Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-08-31
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Hon. John G. Breckenridge has writ
en- letter contradicting the rumor of his
proposed withdrawal from the Presidential
contest.
The census is showing great falling
IF in the slave population of Western Viz
yinia. They are being rapidly sold and re-
move south.
The Albany Erening Journal says
hat without union W tn Know Nothing
SIN Douglas would have been beaten So
300 in New York, and with such union,
ne will be beaten $4,000.
The latest accounts from Texas say
that twenty-five negroes have been hung
in that State, without Judge or jury, on
suspicion Of being engaged in the late insur-
rection
The agent Of the Manitowoc Co. Bible
Society, in canvasssing that county, found
SIS families without bibles. The whole
number of families visited was 1000, to
whom were sold / ,I97 bibles.
-Advices from the west coast of Africa,
via England, state that the captors of the
American bark Edwin, of Salem, have
been accused of killing some of the men
and attempting the lives of others.
Mr.. A. V. Holley, of Burlington Yer
mont received information that an estate
of 5000, 900, in England, has fallen to
him, through bis wife who is heir to the
property. Not SO bad to take
The New York Courier and Eqnutrer
says there is no foundation whatever for
the statement that Mr.. Seward will de-
cline to serve another term in the u. S.
Senate.
The New York Euening Post, in
speaking of the favoritism by which all de-
sirable appointments in the army are CIV
ento southern applicants, says there is a
new Columbus coming who will discover
North America before many months.
The wife of John N. Ingersoll, ESQ.,,
editor of the Owosso (Mich. american,
was burned to death on the evening of the
18th inst, by the explosion of fluid lamp,
which ignited her clothes and burned her
shockingly.
The Indians are again becoming very
troublesome to the frontier settlements in
New Mexico. Almost every arrival from
that Territory bring accounts of murders
and thefts, committed by rowing bands of
red skins.
- The San Francisco Times predicts
that Douglas will not get as many votes in
California as Breckenridge by five thous-
and, will be behind both him and Lincoln
the latter of whom will carry the State, I'M
less all signs fail.
The association that have purchased
the Cold Spring grounds at Milwaukee, de-
sign having grand exhibition of horses at
that place during the fore part of October.
It is expected that Flora Temple and Patch
en- will be there. There will be premium
list of about So,
j. L. Kennedy, of New York, offers
to bet $500 that Douglas will not carry
three States; $500 that he will not carry
ono State; $500 that he will not carry a
single county in a single Southern State
and $500 that he will not carry a singl;
county in the State of New York.
-Four thousand cattle are SLAUGHTERED
weekly to supply the demand for beef in
New York These 4 1000 cattle per week
amount to 20S,000 per year, and are
worth from $50 to 500 head-say $50
each-makihg the gross sum of $12, 500
600 paid for beef cattle per year, in Install
ments of $240, goo week
The st. Louis Democrat enters into an
elaborate calculation to show that the Elec
toral vote of Missouri may be secured for
Lincoln. 1t deems Breckenridge stronger
than either Douglas or Bell, and believes
that the Republicans can poll more votes
than either.
The census taker in GAINESVILLE, Mich,
put down mans age at three hundred
years, instead of three hundred acres of
land, which was intended. He was beat
en-, however, by the census man in the town
Allegan. who put down man as having
one hundred and sixty children instead Of
one hundred and sixty acres of land
-Upto Saturday morning last, twenty
one cows, bitten by mad dog, exhibited
symptoms of hydrophobia in the vicinity of
the two Bridges, between Little Falls and
Patterson, N. J. Of these nineteen have
died. Ten other cattle were bitten by the
same dog. The destruction caused by this
dog is estimated at fifteen hundred dol
lars. .3a..I..Hs -.ta
On the evening of the 18th inst. Miss
Alice Foster, young lady of eighteen
years, met her death in very sudden and
singular manner at Beloit She was ex-
ercising on horseback, and accidently came
in contact with stake or pole projecting
from fence, in such manner as to strike
her person in the side, rupturing an artery.
She bled to death in about two hours.
Thomas Dascomb, of Roxbury, Mass,
died of hydrophobia on Sunday last, having
been bitten by one of his dogs about
week previous. Soon after being attacked
by the fatal disease, he became delirious
barled like a dog, and turned summer
saults in his bed with strength which two
men were unable to control, and finally ex-
pired after horrible suffering.
The New York San, (neutral in poll
tics, in speaking of the Douglas Know
Nothing electoral ticket, says that "exact-
ly such a coalition as this, has never before
been seen even in politics, and it is improb-
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