Fair, the eccen-
trio California lady who had some agency
in producing funeral in the Crittenden
family there, while ago, found the
lady's affairs in tolerably healthy con
dhiou. Her property consisted of six
city lots, $4,000 in government bonds,
two derringer pistols, and three reyoIyers.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24

Brick Pomeroy was married TO Mrs.
Louisa NJ. Thomas on the evening of the
18th inst, in New York city. 1: was a
private affair. The new Mrs. Pomeroy
is lady of medium hight, fair complex
ion and pretty face. She has contribu.
ted to the columns of Pomeroy's Demo.
crGt over the signature elm Orlou. +"
A dowry of 900 was presented to
The bride.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24
Foreclosure Sale.

State of Wisconsin-Circuit Court of Pierce
County.
Casper Lesher against Allen Hamblin and
Mary HambIin.
TN pursuance of Judgment and decree Of
Il this Court rendered in the above entitled
action, dated May 9Th, 1871. I shall, on the
9th day of July. 1871, at 2 o'clock P. NJ, at
the front door Of the post Office in the city
of Prescott in said county, offer for sale at
public auction, and sell to the highest bidder
the following described real estate, to-wit =
The north half of the northeast quarter oil
section nineteen in township twenty-seven of
range nineteen, said lands lying and being
in the county of Pierce and state.of Wiscon-
sin
Dated May 23d. 1871. CIV
CHAS. SMITH, Referee.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24

A new secret society has lately been
discovered in New York. 1t is called
the "Raft;" its meetings are held for the
purpose of securing organized political
effort in favor of measures designed to
benefit the working classes. The order
already numbers fifty thousand members
in the city. Branch societies have been
established in all the large cities.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24
Circuit Court Pierce County.


Daniel J. Dill against Andrew j Waltz
Emma A Waltz, Jonathan Park and
Thomas Beddall
The State Of " isconsin, to the above named
defendants.
VOU are hereby summoned and required
i to answer the complaint in this action.
which will be filed in The Office of the Clerk
of our said Circuit Court at Ellsworth in
Pierce county, and serve a copy of your an
swer on us at our office in the city of Prescott.
in Pierce county. within twenty days after
the service of this summons on you, exclusive
of the day of such service and if you fail to
answer the said complaint as aforesaid, the
plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in the complaint.
WHITE d BUTTON,
Plaintiffs Attorneys.
Dated, March 18th, 1871.
Take notice that a copy of the complaint in
the above entitled action was filed in the Of
fee of the Clerk of said Circuit Court on the
18th day of April, le7l, at Ellsw orth in said
county of Pierce
WHITE d BUTTON,
5-6w. Plaintiffs Attorneys.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24
Paris Captured.

The capture Of Paris by the Versailist
forces is announced. The Communist
forces made most determined resistance
and the scenes Of carnage which ensued
were frightful. Paris fallen, the rebel
lion is virtually over. What will France
do next2
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24
-Ruloff the learned murderer

-Ruloff, the learned murderer, and
philologist, whose case has commanded
much attention. was hanged at Bing-
hampton, N. Y, on the 18th inst. The
dispatch states that he met his death
with the same nerve he bad shown from
tie hour Of bis arrest.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24
WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY,
Farm For Sale.

TNHE undersigned offers for sale farm
i known as the "Durgin farm" situated in
the town of Clifton. Pierce county. There
are sixty acres,--twenty acres timber and
forty under cultivation-well fenced-good
house, excellent well of pure water. This
farm will be sold very cheap for cash. For
further particulars apply 10 the owner in per-
son at his residence near the mouth of Big
River. or by mail at Diamond Bluff. Wis.
l-9m T. b. JONES.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24
Legal Advertisements.
Notice to stockholders.

