Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-12-13
NEWS ITEMS.

The Fox Lake Gazette suggests the |
name of Quartus H. Barron for Speaker of |
the next Assembly.
John Duffy, of Kenosha, broke his
hip few days since by falling down the
steps of a saloon
Carson Graham has been appointed
County Judge of Bad Axe County. vice
j, E. Merrill. resigned
The name of the town of Buchanan,
Lacrosse County, has been changed to
Washington.
The Jackson County Banner says
there will not be much numbering on the
Black river this season.
Rev. j. H. Towne has been installed
as Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church,
Milwaukee.
The Erie canal has delivered at New
York. since May 1st, 3O,000,0OO bushels
Of corn.
One sixth of the railroads in Switz-
erland are tunnellod. The longest are un-
der Jura. being 1859 metres in length.
The volcano of Gillian in the Andes
has recently broken out The explosions
and streams Of lava can be seen with the
naked eye at distance of 90 miles
The State of Maine has 9,729 men in
the field 20,50 infantry in complete regi-
ments, and one regiment of cavalry num-
boring 2,110.
"A son of Edward Croak, of Albany,
Green County, about l l years of age, had
his arm broken last Friday by kick from
horse he was leading.
The leading article in the Memphis
Appeal on the 18th, was England and our
war, i" in which confidence is expressed that
England will eventually help the G. S. A
"A writer ia the New England Farmer
speaking .of dogs, says: GAS curse to
the Commonwealth, they stand, in an
economical point Of view, next to rum -
The honey crop of France is this year
one Of the most abundant ever known
In some hives in the Southern provinces
there have been three swarms of bees.
The resignation of Gen. Scott is spoken
Of by the Southern press as ''decent pre-
text" for him to escape from sinking
ship.
The Laporte (Ind.) Herald says that
this year enough sirup from the Chinese
sugar cane will be made il that county to
supply its entire population.
The work of iron plating the steamer
Merrimac, at Norfolk, has been abandoned,
and the whole thing given up as failure
So much for Southern mechanics
of the potato crop in Canada, the
Hamilton Spectator says, eve hear the
most discouraging accounts Of the loss of
tho potato crop from ali the Western couu-
ties"
"A monkey owned by an Edinburg
shopkeeper lately snatched from its moth
er's arms baby twelve months old, and
with its teeth and nails nearly tore it to
pieces before it could be rescued
In the Douglas Brigade, now raising
at Chicago, there are now less than eleven
clergymen holding positions as privates and
officers. Every evening religious services
are held in many portions Of the camp.
John D. Bannister, of Lewiston Col
umbia Co., member of the Tenth Wis
consin Regiment, died of Typhoid Fever in
camp near Shepherdsville, Ky, on the 25th
ult
Fungus Furguson, convicted in Winnie
bago County, in 1855, Of assault with
intent to commit rape, and sentenced to
ten years in the State Prison, has been
pardoned.
Andrew Natwig, of the town of Sen
eea, Wood county, was found frozen 10
death in the road between his home and
Stanton, a few days since. He was not
man of strictly temperate habits.
Mayor Brown, of Baltimore, has been
released from Imprisonment in Fort Warren
on condition that be shall be prisoner in
the house of his brother-in-law, DIR. Shat
tuck, of Boston.
The Sandusky Register of Saturday
says pile of rails were discovered on the
track near Monroeville, the night previous,
just in time to avoid calamitous railroad
disaster.
There are no less than five places of
public amusement open in Washington at
the present time In ordinary times the
smallest theatre in the country could OBJ
tain little OF no support.
Mr. Seward, in the correspondence
with Carl Schurz, printed in the volume
just published, says that whatever the for
mer Administrations may have said, this
one will have nothing to do with the Ami
stead claim.
The barbarism of Imprisonment for
debt is still in vogue in England. The /
official returns show that last year there
were / ,06S men and 039 women consigned
to prison for not being able to pay their
debts.
The Albany Journal, speaking of the
Order No 81 says: eve have no hes
tation in pronouncing it the most coward
y and cruel act of the campaign. If this
is aspeclmen of Gen. Halleck' adminstra-
ton, he is the wrong man for the place"
The Indianapolis Journal of Saturday
says that a Government horse buying
agent, whose headquarters have been at
this city. has made SIS, 900 on the pur-