Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-04-05

New York Their California trip didn't
pay.
A severe snow storm in Virginia, on
the 10Th inst. caused great destruction
among fruits and vegetables. The fruit
trees were in blossom,
Handsome velvet pile carpets are now
sold in England at seventy five cents per
yard, (our money! about half what is
asked for them in New York.
Gambling is said to be carried on to
on extraordinary extent, just now, IN
Athens Greece, where there are no less
than 5000 gaming houses.
"A delriously drunken planter, Charles
Argum, in Sumter county, Florida some
two weeks, slot five of his negroes dead
while they were at work in the feli.
In Falls County, Texas Peter Royne
was recently fued $50 for killing an old
man under the most outrageous circum-
stances. Texes is the home Of justics.
A bride has been invented in France,
with which a runaway horses nostrils are
suddenly closed, an effectual method. it is
said, to stop the animal.
The cold weather of the last two sea-
sons it is now ascertained, has been felt
all over the world Hot fires were needed
in Australia in November last.
The peach buds in Western New York
and Pennsylvania are extensively ruined
by frost, and there will be little or no
crop Of that delicious fruit next summer.
The prospect for bountiful vheat
crop was never better in Tennessee at this
season of the year. In Kentucky the
wheat crep is also promising; and we hear
favorable reports Of it from every other
direction.
Mr. Russell, the London Times cor
respondent. it is said, is commissioned to
pay a visit to the Cotton Confederacy,
with view to ascertain what public opin-
ion on the Sc ession question is there.
DR. Adam Clarke, who had strong
aversion to pork, was called upon to say
grace at dinner where the principal dish
was roast pig. He is reported to have
said, 30 Lord, if thou canst bless under
the gospel what thou didst curse under the
law, bless, this pig. :"
On March 10th. the Georgia conven-
ton, sitting in secret session, unanimously
ratified the constitution Of the G. s. A
Some opposition was made to the clause
limiting tenure of Office only by good be-
havior, but objections were finally waived,
and the instrument was approved.
The Ca'ho &c Telegraph gives the fol
owing opinion of Gen Twiega: David
Emanuel Twiges. late General in the army
Of the United States, has received grand
reception in New Orleans. He was chief
ly conspicuous while in the army for cx-
IRENE profanity and no great character for
courage"
Already FIVE companies have complet-
ed salt wells in Saginaw and two more will
be ready in June, and by July all of them
VIII be making salt. One of the East Sag
inaw Manufacturing Companies has been
making at the rate Of forty barrels per
day for the last eight months Syracuy
will soon hnd a strong competition in Sag
NAV for salt in the west
Billy NIulligan of New York, a notoIi-
Gus gambler and bruiser, has been releas-
ed frem the Sing Sing state prison, on an
/ appeal to the Supreme Court, and is to
have a new trial His offense was point
ing pistol and using threatening language
toward an officer He has procured bail
and runs at large, dressed in the heighth
of fashion.
Gen. J. ". Whitfield, formerly of
Kansas. who was delegate from that Ter
ritory to Congress during the latter part
Of Mr. Pierce's and the first part of Mr..
| Buchanan administration has located in
Texas, and taken with him tie first ne
groes which were carried to Kansas and
the last to leave it.
The wheat crop Of northern Texas is
presented as unusually promising. A lar
ger amount Of land has been devoted to
the crop than ever before, while the sea-
son has been highly favorable, and the
plant is well advanced and thrifty. The
crop is now regarded as almost beyond
danger, and an early harvest is confident
ly expected.
An attdmpt was made to rob the Elk
change Bank, New York, yesterday NOR
ming The robbers had excavated the
ground for seventy feet to tn bank vault.
There were nearly half million in funds
and securities In the safe, but they only
obtained one thousand dollars, when they
were discovered and retreated.
The N. Y. Central Railroad Company
are now running, as an experiment, an
iron freight car. 1t is made of plates of
boiler iron bolted on an iron frame, and
being painted like any other car, is not
materially different in appearance. A
casual observer would probably fail to no.
tice anything about it that is unusual -
The only wood in the car is the floor.
The investigating Committee of the
New York Legislature. who have the case
Of Jay Gibbons. a Democratic member of
the Assembly from Albany county, who
was arrested for asking bride to support
certain measure, have reported him gull
ty of the charges preferred against him,
and the report was accompanied with a
resolution for bis expulsion
Mrs. Sarah Harrington was recently
tried in the Delaware county On J. court
for the murder Of her husband by poison
ing him with arsenic. She was only II
years old. and be was So; they had been
married eighteen months. and did not live