Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-05-03
Wisconsin War Tte N:

Wise onsin War Ite ms.
Gil. T.. NJ. Hunter is AdjutalIt for the
2nd Regiment. Of which 5. Park Coon is
Colonel. Halbert E. Paine is Quarter
Master of the same regiment.
The following have been appointed off
GERS Of the 1st regiment with the rank Of
lieutenant: R. Fl. Hewitt, of Milwaukee,
Quartermaster, Harry Bingham, Madison,
Assistant do, W. J. Flows, Milwaukee
Commissary, and 5. J, Brooks, Milwau-
kee, Aid to Colonel
W [. Utley has been appointed Adja-
tant Gcacral, in place Of J. A, Swain,
who has resigned.
The following companies compose the
2nd regiment of his State Fond du
Lac Badgers; Boloit Volunteer Riaee;-
Oshkosh Company, Captain Bouck Belle
City Rifles. Racine Evansville Volunteers,
Captain Ely; Lacrosse Light Guard =
Miners Guards, Mineral Point; Company
No. /, Grant Co.. Capt, Mckee; Randall
Guards, Lieut.. Randolph, Madison; Por
tage City Light Guards.
The Uniforms for tie First Regiment
have been decided upon. They are to be
gray pants and gray irock coats, with
black ripe on pants Cap gray, Seventh
Regiment q. y pattern. with black
cord. Oyercoats gray-arny regulation
with seams on cuffs ard pockets lappels
behind bound With black,
The Madison -iyg,s says that the i'm
mense pressure en- the Governor by Com
panies anxious to be called into service,
and the probability that they viii soon
be wanted, viii cause Gov. Randall to e.
der out the Third Regiment in week or
ten days,
Fort NoHeary is distant about two
niles from the heart Of Baltimore. Ii can
easily shell the city, if necessary.
e. w. Reyes has received the ap-
pointment OF Post Master at Madison and
entered upon the duties Of his office last
week adj z@T-.a
Hon. D. 9 jackson, U. s. Marshal
for this State, took possession of that oe-
fec last Monday.
Tho official census OF Illinois shows a
population Of Lila, 738, aid is the fourth
state in populatioa. The population Of
the State in 1850 was about $4,000,
showing an increase of $4,000, or more
than doubling the population in ten years
The new territory of Nevada is twice
as large as the island of Great Britain,
and larger than New York, PENNSYLVANIA
and New England lis population is g.
600. 1t is formed from portions of Utah.
New Mexico, and Washington Territories,
and a portion of Eastern California.
Mr.. Trueman Hanson of Stanford, N
H., hung himself in the woods. Loss of
property is said to have been the cause.
A lady IN Boston was recently badly
poisoned by the green fec from paper
bordering. which she cut to hasten the
work of paper-hanger. Dir, Hayes eau
lions the public against green paper.
American mechanical genius is appre-
ciated all over the world The ship 3ar-
aDak lately sailed from Philadelphia for
Liverpool, having or board forty light cars
for city railroads in England These cars
were built in Philadelphia, and contain ar
rangements for burning gas.
Water and gas pipes made of paper
| prepared with bitumen have been invented
and used in France They are very cheap,
and will bare an enormous pressure, say
fifteen atmospbcres, equivalent to that Of
column Of water with head of five hun
dred feet. sHa s Fl. 10
"A young man named Robert H. Boyd,
who resided in Cate Cayuga county, n Y,
while hunting snipe on the Sd. sunk beyond
his depth and was suffocated in tho soft
mud adjoining pond Several of his conl-
rades very nearly shared the same fate in
their efforts to extricate him.
"A new planet of the thirteenth macni-
tude was discoveredon Wednesday morning
10th inst, at the Observatory of Harvard
College, by Mr.. H. 2. futile The new
Asteriod is the Goth now known to exist
between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
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