Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-02-08
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York State Lunatic Asylum.
Two of Major Anderson S wife broth
ers are in the South Carolina rebel army.
The Rev. c. H. Spurgeon has under
taken the editorsbip of the Baptist Maga-
zine.
Holly Springs, Miss, was lighted With
gas recently. The whole State is lighted
IN the same way.
-Ex- Governor Horatio Seym our is the
Democratic nominee for the Senatorship III
New York.
"A new sect, calling themselves "Free
Methodists," have appeared in Perry, Wy
oming county, n. Y.
The Mormons of Utah are about to
make last appeal to Congress for admis-
sion into the Union as State.
The house in which Thomas Jefferson
was born, in Shadwell Depot, in the county
of Albema,le, Va, was burned on &, .r-
day night.
Some vandals in Philadelphia went
to two marble yards the other night and
mutilated several thousand dollars worth
of statuary.
A deaf and dumb confidence woman
has been swindling the people in Bingham
ton, N. Y, by getting subscriptions for
the magazines at a reduced rate.
The snow on the Plains is reported to
be from two to four feet deep, rendering
mail carrying, except by pack mules, al
most impossible.
"A gentleman heretofore standing high
in St. Louis has committed forgeries to
the amount of $4,000. Hon. Trusten
Polk is one of his victims.
The Charleston Mercury denounces
the story that Governor Aiken has been
charged fo'ty thousand dollars for his I'm
len sentiment, as an "absurd lie
Thomas Lye, one of Christy's Min
strels, committed suicide in London, two
or three weeks since, by cutting his throat
with a racer He was 80 years old.
The Swill Mix Nuisance continues in
New York. The City Inspector says the
sale of the distillery milk is as general as
ever, and that milk was never worse
in Philadelphia, thieves pretend to
quarrel and fight in the streets, for the
purpose of robbing such benevolent per-
sons as may interfere to separate them.
The bill creating the Territory of Col
orado, has passed the Senate. The name
originally proposed was Idfhoe, which
was struck out and Colorado substituted.
The donation to the American Board
of Missions, from August 1st to December
31st, 1860, amounted to $4,000. This
is a much smaller amount than was antici-
pated.
--Advices from South Carolina state
that much diversity of feeling is manifest,
and large property holders threaten to sell
out and abandon the palmetto" State
forever. ...
Hon. Ira Harris has been selected by
the Republicans of New York as Senator
Stewards successor. His principal opno-
ncnts were Horace Greeley and VIM. NJ.
Evarts.
The Brandon Miss Republican says
that there was "quite large number of
slave owners voted for secession Gin that
State, but quite large majority of them
voted against it.
Mr. Arthur Chopin, who lost one of
his legs in collision on the Carrollton
Railroad, at New Orleans, has obtained in
the Sixth District Court, verdict of ss25.-
900 against the Company.
The election for delegates to the Vir-
GINA State Convention came off on Monday
last, amid great excitement. Partial re-
turns indicate that the Union men have
carried all the northern equities,
A tree near Williams College. Mas
sachusetts, is SO situated that It draws
nourishment from New York, Massachu-
sets, and Vermont. It stands On the spot
where these three States meet.
The Galena Aduertiser says there were
IS, 553, 511 lbs. of lead shipped from the
Mines of that locality the past year, which
at the average price of five and half cents
per h., was sold for 81, 029,443 10.
One of the Oldest citizens of Mansfield,
Ohio, who had done the State some SER
vice ir times past. proposes the formation
of a military company of cid men. He
says be wants real old jelloles uho can't
run.
Elder Pratt, one of Brigham Youne's
priests, in his lecture on Mormonism at
Boston the other evening, stated that
there were at the present time over one
hundred Mormons in that city, mostly for
eigners.
A special despatch to the New York
Commercial Advertiser, from Washington
mentions rumor that charges of treason
will be preferred against Mr.. Toucey, the
Secretary of the Navy, by the house of
Representatives"
At the skating pond in Hyde Park,
London, a novel and brilliant sight was
witnessed when $4,000 persons assembled
at night large proportion bearing torch
es, and at concerted signal quantity of
fireworks was set off.
The foreign trade of the country ha
been active since January LIST, and in excess
Of the corresponding period in 1860. The
prices of our leading staple productions are
firmly maintained in tho foreign markets.
ind are now going forward with a good
lecrse of animation.