Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-12-28
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Exchange on New York ls selling at ten
per cent, in Chicago.
Weather continues favorable for mining
operations at Pixies Peak.
A fire in Newark, N J. has DESTROYED
property to the amount of $50, 900.
The Legislature of South Carolina
has elected VIM. Pickens Governor.
The Pony Express reached San Fran
cisco in precisely six days from Missouri.
The sponge gathered at Key West,
Fla, last year, realized $4,000.
Three millions acres of public lands in
California are to be put in market in June
1861.
Nicholas Carroll, a very estimable
man, was killed by runaway horse in
Manchester n H.
We have the authority of Professor
Agassiz for asserting that grasshopper's
organs of hearing are his legs
If pettcoat governmet is not more OPP
pressive now than formily, it is certainly
double in extent.
The Millerites are again on the qunut;ue.
They are going to have the seco nd advent
in 1867.
We notice the market report of the
Mobile AdUeytaser Of Dec. Sth, sets forth
that Gotten is dull and that Rope is
still firm"
Joseph Sanderson, of Ware, has OBJ
tanned patent for a Jack screw sufficient
to raise twenty three tens by one man
working it.
1t is estimated that two thousand gal
Ions of molasses have been made this year
from the Chinese sugar care in Cumber-
land county, Nd.
Lindsey ". Poole was arrested in
New Bedford recently for stealing hens,
He was put IN the station house, where he
hung himself during the night.
The Province of New Brunswick con-
tains fifteen millions Of land not yet clear
ed, about ten millions of which are still in
the hands of the Government,
The whole family of Rev. VIM. Mast
was poisoned at Covington, KY. by eating
peaches put up in self-sealing cans Prompt
medical assistance saved their lives
Lewis Harris and Gleason Slate d.
ed suddenly in Greenfield, Mass, the same
week-the former on Tuesday, the latter
on Friday. They lived together, and were
confirmed drunkards.
An infant son of Henry Hawley, of
Brookfeld, Mass, was nearly strangled re-
Gently, by getting a peanut III its throat.
The impeachment was removed by opening
the wind pipe
Two officers in the Russian army have
been degraded to the ranks for engaging in
a duel, Russia is evidently making good
progress toward a high state of civiliza-
ton.
= Jones has hunted up Scripture
authority for the secessionists. 1t is found
in that passage Of Holy Writ which COM
mences, depart, ye cursed" &c.-Alba-
ny Statesman.
The Chicago Journal says that another
text justifying the course of the secession
lists has been found in Jeremiah, which
reads. s'Secede and be DID,"
"A disappointed Hibernian, is relating
his grief, gave the following spicy item :
81 tould him had he anystrong beer what
was good he axed me yes, but it was sour
and all gone
Bird the bigamist, is in the penitentiary in
New Jersey, for marrying eight or ten women.
- A tract distributor in Belfast, ireland,
has been sent to Jail by the magistrates for one
month, for annoying the public"
The New York authorities have allowed
company to lay pipes through all the streets.
to convey ''Iydrogenated fuel or other heat
ing agents, to every house, just as gas and wa
ter are now conveyed. So we move onward
The census of New Mexico just completed,
shows that the total population, including the
pueblo towns, is so, 900. Great difficulty was
experienced in taking the census, the native in
habitants not understanding the object. and
suspecting that it was for some purpose of tax
alton.
Lola Nfontez, who brought upon herself
pnralytc stroke by smoking too many cigaretts
and living a life of unnatural excitement gen.
orally, is now living in seventeenth street, New
York, under the name Of Fanny Gibbons She
ious ceremonies.