Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-07-20
Mems Of the fUeeI,.

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American horse railroads are being
introduced into Athens, Greece.
| live Democratic papers in Minnesota
support Breckenridge in preference to
Douglas.
Small Pox prevails in Chicago, and
is spreading so as to excite considerable
alarm. ea5.-T n =
-Ex-President Tyler goes for Breckin-
ridge, and has published pronunciamento
in his behalf. -. --..-.-
The Bible has been translated into
twenty different languages, spoken by
900, 900, 600 people.
"A little child four years old died in
Wheeling Va, last week, from eating
dried apples. o
The Pacific Ocean covers an area lar
ger than all the dry land on the surface of
the globe. ~ aE.9
Three thousand bushels of strawber-
ries have been sold, shipped from Kalama-
zoo, this season:
The wife of Capt. Mark W. Hodgdon,
OF fremont, Me-, was found drowned in a
well on the 2Sth ult
A Georgia paper gives an exulting
and triumphant account of the manufae-
tule of the first broom in that State.
The Fox Lake Gazette says the amt
of wheat shipped from that station since
September last is over 100000 bushels.
Powers now asks $1,000 for bust.
The price usually paid artists in Italy is
from $500 to $500.
Il "A bill has been introduced into the
legislature of New Hampshire to &c mitig gate
the evils of matrimony." .....>' -
"A writer in the New York Herald es-
Inmates the German population of the
United States to be about 6,5O0,000. -
Joseph Hefnorth died in Norfolk, Va,
and his physician ascribes his disease to
the habit of wearing tight boots.
There are over five thousand acres of
cranberries cultivated in Massachusetts,
yielding $4,000 year.
The Emperor Napoleon will not recog
nlze the annexation of Sicily, Tuscany,
and Romagna to Piedmont.
The number of sea going vessels in
the world is about eighty-fve thousand of
which two-thirds belong to England and
the United States. .... -
The Governments of Russia and Spain
will withdraw their legations from Turin,
if the expeditions from Sardinia against
Sicily continue.
--Advices from Guantanamo, Cuba,
say that ten or twelve American vessels
have landed 5000 Africans within six
weeks. One was an American steamer.
The ancient cooks carried their art
to the most whimsical perfection. They
were able to serve up whole pig, boiled
on one side and roasted on the other.
Mrs. George Weber, of Palmer
Mass, was SO badly burned by the break
ing of fluid lamp, Monday evening week,
that she died on Wednesday following.
Young America is very progressive
out West. There's school in Ohio, where
out of thirty-fve scholars, nine boys chew
tobacco, and five girls are smokers
"A little boy Six years old, named
John Hayward, was accidentally drowned
at South Marlborough, N. H., while fish
ing on the shore of the Lake.
1t is alleged that the pleuro pneumo-
MIA is disease born in the distillery cow
stables. The report of the New Jersey
Agricultural Society, just out, says SO.
w. G. Nelson, of Monroe county,
Tenn recovered $1,000 damages of the
East Tennessee and Georgia railroad, for
OBTAINING his wheat in their depots, to his
injury g Ola ~ -er.. 9..
The Prince of Wales, it is stated, will
leave England for Canada on the 14th of
July, and the Victoria Bridge celebration
will take place at Montreal, on the Goth
of August.
Lord Brougham has consented to be-
come President of the Leeds Young Mems
Anti-slavery Society. For a gentleman
of eighty-two years, his Lordship is quite
a young man.
The detection of Oregon makes the
Democrats look blue, and the quarrel be-
tween Gwin and Buchanan, it is apprehen-
ded, will lead to similar result in Cali
fornia. ~ r
-Garibaldi's Council of War unani-
mously decided that the insurrectionary
army should march on Messina on the 2Sth.
The National Guard are to occupy different
positions in Palermo.
The New York rogues now adulterate
gold by splitting and putting in platina,
in place of the gold distracted. About
SIS, SO of value is taken out of a ten dol
lar gold piece. sEs4z
The Singapore Free Press mentions
the astounding fact that since January,
1859, 1900 Chinese have been carried off
by tigers in Johore, the end of the Malac-
ca peninsula.
BE very careful how you drink iced
water when heated. And before drinking
even cold water, when in such state, i'm
merse the wrists for few seconds in cold
water, and it will remove danger.
The weather at the South last week