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The year is dving. sorrow-fraught and sin-worn;
Its ample gift’ and gnerdons hence are borne ;
A burdened year, yet day or night for me
Hath binshed no bloom, save flower of revery,
Hath borne no fruit, eave fruit of memory.
Unhoped by mv longings. dawned its morn.
Unmounted its failing moments lie afar.
Unhlest I live, consumed by sad self-scorn.
lls hours into my weary life have been
The mocking b*>so»Mje of a',barren vine
Whose tendrils din" and hatefully entwine
Aronnd a tree which fast decays within ;
While in the liagoringjlight 1 only see,
J'he paling clow ot mv auroral star!
—[Goodrich.
tOAT.
Yhe moon eomes nut and glimmers,
The stars like diamonds gl-atu.
And long green hoeghs are waving
O'er a pleasant mountain at/eam.
And my thoughts travel backward,
Into I he long dead rears,
And your face comes before me,
Seen through a mist of tears.
We met—we loved—we parted;
The story ever new;
W e lived—we hoped—we waited,
And so the long years grew.
A vast sea rolls between us
A gulf that time has made,
New habits grown upon u«_
Old beauties faint and fade.
Take one last look behind you
Into the vale of years.
Does my face come before yon.
Seen through a mist of tears?
Afloat sn the Ice in the Mississippi.
BY MARTHA M. THOMAS.
Christmas mnrnitg dawned cold but
clear. The children played in the hou»o
all the morning. After the great dinner
of turkey, venison, and pie, John and
Hattie, and Charles Sanders, a boy of
John’s age, went out upon the river, slid*
ing at first near the shore, but gradu
ally getting further ont. They were re
called to the house by the word that Mr.
Sanders was agoing to fire the cannon.
“O ves,” said Charlie, “Capt. Hart,
who commands the steamboat Hunter,
gave father such a large cannon, and
he said he should fire it today.”
They hastend to the front of the house,
where the whole family had assembled
around the cannon, which Mr. Lape
was loading. The girls shudderingly re
moved to a distance when they saw the
match about to be applied, and put their
fingers in their ears, but the boys crowd
ed closer.
After four shots, the women ran inside,
and Mr. Sanders said, “We have only
one good charge of powder left; we will
keep that until supper time, and have a
stunner.”
After warming, the children took Leo,
and went on the ice again. Fastening
the dog to a sled, the boys had mneu
fun in trying to make him draw Hattie.
Every little while he would back on them
and they would fall in a heap, when Leo
would be the first to extricate himself,
and shake the snow all over them. Tired
of this, they were about returning to
the house, when Charlie called them to
see some fish frozen in the ice. They '
were near the edge, looking at the little
things when they were startled by the re
)x»rt of the cannon.
“O'” exclaimed Hattie, springing np,
“I was so"—
“What is that?” John interrupted, as
n loud, long, cracking sound was heard.
“The ice is broken! run, run!’ Char
lie, followed by them, started for the
shore. The edge of ice they stood up
on had broken from the main portion;
the crack, which looked no wider than a
thread when Charlie pointed, widened
as they ran; they could feel that there
was notion beneath them. Startled by
the same noise, their friends on shore for
the first time, perceived them, nnd be
came aware of their danger.
Shouting to them to hasten they at
the same time ran down the bluff to their
aid. The seam became wider and wi
der, and just as both parties were with
in a few feet, of either edge, the detached
portion came into the influence of the
current, and swept out, leaving a chasm
it was impossible to cross.
The sudden impetus staggered Hattie,
and she pitched forward on her face—a
few inches more, and she would have
been in the icy river. _The boys drew
her back, and in obedience to a command
shouted by Mr. Sanders, withdrew to
the middle of the piece of ice. As they
did so,Leo —who could easily have swam
the space—gave a long howl, and fol
lowed them, lying down at Hattie’s feet.
Half frantic with terror, Mrs. Lape and
Mrs. Sanders, who had come out with
ouly a shawl thrown over their heads,
ran along the ice by the shore as the
cake moved off, calling to the children,
nnd regardless of anything their husbands
said. Hattie, who trembled so she could
net stand, sat in the center of the cake,
Leo at her feet, and t’ie two bovs beside
her. Every few minutes, as a piece of
ice would come against them and jar
(hem, or fragments would break from
(hat they were on she would half spring
to her feet, and Leo would give that ter
rible, long drawn howl.
The current of the river was swift
where it was free, and they moved quite
rapidly.
