Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-03-29
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The bones of birds are hollow. and
filled with air instead of marrow

-Gaeta has one memorable circum-
stance connected with its history. 1t was
there that Cicero was assassinated.
The deaths in St. Louis last week,
numbered 66, of which one half were chd-
dren under five years of age
Mr.. Stevens of Oneida Lake, n Y,
was recently mulcted in the sum Of $1,000
for refusing to fulfill promise Of mar
riaee to Miss Baldwin.
The following States hold elections
during the coming summer Virginia in
May kentucky, Tennessee and North
Carolina in August.
The Metropolis company, Of London,
advertise to bury person in ''frst-claSs
manner complete" for $86 and if of sew
enth-rate class, for 81.
An equestrian is out West training a
herd of buffalo, which he intends to exhibit
next Summer, drawing the band wagon, on
entering town.
"A reckless fellow, smoking cigar
while making cartridges, at Jackson, Miss,
recently, dropped the ashes into an open
keg Of gunpowder, which exploded, and
nearly killed four men.
A great quantity of bones Of ele-
plants, hippopotami, horses, oxen, stays,
bears and hyenas bave recently been dis
covered in two caverns In the Island of
Sicily.
Henry Kreigler, convicted and sen
fenced to be hanged for the murder Of
Henry Boughten, was executed at Albert
Lea, Freebern county, MINI. on the lst
inst.
-Advices from Ponce, Porto Rico to
the 21st ult., state that the British brig
Onward had arrived there with clearance
from the Republic of South Carolina, which
was entered under protest.
Tobacco raising is extensively and
proftably pursued in central and Western
New York. One cultivator in Schuyler
county recently sent several car loads to
market, his crop in 1858 and SO.
In North Providence, on Saturday,
two children of Daniel OIney set their
clothes on fire by playing with matches,
aud were badly burned One has dad
and the other is not expected to live.
There is young man in Chicago, Gu
gagged in highly respectable but not very
lucrative business Of bill posting, who was
worth 500 two years ago. Rum was
his ruin
The Cornwall (Canada) Freeholaer
says: The enumerator has discovered a
couple living in the town Of Finch, county
Of StOrmont, who have twenty-six ehil-
dren all living with them in the same
house.
An Ottawa, Canada, paper says it
knows of upwards of ten mercantile es-
Establishments in that district SO filed and
glutted with produce, that they are now
refusing to receive it, even in payment of
old debts
In the second session of the Superior
Court, Judge Russell) Miss Josephine
Hilton recovered a verdict of So, $50 from
James w. Chadbourne, for breach of
promise of marriage, under circumstances
of aggravation,
The Michigan Homestead law, which
has passed both houses of the Legislature
donates to the actual settler so acres, in
stead of 40, as under the old law. It
also throws around the State new safe
guards against imposition
The postage stamps for all the post
offices in the United States are manufac-
tured by firm in Philadelphia. The
number furnished by them last year was
223, 667 270, of the value of $6,216,31O.
The increase from year to year is very
large
"A practical lesson has been read to
railroad companies, of some significance.
The 9th avenue nne in New York has been
mulcted to the tune of 5000, for too sud
denly starting car while boy was get
ting on. Amputation was necessary, and
the boy lost his right foot.
The Salem Register reports that the
sum necessary to found the establishment
OF home for aged INDECENT females in that
city, on sound basis, has been secured,
and that Institution will be put in operation
as soon as the requisite arrangements can
be made.
A young man named McLane shot
another named Hadden, at Wheeling, Vir-
ginla. lie escaped to Bellair, where he
was committed in few days afterward :
Both of them belonged to highly respecta-
bic families, and were intoxicated when
the shooting occurred.
We learn from the Mt. Carmel. Ill.
Reglster, that on Thursday afternoon a
cold blooded murder was committed in Wa
bash county. about six miles from town
Mr. Charles Brines was returning home on
load of hay, when he was fred upon and
shot through the head. No clue to the as
sassin has yet been discovered.
In August, 1858, William King, a
colored man Of Baltimore, was killed, and
jain Fl. Cyphus, also colored, was convic-
ted of the deed, and hung in April, 1859
A few days ago, George Orem, also color
ed, while on his death bed, confessed that
be was the criminal and the deed had
haunted him ever since
There are now more than thirty emil
grant SHIPS overdue at New York, some of
"nleh have been at sea since the middle
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