Prescott Transcript, The (Newspaper) - September 19, 1857, Prescott, Wisconsin is published every Saturday Morning by Hill Building Orango Street tho PIERCE CO copy three months fifty cents six nine months one to be made during the or to clubs of twenty or of per annum in one rear subject to four 10 lines minion one j 4.00 t o 11 10.00 6.00 1.00 50 Fowling Pieces io always oa hand Guns made to order Repairing done in good style at short notice D S i oaa insertion car Is of Svo minion lines one 6.00 length double price those torms with tho contracts arc to be fulfilled JOB all done with and despatch v and at tho lowest rates BLACKSMITHING The subscriber begs leave to inform the public that lie is now carrying on the business at tho old stand and is prepared to execute all kinds of work in the best manner and at the shortcut He intends to keep on hand plows wagons and other farming utensils in line of Ins own A share of public age is most respectfully solicited P REESE 1 1856 New Goods A New Goods Prescott Dru Sto just v and OILS D Drugs and rug ore ill constantly or h- Medicines H L HUMPHREY JVES J AND AGENT attend to all business entrusted to his in the Counties of St Chippewa and Dunn Hudson Dec IS CARDS AT A1 If ol of COUNSELLOR LAW of to the various Courts ami to payment taxes R to L II it Co Forte Com mission STEAMBOAT AXP Wisconsin attention to nil business i dN W D JOHN LOHRAIN CO Independent F o r w a r Plonse Opposite East Side River GALENA ILL Marie Care John terrain it Co SEASONED LUMBER FOR SALE AT Steam Mill Tw the of Wagon Timber Elm Oak Maple nnd other kinds of timber nnd always on hand All orders on short feet ready for use Koot Sleigh Crooks best kind for sale 0 II BELDEN CO Pierce Co Wisconsin July JAS O GOODRICH r II CHILD GOODRICH CO to IF ry for Mrs B JR door irw ef ihc TO ary COAT Though hardly worth one paltry groat dear to me my poor old coat full ten years my friend for full ten years I've bra And now like me thou 11 ai i e brushed thee clean suc old and wun j a goud while uc JL not so old either or at least the ladies say so and they ought to bo good judges in T U i i i t I have been a and ought to bachelor found i A K Dentist MOJO STOKE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS Xo 130 North Second Street bet Vine and Avenue ST LOUIS PLENTY OF GOOD BRICK LIME at Prescott July 3d 3857 BOOTS would inform the public that he keeps constantly a good assortment of boots nnd and makes to order every article in his lino of business Prices reasonable and work warranted Cash paid for Hides Prescott Nov 14 1856 Madison and Superior Prescott Office far sale at Over A M Sur the Prescott Drug Store JG J S AY RES M J S AT LAW General Land Agent bay nnd sell lands etc to in tlic counties of Pulk and 2d story F E R R Y P resent t In Point Douglas By PELT Like at this U very narrow nnd is insuring ato crossing at at footmen New fur the of T hare on band a good assortment of all will inako to order on short no for cash i iu Audition at thp oM Tits WIS assortment of Tin Ware nnd iron aoi all Article found at a store on hamt fur old copper promptly ami 17 JOSEPH D M I B WEST WAGON MAKERS Blacksmiths and Sleighs of all descriptions on hind or to REGULAR DAILY ST CROIX PACKET TJ S Mail Boat COWANS nt fi A M po t II tho i u thr traJo ill season ports t II tho can acres of Great Bargains These lands choice selections r-t every variety of Prairie and Timber both with and without water Many excellent location on and ucar the Grant Rail route Law nnd business attended to with promptness and dispatch Remittances made to any part of the Slates Taxes paid In- I executed in the most approved manner Office in Building 12 Broad street Wis April 4th 1837 P V Pierce county Store JOHN CANDLER Would respectfully announce to the public that he has always on haml a good assortment of Family to Also a quantity of Produce Corn Oats etc i Ct ill of which will bo sold as cheap as at anv other i on aml in everything connected with the profession generally July Also Court Commissioner and Public Conveyancing executed in the most approve ST PAUL BOOK B IND E R Y And and Over Grocery and Provision Store The undersigned having completed his I arrangements for the Manufacture of Blank Books is now prepared ro Blank Books of every description ruled nnd bound desired pattern with or without printed Particular nnd prompt attention paid to orders from vc Shipping Bills Ac ruled and printed to order Magazines Periodicals Music in any stylo Packages containing directions attended to promptly J A M October 1855 and tho poet shall not part Poor coat I've