“There is no boat,”said Mr. Sanders,
“and if we bad one it would be of little
use. John” (to a laborer) “put the hors
es in the sleigh, with robes and blankets,
and a bottle of whiskey, and follow us,
driving down the river road. ”
“They will be stopped at Boston,”
said another laborer, “if they are not
drowned afore; the river is gorged
there.”
“My God!” exclaimed Mr. Lape,
“that is fifteen miles off, and that edge
ice dees not look strong.”
“It ia rotten, you can bet on that,”
was the answer, “or the dog would not
howl to.”
AU this time they were running along
on the sound ice, keeping as close to the
edge as possible, calling cheering words
to the children.
So they ran for a couple of miles.—
The boys would answer, but the wind
was ngninsl them, and only occasionally
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could they be heard. Now they b gan
to near an island in the river, nnd the
current following the channel, took them
to the far side of it, out of sight In ag
onizing silence their friends sped on
through the snow that hero was piled in
drifts. As the voices of the boys were
again heard telling that they had passed
the island, Mrs. Sandors stumbled nnd
fell in the deep snow she was trying to
get through.
With some difficulty she was extrica
ted, and carried up the steep bank, and
deposited in the sleigh with Mrs. Lape,
Mr. Sanders bidding the man drive home
and hasten back.
“What shall I do, Charles? What
shall I do!” she exclaimed, despairingly
wringing her hands.
•’Pray!” he answered, ns he ran down
the bank to join Mr. Lape and the
schoolmaster, who were still keeping up
with the children.
Meantime the night had conn on, but
it was a bright moonlight. The ice on
which the children floated was near the
further shore, their little forms could not
be distinguished in the distance, only a
dark spot appeared on the surface. —
The men kept up a constant calling, but
Leo’s howl was their only answer. —
Now came the fear they would be frozen
to death. Boston was still eight miles
distant, and the night was getting colder.
Still they kept up that feaiful chase
along the edge of the ice, where a mis
step would plunge them into the freez
ing iiv?r, wb : ch was almost certain
death.
A mile further they reached a cabin
on the river bank, inhabited by an old
pilot. Ho was roused from his bed by
Mr. Sanders’ orders.
“There is a gorge a mile or so below,
right round the bend—they will be
stopped there. The ice is piled at that
point clear across the river. If that b t
they nreon only keeps all right, we will
have them. I wish that dog would stop
howling, though.”
“Ho knows the ice is rotten, I reck
on,” said the man who had made the
same assertion before.
“I’d like to know what is to mnko it
rotten in such weather as this? It would
have lasted until the February thaw, if
you had not fired that cannon. The
danger is that it will be capsized, or the
children thrown off, when it reaches the
jam st the gorge, for it comes there with
a rush. Help mo to get this dugout on
my shoulders; it might as well go
along.”
Under the guidance of the pilot, and
still bailing the children, they kept on.
The river now* widened, until it was
rearly a mile across. Mr. Lape and
Mr. Samlers were silent except to ask
necessary questions; only a cow bell
which had been fastened to the sleigh to
tell of its whereabouts, broke the stillness.
They neared the bend, and could hear
the crash of the ice, as if after turning
the point, it was suddenly stopped in its
course. They went rapidly forward in
the direction of the gorge; neither cold
nor fatigue felt in their anxiety.
“Follow ma close and take care,” said
the pilot, ns ho began stepping in, and
about, and over the piled up masses.—
“I crossed from the other side not two
hours before sundown.”
They obeyed his directions, stepping
with care. They had passed the middle
of the river, when wedged in with other
masses, they saw that on which the chil
dren was, moving toward where they
had halted. They strained there eyes
and stood fixed.
“Let us try the boat,” said Mr. Lape,
pointing to the clear space before them.
“It would bo stove to atoms in a min
ute by one of those blocks,” said tna
pilot.
As he spoke, th a mass to which their
attention was directed, separated; the
larger part rounded the point swiftly,
and rashing onward, met the gorge, and
dashed against it with a furv that threw
them all from their feet. Ere the noise
of the concussion had died away, and
while the loose mass was still rocking
and grinding, the pilot sprang on to it,
and the others followed. The cake on
which the children were had got in a
sort of eddy, and was swinging round;
behind it were some large masses, that
in a moment, would bo against it.
“Stand firm and look out,” the pilot
called.
As the words left I.is lips, a great
mass came with a crash against the smal
ler one, which it broke into fragments,
dashing it up against the piled heaps of
the gorge, and sending splinters’and piec
es in ail directions, which struck them
with the force of huge stones. With a
spring like a panther the schoolmaster
gained the quivering surface, and drag
ged a little body from the broken edge,
where the next moment it would have
been ma«bed to a jelly by the closing
masses.
