Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1863-11-04
Salmagundi,

furlough to New York to get married.
He returned to his command last Thurs
day.
= Henry Ward Beecher, at last ac-
counts, had returned to London, where he
was announced to speak at Exeter Hall, on
the 10th, John Bright in the chair.
THE LIndell Hotel at St. Louis, the
largestand most palatial hotel inthe world
save one in France, has been formally op-
ened.
The Capitol at Washington is being
newly carpeted for the meeting of Con
gress. 1t will need carpeting again after
the Congressman have met.
The streets of the New Jerusalem are
paved with gold, and the streets in Nevada
territory are paved with silver. Almost
heaven upon earth.
Jim Lane, in his St. Louis speech,
said he did not mean anything by his
bloody talk in Kansas; he only wanted to
scare the border rufians.
The ceremonies of consecrating the
National Cemetery at Gettysburg will take
place November 18th Hon. Edward Ev-
erett will deliver the Grafton.
The population OF Ireland decreased
20 per cent. between the census of 1871
and that Of 1851, and II per cent, more
between the census of 1851 and that of
1861
= The total appraised valuation of all
'~-the property in the state Of Wisconsin,
just published, is s153, O71,773 42-on
which there is levied State tax of $780,
$50.
A sulphur field of sixty acres, with
a deBsitof from one to three feet in thick
ness, has been discovered in Navada Terri
tory. Wonder if that is where the bad
men must go.
- Pomp, what am dat dat goes when
de wagon stops, dat am no use to deawag-
on, yet de wagon can't 60 widout it ?
I CUBS dat up, Glenn
Why de noise Of course
Yes, [ see.'
An exchange comes to us with
notice that 4" Truth" is crowded out of the
issue. This is almost as bad as the up
country editor who said: " For the evil
effects of Intoxicating drinks, see our in
side.
A Maryland paper contains an adver-
tisement offering So reward for stray
steer, and another offering a reward of five
cents for runaway slave. The war has
changed values in other States besides
Maryland.
"A six-months infant disturbed and
irritated an audience at Washington
theatre for an entire evening, and its par
yent at the close added TIE appreciative con-
ISOLATION that Hamlet was a HI of a
play to charge fifty cents for"
: How do you like me now p asked a
belle of her spouse as she sailed into a
room with long sweeping train of mus
lin following her
Well said he, to tell you the actual
truth it is now impossible for me to love
you any longer
An Englishman, sent to New York
to do up the correspondence of the London
Herald, recently wrote to that journal that
roasted apples, roasted on the trees by the
heat Of the sun, we're sold in the street at
fifteen cents peck, and that Seward, dur
ing the diplomatic trip, tried to drown the
French ambassador in lake at the back
of his house at auburn.
A letter from Monticello, Kentucky,
speaking of the manner in which the peo-
pie received our troops in the recent adj
vance on that place, says One old lady,
mile beyond this place, said, as she saw
our columns rushing on after the rebels
When I seed that old flag comm, [ iist
throwed any old bonnet on the ground and
stamped it,
Rents have gone upin Richomd from
$3.50 year to 81 500, and from $50 tc
$3.50 The people are calling on the Vir
ginla Legislature to interpose, and writer
IN the Richmond Sentinel says, unless
check is put upon the extortioners IL
house-rents, marketing, etc, no one cal
foretell the consequences; and if the
Legislature can afford no relief and nc
protection, " they had better never have
met and it were we'll if they never NEE
again" The Sentinel Significantly heads
the communication "Thc Whirlwind a
the South" and sees in the prosperity,
such riots and bloodshed as have made liz
insecure i'll Mobile and other Southern
fItIeS