Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-07-26
ITEMS OF NEWS

lie Drltlsn squadron IN American
waters will consist Of thirty two vessels.
The Prince eff Wales is studying mill
sary tactics, at Curragh, Ireland
The business of planting oysters in
the bays of France and England has PROV
ed very successful.
The King of Siam has written a let
ter to the Emperor of France, on a sheet
of fine gold.
The smallpox prevails to an alarming
extent in Brooklyn. Newtown and the sur
rounding neighborhood
An attack on Birds Point is threat
sned. At Memphis, the loss of the rebels
in the fight is estimated at 5000.
"A widow in England has recovered
$4,000 sterling. (about $65. 00O,) from
"a railroad company for killing her husband.
Among the yeas on the expulsion of
Clark of Missouri, from the House, was Mr..
Crittenden, of Ky.
The excess of females over males in
Great Britain is 514,041, by the last GEN.
sus.
notwithstanding the heavy drafts up
on the Washington camps. there are yet
ten or twelve thousand men around that
city.
TINES DIsPATCH.--Ou loss in killed
and wounded will not exceed 600, though
the missing will be three times that num-
Der.
The Spanish Minister has promptly
scceded to the demand of Secretary Sew
ard for the return of the privateer Sumter's
prizes.
Dickinson College, Pa, has conferred
the degree of LII. D. on Hon. Edward
Bates, Acknowledgement of the United
States.
The watering places are said to be
tolerably well patronized, despite the war
Saratoga is looking mere animated, and
the newspapers say nearly all the cottages
at Newport are occupied.
ia The Union Convention in Missou-
ri is in full operation, having large loyal
majority. Its action indicates the adop-
ton of course similar to that pursued by
Western Virginia.
1t is stated On good authority that
JEFF Davis and his brother Joe have recen-
tlv invested more than $50, 900 in Paris
They mean to have a comfortable retreat
when the secession game is played cut.
Within the last two months the demand
for Bibles has been unprecedented. Dur
ing this time the American Bible Society
alone has furnished nearly two hundred
and fifty thousand copies, most of which
went to supply the troops.
-Whortle berries are so plentiful in
this vicinity that they have become drug
in the market. They are being sold in
our streets for three cents per quart
Good for the pie eaters, but poor pay for
the plckers.-Nauston Star.
"A battery has been invented in De-
troit which, with the aid of six men, will
discharge three hundred and twenty balls
per minute. The battery is protected by
sheet iron screens, and viii weigh only
twelve hundred pounds.
The Free Masons in Canada propose
to establish a Masonic Asylum for the
relief of INDECENT masons, their wives and
families. 1t is to cost $4,000 As soon
as the various lodges subscribe half the
amount, the Grand Lodge viii subscribe the
remainder.
Parties who have examined the
marshes, in this and Wood county, inform
us that there never was better prospect
for very large crop of cranberries than
there is this year. The vines are loaded
with fruit. With favorable weather the
yield must be enormous. Old cranberry
pickers say they have never seen the VINES
look better.-Uauston Star.