Dashing back over the wedged in frag
ments. he saw the pilot with another
dark body in his arms, and Mr. Lape
was kneeling by a third. A moment
later Leo came dripping toward them
from the river, shaking the freezing wa
ter over them.
“Hattie is only insensible,” said the
schoolmaster, “her heart beats.”
“This little fellow is alive,” said the
pilot.
“John has his arm broken, but thank
God for their lives”’ exclaimed Mr.
Lape.
They were carried up the bluff nnd
put in the sleigh; there the whisky was
forced down their throats, and they were
driven rapidly home. A messenger was
sent to Boston for the doctor there.—
Numbed with the cold, Hattie and Char
ley barely escaped with their lives, and
suffered much for many weeks. It was
warm weather ere John could use bis
arm.
The excitement over, Mr. Lape and
PRESCOTT, WIS-, THURSDAY, JAN. B, IK7O.
Mr. Sanders were surprised to see their
bruised feet and torn nnd bleeding hands,
the pain of which they bad not felt at
tl o time; but when, a week later, they
viewed the scene of their Chritmas jour
nev, they could scarce believe it possible
they had passed over the points and
jagged rocks of ice they saw that night,
which the oldest squatter snid was the
coldest known on the Mississippi River.
Riverside Magazine.
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A Short LfCtuic to Young Men.
It is all the fashion to lecture, ns wit
ness Josh Billings, Nasby, nnd lots of
other fools—no, I mean funny men—
and of course I want to be in fashion; so
as young men need lecturing nbout ns
much as anything I know of, I will be
gin with them.
And firstly: Don’t begin the world
with the idea that there is a certain
quantity of wild oats to bo sown to get
the ground ready for a crop of tame
oats. You have most of you seen that
tail, rank weed with a yellow blossom
which bears, after the blossom, a burr of
what nro called “beggar’s lice.” Pass
by them, and they fall off’ nnd stick to
your clothes, and stick, and stick! and if
you, by dint of han! brushing and prick
led fingers, succeed in ridding yourself
of them, they most likely have gone
where tho next passer by will be trou
bled by them. And their sprawling un
gainly stalk has taken as much vitality
from the earth ns a strawberry vine or a
rose bush would have done. It is like
wild oats, just as ungainly, just as dis
agreeable to your friends, and just as
needless. No more so.
Secondly: Don’t swear. Tho truth is
good en l ugh without it and falsehood is
none the better with it. Two thirds of
the sensible people have a fecl’ng that a
story which needs confirming an oath is
like a house which needs propping with
a shore, rather unstable nnd dangerous
in a storm. I have known a swearer
himself to declare his mortification at
the company of another no more pro
fane than himself.
Thirdly: Look out for your reputa
lion. If that gets bad, be sure it is the
outcropping from a deseased branch in
ycur character; and a reputation once
patched is as likely to show the blemish
as a china plate with a piece puttied in
its edge. Going down hill is easy, cjim
»or than going up, while your face is
toward tho bottom. It is like playing
Larry G. Gaff, you can begin anywhere,
but if you go on till you come to a stop
ping place, you may play till your bow
is worn out and your strings broken.—
Your fiddle is gone, but the music re
mains—Da cappo from everlasting even
unto everlasting.
Fourthly: Take your sisters with you
to places of amusement, thus making sure
they are in company with a confounded
good fellow; then of course you will be
sure they are in no danger. Don’t ex
cuse yourself by saying that the place or
the company is not fit. If it is good
enough for you it is equally so for them,
unless by keeping bad associations you
have fallen a long wny below the.n —in
which case a continuance of evil will not
raise you again to their level.
Fifthly: Learn to take care of your
self and not depend on mother and sis
to button your collar, put away your
slippers and pipe, (if you are fool enough
to smoke one,) hunt up the book you
have mislaid, or hang up your hat and
overcoat; otherwise you may have the
riches of a Jew, the beaut}’ of Apollo,
and tho good nature of a clown, without
tho faculty of making a good husband.
Sixthly: Don’t scowl at your sister’s
children, and call them “brats” or “nui
sances.” People who live in glass hous
es ought to know better than to throw
stones, and you should consider that it is
utterly impossible for anything human to
be inoro hateful than you were when
this same sister was being courted, unless
the exception be made in favor of tho
“to he’s,” when you yourself shall have
been married a few years.
Seventhly: Don’t regard life as n play
ground and every working day as a hard
ship. The only person I ever knew
who had Fourth of July all the year
round is old Yankee Doodle.