Notice to Stoc khoIdeFS.
OFFICE OF THE LA CROSSE, TREMPEALEAU
AYp Prescott RAILROAD COMPANY.
Milwaukee, May 20. 1871.
MO election for directors of this company
~ having been held at the time and place
appointed for holding the last annual meeting
of The stockholders thereof, the unde rsigneG
stockholders owning and holding more than
fourth part OF all the capital stock of
said company, in pursuance OF power in that
behalf conferred upon them by the charter of
the company, do Hereby order and call a
special meeting of the stockholders of the
said company. (the La Crosse, Trempealeau
and Prescott Railroad Company TO be held
a. the Office of the Chicago and Northwestern
Railroad Company. in the city of Milwaukee.
Wisconsin. on the 9Th day of June next, at
2 o'clock in the afternoon of that day, for the
purpose of electing board of nine Directors
of said company, and for the transaction Of
such other business as may lawfully be done
and may come before it.
JOHN F. TRACEY, Trustee.
JOHN F. TRACEY.
j. NJ. BURKE
A G. WULMAN. ---
NJ. l.. SYKES, Jf.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1871-05-24
Please take Notice.

WISHING TO GO OUT OF TRADE
ON ACCOUNT OF POOR HEALTH:
l OFFER MY ENTIRE STOCK OF
GOODS TIC ANY ONE THAT WISHES
TO GO INTO TRADE. ON REASON
ABLE TERMS, AND AT A REASON
ABLE PRICE.
AND UNTIL 1 ACCOMPLISH A
SALE OF MY GOODS. L OFFER LIB
ERAL DISCOUNT TO ALL MY OLD
CUSTOMERS AND OTHERS THAT
PURCHASE OF ME HEREAFTER FOR
CASH. UNTIL CLOSED OUT.
Dry Goods at Bargains.
Clothing 6
Hats and Gaps Sc
Boots and Shoes 6!
CrOckery -
Groceries *
Also a lot of Horse Blankets
and Bed Blankets at bargains
Genuine Mink Furs, $50 TO
$40 per Set. Water Mink SO.
All Wool Carpet Is at bar
gains.
PLEASE CALL AND EXAMINE
MY STOCK OF GOODS.
l.. ID. NEWELL.
PREscoTT. Jan. S. 1870. 80
Vermont farmer. [volume] (Newport, Orleans County, Vt.) 1870-1877, 1871-12-02
BIRDS, IN THEIR RELATION TO
AGRICULTURE.
(Concluded from last Week.) J

A bird quite us much disliked by fruit
growers as the Robin is the Cedar Bird, or
Cherry Bird, so called on account of its fond
ness for cherries and the berries of the Red
Cedar. These birds come from the South
quite early in the spring, in small flocks, and
remain all summer. During most of this
time they live upon insects and are all the
while OF great strvce, hut in cherry time
they help themselves to their favorite fruit
and then all their good deeds are forgotten,
and they too often fall victims to unjust con-
demnation. | think that nothing more is
needfu to secure the protection instead of
destruction of these birds than for any one to
watch them closely, not merely during the
cherry season but all the while they are with
u.s. from early spring till autumn. There are
many who rarely if ever see this and other
birds, except during the few days, or weeks
mt most, in which they are injurious, forget
ting entirely to look after them OF to consider
their habits mt other times, and SO great er-
rors very easily arise.
AS the Bobolink is one of our must COM
mon meadow songstcrs and is withal II great
favorite with many; word or two will not
be out of place. So far us agriculture is con-
cerned this bird is of less Importance than
many others, but yet it has some interest
when viewed only in this light In the
South they are usually disliked because they
pay more frequent visits to the rice fields
than is pleasant for the owners, and indeed
they often do much damage to crops, though
they are sometimes very beneficial to the
cotton as we shall see before closing. In
New England however it seems to have left
its love for grain behind it and here it eats,
some grass-seeds indeed, but for the most
part its food consists of beetles, crckets
grasshoppers, and all sorts of insects. They
remain with us only during the warmest part
of the year, not often arriving before the
middle of May and leaving in large hocks
early in September. Even if the Bobolinks
We're not the useful birds they are to us We
could well afford to tolerate their presence
on account of the joyous, tinkling warble thai
they so constantly give us during the first
part of their stay, seeming the very embod
ment of buoyant life and he must be very
melancholy who can long listen to their song
without catching in spite of himself some
thing of its cheeriness and hugging himsel
for very joy.
One of our common birds, and one tina
should be highly esteemed, is the Cat Bird
as it is one of the greatest enemies of tn,
various kinds of insects we have. The Blu,
Bird is an universal favorite and deserves S,
to be, as besides being of Il cheerful dsposi
ton it does good service in warning agains
the insects. The Barn, Cliff and Bank swal