Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-02-15

SAKE, the poet, who has been sick,
has recovered, and is lecturing again.
The Narkesan Journal says the Post
Office at Mackford has been discontiI ued.
The salary of the Lord Mayor of
London IS forty thousand dollars a year.
The Racine Adcocate advises that
John G McMynn be elected Chancellor of
the University.
"A Kansas farmer recently took load
of hay % miles to Ellwood to exchange it
for something 10 eat.
The Rev. 9. II. spurgeon has under
taken the editorship of the Baptist Naga-
zine.
The thermometers at Richland Cen
ter marked IS degrees below zero last
| week.
Gen. Dix, Secretary of tho Treasury,
is living at the White Houze, by direct
and special invitation of the President.
Hon. Joseph Ridgway, former Con-
gresham from Ohio, died at Columbus,
January 51ss.
Tho Charleston Meyc,uy is printed on
paper manufactured in New England,
and edited by Massachusetts Yankee.
There are twenty-five savings banks
in Rhode Island, holding So. 1853, 760, be-
longing to 35,405 depositors.
"A brilliant meteor passed over Bermu-
da. Jan, 9th, exploding some slistancs
from land with terrific report,
1t is fast becoming fashionable in Buf-
falo for ladies to wear the Balmoral
without any dress over it.
-Druidical remains similar to those in
Ireland and the hoar stones in England
and Scotland, have been discovered in IN
dia.
The amount Of coal annually mined in
Great Britain, and for the most part con-
sumed in that kingdom, is sixty six mill
ions five hundred thousand tons
The mode of churning in Fayal, one of
| the Azores, is to tie the cream up in
goat skin, and kick it about till the butter
comes.
A meeting of Jews from all parts Of
| the world had been held at London to con-
cert measures for the restoration of the
| child Montara.
Hydraulic engines have been success
fully introduced to blow church organs
with. Several instruments in New York
are supplied with wind III this way.
A lady walked from Troy to Albany
in her night clothes on Sunday night be-
fore last, in a state of s9mnambul;sm. The
night was cold.
An armed band, disguised, seized tho
guard of Apalachicola, Fla Jail, few
nights ago. and released gang of thirteen
regulators.
The snow is full five feet deep in the
roads through tho White Mountain dis
trict, and the SUBMITS are filed with snow
enough to last till the Fourth Of July.
-Druidical remains, similar to those in
Ireland, and the hoarstoncs of England
and Scotland, have been discovered in In
dia.
Northern Alabama is said to be so
emphatic against secession that its repre-
sentatives will, probably, be able to COM
pei submission of the question to the
people. -
Decrease of California gold was SIX
millions five hundred thousand dollars last
year. Amount received, thirty three mill
ion, five hundred sixty six thousand, four
hundred and nine.
The school mistresses whom Governor
Slade Of Vermont sent out to Oregon,
were to pay fine OF $500 if they married
under one year. Most of the girls paid
the fine.
1t is said of the French Ladies that
their fondness of effect runs to such excess
that widows vho have lost their husbands
practice attitudes of despair before look
ing glass. -. &C.,.
The New England States have about
one fortieth of the territory included in the
Union. Massachusetts, constitutes one
three hundred and eighticth part of the
national area.
1T is said that the use of red peppers,
stepped in cider is the beat preventive and
the most certain cure of the putlid sore
throat. It should be used as a gargle,
and a little swallowed occasionally.
The dykes in Holland were opcned in
various places January and 9, sweeping
away the houses Of thousands of unfortu-
nate creatures, who are wandering Geld
hungry and homeless upon the dykes.
"A young lady in GAINESVILLE, dressing
for church, swallowed one of the pins she
lad in her mouth, and nearly died. The
DR.. opened her wind pipe and took out the
pin, after three hours labor, and the pa
tent ID now doing we'll
More females than males were born
in Providence during the year 1860. The
circumstance has not occurred before since
the registrations were made The num-
bers were, SO males, SIS females, total
164S.
All the fruit trees in Algiers have
blossomed this Autumn, and second crop
of fruit as abundant and healthy as the
first is now in process of ripening, and
promises to be ready for gathering by Eas-
ter
"A lady now lives in the town Of Gains
vile, Wyoming Co., N. T., by the name
of Jenison, aged ninety one years, seventy
of which have been spent in weaving, and
last autumn she paired, cored and strung,
twenty bushels Of apples.