Eighthly, and lastly: When you go
courting don’t stay till into ine email
hours, thus giving the young lady red
eyes nnd a headache the next day, or
what is equally as bad, a late breakfast
and a volley of raillery from her big
brother, who has not yet begun to run
up a gas bill for somebody else to pay.
You may be very brilliant and entertain
ing—probably you are—but I tell you
she would much prefer to swallow it in
smaller doses. Of course she cannot tell
you so; it would not bo polite; but she
thinks it all the lime after eleven. You
may depend on what I say, for I had a
beau once myself, and it is not so long
since but I can remember that I was
many times twice glad-—when he camo
and when ho went.—Hope Holly.—
Wide World.
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thousands of cases of catarrh in its worst
forms and stages, and the proprietor will
pay SSOO for a caee of this loathsome
disease that he cannot cure. It may bo
procured by mail for sixty cents, by ad
dressing R. V. Pierce, M. D., Buffalo,
N. Y. For sale by most druggists ev
erywhere.
George D. Prentice, of the Louisville
Journal is very ill.
“ FORWARD.”
Howßeeehtr Got Ills Eye Teeth Cut.
I bad no fondness for mathematics,
yet I became proficient in its elementary
branches in my school <!nys, under the
teachings of W . P. N. Fitzgerald, which
in full, is William Pitt Nelson Fitzgerald.
When Professor Davies of West Point,
was once traveling in Canada, he was
served by an hostler’s boy, and in put
ting some questions to him, be proved
so sharp at figures that tho Professor
took him along as a servant. He was
waiter nnd boy of all work. But be de
veloped such gifts an<l graces, that ho
was put to his bonks arid became a ca
det, and stood second to none, until an
unfortunate Christmas spne delivered
him from the thrall of West Point, and
sent him to finish bis career in the great
academy of the world. I found him, in
1827, teaching mathematics nt Mount
Pleasant Classical Institute, Amherst,
Mass. He taught me to conquer in study
ing. There is a very hour in which a
young nature, tugging, discouraged and
nnd weary with books, rises with the con
sciousness of victory into masterhood.
Forever after, ho knows that he can learn
anything if he pleases. It is a distinct
intellectual “ conversion.”
I first went to the blackboard, uncer
tain, soft, full of whimpering. “ That
lesson must bo learned,” bo said in a
very quiet tone, but with a terrible inten
sity, and with the certainty of fate. And
explanations and excises he trod under
foot with utter scornfulness. “ I want
that problem. I don’t want any reasons
why 1 can’t get it.”
“ I did study it two hours.”
“ That’s nothing to me—l want the
lesson. You need not study it nt nl>, or
you may study it ten hours—-just to suit
yourself. 1 want the lesson. Under
wood go to tho blackboard.”
“ Oh, yes, but Underwood got some
body to show him his lesson.”
“ What do I care how you got it!—
Thai’s your business. But you must
have it.”
It was tough for a green boy, but it
seasoned him. In less than a month 1
hnd tho most intense sense of intellectu
al independence and courage to defend
my recitations.
In the midst of a lesson his cold ami
calm voice would fall upon me in llie
midst of a demonstration—“ No!” I
hesitated, stopped, and then went back
to the beginning; and on reaching the
sain9 spot again—“ No!” uttered with
a tone of perfect conviction, barred my
progress.
“ The next!” and I sat down in rod
confusion. He, too, was stopped with—
“ No!” but went right on, finished, and,
as he sat down, was rewarded with
“ Very well!”
“ Why,” whimpered T, “ I recited it
just as he did and you said ‘ No!’ ”
“ Why didn’t yon say ‘ Yes,’and stick
to it ? It is not enough to know that you
know it! You have learned nothing till
you nro sure. If nil the world says no,
your business is to say yes, and prove it!”
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Long Life.
Professor Faraday adopts Flonrin’s
theory that the natural duration of man’s
life is a hundred years. This theory is
founded on observation of facts as peri
ods in tho time of growth. It it thus
stated: When once tho bones and fip
iphpsis are united, the body grows no
more, and at twenty years this union is
effected in man. In the camel it takes
place at eight; in the horse at five, and
in tho rabbit at one. The natural ter
m'nation of life is five removes from
these several point*. Man, being twen
ty years in growing, lives five times twen
ty, that is one hundred. The camel is
ei 6 ht years growing, and he lives five
times eight years, that is to say forty
years; the horse is five years in growing,
nnd he lives twenty five years, and so
with other animals. The man who does
not die of sickness, battles, bullets, rail
road accidents—earthquakes excepted—
lives everywhere from eighty to one hun
dred years.
