Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-12-07
Nous Of tl)e 11)cek.
About 1920, 600 bb.s flour have been
exported from New YORK. SO far. this wear.

ABOUT LOU, UUU DDS fihur have been !
exported from New York, SO far, this year.
"A crusty old bachelor says he thinks
1t IS '0onan, and not her wrongs, that ought
to be redfessea.
James Bowen Of Windsor Locks. CT.
Tell from steamer on the Connecticut
River, and was drowned.
The Missouri Democrat predicts that
Missouri, four years hence, will be a lead
ing anti-slavery State bts5Ee-sl
1t is said the man In Montreal who
held the patent Of making paper out of
straw has sold out for $500, geo.
1t is an interesting fact that no cen
sus returns have been received from South
Carolina. They have been withheld.
The United States census shows that
we might better afford to lose three sue
cessive crops Of cotton, than one crop of
grass.
The Cosmopolitan Art Association
has selected washington Irving and his
friends, as the subject of its next annual
engraving. -.H
A grasshopper has been brought to
this country from Panama, which meas
ures - inches in length, and girts 4
inches.
The Water Gas Company of Phila-
delphia offer to supply the Philadelphia
City " rks with gas at rs cents per
thousand feet.
Hon. Vim. Pennington, the defeated
candidate for congress, in New Jersey, is
spoken of as a probable member of Mr..
Linceln's cabinet.
-Menken, one of the husbands of the
lady who claims to be the wife of Heenan,
sues for divorce. Mrs Adah Isaacs
Menken Heenan, as she is called, denies
that she was ever married to Mr. Menken.
The French Minister of Public In
struction, has issued circular to the d.
rectors Of colleges and schools forbidding
the use of tobacco by the students, on the
ground that their physical and intellectu-
growth is hinde-ed by its use.
The ueascaz and Surgical Reporter of
Philadelphia states that chloroform is very
rapidly going out of use, in consequence Of
the great danger attending its administra-
ton, its place being supplied by ether
The Barnstable Patriot reports that
in consequence of the severe frost on the
night of Sept. 80, by which so many cram
berries were injured, there is very short
crop the present season. Nice cramberries
now command fifteen dollars per barrel.
"A Mrs Morgan of East Bridgeport,
Conn, died very suddenly on Sunday eve
ming. She was singing and suddenly stop
ped and said 'How my heart beatsn' She
arose from her chair to go across the room,
and falling upon the floor, Immediately ex-
pred -. s-~ -s.- - s-..
The latest report from the "seat of
war" is that there is DO trouble in Kansas;
no attack upon Fort Scott; no invasion of
Missouri no s'raid' upon the Border Slave
States, no cause for Judge Williams run
ming away and no occasion for the thou
sand troops ordered out,
The Pony Express, with San Francisco
dates to the 21st ult., brings US the full re-
turns from California and Oregon. Both
ofthe Pacific States have voted for Lincoln :;
California by nearly 1000 plurality over
Douglas, and Oregon by 318 do. over Brock
enridge, ..5.- Ils-s
"A letter from Stephen Buttery of to-
peka, Kansas, to gentleman in Providence,
R. l., where he once resided, states that
a woman and her five children had been
found dead from starvation in that vicinity,
and that there were many families with not
weeks provision on hand or any means
to get more.
The Sheriff of Milwaukee publishes a
card in the Free Democrat in which he
says prisoners are frequently kept at the
Police station for SO hours without food :;
and when they come up, they are covered
with ice and bed-bags large enough to eat
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