Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-08-24
Nous of the il)eels.
Every arrival from Pixies Peak region
brings advice of shootings, stealings, lynch
ings and general outlawry.

brings advice of shootings, stealings, lynch
ings and general outlawry.
Not single newspaper in South Car
dina advocates the election of Douglas or
Bell. All are for Breckenridge. r.
The census shows the population of
Buffalo to be 81, 541 against 74,476 in
1885, an increase of 1865 in five years
1t is significant fact that the New
England States send up II United States
Senators, and there is not a Judas among
them.
Mr.. j. B. Sawyer, of Brodhead, was
kicked In the temple by horse, last Thurs
day afternoon and is now lying dangerous
ly Ill, In consequence.
ALI attempts at fusion between the
Douglas and Breckenridge parties in the
old Dominion have failed, and two electoral
tickets have been nominated.
-Chas. r. Brown, u. S. Commissioner
at Cincinnati, was shot dead by Alfred J.
Caldwell, of the firm of Albert Wood &
Co., In that city, Friday evening. q
VIM. Grouse, of Tamaqua Pa, has a
BOY only six months old, whose hight is 80
inches, who weighs 60 pounds, and mea-
sures 30 inches aroud the shoulders.
An infant daughter of W. W. Robin
son, of Berlin, was smothered to death in
bed on Thursday evening last, by turning
on It's pillow after it had been laid in bed.
-Tf' figures of the population of New
York city are going up as the census returns
are made. The World publishes table in
which the population is set down at $50,
900.
Miss Abbey K. Bowe, daughter of the
ex-editor of the Herkimer Journal, was
found drowned in the canal at Mohawk,
N T., on Friday. Foul play is suspec-
ted
-'Lincolnis dead letter in this coun-
ty, said the Eastern Argus. To which
the Groton Mercury retorted, "Like other
dead letters, % he will be sent to Washing
ton"
-Rumor has it that the British Consul
has secured the whole of The Clarendon Ho-
tel at Saratoga for the accommodation of
the Prince of Wales, who will make a brief
stay there on lis way to Washington.
A letter from Texas states that the
crops are all cut off in Rusk county, and
corn is selling at 81 PEI bushel, -four $15
per barrel, and bacon at $50 per 100
pounds. Great suffering already exists
among the poor, and public meetings have
been called to procure relief
Mrs. Quincy, the English lady who
ran away with her footman, is said to be
at present in this country, living at one of
the fashionable watering placed under an
assumed name. She is reported to be
worth G5,000,000 sterling in ner own
right.
There will be meeting Of the millers
and distillers of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, New
York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Missouri,
and Kentucky, at the Ohio White ulphur
Springs, on the Both inst,. for the purpose
of consulting together, and to adopt such
measures as would seem most beneficial to
their interests. A large gathering is anti
cipated.
The Cheraw g. Co. Gazette thinks it
time to be getting ready to resist the inau-
guration of Mr.. Lincoln It says, ''the
probabilities now are that Lincoln will be
elected indeed, it is almost reduced to a
certainty that he will be. With the mate
rial aid that he is receiving from the Bell
and Douglas factions in the South it is NOR
ally certain that he will be elected.
"A southern paper, the Memphis Appeaz
has information that there is a plan on foot
to black mail the merchants of St. Louis
who have favored the election of Frank
Blair, after the manner of Mr.. Hambleton,
who printed in his sheet a list of New York
merchants whom his readers might be per-
mitted to purchase their goods of, and
list of those stores they were not to enter.
of $50 men who were sent about two
weeks since from Governors Island, New
York, to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, thirty
eight deserted on the way. Drunkenness
and aversion to actual service are assigned
as the causes. The Germans make the
best soldiers. They join the army to get
money, and prudently stick to it until the
end of their term of service, when they leave
with their entire earnings.
Snakes appear to be unusually plenty
and venomous in Michigan. Mr.. William
Walton, of Oronoko, was bitten by rat
tlesnake last week and died in two days.
At Coldwater a woman was bitten in the
neck by massasauger, while she was pick
ing berries in a swamp, and died before she
could get home In the same town son
fl. Fl. Marsh was bitten by arattlesnake
on Friday last. He is now recovering.
A correspondent writes us that the
statement contained in the speech of Hon.
W. A. Richardson of Illinois. (Which was
delivered at Burlington, N. j., and reported
in the Press that Mr.. Lincoln had voted
on the Sd of January, 1913, in congress,
for a resolution introduced by Mr. Hudson,
directing the withdrawal of the American
armies from Mexico, is incorrect, and that
Mr.. Lincoln, instead of voting for that res
olution, in reality voted against it. On an
examination of the record we find our cor
respondent is right Fomey's Press.
The Montreal Witness says the affairs
of the Grand Trunk Railway appear to be
approaching crisis and it is generally an
ticipated that the whole concern will have
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