Providence has given to a man a cen
tury of life, but ho does not attain it be
cause he inherits diseases, eats unwhole
some fruits, gives license to passions, and
permits vexations to disturb his healthy
equipoise. He does not die; he kills
himself. The learned professor divides
life into equal halves, growth and de
cline; and the halves into infancy, youth,
virility and ago. Infancy extends to the
twentieth year; youth to the fiftieth, be
cause it is during this period that the tis
sues become firm; virility from fifty to
seventy-five, during which the organism
remains complete; and at seventy-five
old ago commences, to last a longer
or shorter time as the diminution of
reserved forces is hastened or retarded.
Burns and Scalds.—A correspond
ent to the Rural New Yorker offers his
remedy tor these accidents: “The moat
efficacious remedy I ever tried was to
apply common starch just moistened with
cold water, and spread on a cloth to ef
fectually cover the wounded part. A
little girl who was badly scalded, wns in
stantly freed from pain by the above
remedy. Keep tbo starch moistened,
and in a few hours the inflammation will
be gone, leaving the scalded part perfect
ly white. After tho inflamntion is out,
apply a linen cloth dipped in sweet oil.
It is a speedy cure.”
A correspondent of tha TFcA/ern
Stock Journal says if tho hoofs and fet
locks of a horse are well cleaned and
then rubbed with soft soap previous to
taking him out in snowy weather, it will
prevent balls of snow collecting on the
feet.
Vermont has only six insurance com*
panics.
Etiquette at the White House—Mrs.
Grant Defended.
[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
A number of newspapers have had
something to say lately ngainst an order
supposed to have emanated from Mrs.
Grant, prescribing swallow-tail coats as
the dress for tbo doorkeepers in waling at
the White House; nlso that Mrs. Grant
has recently bought some five or six
thousand dollars’ worth of fineries in
Paris. Now, in prescribing tho dress of
her servants, has Mrs, Grant done mora
than any other lady in the lan<l docs?—
Hasn’t she as much right to say tjut her
servants nt the White House ’.rear
swallow tail coats, ns Mrs. August Bel
mont —for inslaice—(the wife of the
chairman of the national democratic
committee) has to sny that her servants
shall bo arrayed in a livery which r■-
minds us of Solomon in all his glory?
And as to slio Parisian fineries pray
what lady who can afford it but does
likewise? The truth is, that Mrs. Grant
is a most excellent lady. Her demean
or in all the gradations in public life
through which ho has passed—from the
wife of tho Illinois Colonel to tho hostess
of the Presidential ’mansion—has been
unexceptionable, modest, nnd becoming.
If she has not the charming grace of
Mrs. Madison, nor the polished dignity
of Miss Lane, she has the unpret-mtious
ladyhood which brings bar to the tit as
sociation of tho best society of the coun
try .
All of which however, shall not deter
me from relating what struck mo as
qnite a grotesque expression and incident
of recent occurrence at tho White llouso.
1 had accompanied a friend who had
some business with tho President, and
as I entered the inner sanctuary I pro
posed to wnit for him outside. I was
not unaccustomed to the pla’O, and took
a seat, as on many former occasion-.
Just then, a “gentleman in waiting”
rushed up to me in something of trepi
dation, and as if he were about to storm
my works or otherwise annihilate me.—
Said he: “Look here, you musn’t sit
down. If the old woman comes along
nnd finds anybody sitting down hero,
she’ll give me h—l.” So I yield to tho
deman<ls of the new ettiquolte, and more
astonished at the Republican simplicity
of tbo door-keeper’s language than at
anything else, I stood erect.
Billings on Waterfalls.
I rather liko waterfall*.
I kant tell why, enny more than I kan
tell why I love kastor ile—but kastor iie
is good for lazyness in the system.
I like waterfalls—they are so easy and
natornl.
They attack all tho sex.
Some they attack with grato fury,
while others they approach more like a
seiao, working up slowly.
1 saw one yesterday.
It was no bigger than a small French
urnip.
It had attakd a Fmall woman of only
9 summers’ duration.
Sho wus full ov recreation, nnd when
she bounded along the sidewalk (it wns
on the west side of Saint Clair Street, in
the citv of Cincinnaty, forncst Baker and
Davis, yeller sope store) the waterfall
highsted up nnd down in an ossilating
manner, resembling mutch tho sportive
terminus ov a bobtailed lamb in a groat
hurry.
The effock wns purely elcctrick.
I also saw another one pretty soon,
which belonged to a nature matron.
Sho might hav saw 75 summers, her
hair w;z white az flour (Pe kins’“A,”
Worth 15 dollars a barrel, delivered); but
tho waterfall waz black.
I asked a bystander how be could ac
count for that.
