Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-08-31
III ultu III III y aruo.


The worlds annual consumption Of
tobacco has been estimated at two million
tons.
The Great Eastern is said to have
cleared sixty thousand dollars by her trip
to this country.
An American hay cutter took the first
prize and a gold medal at an exhibition of
farming machines in Paris.
"A lad of about y years of age was
found lying insensible and helpless by intox-
ication in street in Brooklyn.
The Hungarian is the 18th steamer lost
since the commencement of steam naviga-
tion between Europe and America.
Alabama papers fear that thousands
of poor people in that State will starve
this fall. the drought has been so fatal to
the crops.
Peter Share. German, died at the
Bellevue hospital in New York, of lockjaw
caused by running fshbone into one of
his fingers.
-B.ueberries have been found in sever
al places in New England from one and
three fourths, to two and half inches in
circumference.
Two children on the Bureau Valley r.
Il. I'll. endeavored to steal a ride few
rods on the cars, and were killed in the at
tempt to jump of.
In New York city they now send in
toxicated persons to the work-house and
compel them to work instead of keeping
them idle in the city prison.
Mrs. Margaret Gruner CT Hamden,
Conn, came to her death suddenly by the
careless use of burning find. She was
putting some upon the fire to make it burn
lively
Judge Ewing of Logan county KY,
who recently died, emancipated 26 slaves
Twenty two of the number have gone to
Kansas, and the remainder are at Column
bus, O.
A young gentleman from the ''rooral
district" recently advertised for a wife
through the papers, and got answers from
eighteen husbands stating that he could
have theirs.
Two adroit house thieves were ares
ted at Piailadel phia and large quantity oil
stolen goods recovered. They confess that
III few months they have stolen fifteen
thousand dollars worth of goods.
1t is stated in Middlebury, Vt, pa
per that tens and perhaps a 10000 of
bushels of oats will be destroyed in Add
son county the present season by the terri
bic sPourge of grasshoppers
IA letter from Iowa says: tour coun-
try droans with the abundance of its prod
ucts and from every section of oar State
we Eeeive similar accounts of the prosper
ity which has blessed US.
In one day within few weeks there
were no less than fifteen deaths from sun
stroke in Mobile, Ala. A lady suffering
from extreme heat bathed her face in ice
water, and died in about ten minutes af-
terWards.
As Asa Austin and wife of Auburn
Me- were travelling with horse and wag-
on. the horse stumbled and fell, throwing
the lady from the wagon, dislocating her
neck and killing her instantly.
A most affecting instance Of the devo-
ton of woman is noticed in the English pa
pors The ladies of fashionable congre-
CATION are raising fund by subscription,
to enable their minister to get divorce
from his wife.
Mr. Charles Gordon, very respecta-
bic farmer living in the east part of Concord
Mass, committed suicide by hanging him
self in his barn. He was subject to at
tacks of insanity, 76 years of age, and had
wife and two children.
Kentucky papers say that a fearful
disorder has occurred among cattle in the
vicinity of Shippingport and Portland and
it is thought by many to be the same as
that affecting the cattle in Massachusetts,.
.a-.-kossuth is said to receive quarterly
from some mysterious source, the sum of
$1,000, the accompanying note indicating
simply that it is from friend in America,
and that it is intended for his personal ex-
penditures.
Rufus Turner, of Groton Conn, hay
ing missed several chickens from various
broods set watch for the thief; a frog
measuring nineteen inches long was found
swallowing one chicken three weeks old
and was arrested. .raE#
Texas Journals are calling the atten-
ton to the extensive live oak forests in
that State, into which their railroads are
penetrating. It is said that Texas con-
tains larger quantity of live oak than any
other country in the world,
quite a sensation was caused in a
gambling house in Greenfield Mass, late
one night, by the entrance Of wife in pur-
suit of her husband. Some present skunk
behind the counter, others covered their
faces and there was quite stir among
the fancy gentlemen present.
On Saturday morning young man
named Nicolas Russell was found laying up
on the pavement in front of his father S
house, in Baltimore, his head, face and
body mashed and crushed in the most hor-
rible manner, caused by his walking out
of his bedroom window in the third story,
while in a state of somnambulism