Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-02-22
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preme Court, this spring.
The Texas Secession Ordinance is to
be submitted to the people.
Horace Greeley has defined to lecture
in St Louis for fear he would be mobbed
Near St Paul, Mimi, on the 9Th in
slant, six horses were frozen to death in
one stable
-Jenney Lind Goldschmidt, on the 9th
inst, while in England, presented Mr..
Goldschmidt with another son.
A woman of forty-two named Ann
Marston. attended the funeral Of her Sth
husband IN Portsmouth, England, on the
18th ult.
Recently, woman obtained divorce
in Defiance county, in Ohio, and married
second husband in the afternoon of the
same day.
Mrs. Julia Howard, q resident
Glasgow, Scotland, gave birth recently to
a pair of twins, in the sixty-seyenth year
of her age.
Mary Harper and two small children
were frozen to death near Quebec, Canada,
on the Sd inst, by exposure having no
place to lodge.
The Committee of the Michigan Sen
ate have reported a bill apportioning the
State into six Congressional districts, I'M
der the new census.
"A piece of land was recently sold in
London at the rate of 81, 900, 900 per acre,
sufficient to cover it with silver equal to a
half dollar in thickness.
The Oshkosh North Hestern states that
cover one thousand barrels of -four are
shipped from Neenah per day" by tie
North Western Railroad.
Frederick p Stanton, Marcus J. Par
rott, and ex-Gov. Walker, it is stated have
gone to Kansas to make a canvass for the
U. s. Ssnatorship in that new State.
Charles Lever. the novelist, is coming
to America-the continent is getting rath-
or too hot for him. He thinks the Allan
tic should divide him and the bailifs.
The residence of Mr.. James Kensey,
of Darien, Erie County, n Y, was burned
Sunday night, and two of Mr.. Kensey's
children were consumed in the building
The Mississippi State Convention has
ordered fifty per cont on the State tax for
this year be levied and collected forthwith
This is making the people pay for their fun.
10 Harley, aged one hundred and
nine years and nine months, native of
Ireland, but resident of Galena for the
last fourteen years, died in that city on the
7th inst.
Northern Alabama is said to be so
emphatic against secession that It's repre-
resentatives will probably be able to com
pei submission of the question to the
people.
LET THEM TRY IT.-The Times Wash
ington correspondent says that Republican
members of the Senate and House have
been apprised of contemplated assassins'
attack upon them, but are generally pre-
pared
The English authorities have lately
annexed another slice Of India, being five
hundred square miles of territory in the
Himalaya region, including the highest
peak Of that famous mountain range
There are 5000 miles of canal in
Great Britain, representing capital of
of $500, 600, 900, and since the adoption
of steam as the propelling agent. the traf-
&c has increased last year %, tons.
Mr. Lincoln received one out Of every
forty-seven of the votes cast in Virginia,
Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky and Mis-
souri,. Mr.. Breckenridge received che out
of every tbirty-two of the votes cast in
the free States.
1t is announced that the fifth volume
of Macauley's History of England will
shortly be published under the editorial
supervision of his sister, Lady Trevelyan.
It will complete the narrative down to the
death of William III
The unhealthiest capital city in the
world is st Petersburg But for the an
nual immigration of some 1900 to 1900
foreigners, it would be speedily depopula-
ted, for ever since 1903 the proportion of
births to deaths has been as % to II.
An unusual quantity of snow has fall
en- in the vicinity of Calias and ST. Stephen
the present winter. The St Croix Herald
says it is in some places six or eight feet
deep. and that fears are entertained that
it will seriously interfere with numbering
operations.
An immense peak of alum stone, from
which the purest alum is attainable by
very simple and cheap process, has been
discovered in Amaden county, California
1t is expected that large fortunes will be
made by those who embark in this enter
prise
Bangor and New Orleans were lately
connected by telegraph for the first time,
and message sent from Maine to Louis-
ana. This is probably longer distance
than was ever before connected in the
United States, or any land telegraph
over which ineligible dispatches have
bean sent
Once the most siclly city in tie world,
Liverpool has now become the most heal
thy, in consequence of the adoption of sci
enti6c sanitary measures. There has been
reduction of 30 per cent in the rates of
mortality within the past ten years
To ALL DIsUNIoNIsTs-THE HoRRoRs
OF CIVIL WAR.-As warning to the A
merican people at this time, they should
road the history of tie French revolution.
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