Ho said “ it was younger.”
I also saw another one pretty soon,
which was the property of a gusher.
She waz about 19 years old, and waz
az ripe az a 2 year peach.
She swept the streets liko a thing of
life.
Men stopped to gaze az she passed, and
put in a new chew ov tobacco.
Little boys pocketed their marbles in
silence.
Her waterfall waz about the size ov a
korn basket turned inside out.
It wuz enklozed in a common knp net,
and kivered with blazing diamonds ov
glass.
It shown in tho frisky sun like the tin
dome on the Court House whare the su
pervizors meet.
But i rather like waterfalls.
It haz been sed that thay wou'd run
out, but this, i think, iz a error, for they
don’t show no leak yot.
In the language of tho expiring Cana
dian, on our northern frontier, i say
“ Yive la Bag a tale!”
The Fond du Lac Commonwealth says
a veteran of tho war of 1812, Col. B.
F. Miller, of Pond dti Lac, suggests the
propriety of the soldiers of that war,
now residing in Wisconsin, holding a
meeting nt sorao point in tho state the
present winter, and taking such action as
will call the attention of Congress to the
justice of providing means for the ai 1 of
such of their number as need aid. We
hopo such a meeting will bo held, f< r
those old veterans have had less notice
taken of them thnii any others.
Tho American Slock Journal is pub
lished by N. P. Boyf.r, & Co., Chester
Cousity, Penn. Farmers will recollect
the firm as being mainly instrumental in
introducing tbo famous breed of Irog-,
kaown as Chester White,
C O»/r AtcCraif't Ifruf
Offlct, <
f Start, Oranft.U.
Business Directory.
cov.y'Ti' otFttKns.
Jmlje of Sih -Indicia! Circnit,.. .11.1.. HcvpnhzY
Uodntv Judge, '.Ww. Howes
Sheriif. G. W. Dicki.xsox
Register of Deeds, C. W. Bisown
District Attorney. J. C. Bctton
Connty Treasurer M. B. Wit.t.iams
Clerk Circuit Court ‘ C. W. Buows
Clerk of Doahl Supervisors H. B. Warner
Surveyor mid Coroner g. w. Carnes
School Sntoerintendcnl R. L. Reed
Co. Supervisor, Ist. District....G. W. McMnnrnr
do 2d. “ A. D. Andrews
do 3d. “ C. C. Carpe.nteh
Dry Goods, Groceries, &c.
G. A. DII.U,
DE.VLER in Dry Goode, Groceries, Grain. Floor,
Meal, Ac., Ac., Broad-et. 31
JOHN DUDLEY,
DEALER in Dry Goods, Groceries nnd General
Merchandise,*ln Dudley’s block, Broad-et. 31
FIET.D A XVIESON,
DEALERS In Dry Goods and General Merchan
dise, Broad-st. 31
X.. n. XEWELL,
IYEAT.ER In Dry Goods, Clothing and General
I / Merchandise, in Fox A Dickinson's block,
Broad-st. St
C H AS. COOK,
A T ERCH.-VNT TAILOR and Manufacturer, and
It I Agent for Singers' Sewing Machines and But
trick's New York Fashions, Broad-et, 31
P. BOTT,
DEALER in Groceries, Provisions, Crockery
and Fancy Goods, cor. Broad and Orange-ste.37
Drugs, Medicines, &,c.
UAREOS McCKAY,
DE ALER in Drugs, Medicines. Pure Wines and
Liqnors, Notions, Ac., Brick block, foot ut
Orange-st. 31
W .11. WELCH,
Cl ENERAL dealer in Drugs, Medicines, Wince,
X Liquors, Paints. U»ads, Oils, Varnishes. Glass, I
Putty, Toilet Articles. Fancy Goods, Stntionerv, ■
Picture Frames, Mouldings, Wall Paper, Tobacco, 1
Cigars, Ac.. Broad-st.
Physicians’ Prescriptions carefullly pre
pared. at
Miscellaneous.
G. 11. NICIIOI.S,
fIIEACHERof A’ocal and Instrumental Music.—
I Piano Fortes-, Orgafl.a and Melodeons furnish
ed to order. Satisfaction to customers guaranteed.
W. T. PORTER,
DEALER in School, Miscellaneous ahd Bfahk
Books. Stationery; Frames, Mirrors. Toys. No
tions, Toilet articles, at New Book Store, on Broad
street. 3,
AV ISE & HOUGH,
4 TTORNEYS A COUNSELORS at Law. Office
ZV Second floor Dudley's block, Broad-sts. 31
BARBER SHOP.