not forgot the birthday eve first 1 donned sleeve When jovial friends in Drank joy and health to me and mine Onr indigence lot some dear as ever in eves And for their art 1 hou and the poet shall not part Poor coat One evening 1 remember yet J romping to fly Lisette bhe strove her lover to retain And thy frail skirt was rent in twain Dear girl ehe did her best endeavor And patched thee up as well as ever her sweet as art Thou and the poet shall not part Poor coat Never my coat hast thou been found thy shoulders to the ground From any upstart To beg a pension or a place Wild forest Adorn thy modest if but for hat old as thou art Thou and the poet shall not part Poor coat Poor though we be my good old friend Wo gold shall bribe our backs to bend Honest amid temptations past We will be honest to the last For more I prize thy virtuous rags 1 han all the lace a courtier brags And while I live and have a Thou and the poet shall not part AIv coat 35 O PRESCOTT SHOE on a to my for tlu ir mi a MI rf from them the u B Sit TOPOS A Agent NORTH co WISCONSIN Surveying and mapping executed to order ble lands shown to settlers land warrants and bought and scld on Johnson and ison Daniel Shaw Esq Milwaukee lion Otis Messrs Gibson and Henning nnd Gray and Hon B B Howard Galena Hon II linn B Allen and J C Mann Esq Korth IVnin Brown Prescott of I n HI All Work Corner of and street E W Two Households Became One Mrs Benoni Benson was fat fair and forty-four When ber husband a soap boiler in very good circumstances was culled from his life task of contributing to the general purification of mankind Mrs Benson took refuge from her grief in a pretty situated on the cipal street in the tawr of At first she was inconsolable as she used to say a solemn emphasis carried conviction to the hearts of her hearers that nothing but the of her daughter Florence would have prevented her from terminating her ex- istence by the intervention of poison Mrs Benson was in no small ure indebted to her in than three months she threw aside her mourning and became as lively as ever Touching Florence sho had now reached the mature age of nineteen and nd began to think herself marriageable would be to have a pretty wife to welcome me home and do the honors of my table and to help me keep that cal Charles in order a mind to do glanced complacently at the still tive face and form reflected from the mirror Just then she heard and Florence entered She quickly Egad I've half Squire Markham took two more whiffs and exclaimed energetically I vow I'll do it What this mysterious it was we will leave the reader to infer from his next movement Ringing the bell he inquired of the servant la Charles at No was the reply he went out this morning and will be cone all That'll do So much the better for my thought he when he was left alone Now I shall lave the ground left to myself Let me ee The rascal intends running away next Thursday evening and to-day is began to peer a Monday Nothing like striking wnile At he iron is hot striking I'll write to her in his ame telling her that I have altered my J will go just at dark to-mor- and ow night the knot is tied and then what a She won't suspect anything She quite pretty nnd tolerably ST PAUL 8 TO BERKEY E Wholesale Dealers in Iron Cast and Nails Anvils Hand Crowbars Springs Wagon nnd Buggy Cable and Pittsburgh Coal A liberal discount to the trade Agents fur J C Herring A and G JI Fire Proof Safes street St Paul M T say LOOK O U T FOR T fl E Head WISCONSIN The subscriber respectfully announce to his friends and tho public generally that he has opened a Storo at Saratoga above where can be had at reasonable rates j Dry Groceries Boots and Shoes Ready made Clothing Heavy kots Flannel Drawers Ovcrshirts Undershirts lieU Bell j anda of other articles Fresh and Salt Pork White Fish Mackerel and repin Salt Hsh all of which Trill bo dis- posed of for Ready Pay A C MORTON or no Railroad IT 33 TT 011 f O R C A S II o cat Is Urp cf nk lira Million new every phid for all of our Mill vAit for Don't ask op br come Mul nio antl HARNESS SHOP trt Tm R i- is now to I for C Sii in of at short notice Irt at and retail at COE'S STOCK OF GOODS No 17 South Water St Chicago Importers and Wholesale Dealers in STAPLE FANCY DRY GOODS together with Hats and Milliney Goods Havo in store a very extensive stock nnd having ample facilities arc prepared to offer inducements to country merchants equal to of ern Successors Wadsworth A IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OP and Dealers in Woolens Aos 42 44 and Two blocki East of tho Tremont CHICAGO ILIi IT has on a large