Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-11-09
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from walnut tree and broke his neck.
Deer are very plenty in Aroostook Co,
Me-, and are often run down by wolves.
-Garibaldi has appropriated 5000 du-
cats for the continuance Of the excavations
in Pompei
One thousand men are employed in
the United States in the manufacture OF
sewing machine needles.
The London Commercial Record states
that the Great Eastern steamship is SO
shaken up and weakened that she is un-
seaworthy. ...s .-.--
-Soundings of the Atlantic have been
taken to the depth of twenty-seven thou
sand six hundred feet, without arriving at
the bottom.
Throughout Missouri. the total fall
ure of the bees to swarm during the sum-
mer just past attracts considerable atten.
tion and excites much speculation. a.
1t is stated that fifteen colportcurs,
under direction Of the American and For
eign Bible Society. are now engaged in
distributing bibles IN Ialy.
-Turpentine is considered to be one of
the most efiectual applications for prevent-
ing the ravages of moths lis odor is Of
fensive and fatal to them.
-Rev Edmund Worth of Kennebunk.
Me-, raised from one bill this season two
squashes, one weie hing l04 and the other
10S pounds. ........
"A Mr. Lankford has been punished
with thirty-nine lashes, in Mobile, for Civ
ing pass to negro who worked for him,
but whom he did not own.
- Mrs. Cell. wife Of the incumbent
of St Johns, Nottinghill, England, died
suddenly on the 9th ins.. She wasthe
only child of the late lamcnted Sir John
Franklin. .-. ..f. ...
Charles Mcknight of Truxton, Court
land county. n Y, died last week of d
sore on his foot caused by the use of
corn solvent purchased of a travelling ped
dlar.
Ono of Sir Boyle Roche's invitations
to an Irish nobleman asrather equivocal:
Il hope my Lord, if ever you are within a
mile of my house, you'll stay there all
night" -....-.....,... ...#..f -. ....ss
In Fall River, boy about four years
of age, son of Thomas Eccles, was playing
with matches. when he set fire to his
clothes, and was so badly burned that be
died on Sunday.
A smart woman in Thompson, Mass.
has turned her husband out of doors be-
cause he is lazy The woman OWLS the
property in this case, she objects to sup
portinl irone, if he is her own husband.
Serves him right.
The Concord, On H) Patriot says
an unusual quantity of wheat has been
rails, in that State this year, Many far
mers, who have heretofore raised bet little
if any, have this yrar harvested fifty to
one hundred bashels each.
A boiler used for heating the Suffolk
Mills, Lowell, exploded last week Wednes-
day forenoon, instantly killing Walter ".
Briggs, the temporary fireman, and, it is
feared, fatally injuring Charles c. Stcarns,
and overseer in the mills
Capt. Ebenezer Dyer, of West Dan
vile, Me-. while descending fight of stairs
with scythe in his hands, fell, and. the
scyth was driven nearly through lis right
leg at the knee joint, infieting dangerous
wound.
The Russian government has ordered
Polish clergy not to urge the people to to-
tai abstinence. because the revenues from
taxes may be diminished. They are, how
ever, allowed to enlarge in general terms
on the blessings Of temperance.
"A new spring has lately been discov-
cred at Lockport, Niagara county, n. Y,
which is said to possess wonderful magnet
c curative qualities. Its waters are un-
like any others now known to specific
analysis, though partaking largely Of the
sulphurous principle. ..a
The wife of Deacon Smith Kenyon Of
Hopkinton, K. l., hung herself with
skein of yarn in an outhouse on Saturday
morning week. Her age was about SO
years. Her twin sister, then living in Penn
sylvania, committed scuicide IN the same
manner about year ago.
"A young lady IN St. Paul rose from
her bed few nights ago to make an APP
plicaton of camphor to her throbbing tenn
pies By mistake she got hold Of bot
tie Of indclible lux. The error was not.
discovered in time to prevent most dam
aging effect to the fair ones personal ap-
/ peaTance.
Two individuals from Alabama re-
Gently fought bayonet duel in New Or
| leans. After a few passes one thrust bis
weapon into tie left shoulder of the other
and lifted him from the ground as a farm
er lifts fork full Of hay. This put an
end to the affair.
The pastor Of one of the Milwaukee
churches went into one section of the city
/ on Sunday, wherefrom many Of the excur-
slonists on the Inflated Lady EIgin. had
gone, and found in different houses no less
than one hundred children berett Of father
and mother and wondering why they did
not come back. EE9
They have a mountain in Oregon
which the settlers believe to he mass Of
silver and worth at a low calculation ST.
066, 600, coo. Claims are one hundred