Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1860-11-09
Nens of the f1rek.

There was a heavy snow storm at
Fayetteville. Arkansas, last Thursday.
The arrests in g. Louis last month
were 595 for all manner of offences.
Two Swedes, after two months on
Frazer River, have returned to Victoria
with $4,000.
There is much suffering among the
returning Pixies Peakers, from sickness
and severe weather.
The murderer, Ezra Brainard, eonvic-
ted of killing his mother. was hung at
Three Rivers, Canada, on the 26th ult-
He made an impenitent end.
A frog was killed in Centre Groton.
Mass, last week, while attempting to
swallow chicken three weeks old the
frog measured 10 inches in length.
In England every child is required by
law to be able to read and write, before
it is permitted to enter the coal and iron
mines
"A new silver mine has been discover
cd in the Pixies Peak region by compa-
ny Ct young men from Illinois The ore
is SAID to be superior to Washoe.
Frederick Shurts, convict for life
in the Wisconsin State Prison, made his
escape some nights since, and no trace of
his whereabouts has yet been discovered
An Australian asserts that cObwcbs
are a complete cure for dysentery. He
takes them in iills four day. They are
also used for fever and ague.
Five fat cattle, on their way from AL
bany to Boston, the other day, escaped
from the cars at Springfield Mass, through
the open door, when the train was in mo-
ton.
The telegraph office of the Boston
and Worcester Railroad Company, in Bos
ton, was entered by means of false keys
Saturday or Sunday night, and s., 900 in
bank bills taken from the safe
"A Memphis justice has decided that no
boarding house or tavern keeper can detain
baggage for money due for board The
only way to retain baggage is to get out
an attachment fer common debt.
1t appears, after all, that the loss of
life by the explosion of Lower Mississippi
steamer Hill, was greater than at first re-
ported. The total number killed is report
ed to be 80, and the number wounded,
II to 90
Seven colored citizens of Rae ne, Wis,
left on Monday on the cars for Baltimore,
with the intention of going to Liberia in
the ship of the American Colonization So
clety.
Mrs. Elizabeth Blount, aged sixty
eight was married at Kingston, N. G last
week, to A. '. Bulger, aged twenty five.
The fair widow had $70,0 600 to counteract
the summers which have passed over
her head.
General Cornelius Robinson Of Ala
bama offers his valuable plantation and ne
groes for sale. He is disguised" he
says, with the submission policy of the
South, and is determined to convert his
property and leave.
Seven raftmen who were out in ca
noe on Golden Lake, in Canada, were
caught in a gale and drowned about a
week ago. They were seen by several
persons from the shore, who We're unable
to render any assistance.
Spurious bills on the Boone County
Bank, Indiana, have made their appear
ance. The plate is genuine but the sigma
lures are bad imitation. The parer is
lighter and more dingy and blurred than
the genuine.
The pest Office at St. Anthony, MINI.
was entered by burglar one day last
week while the postmaster and his clerk
were at dinner, and stole all the money
he could find in the concern, which was
not immense.
An interesting little daughter of Mr.
Frederick Block, aged FIVE years. died last
Monday evening, from the effects of 'stra-
monium or "thorn-apple, p" which she had
eaten.-DaUenport Guzette.
"A lump of gold was brought in yes
'ciodJ tHd9 "elSueu ttli IL was taken
from the ''Unknown Gulch," branch of
the Georgia, on Blue river about a week
ago. This is the largest nugget yet found
III the country.
What glorious world this would be,
if all its inhabitants could say with Shak-
speare's Shepherd: ':Sir, | am true Ia
borer; earn what I wear; owe no man
hate; envy no mans happiness; glad of
other mems good content with my flock"
"A counterfeiters' den on King street,
New York, was broken up by the police,
on Wednesday, who arrested two men and
took large assortment of counterfeiters'
implements, with 81, 900 in half made
notes The police also got some $4,000
in good money.
The great Art Exhibition of Paris is
officially announced for May and June next,
time for sending is limited to between
March Goth and April LIST, open to all ma
tlons and one great medal of 1000 francs
value will be given
A young man named James Steven
son, of Dekora, says the Portage City
(Wis,) Record, accidentally shot himself
on Thursday The charge entered the left
breast and passed through his heart, caus-
inc instant death He was universaIlv ro