of Dry Goods from tliR east nnd Ins now opened store on Main street a stock part of the Goods Silka silk tissues ami cambrics Dotted striped nnd plain nainsook Dotted striped nnd plain Swiss muslin Mulls bishop lawns and book muslins White and colored detains mohair cloths French challi and barege French English and American French and American prints Plaid chambrays White and fancy colored lawns Kid silk cashmere and cotton gloves Buck mils and gloves Cotton Cashmere and wool hose Bonnet cap and ribbon chemisettes and lace coll Fancy colored and plain bareges Inserting silk fringes laces and Black lace veils black and crap Colored and fancy flannels nnd cotton floss sill and nett laces Hem stitched and plain linen Silk handkerchiefs all colors assil Caps Soft hats for men youths and boys Linen and cotton damask table cloths Brown linen do Embroidered diaper and curtain prints Jaccard diaper crash Linen napkins bird's eye diaper Bed tickings shirtings 4.4 to wide cotton and flannels Cotton batting bleached and unbleached domestics Black blue and French cloths French German and American French black doeskins Plain Made Black blue olive and claret coats Black and fancy doeskin pants cassimere do satinette do Satin silk cloth and cassimere Tests Hoots and Slices Overshoes shoes Groceries tubs buckets and pails well accomplished so that her in that respect were quite likely to be fulfilled Just over the way lived Squire ham the village lawyer just upon fifty with his son Charles who was about half young exterior the Litter was a favorite among tne young Indies in the neighborhood end considered in common parlance quite a catch As yet his affections had never been seriously entangled and might have remained so had it not been for the sudden one morning Florence Benson riding by on augh we shall have Squire Markham did not consider lat it might make a little difference the bride expectant He red a capital joke on his son and looked o further He accordingly drew his materials towards him and in- the following epistle DEAREST FLORENCE I find the iy fixed for our elopement on some ac counts objectionable and would like with your permission to substitute morrow evening If I hear nothing from you I shall infer that you assent to this arrangement I shall have a riage in readiness under the old oak tree at eight o'clock You can walk there without cion and as there will be no moon we shall be able to carry out our plans without fear of discovery I am happy to say that the Governor suspect in the least that a daughter-in-law is in store for him Won't he be Your devoted CHARLES said Squire Markham laughing heartily that bad about humbugging me crumpled up the letter and thrust it into her pocket Florence and Charles did not meet during the succeeding day chiefly in pursuance of the plan they had agreed upon in order to avoid suspicion Squire Markham acted in an exceed ingly strange manner to his son's think mg Occasionally he would burst int a Heavy laugh which he would or to repress and pace up and down th room as if to walk off some of his super abundant hilarity What's in the though Charles to herself It can't be The getting crazy Somethings the matter beyond a doubt But wha it really had not the faintest con- jecture At the hour specified the Squire had his carriage drawn up at the appointed rendezvous He began to peer a female form well muffled up made its appearance Thanking her in low whisper lest it might bo suspected the wrong person he helped her into the carnage and drove off Their tion was the house of the Justice of the Peace residing at the distance of some eight miles During tho first part of the journey was said Both parties were desirous of concealing their At length Squire Markham ing that after all he could not marry the lady without her consent and that the discovery must be made before the marriage decided to reveal himself and then urge his own suit as well as he might My dear Miss he How THE DEVIL is to good to be lost We clip it from aa the door open respectfully call the at- tention to it of certain persona who feel disposed to spread in the newspaper A young gentleman who ardently sired wealth was visited by his Satanic who tempted him to promise his soul for eternity if he could be plied on this all he could use The bargain was com- devil was to supply tho money at last to have the soul unless the young man could spend more money than the devil could furnish lears passed man married was extravagant in his living built aces speculated and gave away fortunes and yet his coffers were always full He turned politician and bribed