Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-08-03
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N. J., and then committed suicide. Cause
jealousy.
Major r. Getherland, quartermaster
of the marine corps at Washington, has
absconded with 100000 of Uncle Sans
funds.
-Four gentlemen of Green Bay, last
week visited Suamico, II miles distant
caught 200 brook trout, and returned the
same day.
The confession of Rev. j. S. Harden,
recently hung in New Jersey for wife MUIR
der, has been bought from his father for
$4,000, and published.
A child belonging to family in Port
Washington, named Corwin, died on Thurs
day afternoon from eating the white par
snip.
The two factions of the Democracy in
New Jersey met in Convention at Trenton
yesterday, and nominated separate elector-
al tickets.
-Ex-Deputy Marshal Rynders, who is
under Indictment for conniving at the es-
cape of SLAYER, was committed to the
Tombs for insanity.
A fire in the mountains near Santa Fe
did an immense amount of damage, and
several lives were lost. dead bodies
have been found
The Chicago Tribune says that the
census will show that the population of that
city is good many thousand below what
it has previously been estimated.
1t is reported in New Hampshire,
that ex-President Pierce will take the
stump in that state for Breckenridge and
Lane. - "
The New Lisbon Republican says that
Mr.. John McCormic had two mares, with
their colts, stolen from his stable, in the
town of Plymouth, on Friday night last.
The ceremony of breaking ground of
this end of the great Pacific Railroad, the
first link in our National highway, took
place July 25th at St. Soseph.
Last Sunday morning, young man
named Andrew Mcconnell, aged II, was
drowned at Burlington. Racine Co. His
parents reside in Fillmore, Minnesota, and
were ignorant Of his whereabouts.
The Chicago and Northwestern Rail
road company are about to put one hun
dred and fifty more freight cars on their road,
20 accommodate its increasing business.
A barrel which had contained burning
fluid, exploded in a cellar, at Genesee on
the 22d, and lad named Leander Rich
ardson was badly injured, so that he is not
expected to recover.
Photographed one dollar bills on the
Shawnese Bank at Elizabethtown, ILL.,, have
recently been put in circulation. The work
is poorly executed, which, with the peculiar
color of the paper, render them easy of
detection. ss ClEE ks.Et
The safe of J. G Brown, lumber
dealer of Polo H., was blown open with
powder on the night of the 25th ult., and
$4,000 distracted. $500 reward is, of
fered for the arrest and conviction of the
offenders.
Two boys, Frederick Meyers and Ber-
nard O'Byrne, aged respectively 10 and Is,
were drowned near the old harbor, at Mil
waukee, on Sunday morning They went
in to battle, and were carried beyond their
depth.
The Central Wisconsin says that Mar
athon is alive with berry pickers. Thirty
bushels of red and black raspberries were
brought into that village in one day. Black
berries will soon be ready for gathering
and are very abundant.
Several of the Sunday Schools in La
Crosse Valley had a celebration at Fish
Creek, on Wednesday, July 18th. The
initiatory steps were taken to the formation
of an association to be known as the g La
Crosse Valley Sabbath School Association.
Miss Cornelia Barbour, daughter of
the Hon. James Barbour, of Virginia for
merly Governor of that State and a men,
Der of J. @. Adams Cabinet, has resolved
to emancipate her several slaves and locate
them In a Free State.
"A. " Pierce, recently from Minneso-
ia, was assaulted by two men near James
Vile, knocked down and robbed of $500
in gold. Two persons suspected as the
robbers have been arrested and committed
for trial
The N. Y Herald of Friday says =
Lincoln is virtually elected. Breckenridge
and Douglas have elected him between
them, and all that Old Abe has to do now
is to select his Cabinet and get his things
ready for a journey to Washington. -
AT the Breckenridge meeting in New
York the other evening, Daniel S. Dickin-
son said that when the New England and
Northwestern delegates at Baltimore prom
ised their states to Douglas, that pledge
was made subject to a slight ineum-
branee, held by one Abraham Licoln.'
Among the objections urged against
Gen. Lane, Secession candidate for Vice
President by the citizens of Dubuque,
Iowa, are the following:
First-He spells God with listle g.
Second-He spells barracks, bar-rax
Third-He spells dirt with two is. 81
Fourth -When in Mexico, be dated a
letter /" Very Croose.' y
Fifth lnd last-He can't keepa hotel.
Not very long ago the mammoth elephant
"CoIumbus died from injuries received
fo,,, sll;no tbrough bridge which broke I'M.