Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-08-10
Nerus of the 1ueek.

The taking of the census will cost about
one and a half million dollars.
The Brooklyn, New York, police have seized
$4,000 of counterfeit bills on the Treasury
of Hayti.
Quite sun stroke epidemic prevails in
New Orleans. In one day seventeen in
quests were held on persons who had fallen
victims TO the heat. -s..-ls
1t is said that large number of the
streams IN the Norther.. part OF Rhode Island
are Dry, and as consequence the mills are at
stand still, and the operatives are idle.
"A Jerseyman named Golfer, while at work
IN his garden lately, exhumed an American
copper penny, bearing date, in plain figures,
1857.
The reason given for the unsatisfactory
working ofthe gold washers at Pixies Peak,
IS that the quartz is 80 hard that it ruins tie
machinery III very short time.
There is regularly organized band ofne-
gro thieves in the OgecRee river swamp,
georgia. Whenever they kdnap a negro,
tney send some member ofthere gang out to
sell him.
Charles Hudson, farmer of Mechlen,
burg county, Va, has been put in the county
prison there to await his trial for whipping a
negro woman to death. -.-
.-Marshfeld, the former residence ofDan-
iel Webster, is rapidly going to decay. An
aomls> ION fee of twenty'f five cents is charged
to visitors. -.E-.t. .-.
The HEALTH of Archbishop HUGHES is said
10 be very poor. He has gone on a trip to
d. Catharlhes, Canada West.
The great feature next to Georoe Ban.
croft's address, at Cleveland, where The mon.
ument commemorative of Perry's Victory ia
to be Inauguratcd, will be mock naval hat.
tie on the lake just off the city.
The exodus from Ireland continues ,bps
tar at as great ratio as in 1859. The DOB,
ulahon OF the country is now 533, 500 persons
less than it was in 1851, when the last cen,
sus was taken.
There is estimated to be running upon
the railways of the United States, not less
than 5000 passenger cars, and some $4,000
freight cars under the whole Of which some
608,0OO wheels are running.
There is now no reason to doubt that
the present wheat crop of Minnesota will Weld
more than twice the usual average-and that
at least one million bushels of the surplus will
be shipped cast. .s-...
"A Saratoga paper states that considera'
BILE sensation has been created blythe discovery
that Pages "Venus" now on exhibition there,
bears striking resemblance to young lady
stopping at the United States Hotel.
-Four hundred years have elapsed since
the Invention of printing, yet books are not
in circulation over the globe whilst the use of
tobacco became universal within fifty years
after its discovery.
between twenty and thirty persons in ore
boarding. house, and several other citizens of
Lewiston Maine, were poisoned last week by
eating cheese. Proper remedies, however,
relieved the sufferers.
There are employed by New York city as
heads OF departments, collectors, clerks
keepers and other officers, los persons whose
aggregate salaries amount to $4,000. The
largest salaries are paid to the Mayor ane
Counselor, who receive $4,000.
The steamboat s. P. Hibbard, from
Louisville to Memphis was sunk in the Ohio
river, on the 26th, by a collision. A decl
passenger and three Of the crew are reported
rowned. Boat and cargo entire loss, with
insurance on the cargo Of $4,000.
In New Orleans fires are extin gnished
by contract. The F,reman's Charitable As.
sociation has just secured the contract for the
next five years, for SO, 900 per annum The
city furnishes the necessary apparatus, and The
contractors keep it in good order, and supply
the force required for It's effective operation
= The Rock Island Argus says mad dogs
and mad cattle are plenty. Sevh al have re
Gently been killed in that city AID vicinity
There is also considerable excitement in Ore
gon, in Ogle county, ILL.,, from the same cause
Dogs, hogs and cattle have been taken mad
The Pitts burg Free Press of The 18th u1t
says the Diptheria (the terrible throat malady
prevails to an alarming extent in a portion
of Washington county, bordering on the Vir
ginia line. 1t has made its appearance
among large number of antilles, and with
rare exceptions has proved fatal es pecially tc
children.
Recently FIVE old ladies met at the house o.
Edmund Wordell, Westport. Mass, about
one mile from the Narrows, aged resp, ctvly
So, 81, IS, "A and IA, making unitedly 39t
years, or an average of 70 years. There
was ancient gossip there, and no mistake.
From accounts already received it appears
that the late meteor was seen as far South as
Alexandria, Va, North as far as Lake Ontario
and East as far as Boston. This shows
that it must have been body of great ma ?
nitude, and was much more elevated than OBJ
| servers generally supposed.
| Tho Door;o I I'll \ TI.uu.oo.t 49, H.. ,
family of Germans in that city. consisting OF
father and five sons, all hitherto staunch
Democrats, have joined the Republican
ranks since the great speech of Carl Schurz
at that place. A Democratic Committee
waited on them to coax them back, but the
sturdy Germans gave them decided rebuff
The Lynn shoe manufacu rers are in the
midst of an " irrepressible conhics" with the
d" new elastic rubber company" the company
having fixed the price of woven elastic shoe
web at an advance of thirty per cent. thus
adding five per cent. per pair to the cost OF
the congress boot, which is extensively wore
The manufacturers wouldn't submit.
VIM. Brown, a resident of Wheeling, Va.
was robbed of $4,000, between Cairo and
Cincinnati the other day. Some time age
he left the city as agent for Oliver Pryor
Esq, having in charge two boats loaded with
baled hay and oats, which he took to New
Orleans, and disposed of it for the sum above
named. taking draft cashed, receiving spe.
Gle, which he deposited in his trunk. Short
ly after he discovered that his trunk had
been broken open and the money taken
out. ......--,. ......s .
Various odd and remarkable things turn
up under the Investigations of the Census