bis way to power and farno without ing gold He became a fil- fitted out ships and armies his banker honored all his drafts He went to St Paul to livo and paid the usual rates of interest for all the money he could borrow but though the devil made wry faces when he came to pay the bills yet they were all paid One expedient after another evil counted the time only two years hat he must wait for the soul and mocked the efforts of the despairing man One more trial was resolved man started a The devil growled at the bills at tho end of first quarter was savage in six months melancholy in nine and was dead at the end of the year So tho newspaper broke down and tho soul saved very lev couldn't self have done it better So saying he sealed it up and sent it over by a little Irish boy in his ment having first marked the corner private in Be careful Mike to give it to Miss Benson and don't let any one else see was the parting Mrs in her quiet parlor casting her eyes over a late ber of Harper's Magazine Florence being absent on a shopping excursion she was left alone The ringing of the brought her to the door With some surprise she that the caller was ued in his natural voice shrieked tho lady thought it was Charles And said Squire Markham recognizing Mrs Benson's voice with astonishment thought it was Florence Was it you sir who was arranging to elope with my ing No but I ma'am who was my son conclude it was you meaning to elope with Indeed Squire Markham you are wrong the affair coming accidentally to my knowledge I concluded to take her place secretly in order to frustrate her plans Egad the very idea I had said the Squire laughing but the fact is we're both of most confoundedly sold and the mischief of it is I left a letter for Charles letting know it so undoubtedly ho will take during our absence and plume himself the rascal on the way in which I was taken in I confess that I left a note for Markham's boy of all hack It struck him at once that she was remarkably graceful and really quite pretty Thereupon he cultivated her acquaintance with increased assiduity and after a while asked the fatal tion Florence answered in the affirmative nnd instead of referring him dutifully to her mother hinted being a tic young lady how charming it would be to steal away to the next town and married without anybody being the I wiser Charles caught at this hint which chimed with his own ment and resolved to adopt it In order that it might be carried out with perfect success it was resolved to seem indifferent to each other until tho day fixed in order to ward off any which might be aroused So well were all these arrangements carried out that Mrs Benson had not a j of what was going on Not so with Squire Markham He had obtained a- clue to the affair in some 1 manner so that he had not only ered the fact of the elopement but even the very day on which it was to occur Sly dog that thought he to himself as he sat before the fire in his dressing gown and smoking cnp leisurely puffing away at a choice vana But I don't wonder at it he only takes after me Still I owe him something for keeping it so secretly from me It would be a joke if I were a little younger to cut him out and j marry her in spite of him i is Markham who was one of those jovial widowers who takes life as Alld assortment of goods comes mused more and more on this R C Prescott Oct 1856 out by chance as it were till he really began to think it worth something Mike Squire work Please holding out a missive here's a letther for Miss Benson an it's very that no- body else shouldn't see it The air of mystery conveyed in this characteristic address aroused Mrs Benson's curiosity especially when she observed that it addressed to her daughter and not to herself as she at first supposed She returned to the parlor not to read Harper's Magazine that had lost its attractions What in the world can it she thought that they should be so secret about it Can Florence be carrying i clandestine correspondence It be something that I to know Stimulated by her feminine curiosity Mrs B speedily concluded that she would bo false to the responsibilities of on a ma ence to the same will laugh at me what an How she tery a parent if she did not unravel the said she I will open it and if it shouldn't be anything lar I can easily reseal it and Florence will still be none the wiser This she accordingly did What was her astonishment when the plan of ment was discovered to her Here's pretty she ex- claimed as soon as she could recover breath So Florence was going to run away get married to that Chas Markham without as much as hinting