Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-10-26
Nous of the fl)eehs.

year.
The city debt of Philadelphia is SOL
U00, GOO. and they are about adding two
more public buildings.
"A bear weighing $50 pounds was shot
near Rome, n. Y, last week.
-Four lines of horse railroad are in pro-
gress in Buffalo, and will be finished by
New Years
Rive persons III one house, at Woods.
Michigan, were struck by lightning, few
days since, and two of them killed.
John O'Brien. living in '.the Patch, y
South Brooklyn, ret rned from the funeral
of his child, on Sunday, and beat his drunk
en- wife so that she died.
An oil we'll at the mouth IF Oil Creek
Pa, had yielded SO, $50 gallons of oil in S.
days, giving the owners net profit of $24,-
724, or nearly $500 per day.
Upwards of eighty colored residents
of Pennsylvania have applied to the Colon
lzatlon society of that state as emigrants to
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j. T. Hughes, member of the Fresh
man Glass, in South Carolina College, com
mitted suicide with pistol on Monday,
the cause being fear that he could not pass
the impending examination.
When two caravans meet in the inte-
rlor of Africa, the two head men approach
each other, then go back a reasonable dis
lance, lower their heads and butt. The
one that goes down has to yield the right
of way to the caravan of the one who
clowns" him. So Lieut. Burton saws.
Gen. Hamilton, an Irish gentleman
of New York, and formerly Democrat,
has come out for Lincoln. In a recent
speech, he said that his countrymen had
always been cheated by the sham Democra-
cy, and urged them to enlist forthwith into
the Republican ranks.
An election for county officers was held
throughout the State of Delaware on Tues
day, which resulted, says the Wilmington
Gazette, IN the complete success of the can
didates who are identified with the Brock
enrldge party.
Later accounts from Honduras al
lege that the story about Walkers ad-
dressing the spectators. and declaring his
regret for his cause, just before he was shot
was concocted by the Hondurean author
ltles, or fabricated in Havana. He said
nothing at all.
The Canals Of New York, under Re
publican management are paying into the
Golfers Of that State at the rate of over a
Million Of Dollars more per annum than
they used to when in Democratic hands,
The Prisons which formerly were constant
ly drawing thousands of dollars out of the
Treasury, are now paying money into is.
-Agreeably with the reorganization
plan Of the creditors of the Milwaukee &
Mississippi Railroad decree of foreclosure
under the first mortgage, has been entered
IN the District Court Of Wisconsin. This
was assented to by the city of Milwaukee,
SO that the only remaining obstacle to a
complete and harmonious reorganization of
the concern is removed.
Captain Charles Armand De Riviere,
the gallant Zouave," who has figured
somewhat prominently before the American
pubic, more recently as a convert sinner,
doing penance in a Philadelphia Monastery
has finally turned up in his old role of the
warrior AT last accounts De Riviere was
captain in General Lamoriciere's army
lighting for the cause of the Pope against
he Garlbaldians and Sardinians.
The Illinois Senate Committee has
brought to light still another fraud of Elk
Governor Matteson, amounting to the mod
est sum of SS9, 900. The total amount of
the ex-governor's frauds, as far as discoY-
cred is $42S, $50 and the work of exhu-
nation is still going on, with fattering
prospects, Matteson evidently meant to
make "the thing pay''
The New York Uor1d remarks as fol-
lows of the magnitude of the grain trade of
Chicago and Milwaukee
1.-The extent of the wheat trade of Chica-
go and Milwaukee at this time is marvellous,
The historical Importance of Dantzc, Ham
burg and Odessa dwindle into colonial in
significance, compared with these new
wheat emporiums of Lake Michigan.
Chicago and Milwaukee receive and ship
more wheat than any four cities on the
globe. The receipts of wheat at these two
cities, since harvest, have been nearly ten
millions of bushels The receipts for any
day the past week, at these markets,
would give one bushel to every inhabitant
Of Vermont; and the receipts of the week
would feed all Massachusetts, for six
months
1t is no figure of speech to say, that the
Northwest can ''feed the world"
FIGHT IN WATERTowN.-W learn that
a row occurred in Watertovn on Monday
night between some Douglasites and the
Wide-Awakes,-in which the former were
aggressors. Our informant who is him
self Douglas man, attaches the whole
blame to some dozen German Douelasites
of Watertown, who were led ON bv E.
Rothe. As the Wide-Awakes, to the num-
Der of 800 or more marched through the
city, a brick bat was thrown through one
of the transparencies, and as they passed a
Saloon the contents Of a chamber was
thrown Upon them, whereupon the Wide
AWakeS took occasion tO ssclaan outD A.