Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-11-02
NUMBER 81.
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ly killed at Cincinnati, by the bursting of
milestone
james Nillard, aged about forty years
was found drowned in little brook near
the Lowell Fair Grounds.
--Garibaldi is teetotaller. He never
uses wine. A clear head and strong arm,
is the legitimate result
BY the bursting of a camphene lamp
in house in San Francisco, a whole fam-
lily was burnt to death, and the house and
furniture destroyed.
MIR. Jerome Braley has raised on his
farm at the head of Acushnet River, five
squashes on one vine, the largest one of
which weighs 107 ID pounds, and the
smallest 33 l-2pounds,
The man in Mercer county, Ohio, who
put stryehnine in his watermelons and thus
killed FIVE persons who were deprcdating
on his vines, has been indicted for man
slaughter.
A year cid steer owned by MIR. Wm,
lngersoll, at Centreville, Me, was attack
ed by wolves on the night of the 30tth ult,
and so mutilated as to render it necessary
to kill him.
A little daughter of Mr. Calvin D.
Pratt of Taunton, Mass, died in conse-
quence of having swallowed the chemical
preparation upon some friction matches
with which she had been playing.
1t is now ascertained that there wero
393 persons on board the Lady Elgin, when
shewent down. OF these ia are report
ed as saved, leaving 279 as lost. of whom
154 bodies have been recovered
The latest shock of an earthquake
reported from Portland, Maine, was felt
pretty generally throughout New England
and Eastern Canada. 1t occasioned a
considerable shaking,
California may be set down as in
very prosperous condition generally. Lands
and real estate continue to advance in
price, and lots in San Francisco and its
vicinity have nearly doubled in value in
the last twelve months.
The Ohio Conference of the Metho=
dist Episcopal Church, at its late session
at Gallipolis. adopted a resolution that it
would not hereafter receive any person in
to full connection who persists in the use
of tobacco. ....
Five inches of snow fell at Burlington
Vt, on Monday evening. The appearance
of the trees, yet in full foliage, some with
green. some with yellow, and some with
red leaves, and all heavily laden with
snow, was beautiful and singular.
Oscar D. Noble, respected citizen
Of Westfeld Mass, was murdered at Roch-
ester n. Y, while interfering with a
couple of strangers engaged in an alterca-
tion between themselves. Mr. n. espoused
the cause of the weaker party, when the
other stabbed him.
A Bell and Everett 'parient" down in
Connecticut introduced bis son to one of
the lights and leaders of the Union party,
with the apology am sorry to say,
though, that he is a black Republican. -
The son promptly replied, "If you wanted
me to train in your company, father, you
ought not to have sent me to the free
SCHOOL, Young America rather had him
there!
VINO ARE FRIENDS Thou mayest be
sure that he that will in private tell thee
of thy faults, is thy friend for he adTen-
lures thy dislike and doth hazard thy ha-
tired for there are few men that can en-
durc it, every man fer the most part de-
lighting in selfpraise, which is one of the
most universal follics that bewitcheth man
kind.-Sr Waiter Raleiyh.
The Chicago Herald has an elaborate
article on the Wheat crop Of the North
West. this year. 1t says : '.The cost of
raising wheat including interest on the land,
in the Northwestern States is about 50 Per
acre This, with yield of eighteen bush
els would make the cost of the wheat to
the farmer, at bearly living price. 80 cents
per bushel. With yieald Of twenty eight
bushels, the cost would be reduced to about
35 cents per busbel. The price of wheat
at the farmer market in the Northwest
will not average as low as 30 cents. The
crop of 1860 has thus far yielded the far
mer at his door - cents per bushel. No
crop is more certain or pleasanter of culti-
walton. Four-f!ths of the entire crop of
the great States enumerated above is spring
or summer wheat, and the best of it is near
ly equal to common red winter"
-'Brothcr, these are refreshing sea-
sons"
squiggle gazed vacantly at the speaker.
and groaned inwardly. The brother pur-
sued:
at is good to be here
Squiggle, still absorbed in reverie, groar-
ed again.
Brother; do you often think Of your fu-
ture state?"
At the word estate" the eyes of our
Democratic friend lost their dreamy look.
and his jaw clashed into place like rat
trap.
''State.'' Re exclaimud, bringing down his
clinched fist on the back of his questioncr's
bench, with an emphasis that startled the
worthy brother greatly "H-ll it's gone
Black Republican by $4,000 majorityF'
"A colored woman named Emma Ander-
son, who lives in a part of house in Eaken
place, running from Current alley, between
Spruce and Locust streets, went out and
left her child, an infant only nine weeks
old. in the care of Mrs Davis. who lived