Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-08-03
Nous Of the fl1eek.
The whole tax of the state of New
York this year is S., 331, 900,

facturmg state South.
The Great Eastern's greatest speed
was 333 miles in one day-14 II knots
in one hour.
The American coal trade last year
reached the enormous amount of 59,000,-
900 tons.
In 1856 the imports of wine into
England from all countries amounted to
1872, S65 gallons.
In the California Pony Express, /, 800
miles are passed over in ten days, through
an unbroken country.
Robert Galloway, Esq, of Bedford,
Vt, recently lost 20 sheep by single
stroke of lightning.
The sum total of capital invested in
manufacturing establishments, in Michigan,
is $13,433, $50.
A Mrs. Page died at the almsbouse
in Pittston, on the Sd inst, at the very
rare age of 1O6 years.
Blankets took their name from Thorn
as Blanket, who in 1349 first set up
looms for weaving them at Bristol
The Beaver Dam Citizen wants Gov.
Seward to speak at WATERFOWL, and the
Fox Lake Gazette favors Beaver Dam or
Madison.
AT the commencement at Haverford
College, Pa, on the 18th inst, John G.
Whittier. the Quaker poet, received the
honorary degree Of Master of Arts.
The celebration of marriage in church
es was first ordained by Pope Innocence
III, 1900; before which the only ceremo-
ny was that of a man publicklie leading his
bride to his own house.
"A San Francisco paper mentions a box
containing sos Strawberries, the average
weight of which was over half an ounce
each. The larger ones weighed upward
of half an ounce. They were sold for $40.
"A cast iron bell, weighing 1925
pounds, has been cast in Cincinnati, and
it is said that its vibration is more perfect
and continuous than any bell cast from the
ordinary bell metal, while its sound is as
full and melodious.
"A Paris letter states that pistol ball
was found in one of Prince Jerome Bona
parties lungs after death, which had been
lodged there more than fifty years ago in
a duel with brother of Marshal Da-
youst.
The value of exports of merchandise
and California products during the last
six months is 100000 over the same
last year. Thirteen thousand more pas
sengers have arrived during the same time
than last year.
An old man in Sodus, New Jersey,
who is owing a physician bill of thirty
dollars, and unable to pay, has decided to
the doctor his body for dissection after bis
demise. The deed has been accepted, and
receipt given by the physician.
There are between twenty and thirty
thousand resident Americans in Great
Britain there are over forty American
students in the School of Arts at South
Kensington, to three of whom the Nation
al medalions were lately awarded.
Since the passage of the dog law,
there has been over $4,000 worth of
common, besides large number of blooded
sheep brought into this State from Illinois
and Michigan. Most of the sheep find rest
in the Eau Claire and Black river valleys.
-Four boys, the oldest not over II
years of age, got quart of whiskey at
groggery in Cincinnati last Saturday, upon
which they became intoxicated, and in this
condition staggered into the canal, where
they wonld have been drowned but for the
efforts of some bystanders.
Rev. DIR. Cummings, the 'Great
Tribulation'' prophet of England, who
predicts the end of the world in 1867, has
renewed the lease of cottage for fifty
years. In explanation, he says, that 'sa
belief in prophecy should not override COM
mon sense The Doctor seems to have
more common sense" than faith.
Breckenridge and Lane are supported
by Ex-President Pierce and all his Cabinet;
President Buchanan and all his Cabinet;
ny eEcTy OeHlOCIdOlC OIlUeu OGdttS CSudbOI,
except Douglas and Pugh !; by every Demo-
cratic Governor, except two, and by nine
tenths of the Democratic newspapers in
Democratic States.
james Valentine, negro drayman
was arrested in Philadelphia, on the morn
ing of the 2Sth of July by Deputy Marshal
jenkins, on the supposition that he was
Fugitive Slave. In the hearing, it was
proved that Valentine was native of n.
J. anb has been resident here for thirty
years and the case was dismissed Valen-
tine was roughly handled when he was
arrested, and has in consequence common
ced legal proceedings against the officer.
There is great Indignation among his
friends. 2..4 O.
Fifty convicts escaped from the peniten-
tiary at Jefferson City Mo-, yesterday, by
bursting open the prison gate. Ali but seven
were subsequently recaptured after severe
encounter, in which three of the convicts
were killed and seven dangerously wounded.
Mr.. A. c. Wilson, late of Nashua, N. H.,
in the employ of the Northwestern Railway
Co., was killed last Friday at the Harvard
station. While engaged in pushing freight
car, arope attached to it suddenly slipped off,
the hook on the end Of which struck Mr.. W.
and dashed his brains out. .st -a-..H
WATEITowE NJ Y JuIy 2S-Fiye per-