a word to me She leaned her head upon her hand and began to consider She was rally led to think of her marriage with the late Mr Benson and the happiness of her wedded life and she could not help heaving a sigh at the recollection Am I always to remain thus she thought I've half a mind not to show this letter to Florence but to run away with Charles to-morrow night on my own account It's odd if I can't persuade him that the mother is as good as the and she I'll tell you said the Squire after a moment's pause we can carry out our plans after all Wo each came out with tho attention of getting married Why not marry each other and then you know we can make them believe we had it in view all along and only intended to frighten them Mrs Benson assented with a little urging and in the course of an hour the twain were made one turned but found as they had anticipated that Florence and Charles on discovering their selves stepped off in a different tion with a similar intent They made their appearance the next morning prepared to laugh heartily at tho frustrated plans of their learned with no little astonishment that they had struck up a bargain for selves Squire Markbam and his new wife had the address to convince them that it was all a premeditated plan and to this day pair are ignorant of the plot and counterplot which led THE ADVANTAGES OF LADIES is better for you to pass ah evening once or twice a week in a lady's drawing room even though tho sation is rather slow and you know the girls songs all by heart than in a club tavern or in the pit of a theatre AH amusements of youths to which women are not admitted rely on it are rious in their nature All men avoid female society have dull tions and are stupid or have stupid and gross tastes and revolt against what is pure Your club swaggerers who are sucking the butts of billiard cues all night call female society Beauty has no charms for blind men music does not please a poor beast does not know one tune from another and as a true hardly ever tired of water anchovy and brown bread and butter I protest I can sit all night talking to a well regulated kindly an about her coming out or her hoy at Eton and like evening's en- One of the great benefits men can derive from women's society is that he is bound to ba respectful to them The habit is of great good to your als men depend upon it Our tion makes us the most eminently selfish men in tho world Wo fight for selves for ourselves we light our pipes and say we won't go out we prefer ourselves and and the greatest comes to a man from woman's society is that he has to think of somebody besides himself to whom he is bound to be constantly attentive and to this double union of holds the two n and de- faulting epoch it is cheering to know that no Wisconsin Bank has closed its doors against the demands of its holders All of them have been thus far prompt and free with the gold to redeem their own paper and most of them have during the extreme panic engaged in negotiating loans and buying notes at the usual rates All the banks in Madison are unshaken and reliable as far as any one has had sion to test them and they may now be considered the most safe institutions in tho especially in as fas as the West is concerned We had rather than not have in notes payable at the State or Dane County Bank and our sleep would not be troubled much if we had that sum deposited in Madison EXTENT OF oun WESTERN the late Convention of the American Association for the ment of Science at Montreal Mr low read aa interesting letter on the geological survey of Missouri the cipal interest of which in a popular sense was derived from his statement of the largo amount of coal found below the of Missouri and the ing States -In tho Western coal fields which he said some eastorn men had to regard as mere patches there were the following extent of coal beds In Nebraska 10.000 square miles in Kansas in Iowa in Missouri in Illinois which added to the other beds would probably make in all not less than J 000 square miles besides many of the beds were he mentioned of the ness of 80 feet loves to roll along smoothly over the life but difficulty is not always an unmitigated evil Opposition only testa and proves the native force of a determined Kites fly wind Even a wind dead ahead is better fur a vessel than a The tagle Da would be the first to flutter and sink plumb down if the atmosphere should make no- resistance to ita Did you ever bear of wife that wrote to her husband in California and commenced her letter tell me not that absence conquers love tbo longer you stay away the better I like
