Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-06-15
Breultics.

| = Considerable building is going forward 3.
Shullsburgh.
| - Two oxen belonging to VIM H. Trip, oi
the town of Rock, were killed by lightning.
- The steamer Marathon has been sold and
will run on Wolf River, between New London
and Shawano
- Henry Bouns. one Of the early settlers Of
Naukesha county, committed suicide on the
9th ult.
= Hon. J. D. Ingraham. Secretary of tho
Treasury under Jackson, died at Trenton, N
j., on the 9Th, aged8l
- Mrs. Maria Post, of Patterson, N. j., ex-
pired on Sunday, at the great age of one hum
dred and and six years.
- The steamer Scotia laid up at lower
Louisville wharf Shippingsport burned. Loss
SIS 600.
- Preparations are being made for the proper
celebration Of the Fourth of July, at Hanchet-
vile, Dane Co.
- A Lincoln Club has been organized in
Cincinnati, and it has been resolved to build,
forthwith, Wigwam for campaign purposes.
- The humane people of Madison have
already registered one hundred and seventy
five dogs for that city.
- The correspondence of the Republican from
Aessilla, Arizona, reports Indian outrages in
various parts of the Territory.
- A fast young man of Milwaukee has been
committed to Jail at Sheboygan on o. charge Of
stealing horse and buggy.
= Some unknown person stole twelve yards
of domestic goods from the Catholic Church
yards in Shullsburgh-
- The barn of Dr. Charles Ware. Of Kings.
ton, Marquette Co., was consumed by dre.
Supposed to be the work of an incendiary.
- Not paper published in the Fl ee States,
so far as we know, has at its head the names Of
Bell and Everett. poor beginning.
- Mr.. N. '. Chandler, formerly connected
with the Stevens Point Pinery, is about starting
8 Republican paper at Reedsburgh.
- Patch Grove, Grant Co, was visited by
terrible storm Of wind, rain and hail, doing
great injury to the crops, building and fences.
- Mr.. Douglas is confined to his house at
Washington by severe attack in the throat to
which he has been OCCASIONAL subjected for the
| last year or two.
| - Alfred Rollins aged about g years, and
| native OF Maine, was drowned at Black River
| Falls Jackson Co., while running lumber over
| the falls.
- All is animation in Grand Rapids. and
everybody seems to be building Tencments Of
| all kinds spring up as if by magic. Centrulia
| is but little behind.
- In all the course Of his practice as law
yer in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln was never
known to accept a retainer IA an unrighteous
| cause.
- The speech Of Senator Doolittle, of Wis.
consin, at the Republican ratification meeting
in Washington, is pronounced the best made on
the occasion.
- They have no old maids in Japan When
the. girls don't get married voluntarily. the
authorities hunt up husband, and make them
marry, willing not willing.
| - boy named Sherman aged fifteen
| years, reached Utica, n Y. day or two
since, having stolen Sl75 from his father at
| Troy. He was arrested and sent home.
- a little daughter of Lyman Root, Of
| Beaver Dam. had her hand mutilated by the
contents Of gun, which was discharged while
she had her hand on the muzzle
| - The frequent and heavy rains have raised
| the waters of the Wolf River and its tributaries
/ so as to admit the moving Of logs to marke.
much to the relief of lumbermen
| - About fifty miles of the Atlantic cable on
| this side have been taken up, and fractures
found where they were supposed to be. By
overrunning the same amount on the other side,
some are hoping to make the thing work.
| : 4" Our fair cousin Fanny 1--WE dare not
| give her surname) says she really is surprised
at the ridiculous complaints which men keep
making about crinoline for of course they
ADMIT that the widest OF wide petticoats covers
1 but treo Jteet!"
| : A doting mother of waggish boy in New
Haven, having bottled lot Of nice preserves,
labelled them, Put up by Mrs D-.n
Johnny, having discovered the goodies, soon ato
the contents of one bottle. and wrote on the
label Put down by Johnny D--n
- On the 3lst, ult, the Republicans Of
Louisville, KY, held q public meeting in the
City Hall, at which committee, previously
appointed, reported in favor of the organization
t,f d.
that city, the Louisville Courier affects great
astonishment.
= Forney's Philadelphia Press believes that
Lincoins nomination is q CALLING and over
whelming Democratic defeat, with any other
candidate than Douglas. But the Journal of
Commerce believes Pennsylvania is gone any
way, and the North West and that the battle
ground must be in New York State. under
Horatio Seymour.
= The Baltimore Clipper says the new code
of Maryland, on page 288, says: THAT if any
person belonging to this State shall go out Of
this State and marry to any person belonging
to this State, without license or publication,
each of the said parties, on conviction, shall DC
fined one hundred dollars.7
| = The New York Times of Saturday an
| nounces its intention to support Lincoln ind
| Hamlin. Its present determination to support
the Republican ticket is taken in view of the
| lact tnaI ltS success promises TO be the only
mode of escaping the dangers which menace
the peace and prosperity of the countryo
/ = little son of Dr.. L. c. Mckinney died
Thursday evening, in Lacrosse, of hydropho-
bia. He was bitten by q dog about five weeks
ago, but nothing serious was apprehended till
| within few days, when symptoms of that
dreadful disease were developed The Repub-
lican says he was an interesting little boy,
! seven years old.
= The Washington correspondent Of the
Mobile Register insists that the japanese En-
| bassy stupendous humbug-that its members
have no authority from the Government of
Japan-that they belong to the inferior rank of
Japanese-that they are mere japanese show
men and traders, and that portion Of them
viii be On exhibition at Barnum's as soon IS
the hoax has exploded.
! - The Knoxville (Iowa) Journal. referring
to the return Of two residents of that county
from Pixies Peak, says they went to the mines
| in February last, and reached home last Thurs
Gay. Their advice is. if people have anything
to do at home, they had better stay there.
Wages at Denver and in the mines are only 81
per day-clains all taken up and hard times
anticipated.
- s'Ihe Pre-Adamite. God, y or Religion In
| the Beginning .ni The End is the rema markable
title CT curious cont troversial work written. BIZ
J an eminent Biblical scholar of New York md
I shortly to be Published. 1t is in style some
! what similar to the .Vestiges of Creation :, and
advances theories and doctrines that are ex-
pected TO create sensation in the theolec7tal
world It gives corp pplef history IF isaf,t,,