Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-09-07

A Telegraph line has been completed
from La Crosse to St. Paul, and is now
open for business. -.----...E
/. The Firemen of New York are TO
have grand torch light procession ON tie
arrival of the Prince Of Wales in that city.
Thirty men have been killed, or woun-
ed for life, in Indiana, during tie present
season by threshing machines.
A Californian, while chopping wood.
found in the butt of a hollow tree, bag of
gold dust worth seven thousand dollars.
There are six thousand and seventy-six
farm mortgages in this State given in sup
port of railroads
The Republicans of Mass. have nom-
mated Hon. John A. Andrews for Govern
or, and j. q. Goodrich for lieut.. Govern
or.
The population of New Haven, Conn.
IS estimated from partial returns to be A..
600, gain of ninety per cent. within ten
years.
Ed L. ". Lake, one of the first set
tiers of Wisconsin, veteran clergyman.
died at his residence in Walworth, on Fri
day last. .a .....
1t was feared that there would be an
other scourge of crckets in Utah Brig
ham Young was telling the people to pre-
pare for five years famine. r5'
Some dirty water left by the Prince of
Wales in his apartments at Quebec, was
bottled and sold at 4 shillings a phial to
some of bis toadying admirers.
1t is calculated by the best Judges
that England will have to import produce
to the value of full $45, GOO. between
now and the end of the year.
The hop crop in England is said to be
almost totally ruined. This VIII benefit
| the hop-growers in the United States by
raising the price of the article.
1t is asserted that Count Cavour has
asked the sanction of the Sandman par
lament for investing the king with dictate.
rial powers during the pending Italian war.
| An English paper says that James
Cooper who was coachman and general at
tendant of the first Napoleon, in S.. Hele,
ma, is yet alive and in his eightieth year
Jean Baptiste Faribau)t, one of the
earliest pioneers of the western country.
died at Faribault, MINI, on the 26th inst.
aged 81 years. He had lived on the from
tier 81 years. 5... .... -. ..- ...
! The St. Louis Neus claims that the
breckenridge men outnumber the Douglas
men in the Missouri Legislature three to
one, and that they will send James S.
Green back to the IT, s. Senate
Three of the Douglas electors in Ala
bama, Messrs. Balliug Hall. A. B Clither-
all, and Clemens, have renounced the
Squatter Sovereignty cause and declared
for Breckenridge and Lane. ~ .I
We learn that most diabolical outrage
was committed in Kenosha County on
Thursday night. A farmer by the name
of Don Pike, of Wheatland, had his years
toll all destroyed by some villains, by burn
ing all his wheat stacks. 30. E-a
"A Norwegian boy about ten years old,
named Christian Helverson, living up by
Mormon Cooley, near La Crosse, was bit
ten by rattlesnake on Wednesday morn
ing and died in great agony.
The AIleghmlan, former Douglas or
gan at Wellsville, Pa, has come out for
Breckenridge. That looks bad 80 soon af-
ter the good bargain made by the Douglas
men at Syracuse. s1e.a ~.
-Refreshment cars are beginning to be
introduced on railroads We know 10 rea-
son why there should not be eating as we'll
as sleeping cars, and presume one will be
as common as the other before long. .
The press of business on the Erie ca
nal is such that the canal boats which
were bought at $1,000, to 81, 200 early in
the season. have been resold at eighteen
hundred or two thousand dollars
Hon. Rufus Choat's remains have just
been transferred from temporary grave
at Mount Auburn, to their final resting
place, in the lot on Walnut Avenue, lately
purchased by the widow of the deceased
orator. .....--. ....t -. .....
2 Hon. W. B. Ogden of Chicago, has
purchased two thirds of the great iron
mill of Knapp, Wilkins, & Co., Pittsburg,
Pa At cash valuation this property is
worth 81 100000. Mr.. Ogden paid for it
in lands. a.. -1at f
A young lady who graduated recently
at an institute in Virginia, has been COM
mitted to the insane Asylum at Raleigh.
Her friends attribute her mental aberra-
ton to the reading of Milton's Para
| disc Lost
AT the late Republican State Conven~
ton in Minnesota, a delegate appeared who
had walked nearly two hundred miles in OF
der to be present. When the fact became
knwn, the Convention greeted him with
! three cheers.
TO keep Watermelons for winter use
Make box so as to be perfectly air tight
! lay the watermelons in, not to touch the
box or each other, and ell up with any kind
of grain that will pack tight, and they will
keep all winter.
TX P. NJ Fowler, it seems, esoapea
! the clutches of Uncle Sam only to fall into
! thoso af Ypllnm lack A oontIon,o, g..