Ct MAURER, Proprietor. Shaving, Hair Cat-
G ti n o. Ac., Ac., neatly done. 31
J. ANDERS,
HARNESS MAKER. Custom work promptly
attended to, Broad-st. 81
11. C. COTTON,
PHYSICIAN A SURGEON office over Welch's
drug store, Broad-st. 31
C. L. BARNES &, CO.,
EMJRWARDERS, Steaniboatand Express Agents,
JJ Levee. gy
CHAS. O. BOUGH Ton,
Dealer in Confo -tion rv. Canned Fruits.
Cider, Oysters by ihe dish or can, Ac., cor
Broad and Kinnickinnick-st-. 81
MEACHAM &. CO.,
MANUFACTURERS of Sash, Doors, Blinds.
Mouldings, Ac., Broad-st.
MRS. N. M. MARKLE,
DEALER in Millinery and Fancy Dress Gooria
All kinds of Millinery and Dress Making done
to order. Store on the corner of Orange and Broad
Streets.
Agent for the Leavit Sewing Machine, the best
family machine in use. 31
CARROLL &, WIGGINS,
BLACKSMITHS. Ali kinds of work in our line
promptly executed, and on reasonable forms.
Shop on Broad-st.
MILLER A, WESTFALL,
BANKERS. Do a general banking business.
Second story Dudley's block, Main-st.
WHITE A BUTTON,
4 TTORNEYB and Counselors at Law, Broad-st
Ci. All business intrusted to us will be promptly
attended to.
ST. NICHOLAS HOTEL,
(On the Levee.)
Prescott, WiMeonssti.
rnins HOUSE has just been opened for the ac-
I coinmodation of the public. Everything is
new and commodious—tbo furniture bein" iust
brought from the east. 1
Tliis hotel is pleasantly located, commands a fl no
view np and down the river and isespeciaily adapt
ed for those whose homes are in the hot and dusty
city and who desire a summer residence in the
country.
I respectfully invite the formers of Pierce nnd
surrounding counties to give me a call when in
town. Good stabling.
May 14,150!>. 4 GEO. SHASER, Prop.
PETER M. SIMONS,
Proprietor of the
PRESCOTT HOTEL,
Sonth side of Orange at.,
Prescott, Wiscoiiflin,
This house has been renovated and prepared for
the spring trade, and the proprietor feels confi
dent of hts ability to rendersatisfaction to all who
tavor hint with their citatum. Good atablins at
tached. 13-ltf
MERCHANTS HOTEL,
On the Steamboat Landing,
Prcflcntt, Wisconsin.
THE OXLY AMERICAN HOUE& IN
THE CITY.
THS HOUSE baa Men newty furnished,papered
and painted,'tor theyeKr 1569, and the proprietors
better arepared than over to accommodate the traveling
publie. Good stabling attached.
12-30 GEO. NEWTON,Prop.
JOSEPH REICHERT,
Proprietor es the
St. Charles Hotel,
Wert side Broad street.
F/Ftf'SCOT’r. WISCONSIN.
TUS TTOTF.L has l>o»n th.>r«n"hlv repaired arid
refurnished. Good «tal>!iug*tt t'l'-d. i*i nio.l
- ate. The patr-irage in ter pnb ie i-sollHteJ Ig.lft)
J —r-r— —
Halts ofAdrtrlisiugt
SMC*. I-J ' <
• S e I 5 £ £
I =• _
; * ••••
2 squares «... IM* 21 4W I J •
S -uuares - •CO3 < 0 4.0 6 0«|10 In
*3»|4U 1“
' 2 column 4.60 «.TS 9.H‘ 13 SO »» -«
i cnlnnin <.00? »Oul2 01 a
1 column - IbWUOv 40 « *3U.(> JiOXIO 60J»O
A square will b« Counted the space of one
Baaineescards, 6 lines or s4.oua year.
l.egals charted at the rates pre.-cri! < d 1 y •taint*.
S|»cial notices 15 o-nte per line for fitst ineertion,
i and 10 eents for etaeh subsequent ineeitlon.
Transient adverieemenb- must b» paid fol in advance :
all others quarterly.
Advertisements not other wise ordered, will eor
tinned until ordered out, andcharip da'Stirrding.yy
Banking and Exchange Cfficc,
MILDER Ac WESTTAEio
Successors to City Bank of Prescott,
Prejcott,
Dealers in
FOREIGN EXCHANGE AND PASSAGR
TICKETS TO ALL FOREIGN
COUNTRIES
Receiva Deposits. Buy and Sell
changa- and do a General
Banking Business.
The Mnio a» an organized hank.
