Public notices mix with court updates in Prescott column
The da ybook recalls a Friday to Saturday publication shift and reports on Douglas county politics with McNally and Wilson, a Grand Jury result, and two cases Matson v Wood and Dean v Stone. It notes an England treaty rumor, announces Godey’s Lady's Book reissue, and logs county jail planning and Diamond Bluff formation with budgeted upgrades and office furniture orders.
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Circuit Court
Matson Va
Wood
Dean
Stone
Supreme Court
County Officials To Procure Rooms For Year
On motion the board authorized the clerk to secure suitable rooms for the sheriff registrar treasurer clerk of the court and clerk of the board for the coming year and to notify card officers before January first next five dollars were appropriated to the clerk of the board for expenses in going to Nudson as convessor of senatorial election accounts audited include Geo Shazer J M Bailey Young Gibbs J S Ayres W E H Moore HH Felt Geo M Oakley C Gibbs Jr W N Moore O Gibbs Jr J M Eames and others with total orders for 1856 amounting to 2172 94 The board adjourned to the first Tuesday in March 1857 and a melancholy death is reported of John Barry a Thomason's tailor worker who succumbed to delirium tremens after leaving Murphys shop in the village. He leaves a wife and one child at Lyons and the story serves as a warning to alcoholics.
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Board OF Supervisors
Moore
Oakley
Fol
Otis and
Masson
G. M. Oakley
W. Wright
Diamond Blas
Pierce County
Prescott
Diamond Bluff
Danid
Comstock
J. M. McKee
J.S. Ayres
J. S. Ayres
W. E H. Moore
Geo. M. Oakley
C. Gibbs, Jr
Sane
W. N. Moore
Canvaoser
Assemblyman
O. Gibbs, Jr
Board of Canvassers
Eames
Dexter
Oniven Girss, Jr
John Barry
Murphy’s
Hastings
Barry
Lyons
Town
Number of School Children in the County
The county report lists the number of school children aged four to twenty in each town. It notes lands sold at public sale exceeding appraised values and mentions four unsettled Sees claims to be reviewed in Madison. A proposed county road will be located next week with public subscriptions sought to fund the project.
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School Land Commissioners
Madison
Thomas Reysoups
Prescott
County Board of Supervisors
la Crosse
Aasstuaty CamBer
Get
la Crose & Milwaukee Tiailroad Company
Milwaukee & Mississippi R. R. Co
Mississippi Company
la Crosse Company
W. J. Gipsoy
Senate
D. D. Cameros
Assembly
Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad Company
A Singular Political Wager in Boston
Major Benjamin Perley Podre arrived in Boston with a wheelbarrow and barrel of apples from Newburyport to honor a Fremont Fillmore wager. He wheeled the load up State Street amid thousands as Col. Burbank and the Fillmore clubs received the delivery on the steps of the Tremont House. The event drew about ten thousand onlookers.
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Boston
Benjamin Perley Podre
Fillmore
Congress
Newburyport
Col. Burbank
Fremont
Massachusetts
State Street
Charleston
Ife
Lremont House
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