Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1861-05-31
NUMBER 81

The herring fisheries of Norway have
produced the last year. &c., that sold
at francs 10 centimes per tun.
A cow eats one hundred pounds of
green fod every twenty-four hours. and
yields FIVE quarts OF ten pounds of milk
Col Fremont left France in the
steamer of the 18th inst, to tender his
services to the government.
Tho Government will not accept of
George Coppways eight hundred Michigan.
Cippewa Indian warriors.
Tho Norfolk Register proncunees the.
statment that there are three hundred In
dians Of North Carolina at Norfolk, to be
false.
-Kossuth states in an affidavit that he
makes before court in England that he
still considers himself Governor of Hun
gary.
The San Francisco Herald says the
Chinese population of California at the
present moment may be set down at 49,
600.
"A perfect reconciliation had taken
place between Garhaldi, Cavour and Cial-
dini, and great satisfaction is expressed
thereat
Walter t. Brigham. station agent at
Mansfield depot, Conn, was crushed to
death between some cars he was attempt
ing to couple, one day last week.
A Mr. Bates, of Pendleton, Ohio.
who is ninety-two years Of age, has not on
ly volunteered for the war himself, but has
eleven sons in the same company
Mr. J. j Kirby of Fall River was,
ing on curb stone he received Injuries
from which he died in few hours
Tho war steamship Niagara has been.
ordered from off Charleston harbor to the
Gulf, to perfect the blockade of certain
ports there.
The best protection of the head from
tie heat of the sun is wet handkerchief
or better STILL a wet sponge placed in
the top of the hat, mois:ened as often as
convenient.
= Two thousand nine hundred silk
worms produce one pound of silk but it
would require tweuty-seven tbousand sp1-
ders, all females, to produce one pound of
web
1t is said that Queen Victoria has
sunk into settled melancholy since the
death of her mother, and that it is feared
she will not recover her mind In conse-
quence drawing rooms have been put eff
till the end Of June.
Affairs at Warsaw ar. unchanged
All the towns in Poland are occupied by
the military. Arrests continue TO be made.
There were reports of intended demonstra-
tions Oh the 29th, the Cars birthday.
In the southerly part of Kansas, the
weather Is fne,-the crops never looked
better-and the people are enthusiastic in
their devotion to the Government of tho
United States.
A couple ofAmericans in Arizona who
lately fell in love with beautiful Mexican
lady, resolved to fight for her One was
mortally wounded and the other crippled
for life, and the next day she ran away
with friend of the belligerents.
Major Anderson and the other officers
who were with him at Fort Sumter, have
had made for Mr.. Hart magnificent first
class gold watch, as a mementD of his GAL
lantry in mailing the stars and stripes to
the flagstaff in the midst of the hottest fire.
"A Southern merchant wrote lately to
a large firm in New York, requesting LIST
Of the names of those who suppo ted and
sympathized with the :. Movement against
tie South" The New Yorker replied bv
Sc ding through Adams & Co. s Express
copy of the City Directory.
The National LlteLhgnacrr states that
visitors to the capital are agrecably sur
prised at the excellent order With pre-
walls in every portion Of its limits, The =
casional outbreaks of disorderly men are
less in number than during the ordinary
peaceful times.
Mr.. Fl, G. Brigham of Norway, Me
committed suicide in that town, by cutting
his throat from ear to ear and servering
both jugular veins No cause is assigned
for the dreadful act He has appeared
rather disconsolate and discouraged Of
late.
Jane Peterson was sentenced at
Brookville, Canada, on the ID, to be hanged
on the 10Th day of June, for the murder
of her husband She beat him to death
with an axe and then throw the body into
The river. The deceased had previously
made will leaving her all bis property
The master of a vessel, now in New
York, lately delivered cargo of coal at
Savannah On calling for bis freight money,
he was told to go place which need not
be mentioned, and to think himself lucky
to escape With his vessel. He thought Sc
and let
Mrs. Anna \. Downer, who was the
nurse of Mrs. Wilkins of Lowell, who died
lately from the effects of poison. has been
arrested on the charge of having admin
istered the poison. Mrs. Downer is spir-
itualist' and is asserting her innocence, says
it is possible that the spirits might have
given arsenic to tue deceased through her
as medium
notwithstanding the harsh words so
easily spoken about the improvidcnt char
acter of the poor colored man, through he
is showed aside and abused by every coward,
rich or poor, and then denounced for not
possessing all the virtues-in all this State
the number of colored paupers. as reported