Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-03-15

VIII ~ tHiau, Will NHOm Sne CecampeQ Tor
Europe. She states that she is married
to Wyman, and viii never return to the
United States
"A law suit is now in course of trial in
this city between the heirs of James Berry,
deceased, plaintiffs, and VI. ~ Rawlings
ct al, defendants. The plaintiffs sue for
the recovery of the real estate upon w5ich
large and valuable portion of Mound City
is built. The result of this suit is looked
forward to with considerable interest and
anxiety Cairo Ga@ette
-Jotham James, postmaster at Thehes
il this county, was arrested on Monday. by
u. w. Rearden, detective, and special
mail agent, charged with purloining the
money letters from bis postofice He was
examined yesterday, before Z. s. commits
sioner Harmon, and was held to bail in the
sum OF $500, to answer an tie next term
OF the United States Distrsct Court.-IJid,
--0ne day last week, two little Boys at
Albert Lea, Freeborn county, Mimi, saws
the Winona Repub'tcha, were indulcing in
the amusement Of mock hanging, when one
Of them got the rope 50 firmly around his
throat, that the play ended ia a tragedy
The boy was taken down dead.
Hon. Samuel Crawford died at his
residence in Mineral Point, WIS, on Thurs
day inst
The agent Of a New Orleans house
vas robbed at Memphis, Team, hotel,
the other night, Of $;25, 600 in checks and
drafts, and small amount of gold.
Three men and their wives recently
got into a fight near limelliIn ia Yardle
vile, and getting all clinched together,
! they fell into the kiln and were burned
to death.
"A mad dog was killed at Burlington,
Iowa, on Sunday last, after he had bitten
several other dogs.
Gen. Wool is lying critically i'll at
Washington, With an attack Of pnaumo-
MIA.
Miss Kate Dodge, daughter Of sa-
bin Dodge. Of Barre, raised the past sea-
son, four balls of cotton from single
stalk. The cotton is as nice, apparently.
as any Of southern growth.
j. ". Overall. the poet and literary
editor of the New Orleans True Della,
it is said, is about preparing life OF
Rev. j. NeWland -NaHlt, the celebrated re-
| vivalist.
The Memphis Aca'onche SAYS that
Prot. Wise of aegonauJic fame, is at pres
ent engaged in selling apples and candy at
the street corners in that city.
j 4, Bromley, of the Norwich CO..
Bulletin, has sent the President Of the
''Confoderates, q penholder, made from a
Iafter Of the house in which Benedict Ar
nold was born.
The California Indians cannot be in
duced to settle down on the reservations
set apart for them, but win resume their
wild habits when opportunity offers
ALISON, convicted Of poisoning his wife,
in the Hudson County Court, NeS JERSEY,
has been sentenced to be hung on tie l0th
Of April.
Mccormack has failed to secure an
extension Of his reaper patent This will
be good news to farmers.
The Riobmond Wing says that moth
| ing but the blast Of ridcule which would
follow, prevents South Carolina from sece-
ding from the Southern Confederacy.
The Oldest person in Boston, accord
ing to the recent census, was Mrs. Jane
| Quinn, an Irish woman, reported to be
1913 years old. She died on Sunday, Of
old age.
An Irish Attorney says no printer
should pablish a death unless apprIsed of
the fact by the party deceased.
Opium eating is on the increase in
the increase III the United States Out Of
800, 600 pounds imported into the country
last year, oaly one-tenth was used medic
inally.
"A N. Elmer, young man Of talent,
having eaten hasheesh IN Montreal, Cana
da, recently for experiment, leaped out Of
hotel window, and broke his neck.
The Legislature of New Mexico is
about to repeal its odious slave code-a
bill to that effect having been passed to
second reading by a handsome majority,
In North Bridgewater, Feb 25, a
man named O'Brien killed his wife by cut
ting her throat, and afterwards attempted
nusuecessfully to shoot himself as.
in Cass County Nebraska, on the 8th
inst, three horse thieves were captured by
a lynehing party who had given them pur-
suit, and hung to a tree in the woods.
Carl Sehurz is excluded frcm the am
nesty granted by the King OF Prussia, on
the ground that, having aided in the es-
cape of person from prison, his otfense
was net political, .. ..
oil has been discovered in different
parts Of Kansas, and preparations are said
to be making, with a view to extensive op-
erations in that line.
The Qpiaaj'one National, a Paris paper.
says Seward late speech lis the greatest
effort Of oratory thai has beer. made before
any deliberaJiye body in modern times.
| Thomas Hood died composIng-ana
| that toe, a humorous poem He is said to
have remarked that be was dying out of
charity to the undertaken, who wished
''to urn lively Hood -
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