Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-11-16
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uillStli lillO tue TlNer dt lH6b pidSO, anu
was drowned.
--Gerritt Smith has settled his libel
suits against the Fifth Avenue Committee,
for So. 600 sufficient to cover the expen-
SEES incurred.
Hart, the sculptor, has invented what
he calls soul ptometer, an instrument by
which the duplication of statuary is great
ly facilitated.
-Fifty-fve young ladies took the white
veil on the LIST ult, at the Convent of the
Sisters Of Notre Dame, Milwaukee, Wis,
and eighteen the black veil on the eth, in
the same establishment
The barn Of Stephen Doton, in Liver
more, Me-, was destroyed by fire on Fri
day evening, 18th ult together with one
yoke of oxen, two COWS, one two year old
colt, about ten tons of nay, and aquantity
of corn, straw, &C.
The oyster trade of Fair Haven, Conn,
IS something to talk about. In order to
Lold :he opened bivalves there is required
annually 35l, 450 tin cans and 446, S33
wooden kegs. They sell 10000 bush
els in the shell, and 100000 gallons
opened, annually.
w, Read, blind man from his birth
has recently completed, entirely without
aid from any other person, piano, which
was exhibited last week at the Indiana
State Fair. Its tone is highly spoken of,
and 1t is IN every respect fine instrument.
The editor of the Lewiston Falls Jour-
nal has seen section of hens gizzard
IN which nine common brass pins were par
TALLY imbedded. The hen was over a year
old, and when killed was in excellent con-
dition, the pins having evidently not injur-
ed her digestion.
-Catharine, the child of Mr., James
Maloy, in Worthwhile, aged about four
years, was so ainfully burned, on Friday,
that she died during the night. The lit
tie girl got hold of some matches, and ac-
cidentally set her clothes on fire,
"A young lady of about IS years of
age, named Henrietta Pratt, residing at
Auburndale, and respectfully connected,
committed suicide on Thursday by taking
strychnine. She had been disappointed in
her affections, which is supposed to have
caused temporary inaanity,
The Great Eastern is being repainted
and put in TRIM 1t is said that all hands
are to be paid off this month, and the ship
shut up for the present. She will remain
in her present position for some months,
as the tides will not again be sufficiently
high until Christmas to float her.
-Torchlight Professions were designed
more than two thousand years ago See
l Maccabees ". %, wherein account is
given Of the high priest Jason, who escort
ed King Antiochus into Jerusalem with
torehlight and great shoutiags.' Jason
lived In the fourth century B. G.
Mr.. VIM. L. Boulter of West Buxton,
Me-, committed suicide Monday forenoon,
by hanging himself to beam in his barn
He assisted his son-in-law in the morning
to yoke his oxen, and probably immedi-
ately hung himself Loss of property a
few years since, is tie supposed cause of
this melancholy event.
Mr.. Montgomery Blair recent Y bro t
an action in the Circuit Court of Washing
ton, D. c., against VIM. Carey Jones Mr.
Benton's son-in-law,) to test the right of
the latter to possess the furniture, books,
&C., of the late Thomas FL. Benton. The
case was decided Oh Saturday in favor of
Blair
Southwark Barnes, a leading mer-
chant and we'll known citizen of Plvm-
outh, drowned himself in Triangle Pond
last week Monday, during fit of mental
depression. The act was performed with
seeming GOODNESS and deliberation, his
watch and several articles of clothing be-
ing carefully placed by the side of the
pond.
The women of Canton, Ohio, vexed
at the drunkenness which has prevailed
there, made a descent on a rum shop, and
spilled all the liquor upon the ground
They then walked across the street and
notified the keeper of another GROCERY
that he had ten days wherein to relinqu sh
the business, under penalty of similar treat
ment.
Serious apprehensions are felt in St.
Johns, n. f., that starvation must ensue
during the winter in several of the outly-
ing districts. in consequence of the almost
total failure of the fishery and the potato
crop. The grand juries at Bonayista and
BURN have made presentmepts to that ef-
feet. The Legislature of the island has
been convened to meet on the Sd of De-
cemher to devise means to arrest the
threatened calamity,
In Detroit, the other day, young
man who had been for some months desper-
ately enamored of maiden, to whom he
had made many presents, discovering that
she was about to desert him, endeavored
to get back his gifts by entering her room
and earring them off. He was found there
by the girls mother and arrested for larce-
ny. The legal decision in this matter will
be looked for with intrest by many here
tofore generous but not repentant lovers.
India and China mails are aboard the
Canada.
The French version says: On the DIST
the Allies, after vehement resistance,
carried, by assault. the most important of
the Taku fort. Four hundred Allies were
put hors du combat. One thousand Tar
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