Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-03-01
Scattering Drops. No 2.

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thoughts away back to the time when
you first began. So when l first saw
Scattering Drops, No l." it made me
feel all-overish, very much as l should
think young lover would feel just as he
was about to pop the question and was
afraid his fair lady would put him off with
out an answer for three 1reeks, and thus
keep him, as Mrs. Darlington would say,
sin very painful expense" And then Mr..
Editor, to have all the village guessing
who "Quid" is. Some say it's lawyer,
and some doctor, and some charging it
to phrenologist, and others to a fool (this
is the time they hit IT'D and in fact to eve
rybody but poor me, and nobody thinks
can do such things. Well, it has always
been SO since the foundation of the world
l suppose. What's been 50? some one
asks, Why, that real gsnius-like mine
never get any credit till after they are
dead. Never mind, I shall die some time.
and I, yes /, shall have monument erect
ed to my memory-a gallows perhaps, who
knows But, Mr. Editor, for fear strane-
ers might think that I had told all about
Waterloo, and thus think we were a one
horse village and get that idea in Illinois,
Michigan, New York and Boston and per-
haps in Europe and wherever the WATER
TOWN REPUBLICAN is taken, as mat
ter of course, every man in Jefferson coun-
ty takes it, but if he does not I shall some
day have to throw q0d in his face, SO
better subscribe now gentlemen.
Well as I was saying, strangers might
think that Waterloo was one horse town,
and that [ had told all about the folks
there is in it; no sir! not by great deal
and more too. Some might think that we
have but one Hotel here. when every
body ought to know that Sam keeps the
"Waterloo House." all the while. Sam
aeho =? asks some one. Why Sam Smith
to be sure. He's big landlord too, tell
you, (weighs most three hundred) always
ready to talk and tell pleasant stories
make things pleasing to customers: Then
there is friend Bowman, with all kinds of
drugs, books, groceries, toys and other ar
ticles too numerous to mention. And Mr.
Editor, perhaps you would be at loss to
find James Lang if you were here E; but sir,
| tell you he can be found at his Sa-
loon under the ''Unicn Store" waiting on
bis customers that come in to smoke a
good cigar and read the Daily Papers and
Jim keeps them both as well as Oysters
and all the so forths except the whiskey.-
Talk about horses and cutters and bug
gies, why John Warren can just rig up a
livery team SO quick that any gentleman
would be pleased, and what makes every
thing SO nice and pleasant about it is that
Henry Van Slyke gets up just as good
teams and does up the livery business equal
iy as well as John, and both think they have
the best horses and "all the appurtenances
thereunto pertaining" as the lawyers say,
and I guess they have. But Van Slyke
says he can just cook the best dish of Oys-
tiers in his saloon that can be got up any
where, and what is worse vet, everybody
else says 50 too; and then he keeps his sa-
loon as neat as parlor
Some people wouldn't believe it, but
almost every body about here pays
their debts, especially what they owe the
printer but when they don't, all the cred
itors have to do is to step up stairs over
the Union, - and there they find Conkl;n
and Cone regular live lawyers, noted for
their energy, tact, ability and integrity,
self-made men, both of them, and both
been to the Legislature. They are thought
so much of they would get all the business,
if friend Lindsey didn't happen to live
here and get his share.
There is much talk about all kinds of
roads, but we have three of the tallest
Rcods here that [ ever saw; there is the
Doctor, Jack and Quinn, as every one calls
them, because they are familiar, pleasant,
and accommodating. They are all over
six feet high, and good looking of course.
The Doctor attends to bis professional bus
mess, while jackson and Quincy, both
brothers to the doctor, just do ur the mil
ling business, both gristing and saving, to
suit their customers to T.
We have quite an excitement here be-
tween two gentlemen in the Ambrotype
business, running opposition; so it is Cur
It's VS.. kellogg.
But of all the habits that the young
folks are getting into, marrying seems to
be the most in vogue at the present. c.
P Mead has get himself into the Cross-est
scrape imaginable, by marrying Miss Eu-
nice Cross and he kept the secret week
before the public knew anything about it.
But just as the fact got out Martin Van Bu-
rem Hutchinson one night last week, equal
ly unexpected to the public, married Miss