H. Mtr.t.Tn. W P. Wkstfmt..
Troy. New York. 10 Kian.
T. B. JONES,
MAXUIJIUTVIIKB OF
Sash, Doors and Blinds*
Diamond Bluff, Witt.
All work warranted of superior quality. Thoaa
wishing work, are invited to examine try n •fcttlet*
in th“ belief they will be sa:i.:act*>r* Ui
them. All order* promptly flllad. 13-1
WAGON SHOP,
—BT—
SEBASTIAN REH'tlEß'f)
Cor. Broad and Change els.,
PRESCOTT. - - WISCONSIN
I am m iking all kinds of wagons, double and
single, also sleighs and bobs. The woo<l-voik for
ot plows, harrows, and other tools iue<l by farmers,
furnished at the lowest rates. Custom work end
general repairing promptly attended. 3
AVI I/LIA MS Ar H EA'M.NGS,
First-class Professional
PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL
PAINTERS.
Wearc prepared to do. in a satisfactory manner ,
all kinds of
Hortst! iind Sign Painting,
GRAINING, PAPER HANGING, dkC
Shop on the Levee.
Prescott, Wts., Apr. 15, 18H9. St
TIN AND HARDWARE
S T <J_II E , •’
JOSEPH FIKAER, Prop.,
PIiEStOTT, WtSCONStW.
Large Stock—Quick Sales—Small
Profits,
Cash paid for old copper, brast. Iron, rags, papas
aud rope.
All my goods will Ims sold as low as the market
will permit. IS-S 0
jo 29S’
Dealer In all kinds of
CABINET WARE,
Orange-st.,
Prescott? Wisconsin-
I keep constantly on hand a large stock of
CABINET FURNITURE.
READY-MADE COFFINS, <ie.
And the public ip invited to call and see me be'or
making their purchases elsewhere.
CHARGES REASONABLE, FOR CASH (NLY
3(4 .JOHN fIAUMOM.
jtow_qfe;n.
OUR GREAT WESTERN
DOLLAR HOUSE
AST
158 State St., Chicago, 111.
BRANCH OF
136 Federal St., Boston.
Our great weftkkn branch house Lm
been esUblished for the ) of giving our agents
the advantage of the largely rediirvl express charges,
and that they may receive their goods in the rmorteet
possible time.
lyrsans v!ia hart. br<~n artisfi u Agrnttfar the DOL
LAR HOUSER the Er a will tare time and nionry.
and find it to their advantage in oi/<er.rer/scti f lodeil
directly with |
. CUR CHICAQO BRANCH.
Tlie (iialityofourgoqdsare fully t-ipial,uhd unr te-.ius
to agents arc not excelled by any rcrpmtilAe Loux in
our line of birrtnww.
AGEXTS W ANTED in every town and vil
lage in the Western States.
Certificate*.' giviitg a complete description of
articles that will l>e sold for Otic Dollar each, will be
sold at the ra’e of ten cents each; ten for $1; twenty
(with eommie>io>i) 6>r 42; thirty (withcommission)|3;
sixty (and commission) lors*i;oue hundred (with com
aKimiou) f>r $lO.
Any person sending for a club of twenty ecu have, as
commission, one of the fidlowing articles 15 yards of
Sheeting, l<>o Picture Photograph AILom, 11 quarter
Honey Comb Quil ’ ••ly's ge Button Boots, or year
choice of niiiner u* her'articles, fur above club,nam
ed on circular.
For al'iub of Thirty-, one of tho following
articles: 23 yanis Ehwting; 1 pair Honey Comb Quilts;
three articles from Exchange List, 4e., «c.
For n Club ot Sixty—One pair of Manchester
Quilts;- 48 yards ot Sheeting; pair of Word Blankets;
Webster's National Pictorial Dictionary, with I,<XXI
pages and WO engravings; six articles from Exchange
; List, kc.
For A Clnfo of One Hundred-Reventy-tv.
vards Sheeting; 10 articles from Exchange List, Ac.
WSeud Monty in=all cases by Registered Letter or
Post Office Slot;*y Order.
W-BK.VD FOR
gy-We take pleasure in referring those who have
never had dealing with n*. to the largiwt Express
1 T'istpsnf in' the Unitel States —Tha Ame-ican Mer
-1 -lusiits’ ilntof: Express Company, 04 to 96 W*-b'ngton
St. Boston. Mass., and through them to their Agent*
*.« Mgjlieut the Conntry.
5. C. THOMPSON & CO.,
iaO State street, Chicago, lit, '<
1 Ife Ftctial Lticct, lotf’-n, Mass.
NO. 38